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Korea (South)17174 Posts
Alas we have reached the final chapter in the Nuketacular Bertrand Grospellier Saga. During his campaign he shattered Crystal (3-1), lynched Blackman (6-3), beautified Beast (4-0), and wrecked yours truly (7-0). To top off his term as the King of Liquibition he would have to beat the man that he shares bed sheets with, Smuft. Super Manner User For Toss lives in Korea and is a part of team white boy (The Dream and Us Team) with Elky and our humble site denizen. Can the Crimson Capped Canadian succeed in his attempt for a coup d'etat versus the Foxy Frenchman?
Game 1
Map: The Lost Temple
The Game: Terran vs Protoss (as were all other games in this series). Elky started at 12, Smuft at 3. Smuft opened with a fast 1 zeal 2 goon attack while Elky went for his 2 fac vult tank without a wall-in. Elky saw the early attack and put SCVs + rines in his choke to thwart the early attack. Smuft’s attack was surprisingly successful and killed the SCVs and rines but was then beaten back by a tank and vults that were hot off the assembly line. Smuft got obs and expanded then added 3 more gateways and went all goons. With smart goon usage, Elky's first attack was stopped. His next desperate attempt at a push with a shitload of SCVs and some vult/tank was once again rebuffed by Smuft's goons. Knowing Smuft's economy was thriving while his own was halved from his attack, Elky quit the game.
1-0 Smuft
Game 2
Map: Gaema Gowon
The Game: Elky started at 11, Smuft at 2. Elky opened with a fact/port build while smuft did 2 gate range goons with a relatively early expansion at 5 oclock's mins only. Elkys dropship of tanks did 0 damage but did buy him enough time to get his natural and 3 facts pumping. Smuft then took 5 oclock and then both players took their respective mins only's soon after that. Elky opted for a slow paced push and harass while Smuft kept his unit count high and went carriers. Peach colored Terran shit was oozing all over the mini map the whole game. Elky even killed Smuft's main but through systematic expansion-voiding-carrier-tactics Smuft mannerized an Elky who seemed to be playing perfectly.
2-0 Smuft
Game 3
Map: Plains to Hill (Desert)
The Game: Elky started at 1, Smuft at 5. Smuft opened with standard range goon/obs while Elky went for a gutsy quick M&M Tank attack build. Elky's build caught Smuft off guard and Elky waltzed right to Smuft's base with Smuft trying to delay him in order to buy enough time to get DT's. Elky constructed bunkers and a turret in Smuft's main and scanned before DT's could do any real damage. Smuft had an exp at 7 by now but there was nothing Smuft could do to penetrate the push in his main or even tickle Elky's main + exp.
2-1 Smuft
Game 4
Map: Neo Bifrost
The Game: Smuft's knowledge of Elky's style of play was hilariously evident this game. Elky started at 1, Smuft at 7. Elky did his gayness depot in choke and offensive rax float build. Smuft scouted for the rax with a probe and also scouted elsewhere with a 2nd probe. He found the rax and killed the SCV making it before it finished. Elky had sent a 2nd SCV to finish the construction but the 2nd probe arrived and they killed the SCV before the rax finished again. This one made me giggle.
3-1 Smuft
Game 5
Map: Jim Raynor's Memory (KPGA Jungle Version)
The Game: I'm not going to go into much detail but Smuft played PERFECT anti harass anti push this game. Every single one of Elky's attempts at vult raids or tank drops were nullified. Elky kept bringin’ it via vult/tank pushes but Smuft beat them back again and again and ended the game with carriers.
4-1 Smuft
Game 6
Map: The Lost Temple
The Game: Elky started at 9, Smuft at 3. Smuft went 1 gate goon obs with a fast expand while Elky did 1 fact in main and 1 proxy fact under 12 oclock. Once again Smuft manhandled the early attack and harass. Elky then took his natural and his mins only surprisingly fast. Smuft activated Reach mode and walked all over the French Farce once again.
5-1 Smuft
Game 7
Map: The Lost Temple
The Game: Elky started at 3, Smuft at 6. Smuft opened with a 2 DT drop that delayed Elky's exp and allowed Smuft to exp freely. Being slightly disadvantaged didn't dishearten our Hero and this game you could tell his was reeling with anger but still played flawlessly. Elky went exp exp exp macro mode while Smuft countered with the same as there wasn't much he could do to stop it at those positions. Elky proved to be much faster this game and his psi skyrocketed past Smuft's. Elky's push punked Smuft into submission as Smuft's last ditch carrier attack killed some exps. Smuft's carriers were finally stopped by goliaths right as all of Smuft's buildlings were being razed.
5-2 Smuft
Game 8
Map: Incubus
The Game: Elky started at 10, Smuft at 7. Elky used the same strat as he used in the Plains game. Smuft went 1 gate goon to exp and then 4 more gates and no robo. Once again with proper goon usage Smuft killed Elky's tanks first, then killed the rines using range superiority. Elky kept sending M&M/Tank/SCV but was eventually overwhelmed by goon/zeal/dt in another quick game.
6-2 Smuft
Rekrul's Rating of the games in this Match: 8 out of 10. I may be biased because I like seeing toss win...but Smuft played decisively and its not like Elky was playing anything short of his normal self.
The King of Liquibition has been overthrown to just about everyone's disbelief including me. The noodle cooking mastermind Smuft put Elky's reign to an end in an exacting fashion and displayed the true might of the Protoss race. Smuft's next opponent will be VeG[pG] aka Oem)Limeveg. I know I know...it will be another PvT liquibition but it should be a great match between two top Canadian players. I doubt many will get liquibet points for this but for any of you Elky dissidents it's your lucky day.
