Mvp Fan Club - Page 268

On February 26 2013 03:40 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:


The second series of the week featured another multiple GSL champion from LG-IM, and ended in yet another 3 - 0 scoreline. However, this time around, the challenger was on the receiving end of the beating, with LG-IM's Mvp successfully defending his pride after a poor Code S campaign.

Game one showed off nearly every single new unit HotS brings, as well as every single improved unit from both races. Mvp opened with reapers, oddly enough building a tech lab on his barracks first, showing he wasn't fully accustomed to HotS. Nevertheless, Mvp managed to pick off a queen and set up a contain on Curious, using widow mines and reapers. Curious eventually broke the contain and both players transitioned to the midgame, Curious choosing a composition of roaches and hydralisks while also giving the viper its debut in the MLG Winter Showdowns. In the meantime Mvp massed an enormous mech army of over thirty tanks with hellbats to support. Curious added some ultralisks into the mix, and went for a big 4 base 200 food attack while Mvp was unsieged. Despite getting off some fantastic blinding clouds, Mvp controlled his tank-mode tanks perfectly and easily won the fight. With the Game Genie's counter attack looming on the horizon, Curious was forced into making mass mutalisks as a hasty defensive solution. Curious had to give up some bases and infrastructure, but eventually Mvp's anti airless army was cleaned up. From there, Curious transitioned into brood lords, while doing some light harass with the mutalisks. Mvp took economic damage, but held on despite having only one fully mining base. Forced into attacking, the LG-IM Terran chose to split up his army, sending the bulk of the thors as well as most of the tanks towards Curious's fourth, while sending a smaller squad of tanks to the other side of the map. This tactic proved to be devastating, as Mvp annihilated Curious's army while killing both bases, taking game number one.

The next game was a much simpler affair as Mvp turned on the pressure early on. It is best to mention now that these games were played before the recent hellbat nerf, with four hellbats still fitting into a single medivac and coming quite early. Needless to say, carnage ensued and while Curious tried his very best to defend, Curious' drone line - and chances of advancing - went up in flames. The third game also featured hellions very heavily, though this time in their native form. Curious decided he would try and metagame Mvp by going mutalisks to counter his opponent's usual lack of air. But, as has been proved time and time again no one metagames Mvp. Double factory blue flame hellions were the order of the day, and they proved to be the direct counter to Curious's speedling based army. As the drones burned, Mvp celebrated his chance to regain glory at MLG Dallas.