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Vandrad
Germany951 Posts
Besides that I really like the new group system of MLG | ||
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m0ck
4194 Posts
Oz gets an early advantage by blocking S's expansion and Stephano follows it up by neglecting to scout the entire map (like we usually see him do), which allows Oz to plant a pylon north of S's fifth. However, an overlord-scout spots the gates and the twilight council in Oz's base and S knows exactly what is coming. From there it is his game to loose. But he messes up - he runs slow roaches and splings halfway across the map towards ozs natural, turns around when he realizes that the natural is undefended (meaning that Ozs army is on the map), finally detects that Oz has moved to S's fourth and then very indecisively moves a handful of roaches back and fourth towards a group of stalkers positioned north of S's fifth base. His roaches are eventually caught in a pincer-move between the two forces of Oz, while the rest of the army is idling by the rocks connecting S's third and fourth. From that point on the rest of the game is something close to a formality. Not a great game from S by any measure. More decisiveness could have led to an attack on the unprotected natural of Oz or to an attack with the roaches on either small force of Ozs army. It would have either drawn a million forcefields, which would have made the following attack from Oz much less potent, or it would have pushed and killed the few stalkers, possibly even taken out the pylon to the north of S's fifth. That is not to take anything away from Oz, who clearly outplayed Stephano on the occasion, but it is part of the picture. Another is, of course, that while Oz knew about Stephanos play, Stephano didn't know about Oz's. It'll be interesting to see if Stephano has gotten back in shape while in Korea (from the improvement visible while watching his stream from the TSL-house, it seems so) and also, if he can break the P dominance in the PvZ-matchup that we're seeing in Korea at the moment. Despite the mellow reception of the list of participants, I think this will be a great tournament. Game on! | ||
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antilyon
Brazil2546 Posts
Both in terms of writing and game knowledge, thank you treehugger | ||
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MassHysteria
United States3678 Posts
 ...Best sc2 tourney related stuff I have read in a while. It also got me hyped up (never watched their first series, will soon tho). | ||
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Ollie
United States144 Posts
Nice to see Oz getting the recognition he deserves, but I wish he could be a bit more consistent. | ||
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Snijjer
United States989 Posts
 Seriously though I hope to read more of these kind of well written articles on here. | ||
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paddyz
Ireland628 Posts
He check for the 3rd and 4th gas for toss at 6 minutes to see if its a 6 gate or something and then just stops the drone phase for units phase slightly faster and gets ling speed if the gases were not taken. If they were he just goes for lair and does his usual thing. Then yes if he cant keep his 3rd or if he cant deny the toss 3rd he techs to infestors and then broodlords. Thats practically what I see everytime. I don't think Protoss have a "hard counter" to this as such but Oz just outsmarted and outplayed Stephano. If they meet again I really doubt that Stephano will come out with something brilliant and innovative that redefines starcraft2 as we know it. If he wins it will probably because Oz didn't play well enough vs stephano vs P. Or because Oz once again felt that he had to come up with something brilliant again just to win a PvZ and he did not consider some little detail. | ||
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Yorbon
Netherlands4272 Posts
Nice read btw, well written! | ||
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RolleMcKnolle
Germany1054 Posts
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HaXXspetten
Sweden15718 Posts
Was a really impressive series to watch for sure | ||
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snively
United States1159 Posts
On August 23 2012 19:12 tree.hugger wrote: ... Stephano and Oz are destined to meet again. Probably because they're in the same group. lol. | ||
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MassHysteria
United States3678 Posts
 ...not a bad link, just MLG video player I guess boo. | ||
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GhandiEAGLE
United States20754 Posts
Liquid' Snute? Good write-up btw  | ||
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Advantageous
China1350 Posts
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Jampackedeon
United States2053 Posts
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Chr15t
Denmark1103 Posts
Oh hi Wax, how is the recap of IEM going along? ;D | ||
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Lazzi
Switzerland1923 Posts
Such an amazing work! Please do more of this | ||
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Jaeger
United States1150 Posts
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VictorJones
United States235 Posts
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The Final Boss
United States1839 Posts
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