While it was obvious Nestea was fucked once MVP got his mass ghost snipe squad up, it was disappointing to see Nestea basically give up and half ass it the rest of the way. A-moving broodlords into a mass of ghosts and vikings with very little support is a lame end of a tournament.

MMA has made a direct connection with the American crowds that no other Korean has been able to make except for maybe the Emperor himself.

Anyone that was at MLG Orlando can tell you that you forgot about someone: MarineKing.

Wupacow

Denmark51 Posts

October 26 2011 08:45 GMT

#64

Well, now i have something to read in class \o/

Dragonmaster26

Australia311 Posts

October 26 2011 08:46 GMT

#65

Best thing about MMA winning - Cheesy Overrated (imo) Polt no longer in any position to be argued to be the 2nd best Terran

Treeplant

United States214 Posts

October 26 2011 08:52 GMT

#66

Amazing write up Wax, first time I've actually scrolled back up to see who wrote the report

Ciraxis

Australia400 Posts

October 26 2011 09:05 GMT

#67

Great write up and analysis!

Melancholia

United States717 Posts

October 26 2011 09:17 GMT

#68

Blizzard's best move for fans of e-Sports was allowing the GSL to come to Blizzcon

How so? One of the biggest concerns with Blizzard is that they are trying to control the professional scene too much. Surely bringing the finals in as an advertising stunt while confirming that vital features for a professional game will never be made available is an insult if anything.

TBXII

21 Posts

October 26 2011 09:31 GMT

#69

About the lack of more stream-channels - it SO F*CKIN TRUE! The Match, i, personally was excited to see the most is Brat_OK vs. Nestea (best russian player vs. best korean zerg). They didn't show it', instead they showed a ZvZ. Mirror match on main stage?! WTF?

CursedRich

United Kingdom737 Posts

October 26 2011 09:41 GMT

#70

Fantastic writing guys

patrOlSC2

United States44 Posts

October 26 2011 09:42 GMT

#71

This article was a great read! thanks

Gladiator6

Sweden7024 Posts

October 26 2011 09:55 GMT

#72

Who is Justin Browder? I assume you meant Dustin Browder?

keioh

France1099 Posts

October 26 2011 09:55 GMT

#73

Theory on that 3rd Nestea vs MVP game : what would be a better place than Blizzcon to show that a turtling terran with mass ghost is not well balanced ?

Anyway, I'm so happy for MMA, but I feel sad for MVP as well, because crowd didn't make him feel he was loved too. Great read as always.

Amornthep

Singapore2605 Posts

October 26 2011 10:14 GMT

#74

Sexy MMA Art!

Pipeline

Sweden1673 Posts

October 26 2011 10:24 GMT

#75

Waxangel I share your passion to do something about the ghost snipe! Awesome write up as usual! Its hilarious that TLs coverage widely exceeds the coverage blizzard did for their own tournament.

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

October 26 2011 10:38 GMT

#76

This is simply amazing, great job

duckmaster

687 Posts

October 26 2011 10:49 GMT

#77

how can you claim that nestea knows better than to swarm the middle and that he has played hundreds of games like that? The fact that he went Broodlord/infestor only against mass ghost in my opinion proves the exact opposite. Or do you think making 20+ Broods was the correct choice against mass ghost?

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

October 26 2011 10:54 GMT

#78

hey boxer said he wanted to create a player that joined the SC2 community together.... i think he achieved that

Derez

Netherlands6068 Posts

October 26 2011 11:14 GMT

#79

I disagree with adding in balance discussion into 'news' articles. It makes reading the articles much less enjoyable and more like reading a regular forum page. I sure as hell didn't see a similar post back when the metagame still favored brood/infestor heavily. The defeatist 'x is OP' attitude, which is engrained it seems in the entire SC2 community by this point, is doing nothing but creating worse games and turning people away from the game.

Not to mention that the comparison with the July game is incorrect, what July did was exactly what Nestea didn't; a giant 2 base (almost) all-in, after which the game was simply decided on economy alone.

Discussing the possibility of prize-splitting is absolutely terrible aswell. Can I go an insinuate the same thing about other tournaments also? I know what I'll be doing come TSL4 :/.

ChiffonAngel

43 Posts

October 26 2011 11:15 GMT

#80

Speculations on how Nestea could have won that last game:

1. Make more overseers and actually use them. Maxed out on supply with a trust fund in the bank? Make 20+ overseers and ball them up with the broodlords.

2. Don't attack the middle? Obviously there's tanks, PFs and ghosts sitting there so why not attack the unit producing structures in the main instead with either drops or broodlords? Or both? Or even split up those 20+ broodlords and send them to different objectives? Why slam your head against the brick wall defense in the middle instead of picking apart MVPs ability to remake units? If MVP wants to sit and turtle in the middle, fine. Kill everything else. Sure, this was a split map scenario, but MVP didn't set up the new Iron Curtain.

I only bring these up because I'm not totally sold on the ghost OP sentiment. Sure, zerg has to pull some shenanigans, but it seems that there are definitely ways around this.