Dunno what happened with the Afreeca VOD... very laggy. Previous streams were surpsingly good though...

Light seems to be doing lots of all ins though, I hope hes okay..

Turbovolver

Australia2450 Posts

May 05 2021 01:40 GMT

#88

On May 04 2021 22:24 oxKnu wrote:
Very balanced Ro8. Matchups-wise as well. Will be a good one.

Two ZvT and no TvP isn't very balanced to me, but yeah this is hype!

TornadoSteve

1132 Posts

May 05 2021 03:38 GMT

#89

poor Best, he always get matched with the worst possible opponent for him, season after season

LpTraxamillion

265 Posts

May 05 2021 07:08 GMT

#90

On May 04 2021 14:53 LpTraxamillion wrote:
Hero out first then light

I went out on a limb here with the light pick just for the flex if it panned out and Rush got eliminated but I was confident in the Hero out first pick.

Hero is a top3 zerg maybe higher right now. I've been calling for hero top4 ASL placing since before the tournament and he made it out of pretty much the toughest possible ro16 group for him. He's looking sick on his stream, not just a ZvP specialist anymore. He played nearly flawlessly except for getting some ovies caught out and also a bad 1st defiler attack during the macro game vs Rush where he could have done much more damage had he controlled it better.

Other than that his muta micro and control was top tier with good macro and tactical play. All the right decisions. I liked the min maxing where he was letting the starport and science facility burn down rather than waste another muta volley when he didn't have to (although the game was already over).

I find it hard to believe these ro8 groups were entirely randomly selected. No Zerg mirrors lol. Fantastic bracket for zero, and I feel kinda bad for Larva having to face Rush right away

LpTraxamillion

265 Posts

May 05 2021 07:18 GMT

#91

On May 05 2021 07:52 Lazyer wrote:
i'm glad light brought out some cheese lol, but that TvZ from him was so disappointing.

He did not seem confident at all in his lategame TvT, especially after that 2nd game getting completely outplayed in every way by Rush I think he knew he was screwed.

Although he had a small chance of winning had he not dove his 4 marines into the attacking SCVs just to try to pick Rush's 1 marine. Had he just kept chipping and reinforcing maybe he snowballs it but I doubt it. He had to cut SCV production to fund that attack and Rush was up in supply and workers with his factory finished despite the losses

LpTraxamillion

265 Posts

May 05 2021 07:19 GMT

#92

On May 05 2021 05:05 arbiter_md wrote:
Looks like we will have 3 zergs in the semifinals again

I find that unlikely, they could honestly all lose. Zero is favored to get out, snow hero is probably 50/50 (maybe even snow favored on paper but I think hero will win), and Rush will be a substantial favorite over Larva

QOGQOG

834 Posts

May 05 2021 17:46 GMT

#93

On May 05 2021 16:08 LpTraxamillion wrote:
I find it hard to believe these ro8 groups were entirely randomly selected. No Zerg mirrors lol.

I mean, they drew the groups live...

On May 05 2021 16:19 LpTraxamillion wrote:

Show nested quote +

Yeah, should definitely be an improvement over last season.

Djabanete

United States2786 Posts

May 09 2021 04:25 GMT

#94

On May 05 2021 12:38 TornadoSteve wrote:
poor Best, he always get matched with the worst possible opponent for him, season after season

Huh? Mini is worse for Best than Hero or Larva? Can you explain?

Edit: I see from the other thread that Mini has a good sponbang record against Best. OK.

outscar

2832 Posts

May 09 2021 20:10 GMT

#95

Light blew himself hard this time, his macro game lacked and going for cheese in TvT for three times? Something was wrong with him, either tired or having a bad day. hero played exceptionally well seems like his old form is coming back. Poor RoyaL, getting knocked out with such a dirty cheese. And of course ASL11CHAMPRUSH delivered ok, I hope he reaches at least ro4 if not win the whole thing.