On March 31 2016 22:49 Elentos wrote: Stats makes it to the S2SL finals! Would be so amazing if he won. It's his first big individual finals in an 8 year long career.
No doubt it is excellent for his career, but how were the games? 4-3 seems rather close
Well, he lost 2 games to hydra/speed bane timings and 1 to a 2-base ling/roach all-in. 3 of his wins were basically solid macro games and in game 7 he defended against a ling/queen all-in on Ulrena.
Basically, he didn't do anything unusual at all, which I guess is the nature of PvZ atm. I'm not convinced he's good enough to beat Dark though. Because Dark is just gonna exploit any opening he can find. He's got 7 more games to study now, too.
A Hydralisks/Banelings timing? Strange composition. I must see those games.
And yeah, I thought it was strange seeing Protoss beat Zerg on Ulrena and Lerilak Crest.
Solar did it on Dusk Towers (where it failed spectacularly and he had to attempt to macro out of it with lurkers and such) aswell as Prion Terraces and Ruins of Seras, where it worked out. It was kinda cool.
On Lerilak they just played a standard macro game. I think they spawned cross map though which ended up helping Stats.
As a side note, even if he doesn't win S2SL, Stats has a great shot at making Blizzcon this year.
My hope is that all 3 main KT guys go to BlizzCon this year, but it's only a dream atm thanks to Blizzard. (But seriously, in their current form, they deserve it)
I'm still sad that last year the MERS outbreak prevented them from using their planned stage at the Han River. It was such a good venue for the 2014 PL finals
Ah yeah i already forgot about that. I think i read that the venue has around 2000 seats, i hope a lot of people show up for KT vs SKT Whoever wins also gets a direct blizzcon seed, crazy :D
Fun fact, Stats, herO and Zest have near identical win rates in Proleague. They're different by less than .1%. I think there's only 1 player in Proleague who has a better all-time record than those 3 while playing the same amount of Proleague seasons in SC2 (that being sOs).
Stats is right up there with some all-time greats, yet he gets overlooked more than most. If only he ever managed to win any substantial individual title
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