On September 30 2018 23:05 Ej_ wrote: Oh wow, JyJ qualifying over Snow?!
I turned on the stream, saw snow do a desperation attack on Jyj using DTs and failing badly.... woah, what happened?
Snow went 12 nexus so JyJ just bunker rushes him and kills the nexus while getting a cc of his own. Snow decides to go dts but it was pretty obvious from the lack of range so JyJ just builds a ton of turrets and easily takes no damage from the dts. I wondered why he didn't take a third and try to play it out with a soft contain with the dts though.
Well, that was a surprise, thought that was going to Game 3 but JyJ played really well! If he can play like that against the terran assassin, I'd like to see how he goes in the tournament.
On September 30 2018 23:15 ii.blitzkrieg wrote: Snow messed up defending his 12nex, lost first zealot for nothing and lost a few probes+mining time. Way behind
I just tuned in so missed game 1
I think 12 Nex is just not a good strat when it's scouted that fast and the other player already does a somewhat offensive build (the rax below the ramp). Quite some bad luck in there too for Snow.
In the first game Jyj played well. In the second game Snow took a gamble and failed miserably. Strange that Snow didn't want to play standard in the second game. Does he still have a chance to qualify, or is Snow out of KSL2?
On September 30 2018 23:15 ii.blitzkrieg wrote: Snow messed up defending his 12nex, lost first zealot for nothing and lost a few probes+mining time. Way behind
I just tuned in so missed game 1
I think 12 Nex is just not a good strat when it's scouted that fast and the other player already does a somewhat offensive build (the rax below the ramp). Quite some bad luck in there too for Snow.
True. Losing the zeal to scv surround for practically nothing was on him though
jyj took a game off larva in groups so maybe he can surprise in ro16 again
On September 30 2018 23:15 ii.blitzkrieg wrote: Snow messed up defending his 12nex, lost first zealot for nothing and lost a few probes+mining time. Way behind
I just tuned in so missed game 1
I think 12 Nex is just not a good strat when it's scouted that fast and the other player already does a somewhat offensive build (the rax below the ramp). Quite some bad luck in there too for Snow.
True. Losing the zeal to scv surround for practically nothing was on him though
jyj took a game off larva in groups so maybe he can surprise in ro16 again
Bo5 series makes it kinda hard for an upset to happen though. I do hope he'll at least make it to the deciding series.
On September 30 2018 23:15 ii.blitzkrieg wrote: Snow messed up defending his 12nex, lost first zealot for nothing and lost a few probes+mining time. Way behind
I just tuned in so missed game 1
I think 12 Nex is just not a good strat when it's scouted that fast and the other player already does a somewhat offensive build (the rax below the ramp). Quite some bad luck in there too for Snow.
True. Losing the zeal to scv surround for practically nothing was on him though
jyj took a game off larva in groups so maybe he can surprise in ro16 again
Well yea, these things can happen though. I don't think it was that big a mistake. Shit happens sometimes. Don't know if it would have saved him either (if it didn't get trapped). Certainly would have helped a bit.
Snow out of both ASL and KSL; I hope this doesn't bring him down and he keeps on improving. Would be sad if his success in ASL proves to be a fluke. He is a formidable protoss.
Either way, I'm happy another terran qualified for the round of 16 ^^
JyJ had really good decision making in those 2 games, something that a lot of the other almost-qualifiers seemed to be lacking.
A bit sad beast couldn't make it, he's always desperately close to qualifying for the big tournaments, but I'm sure his time will come, and we probably didn't need another zerg
On October 01 2018 00:03 ShloobeR wrote: JyJ had really good decision making in those 2 games, something that a lot of the other almost-qualifiers seemed to be lacking.
A bit sad beast couldn't make it, he's always desperately close to qualifying for the big tournaments, but I'm sure his time will come, and we probably didn't need another zerg
I unfortunately had to close to the stream when he was leading 2-1 in the finals I think? How did he lose the other two games? Didn't really expect him to lose against Mini...