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kwanro, you hydra rusher, you
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between first and second games
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Sweet, I was waiting for this thread to form.
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where can you watch this?
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On August 23 2008 14:29 brad3104 wrote: link plz?
[/center] How to watch [list][*]The games will be live on the Daum player (guide). [*]Yaoyuan offers a live stream, with delay to the Daum stream. Use Internet Explorer and install the TVAnts plugin (download).
I'm not so sure about the ladder two, but I'm watching it on Daum stream.
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daum stream works..nice lurker drops...yao is being a piece of crap
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I guess I'll do some moderate live reports.
Calm Brown Zerg at 9. Ruby Yellow Terran at 6.
Let's see, I didn't exactly see how the game opened up exactly, but Ruby 1 rax CC'd and Calm skipped muta, going for 2 3 cm drops, at both the nat and the main of Ruby.
Ruby feds it off well, with a little micro, losing only a bit of mining time.
Calm now has ovie speed, drops more lurkers in the main. Ruby's tanks are late, and The second drop seems like it will do quite a bit of damage.
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speed, 4 lurks on the rax
1 dead, 3 still there, lings coming too
the lurks keep coming, 2 left now, 1 rax dead
he's not touching ruby's econ though, I can't see calm coming out ahead in this
Calm taking his 3rd
WRAITH from ruby
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its calm not kwanro
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Calm with some sexy ZvT drop build.
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Ruby's micro isn't bad, it just doesn't look like the highlight videos that you see...and he looks like he's running out of scans.
Ruby cleared his main but his nat still has a lurkers topping gas, Ruby builds a wraith to help fend of drops. Kwanro's nat lurker now has like 12 kills or something.
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Lurker with 10 kills harassing rubys nat mins, he might have done more damage than I thought
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Takes out tons of rines and has control of ruby's nat
ruby scouts calm's 3rd and is clearing his nat
wow, calm with defiler mound up already, didn't even see the hive
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Vivi57, Calm's definitely coming out ahead in this. Or at least even.
After a nat break, Ruby's forced to lift his nat CC, has seige tanks and a vessel coming. Calm takes his 3rd...and my stream lags.
Edit: shit, it is Calm.
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Thats so gg, good play from calm
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11 kill wraith, atleast 7 of them drones
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hero firebat matrixed and kills 2 lurks under swarm
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Wraith harassing like there's no tomorrow, Calm has no spire slash scourge. Calm's at defiler, but Ruby's fending it off nicely and managed to regain some decent control of his side of the map.
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lol 14 kill wraith, that might get him back in this
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its calm vs ruby....not kwan...
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Wraith at 15 kills and counting
Getting overords now
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You know Vivi, maybe Calm did come out too far behind. Ruby's still of of like 2 rax(?) He's got a lot of mnm for 2 rax. That wraith is at 14 kills btw, great way to get himself back into the game.
Ruby is knocking at Calm's nat. Seige tanks, vessels, microing around, backs off now goes for Calm's third, which it looks like he will take easily.
But there's a nydus canal, Calm's whole entire army shows up. Ruby indicating that he's ready to take a third.
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Oh wow, I just realized calm has a base at 11
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Ruby fires at hatch from under a swarm, but it lives with 50 life and ruby loses tons of rines
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ruby letting his army get raped to lurkers at calms 3rd o.O
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Nice defense by Calm, that Hatch is now at 46 health and Ruby's forced to rebuild his army. But Calm's doing nothing to keep down the vessel count, hopefully it won't kill him later on.
Ruby at Calm's nat again, Calm backstabs. 2 ridiculously well placed storms in Ruby's base. Nice plague on the army at Calm's nat.
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critical plague, as both both are inside each other's mains
ruby looks dead
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But he's not dead, calm is down to 1 base and ggs
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lol calm is totally finished
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Ruby runs in his army, Calm runs in his.
Calm loses his hive and a bunch of tech, including his defiler mound, pool, and yea.
Calm gg's.
nice opening by Calm,
Viri, hats off to you. I didn't realize he was still at 2 base.
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how did ruby look dead? lol...he lost nothing important...
