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Wasabi
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States3085 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-12 19:20:16
July 12 2008 19:01 GMT
#1521
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.risingdragoon
Profile Joined January 2008
United States3021 Posts
July 12 2008 19:02 GMT
#1522
I'll make one too later.
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JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
July 12 2008 19:06 GMT
#1523
This is just heartbreaking.
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sqwert
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States781 Posts
July 12 2008 19:10 GMT
#1524
On July 13 2008 04:01 Wasabi wrote:
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On July 13 2008 03:52 sqwert wrote:
On July 13 2008 03:44 Wasabi wrote:
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(Btw, no, Best is just not exactly good at PvZ as July's ZvP is.)


do u have that in 1440x900 ?


I can make on in that resolution. I'm busy right now though. I'll come back and post one in 1400x900 later.


cool 1440x900 actually
if everythings coming your way, youre in the wrong lane. sAviOr 4evar!
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22259 Posts
July 12 2008 19:10 GMT
#1525
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Moderatorhttp://carbonleaf.yuku.com/topic/408/t/So-I-proposed-at-a-Carbon-Leaf-concert.html ***** RIP Geoff
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 12 2008 19:19 GMT
#1526
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 12 2008 19:30 GMT
#1527
Btw guys jumping in my thing about July having a easier run, read his interview, he confirms it.
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Patrio
Profile Joined September 2007
Norway706 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-12 19:38:52
July 12 2008 19:37 GMT
#1528
On July 13 2008 04:30 IntoTheWow wrote:
Btw guys jumping in my thing about July having a easier run, read his interview, he confirms it.


OMG REALLY? THEN HE DIDNT DESERVE TO WIN. TAKE AWAY HIS GOLDEN MOUSE ASAP.


edit: didnt mean to disrespekt you, but it has just been to many july hating in this thread
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.risingdragoon
Profile Joined January 2008
United States3021 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-12 19:44:16
July 12 2008 19:39 GMT
#1529
You silly man. He didn't say "I had an easier run than Best" at all.

He said "Yea I was lucky, but if you thought I won the OSL by luck alone you just insulted everyone I beat" which includes Best.

BTW bigger pics for ppl to make WPs.

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Bisu

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Kingdom
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 12 2008 19:44 GMT
#1530
On July 13 2008 04:37 Patrio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 13 2008 04:30 IntoTheWow wrote:
Btw guys jumping in my thing about July having a easier run, read his interview, he confirms it.


OMG REALLY? THEN HE DIDNT DESERVE TO WIN. TAKE AWAY HIS GOLDEN MOUSE ASAP.


edit: didnt mean to disrespekt you, but it has just been to many july hating in this thread


You sounds like you are disrespecting me, so fuck you.
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 12 2008 19:45 GMT
#1531
On July 13 2008 04:39 .risingdragoon wrote:
You silly man. He didn't say "I had an easier run than Best" at all.

He said "Yea I was lucky, but if you thought I won the OSL by luck alone you just insulted everyone I beat" which includes Best.

BTW bigger pics for ppl to make WPs.

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Bisu

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Kingdom


He said he got lucky with his opponents. He said he still not the best. He implied he still has to prove his ZvT. All those 3 things are arguments that prove my point. Try reading the interview again. GOD.
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Polemarch
Profile Joined August 2005
Canada1564 Posts
July 12 2008 19:49 GMT
#1532
People have mentioned how sick July's zvp gamesense and strategy are... I want to add his battle judgment to that list. He seems to know EXACTLY how a battle is going to turn out before deciding to engage or not.

Game 1:
- Knows not to engage the first blocked-in cannon and lose his lings, but instead take out the forge/pylon and check for proxies.
- Chooses not to take out the proxy with his lings (and probably lose most of them, leaving himself open for a counter), instead waits for his mutas.

Game 2:
- Drone drill. Then doesn't back down at ALL, going pure lings after, knowing he can win it right there.
- Chooses to take out the nexus while a cannon is morphing right next to it. I wouldn't have thought of that or been confident in how long it would take to kill it. To July, it looked just like "omg this stupid 3x3 building is blocking my way to slaughter the cannon".

Game 3:
- Loads his overlords, flies over to the island, and then aborts when he sees it's adequately defended. How many zergs have you seen get their island drops totally smashed, probably thinking "well, I've come this far..."
- The second island drop... I thought he'd get smashed again, but he proved me wrong by actually doing a lot of damage with it.

Maybe none of those individually are that impressive, but the consistency of his good judgment really struck me. The only thing that would've looked like a mistake was in game 3 - the hydra drop into Best's min-only, but I think that was more due to Best's great reaction time with bringing in his reavers and corsairs.
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ReapersSorrows
Profile Joined June 2008
China40 Posts
July 12 2008 19:50 GMT
#1533
Stop talking about who deserves what, if you talk about ppl who deserve a title n a golden mouse, there are fucking tons of progamers that deserve a title. there are probably like.. 10 i can think of off the top of my head. July beat him 3-0, if this game is so much luck that ppl have to bitch about ppl being lucky, plz, switch to another game plz.
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.risingdragoon
Profile Joined January 2008
United States3021 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-07-12 19:55:29
July 12 2008 19:51 GMT
#1534
On July 13 2008 04:45 IntoTheWow wrote:
He said he got lucky with his opponents. He said he still not the best. He implied he still has to prove his ZvT. All those 3 things are arguments that prove my point. Try reading the interview again. GOD.

