Please, no complaints about Terran. Life could've won both of those games if he had chosen a different build. Sjow's timing hits just before mutalisks, where zerg is weakest. Life's decision to go early roaches for defense hurt his upgrades especially since he could have taken an extremely fast third without repercussion. In addition he had the opportunity to kill Sjow's fourth in Game 3 but committed too much in his attempt to land a finishing blow.

catplanetcatplanet

3830 Posts

June 17 2013 17:47 GMT

#2432

How were games? outplayed or life's derp?

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

June 17 2013 17:49 GMT

#2433

On June 18 2013 02:47 catplanetcatplanet wrote:
How were games? outplayed or life's derp?

Both. Sjow's macro fell off badly during the end of Game 3 but he had too much production to really lose.

Seijuurou

Australia12 Posts

June 17 2013 17:56 GMT

#2434

On June 18 2013 02:46 CosmicSpiral wrote:
Please, no complaints about Terran. Life could've won both of those games if he had chosen a different build. Sjow's timing hits just before mutalisks, where zerg is weakest. Life's decision to go early roaches for defense hurt his upgrades especially since he could have taken an extremely fast third without repercussion. In addition he had the opportunity to kill Sjow's fourth in Game 3 but committed too much in his attempt to land a finishing blow.

I think this is very much correct on the early roach part, using that gas/mins toward earlier double evo and 1-1 would have given him a much better chance in the mid game. Not to take anything away from Sjow though, he played the game of his life. I just think life showed what he could do with simple ling/queen early game defence in game 1 yet decided to pump out the roaches the next two games.

Weavel

Finland9221 Posts

June 17 2013 17:59 GMT

#2435

Really hard lose but somehow I'm not that upset. I had 1 week break from sc2 after group of death...

Saumure

France404 Posts

June 17 2013 18:00 GMT

#2436

On June 18 2013 02:45 skylarr wrote:

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I can't believe people are still denying this, I mean it doesn't take rocket science to see terran is too strong atm

No, I don't think that terran is the problem, I think that the skill gap is to small atm. Last time I saw Sjow was at IEM after WoL release... But I don't want the fan club to turn into a whining thread about SC2 / terran.

GOGO Life, rock through WCS S2 please

Foxxan

Sweden3427 Posts

June 17 2013 18:06 GMT

#2437

To be frank sjow played good!
I am worried about Life

What will happen to him now? He looked abit shaky in groupstage to even in his best matchup zvt.
What is going on?

Keeemy

Finland7855 Posts

June 17 2013 18:07 GMT

#2438

On June 18 2013 02:59 Weavel wrote:
Really hard lose but somehow I'm not that upset. I had 1 week break from sc2 after group of death...

I think I'm gonna need that 1 week break now... The whole game pisses me off so much now. Fuck.

But can't say enough of this; Life is still the king. And will always be.

ETisME

12450 Posts

June 17 2013 18:12 GMT

#2439

it's really strange to see Life getting his army out of positioned by a queue'd drop
not to mention T with quick 3 base economy macro is just so hard to stop

Darrkhan

Finland1236 Posts

June 17 2013 18:12 GMT

#2440

Life is looking a bit shaky maybe his aggressive style is a bit worn off.
Also why didn't he kill the mines? Mines were left alone and Life lost nearly 40 units to them when he was rallying at SjoW base, all he needed to do is turn around with couple zerglings and kill them.
I'm not big fan of skipping 3-3 either :S

More than "TERRAN SO IMBAA" It was mistakes in Life's play.
Life is still great but he is more vulnerable than he used to be.

Other hand SjoW played some really great games didn't expect that at all.