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Sea.Ruby HERO WRAITH 15 KILLZ
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WOW ALL THAT FUCKING GOOD PLAY TO FUCKING LOOSE, HE WAS SO CLOSE TO VICTORY I AM SO HAPPY WHEN I SEE PLAYS LIKE THIS, FUCK YOU RUBY GO TO HELL
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Calm looked way behind at the beginning, but made it up when he managed to burrow lurks at ruby's nat.
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I thought it was a really good strategy by Calm (even though I hate the guy), however he just doesn't have the technical ability to execute such a strategy. He totally had Ruby read early on but he was sooooooooooooooooooo fucking sloppy.
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On August 23 2008 14:53 EleanorRIgby wrote: WOW ALL THAT FUCKING GOOD PLAY TO FUCKING LOOSE, HE WAS SO CLOSE TO VICTORY I AM SO HAPPY WHEN I SEE PLAYS LIKE THIS, FUCK YOU RUBY GO TO HELL
ummm what?
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I thought that Calm had a huge advantage, but I guess he didn't take the time to step back and expand. Or he didn't anticipate that wraith, which I bet was a big part of Ruby's comeback.
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Hm, I don't think Calm really did the best to take what advantage he had and run with it.
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On August 23 2008 14:55 Sunyveil wrote:Show nested quote +On August 23 2008 14:53 EleanorRIgby wrote: WOW ALL THAT FUCKING GOOD PLAY TO FUCKING LOOSE, HE WAS SO CLOSE TO VICTORY I AM SO HAPPY WHEN I SEE PLAYS LIKE THIS, FUCK YOU RUBY GO TO HELL ummm what?
He means that Calm's creative build and risky opening should have been rewarded with a win.
Even Boxer doesn't get rewarded sometimes for his innovations. This about his game against yellow where he lifted his cc.
Eleanor Rigby is a great song btw.
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Ruby versus Kwanro - winners match.
On not Blue Storm Ruby blue terran at 1 Kwanro green zerg at 7
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Kwanro 9 pool speed, Ruby's indicating some sort of 1 rax CC? I am not familiar with this map, it is not blue storm.
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United States1865 Posts
On August 23 2008 15:02 thunk wrote: Ruby versus Kwanro - winners match.
Blue Storm Ruby blue terran at 1 Kwanro green zerg at 7
its byzantium lol
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On August 23 2008 15:04 thunk wrote: Kwanro 9 pool speed, Ruby's indicating some sort of 1 rax CC? I am not familiar with this map, it is not blue storm.
Byzantium.
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Good reflexes by Ruby, blocking that entrance.
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The lings just keep coming, but I don't think he did enough damage
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Kwanro's 9 pool speed meets Ruby's wall
If Kwanro didn't waste those 3 seconds dancing around the wall...Ruby fends it off with 1 marine. And Kwanro's going all in, building more zerglings. Cross positions really matter don't they...
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Yea, my hands aren't really agreeing with me, to think that I wanted to play starcraft. I bet I would've played like crap tonight.
Kwanro's going big or going home. Lair, Spire. 2 hatch muta, fools.
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Rush ends, Kwanro building drones again, spire
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Looks like Ruby felt the inevitable coming. He's preping for muta really well, he's nailed the timing and everything. Looks like he's ready for it as he's ever going to be. But he's still only on 2 rax, pulling up a third one, here come the 6 muta.
Kwanro's got a bunch of lings outside of Ruby's base if he looks weak.
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And Kwanro's a man. 3 hatches, 3 bases, 2 gas, throws down a queen's nest.
Ruby looks like he's going to fend off the muta harass with little losses though...
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Kwanro has like 5 muta left. With more on the way, but I don't know how much longer he intends to keep Ruby contained. Some subpar muta harass from Kwarno, surprisingly.
Ruby's macroing, throws down 2 ports and 2 more raxes. Going hard SK seems.
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some epic hold muta there
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Ruby lost alot at the cliff.
But wraiths, this is over
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But Ruby's researching from one of the control towers. Cloak?
Kwanro's Muta Harass isn't getting much done, but he's building more muta, and looky looky, builds a greater spire.
Ruby attempts to move out of his base and gets promptly pwnt. Kwanro reveals his guards and gets ownt by cloaked wraiths.
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kwanro is going to lose lol
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Kwanro has slow-verlords and will have to stop harassing while Ruby macro's up. Kwanro's taken a fourth, so if he can break even with Ruby here...
