[IEM WC] Day 2 Recap

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March 7th, 2012 07:58 GMT

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Feast and Famine For Foreigners

On a day when some of the biggest names in Starcraft II outside of Korea faltered and fell, it was two of Europe's unheralded players who carried on, raising the banner of foreigner hope.

Millenium's Feast already had a knack for surprising viewers, making it out of tough groups to finish in the Ro8 at the two previous IEM Global Challenge events. However, few would have expected his upset of upset performance on the second day of the World Championship. Feast topped his group and earned a Ro8 seed with a record of 4 – 1 (9 – 3 in maps), taking down oGs ace SuperNoVa, TypeReaL, EG.IdrA, and Empire|Kas – although that last victory came amidst controversy.

In fact, the only player who made Feast taste defeat was aTn.DarkFoRcE, who was the only other foreigner to make it out of the group stages on the day. DarkFoRcE's advancement to the next round with a record of 3 – 2 (7 – 6 on maps) was a smaller brand of surprise than Feast's unexpected break-out performance. Though not as well-known on a global scale (one interviewer was uncertain of his nationality), DarkFoRcE had been well-known in Europe as a skilled Zerg player, capable of meticulous play in the late game.

Disappointment for the foreign elite

Having lifted trophies on the IEM stage earlier this season, top foreigners mouz.MaNa, mTw.DIMAGA, Kas, and IdrA all turned in disappointing performances at the World Championship. DIMAGA and MaNa's troubles were more understandable, as they had the misfortune of being placed into a group with three Koreans (possibly four, depending on one's assessment of SeleCT). On the other hand, Kas and IdrA were considered favorites going into their group, with only SuperNoVa presenting a real threat on paper. In the end, they were unable to swim through Europe's formidable depth, and were washed away to early exits.

Re-game controversy in Kas vs. Feast

Feast's computer crashed and disconnected him during the second game of Kas vs Feast, and the decision was made for the two players to replay the game from the beginning. However, the decision was contentious, as Kas held a significant lead with a superior army and economy at the time of the disconnect. To some, it seemed that the threshold for a re-game had been surpassed, and that the game should have been awarded to Kas. One would not be surprised if Kas were aggrieved, as he lost in the re-game and then the series – the potential difference between his 2 – 3 exit from the tournament and a 3 – 2 advancement to the next round.

Koreans, as usual

In a repeat from day one, all four Korean players who were playing out of Korea qualified for the next round. International tournament juggernaut PuMa took the #1 spot in group C and won a Ro8 seed, while coL.Killer, Liquid`Zenio, and SuperNova also qualified. Combined with SlayerS_MMA, Empire|viOLet, EG.JYP, and SK_MC, eight of twelve players in the bracket stage are ones with Korean training and nationality.

Live Update Log

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16:37 GMT (+00:00): Whoops, mistake on the record. If Puma loses 0 - 2 to SeleCT, Killer could still go through as first place. In any case, Puma, Killer, and Zenio are all through to the next round. Anyway, the deciding SeleCT vs PuMa series seems to be off the air.

16:35 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 1 MaNa. Both make early stargates, but Killer's is far earlier and he has the higher phoenix count when they first meet. MaNa runs across the map and tries to break Killer's front after this, but is stopped by the phoenixes and the game is over.

16:33 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 2 - 0 DIMAGA. DIMAGA went for a hatch first build, and Zenio just killed it with a one base ling-bane build.

16:25 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 0 DIMAGA. The players traded blows in the mid-game, with Zenio's roach attack killing DIMAGA's third before Dima's mutalisks were out. In return, DIMAGA killed Zenio's third with his mutas before there were infestors to defend. The game was decided after Zenio sent burrowed infestors to destroy one of DIMAGA's bases with infested Terrans, and DIMAGA decided to give chase with mutalisks and an overseer. DIMAGA chased just a little too far, and ended up having his mutalisks chain-fungaled and killed. Zenio then attacked with roaches, hydralisks, and infestors to win the game.

16:22 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 0 MaNa. MaNa opens DTs while Killer starts with a quick robo. MaNa taps out when Killer kills his cloaked units just outside the ramp.

16:09 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs DIMAGA setting up on ESL Main and ESL France.

16:04 GMT (+00:00): PuMa clinches first place in his group, while Killer takes 2nd place at least. MaNa is confirmed to be eliminated, while Zenio, DIMAGA, and SeleCT still have a chance.

15:59 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 0 DIMAGA. Killer opens with phoenixes after expanding, and kills a host of overlords and drones. DIMAGA responds by attempting a baneling bust, but is unable to break through due to forcefields. Killer makes an army and wins.

15:53 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 2 - 1 SeleCT. Once again, the game was a tight affair until Zenio reached hive tech. SeleCT couldn't find a way to deal with either brood lords or ultralisks, and was forced to GG out.

15:46 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 0 DIMAGA. Long split map ZvP on Metropolis. Killer gains advantage through constant harass and storm drops, and wins the big fights often enough to take it.

15:27 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 1 SeleCT. It seemed like Zenio was on the backfoot as SeleCT pushed with strong macro off three bases, but once Zenio got brood lords out with appropriate accompaniment, the tide turned back. SeleCT couldn't find an effective way to deal with Zenio's hive army, and GG'd out.

15:22 GMT (+00:00): Killer vs DIMAGA came on ESL Mainstream, GoodGameRU and Gamesports.

15:10 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 2 PuMa. PuMa opens with a hellion drop, looking towards 1-1-1. Catching MaNa while his first stalkers were at PuMa's front, he kills something like 26 workers while holding his own main, and goes on to kill MaNa by dropping more marines and hellions.

15:10 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 1 - 0 Zenio. Zenio attempted an ill-fated muta-bane-ling bust as SeleCT went up to three bases, which gave SeleCT a solid lead. Minutes later, SeleCT was able to push out with a marine-medivac-tank force Zenio was unable to handle.

14:59 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 1 PuMa. Their armies max out, and after much posturing engage. PuMa gets the better of the fight and presses his advantage to kill MaNa.

14:58 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs SeleCT started on GLHF.tv and ESL France.

14:54 GMT (+00:00): And that's it for group D! Feast goes through in first, while SuperNova and DarkForce take 2nd and 3rd respectively.

14:51 GMT (+00:00): Kas 2 - 1 DarkForce. Both players allowed each other to macro-up and max-out, which led to Kas slowly by surely pushing forward, erasing DarkForce's bases and taking more for himself.

14:46 GMT (+00:00): Idra 2 - 1 SuperNova. Idra uses a ling-infestor build on Antiga, and when SuperNova is unable to damage with his drops Idra repeatedly crushes his pushes. Eventually he wins via attrition.

14:40 GMT (+00:00): Mana vs Puma on ESL Poland and ESL main.

14:30 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 1 Kas. DarkForce manages to tie up the series.

14:30 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 Real. Feast took a faster expand than ReaL and managed to defend it, which resulted in a later victory.

14:29 GMT (+00:00): Idra 1 - 1 SuperNova. SuperNova spend the early game annoying Idra with elevator drops into his main, but Idra repels them without taking too much damage. Delaying until hive, Idra wins with broodlord infestor as SuperNova doesn't have enough vikings to deal with the air.

14:18 GMT (+00:00): Kas 1 - 0 DarkForce. Standard Kas, with his excellent macro allowing him to send endless waves to wear DarkForce down until he was forced to quit.

14:06 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 0 ReaL.

14:05 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 1 - 0 Idra. SuperNova sieges up outside Idra's natural with cloaked banshees, bunkers and turrets, Idra unable to break it tries to counterattack but it doesn't manage to break through the marines SuperNova left at home.

13:45 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 2- 1 Kas. SuperNova looked to be behind due to reaper expanding versus Kas's rax expand, but a hugely damaging blue-flame hellion drop gave him a gigantic advantage. After that, SuperNova just had to turtle up, mass a mech army, and move out to win.

13:30 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 1 - 1 Kas. SuperNova opened with a hellion-reaper attack against Kas's fast expansion, and did enough damage to give himself an advantage as he followed with a slightly later expand of his own. Later, SuperNova crushed Kas' front while Kas tried to get back into the game with an MM drop, also holding off the drop with ease to win the game.

13:20 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 0 - 2 PuMa. Zenio opens with mutas which don't do the damage they need to. PuMa continues with drops and pushing several parts of the map at once, and after several favorable engagements comes out with the victory.

13:16 GMT (+00:00): Kas 1 - 0 SuperNova. After some early game shenanigans on both sides, the game stabilized into a half-map war on Shakuras. With both players going marine-tank, Kas's positioning and choice of engagements were better, winning him the game.

13:12 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 SuperNova, SuperNova 2 - 1 ReaL. Looks like they were played off-stream.