Stay Tuned~
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FUCK 
I AM THE WORST LIQUIBET USER EVER
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uh.. fucking shit ? all that comes to mind.
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Elky threw the series after being offered a high sum of money from the Liquibet Smuft voters~!! Well..not really, can;t believe he lost 6-2 though 
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On March 18 2003 03:45 SuperCod wrote: FUCK I AM THE WORST LIQUIBET USER EVER
glad I'm not the only one
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w00t - rank 9 on liquibet ^^
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Cas baby, you and me aww yah
I knew the smuftinator had the elkinators number on this one
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Short but cool report, and unexpected but appreciated results. GJ Smuft, more points for me in Liquibet..
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Norway28700 Posts
omfg lynched blackman =best ever
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Muahah gogo the underdog ^^
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grats FrozenArbiter 
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Sweden33719 Posts
Me gosu kkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.
Correctly called this game :O Now all I have to do is await tonights challenge league to get another 2 pts ;O
Regards FrozenArbiter
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Sweden33719 Posts
KEEEEEEEEEEEEK I just noticed I am #1 :O King for a couple of hours :O Unless I called the ch games correctly :O
Regards FrozenArbiter
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Frozen you and me man ^^
btw I just watched the games. Holy fucking shit, I have never ever seen a toss outmicro a terran so thoroughly. It's not surprising that Smuft can go 6-2 when he can take out 4 vults with mines and 3 tanks while losing only 2 out of 6 goons. The whole series his goon micro, and in most games his carrier micro, was phenomenal. The lesson I learned? Everyone knows how gosu focus fire can be, but we still don't do it nearly as much as we should. Smuft's focus firing with goon/carrier made it look so easy to get cost efficiency vs terran metal.
I wonder if Elky was just microing badly that day or something, but if Smuft can do that to every terran, how can he not be one of the top 5 or even top 3 toss on earth; vs terran anyways?
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Sweden33719 Posts
Hehe I have my huge post count to thank for my #1 spot :O Btw who did you put as winner in ch league? :O Silent+rainbow for me :O
Regards FrozenArbiter
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4492 Posts
Oops, tuesday's here, cup is gone -.-a
I hate u Elkman
-Mynock
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4492 Posts
Btw Napoleic, the thing is, they played it not on one day only, but rather over a pretty wide timespan :/
-Mynock
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GG Smuft :O
This said I've just watched the reps and it seems obvious he played worse than vs Rek. Well his macro was OK as always, but it seems like his micro really lacked something (except in one or two games). He was maybe in a bad day. On the other hand, Smuft's micro was amazing, almost perfect, and his strategies obviously showed that he knew almost all of ElkY's tricks and decisions depending on the map.
Too bad for my liquibet points, btw :O
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yeah if you ask me elky played really bad. i just saw a lot of things that showed he wasn't trying like bad micro overall and scvs idle for a long periods of time.
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BTW 51 out of 371 (maybe more?) people took the chance and said smuft would win~
that's 86% users for elky and only 14% for smuft :X
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Jesus, that's some of the most badass pvting I've seen in a while. So plain and straightforward devestating that it turned tedious.
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well... i think elky made many mistakes while he pushed ... he allways used WAY TOO FEW units
he lost most of his vultures before his tanks were in range and when the tanks sieged up, goons were allready in range and killed everything ...
another thing i saw, which i was suprised of
elky only build ~5 factorys and query up UP TO 5 TANKS !?!?!?!?
thats 100% newbie style o_O
he could have had double time of his units ....
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Yes. He was in a very bad day, obviously. Or he underestimated a Smuft who played amazingly. But he did way too many mistakes indeed.
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Rigged. I'm not buying it.
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yea me neither!
I want my Liquibet points
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4492 Posts
Exactly! Rubble rubble rubble!
Especially that Bifrost game; WTF??
Betran fight-e!!
-Mynock
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Semms like Smuft knows the Elky style better than anyone else.
At least better than Elky knows the Smuft style =)
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United States37500 Posts
Well, they have been playing each other for quite some time now. Including as Dream Team, etc.
I betted on ElkY too. =\
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damn.. i voted for elky...
but i'm still top100
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how long can i think about it? cause i really need to... 
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Elky played relatively bad, but Smuft surprised the hell out of me in some games.GJ.And btw I voted for Smuft >:->.
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Yay Smuft! Never thought would get this point. 
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On March 18 2003 07:17 Liquid`Drone wrote:
omfg lynched blackman =best ever
LMFAO, am I the only one who found the lynching of Black men funny? 
GG Rekrul for the kickass reports.
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Elky lost ... He played bad ...
BTW why when I click on read more (on the news) I am brought here (forum) instead to have the news fully written ? Hmm it is even more strange cuz When I click on others news (read more) -> they show it ... Only on this new is like this - just the forum - Is this because this report is too long?
-Zaks
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Rigged. I'm not buying it.
indd this was 1 bigg setup!!!!!!!!
Elky & Smuft 
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well if Steven wanted to he could prolly be the best protoss user.
Behind nal ra of course.
Btw Bertrand is weak.
And for the moron logged on as "Ronin" I think.
Could you please free peoples of your strategical comments on Elky's game style that is everything, but newbish.
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steven is a very meticulous person, and when he micros, he does so very thoroughly, so he is very very efficent vs zerg, and he's finally learned to also play pvt. His style is so amazing to watch pvz, i just love it. I'd really like to see Smuft vs Blackman
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#48 on liquibet now. im ahead of most of you !
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EPT