He said not facing many terrans is lucky for him. He said he now realizes that winning doesn't mean he is the best (which IMO is the attitude to longevity). Finally he said he'll challenge himself once again by picking strong terrans in the next OSL.

Which part of that says anything about Best?

I looked over Best's run: Beat a wonky Nada in the qualifier, went all the way to the semis playing only PvP, then ran into a ZvP choker who had the series won more than once. Seems to me like July was his one real OSL challenge, and he got curb-stomped.

Sorry if he's your fav. I am. No sarcasm.
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
July 12 2008 19:53 GMT
#1535

Huge early-game pressure
+1 air armor scourge + hydra + drops defended +1 air attack corsair & 6 reavers
+2 air armor muta + scourge countered +2 air attack corsair reaver
sunken + OL at every expo defended dark templar shenanigans
timing guardian pushed back a super strong mid-game ground army by taking out critical reavers
ultraling swept up everything else

-.- Wow, July had a huge economy and army advantage the whole game and didn't screw it up! Gosu!

July was in a strong position the whole game. He earned it from good meta game sense and and strong maintenance of his advantage, but to tell me I should be in awe that 24 ultralists and 50 lings + hydras and scourge can beat 24 Zealots and a few templars... Common. If you didn't know July was a HUGE favourite win that game in the first ten minutes, you don't know StarCraft. Just because July isn't a dummy who leaves his expos undefended when he can afford to put defences up at all of them doesn't mean BeSt didn't play badly. I mean for fucks sake, how many DTs did he lose to static defence? Take a page from BiSu and keep your DTs alive for as long as possible so they can constantly be annoying, or at least regroup with your main army. Obviously BeSt was busy with his macro when it happened, but it's still not a result of July being amazing when BeSt suicides a DT into static defence.
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 12 2008 19:55 GMT
#1536
On July 13 2008 04:51 .risingdragoon wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 13 2008 04:45 IntoTheWow wrote:
He said he got lucky with his opponents. He said he still not the best. He implied he still has to prove his ZvT. All those 3 things are arguments that prove my point. Try reading the interview again. GOD.

He said not facing many terrans is lucky for him. He said he now realizes that winning doesn't mean he is the best (which IMO is the attitude to longevity). Finally he said he'll challenge himself once again by picking strong terrans in the next OSL.

Which part of that says anything about Best?

I looked over Best's run: Beat a wonky Nada in the qualifier, went all the way to the semis playing only PvP, then ran into a ZvP choker who had the series won more than once. Seems to me like July was his one real OSL challenge.


God I'm not even going to bother, because if I write how July got some joke-like games against fucking BackHo and Rock (lol) i will have the likes of you jumping all over me. I try to write non-insulting posts trying to get my point across but people misinterpret them (on purpose or not who knows) so much it makes my head hurt.
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IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32278 Posts
July 12 2008 19:58 GMT
#1537
On July 13 2008 04:53 PsycHOTemplar wrote:
Show nested quote +

Huge early-game pressure
+1 air armor scourge + hydra + drops defended +1 air attack corsair & 6 reavers
+2 air armor muta + scourge countered +2 air attack corsair reaver
sunken + OL at every expo defended dark templar shenanigans
timing guardian pushed back a super strong mid-game ground army by taking out critical reavers
ultraling swept up everything else

-.- Wow, July had a huge economy and army advantage the whole game and didn't screw it up! Gosu!

July was in a strong position the whole game. He earned it from good meta game sense and and strong maintenance of his advantage, but to tell me I should be in awe that 24 ultralists and 50 lings + hydras and scourge can beat 24 Zealots and a few templars... Common. If you didn't know July was a HUGE favourite win that game in the first ten minutes, you don't know StarCraft. Just because July isn't a dummy who leaves his expos undefended when he can afford to put defences up at all of them doesn't mean BeSt didn't play badly. I mean for fucks sake, how many DTs did he lose to static defence? Take a page from BiSu and keep your DTs alive for as long as possible so they can constantly be annoying, or at least regroup with your main army. Obviously BeSt was busy with his macro when it happened, but it's still not a result of July being amazing when BeSt suicides a DT into static defence.


Agreed, July in that game had a way better game plan than BeSt, maybe BeSt was too conservative because of how games 1 and 2 went, who knows. But BeSt definetely had better micro than July there (cept for his first sairs). His storms were better, i mean july didn't even split his guardians or lurkers, and the one big flank he got was when BeSt made his last attack with like 12 zealots and 1 archon against like 10 ultras + lings + lurkers.
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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
July 12 2008 20:00 GMT
#1538
You're right, but it's hard to micro when July is trying to maintain his massive 200/200 Zerg army off 7 bases lol. I remember seeing his guardians attacking a dragoon when he could have sniped like 4 templar.
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.risingdragoon
Profile Joined January 2008
United States3021 Posts
July 12 2008 20:02 GMT
#1539
Huge economy and army advantage don't just happen by accident. July didn't start the game with 5 running expos, he took them.

I don't feel like rebuffing everyone of your arguments. Suffice to say there were a few instances in the game where Best was really strong, just that July had an answer for him.

The guardian counter to those reavers hiding in the middle of the P army was just dropdead sexy.
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Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
July 12 2008 20:04 GMT
#1540
On July 13 2008 04:30 IntoTheWow wrote:
Btw guys jumping in my thing about July having a easier run, read his interview, he confirms it.


I don't see the word "easier" anywhere in the interview.
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