savior long mining the min only, he prolly hasnt fixed the mining.

dts and zeals going into 12 expo, but right as sangho's fpview goes on, gg from sangho.

Great game wow, pretty unreal to come back from those positions.

Tyrio

United States3248 Posts

September 22 2007 11:12 GMT

#125

On September 22 2007 20:11 Smuft wrote:
why are you giving play by play haji?

He live reports for people who are too lazy to dl the games later and for people who can't dl the games.

Haha, SangHo GGs to two spore colonies =P

FakeSteve[TPR]

Valhalla18444 Posts

September 22 2007 11:13 GMT

#126

On September 22 2007 20:11 Smuft wrote:
why are you giving play by play haji?

not everyone can watch the games

we've had live reports of pretty much every match played, for years

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

September 22 2007 11:13 GMT

#127

On September 22 2007 20:11 Smuft wrote:
why are you giving play by play haji?

er ummm b/c that's what this thread is for?

HaXxorIzed

Australia8434 Posts

September 22 2007 11:13 GMT

#128

Great comeback by Savior, Sangho really should have won it given the starting plays though.

BlackStar

Netherlands3029 Posts

September 22 2007 11:14 GMT

#129

Maybe it would be better to have people discussing the game rather than one person describing what we can all see.

strongwind

United States862 Posts

September 22 2007 11:14 GMT

#130

sangho's performance was decent. A lot better than what I expected.

maybe he shoulda got archons earlier

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Canada395 Posts

September 22 2007 11:15 GMT

#131

Solid game. Awesome drop on toss main by zerg, it did some serious damage.

IntoTheWow

is awesome32282 Posts

September 22 2007 11:15 GMT

#132

I'm going to sleep now. I'll update OP tomorrow (unless PoP wants to do it

)

Tyrio

United States3248 Posts

September 22 2007 11:15 GMT

#133

On September 22 2007 20:14 BlackStar wrote:
Maybe it would be better to have people discussing the game rather than one person describing what we can all see.

We do that. Someone (usually haji) live reports for people who can't/missed watching the games, and discussion usually happens once the game is over.

trollbone

France1905 Posts

September 22 2007 11:16 GMT

#134

we can discuss the game after its finished

great play by savior, sangho played good too, i loved how he didnt give up even if he had no more mine and base !!!

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

September 22 2007 11:16 GMT

#135

it looked like staying on hts was a great choice by him when he knew that all savior would be throwing at him was ling/swarm, he really ripped through savior's attacks in the middle of the map.

There were so many breaking points for savior at the battles at his min only, pretty unreal that he survived every single one of them with all sorts of flanks and tricks.

(sangho really was unusually late on archons though)

NovaTheFeared

United States7232 Posts

September 22 2007 11:17 GMT

#136

And now like most predicted the 3 losers duke it out for the final spot.

Brutalisk

794 Posts

September 22 2007 11:19 GMT

#137

Sangho had an early advantage because Savior's mass ling attack didn't work.
Savior managed to defend though, and soon turned the game around with that drop, but soon afterwards Sangho also made a comeback with Sair/DT. Savior should have gotten hydras earlier and not waste so many scourges. Anyway, he won the eco war, spores helped to defend, and once Sangho ran out of resources it was over for him.
Nice game on a nice map.

Smuft

Canada318 Posts

September 22 2007 11:21 GMT

#138

You work hard haji.

That was a good game. I think it's important to note Savior did not exactly 9 pool, he went 9 overlord, mined to 250 mineral then pool / extractor and drone before he wasted any larvae. This gives you a significantly better economy than straight 9 pool/gas. He also killed a couple cannons, forced building a few more, killed a few probes and costed toss mining time so he really wasn't as behind as he looked. Either way he played pretty well to win.

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

September 22 2007 11:22 GMT

#139

On September 22 2007 20:19 Brutalisk wrote:
Sangho had an early advantage because Savior's mass ling attack didn't work.
Then Savior turned the game around with that drop, but soon afterwards Sangho made a comeback with Sair/DT. Savior should have gotten hydras earlier and not waste so many scourges. Anyway, he won the eco war, spores helped to defend, and once Sangho ran out of resources it was over for him.
Nice game on a nice map.

savior's drop / sangho's decision to attack savior at the same time was what won savior the game, but what was truly impressive was how savior refused to lose the game during the first 15 minutes before that when he was in a HUGE hole economically, barely surviving attack after attack.

I'm definitely going to have to watch this game again to see how many times he could have easily died.

edit: Thanks for your analysis Smuft

PoP

France15446 Posts

September 22 2007 11:25 GMT

#140

I don't really understand why some P still decide to go corsairs when they get the early advantage like this. In such a situation it's so much more effective imho to just mass gateways/harrass while going templars. The Z will eventually die if he goes hydralings, his only chance is to earn time with lurkers and even then he'll have to micro perfectly, kill obs with scourges etc.

Going sairs allows the Z to slowly come back into the game while getting a good mix of drones/hydras while protecting OLs. That's exactly what Savior flawlessly did today.