4 Shuttle drop into main, all Zealots? Does some damage, takes down armoiry. Poor attack on the natural.

Sharp fairly effective Vulture play. Then big push.

Best tries to hold with storm and shuttle bombing, but fails.

Sharp takes down P natural and third, but only mining one base, Best with an outside chance still?

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES48757 Posts

September 12 2023 10:42 GMT

#22

wait sharp doesn't have much mining

Kaal

Djibouti2212 Posts

September 12 2023 10:42 GMT

#23

lol taking this middle base because he just needs minerals.

konadora

Singapore66057 Posts

September 12 2023 10:43 GMT

#24

how do you lose that...

great offense by Sharp though

BLinD-RawR

ALLEYCAT BLUES48757 Posts

September 12 2023 10:43 GMT

#25

Poll: Recommend BeSt vs Sharp?

Yes (12)

92%

If you have time (1)

8%

No (0)

0%

13 total votes

Your vote: Recommend BeSt vs Sharp?

(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
(Vote): If you have time

prosatan

Romania6914 Posts

September 12 2023 10:43 GMT

#26

Best! Come on man! Get yourself together !

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 10:43 GMT

#27

Last ditch 5 shuttle drop into 9, but spotted by mines.

Sharp also holds his base in the centre.

Definitely big ASL15 flashback.

Best feeling calm?

oxKnu

1120 Posts

September 12 2023 10:44 GMT

#28

That throw was just...out of this world.

Kaal

Djibouti2212 Posts

September 12 2023 10:45 GMT

#29

What a throwfest that was lol. Terrans really need to suck it up and just build a couple depots to wall the top ramp of their third on that map I swear in every TvX on this map we've seen the opponent army just walks in and kills it for free. And Best needed to fuckin chill with building 20 shuttles and build HTs and maybe some reavers instead. Huge throw by him after not only denying the third but also storm dropping and killing more than 10 scvs. Don't walk pure zealots dragoon into a terran army and try to get cute by dropping 12 zealots into his main when hes making mostly vults.

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 10:45 GMT

#30

Best didn't need to attack into Sharp's natural, which basically cost him the game. If those zealots has dropped onto the tanks, instead of into the empty main, the attack might've even worked.

oxKnu

1120 Posts

September 12 2023 10:49 GMT

#31

He was so ahead that simply just building two cannons at his natural would've been an auto-win.

Must be emotions because I cannot imagine how a pro player could not know that he was so ahead at that point and just needed to do "anything" other than what he just did.

konadora

Singapore66057 Posts

September 12 2023 10:50 GMT

#32

lets go RoyaL!!!

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 10:51 GMT

#33

Maybe he misjudged how far he was ahead. If he had broken Sharp's natural (with better execution), the game would've been over.

oxKnu

1120 Posts

September 12 2023 10:53 GMT

#34

On September 12 2023 19:51 Simplistik wrote:
Maybe he misjudged how far he was ahead. If he had broken Sharp's natural (with better execution), the game would've been over.

Not really, Sharp still had an army, an upgraded army at that.

Basic rules of Starcraft don't change, you always need to know where the Terran army is.

Everything he did was such an unnecessary risk in a Bo1.

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 10:53 GMT

#35

12 hatch vs 14 cc

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 10:55 GMT

#36

On September 12 2023 19:53 oxKnu wrote:

Show nested quote +

Sharp's army would've been dead. He held because that's where all his tanks were.

Agree that it was unnecessarily risky.

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 10:56 GMT

#37

3rd hatch at 12 o'clock, spire

Kaal

Djibouti2212 Posts

September 12 2023 10:58 GMT

#38

That ling runby was really bad for royal, he might die to mutas here. and as I type this he gets runby AGAIN. Cmon royal.

TMNT

1525 Posts

September 12 2023 10:59 GMT

#39

If all those Zealots were dropped onto the Tanks at the natural, I think Best won the game immediately at that point, because all the Vultures were elsewhere. Those Vultures killed all the Probes at Best's main and nat and he was still 10 workers ahead of Sharp.

I think that highlights the struggling Protoss always has in this matchup: lack of vision leading to wrong decision making.

Simplistik

1565 Posts

September 12 2023 11:00 GMT

#40

Well, that was poor by RoyaL.