Nice build reading by Ruby, I'm impressed.
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I'm more impressed kwanro is still playing after failed 9 pool speed
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Looks like Kwanro's running out of steam.
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But he can't. Ruby has a large blob while Kwanro has muta ling armies andI guess is trying to morph more guards. Ruby's blob is quite impressive actually.And Kwanro's better be stacked. A lot.
Ruby pushes across the map without trouble. Expect a gg soon.
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Kwanro gg's. Ruby's into the MSL.
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Why can't the zerg just get evo and upgrade then when he reach 4/5 gas, get ultras?
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kwanro... man..... he should stop with the air,
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On August 23 2008 15:19 WindCalibur wrote: Why can't the zerg just get evo and upgrade then when he reach 4/5 gas, get ultras?
Kwanro was constantly pumping mutas/guards, putting a lot of pressure on his gas reserve.
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that was extremely one sided lol
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On August 23 2008 15:20 ScarFace wrote: that was extremely one sided lol
He needs lessons on 2 base muta from jaedong.
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wow...Ruby is the new circa-mid-07-Hwasin
or late 06? let's say old hwasin who owned at tvz
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Ruby's done some amazing defense against specially prepared builds against him. I'm impressed. Calm even took him by surprise and Ruby demolished him.
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Well done by Ruby. Although his TvT and TvP certainly aren't lacking, his TvZ is great.
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Calm, Brown Z1 There's a SKT1 player here? Holy Cow~! My champion is Yellow P5.
On Bzyantium.
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Bul_T Fast expos, Nexus plants Calm. Calm expos and expos again.
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epic micro by calm
zeal hiding in a corner and he swaps lings out so he only loses 2 lings killing a zeal that only 2 could attack
3 lings get by the cannon, 1 probe dead so far
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Bul makes use of his first zeal, canceling mining at Calm's third. Rawr, with some micro, Calm takes it out while only losing 1 zergling.
Bul_T indicates sair-reaver. Calm sneaks zerglings by, killing a probe.
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And another probe. Goons fend it off, Bul starts harassing ovies, Calm spires and takes his nat gas.
Bul throws up 3 gateways, stops making sairs, and starts on goon range I guess? Scourge scout it though.
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Calm takes a fourth, Bul pushes out with 2 zeal, 6 goons, and a reaver. Fearsome, looks like that handbang timing that Nony supposedly does. And the shuttle gets sniped. Way to go Bul.
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Calm sucked. That was atrocious play.
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That reaver is at 12 kills, this attack doing some serious damage. Bul shows no signs of relenting, Calm gg's. His MSL is done. A nice timing from Bul, I'll definitely take a look at it.
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You're going to need to do a lot better than that to stop a Reaver/Goon Timing attack, Calm.
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another embarrassingly one sided game.
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THIS GAME IS DEFINITELY ON BLUE STORM. GOT YOU ALL~!
Anyways, Kwanro Yellow Z7. Bul_T at red P1.
Bul FE's, Kwanro 9 pools.
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That was an overpool from Kwanro, no?
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Micro, micro, pretty standard. Kwanro double expos, Bul_T expands after 2 cannons.
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Looks like reaver/sair for Bul_t, Kwanro opening 3hatch spire.
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Spire for Kwanro, Sair Reaver for Bul_T. I doubt he's going to be able to pull off the same timing again.
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Kwanro reacted exactly the same as Clam, taking a fourth, cept it looks like that Kwanro's sticking with muta. All bad for Bul, who's going to have to goon up and opened reaver.
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Kwanro taking his fourth in the NW corner, will be on 5 hatcheries soon. Muta/scourge from Kwanro kills a cannon and two sairs before fleeing. Kwanro now harassing bul_t's natural probes.
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Bul T really wasn't ready for the muta it seems, Kwanro moves toward lurkers and +1 carapace. The muta harass is supereffective without archons or temps and low sair numbers.
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Kwanro switching to hydras, bul_t taking his mineral only.
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kwanro better not fall apart....
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Kwanro has this if he doesn't get overaggressive.
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Kwanro's hydra count seems smallish. Well, I guess there's no templar.
It seems that Bul_T is content to mass up sairs, he's got like 6 of them now.
Edit: But it looks like he's done massing, he's hit critical mass of effective number of sairs.