13:02 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 0 - 1 PuMa. PuMa drops while pushing across the map, and splits Zenio's forces enough to kill the Zerg fourth. He then pushes into Zenio's natural and wins after a last ditch attempt to break the tank line.

13:00 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Supernova starting on ESL Main and ESL France.

12:56 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 2 - 1 IdrA. DarkForce and IdrA took turns going at each other with ling-baneling, and DarkForce came out ahead by ten-oddish supply. IdrA scouted out the fact that DarkForce had taken a faster third base with this advantage, and GG'd out.

12:47 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs Puma starting on GLHF.tv

12:43 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 2 - 1 MaNa. DIMAGA swept through Mana's army with an interesting composition of lings, baneling drops, and corruptors.

12:42 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 1 IdrA. Both players allowed each other to macro up on there bases, with DarkForce going roach-hydra and IdrA going roach-infestor. DarkForce's composition and positioning were better during the max-out engagement, allowing him to win the game.

12:32 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 2 ReaL. After starting reasonably normally, ReaL made DTs after his third base was secured and they stormed through Kas' base destroying things. His later push with storm and gateway units cleaned up.

12:30 GMT (+00:00): IdrA 1 - 0 DarkForce. Curiously enough, both players went for muta-ling, making SC2 ZvZ look an awful lot like Brood War. DarkForce looked to be ahead after a big baneling hit allowed his zerglings to nearly kill IdrA's third base, but DarkForce refused to focus fire down a hatchery that was down to double digit hit points. IdrA was able to recover and win the air-battle, taking the game.

12:27 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 1 MaNa. DIMAGA easily deflected some of MaNa's stargate harassment, while also picking off sentries with speedlings due to MaNa's inattentiveness. All this allowed DIMAGA to pump straight Hydra out of three bases and overrun MaNa with ease.

12:18 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs DarkForce under way on imba.tv and ESL France.

12:14 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 1 ReaL. Long back and forth macro game, Real is able to deny expansions while taking his own long enough to win with storms and colossus.

12:10 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 1 - 0 DIMAGA. MaNa looked like he was far behind after a ling+baneling drop attack hurt him while he tried to go up to three bases. However, DIMAGA overestimated his advantage and attacked wastefully many times, allowing MaNa to slowly rebuild his economy and army. He was able to finally put together a mothership assisted deathball, that allowed him to defeat DIMAGA's brood lords and ultralisks and take the game.

11:57 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 2 DarkForce. DarkForce kills Feast with roaches, broodlords, and infestors after Feast's 2 base 6 gate and blink attack fails to do enough damage.

11:54 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Real started on ESL Main and GameSports

11:46 GMT (+00:00): MaNa vs DIMAGA starting on ESL Poland and GLHF.

11:41 GMT (+00:00): Idra 0 - 2 Kas. When Idra was unable to stop Kas' first drop before it did a lot of damage, Kas pushed out and killed him with his first army.

11:37 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 1 DarkForce. Feast spends a long time attacking DarkForce's third with his own 2 bases, and when he is unable to take it down DakrForce counters and kills him with maxed hydra-roach.

11:30 GMT (+00:00): Idra 0 - 1 Kas. They play a long back and forth battle over the center of the map with maxed out armies, Kas pulls ahead with drop play and Idra's brood lords are unable to bring him back.

11:29 GMT (+00:00): Puma 2 - 1 Killer. It was a strange game where PuMa started off by doing a good amount of damage to Killer with a marauder-hellion rush, but was then counter-attacked and took some damage himself. It put both players in an awkward 1 base vs 1 base situation for a while, but PuMa came out of it ahead by focusing on infantry and getting a second orbital up, while Killer stayed on one base and went for phoenixes which proved to be very ineffective. PuMa rolled over Killer with MMM soon after.

11:21 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 0 DarkForce. Feast attacks with a 6 gateway blink stalker attack, and slowly whittles down DarkForce's burrowed roach army.

11:18 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 2 - 1 DIMAGA. SeleCT won a decisive victory during his first big push to raze DIMAGA's fourth, and from there it just snowballed into an easy victory.

11:08 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 1 PuMa. Killer managed to keep a hidden, fourth base running during a macro war, and it ended up being the difference as he was able to overpower PuMa with superior production.

11:08 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce vs Feast coming up on ESL France.

11:04 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs Kas coming up on ESL Main stream,

11:00 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 1 Idra. Feast puts pressure on Idra's third with 4 gates after expanding, and when it fails to do damage he opts for heavy 2 base blink stalker play which Idra is unable to stop.

10:53 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 1 - 1 DIMAGA. SeleCT secured three bases and went into constantly-rallied-terran-army mode, and it was on DIMAGA to hold off the attacks. DIMAGA managed to defend well for a period, but eventually he was worn down and defeated.

10:47 GMT (+00:00): Puma 1 - 0 Killer. In a long macro game that had both players expanding freely, Killer's inability to protect his colossi from Puma's +3 vikings cost him the game.

10:45 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 1 Idra. Feast goes for a 7 gate plus immortal/warp prism attack off two bases and kills Idra's third immediately, Idra taps out.

10:35 GMT (+00:00): Feast 0 - 1 Idra. They each get to 3 bases without much happening, Idra makes a ton of mutalisks and his muta ball is unable to be stopped by the stalkers and phoenixes of Feast.

10:25 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 0 SeleCT. DIMAGA was allowed to build ups his economy too much, as SeleCT's drops weren't enough to keep him at bay. DIMAGA eventually just powered through with muta-ling-bane, dealing huge damage to SeleCT, and finished him off with ultralisks.

10:24 GMT (+00:00): Puma vs Killer started on GLHF.tv

10:18 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs Feast soon on ESL main and ESL France.

10:12 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 2 Zenio. MaNa goes for a quick third while pressuring with a warp prism, which Zenio stops while taking down the third. Zenio takes control of the map with mutas and wears MaNa down until there are no more Protoss forces.

10:11 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 Kas. Feast won the regame, doing a 2/2 Zealot-Archon push that dealt a lot of damage to Kas as he went up to three bases.

10:02 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT vs DIMAGA starting up at IMBA.tv and GameSports.

09:55 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Feast game 2 to be a regame. Kas seems not pleased, game is slow to start.

09:50 GMT (+00:00) MaNa 0 - 1 Zenio. MaNa makes the critical mistake of trying to base trade a Zerg, as Protoss, and loses the fight to Zenio's mutas.

09:49 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 2 - 0 ReaL. DarkForce hit with a relentless wave of roaches and hydralisks as ReaL tried to secure three base for himself. ReaL's defenses weren't up to the task, and he GG'd out.

09:36 GMT (+00:00): Mana vs Zenio starting on ESL Poland and GLHF.tv

09:35 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 0 ReaL. ReaL tried to go Phoenix heavy play with some DTs again, but DarkForce swatted it aside with a well timed corruptor/roach push into ReaL's third base that did a ton of damage. ReaL never really covered from that damage, and though he managed to play a longer game after, he was never had a chance.

09:33 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 1 Feast. During game 2 Kas is ahead by quite a margin, but Feast's pc freezes. Not sure what is happening here yet.

09:27 GMT (+00:00): PuMa 2 - 1 DIMAGA. DIMAGA managed to hold off PuMa's continuous pressure until he got to hive and brood lords, but wasn't able to protect them adequately once they were out. Once the brood lords were dead, he had a worse army and a worse economy, which naturally led to a loss.

09:23 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 1 Zenio. Off-stream. @Teamliquidlive: "Aww @LiquidZenio falls to a similar build by Killer. Nexus first into +1 Zealots with 1 Void Ray and 3 Phoenix. Zenio 1-2 Killer."

09:17 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce vs Real starting on Imba.tv & Moricup

09:13 GMT (+00:00) SeleCT 1 - 2 MaNa. They each get to 3 bases without much difficulty, SeleCT's drops are ineffective due to good cannon placement and MaNa rolls him over.

09:12 GMT (+00:00) Kas 0 - 1 Feast. Feast goes for 3 gate pressure after 1 gate FE and Kas doesn't hold.

09:10 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 1 Zenio. Off stream, but according to @teamliquidlive: "Judging by the scorescreen, @LiquidZenio took too much damage to the harass of Killer. 144 drones made in total, never got a big enough army"

09:07 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 1 PuMa. PuMa pestered DIMAGA with drops all game, but couldn't stop him from taking his base, droning up, and getting all the tech he needed. DIMAGA crippled PuMa with a massive muta, ling, bane attack, and then finished him off later with mass ultralisks and infestors.

09:06 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Feast started on ESL SC2.

08:58 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 0 Killer. Zenio wins in unstreamed game.

08:58 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 2 - 0 DarkForce. SuperNova opens reactor hellion, which kill a few drones, and then moves into cloaked banshees which kill a lot more. He builds up an army and crushes DarkForce with the economic advantage.

