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Zajoman
Profile Joined December 2007
Slovakia16 Posts
December 03 2007 22:51 GMT
#41
I believe the game Reach > Oov is this.
Blue
Profile Joined July 2004
Norway359 Posts
December 03 2007 23:01 GMT
#42
excellent read
anybody gonna do pvz or tvz?
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RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
December 03 2007 23:10 GMT
#43
On December 04 2007 07:50 TryThis wrote:
just wondering, where would you fit Boxer in this?

eventhough boxer had some innovative strategies for TvP over the years, he never revolutionized something in TvP. He invented TvZ in its entirety though haha
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20665 Posts
December 03 2007 23:15 GMT
#44
You know how they say Protoss wins fall StarLeagues?

"Boxer is the Legend of the Fall."

On the Reach/iloveoov line: I think the proverbial nail in the coffin for iloveoov's TvP dominance was not the Mercury game [though it was quite revolutionary] but rather the 3-0 thrashing Reach gave oov in MSL a bit afterwards. Especially that Luna game. The Requiem game was soooo gooooood
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Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6777 Posts
December 03 2007 23:28 GMT
#45
good stuff nigga

and yeah I was wondering about the 3-0 too
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RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
December 04 2007 00:00 GMT
#46
On December 04 2007 08:15 Last Romantic wrote:
You know how they say Protoss wins fall StarLeagues?

"Boxer is the Legend of the Fall."

On the Reach/iloveoov line: I think the proverbial nail in the coffin for iloveoov's TvP dominance was not the Mercury game [though it was quite revolutionary] but rather the 3-0 thrashing Reach gave oov in MSL a bit afterwards. Especially that Luna game. The Requiem game was soooo gooooood

Hmm you have a point there. The mercury game just seemed symbolic, because it was the first in its kind, with this style of mid and lategame play. the start of a new gameflow.
but yeah his dominance seemed to continue because he won the osl (finals were TvT though, and as he said in the interview, he was lucky in the semifinals). I think that if Reach and Oov played another BO3 1 week after the EVER2004 OSL, reach wouldve won 3-0 too. Also the MSL maps differed from the OSL maps in terms of style and balance
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Hittegods
Profile Joined April 2007
Stockholm4641 Posts
December 04 2007 00:08 GMT
#47
On December 04 2007 07:51 Zajoman wrote:
I believe the game Reach > Oov is this.

Yeah, that´s the right one.
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vGl-CoW
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Belgium8305 Posts
December 04 2007 00:15 GMT
#48
nice thread, very informative read
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jkillashark
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States5262 Posts
December 04 2007 00:28 GMT
#49
Nice. I like the ping pong analogy.



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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11567 Posts
December 04 2007 00:40 GMT
#50
Wang Liqin is a future progamer for Halo III! We need to get him to SC :|

Or at least Ma Lin & Wang Nan.
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himurakenshin
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Canada1845 Posts
December 04 2007 00:49 GMT
#51
On December 04 2007 04:30 GrandInquisitor wrote:
Nowadays a more modern trend is to fake FD, enticing a 2gate hard goon rush into FE, and then hitting with an early 2fact tank timing attack.


FD stands for Fake Double no?
RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
December 04 2007 00:52 GMT
#52
On December 04 2007 09:49 himurakenshin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2007 04:30 GrandInquisitor wrote:
Nowadays a more modern trend is to fake FD, enticing a 2gate hard goon rush into FE, and then hitting with an early 2fact tank timing attack.


FD stands for Fake Double no?

yeah, what he means is you show him 1tank 4 rine and 1 vult, make him 2gate powergoon FE, and then roll over him with 2fact tank/vult, while he has 5-6 goons and no obs
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RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia13427 Posts
December 04 2007 00:54 GMT
#53
How about (T)St.Eagle?

I'd say he had a fairly significant influence
"Terrans are pretty much space-Australians" - H
RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
December 04 2007 00:59 GMT
#54
On December 04 2007 09:54 RowdierBob wrote:
How about (T)St.Eagle?

I'd say he had a fairly significant influence

hmm don't really know him / his style
enlighten me
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SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-04 01:09:16
December 04 2007 01:08 GMT
#55
st.eagle was one of the first to use metal against protoss

supposedly the inventor of it

great thread btw
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RaGe
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Belgium9950 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-12-04 01:14:44
December 04 2007 01:14 GMT
#56
On December 04 2007 10:08 SoMuchBetter wrote:
st.eagle was one of the first to use metal against protoss

supposedly the inventor of it

great thread btw

is that pre 1.08?
probably is, no? didnt watch that many vods back then.
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MyLostTemple *
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2921 Posts
December 04 2007 01:26 GMT
#57
a great read :D
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RowdierBob
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
Australia13427 Posts
December 04 2007 01:37 GMT
#58
On December 04 2007 09:59 RaGe wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2007 09:54 RowdierBob wrote:
How about (T)St.Eagle?

I'd say he had a fairly significant influence

hmm don't really know him / his style
enlighten me


He's credited with popularising vults and tanks in TvP. There should be some old 1.08 reps around. There are also some cool Boxer vs Spunky reps of rines vs P before metal was the accepted method of tvping.
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ToKoreaWithLove
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Norway10161 Posts
December 04 2007 01:38 GMT
#59
Nice read! I miss some of the earlier stuff but as it is not well documented and not well known (not like I remember a lot of it myself) it is not that important. I'll write things I recall anyway:


The development of the "metal" terran play vs protoss is often credited to several western battle.net players, among them NTT. Other players such as Slayer, Crexis, probably Zileas because he had a great strategic mind and used many of the strategies we see today as early as the bw beta.

Hearcutter's deep six, while rather silly-looking these days, was a nice strat to counter early protoss.

And Boxer's dropship play changed TvP a lot as well. Everybody and their grandmother did the 2 tank dropship play, the 3 fac tank and the island goliath play back in his heydays

st.Eagle was once said to be the best terran in the world, much based on his great metal usage, but calling him the inventor would be hard to defend. Nowadays he is probably most famous for that fantastic game vs Garimto on silentvortex during sky 2002.
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ToKoreaWithLove
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
Norway10161 Posts
December 04 2007 01:39 GMT
#60
On December 04 2007 10:37 RowdierBob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 04 2007 09:59 RaGe wrote:
On December 04 2007 09:54 RowdierBob wrote:
How about (T)St.Eagle?

I'd say he had a fairly significant influence

hmm don't really know him / his style
enlighten me


He's credited with popularising vults and tanks in TvP. There should be some old 1.08 reps around. There are also some cool Boxer vs Spunky reps of rines vs P before metal was the accepted method of tvping.


Err if I remember correctly Boxer used mass marines to counter carriers in most of those games. Was rather cool to watch the interceptors die -_-
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