On January 04 2009 14:50 Fontong wrote:
Someone tell me how Canata blew his lead...Was he not completely ahead sniping dropships and 1 base advantage?

this is one of the games u watch but dont understand.... at least i didnt c how iris clearly won the game... it was prolly the drop that took out all of canata's facts and when canata sloppily walked in2 mines when iris was on a single base

KnightOfNi

United States1508 Posts

January 04 2009 05:52 GMT

#263

Well I totally didn't forsee that ending to that game... Canata played like a moron at the end...

CZ4A

United States182 Posts

January 04 2009 05:52 GMT

#264

On January 04 2009 14:30 sung_moon wrote:
bleh just end it canata
iris 7 oclock is is screwed and his 3rd base is getting seiged

On January 04 2009 14:31 sung_moon wrote:
iris gonna do 1 last desperate atk b4 gg

On January 04 2009 14:40 sung_moon wrote:
doesnt matter iris not gonna win canata going cloaked wraiths
iris has no income

Fail.

baubo

China3370 Posts

January 04 2009 05:52 GMT

#265

On January 04 2009 14:50 Fontong wrote:
Someone tell me how Canata blew his lead...Was he not completely ahead sniping dropships and 1 base advantage?

I thought Iris had the base advantage(or at least equal) the whole game? Hence able to recover from all those dropship fails.

Although I do feel Canata was in the lead for a while, TvT is not nearly as razor sharp a MU as the other mirrors.

sung_moon

United States10110 Posts

January 04 2009 05:53 GMT

#266

On January 04 2009 14:52 CZ4A wrote:

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Fail.

im not gonna lie i thought he was dead like 20 times lol
but luckily iris proves me totally wrong

Mhugues

France112 Posts

January 04 2009 05:53 GMT

#267

I usually hates TvT, but this one was really great. It just never was boring =D

Shiznick

United States2200 Posts

January 04 2009 05:54 GMT

#268

On January 04 2009 14:52 baubo wrote:

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He lost tons and tons of SCVs to Canata's vulture harass, he lost his dropships time and time again, most of his bases weren't even mining because he didn't have enough SCVs for them. It just makes the comeback that much more surprising.

Jaksiel

United States4130 Posts

January 04 2009 05:54 GMT

#269

I can't believe Iris won that one, by the way. He seemed way behind early one, and I didn't realize he was going to win until about ~5 minutes left in the game.

Proposal

United States1310 Posts

January 04 2009 05:55 GMT

#270

that was surprisingly edgy. iris used to be tvt master

usopsama

6502 Posts

January 04 2009 05:56 GMT

#271

On January 04 2009 14:50 Fontong wrote:
Someone tell me how Canata blew his lead...Was he not completely ahead sniping dropships and 1 base advantage?

It is a timing attack, if that's how you should call it. Iris waits for Canata's units to charge into his 7 o' clock expo, then Iris drops units into Canata's main and takes out all the factories. Canata didn't have drop ships so he couldn't travel his units back to his main to defend.

mog87

United States1586 Posts

January 04 2009 05:56 GMT

#272

LoL @ the people telling canata to quit when he pulled off a big comeback to beat jaedong a couple of days ago. He played solid then lost all his factories..and it seemed even while iris was behind he was pretty aggressive with expansions and thus was able to stay in and eventually pull a win out his ass.

edit: Destroying the tower before cloak finished was clutch

sung_moon

United States10110 Posts

January 04 2009 05:56 GMT

#273

replay shows that the drop in canata's main and the fact canata did walk in2 iris's main and take out all his tanks coudl of lead to this. i mean nothign was stopping canata to just go up iris's ramp...

InFiNitY[pG]

Germany3468 Posts

January 04 2009 05:56 GMT

#274

On January 04 2009 14:50 Fontong wrote:
Someone tell me how Canata blew his lead...Was he not completely ahead sniping dropships and 1 base advantage?

Well basically it looked like this, Iris had all is units in Canata's base, except for about 5 units defending his 2 mining bases and about 5 units defending his main,
Canata then proceeded to kill the 2 mining expansions with a group of tanks and sieged up his other group of tanks in front of Iris' main.
Had he used these to push into Iris' main he would've probably won, however, he left his tanks sieged until Iris was able to produce a large enough number of tanks to actually defend his main, while he used this other group of tanks to try and defend his mining bases while getting new factories up. Finally, he actually unsieged his army in front of Iris' tanks to defend from multiple spots, which resulted in Iris being able to get his 7 O'clock back running.
As they are showing the replay, Iris had only 3 or 4 sieged tanks next to his factories, which Canata would've easily been able to overwhelm, had he pushed in

Elyvilon

United States13143 Posts

January 04 2009 05:57 GMT

#275

I think Iris won because Canata didn't expand. Canata had a monster lead on the ground, but Iris kept disrupting the mining in Canata's third while eventually managing to defend his third. If Canata had expanded(or hell, kept his 12 expo defended), I don't think Iris would've managed his comeback.

neshima

37 Posts

January 04 2009 05:57 GMT

#276

that was such an epic tvt, hahaha. once u get +2 tanks, its all about position, it doesnt even matter if u're a couple of tanks behind. canata had ALL the plays that game, but iris had position, securing a second main. also, even with 3 remaining dropships, iris had mobility advantage, and 3-4 +2 tanks was enough to do major damage to canata's larger tank army at the 7oclock expo. all those advantages gave iris the win, although both played amazing nearly the whole game.