08:57 GMT (+00:00) SeleCT 1 - 1 MaNa. Typical Tal'Darim PvT slugfest, back and forth with drops and huge armies battling each other. SeleCT has an unscouted base in the corner for much of the game that ends up being the difference, when MaNa finds it and kills it his army is trapped in the corner and dies to end the game.

08:56 GMT (+00:00): ReaL 2 - 0 IdrA. ReaL made phoenix/DT work as a strategy, continuing his string of stylish wins over more famous opponents.

08:47 GMT (+00:00): SuperNoVa 1 - 0 DarkForce.

08:45 GMT (+00:00): Puma 1 - 0 DIMAGA. PuMa applied strong pressure through-out a relatively long game, and managed to take DIMAGA down before he could get any useful hive units.

08:41 GMT (+00:00): ReaL 1 - 0 IdrA. Real went for a quick three bases on Daybreak, and while IdrA applied pressure, he couldn't do too much damage. IdrA took expansions on his side of the map and continued to be aggressive, but couldn't really make a dent. ReaL eventually maxed up and moved out, and defeated IdrA's still lair-stage army for the victory/

08:28 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA vs PuMa being set up on ~~GoodGameRU~~ and ESLFrance.

08:30 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 0 - 1 MaNa. SeleCT opened 2 rax vs 1 gate expo and forced a cancel on the nexus. MaNa bought enough time to make gateways, and warped in at a forward pylon to charge through SeleCT's defense and kill him.

08:26 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs ReaL starts on IMBA.tv

08:24 GMT (+00:00): ReaL vs IdrA was going to be streamed, but MoMan got the boot

08:22 GMT (+00:00): MaNa vs SeleCT starts on ZeddSC and GLHF.tv

08:11 GMT (+00:00): @RotterdaM08: 'We'll start in 10 Min or so with Intel Extreme Masters day 2 ;D Can't wait! Idra,kas,Mana,killer,puma and so much moaaaaar!'

08:00 GMT (+00:00): DarKFoRcE vs SuperNoVa will be up first at 08:10 GMT (+00:00) on the ESL SC2 stream, if the b.net scheduled maintenance ends in time.

07:46 GMT (+00:00): Just chillin'

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Group C

Results:

PuMa	5 - 0	10 - 2
Killer	4 - 1	9 - 5
Zenio	3 - 2	7 - 5
~~SeleCT~~	1 - 4	5 - 9
~~DIMAGA~~	1 - 4	4 - 9
~~MaNa~~	1 - 4	3 - 9

EG.PuMa,

mTw.DIMAGA, [image loading]

mouz.MaNa

coL.Killer,

Liquid`Zenio,

dignitas.SeleCT

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MaNa vs SeleCT - GLHF.tv // ZeddSC

Game One: SeleCT opened 2 rax vs 1 gate expo and forced a cancel on the nexus. MaNa bought enough time to make gateways, and warped in at a forward pylon to charge through SeleCT's defense and kill him.
Game Two: Typical Tal'Darim PvT slugfest, back and forth with drops and huge armies battling each other. SeleCT has an unscouted base in the corner for much of the game that ends up being the difference, when MaNa finds it and kills it his army is trapped in the corner and dies to end the game.
Game Three: They each get to 3 bases without much difficulty, SeleCT's drops are ineffective due to good cannon placement and MaNa rolls him over.
MaNa 2 - 1 SeleCT

DIMAGA vs PuMa - ESL France

Game One: PuMa applied strong pressure through-out a relatively long game, and managed to take DIMAGA down before he could get any useful hive units.
Game Two: PuMa pestered DIMAGA with drops all game, but couldn't stop him from taking his base, droning up, and getting all the tech he needed. DIMAGA crippled PuMa with a massive muta, ling, bane attack, and then finished him off later with mass ultralisks and infestors.
Game Three: DIMAGA managed to hold off PuMa's continuous pressure until he got to hive and brood lords, but wasn't able to protect them adequately once they were out. Once the brood lords were dead, he had a worse army and a worse economy, which naturally led to a loss.
DIMAGA 1 - 2 PuMa

Mana vs Zenio - ESL Poland // GLHF.tv

Game One: MaNa makes the critical mistake of trying to base trade a Zerg, as Protoss, and loses the fight to Zenio's mutas.
Game Two: MaNa goes for a quick third while pressuring with a warp prism, which Zenio stops while taking down the third. Zenio takes control of the map with mutas and wears MaNa down until there are no more Protoss forces.
Zenio 2 - 0 MaNa

SeleCT vs DIMAGA - Imba.tv

Game One: DIMAGA was allowed to build ups his economy too much, as SeleCT's drops weren't enough to keep him at bay. DIMAGA eventually just powered through with muta-ling-bane, dealing huge damage to SeleCT, and finished him off with ultralisks.
Game Two: SeleCT secured three bases and went into constantly-rallied-terran-army mode, and it was on DIMAGA to hold off the attacks. DIMAGA managed to defend well for a period, but eventually he was worn down and defeated.
Game Three: SeleCT won a decisive victory during his first big push and razed DIMAGA's fourth, crushing DIMAGA's ling-bane, and from there it just snowballed into an easy victory.
SeleCT 2 - 1 DIMAGA

Killer vs Puma - GLHF.tv

Game One: In a long macro game that had both players expanding freely, Killer's inability to protect his colossi from Puma's +3 vikings cost him the game.
Game Two: Killer managed to keep a hidden, fourth base running during a macro war, and it ended up being the difference as he was able to overpower PuMa with superior production.
Game Three: It was a strange game where PuMa started off by doing a good amount of damage to Killer with a marauder-hellion rush, but was then counter-attacked and took some damage himself. It put both players in an awkward 1 base vs 1 base situation for a while, but PuMa came out of it ahead by focusing on infantry and getting a second orbital up, while Killer stayed on one base and went for phoenixes which proved to be very ineffective. PuMa rolled over Killer with MMM soon after.
Killer 1 - 2 Puma

MaNa vs DIMAGA - ZeddSC // GLHF.tv

Game One: MaNa looked like he was far behind after a ling+baneling drop attack hurt him while he tried to go up to three bases. However, DIMAGA overestimated his advantage and attacked wastefully many times, allowing MaNa to slowly rebuild his economy and army. He was able to finally put together a mothership assisted deathball, that allowed him to defeat DIMAGA's brood lords and ultralisks and take the game.
Game Two: DIMAGA easily deflected some of MaNa's stargate harassment, while also picking off sentries with speedlings due to MaNa's inattentiveness. All this allowed DIMAGA to pump straight Hydra out of three bases and overrun MaNa with ease.
Game Three: DIMAGA swept through Mana's army with an interesting composition of lings, baneling drops, and corruptors.
MaNa 1 - 2 DIMAGA

Zenio vs Puma - GLHF.tv

Game One: PuMa drops while pushing across the map, and splits Zenio's forces enough to kill the Zerg fourth. He then pushes into Zenio's natural and wins after a last ditch attempt to break the tank line.
Game Two: Zenio opens with mutas which don't do the damage they need to. PuMa continues with drops and pushing several parts of the map at once, and after several favorable engagements comes out with the victory.
PuMa 2 - 0 Zenio

MaNa vs PuMa

Game Three: Their armies max out, and after much posturing engage. PuMa gets the better of the fight and presses his advantage to kill MaNa.
Game Two: PuMa opens with a hellion drop, looking towards 1-1-1. Catching MaNa while his first stalkers were at PuMa's front, he kills something like 26 workers while holding his own main, and goes on to kill MaNa by dropping more marines and hellions.
MaNa 0 - 2 PuMa

Zenio vs SeleCT

Game One: Zenio attempted an ill-fated muta-bane-ling bust as SeleCT went up to three bases, which gave SeleCT a solid lead. Minutes later, SeleCT was able to push out with a marine-medivac-tank force Zenio was unable to handle.
Game Two: It seemed like Zenio was on the backfoot as SeleCT pushed with strong macro off three bases, but once Zenio got brood lords out with appropriate accompaniment, the tide turned back. SeleCT couldn't find an effective way to deal with Zenio's hive army, and GG'd out.
Game Three: Once again, the game was a tight affair until Zenio reached hive tech. SeleCT couldn't find a way to deal with either brood lords or ultralisks, and was forced to GG out.
Zenio 2 - 1 SeleCT

Killer vs DIMAGA

Game One: Long split map ZvP on Metropolis. Killer gains advantage through constant harass and storm drops, and wins the big fights often enough to take it.
Game Two: Killer opens with phoenixes after expanding, and kills a host of overlords and drones. DIMAGA responds by attempting a baneling bust, but is unable to break through due to forcefields. Killer makes an army and wins.
Killer 2 - 0 DIMAGA

