Close spawns on metalopolis good (terran) unit. The fast reinforcements and catching the banelings morphing really come down to the fact that he could get to DRGs main so quickly. All in all, MKP played brilliantly, but close spawns are a huge bonus for a terran.

Also team Polt! Clutch also had some other brain fart that was hilarious earlier in the weekend.

Holey

United States68 Posts

March 26 2012 00:24 GMT

#205

Replays or it didn't happen!
Ugh jk I am just mad i didn't get to see it, great to see Terran winning some more tournies now. :D

fidelity

Sweden410 Posts

March 26 2012 00:25 GMT

#206

GG, well deserved by MKP. It will be exciting to see him perform in the GSL

Meaph

Germany53 Posts

March 26 2012 00:29 GMT

#207

On March 26 2012 09:24 Holey wrote:
Replays or it didn't happen!
Ugh jk I am just mad i didn't get to see it, great to see Terran winning some more tournies now. :D

i think you can rewatch the stream due to their player kinda saving the stream on the fly. finals are at ~ 7h10min

CakeSauc3

United States1437 Posts

March 26 2012 00:32 GMT

#208

No joke, this was one of my favorite events to watch. Huk put on a good show, MKP won, DRG still the Zerg master, a great showing by a formerly "unknown" player, Heart... great stories all around, and the games were interesting to see. I love that MKP used a handful of different, almost wacky styles to win, and really only fell back on his straight up bio for the last game. The only regret is that it didn't go to game 9 - but hey, 6 games is still a great series, and it wasn't a blowout in any way.

Delial

Poland217 Posts

March 26 2012 00:33 GMT

#209

Marines and Medievacs just won MLG. This is why we had Lurkers in BW, so you can't just spam marines and medics and kill shit.

User was warned for this post

Rinnegan5

Netherlands319 Posts

March 26 2012 00:41 GMT

#210

Stimming all the way from your own base to catch spawning banelings....aaaaaaaw yeah! Whenever I see MKP do splits his training video of doing a million marine splits against banelings comes to mind. I cannot express how insanely hard it is what he is doing especially against DRG.

Burns

United States2300 Posts

March 26 2012 00:47 GMT

#211

the kong beats the dong again, what a story, what a rivalry

Suichoy

Canada397 Posts

March 26 2012 00:57 GMT

#212

The best moment was when MarineKing's 3rd finally kicked in and he exploded with his pure MMM style from the days of KyrixZenith to topple DRG, the best modern zerg player. I had nerd chills...

ingba

Germany2 Posts

March 26 2012 00:57 GMT

#213

I wanna see this training video Rinnegan5, can you send me a link maybe? Thanks in advance!

@topic

Hate to see drg losing (zerg !), but mkps micro is just unfair, so incredibly good and nice to watch. Now im looking forward to see those two guys in code s ( :

Krogan

Sweden375 Posts

March 26 2012 00:59 GMT

#214

Wish I hadn't known how this tournament would end after just the winner bracket finals, extended series just made me lose interest after that I didn't watch any more games. Looking at the brackets now it was pretty obvious I did the right thing.

I also think this MLG was a testament to that only people in day 1 pool play has any chance of winning an MLG, I'd say that out of the top 16 very few were actually the top 16 players at the tournament. Imagine if GSL let their top 4 from last season start in the round of 8 or in truth its more like the finalist get to start in the round of 4, something tells me we would get almost the same finals every year in GSL then as well.

GSL's tournament system is probably the worst of all tournaments and it always makes it feel like just a fun event but it tells us nothing of who the best players are.

ingba

Germany2 Posts

March 26 2012 01:11 GMT

#215

I think you mean "MLG" instead of "GSL" in the last paragraph Krogan, and I agree if that's correct: The GSL's system is superior for several reasons imo.

klogg

Sweden800 Posts

March 26 2012 01:14 GMT

#216

Does this mean that MKP won't cry for a while? I hope so, seeing him cry is heartbreaking..

Reval

United States297 Posts

March 26 2012 01:15 GMT

#217

Absolute rape. DRG just died after g1

R3DT1D3

285 Posts

March 26 2012 01:16 GMT

#218

On March 26 2012 09:59 Krogan wrote:
Wish I hadn't known how this tournament would end after just the winner bracket finals, extended series just made me lose interest after that I didn't watch any more games. Looking at the brackets now it was pretty obvious I did the right thing.

I also think this MLG was a testament to that only people in day 1 pool play has any chance of winning an MLG, I'd say that out of the top 16 very few were actually the top 16 players at the tournament. Imagine if GSL let their top 4 from last season start in the round of 8 or in truth its more like the finalist get to start in the round of 4, something tells me we would get almost the same finals every year in GSL then as well.

GSL's tournament system is probably the worst of all tournaments and it always makes it feel like just a fun event but it tells us nothing of who the best players are.

Just out of curiosity, what players did you think deserved to be in ahead of MKP, DRG, Huk, Parting, Gangzi, and Heart?

Polt's the only one I wanted to see in that didn't make it.

Kergy

Peru2011 Posts

March 26 2012 01:23 GMT

#219

Still a Kong until you win an xSL

ValhallaDude

United States24 Posts

March 26 2012 01:27 GMT

#220

On March 26 2012 06:15 ropumar wrote:
Extended serious is dumb.

The huk vs heart is going to best of 7 or 9?

Why is it dumb? Why should one player have two chances to beat one player while the other has only one?

or

Are you being sarcastic in some way by spelling "series" wrong?