EPTAll the credit here goes to SK, being down 0-3, and somehow he starts reading innovation like a book. Perfect builds, perfect mindgames. He was a step ahead of innovation, anticipating his every move and countering swiftly, snowballing every piece of information into convincing wins. There are no untested strategies used in GSL finals, there are no decisions which were not confirmed effective in the past. SK understood that, got into head of innovation, and against all odds, got the job done. Calling this series a throw is pretty stupid, it was a fantastic display of all the factors that make traditional sports such a treat to watch.
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warmus
United Kingdom196 Posts
All the credit here goes to SK, being down 0-3, and somehow he starts reading innovation like a book. Perfect builds, perfect mindgames. He was a step ahead of innovation, anticipating his every move and countering swiftly, snowballing every piece of information into convincing wins. There are no untested strategies used in GSL finals, there are no decisions which were not confirmed effective in the past. SK understood that, got into head of innovation, and against all odds, got the job done. Calling this series a throw is pretty stupid, it was a fantastic display of all the factors that make traditional sports such a treat to watch. | ||
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Gynuine
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farvacola
United States18818 Posts
On June 03 2013 05:33 Gynuine wrote: Anyone else get the feeling this series was rigged? Super long break after game three. A bunch of old guys roaming around the player booths during the break. GOM's top personnel predict the winner. English caster's keep trying to sell a "comeback" to the listeners. Game four and five, roach and bane all-ins are so easily defended. And Innovation's control during those games were nothing like that of game three where his hellion and scv control was near perfect. Instead it seemed that he was feeding Soulkey his scvs to extend the series... This post brought to you by. + Show Spoiler + ![[image loading]](http://www.greenpacks.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/reynolds-wrap-aluminum-foil.jpg) Seriously though, there is no reasonable way to infer that a flop took place. | ||
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Buddy168
United States157 Posts
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Disastorm
United States922 Posts
On June 03 2013 05:33 Gynuine wrote: Anyone else get the feeling this series was rigged? Super long break after game three. A bunch of old guys roaming around the player booths during the break. GOM's top personnel predict the winner. English caster's keep trying to sell a "comeback" to the listeners. Game four and five, roach and bane all-ins are so easily defended. And Innovation's control during those games were nothing like that of game three where his hellion and scv control was near perfect. Instead it seemed that he was feeding Soulkey his scvs to extend the series... Sorry dude but you need to get with reality. Almost everything mentioned there is pretty normal. There was a long break to show the music videos ( probably contract to show music videos) and they wouldnt have been able to show them had innovation won 4-0 (They showed the rest of the music videos at this points thats why there wasn't a single music video afterward). People predict the winner, Catz predicted the winner even with the correct ratio 4-3, random forum ppl predicted the winner, doesn't mean anything. I can also guarantee you there is not a single caster in the world who would not try to sell a comeback, in fact if there were casting classes I bet that would probably be one of the things you learn to do. There is any number of reasons Innovation could play worse toward the end of the series, perhaps he has worse endurance than soulkey, perhaps he just messed up, people do that, and we've seen so many GSL finals where the underdog wins, in fact maybe even more times the underdog has won than lost. | ||
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Howl41
United States65 Posts
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Trasko
Sweden983 Posts
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LaMbaL
Netherlands7 Posts