Killer vs MaNa

Game One: MaNa opens DTs while Killer starts with a quick robo. MaNa taps out when Killer kills his cloaked units just outside the ramp.
Game Two: MaNa proxies 2 gates in Killer's main. Killer sees it and builds a cannon, but it is too late and he GGs as MaNa is pillaging his mineral line.
Game Three: Both make early stargates, but Killer's is far earlier and he has the higher phoenix count when they first meet. MaNa runs across the map and tries to break Killer's front after this, but is stopped by the phoenixes and the game is over.
Killer 2 - 1 MaNa

Zenio vs DIMAGA

Game One: The players traded blows in the mid-game, with Zenio's roach attack killing DIMAGA's third before Dima's mutalisks were out. In return, DIMAGA killed Zenio's third with his mutas before there were infestors to defend. The game was decided after Zenio sent burrowed infestors to destroy one of DIMAGA's bases with infested Terrans, and DIMAGA decided to give chase with mutalisks and an overseer. DIMAGA chased just a little too far, and ended up having his mutalisks chain-fungaled and killed. Zenio then attacked with roaches, hydralisks, and infestors to win the game.
Game Two: DIMAGA went for a hatch first build, and Zenio just killed it with a one base ling-bane build.
Zenio 2 - 0 DIMAGA

Off-Stream Games
Zenio (1 - 2) Killer
Puma (2 - 0) SeleCT

Group D

Results:

Feast	4 - 1	9 - 3
SuperNoVa	3 - 2	7 - 6
DarKFoRcE	3 - 2	7 - 6
~~ReaL~~	2 - 3	5 - 6
~~Kas~~	2 - 3	5 - 7
~~IdrA~~	1 - 4	4 - 9

EG.IdrA,

Mill.Feast

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IdrA vs ReaL - Imba.tv

Game One: Real went for a quick three bases on Daybreak, and while IdrA applied pressure, he couldn't do too much damage. IdrA took expansions on his side of the map and continued to be aggressive, but couldn't really make a dent. ReaL eventually maxed up and moved out, and defeated IdrA's still lair-stage army for the victory/
Game Two: ReaL made phoenix/DT work as a strategy, continuing his string of stylish wins over more famous opponents.
IdrA 0 - 2 ReaL

DarkForce vs SuperNoVa - ESL SC2 Stream

Game One: SuperNoVa won.
Game Two: SuperNova opens reactor hellion, which kill a few drones, and then moves into cloaked banshees which kill a lot more. He builds up an army and crushes DarkForce with the economic advantage.
DarkForce 0 - 2 Supernova

Kas vs Feast - ESL SC2 Stream

Game One: Feast goes for 3 gate pressure after 1 gate FE and Kas doesn't hold.
Game Two - Regame: Feast's computer crashed, forcing a re-game. Kas was up 40+ supply at the point of the crash.
Game Two: Feast won the regame, doing a 2/2 Zealot-Archon push that dealt a lot of damage to Kas as he went up to three bases.
Kas 0 - 2 Feast

DarkForce vs ReaL - Imba.tv

Game One: ReaL tried to go Phoenix heavy play with some DTs again, but DarkForce swatted it aside with a well timed corruptor/roach push into ReaL's third base that did a ton of damage. ReaL never really covered from that damage, and though he managed to play a longer game after, he was never had a chance.
Game Two: DarkForce hit with a relentless wave of roaches and hydralisks as ReaL tried to secure three base for himself. ReaL's defenses weren't up to the task, and he GG'd out.
DarkForce 2 - 0 ReaL

Idra vs Feast - ESL SC2 Stream

Game One: They each get to 3 bases without much happening, Idra makes a ton of mutalisks and his muta ball is unable to be stopped by the stalkers and phoenixes of Feast.
Game Two: Feast goes for a 7 gate plus immortal/warp prism attack off two bases and kills Idra's third immediately, Idra taps out.
Game Three: Feast puts pressure on Idra's third with 3 gates after expanding, and when it fails to do damage he opts for heavy 2 base blink stalker play which Idra is unable to stop.
Feast 2 - 1 Idra

Feast vs DarkForce - ESL France

Game One: Feast attacks with a 6 gateway blink stalker attack, and slowly whittles down DarkForce's burrowed roach army.
Game Two: Feast spends a long time attacking DarkForce's third with his own 2 bases, and when he is unable to take it down DakrForce counters and kills him with maxed hydra-roach.
Game Three: DarkForce kills Feast with roaches, broodlords, and infestors after Feast's 2 base 6 gate and blink attack fails to do enough damage.
Feast 1 - 2 DarkForce

Kas vs IdrA - ESL Main

Game One: They play a long back and forth battle over the center of the map with maxed out armies, Kas pulls ahead with drop play and Idra's brood lords are unable to bring him back.
Game Two: When Idra was unable to stop Kas' first drop before it did a lot of damage, Kas pushed out and killed him with his first army.
Idra 0 - 2 Kas

ReaL vs Kas

Game One: Long back and forth macro game, Real is able to deny expansions while taking his own long enough to win with storms and colossus.
Game Two: After starting reasonably normally, ReaL made DTs after his third base was secured and they stormed through Kas' base destroying things. His later push with storm and gateway units cleaned up.
ReaL 2 - 0 Kas

IdrA vs DarkForCe

Game One: Curiously enough, both players went for muta-ling, making SC2 ZvZ look an awful lot like Brood War. DarkForce looked to be ahead after a big baneling hit allowed his zerglings to nearly kill IdrA's third base, but DarkForce refused to focus fire down a hatchery that was down to double digit hit points. IdrA was able to recover and win the air-battle, taking the game.
Game Two: Both players allowed each other to macro up on there bases, with DarkForce going roach-hydra and IdrA going roach-infestor. DarkForce's composition and positioning were better during the max-out engagement, allowing him to win the game.
Game Three: DarkForce and IdrA took turns going at each other with ling-baneling, and DarkForce came out ahead by ten-oddish supply. IdrA scouted out the fact that DarkForce had taken a faster third base with this advantage, and GG'd out.
IdrA 1 - 2 DarkForce

Kas vs SuperNova

Game One: After some early game shenanigans on both sides, the game stabilized into a half-map war on Shakuras. With both players going marine-tank, Kas's positioning and choice of engagements were better, winning him the game.
Game Two: SuperNova opened with a hellion-reaper attack against Kas's fast expansion, and did enough damage to give himself an advantage as he followed with a slightly later expand of his own. Later, SuperNova crushed Kas' front while Kas tried to get back into the game with an MM drop, also holding off the drop with ease to win the game.
Game Three: SuperNova looked to be behind due to reaper expanding versus Kas's rax expand, but a hugely damaging blue-flame hellion drop gave him a gigantic advantage. After that, SuperNova just had to turtle up, mass a mech army, and move out to win.
Kas 1 - 2 SuperNova.

Feast vs Real

Game One: Feast won.
Game Two: Feast took a faster expand than ReaL and managed to defend it, which resulted in a later victory.
Feast 2 - 0 ReaL

SuperNova vs IdrA

Game One: SuperNova sieges up outside Idra's natural with cloaked banshees, bunkers and turrets, Idra unable to break it tries to counterattack but it doesn't manage to break through the marines SuperNova left at home.
Game Two: SuperNova spend the early game annoying Idra with elevator drops into his main, but Idra repels them without taking too much damage. Delaying until hive, Idra wins with broodlord infestor as SuperNova doesn't have enough vikings to deal with the air.
Game Three: Idra uses a ling-infestor build on Antiga, and when SuperNova is unable to damage with his drops Idra repeatedly crushes his pushes. Eventually he wins via attrition.
SuperNova 1 - 2 IdrA

Kas vs DarkForce

Game One: Standard Kas, with his excellent macro allowing him to send endless waves to wear DarkForce down until he was forced to quit.
Game Two: ???
Game Three: Both players allowed each other to macro-up and max-out, which led to Kas slowly by surely pushing forward, erasing DarkForce's bases and taking more for himself.
Kas 2 - 1 DarkForce

Off-Stream Games
Feast (2 - 0) SuperNova
ReaL (1 - 2) SuperNova

OdiousTea

Australia357 Posts

March 07 2012 08:07 GMT

DIMAGA Fighting!!!

Switzerland367 Posts

March 07 2012 08:09 GMT

C is such a hard group to predict ... also, why does TypeReal have a german flag? Shouldn't it be korean?

Encrypto

United States442 Posts

March 07 2012 08:14 GMT

I wish IdrA would do well, but I think he's gonna suck ballsack.

