San Fan Club

Alias San lost . In the first set San tried a proxy gateway but it did not work (well there was a time where he moved his Stalkers in then pulled it back. I think at that moment he had a chance but he did not take it )

I don't think San does well using an all-ins or cheeses [he usually loses them sadly] but play normally.

Hopefully San will still have enough points for the Blizzard Cup. If San manages to get in he'll be able to show his skills because in the Blizzard Cup each player plays every other player at least once I think.

Sadly it seems San is in somewhat of a slump (ever since GSL WC he hasn't been doing well). I like San because he was an underdog that achieved victory[or near] against champions (NesTea + He played well against MC and MVP).

A major thing to note is that he did a timing attack with a lot of stalkers and sentries at around 10 minutes and prevented his third hatch from going. This probably determined the outcome of the game greatly.

I rewatch that game and San used Blink stalkers to defend mutalisks. He didn't even get amulet until 20-21 minute mark (game timer). Even once he got amulet, he used Blink stalkers to defend the harass at 23 minute mark. It wasn't until 25 minutes until amulet may have been taken advantaged of (though take note there were 4 templars out ever since the 20 minute mark which meant they probably had max energy already). Finally the muta harass at the 28 minute mark was repelled by Stalkers again.

He started DT harass at 21 minutes and continued the rest of the game (this helped a lot).

He used a lot of Archons (didn't rely much on warp in storms. Again he only used storm at 25 minutes but take note those were from old templars which were warped in 5 minutes prior).

He only "really" abused and taken advantage of Amulet at 30-31 minute mark (when the Mothership first appears) so far. Take note the Archon toilet was used to kill 6 Brood Lords but San had a lot of stalkers coming in so he probably could have easily taken out those BL even without archon toilet.

At 36 minutes, he uses warp in templars to..... feedback overseers >.>. Even without Amulet, templars have enough energy to warp in feedback.

At 37 minute mark (one minute later), he uses warp in amulet templar to storm a mineral line of about 7 drones (gets a couple).

39 minute repeats another amulet storm (gets around 4 drones). So here he abuses amulet again but not for much gain.

40-41 minute - He feedbacks overseers and lands just "four" storms (one storm missed, two were against ultralisks).

Vortex but no archon toilet (banelings were in it). However there was another vortex against the 9 or so corruptors which was archon toileted. However he still had a ton of archons and stalkers leftover so he probably would have dealt with that easily regardless.

Honestly he probably been able to win that game even with the current patch (if players were playing the same of course. Again I do know Nestea underestimated him).

He used archons a lot which would have been better now with the +1 range. Of course Infestor would have been buffed with the new Fungal (but slowed, after Infestor patch move speed was reduced by 0.25).

The only major factor is that I agree that Nestea probably underestimated him however San played a great game his micro, macro, harass, basically everything, was well done throughout the entire game.

Point is he defeat Nestea fairly (even though Nestea underestimated him). No he didn't win "solely" because of Amulet or the Archon toilet. He didn't even abuse amulet or the archon toilet that much (again rewatch the game).

Maybe you can say if Nestea knew there was no amulet, he would have been more aggressive (though Nestea was already aggressive and denied by Blink stalkers several times) or San would have played differently. That's too much variables to debate on (would be unnecessary too since this is just a post explaining that San did well and did not abuse amulet in his Nestea game.)

Of course again I agree Nestea played too passive early on and underestimated San but the point is San did not really abuse any gameplay imbalances in that game to win. Game needs to be watched and one needs to take note of the time he uses warp in storms or so (I listed all occurrences which I've seen).

Anyway I'm just tired of players lately stating that San only won because of amulet which is why I'm made this post. San is not a bad player that relied on amulet (he still did good in WC and did decently against MVP, near winning the 4th set[you can rewatch since WC is free]).

As for the question of "would a good player be in Code B"? Well currently, Code B players can easily defeat Code S players (see team league). San doing bad in a few matches in a row does not mean he's a bad player (lots of players hit slumps or have periods where they play several bad games in a row). He's shown he's capable of being a decent to good player.

Also judging by the way he played, it seems like he has been practicing quite a bit lately, he was playing like a boss!