All matches during the RO8 Round Robin are bo3. All vetoes and map picks need to be made before the matches. The player with the higher ladder stage ranking can decide if they want to veto first or second. The order for vetoes is ABAB ABC for BO3 and AB ABABC for BO5.
Example of vetoes for the BO3 match:
player A vetoes a map player B vetoes a map player A vetoes a map player B vetoes a map player A picks the first map player B picks the second map the remaining map will be played in the decider match Once all vetoes and mappicks are done you can start the matches.
The way i see it, they've picked the 5 most interesting match ups to be broadcast from both days, otherwise Nyoken and gypsy may as well give up sleeping if they attempt to cast all of the 56 bo3's during the round-robin. I'm actually pretty happy with what they've chosen to cast, many many good games ahead!
I'm just so happy to have this to look forward to tonight. Gypsy and Nyoken reacting and theorizing to the games. The way they rightly take this game and players seriously, although not without the much needed jokes and laughter spread in the mix. ZZZeros production crew and their crisp handling of the stream and everything involved with running BSL. How can we thank them enough?
This format is incredible and gives us so many good matchups. 5th or 6th place rolling through the playoffs would be something to see. Chances of a three way tie are slim, but so much good players I wouldn't be surprised if it happened
3 zealots attack, Boa loses 3 probes, make a battery shield and builds a robo,
Bonyth goes into 2 gate goons into robo Boa on 2 gate faster robo. Neither player expands.
Boa has obs out as Bonyth takes his expo first. Boa with a bigger army, moves out when reaver comes out. Boa expo starts as Bonyths finishes. Boa moves out with a larger goon army with a zealot.
Reaver out for Bonyth. Reaver/goon attack at Bonyths natural. Bonyth deciminates Boa's army, his reaver lives, counter attacking Boa, Boa loses control of his natural, four goons vs 2 goon and reaver, Boa holds, Bonyth leaves with shuttle and reaver.
Boa's build was a little off, it looks to me like was have some US to Poland lag that the players are deal with.
Stream went down for me.
Back,
Bonyth has Boa contained in his main, neither player has expanded. Bon faster robo, shuttle out, reaver soon, Boa went 3 gate goon and slow reaver crawled to retake his natural ground.
Reaver-shuttle vs goon/reaver and 1 zlot. Boa has more goons as the armies approach.
Bonyth kills everything after catching 4 or 5 goons out of position.
2/0 Bonyth makes the most out of mirror situtions, reminds me of peak Best or peak Rain, they just did the same thing better.
Standard play. First Zealot sneaks around the map and kills 3 drones at eonzerg natural, 2 zealots attack eonzergs third which is only defended by 2 hydra,
Eon goes for 4 hat hydra-bust, sairs kill tons of lords Eonzerg on tiny eco push dewalts natural
Eonzerg on 4 hat hydra forever Dewalt holds until storm, thins out army and makes archons, zealots out number hydra as dewalt pushes out, wins a few imbalanced skirmishes and Eon taps out.
Repeat openings as game 1 except eonzerg doesn't drone scout and send his drone to his third, the mineral only. Eonzergs overlord scouts dewalt first and is posted over dewalts nexus.
3 hat gas, Hero probe see everything
3 hat lair v fe - starport Hero probe continues, see spire and dies then after.
Eonzerg attempts an illogical looking runby and loses 9 lings, 1 gets into dewalts main. Eonzergs on 4 hat, has hydra den. Dewalt moves out with five zealots as 3 sairs return home Speed is done
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Dewalt has hyper prepared for hydras, sairs kill all the overlords right after eonzergs bust is aborted after serious loses.
39 to 77 supply, still 5 hats low drones.
4 lurkers morphing as zealot templar sair show up templar near lurker eggs Eggs stormed but only once, 2 lurkers burrow zealots run past into eonz main
45/5, Eonzerg is overlordless. This isn't even close, dewalt has completed midgame tech with obs, Eonzerg taps out as dewalt runs him over
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First off, So many awesome people have contributed in the last 2 days. It was 300/3900 two days ago, now it was 2700/3900 - what great progress.
Really bummed that Eonzerg has decided to play every zvp game so aggro, just seems very half hearted. Sorry but if you can play lategame zvt with defilers, you can take a forth and hold vs protoss.
Bonyth v Eonzerg g1 recap
Eonzerg goes 5 hat hydra bust, Bonyth makes cannons and some pretty blocking pylons, Eon eats a storm and dodges nicely two others. Cannons Finish, Bonyth is safe.
