Completely different situation, too. The baneling style only works against the pure thor/hellion/scv push that comes super fast (before it's even realistically possible to get broods out).

MythZero

Korea (South)102 Posts

October 23 2012 11:00 GMT

#243

Congrats Life!

nimdil

Poland3765 Posts

October 24 2012 09:05 GMT

#244

Winning the Code S championship in ones first Code S season

Except for the first season.

mantadoerr

2 Posts

October 24 2012 15:59 GMT

#245

What an awesome GSL finals this year. As much as I would like to see a protoss player in the finals, this was the most exciting non protoss finals ive seen in a long time. What i cant figure out is why MVP stayed on mech every single game.. did MVP ever comment on this? I was thinking maybe it was his way of avoiding using higher apm because of his wrist, or maybe he knew that life is really good at shutting down bio.

genius_man16

United States749 Posts

October 24 2012 17:20 GMT

#246

On October 20 2012 23:52 iKill wrote:

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I dont think subtier players realize how retarded the old snipe made TvZ at high levels. A metagame where one unit counters all zerg T3 is a bad meta.

It was almost as bad as the old Neural made ZvP.

I don't think subtier players realize how short a time that snipe was 'OP' before Blizzard nerfed it.

It was less than two weeks. People are such drama queens.

It's funny how blizzard won't change the queen range buff because they "want the metagame to flesh out" but yet they nerf pretty much any terran strat that has success instantly (thorzains thor strat tvp, snipe tvz).

Fuck blizzard. And before you ask, yes, I mad.

Edit: OT Congrats too life, was kinda sad cuz I was rooting for Mvp the whole way, but Life deserved to win. Mvp made too many mistakes in the game he lost. (Especially game 7, wtf was that stupid move-out with 2 thors, 2 tanks and 4 hellions? Wtf?)

nimdil

Poland3765 Posts

October 25 2012 10:12 GMT

#247

On October 25 2012 02:20 genius_man16 wrote:

I don't think subtier players realize how short a time that snipe was 'OP' before Blizzard nerfed it.

It was less than two weeks. People are such drama queens.

Come on.

Patch 1.4.3 arrived on 21st February. Snipe was OP as early as BlizzCon 2011 - I recall that Mvp sniped the whole NesTea's army, which was rather sweet example of how Ghosts with Snipe were OP. It was on 22nd October. Four months minus a day. And I don't think it was first showcase of OP Snipe.

Scrutinizer

170 Posts

October 27 2012 08:24 GMT

#248

On the other hand, Life made the slightly puzzling move of going for an early pool, with which he succeeded at forcing an annoying command center cancel on Mvp.

I dont understand why "nobody" understands why. It was probable, by that I mean more than 50%, that MVP would do a "cheese" on the last map considering he surprisingly never did it during the finals, perfect time for it. Life's respected MVP's mix play, and that could be the only reason as to why he opened that way.

Great finals, MVP is very important for the true legend killers to shine through!

Scrutinizer

170 Posts

October 27 2012 08:33 GMT

#249

To give a better point of view on the subject, we also have to rememeber that is how MVP did win against Squirtle, after what was the most incredible moment in SC2 history (Squirtle crushing an off-the-charts amount of resources in BCs). He is not afraid to do such things after blunders.

whatthefat

United States918 Posts

October 28 2012 00:16 GMT

#250

Great series! Congrats to Life! He really introduced some new high level ideas this season.

mrjpark

United States276 Posts

October 28 2012 02:16 GMT

#251

On October 25 2012 00:59 mantadoerr wrote:
What an awesome GSL finals this year. As much as I would like to see a protoss player in the finals, this was the most exciting non protoss finals ive seen in a long time. What i cant figure out is why MVP stayed on mech every single game.. did MVP ever comment on this? I was thinking maybe it was his way of avoiding using higher apm because of his wrist, or maybe he knew that life is really good at shutting down bio.

Mech is probably just easier to deal with Life's mass ling style. Notice how in 7 games, Life basically did zero damage to Mvp and won the games where he got brood lords out in time, lost the ones where he took too much damage and couldn't.

On October 27 2012 17:24 Scrutinizer wrote:

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It's not just this, but on Entombed Valley, TvZ is usually a CC first or 11/11 2 rax. 10 pool does fine against either one, so it's a pretty "safe" build as long as you don't commit too hard to the 10 pool.

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