On March 06 2009 22:21 Pyrrhuloxia wrote: Yay Stork! Don't ever doubt the bird when he has time to practice - no one has a larger gap in playing from practiced to unpracticed than Stork. Also, figured Bisu would win, Best isn't near him. Hope Hwasin wins so Stork doesn't have to face Zergs the whole way because Luxury's going to win the other half of the bracket.
the recent games against zerg make stork pvz improve by much. I would hope he face by.hero instead.
On March 06 2009 22:37 Jayme wrote: Stork forces me to scratch my head.
He's got the ugliest PvZ ever but it actually works, and it's supremely underrated it seems. Yay that bisu won , yay that luxury won :r, the Stork outcome is great even though it was ugly and that's about it.
Stork brought back his 'safe' game plan from the past. Long time didn't see him play so safe. Recently for the past year he only attack in pvp and pvt.
On March 06 2009 20:24 CDRdude wrote: In all honestly, Stork's PvZ is massively underrated these days. The only reason that his win percentage is still kind of low, is because he's played so many games. That said, jaedong screwed up horribly with that one attack, and if he didn't, he should have easily taken the game.
lol at your live reporting, reminds me of Pravda or Xinhua or something
On March 06 2009 23:47 Zyarktodt wrote: Is By.Hero the guy that Boxer identified as the next big thing?
According to some translated interview he did call him the potential bonjwa. I think main factors are - godly APM, eliminated Bisu from osl 2-0, didn't show any nervousness in the process despite being young and new.
Guys you need to understand why stork is so strong mid-lategame pvz. He has the best large army control of any protoss. That is why his PvT is so monsterous as well. He his a brilliant battle technician with phenom macro and sometimes map abusive(not a bad thing) defensive techniques. His play style is so fucking hard to beat after the first 11-12 minutes. You can hardly blame jaedong for losing against stork. The man is always number 1 or 2 protoss in the world ....
Stork showing once again that he can throw away game after game against nobodies in the PL only to show his true skills in starleagues. The man is so good when he actually bothers to practice.
And I agree that Stork's macro and army control is incredible. He loses so many PvZs early. But if the game stays even when he breaks out of his base, Stork literally becomes ten times harder to beat.
On March 06 2009 20:24 CDRdude wrote: In all honestly, Stork's PvZ is massively underrated these days. The only reason that his win percentage is still kind of low, is because he's played so many games. That said, jaedong screwed up horribly with that one attack, and if he didn't, he should have easily taken the game.
lol at your live reporting, reminds me of Pravda or Xinhua or something
well, first of all, i have to say i enjoyed reading the LR. but i have to ask if you can be a bit more informative with it, because it kind of threw me off. it seemed like jaedong was doing better than he really was. or at least that stork was doing worse. it was enjoyable though.
as for all the stork hate, i think it stems back to stork being bm in '07 or something? at least that's how it started. though now i guess it's about him always getting 2nd. i fail to see how all of his silvers is a reason to mock him. that seems like a pretty good accomplishment to me -.- or maybe his "boring" play? watch gomtv S2 finals and tell me his play is boring. or best vs stork incruit semis. that's some of the most original, exciting pvp play in starcraft. yes, he had his proxy reaver --> carrier phase during the bacchus osl and GSI, which i admit was boring, but i blame that on maps more than anything (protoss' only and best option was carriers b4 the flash build). and i will laugh if stork 2-0's jaedong. should make for an interesting discussion about who's pvz is best....(at least i can hope)
I think CRdude and Aesop should be banned from LRing. Guys, the biased reports are funny. After a page of it. Then it gets tiresome and frustrating. I found myself looking for an ignore button below your names.
I haven't seen JD vs Stork yet but I always thought Stork had it in him to beat Jaedong in a BoX. This game sounds awfully like JD vs Kal on Colosseum. JD lost the majority of his army for nothing by funneling his army into the small choke points and getting stormed/scarabed. The only difference is that JD was doing a good job defending against Stork's reaver sair and picking the sairs off.
EPT
, yay that luxury won :r, the Stork outcome is great even though it was ugly and that's about it.