Waxangel

United States33360 Posts

March 07 2012 08:15 GMT

On March 07 2012 17:09 et wrote:
C is such a hard group to predict ... also, why does TypeReal have a german flag? Shouldn't it be korean?

it's an obscure joke, because we gave SeleCT an American flag after he was in the states for long enough

opterown

Australia54784 Posts

March 07 2012 08:19 GMT

when will violet get his american flag?

Waxangel

United States33360 Posts

March 07 2012 08:21 GMT

On March 07 2012 17:19 opterown wrote:
when will violet get his american flag?

soon, soon

Encrypto

United States442 Posts

March 07 2012 08:22 GMT

On March 07 2012 17:21 Waxangel wrote:

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soon, soon

And IdrA his Korean flag? At least until IEM is over...

cosine

313 Posts

March 07 2012 08:22 GMT

On March 07 2012 17:19 opterown wrote:
when will violet get his american flag?

first he has to scale mt rushmore and rescue a baby eagle. only then...

Fogger

United States55 Posts

March 07 2012 08:22 GMT

#10

Let's go Zenio and Supernova!

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

March 07 2012 08:24 GMT

#11

Idra! we are all counting on you to bring the gold back to USA! since stephano isnt here, we really are counting on you!

OSSI

Germany9 Posts

March 07 2012 08:30 GMT

#12

How come the ESL can never get their streams to start on time ever?!?

Opera

France469 Posts

March 07 2012 08:33 GMT

#13

09:24 CET (+01:00): ReaL vs IdrA was going to be streamed, but MoMan got the boot

Did I read it right ? MoMan rebooted the streamer's computer ?

zergtat

Hong Kong853 Posts

March 07 2012 09:00 GMT

#14

Both groups are so hard to predict, greeat games ahead!

sHt_

France239 Posts

March 07 2012 09:01 GMT

#15

It is streamed, in fact the match is over now.
http://fr.justin.tv/imbalancedtv?utm_campaign=live_embed_click&utm_source=imbalanced.tv#/w/2721735600 for free 1080p sream..

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Such a nice play from TypeReal, outplayed idra so much

Jacmert

Canada1709 Posts

March 07 2012 09:01 GMT

#16

sigh + Show Spoiler +

I thought Idra was still pretty close with Real in the second match. Had the base advantage...

ShakaZu.Sc2

United States131 Posts

March 07 2012 09:02 GMT

#17

IdrA

Im worried if he doesn't have a good performance he might retire.... Call it a gut feeling but I really hope I'm wrong

NovemberstOrm

Canada16217 Posts

March 07 2012 09:04 GMT

#18

Idra really isn't getting any better he was even ahead and he early GG's in a game he could've won vs ReaL his career is slowly going down the drain.

sHt_

France239 Posts

March 07 2012 09:04 GMT

#19

Waxangel

United States33360 Posts

March 07 2012 09:06 GMT

#20

On March 07 2012 18:04 sHt_ wrote:

um, the entire point of this thread is to be a spoiler

ShakaZu.Sc2

United States131 Posts

March 07 2012 09:10 GMT

#21

Ummm, IdrA really couldn't win the third game, 3 base protoss vs 2 base zerg (no drones on third) and he had nothing to deal with the phoenix... I dont think it was an early gg personally

sHt_

France239 Posts

March 07 2012 09:34 GMT

#22

Computer freezing at the INTEL extreme masters, that's some good publicity :D

Son of Gnome

United States777 Posts

March 07 2012 09:40 GMT

#23

On March 07 2012 17:22 cosine wrote:

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first he has to scale mt rushmore and rescue a baby eagle. only then...

While eating a big mac and making an unintentional racist comment :D

RedNeX

Germany6 Posts

March 07 2012 10:01 GMT

#24

Idra needs to fight it would be an upset if he doesn t advance

Wroshe

Netherlands1051 Posts

March 07 2012 10:13 GMT

#25

On March 07 2012 19:01 RedNeX wrote:
Idra needs to fight it would be an upset if he doesn t advance

Honestly it would be an upset if he would advance. He hasn't won a single Bo3 ever since the NASL Season 2 finals back in December. In the last 3 months his only victory has been a Bo1 in the NASTL against Axslav.

-

Just tuned in for Feast-Kas Game 3; damn that looked onesided.

ZhL

Germany2 Posts

March 07 2012 11:05 GMT

#26

On March 07 2012 19:13 Wroshe wrote:
Honestly it would be an upset if he would advance. He hasn't won a single Bo3 ever since the NASL Season 2 finals back in December. In the last 3 months his only victory has been a Bo1 in the NASTL against Axslav.

Exactly what I think. Idra is very unconvincing for quite a while now. Can't deny being a little gleeful over Idra most likely not advancing.

Ketch

Netherlands7285 Posts

March 07 2012 11:15 GMT

#27

"12:00 CET (+01:00): Feast 2 - 1 Idra. Feast puts pressure on Idra's third with 3 gates after expanding, and when it fails to do damage he opts for heavy 2 base blink stalker play which Idra is unable to stop."

Should be 4 gates!

sHt_

France239 Posts

March 07 2012 11:40 GMT

#28

dat idra... HAHA

sicQ

Germany32 Posts

March 07 2012 11:42 GMT

#29

sad day for all non korean zergs

was really expecting idra and dimaga looking better!

blacksheepwall

China1530 Posts

March 07 2012 11:42 GMT

#30

Oh Idra being Idra.

I've been enjoying this tourney so far though.

Fanus09

Netherlands2 Posts

March 07 2012 11:46 GMT

#31

OMG why is idra even trying, if he taps out so early EVERY time.
Imo its time to repleace him. Its just not fun to watch anymore.

Ireniicus

United Kingdom374 Posts

March 07 2012 11:52 GMT

#32

On March 07 2012 20:46 Fanus09 wrote:
OMG why is idra even trying, if he taps out so early EVERY time.
Imo its time to repleace him. Its just not fun to watch anymore.

I concur. He is so unprofessional and its coming back to haunt him. The only thing about him thats good is my wife loathes Idra more than most and when I watch him I have alot of fun hearing her cheering for the other guy and nodding knowingly every time he quits early (which is practically every game this year) LOL.

He needs to knuckle down and watch more DRG, Nestea and Stephano...those guys can handle early pressure and do not keep leeting winning positions slip...and when they do lose its when their opponents play flawlessly al la Polt at Assembly.

jogamijo

United States28 Posts

March 07 2012 12:01 GMT

#33

Wow. When I first heard of idra, he seemed decent. Been a few months now and it just seems like nothing is working out for him. I don't really keep up with him much, but something just needs to be done.

Other than that, I really want to see VODs of MMA. Being new and all, I am just enjoying getting to know all the pros, and an undefeated run is something I probably don't want.to miss. Even if I don't main terran lol

Fanus09

Netherlands2 Posts

March 07 2012 12:02 GMT

#34

On March 07 2012 20:52 Ireniicus wrote:

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EG_Stephano sound good to me. XD

Ireniicus

United Kingdom374 Posts

March 07 2012 12:34 GMT

#35

On March 07 2012 21:02 Fanus09 wrote:

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EG_Stephano sound good to me. XD

Nah...EG is ok but Liquid Stephano sounds fricken awesome imho

Meaph

Germany53 Posts

March 07 2012 12:54 GMT

#36

bye bye idra

Switzerland367 Posts

March 07 2012 12:58 GMT

#37

On March 07 2012 21:34 Ireniicus wrote:

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Nah...EG is ok but Liquid Stephano sounds fricken awesome imho

He'd just pull out of the contract again, like he did with complexity.

sHt_

France239 Posts

March 07 2012 13:17 GMT

#38

One does not simply kill 70 scv of kas and get ahead :D

Wroshe

Netherlands1051 Posts

March 07 2012 13:34 GMT

#39

On March 07 2012 20:05 ZhL wrote:

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Exactly what I think. Idra is very unconvincing for quite a while now. Can't deny being a little gleeful over Idra most likely not advancing.

You do realize that I'll want credit for that? I said that when he was down at 0-1.

hilling

Korea (South)7 Posts

March 07 2012 13:50 GMT

#40

everybody Fighting!

GoSuChicken

Germany1726 Posts

March 07 2012 13:57 GMT

#41

I have to say man, IdrAs playing atm is just such a joke...

Paincarnate

115 Posts

March 07 2012 14:27 GMT

#42

He just took a game off supernova :|

vndods

United States3743 Posts

March 07 2012 14:40 GMT

#43

idra playing well.

Wroshe

Netherlands1051 Posts

March 07 2012 14:52 GMT

#44

On March 07 2012 23:40 vndods wrote:
idra playing well.

When it didn't matter anymore. He'll still finish dead last.

ArcticRaven

France1406 Posts

March 07 2012 14:52 GMT

#45

On March 07 2012 23:40 vndods wrote:
idra playing well.

