I missed a large part of the first game, but I heard it was mostly harass on Daybreak while Everize built up a huge number of Thors and pushed out to win. Idra left.

Game two was much better, Idra took a lot of damage from Hellion harass, but then transitioned to Mutalisks. Everize was still on Hellions and Banshees and didn't have enough Thors or Tanks to stop him. 1-1.

Game three (Cloud Kingdom) was where things got a bit sketchy. It was going as well as game two, with Idra trading excellently in the Hellion harass (like 15 drones for 15+ hellions) but Idra made a couple missteps microing his Brood Lords. He lost a few to Vikings because his infestors were a bit out of position, and he lost his infestors shortly after to the mech doom push. He got a bit ticked that Terran turtled and massed every game, so he left. 2-1.

It was really just a two small mistakes that cost game three, I thought Idra was completely smashing Everize in every way. The chat was annoying though, it seemed very biased against him. He played very well, all things considered. He's still in the tournament, he can come back through the loser's bracket still.

Hope that helped.

Antithesis

Germany1241 Posts

August 30 2012 16:46 GMT

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On August 31 2012 00:37 Gaiko wrote:

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Game two was much better, Idra shut down every attempt at Hellion harass with Queens and structures on Ohana, and then transitioned to Mutalisks. Everize was still on Hellions and Banshees and didn't have enough Thors or Tanks to stop him. 1-1

Mh, did you watch the entire game? He lost about 45 drones due to hellion harass.

Idra opened game 2 with a mediocre roach/baneling timing that did a little, but not great damage, so they were kind of equal after that, but Everize had better upgrades and kept some hellions. Idra then lost horribly many drones to multi-pronged hellion harass and was behind in the midgame. However, he got a bit lucky with his muta transition and caught Everize just in a window where he didn't have the critical number of thors and also skimped on turrets. So Idra could stall for a while and defeat a rather weak last push attempt, otherwise the upcoming 2-2 mech push would have been pretty scary.

Gaiko

Canada19 Posts

August 30 2012 18:13 GMT

#50349

That is true, I might be mixing up game two and three in my head. He did really well with the harass in game three, but now that you mention it he did get smacked around a bit in game two. My mistake, editing that part.

Thrax

Canada1755 Posts

August 30 2012 21:18 GMT

#50350

Really good IdrA interview on the EG website - http://evilgeniuses.net/the-ballmer-peak-of-gaming-idra-mlg-and-rage/

That’s part of the reason I was playing well, occasionally I hit just the right level of anger where I don’t really care about anything without actually being tilted. It’s like the Ballmer Peak of gaming

Gotta love that quote

Incze

Romania2058 Posts

August 30 2012 21:42 GMT

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Achilles – You got a seed to the WCS World Championships in Shanghai. What are you going to focus on as you prepare for China?

IdrA - Unfortunately I won’t really be able to prepare specifically for it. There are four or five major events in November; most of my time will be spent trying to recover from traveling. And just keep in some kind of decent playing shape. Last time I had a schedule as bad as this, assuming I go to all the events, I ended up losing to capoch and killer at WCG finals. It’ll be a struggle just to stay competent.

This is worrying.

Denzil

United Kingdom4193 Posts

August 30 2012 21:51 GMT

#50352

he wont be able to practice and he'll probably be shit tired all day every day

but it is what it is i think he'll manage

nice interview

i can relate on the ZvZ (not that im implying i know what im doing) but it feels fucking terrible to play against people who don't know what they're doing like seeing an infestation pit go up and expecting them not to attack until they have infestors and then a swarm of roaches T.T

The_Darkness

United States910 Posts

August 30 2012 21:53 GMT

#50353

On August 30 2012 10:45 Zenbrez wrote:
Made this with some of my rubiks cubes

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It looks like on the last one you couldn't get the "A" on both sides, what a noob . .. j/k. This is actually extremely, extremely impressive. Well done.

Mr Showtime

United States1353 Posts

August 30 2012 22:03 GMT

#50354

On August 31 2012 06:18 Thrax wrote:
Really good IdrA interview on the EG website - http://evilgeniuses.net/the-ballmer-peak-of-gaming-idra-mlg-and-rage/

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Gotta love that quote

Awesome interview! We rarely get this much insight.

Antimatterz

United States1010 Posts

August 30 2012 22:08 GMT

#50355

On August 30 2012 11:12 Zenbrez wrote:
I average about 16 seconds

Dayum, that is pretty fuckin good haha, my best is 50 seconds using the method taught in the book. One day I hope to learn speed cubing :D

Zenbrez

Canada5973 Posts

August 30 2012 22:30 GMT

#50356

It looks like on the last one you couldn't get the "A" on both sides, what a noob . .. j/k. This is actually extremely, extremely impressive. Well done.

Not able to when you use the outter layer