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LOL how did that happen?! I basically stopped watching after seeing Sen lost first 2 games and won the next. Discouraged me due to lack of zero micro, and liquidbetting him didn't help much. Now I'm interested how Sen won the 4th and 5th game.
4th game Sen does a slightly late speedling bust (JF with 2 cannons 1 zealot 1 goon), 5th game JF does a goon+reaver timing attack but gets delayed by mutas in his main then just destroyed by a perfect linghydramuta surround in the middle of the map.
wow i missed the comeback! I stopped watching in the middle of game three after Sen lost a drone to a probe, his first ovi to cannons, and got his third base proxy cannoned. I was like, "Ugh he's been playing sc2 nonstop, didn't even practice" and left the stream. Now I need to watch the vods!
On February 28 2010 07:07 Newguy wrote: wow i missed the comeback! I stopped watching in the middle of game three after Sen lost a drone to a probe, his first ovi to cannons, and got his third base proxy cannoned. I was like, "Ugh he's been playing sc2 nonstop, didn't even practice" and left the stream. Now I need to watch the vods!
The thing is he lost the overlord because JF did 2 cannons before nexus, which slowed him down enough as it is, and JF spending 400 minerals (1 pylon + 2 cannons) to cancel one hatchery puts JF back farther than it does sen, who was able to just take the pop down another hatchery at the north mineral only.
It wasn't all that surprising to me that a protoss with that slow of a build got raped by mutas.
On February 28 2010 07:07 Newguy wrote: wow i missed the comeback! I stopped watching in the middle of game three after Sen lost a drone to a probe, his first ovi to cannons, and got his third base proxy cannoned. I was like, "Ugh he's been playing sc2 nonstop, didn't even practice" and left the stream. Now I need to watch the vods!
JF spending 400 minerals (1 pylon + 2 cannons) to cancel one hatchery puts JF back farther than it does sen
Nooo way. It's really bad for sen. Lost a ton of larvae that the hatch would've produced, lost access to those mineral patches, lost 350 minerals (include drone to build the hatch). Also JF gets to use the pylon supporting the cannons for supply so he'll save 100 minerals down the line in his build. But JF has to adjust his build and he simply didn't adjust it to cover that muta timing.
nice series)) i adored zergling rush in 4th game ^_____^ (Why the hell mondi didn't something of this kind? )) ).
although there was a mis-timing by JF, he spent some extra minerals to attempt cannon rush, so he had a little less defence than he should, so Sen could ling-break %)
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mouz.IefNaij vs 
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Game 1: Fighting Spirit 
was worried i might be the only one for a second there
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