I was very impressed with Jaedong's play against rain. He got to around 60 drones at the 8 minute mark; his drone transfers, and injects were top notch. As expected, his map awareness was excellent, not losing scouting lings, surrounding zealots, etc. When Rain pushed out Jaedong's instincts to move his force out on the map were also right since you need a great surround to take out the sentry-immortal push Rain was doing. It also looked like he was using several control groups (which always impresses me for some reason). My only mild criticisms were that he built another round of drones after the 8 minute mark and that once he scouted the robo and sentries (assuming he did), he should have switched into a ling heavier composition and infestors (although he may not have had time to do so). I can't really criticize the counter attack because Rain's build hard-counters the Stephano 12 minute or so roach max build. Jaedong was 95% likely to lose the fight if he chose to fight the army straight up. Jaedong is definitely going to be an elite SC2 player, as we all knew.

Edit: Clean up edits above.

Velinath

United States694 Posts

May 21 2012 15:12 GMT

#422

Sign me up. His skills like map awareness, scouting, multitasking - all translated well into SC2. I think that the tactical decisions will come with time, and then JD will be a monster.

Lysanias

Netherlands8351 Posts

May 21 2012 20:44 GMT

#423

On May 21 2012 01:15 nttea wrote:

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from how that looked... more than a little practice actually

i still believe though!

Playing Sc2 less then 2 months

I don't think we have anything to worry about.

RageCommodore

Germany912 Posts

May 21 2012 21:06 GMT

#424

Please sign me up. Great player, great personality

Nobody should worry about anything at this point, he has basically just started to play the game.

Kontrax

Germany84 Posts

May 21 2012 21:16 GMT

#425

Sign me UP!!!

keioh

France1099 Posts

May 21 2012 21:35 GMT

#426

What ? You didn't sign me in yet ? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR ??? SIGN ME IN NAO

Splynn

United States225 Posts

May 22 2012 08:01 GMT

#427

Interview posted by our very own TL interviewing Jaedong. I can't imagine how you lot would miss it, but if you did...

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=339200

Jaedong talks about the scene in general and his expectations. He seems really excited to play in foreign touranments, which makes me extremely excited. Flash was talking about this, too, and Bisu wants to play abroad as well. Which all means we'll see Jaedong at MLGs, time permitting.

I'm extremely excited; if he's at Anaheim I'm much more likely to make the drive out there.

bgx

Poland6595 Posts

May 22 2012 08:15 GMT

#428

I think Jaedong said one of the most positive things, that he look up SC2 zerg games. Im not talking about whether its Stephano or someone else, its just that whenever it was Flash or Bisu it was "we didnt have time yet etc" and J-dong dropping bomb for following games of a foreigner. Which in this case is good, Stephano has great ZvP style and Jdong should start from copying that.

What a change from "dong may retire" to "dong watches sc2 and is interested, and is positive about SC2". Much less burden on my heart, Jaedong not playing anymore would be a significant blow to progaming. I was reluctant to see legends pick SC2 as i feel their trademark moves are not present there, still its better than retiring, always.

dark_dragoon10

United States299 Posts

May 22 2012 08:19 GMT

#429

sorry guys d3 and school is robbing me time for updating the fan list! will do so shortly

EDIT: DONE!

dark_dragoon10

United States299 Posts

May 22 2012 08:27 GMT

#430

epic fail post

EGMachine

United States1643 Posts

May 22 2012 08:31 GMT

#431

sign me up ^______^

HonorZ

France858 Posts

May 22 2012 13:57 GMT

#432

On May 22 2012 17:31 EGMachine wrote:
sign me up ^______^

Good Machine to praise your spiritual father

AIOL!

France962 Posts

May 22 2012 17:35 GMT

#433

Is Jaedong added in the Steph fanclub already ? :p This quote about stephano made me laugh, the god of the zergs is inspired by a foreigner Oo.
BTW i expect JD to do pretty well in some months, you can see in his game he has over average multitask but he did noob decisions :'(

Kergy

Peru2011 Posts

May 22 2012 18:54 GMT

#434

Should add this link to the OP.

http://jaedongfangirl.blogspot.com/

Also, sign me up!

itsflxy

Germany61 Posts

May 22 2012 20:15 GMT

#435

Sign me up pls ^^

dark_dragoon10

United States299 Posts

May 22 2012 23:42 GMT

#436

On May 23 2012 03:54 Kergy wrote:
Should add this link to the OP.

http://jaedongfangirl.blogspot.com/

Also, sign me up!

It's been under the misc. section since day 1... nobody reads the op!!!

On May 22 2012 17:31 EGMachine wrote:
sign me up ^______^

you already signed up! should i put a x2 by your name? :D

(BTW nice music on ur stream, tool is bawss)

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

May 22 2012 23:45 GMT

#437

Sign me up too! Jaedong is amazing, easily my favorite Zerg player by far (probably the only Z I like, and I like him a lot

kerpal

United Kingdom2695 Posts

May 23 2012 22:58 GMT

#438

worst part of exams was not getting to post 'sign me up' in here.

JD, i believe in you, nce you get your sc2 groove, i'm sure you'll destroy everyone! ^^ looking forward to it.

most of all though, don't let your BW slip, i want to see some of the old JD domination back.

Jaedong FIGHTING!

Baptista

Poland141 Posts

May 24 2012 21:13 GMT

#439

sign me up