Savior may have all the greatest Starcraft skills that nobody have. (Well, Flash and Jaedong does but anyway) But he can't be praised as hero. He almost destroyed entire progaming scene that he and all the legends have established. I couldn't forget the sense of betrayal I had through the scandal.

Anyway the op looks amazing. I can't even imagine how much time you spend for this thread. I would definetly praise your next post about another progamer.

Kamais_Ookin

Canada4218 Posts

May 24 2011 22:29 GMT

#224

I'm sorry for the all caps but HOLY SHIT THIS ARTICLE IS AMAZING!

Anyways, it was such a shame with Savior, I wish Gom would allow him to participate in GSL, that way he could being SC2 which is better then nothing.

mizU

United States12125 Posts

May 24 2011 22:30 GMT

#225

Wow... SO awesome. Strategy dissection. Love it.

Varpulis

United States2517 Posts

May 24 2011 22:30 GMT

#226

On May 25 2011 07:26 MusiK wrote:
Haven't watched BW in ages, but this is making me want to go back... =]

What's his record against Flash?

sAviOr had a 6-12 record vs (T)

Flash.

Pro tip: use TLPD

edit:

On May 25 2011 07:28 AsianEcksDragon wrote:
Why is that piece of trash still getting featured articles on TL? His record had been erased. He never played a game.

Did you not read the piece about separating the person from the player? His play 2005-07 especially was incredible. Nobody's denying that what he did was very very wrong, but there's still so much we can learn from his play.

fadestep

United States605 Posts

May 24 2011 22:32 GMT

#227

I'm not the biggest fan of Savior. I started watching when he was dominating and learned to hate Zerg

The match fixing scandal only made it worse.

However, this was an absolutely brilliant article that not only was interesting and well written, but made me appreciate the man a bit more.

SausageLinks

United States93 Posts

May 24 2011 22:35 GMT

#228

daaaamn nice article. love the exploded text illustrations.
scandal or not, it doesn't matter what anyone says. Savior was an awesome BW player.

havox_

Germany442 Posts

May 24 2011 22:36 GMT

#229

holy crap, must be one of the sickest articles in eSports ever^^

Frequencyy

United States344 Posts

May 24 2011 22:36 GMT

#230

Fantastic OP, I came to broodwar a year before sc2 came out, and knew about savior but had no idea why my cousin respected him so much, now I realize what he revolutionized for ZvT!

zlatko

United States13 Posts

May 24 2011 22:37 GMT

#231

Does he ever stream or upload games of SC2 online? You would think with so much fame(good or bad) that he'd try to capitalize on it somehow by showcasing his skills now with SC2. Or has he given it all up since the scandal?

Torenhire

United States11681 Posts

May 24 2011 22:38 GMT

#232

I understand a lot of people hating him now for the match fixing scandal, but he's still and always has been my favorite zerg player. The whole reason I play zerg.

Forever Ma Bonjwa <3

Glorious article. If there's a part 2 coming soon...oh man.

SluGGer

Canada50 Posts

May 24 2011 22:41 GMT

#233

Extremely well written and in depth article. Was a very enjoyable read. But as a Protoss player it still pleases me to say Bisu > Savior GG

Snipinpanda

United States1227 Posts

May 24 2011 22:41 GMT

#234

Very, very well written.
It's probably one of the best FE's I've read. The graphics too, were very nice!

Pretty interesting article for me, as someone who started watching post-Bisu 3:0 Savior, and I never really understood why there were so many Savior fanboys. But I can definitely see why they would. At the very least, I do respect Savior, the player(I definitely cannot say the same of him as a person though....)

Lucumo

6850 Posts

May 24 2011 22:43 GMT

#235

Nice write-up

Also, lots of responses from the people °_°

arb

Noobville17921 Posts

May 24 2011 22:43 GMT

#236

This was an amazing read, ir ead 99% of it(barring the games id already seen)

Cant wait for part 2!

Harem

United States11390 Posts

May 24 2011 22:43 GMT

#237

On May 25 2011 05:58 xaeiu wrote:
btw, i was a bit curious about one thing...why now?

We wanted to wait a year after the match-scandal had occurred and also to make sure that BW scene was still alive and kicking. (It is.) Around when it came to a year since then, a bunch of gfx work and editing went into making the piece what it is today. However, the content itself has not changed in ages. Ver originally showed me this in Feb/March of last year and the content itself was the same as it is today.

NbSky

Canada1023 Posts

May 24 2011 22:43 GMT

#238

great read

Neverhood

United States5388 Posts

May 24 2011 22:43 GMT

#239

Savior #2 contributor to the zerg race after yellow...its a shame that he was at the center of the match fixing scandal but his play was absolutely and unquestionably dominant.

Its a good thing JD is still here to make the zerg proud :D

happyft

United States470 Posts

May 24 2011 22:43 GMT

#240

Amazing amazing article, I got so many nerd chills from reading the introduction of each tactic, watching the VOD, then reading the conclusion. What blows my mind is not only did Savior create positional advantages out of thin air against a Terran army that basically lives and breathes positional advantage, but he did it in a cost-superior way, not even cost-even! And to split, backstab and counterdrop in cost-superior ways against m&m/vessel? Insane. I never followed BW, but even as an SC2 player I can appreciate these things!

Even in SC2 where the mechanics are multitudes more simple, the very best zergs still do not consistently perform any of the tactics you described above.

God, I'm so inspired, makes me want to switch from terran to zerg right now.