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Kwanro taking his fifth, has like 30 hydras. He drops like 15 hydras in bul's main, does a little unit damage, nothing more.
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Kwanro drops on Bul_T's base. Largely ineffective. But Bul_T's lack of templar is whoing.
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Hydra/lurk now for Kwanro, bul massing a ground army.
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oh shit one reaver scarab kills 6 hydras.
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Kwanro contains Bul_T, he tries to break out, but looks like he fails. There's a lot of dead hydra around. The reavers finally come in use.
Kwanro's at hive, 3 evo chambers running. Kwanro also has 12 running.
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This comes after a pretty huge battle on the plateau outside of bul's mineral only. Kwanro teching to hive already, will probably have nasty defilers soon.
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That protoss ball is going to get eaten. Kwanro has a huge army, but he's wasting it in the 1 straight line method. Not enough templar for Bul_T, and his reavers aren't helping. They're in a shuttle right now.
Kwanro looks like he's running out of army.
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Sick push from bul, he kills kwanro's fifth and a lot of units!
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Kwanro needs cracklings, badly.
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Protoss ball takes out large amounts of Kwanro's forces beacsue of the no micro method. 12 was destroyed btw. Bul_T's not a fan of units that kill things, few templars and no archons.
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you know I dont think kwanro is gonna win...
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Crackling arrive finally and Kwanro has army parity again. Looks like a split the map situation.
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Kwanro enjoys having his ovie in one ball and right over the goons. It's all good, because his army's dead, he doesn't need the psi. Bul now has bottom right running.
Kwanro has 6 running, but bul moves to take it out.
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Kwanro with 3.5 bases and 8 hatcheries, bul with 3.5 bases and 8 gateways.
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Kwanro kills bul's SE base with hydra/defiler, bul kills Kwanro's N base with the usual.
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Bul takes out 6 and Kwanro's attempted 12 reexpand. Kwanro takes out bottom right, but toss is beating zerg around on the northern side of the map.
Kwanro micros his way out of it. Cracklings bail his butt out.
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Kwanro well ahead now. Zergling factory up and running, bul mined out at his first three bases.
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But wow, Kwanro is also mined out of his first three bases.
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Bult T only has one mining base left, as does Kwanro. And his drones just got stormed. Kwanro moves to destory that last mining base.
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Kwanro expos to 12, but Bul gets his army plagued. Not a good call.
And gets i plagued again, Kwanro is like the master of this low econ stuff.
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PLAGUE IS GONNA WIN THIS ONE
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If Bult T just attacked, it'd be over. And he does, let's see if he can pull through.
With spectacular defense, Kwanro saves his expo. Wow, it might come down to these 7 zealots.
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told you kwanro wouldn't win
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Bul Razes 12, nice attempts by Kwanro to save it (burrows drones, snipes obs.)
Kwanro also tries to take bottom left, saved by reaver.
Kwanro gg's, Bul makes it to the next round of the MSL.
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OMG Kwangro how can you lose to Bul
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
Haha, DoctorK advances to next round of MSL.
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gg from Kwanro. Really shitty play from him. Never dodged storms, too aggressive at the wrong time, too passive at the wrong time, no flanking.
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wow. everyone should go read the recent PvZ imbalance thread. this is disgusting
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Roffles
Pitcairn19291 Posts
Wow 17 Terran, 4 Zerg, 9 Protoss
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how many of those 4 zergs qualified through the MST groups and how many were seeded?
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Jaedong was seeded, obviously. The other 3, Yarnc, Zero, and Savior, survived MST.
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doubleupgradeobbies!
Australia1187 Posts
go Bult_T! save my liquibet, i didn't vote for ya, but my guiding principle was that kwanro wouldn't make it :D
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Apparently, Zergs are having trouble qualifying. Bul_T must of picked up some tricks from someone, that's for sure.
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I was going to vote for Bul_T, because he's been doing pretty well in 2v2s (sucks they're gone for him :/) and Calm always disappoints and Kwanro is overrated. But I figured Kwanro would probably pull through.
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On August 23 2008 16:31 thunk wrote: Apparently, Zergs are having trouble qualifying. Bul_T must of picked up some tricks from someone, that's for sure.
He must have received the PvZ magic touch from his teammate Kim Taekyong. Err, what used to be the magic touch, anyway.
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