As Eonzerg sets up a wide lurker contain, a sair, dropship,zealot,templar and 1 dt manage to wreck all the drones at eonzergs natural and main. Eonzerg with a fullcontain, resigns with less then 20 drones on 3 bases.
Eonzerg, played a nice 6 hat hydra build vs Bonyths +1 armor zealot/sair/templar
Bonyth takes a third while getting 2 lurkers dropped in his main and one at his natural. Things look strong for eonzergon.
Giant hydra army is slowly killed by a much larger protoss army.
Bonyth grabs a 4th, and put his army on the space outside of Eonzergs third. Eonzerg moves out with 25-30 hydras to attack Bonyths third, Bonyth at the same time attacks Eonzergs third and just wrecks house.
The theme of this game was, Hydras can't attack larger armies across bridges after storm.
On October 19 2020 04:15 True_Spike wrote: Protoss 16-0 so far in games.
It's kind of interesting to see how non-korean Broodwar seems to have a more developed Protoss than the other races. Are we stuck in a Protoss favoured meta? or is it just the myth of "The Legend of the Fall"
I don't think the Protoss players work harder or have more talent (except for Bonyth...). Even in my low ranks I feel that a -200 MMR Protoss is still deadly... while Terran and Zerg MMR seem more even.
This is kind of unparalleled in Broodwar history, never have a race been this dominant. We might have hit some 40-45% win rate at some point in time…
great games this weekend. eon my friend please please get in shape. you do so well, than you do something so meaningless you lose the game. you could have won both of them so easy
On October 19 2020 04:15 True_Spike wrote: Protoss 16-0 so far in games.
It's kind of interesting to see how non-korean Broodwar seems to have a more developed Protoss than the other races. Are we stuck in a Protoss favoured meta? or is it just the myth of "The Legend of the Fall"
I don't think the Protoss players work harder or have more talent (except for Bonyth...). Even in my low ranks I feel that a -200 MMR Protoss is still deadly... while Terran and Zerg MMR seem more even.
This is kind of unparalleled in Broodwar history, never have a race been this dominant. We might have hit some 40-45% win rate at some point in time…
On October 19 2020 04:15 True_Spike wrote: Protoss 16-0 so far in games.
It's kind of interesting to see how non-korean Broodwar seems to have a more developed Protoss than the other races. Are we stuck in a Protoss favoured meta? or is it just the myth of "The Legend of the Fall"
I don't think the Protoss players work harder or have more talent (except for Bonyth...). Even in my low ranks I feel that a -200 MMR Protoss is still deadly... while Terran and Zerg MMR seem more even.
This is kind of unparalleled in Broodwar history, never have a race been this dominant. We might have hit some 40-45% win rate at some point in time…
Around 2013 the top 3 of almost all tournaments were zerg, with Sziky often being nr. 1. These are natural shifts, i would not read anything into it.
I would say that zergs completely dominated the foreign scene from around 2013 to around 2017. It's time for protoss to step in now. The protoss players are just in much better form at the moment and that's pretty much it
On October 19 2020 04:15 True_Spike wrote: Protoss 16-0 so far in games.
It's kind of interesting to see how non-korean Broodwar seems to have a more developed Protoss than the other races. Are we stuck in a Protoss favoured meta? or is it just the myth of "The Legend of the Fall"
I don't think the Protoss players work harder or have more talent (except for Bonyth...). Even in my low ranks I feel that a -200 MMR Protoss is still deadly... while Terran and Zerg MMR seem more even.
This is kind of unparalleled in Broodwar history, never have a race been this dominant. We might have hit some 40-45% win rate at some point in time…
Around 2013 the top 3 of almost all tournaments were zerg, with Sziky often being nr. 1. These are natural shifts, i would not read anything into it.
I would say that zergs completely dominated the foreign scene from around 2013 to around 2017. It's time for protoss to step in now. The protoss players are just in much better form at the moment and that's pretty much it
I agree. I wrote the above from the top of my head, we had TLS 1-3, which were 1) all win by a Z and 2) all had 3 Z in the top 4. Thats a pretty big statement if we consider TLS was the major foreign tournament back then.
I could look up the data, but the era of dominance excerted by Sziky-->trutacz/technics/eonzerg stretched far longer as you pointed out. My subjective pov is that it [era of dominance of foreign zergs] ended 2016ish.
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