Mvp Fan Club - Page 269

On March 01 2013 15:47 mambar wrote:
just watched Mvp vs Kas game 1 of WCG 2011... toward the start his wrist is hurting and tastosis don't know about his issues yet ;;

edit: on the plus side, beautiful game : D

On March 07 2013 10:13 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:


The first TvT on the list of the best games of 2012 happens to feature two of the best Terran players from 2011. While Mvp dominated just about everyone in 2011, and MMA was a painful thorn in his side, costing him two championships – once in the ace match of the March GSTL finals, and again at the finals of Code S October at Blizzcon. To add insult to injury, MMA would shut Mvp out the Blizzard Cup semi-finals to bring an ignominious end to Mvp's year of glory.

When they met again in the distant future, in September of 2012, both had seen their careers take a turn for the worse – MMA due to drama outside of the game, and Mvp due to the worsening condition of his wrists. But neither player had any trouble elevating their games for the long awaited rematch, and there was certainly no love lost between them. The first game of their series ended up being a far better game than any they had played in the past. Mvp had long since diversified from the mech-only style that bogged down his games in 2011, and took MMA head on in a fantastic display of bio-tank vs. bio-tank skill on Whirlwind.


We had a lot of Metropolis TvZ games make our initial list of nominees, but few actually made the cut. On a map that basically forces half-map, max-out army wars, the play had to especially crisp, the battles unusually epic, and the highlights particularly jaw-dropping for games to distinguish themselves. Slivko vs. Mvp meets all those criteria, featuring all the grandness of max-out TvZ with none of the drudgery.

This match is particularly unique in that it's one of the few where the players themselves seemed to realize they were a part of something special and decided to escalate things even further. It was the first game where we saw Slivko fully play along in the role of the dastardly Zerg villain, and one of the many games where Mvp showed his penchant for playing StarCraft at a grander scale than anyone else.


For the longest time, the GSL finals had never been known to produce epic games or even remotely exciting games. Especially in 2010 and 2011, finals were known to be one-sided affairs, usually consisting of one obviously superior player 4 - 0ing his way through an outmatched opponent.

But 2012 would be different.

MVP's path to these finals consisted of going through two of Squirtle's teammates, then StartaleQ_Naniwa and StartaleQ_Parting. Against these opponents, MVP had used early game tactics to finesse his way to victory and many suggested that MVP had no more tricks in his bag against the third StartaleQ Protoss. That was all proved wrong as we saw MVP up 3 - 1 going into the fifth game of the finals. But MVP wanted to prove something more, prove that he was more than just early game all-ins and tricks, so he took it all the way to the other end of the spectrum. In possibly the best demonstration of true late game TvP to date, MVP turtled behind planetary fortresses to obtain the strongest army known to man, the rare and elusive 3-3 maxed BC ghost composition. In this lengthy PvT, we saw a whole host of tactics and units never before seen in this match-up, all culminating in one last epic battle, perhaps the single most anticipated battle of SC2 history.

On March 07 2013 08:21 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:

Group D
ST_Golden, LG-IM_Mvp, Liquid`TLO
EG.Stephano.RC, MVP.Dream, Grubby

Round Robin. 1st place advances to round of eight. 2nd and 3rd place advance to round of twelve.

Well, at least we now know that IEM doesn't rig their groups. Group D features four of the biggest fan favorites in the tournament in Mvp, TLO, Stephano, and Grubby, and at least one of them is guaranteed to go out. It's highly likely that it's going to be more than just one, considering that the remaining two players in the group are Golden and Dream. On top of being Korean, their schedules show that they haven't had much WoL to play in the past month or so, meaning they're going to be quite experienced in HotS.

The most important player to watch in this group is LG-IM's Mvp, the greatest WoL player of all time. In 2011, he taught everyone how to play macro games, and he's always been a strategic innovator in the game. Despite the fact that he has declined since his peak, he might dictate Terran strategy once again in the early phases of HotS. We didn't get to see that much creativity out of him in his MLG Winter Showdown against Curious, as that game was played during the phase where going hellbat drops was better than anything else. That match was almost a month ago, so now we'll get to see what Mvp has come up with in the meanwhile.