Trollin' ? :D

Gogo Feast ! You can do it. Hell if you 2-0 Supernova you can beat many people in the tournament :D.

Dac

Canada538 Posts

March 07 2012 14:54 GMT

#46

Clever sub-tittle. ;-) i like it. Go Feast!

striderxxx

Canada443 Posts

March 07 2012 15:04 GMT

#47

wow, why idra so bad?

TheTurk

United States732 Posts

March 07 2012 15:13 GMT

#48

Feast is such a baller!
I called that he would do amazing stuff the day I saw him rock Kiev's foundations with that ridiculous blink play.
I'm so pumped to see how far he goes in this tourney. ^_^

nooboon

2602 Posts

March 07 2012 15:21 GMT

#49

Just saw that feast and darkforce advanced :D

amazingoopah

United States1925 Posts

March 07 2012 16:05 GMT

#50

I think Idra needs to take a month or so to clear his mind and make a decision on whether he still has the desire to keep play professionally or not.

blacksheepwall

China1530 Posts

March 07 2012 16:10 GMT

#51

I want Grubby to start casting full-time.

EDIT: Holy shit, 100K+ viewers for the LoL stream?

Grrin

Finland5 Posts

March 07 2012 16:17 GMT

#52

Based on Grubby's appearance at the commentator's table, he could make a really good caster. I hope he sticks around at IEM and can be seen again tomorrow.

statikg

Canada930 Posts

March 07 2012 16:36 GMT

#53

On March 08 2012 01:10 blacksheepwall wrote:
I want Grubby to start casting full-time.

EDIT: Holy shit, 100K+ viewers for the LoL stream?

I was also pretty suprised to see LoL stream hitting 130k while starcraft was below 30k, ouch. Really says something about the effect a diminishing player base is having on viewer ship.

r3z3nd3

Brazil522 Posts

March 07 2012 16:43 GMT

#54

SelecT vs Puma will not be cast?

Bjooeernen

Sweden5 Posts

March 07 2012 16:43 GMT

#55

LoL always have extremely high amount of viewers, atleast from what I've experienced.

Sad to see Dima go :<

ShatterZer0

United States1843 Posts

March 07 2012 16:44 GMT

#56

Supernova vs Idra is stated to be 2-1 in Supernova's favor when it states that Idra won the final game.

garbanzo

United States4046 Posts

March 07 2012 16:49 GMT

#57

Any word on if SeleCT vs. PuMa will be shown somewhere?

KuKri

Germany168 Posts

March 07 2012 16:53 GMT

#58

cool, good job, Darkforce!

z0li

Romania12 Posts

March 07 2012 17:01 GMT

#59

"Idra! we are all counting on you to bring the gold back to USA!"
and he did it

)) gold bottom

Redx

Netherlands77 Posts

March 07 2012 17:05 GMT

#60

GoGo Feast!! :D

Dexington

Canada7276 Posts

March 07 2012 17:06 GMT

#61

Puma definitely wins. Even if he loses 2-0 to Select...
8-4 = 66.6....% for Puma
9-5 = 64.3% for Killer

DreamChaser

1649 Posts

March 07 2012 17:33 GMT

#62

Brutal tournament all my foreigners i wanted got knocked out

BaconofWar

United States369 Posts

March 07 2012 17:39 GMT

#63

Of course, IdrA lost to the foreigners but beat the Korean

OSSI

Germany9 Posts

March 07 2012 17:48 GMT

#64

I was at cebit yesturday and it was quite sad. Lol had the big stage with interviews an the players playing on the stage and scII had a little side stage next to some fairbooth, that was way louder than the casters. Meeting the players was cool, but other than that the event was kind of a let down. I guess I need to go to other places in europe for Dreamhack/Assembly ... to get some exciting live starcraft.

falafel

Poland3 Posts

March 07 2012 17:48 GMT

#65

Gregory is da best :}

Majromax

Canada14 Posts

March 07 2012 17:50 GMT

#66

On March 08 2012 01:10 blacksheepwall wrote:
I want Grubby to start casting full-time.

EDIT: Holy shit, 100K+ viewers for the LoL stream?

I still have yet to see Grubby's casting. Which games did he cast, so I can catch it on the VoDs?

ePLocust

United States587 Posts

March 07 2012 18:01 GMT

#67

On March 07 2012 17:22 Encrypto wrote:

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And IdrA his Korean flag? At least until IEM is over...

HuK deserves a korean flag more though!

Serimek

France2274 Posts

March 07 2012 18:05 GMT

#68

Does anyone know why IdrA plays so poorly since a couple of months ?

Spuick

Norway357 Posts

March 07 2012 18:06 GMT

#69

Don't agree on the huge upset part about feast, but great article

JiYan

United States3668 Posts

March 07 2012 18:07 GMT

#70

first time hearing about feast, and what a grand entrance in the public scope hes had!

Paragleiber

413 Posts

March 07 2012 18:21 GMT

#71

On March 08 2012 03:06 Spuick wrote:
Don't agree on the huge upset part about feast, but great article

Same here. After he already showed strong play in the previous two events there was really no reason to be surprised here that he can keep up with everyone.

I think the article overestimates Idra and Kas a little bit. They weren't clear favourites against anyone in the group, not because they are bad but because none of their opponents were bad either. They all made the playoffs in IEM events before.

Joedaddy

United States1948 Posts

March 07 2012 18:21 GMT

#72

GG's Feast!!

But who is Famine? Is that like a nickname for a player or something?

jumbotroN

Peru229 Posts

March 07 2012 18:21 GMT

#73

I'm so happy for Feast, I hope he can take this trophy home.

Delicious Insanity

Belgium841 Posts

March 07 2012 18:26 GMT

#74

On March 08 2012 03:21 Joedaddy wrote:
GG's Feast!!

But who is Famine? Is that like a nickname for a player or something?

Famine : 'A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.'

I guess it's a contrast with 'Feast : A large, elaborately prepared meal'

taitanik

Latvia231 Posts

March 07 2012 18:32 GMT

#75

hmm darkforce is better than idra

so weird

Firenza

United States51 Posts

March 07 2012 18:37 GMT

#76

Brackets are posted. I hope Zenio is practicing his ZvT. If there's any possible way he can beat Supervoa AND MMA (and then possibly Puma), well, that would just be awesome. Liquid 2012.

Between Hasuobs and Feast I think there's a very good shot of a foreigner being in the semi-final. Barring my overly-optimistic hopes for Zenio, it looks like MMA and MC will shut down any possibility of a Zerg making it that far.

Even if there's 0 upsets in the bracket, a finals between MC and MMA should be very, very entertaining (plus a semi-final between Puma and MMA).

GhostLink

United States450 Posts

March 07 2012 18:38 GMT

#77

On March 07 2012 17:21 Waxangel wrote:

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soon, soon

+ Show Spoiler +

Does Stephano get an American flag? (lol sorry couldn't resist...)

Ripebananaa

Canada129 Posts

March 07 2012 18:59 GMT

#78

On March 07 2012 18:02 Mortalfury wrote:
IdrA

Im worried if he doesn't have a good performance he might retire.... Call it a gut feeling but I really hope I'm wrong

People don't quit their job after 3 months of not taking wins.

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

March 07 2012 19:00 GMT

#79

+ Show Spoiler +

Under group D it says Supernova 2-1 IdrA when I believe Idra 2-1 Supernova

Mithriel

Netherlands2969 Posts

March 07 2012 19:07 GMT

#80

Mmm quite as i expected, though i would've thought Kas to advance over Darkforce. Rest are not really a surprise anymore.

j1nzo

Germany367 Posts

March 07 2012 19:08 GMT

#81

oh yeah, korea rollin through!

AnnoyingNoob

Norway18 Posts

March 07 2012 19:14 GMT

#82

Dammit, IdrA was ahead game 1 against Kas, then suddenly lost. Wish he would do well, but now he's out

VTArlock

United States1763 Posts

March 07 2012 19:16 GMT

#83

o.0 Feast seems like a serious contender for the foreigners on this one... HWAITING!

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

March 07 2012 19:20 GMT

#84

awwww, wtf happened to idra. his only win to what i considered the best player in the group (supernova), and losses to the rest..... very disappointed.

theniceninja

United States30 Posts

March 07 2012 19:20 GMT

#85

I know its a big troll or whatev, but its so funny how Americans bash France and shit all the time. But then they have a brilliant player (Stephano) and we want to claim him as our own... lol. Stephano, such an awesome guy, and amazing player. IdrA's never going to change. The only way to improve his game I think would be to take a break and go meditate with monks or something. The real American hero zerg is Sheth. I hope he goes back to try GSL again.

