Pony Express Issue 80: June 15 - June 22, 2009

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

June 23 2009 05:01 GMT

Letter from the Editor

Dear Readers,

Finally got around to talking out some of the less-used sections :D. Enjoy.

- Kau

Staff

Kau – Editor
Bloodyc0bbler – The Stove
Chill – (Retired)
Nyovne – IRC Comments
Physician – (Retired)
{88}iNcontroL – Troll Booth Willie, The Shit Bus
NeverGG – Progamer Pics
Fontong – VOD of the Week
pangshai – Battle Report
ShoCkeyy – Interviews
Aesop – (Retired)

Table of Contents

Serious Business and Funsies ................ p1
The Stove .............................................. p2
Semi-Funny IRC Comment of the Week ... p3
Progamer Photos ................................... p4
Random Image of the Week .................... p5
Troll Booth Willie .................................... p6
The Shit Bus .......................................... p6
Best of Blogs ......................................... p7
Ban of the Week .................................... p8
Vod of the Week .................................... p9
Interviews .............................................. p10

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11:15 itnrigue_ hcdcdcdcdc
11:15 itnrigue_ aoeuaoeuaoeuaoeu
11:18 itnrigue_ rchrchrhrhhcdddhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhoaueaoeu
11:19 itnrigue_ aueaoeuaeoudaoeuaoeu
11:19 itnrigue_ aoeasdf
11:19 itnrigue_ omg
11:19 itnrigue_ finally
11:19 itnrigue_ out of dvorak
11:19 itnrigue_ fuck that
11:20 itnrigue_ god that took 5 minutes

<Lee-Scara-Jay> ban xcetron
<Lee-Scara-Jay> hes noobie
<Lee-Scara-Jay> dog manner
* Quint casts Protect on XCetron
* Lee-Scara-Jay casts lightning on quint
<Lee-Scara-Jay> THE SHEILDS ARE DOWN
* Lee-Scara-Jay hacks at xcetron
* XCetron casts deflect on Quint
* XCetron casts deflect on self
* Quint takes a Potion
* Quint casts Blindness on XCetron
* Lee-Scara-Jay casts firewall around xcetron
* @failureiggit casts mute
* failureiggit sets mode: +m
* @failureiggit stabs XCetron Quint and Lee-Scara-Jay
* @failureiggit wins the race
* failureiggit is now known as WINNERiggit

18:22 JWD_: you guys got any OSL Ro36 games to recommend? I'm writing the article
18:24 vGl-RaGe: didnt watch osl games
18:24 vGl-RaGe: : (
18:33 pachi: osl started?

[14:06] <Clow> now that LJD played, I'm going to bed
[14:06] <Clow> fuck you guys
[14:06] <Harem> but clow
[14:06] <Harem> what if jd plays again
[14:06] <Harem> and you were sleeping
[14:06] <Clow> I did not read that

I like Bacchus Special:

Jaedong might drink it to win the OSL.

Flash puts it in his pocket.

Hwasin makes it look ugly.

Do you like Bacchus?

from here

The Shit Bus

illeszt was just temp banned for 30 days by Manifesto7.

That account was created on 2007-12-23 12:10:28 and had 349 posts.

Reason: I cannot fathom why you think that is appropriate to post with no nsfw tag.

edit= I mean SERIOUSLY. Why would you do that.

Go post it at places like this one: http://www.sc2armory.com/forums/topic/7625 where people appreciate looking at 90 year old vags and respond with amazing wit and style...

"ROTFLOL!!
LMAO!!

Holy crap I was all set to tell you to buy a gun but thats just hilariouse"

Seriously. Go there.

This week's game is a PvZ on heartbreak ridge between bisu, possibly the best PvZer around today, and yellow, a recent addition to the ace proteam after having been on the KTF bench for ages.

The game opens quite standard with bisu opting for a fast expansion on the left, and yellow going for an overpool build with a quick extractor on the right of the map. Bisu shows some uncharacteristic poor play by quickly getting his probe surrounded by yellow's first 6lings shortly after they hatch, and losing it before even scouting the hatchery that yellow adds at his nat.

Unphased the early mishap, bisu hides a probe in the trees outside his main, waiting for the opportune moment to slip into yellow's main unnoticed. Yellow initially searches for stray scouting probes, but unable to find one, sends his speed upgraded lings to bisu's choke, where he encounters a couple of cannons, and wisely retreats his force.

In the meantime, bisu is teching to stargate in accordance to standard protoss play, while yellow, on the other hand, has opted for a not so orthodox strategy, starting his lair on 2 bases, and adding a hydra den. Unfortunately for him,bisu's sneaky probe makes its way into his main after ascertaining the absence of a third base, scouting out his entire build.

yellow, however, continues mind games with bisu, sending a drone to mine out the mineral patches blocking the entrance to the cliff behind bisu's nat. Ingenious play by yellow, forcing bisu to worry about both his front being broken, and lurkers running up through the back and taking out his probes.

Bisu, deciding to play safe, adds 2 more cannons at his choke, and 2 cannons behind the cliff at his nat, completely neglecting the possibility of a slow drop that is indeed coming, ironically, from above the same trees that bisu had hidden his probe at.

The slow drop with a cargo of 8 lings and 2 hydras begins making its way into bisu's main as his corsair spawns, and the commentators go crazy as the observer follows it first making its way straight to yellow's main, then taking a detour north to find the overlords moving into his main.

