gogogogogogogogo Stephano! Win!!! :D WIN ALL THE TOURNAMENTS

Game 1:

Well lol.... 6 gate all in... still Steph's got 2 games to win. i think with Hydra he would have held that. the zerg in me still died a bit. can't blame elfi for all in-ing though. : (

Game 2: Ugh I'm nervous

Stephano double Fe vs elfi FE into double stargate. stephano still hasn't scouted the gas vs double stargate. :o

Now he sees it. puts down spores. hope he holds. think he will

Looks like he'll hold.

After holding off double stargate, efli goes into 8 gate warp prism, ie all in n°2. steph should hold, hydra should do it. ^^"""

Steph takes a 4th base, makes Hydra/Roach and then holds off subsequent all in.

Game 3:
As before, Steph double FE's vs Elfi's FE. Stephano manages to get some lings in and harass a little. 4 gas taken and warp prism sentry drop is scouted by steph.

Steph starts harassing front of elfi's base with roach. picks off buildings and immortals.

Steph takes a 4th, denies elfi's third with roach/ling.

Engagement, roach/ling vs stalker/stentry/immortal. steph takes out a lot of units, loses fight. 4 bases though, remaxes on roaches. ^^

Steph takes out elfi's 3rd, loses his army though. still damages elfi's army. MORE RAOCHes

Denies elfi's 3rd with raoches.

Stephano continues to deny elfi's third, defends great vs drops, elfi gg's.

NP!

gardinho

Germany368 Posts

February 25 2012 13:38 GMT

#3603

nice defence stephano

Rayjin

Germany205 Posts

February 25 2012 13:40 GMT

#3604

Amazing decision making from Stephano in the second game against Elfi.

GoGoGo, take game nr3 too =)

ApocAlypsE007

Israel1007 Posts

February 25 2012 13:55 GMT

#3605

TB: "And the reign of terror continues"

AgentChaos

United Kingdom4569 Posts

February 25 2012 13:55 GMT

#3606

On February 25 2012 21:59 zqx wrote:

Show nested quote +

http://www.twitch.tv/setttv2/b/309695574 @2:20:00

thanks so much
btw great win against elfi, stephano looking to take this tourney

Incognoto

France10239 Posts

February 25 2012 13:57 GMT

#3607

PLaying vs Puma now.

gogogo stephano you can totally win this.

KainiT

Austria392 Posts

February 25 2012 13:57 GMT

#3608

was really impressed by elfi, even game 2 and 3 were very close, he could have won game 2 by going to the natural probably with the voids and in game 3 he nearly got his nexus up and protoss with 5th and 6th gas gets stronger immediately, was like the first time for quite a while now that stephano looked touchable in a zvp by someone else than mc

HotShizz

France710 Posts

February 25 2012 13:57 GMT

#3609

Good luck in semis and subsequent finals! Destroy Puma!!

MagmaPunch

Bulgaria536 Posts

February 25 2012 14:01 GMT

#3610

go go stephano

revel8

United Kingdom3022 Posts

February 25 2012 14:23 GMT

#3611

I think one of the main differences between Idra and Stephano is that Idra was dominating right at the start of the Beta. At that point, he was already establishing himself as possibly the best Foreign player in SC2 along with Dimaga and White-Ra. Then Huk emerged etc. Stephano has only established himself as a top Foreigner since last Autumn (in 2011) in IPL3. Naniwa and Thorzain also broke through just before Stephano. You can see Stephano has improved massively since early 2011. I saw a game when Sen beat Stephano when Sen was playing as Terran. Now I would say Stephano is favourite to defeat every Foreign opponent and many Korean players. Idra has been at the top of the Foreign game since the beginning, but now Stephano is there too.

I would still say the Top Koreans are favourite against Stephano - like MC, Nestea and MVP. But Stephano has racked up wins against MKP, MMA, Alive, DRG, Bomber, Sage, Boxer, Hero and proven he can live and compete with these players. Stephano is still improving though, he has really built up his ZvP game in recent months. Now he needs to similarly refine his ZvT game. He has some tough games coming up in Tournaments against Puma, Polt, MMA and Jjakji so we can see what level he is against top Korean Terrans.

No matter his result against Puma, Stephano has now finished in the Top 4 of Assembly, and thus earned a minimum of $1000 for this tournament.

SinO[Ob]

France898 Posts

February 25 2012 14:36 GMT

#3612

I wish Polt is gonna win Lucky. I want stephano to show us that he can beat some of the best korean T. Cause ironsquid aint gonna be a peacefull walkway.

Aando

1304 Posts

February 25 2012 15:29 GMT

#3613

Argh... frong thread...

Slardar

Canada7593 Posts

February 25 2012 15:42 GMT

#3614

Goodluck vs PuMa!! Take him down Stephano!

Jetaap

France4814 Posts

February 25 2012 16:30 GMT

#3615

By the way in this interview http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp1q6o_polt-apres-son-huitieme-de-finale_videogames Polt says that he wants to play against Stephano in the final of assembly because he is the best foreigner. I guess it won't shock anybody here :p.

KoBlades

Austria248 Posts

February 25 2012 16:42 GMT

#3616

gogo stephano! great game so far!

Edit: haha manner hatch that thing!