On June 01 2013 21:25 RKC wrote: Honestly, I don't know why people in the LR thread were so critical about the games, and saying that Innovation threw it. The way I saw it, it was a great series, and eventually Soulkey was the stronger player, throwing Innovation off with his preparations and mind games. So I'll respond to the negativity with what I saw as the positives: 1. Soulkey's drone scout and proxy 2-rax defence Saw how Soulkey drone scout in the games after dying to a proxy 2-rax in Game 1? Now, that's called learning, and the fact that it paid off in Game 6, showed how disciplined Soulkey was. And that hatch cancel in Game 6? That was also Soulkey learning. And why shit on the games? JD early pool rush Flash in one of the finals, winning one, losing one. It may be disappointing how short the games were, but I thought it was brilliantly played by both players. I think at high levels of plays, pro players are so of equal skill that they need to throw cheesy builds at each other. It's all about the mind games. Soulkey won today, fair and square, when it mattered. And I enjoyed the beauty of it; not by what played out in the screen itself, but what played in the players' head. The true beauty lies in the meta-game. 2. Soulkey's drop defence We saw glimpses of this in Game 2 which he lost, and we saw it repeated in game 7. It completely nullified Innovation's harassment, wasted his precious resources, and allowed Soulkey to tech up and expand safely. Even before the mutas were out, Soulkey had the slight supply advantage, and more importantly, the psychological advantage (of shutting down the hellbat drops that others would just roll over and die too completely). Innovation knew this, and he had to make something happened, hence the medivac drop. While people scoff this as being foolish, I think it was a fair calculated risk, given Soulkey's lead, and that such a lead on a map like Daybreak would build up exponentially. He moved in when he thought Soulkey's muta was attacking his main. Innovation believed that his drop at Soulkey's main would deal more damage, or at least force the mutas to come back (and by that time, his medivac boost would be ready). But Soulkey saw this coming, and intercepted with his mutas. 'Doom drops' like this happened all the time in games like this. If Innovation had pulled it off, we would all be going ga-ga over it. It was almost like Jangbi 2-base carrier comeback against Fantasy in the 2nd last OSL. His sneak attack at Fantasy's main was a gamble, but he knew it was the only way he could break Fantasy's contain and get back into the game. Pro players make risky moves all the time. Sometimes it works, sometime it doesn't. If we regard all failed risky moves as silly, then we wouldn't have epic games, pimpest plays, and the game would be much less richer and exciting. Be glad, rather than sad, that Innovation did what he did. This was exactly how I saw these finals, which I thought were absolutely awesome. In fact, I would even go a step further: These finals were a CLINIC on how to play Starcraft in a series against a known opponent, and a perfect demonstration of the, almost artful, beauty of mindgames in SC2. I learned more about Starcraft 2 from this series than of any I have ever watched, and I loved watching every minute of it. Yes, there were many all-ins, but every game was decided by either a perfectly executed agression or a masterful scout and matching defense. They were trading blows in highly intelligent and very focussed punches and perfect blocks, and the level of play was so high that any mistakes almost irrevocably led to losing the match, which is why the games were so short in general. Yes, I would have loved a few long, drawn-out lategames, but that is frankly not very likely at this level of play. The games werent short because Soulkey Innovation were not playing good enough, but because they were playing too good. All in all a truly great series as it was. | ||
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FastAce
Bosnia-Herzegovina22 Posts
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ke_ivan
Singapore374 Posts
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Crownlol
United States3726 Posts
On June 03 2013 14:18 Trasko wrote: Love it. Gonna rewatch tonight Sad that I missed it- I'll have to rewatch for sure :D | ||
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Coolhwip
Sweden1381 Posts
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A)Fallen(Templa
Germany2 Posts
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OpTiKAiTech
United States65 Posts
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Big J
Austria16289 Posts
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zmsFlood
Finland169 Posts
On June 03 2013 05:33 Gynuine wrote: Anyone else get the feeling this series was rigged? Super long break after game three. A bunch of old guys roaming around the player booths during the break. GOM's top personnel predict the winner. English caster's keep trying to sell a "comeback" to the listeners. Game four and five, roach and bane all-ins are so easily defended. And Innovation's control during those games were nothing like that of game three where his hellion and scv control was near perfect. Instead it seemed that he was feeding Soulkey his scvs to extend the series... Dude you are seeing what you want to see. There are pretty simple explanations to all the points you talk about in your post. Just because something unexpected happens in this world, does not mean it's a conspiracy or rigged. Occams razor man | ||
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Dracolich70
Denmark3820 Posts
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docvoc
United States5491 Posts
 . This was seriously a crazy finals. GG Soulkey. | ||
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