SamsLiST

Germany184 Posts

March 07 2012 19:26 GMT

#86

after that day the rest of the tourney is sooo predictable imo

The only question left is weather or not someone lucks out in a PvP vs MC
(which would be bad -since he is the only real threat to MMA)

I like the fakt two German lokals are still in (and Socke delivered already before getting eliminated in a 3way tie)

Sad about Real (dedicated Korean exilant, fighting for his pro gamer dreams in Germany)

o.0 Feast seems like a serious contender for the foreigners on this one... HWAITING!

agreed for the most part - hes seems kind of hungry as it seems

I know its a big troll or whatev, but its so funny how Americans bash France and shit all the time. But then they have a brilliant player (Stephano) and we want to claim him as our own...

the guy asking for an US flag for ViOLet on page one made NA looking soo desperate

sVnteen

Germany2238 Posts

March 07 2012 19:29 GMT

#87

DARKFOOOOOOOOOOORCE YEAH
wp and keeping one more german hope alive together with hasu

so sad that socke won vs jyp but won 1 map less overall

idra doing poorly pretty much as expected (eventhough i didn't expect him to do THAT poorly) and feast owning face also not too surprising either ....

didn't expect mana to do so poorly though

Antylamon

United States1981 Posts

March 07 2012 19:40 GMT

#88

lol, IdrA had the least wins besides MaNa

Take that IdrA fanboys!

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

March 07 2012 19:50 GMT

#89

On March 08 2012 04:40 Antylamon wrote:
lol, IdrA had the least wins besides MaNa

Take that IdrA fanboys!

You're actually... worse than the rabid fanboys with your pathetic "HA! HE LOST! WHAT UP BITCHES?!?" attitude. Do you actually care about a specific player winning, or are you simply content with trolling around waiting for IdrA to bust just so you can jump up and down in excitement?

Zenio vs. SuperNoVa... that's going to be a hell of a series, I can already feel it. PuMa vs. JYP (if he wins) will also make for some really good games.

Other than that, I'm expecting MMA to roll on cruise control through pretty much whoever he faces and smash them all.

Derrida

2885 Posts

March 07 2012 19:57 GMT

#90

Grubby mentoring seems to have helped Feast

Testuser

6469 Posts

March 07 2012 19:57 GMT

#91

No surprise in Feast. Anyone who saw him play vs MMA knows that he's stupidly good.

KillerSOS

United States4207 Posts

March 07 2012 20:00 GMT

#92

Idra.... what

ImbaTosS

United Kingdom1685 Posts

March 07 2012 20:05 GMT

#93

The idea of giving "foreign" flags to Koreans seems like a cheap way of trying to claim them and put their wins under a foreigner heading.

Idra surprises me these days. IDK how any player can be so inconsistent, especially one who is a professional gamer, through and through.

Murlox

France1699 Posts

March 07 2012 20:07 GMT

#94

On March 07 2012 21:34 Ireniicus wrote:

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Nah...EG is ok but Liquid Stephano sounds fricken awesome imho

Yeah Liquid needs more Zerg players.

M.Stephano is where it's at ^^

Kowdbuff

Canada22 Posts

March 07 2012 20:13 GMT

#95

On March 08 2012 05:05 ImbaTosS wrote:
Idra surprises me these days. IDK how any player can be so inconsistent, especially one who is a professional gamer, through and through.

He hasn't been inconsistent, he's been consistently bad for the last few months. His last high placement was MLG Orlando and ASUS ROG (which wasn't as difficult a tourney as MLG). After that he went 0-2 at providence, knocked out of Code A, 0-2 at MLG Winter Arena, and now 1-4 at IEM.

Murlox

France1699 Posts

March 07 2012 20:14 GMT

#96

On March 08 2012 04:50 vx70GTOJudgexv wrote:
You're actually... worse than the rabid fanboys with your pathetic "HA! HE LOST! WHAT UP BITCHES?!?" attitude. Do you actually care about a specific player winning, or are you simply content with trolling around waiting for IdrA to bust just so you can jump up and down in excitement?

I actually get satisfaction when I see him lose, don't know if that's an ok thing to say here. He looks so disrespectful towards his opponents, not deeming them worthy of the standard manner ; and/or to the viewers, not giving them proper games (naniwa probe rushing, anyone? early "ggs" feel exactly the same, to me).

xou

France58 Posts

March 07 2012 20:16 GMT

#97

IdrA needed a better shower for sure

AssyrianKing

Australia2111 Posts

March 07 2012 20:36 GMT

#98

I believe DarkForce, show us that good skill of yours!

Kernen

United States84 Posts

March 07 2012 20:38 GMT

#99

Wow that threw my predictions way off

Eurobean

Denmark2 Posts

March 07 2012 20:43 GMT

#100

On March 08 2012 05:13 Kowdbuff wrote:

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This.. So many that feel idra is there american hope, but he performs soo bad at the time being. He is as you said consistently bad. I used to like to see him play, but don't really anymore, it doesn't seem like he is near the level of his opponents..

Scrandom

Canada2819 Posts

March 07 2012 20:43 GMT

#101

Damn, those brackets are terrible. One side is pretty much all the koreans and the other side is all PvP

moregamethanSEGA

United States76 Posts

March 07 2012 20:44 GMT

#102

can someone tell me why IdrA is so bad now, i just don't get it.... AT ALL.

those games against Kas were, simply put, embarrassing, no?

SamsLiST

Germany184 Posts

March 07 2012 20:53 GMT

#103

I guess some are a little bit unfair about the Gracken...

imo winning tournaments and matches and playing good are two different things.

I am not a fanboy at all, but every SC2 player who knows what he he is talking about -has to respect his skills.
And I have seen some excellent games out of him and was highly entertained

Its rather sadening to see a random EU Protoss 2baseallinning its way to the semis...

But hey lets jump on the Stephano train, watch his stream seeing him grinding low tier players on ladder and cups with(out/low) Korean appearance and say he is the best foreign (Zerg) player YAI!!!

those games against Kas were, simply put, embarrassing, no?

loosing in a somewhat close game vs the (maybe) best foreign Terran on a close to imbalanced map after your mindset got demolished in your worst mu vs 2 Protoss is not really embarrassing
game 2 was like 70% bad luck (ov + undetected doubledrop)

Douillos

France3195 Posts

March 07 2012 21:01 GMT

#104

On March 08 2012 05:53 SamsLiST wrote:
I guess some are a little bit unfair about the Gracken...

imo winning tournaments and matches and playing good are two different things.

I am not a fanboy at all, but every SC2 player who knows what he he is talking about -has to respect his skills.
And I have seen some excellent games out of him and was highly entertained

Its rather sadening to see a random EU Protoss 2baseallinning its way to the semis...

But hey lets jump on the Stephano train, watch his stream seeing him grinding low tier players on ladder and cups with(out/low) Korean appearance and say he is the best foreign (Zerg) player YAI!!!

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Yeah second place assembly going 3-0 vs puma was nothing. I'm no fanboy, but you, little man, are a hater.

greenknight999

69 Posts

March 07 2012 21:07 GMT

#105

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No, Idra just blew. Simple as that. As others have said, he is consistently bad.

Pity about Dimaga's results, the gameplay was weird but you can't knock it when you see lings+hydras beating colossi+stalkers+HT over multiple engagements.

The major thing I've noticed is the low quality of micro in the metagame atm, also most of the dominant players I've seen in this tournament are distinguished by their micro (try to imagine MMA throwing away hellions to small numbers of zlings as I've seen foreigner terrans do etc)

Puma was impressive

Tomorrow should be good.

FlyingDike

United States221 Posts

March 07 2012 21:09 GMT

#106

On March 08 2012 05:44 moregamethanSEGA wrote:
can someone tell me why IdrA is so bad now, i just don't get it.... AT ALL.

those games against Kas were, simply put, embarrassing, no?

He is actually better now than he was before. He has always been bad.

Keone

United States812 Posts

March 07 2012 21:10 GMT

#107

Uh are these brackets rigged?!?! (obviously not but still)

How are virtually all the top Koreans in the top half, and the bottom is all PvP except for 1 ZvZ? Crazy.

Typhon

United States387 Posts

March 07 2012 21:16 GMT

#108

On March 08 2012 05:53 SamsLiST wrote:
But hey lets jump on the Stephano train, watch his stream seeing him grinding low tier players on ladder and cups with(out/low) Korean appearance and say he is the best foreign (Zerg) player YAI!!!

http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IGN_ProLeague_Season_3
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Electronic_Sports_World_Cup_2011
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/IGN_ProLeague_Season_3/Qualifier_3

Seriously?

DALtyler

Canada10 Posts

March 07 2012 21:20 GMT

#109

funny thats there's one of each race left in each group

Eurobean

Denmark2 Posts

March 07 2012 21:26 GMT

#110

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Stephano is waay better imo.. But everyone to their own opinion. As long as you don't call Stephano an american lol!

