I want to one day see Morrow eviscerate MVP in a GSL Finals.

The breakdown of the offensive hatch was very well-written and including some aspects I hadn't even considered. I hope to see Zenio use it tonight (I've seen him use it before).

I am praying for an upset tonight, and that the zergs overpower the Terrans. Yugioh must be in every GSL just because it forces everyone to look up arcane references to card games that many of us wish we never dumped so much money or time into. I only hope a player will come of South Korea whose name is "thegathering" so we can have a downpour of references to that card game.

Zzoram

Canada7115 Posts

January 16 2012 02:48 GMT

#46

MorroW's analysis of MC vs Leenock was excellent. I love reading things like this.

In fact, the last time I saw an analysis like this was Flash vs Mind I think, where Mind was using some brand new build that involved a surprise 2-prong attack and Flash with his epic game sense figured out the perfect counter and made Mind look like a noob. I think it involved a fake attack on the natural to draw Flash out and then a vulture drop on his main minerals, but Flash instead only moved a few units to deal with the natural poke and ran his Tanks back into his main to defend a drop he sensed was coming. Against any other unprepared player, Mind surely would've won.

It goes to show that true champions have a "star sense" that merely good players lack. There is a reason that MC is the only GSL Protoss champion, and a repeat champion at that. He is the best Protoss in the world because he's the only Protoss with "star sense".

Majynx

United States1431 Posts

January 16 2012 02:59 GMT

#47

Really enjoyed reading the analysis section by Morrow.

I hope that MMA and Zenio advance on to the next round.

tuho12345

4482 Posts

January 16 2012 03:02 GMT

#48

I love that strategy analysis, great read.

blacksheepwall

China1530 Posts

January 16 2012 03:13 GMT

#49

Great write-up from Morrow. Really informative.

Thanks for this.

Bagration

United States18282 Posts

January 16 2012 03:18 GMT

#50

Go MMA! I hope either Zenio or Yugioh make it out in 2nd, for the sake of racial diversity and because how can anybody root against Slayers or Liquid?

Good luck Morrow on your own Code A matches as well!

mutantmagnet

United States3789 Posts

January 16 2012 03:31 GMT

#51

Hopefully we get more guest analysis from veteran players. This was a great post-op ed.

Gumioh's games haven't really stood out to me so I'll be more attentive to see if he is even remotely brilliant in TvZ or vP.

Robonord

United States311 Posts

January 16 2012 03:33 GMT

#52

Amazing write up by morrow. I would love to read more of these.

Vansetsu

United States1454 Posts

January 16 2012 03:34 GMT

#53

I'm not sold on Gumiho. I agree he's good, and 2nd after MMA to make it out of this group, but I can certainly see Zenio winning any of these games, and if he gets through ZvZ, I see him with a good chance to advance.

Gladiator6

Sweden7024 Posts

January 16 2012 03:38 GMT

#54

Very nice explination by MorroW, wanna see more of this analysis so badly

stratmatt

United States913 Posts

January 16 2012 03:44 GMT

#55

On January 16 2012 11:19 Ansinjunger wrote:

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It's not about the GSL at Blizzcon but how much Blizzard Cup "counts" as a GSL (hey, the money was still big), whereas Jjakji is the defending code S GSL champion. Polt, sadly for him, seemed to suffer an ignominious fate after the Super Tournament. GSL July began, and it was all about defending champion Nestea, plus that guy who won the ST ^_^

By the way, MC's timing and instinct are really impressive, and micro, as usual. He could probably see the hatchery dancing and the queen making, which probably provided him direction for what to do.

I'd say that considering the fact that blizzcup was an invite only tournament and jjakji wasnt invited, that he can still claim to be the defending champion.

DurandaL917

United States92 Posts

January 16 2012 04:03 GMT

#56

That strategy spotlight was a great write up. one of my favorites on TL (and that is saying a lot)

Drowsy

United States4876 Posts

January 16 2012 04:05 GMT

#57

Wait... so vs the offensive hatch, couldn't mc just throw up double gateways at his nat, pylon block opponent's nat, and auto-win?

Seeker

Where dat snitch at?37024 Posts

January 16 2012 04:10 GMT

#58

Always looking forward to the write up by the TL staff.

Man I love you guys

FuzzyJAM

Scotland9300 Posts

January 16 2012 04:12 GMT

#59

GuMiHo is a really tricky player. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see him come up with some weird strategy to take out MMA. Of course, if he tries to play straight up then, yeah, chances are he's not going to take it - maybe he just decided to concentrate on his TvZ instead of even worrying about beating MMA.