The drop unloads successfully, and the hydras begin their morph into lurkers as the lings sprint into the main, looking to take down any freshly warping cannons. With a mere few non speed zealots for defense, the speedlings were able to outmanuevre them, taking out the initial 2 warping cannons. However, bisu's probe and zealot micro eventually overcame the zerglings, along a third cannon to begin to warp in.

The lurkers, however, quickly spawned, and made their way towards the warping cannon. Bisu attempts to block with his probe/zeal combination, but is unsuccessful, with yellow burrowing his lurkers and taking out a decent number of probes, but the cannons eventually warp in, and bisu defends against the lurkers.

Obs already out, it seems bisu should be fine from the zerg drop shennanigans, with a second drop at bisu's nat only netting a single probe kill. But yellow, true to his aggressive style, and not wanting to let up the pressure, continues the drop game, this time loading up a decent sized hydra/lurker army into 4 speedoverlords, and rallying hydras from his 3 hatcheries (with 1 recently added), to the right of bisu's main, where they can be conveniently elevated in.

Bisu's defense of 3 cannons, a handful of zealots and a reaver in his main, looked like it would be able to take on the drop, and not wanting to let yellow elevator too many hydras, where the numbers might overwhelm his defenses, into his main, bisu decides to engage the force. Sadly, bisu makes the second micro error of the day, losing a critical second reaver by walking it into yellow's hydra army.

After some attempts to dodge yellow's hydras while doing as much damage as possible, bisu loses the other reaver as well, and the continuous hydra reinforcements eventually overwhelm bisu's 1 gateway and 1 robotics zealot/reaver production, with yellow dodging bisu's scarabs excellently, loading his hydras into his overlords just as the scarab is about to hit.

Bisu, having lost his main, now decides to fortifiy his nat and hope the shitty zerg economy might mean there's still a hope for him in this game. He sends out zealots to harass yellow's drones, but they are quickly cleaned up by yellow's new mutas. These mutas sweep into bisu's nat, taking out 2 critical defending reavers, allowing yellow's hydra lurker army to come in, destroy the defending cannons and take tehg ame.

As the game ends, the crowd goes wild, chanting the name of the storm zerg, who, with his unorthodox strategy, effective mind games, and all out aggressiveness, has stolen a game off the top PvZ player of today.

Question of the Week
How do you like the OSL opening?

p10

theron[wdt]

United States395 Posts

June 23 2009 05:05 GMT

excellent. appreciate the work.

ilovejonn

Canada2548 Posts

June 23 2009 05:08 GMT

yay new one. thanks all!

FragKrag

United States11552 Posts

June 23 2009 05:11 GMT

yay pony express!!!

Archaic

United States4024 Posts

June 23 2009 05:13 GMT

Woot, go PX!

decafchicken

United States20019 Posts

June 23 2009 05:29 GMT

woot issue #80. great job guys

ShoCkeyy

7815 Posts

June 23 2009 05:43 GMT

NExt week I will have the interviews again

Sorry about the hiatus guys...

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

June 23 2009 05:44 GMT

I actually love Bacchus....It tastes like sour jelly sweets and chemicals.

Phelix

1931 Posts

June 23 2009 05:47 GMT

Another great job at PX! Really good work at the staff.

Did you include this thread?
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=95547

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

June 23 2009 05:49 GMT

#10

I did now

anch

United States5457 Posts

June 23 2009 05:49 GMT

#11

why isnt Bisu hugging gogo in the random pictures?

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

June 23 2009 05:53 GMT

#12

Link it please :D

skronch

United States2717 Posts

June 23 2009 05:54 GMT

#13

LOL @ link in ban of the week

Harem

United States11390 Posts

June 23 2009 06:19 GMT

#14

On June 23 2009 14:53 Kau wrote:
Link it please :D

+ Show Spoiler +

JWD

United States12607 Posts

June 23 2009 06:21 GMT

#15

Yesss PX! This is especially useful since I've been too busy lately to keep a good eye on the boards... thanks Kau and folks!

Still missing the Troll Booth

come back iNc!

IntoTheWow

is awesome32274 Posts

June 23 2009 06:36 GMT

#16

Nice!

Ilikestarcraft

Korea (South)17727 Posts

June 23 2009 06:42 GMT

#17

On June 23 2009 14:44 NeverGG wrote:
I actually love Bacchus....It tastes like sour jelly sweets and chemicals.

i like it too

tastes good in a weird way

Smix

United States4549 Posts

June 23 2009 06:47 GMT

#18

Thank you for this as always!

konadora

Singapore66161 Posts

June 23 2009 18:20 GMT

#19

I miss drinking Bacchus, it tastes nice, albeit a bit strange lol, expensive as hell here.

ESPORTS!

Dave[9]

United States2365 Posts

June 23 2009 19:00 GMT

#20

lol what the hell was intrigue referring to in the IRC thing? I know Dvorak's concerto's are nuts

Kau

Canada3500 Posts

June 23 2009 19:01 GMT

#21

He meant the Dvorak keyboard layout.

Updated with battle report. Please, please, please go watch Yellow vs Bisu.

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

June 23 2009 19:09 GMT

#22

Thanks Kau,
<3333 Pony Express

Mik and his blog of getting jumped was absolutely hilarious hahaha.

Fontong

United States6454 Posts

June 23 2009 19:18 GMT

#23

On June 24 2009 04:01 Kau wrote:
He meant the Dvorak keyboard layout.

Updated with battle report. Please, please, please go watch Yellow vs Bisu.

Hellll ya!

It is such a good game, and everyone needs to appreciate ACE and the real Yellow.