SamsLiST

Germany184 Posts

March 07 2012 21:28 GMT

#111

Douillos France. March 08 2012 06:01. Posts 525 PM Profile Quote #
On March 08 2012 05:53 SamsLiST wrote:
I guess some are a little bit unfair about the Gracken...

imo winning tournaments and matches and playing good are two different things.

I am not a fanboy at all, but every SC2 player who knows what he he is talking about -has to respect his skills.
And I have seen some excellent games out of him and was highly entertained

Its rather sadening to see a random EU Protoss 2baseallinning its way to the semis...

But hey lets jump on the Stephano train, watch his stream seeing him grinding low tier players on ladder and cups with(out/low) Korean appearance and say he is the best foreign (Zerg) player YAI!!!

Show nested quote +

loosing in a somewhat close game vs the (maybe) best foreign Terran on a close to imbalanced map after your mindset got demolished in your worst mu vs 2 Protoss is not really embarrassing
game 2 was like 70% bad luck (ov + undetected doubledrop)

Yeah second place assembly going 3-0 vs puma was nothing. I'm no fanboy, but you, little man, are a hater.

No Stephano is absolutely top tier foreigner. (you have missed my point big man)

But sooner or later in defending idrA you have to call him one of the best foreign Zergs - then some wild haters appear and name Stephano (and his lately impressive results)

And that comparison is just not justified taking a look on the competitions and the lineups.

to convince nowadays you have to grow balls and go to Korea.
(Stephano should not - for financial reasons and to not blow up his overratedness
-> because if he would ever drop there - the same kids calling IrdA a bad player now would call one Stephano then!°

NeThZOR

South Africa7387 Posts

March 07 2012 21:29 GMT

#112

On March 08 2012 06:20 DALtyler wrote:
funny thats there's one of each race left in each group

Almost correct. I don't see though how there is one of each race in group C? 3 Protosses in fact.

Crowned

United States368 Posts

March 07 2012 21:32 GMT

#113

Wheeen this boy meeets world, boy meets world.

NeThZOR

South Africa7387 Posts

March 07 2012 21:32 GMT

#114

On March 08 2012 06:28 SamsLiST wrote:

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There is some truth in what you say. IdrA actually went over to Korea (second time now for SC2) to compete in the toughest leagues of them all - the GSL. I like both Stephano and IdrA, but until Stephano goes over to Korea and gets at least into the Ro16 of Code S I won't think that he is the best foreigner Zerg there is.

SamsLiST

Germany184 Posts

March 07 2012 21:44 GMT

#115

Typhon United States. March 08 2012 06:16. Posts 355 PM Profile Quote #

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(Wiki2)IGN ProLeague Season 3
(Wiki2)Electronic Sports World Cup 2011
(Wiki2)IGN ProLeague Season 3/Qualifier 3

Seriously?

one single successful run through Code A is harder then all 3 titles together. Seriously!

And thats why 2nd tier Koreans leave and the real foreign competitors come to Kor...
__________

E: I even would go ahead and call Stephano the best foreign player there is atm. There is still no contradiction to what I have said before.

Just do not be unfair and stay objektive about tournament results

Sylailene

91 Posts

March 07 2012 22:02 GMT

#116

Wow gj feast, poor kas I really wanted him to win this

Argus92

Netherlands93 Posts

March 07 2012 22:03 GMT

#117

On March 08 2012 06:44 SamsLiST wrote:

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How can you even be fully objective with a game like Starcraft 2, with 3 races and luck being an important factor as well.

Also, how is it unfair or not objective? Stephano has played many koreans by now, another example is Blizzard Cup where he managed to play well. Also, how is consistently winning cups (with high level foreigner players, we're talking about the best foreigner Zerg, right?) with many BO1 not saying anything?

JimmiC

Canada22817 Posts

March 07 2012 22:12 GMT

#118

--- Nuked ---

INTOtheVOID

United States225 Posts

March 07 2012 22:26 GMT

#119

On March 08 2012 03:05 Serimek wrote:
Does anyone know why IdrA plays so poorly since a couple of months ?

It's gotta be a major mental block that he can't get past. I think he should just switch back to Terran, maybe it would relight his competitive fire. He doesn't seem have that drive anymore.

GenesisX

Canada4267 Posts

March 07 2012 22:36 GMT

#120

Thanks for this report! Didn't expect IdrA to do some badly... or Feast to do so well. I guess that coaching with Grubby helps :p

TemujinGK

United States483 Posts

March 07 2012 22:37 GMT

#121

Feast 1:1 Idra????

CeriseCherries

6170 Posts

March 07 2012 22:52 GMT

#122

-.- to be honest he seemed better against Protoss than expected, and lost to Kas and made me go "wtf" especially going and beating supernova later... idk why he lost to kas so convincingly...

Dubzex

United States6994 Posts

March 07 2012 23:27 GMT

#123

This Feast picture is creeping me out.

charlyyy

Belgium1 Post

March 07 2012 23:45 GMT

#124

Go Feast, for Belgium!

United States1056 Posts

March 07 2012 23:49 GMT

#125

On March 08 2012 07:26 INTOtheVOID wrote:

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It's gotta be a major mental block that he can't get past. I think he should just switch back to Terran, maybe it would relight his competitive fire. He doesn't seem have that drive anymore.

I honestly don't think he ever had any competitive fire. I've always enjoyed his play, but at least since the beta Idra has always tapped out the minute things were looking down, and if he didn't tap out he'd tilt and throw away the next game in a series. Here's to hoping he improves his play and grows a pair when it comes to playing out an important match.

anycolourfloyd

Australia524 Posts

March 07 2012 23:52 GMT

#126

i feel bad for kas, he really got screwed over. not that i'm saying the decision was wrong, i missed the minute or so leading up to the DC, but he was definitely looking to win.

unfortunately theoretically anything can happen in starcraft so to say that he would've won without a doubt means the game basically had to continue to the point past where some players would have already gg'd.. definitely a rough situation.

Devilry

Sweden19 Posts

March 07 2012 23:54 GMT

#127

Feast fighting!

daber

United States19 Posts

March 08 2012 00:03 GMT

#128

damnit kas... was rooting for u
commentators were right,
most of his play was too predictable

Dakkas

2550 Posts

March 08 2012 00:42 GMT

#129

GJ Killer! You were so underrated but you proved that you are really a great player

Also superb effort by Darkforce and Feast, really happy to see those two ballers do incredibly well

ulan-bat

China403 Posts

March 08 2012 00:47 GMT

#130

Thanks for the game reports guys

Grobyc

Canada18410 Posts

March 08 2012 01:18 GMT

#131

Sigh... poor Kas. Difficult situation, but I would have preferred a win to have gone to Kas. I guess on the bright side Feast was already up a game, so it wasn't a tiebreaker; Feast could have still won 2-1 even if he lost. Oh well, it's just unfortunate is all.

alexmann

37 Posts

March 08 2012 01:22 GMT

#132

idrA failed again... It's Korean fault

Kazeyonoma

United States2912 Posts

March 08 2012 01:41 GMT

#133

as unfortunate as it was for Kas to have this happen to him, this just further reinforces that TL runs the best tournaments, when considering the BoxeR situation, and the level of analysis they through together to get that solved in a repeatable, and explainable fashion. If kas was as far ahead as people state, couldn't a similar scenario have been presented in a unit tester, and tested? /sigh

Kowdbuff

Canada22 Posts

March 08 2012 02:19 GMT

#134

On March 08 2012 10:22 alexmann wrote:
idrA failed again... It's Korean fault

He went 1-1 against the koreans in his group, but 0-3 against the foreigners. A foreigner losing is not always the fault of the koreans.

Mawi

Sweden4365 Posts

March 08 2012 02:21 GMT

#135

the koreans so op gotta love it <3

Lucko

United States48 Posts

March 08 2012 02:30 GMT

#136

Did select play killer? what happend its not on their

GHard

Germany2 Posts

March 08 2012 02:41 GMT

#137

Feast fighting!

Shyndashu

United States136 Posts

March 08 2012 04:04 GMT

#138

Idras goinnnn downnnnnnnnnnn. =[

metbull

United States404 Posts

March 08 2012 05:13 GMT

#139

can we now stop calling Idra a "foreign elite" right?

Dogsi

Indonesia298 Posts

March 08 2012 07:32 GMT

#140

Idra has skills but he is very over blown. He only did well when most of the other pros were "newer" pros and his past experiences gave him an advantage. However, as the "newer" pros are getting more and more experience, he is simply not keeping up. He should retire.

nttea

Sweden4353 Posts

March 08 2012 07:51 GMT

#141

hahaa... germans with jetlag

i really like this new coverage of events on teamliquid it makes it so much easier to follow what's going on ^_^

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