KCM 2021 Season 4 - Page 2

I watched Snow vs Light and Snow vs 815 as well as the start of the following game on Neo Forte. My main comment was you need to talk about upgrades a bit more, the Korean observer tends to highlight them so if you notice that you should speak about them. When Light finally moved out in set 5, he had +3 weapons, at this point Snow had I think +1 armour and +2 weapons, this is a big advantage for Light at even supply and in a straight up battle you'd expect him to win. However, instead of engaging, Snow took out his expansion and then managed to get some great storms. I think this is something you should mention and something people new to the game watching might not be aware.

In Snow vs 815, Snow started upgrading +1 weapons before he had his first zealot out, this is incredibly early and he was unlucky his first two zealots didn't do anything. He quickly also put down a second forge which you didn't mention. When 815 sniped his High Templar with the mutas, normally that would be game for the Zerg, however, he was either at +1 or no upgrades on his hydras and the goons had armour, shields and weapons (maybe +2, +1, +2, can't remember), hence the Dragoons were much more survivable than usual. It was quite late in that game when you first mentioned upgrades and I'm not sure you mentioned them at all in the previous one.

If you don't know a player or map, it might be an idea to check them out briefly beforehand, I remember 815 well from the end of the Kespa days, he was known to be quite aggressive and have great Zergling micro. Same for Neo Forte, just take a quick look at it on Liquipedia first so you've an idea rather than trying to figure it out on the fly. They're just minor things anyway, but thought I'd point them out.

A personal preference too is I would try to name the player rather than the race, I know Tasteless tends to go with race but I think it's better to say Snow is doing this rather than Protoss is doing this (this will be especially true of mirror matches, not that that's a problem in KCM!). Also I'd avoid saying "HTs", people new to the game already will be a bit overwhelmed, introducing acronyms will only add confusion, it's fine to write when typing, but when talking I'd recommend saying "High Templar".

Anyway, good work, good to have new commentators and the more you do the more you'll improve! Keep up the good work.

Can someone explain to me what Snow, BeSt or Mini could have done differently vs Soulkey's Hrdra+Lurker play? Maybe Mini could have defended against drops better, but Snow seemed to have effective harass and great storms but just could not break out. I don't know enough to know what they could have done differently or if they did something wrong.