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Innovation 4 - 0 sOs - WCS Season One Finals - Page 2

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RaiKageRyu
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada4773 Posts
June 09 2013 21:12 GMT
#21
The position of the trophy makes Innovation part cyborg.
Someone call down the Thunder?
Rescawen
Profile Joined April 2010
Finland1028 Posts
June 09 2013 21:13 GMT
#22
Any more pics of innovation? Possibly High res.
Bumpkin
Profile Joined June 2013
1 Post
June 09 2013 21:20 GMT
#23
It was Terran vs Protoss. We all KNEW it was going to happen.

This is a two race game and in the surprising event that a Protoss actually manages to squeeze into the final, we witness massacre.

Ban me by all means, but if it's taboo to call the elephant in the room by his name, then nothing will ever improve, and all we have is a climate of fear where everyone is afraid to acknowledge that the Emperor has no clothes.

Well here I am saying it. The Emperor has no clothes. It's a two race game at the moment that works in Terran's favour.

User was banned for this post.
Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
June 09 2013 21:23 GMT
#24
On June 10 2013 05:36 Cokefreak wrote:
This title does not spoiler anything at all.


This yet a fucking gain? -.-

Gz to bogus, glad he won.
11/5/14 CATACLYSM | The South West's worst Falco main
Gorribal
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
Canada186 Posts
June 09 2013 21:25 GMT
#25
Silly sOs, trix are for kids
"PartinG keeps touching us and groping us (laughs)." - Rain
Soda-88
Profile Joined April 2012
Croatia476 Posts
June 09 2013 21:34 GMT
#26
On June 10 2013 06:20 Bumpkin wrote:
It was Terran vs Protoss. We all KNEW it was going to happen.

This is a two race game and in the surprising event that a Protoss actually manages to squeeze into the final, we witness massacre.

Ban me by all means, but if it's taboo to call the elephant in the room by his name, then nothing will ever improve, and all we have is a climate of fear where everyone is afraid to acknowledge that the Emperor has no clothes.

Well here I am saying it. The Emperor has no clothes. It's a two race game at the moment that works in Terran's favour.

User was banned for this post.

Kinda hard squeezing in 3 races into single finals
Digitalis
Profile Joined August 2011
United States1043 Posts
June 09 2013 21:45 GMT
#27
appreciated write up, since i fell asleep last night T_T

PS: i think there is a typo in "Evening out the army supplies and taking a slight edge in economy, the crazy strategy built around the overlooked long rage Protoss air unit was starting to look more and more genius."
range?

4th to last paragraph.
Paljas
Profile Joined October 2011
Germany6926 Posts
June 09 2013 21:47 GMT
#28
no semifinal recap? : (

but thanks for this article.
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smashlloyd20
Profile Joined October 2012
251 Posts
June 09 2013 22:11 GMT
#29
Full writeup on this one sided stomp, but nothing on the semis with Mvp which was one of the best series in HoTS we've ever seen?
Krogan
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden375 Posts
June 09 2013 22:11 GMT
#30
For those of us that watched the GSL stream of the semi between Mvp and Innovation, all know that the only reason Mvp didn't win WCS finals was because he got cursed.
vidium
Profile Joined January 2012
Romania222 Posts
June 09 2013 22:16 GMT
#31
so when did this all happen? even the wcs europe groups had more buzz than the finals...
You ever notice how no one returns to the barracks?
Miscellany
Profile Joined September 2011
Wales125 Posts
June 09 2013 22:20 GMT
#32
The WCS finals were fantastic. The only part that was disappointing was the quarters. The OGN stream was hilarious though, a big shoutout to Chobra for being an awesome translator
Henk
Profile Joined March 2012
Netherlands578 Posts
June 09 2013 22:20 GMT
#33
Great read.

the crazy strategy built around the overlooked long rage Protoss air unit was starting to look more and more genius.


Should obviously be 'range'.
T0MORR0W
Profile Joined July 2011
United States101 Posts
June 09 2013 22:23 GMT
#34
Mvp was really impressive. While watching I felt like he would have pulled it out if only hellbat drops weren't quite so good.
L0L
Profile Joined August 2012
United States176 Posts
June 09 2013 22:27 GMT
#35
On June 10 2013 07:23 T0MORR0W wrote:
Mvp was really impressive. While watching I felt like he would have pulled it out if only hellbat drops weren't quite so good.


Yeah too bad he didn't know how good hellbats were and didn't use them himself. Maybe next time.
habermas
Profile Joined June 2010
United Kingdom304 Posts
June 09 2013 22:51 GMT
#36
These finals were pretty terrible to be honest. sOs was so nervous he was getting supply blocked every 2 minutes in each game and kept misclicking everything even accidentally killing his own units at some point. Both semifinal series were much better than the finals imo, with Mvp games being some of the best in Hots so far.
GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
June 09 2013 22:54 GMT
#37
On June 10 2013 06:11 WeRRa wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 10 2013 06:06 Derez wrote:
Innovation pretty damn good but its no GSL title.

40 k and more wcs points this title is better than gsl and it was as hard to achieve, not to mention that he was so close to getting both titles, but well haters gonna hate.


It's more money, but it's clearly not as hard as a GSL title. Weaker competition, less games, less time to prepare increases the luck factor, etc.
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theinfamousone
Profile Joined February 2011
United States103 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-06-09 23:08:51
June 09 2013 23:05 GMT
#38
sOs never had a chance. Whether balance or mechanics, Innovation was always 25 supply ahead by the 9 minute mark even after losing several drops without much damage, and would never let sOs leave his base. I liked sOs's idea to go for the Oracle cheese, because it was obvious from the first game where sOs played pretty much perfectly and still never had a snowball's chance in hell at engaging Innovation (until Innovation finally a-moved into his base) to the point where he'd have to take a risk and hope he could end it early.

I also liked his idea in game 4 to just straight up turtle with tempests with the idea that if early game cheese won't work, he might be able to go for an unstoppable late game protoss deathball. Unfortunately tempests are just a little bit too slow to be everywhere sOs needed them to be and honestly not cost effective vs 3-3 marines.

I liked Innovation's aggressive expansions. He had the top left and bottom right mining and if sOs wanted to take it out, he'd have to commit his very slow army leaving himself exposed elsewhere. It seems like if sOs had built a backup 4th Nexus in mid lower right instead of betting the game on keeping that gold over and over, he might've been ok. 400 minerals really isn't that big of a deal when you're on 3 bases. Innovation kept taking un cost effective engagements to stop that gold 4th and if sOs had been mining at the same rate as Innovation, he would've been ahead. Innovation was always behind in units lost, but always ahead in supply due to his expansion timings.
VArsovskiSC
Profile Joined July 2010
Macedonia563 Posts
June 09 2013 23:09 GMT
#39
It was actually A LOT closer than everyone thinks..

If things weren't as bad - sOs might've started with a 3:1 in those first 4 games..

G1 was a ridiculous doom drop that no matter how many units are shooting at the Terran - they can just stim and focus Nexus down which made me angry a lot, that was so gay.. sOs was playing better in G1 by faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar up until that Nexus snipe.. AND yes - it was really unfortunate cause like literally the damn last Marauder shell caused it to shatter.. And made me really ridiculously hate Terran (at least for a while) --> because all it took was ONE damn drop to succeed to win the game, didn't matter that Terran had like 5 failed Hellbat drops before that.. Didn't matter at all.. Looked like all it takes is ONE successful shot to kill Protoss which is really frustrating.. really..

G2 was like smacked down and beaten up and battered down Innovation with like 20 less workers and half of his base on fire, but yah - sOs went for the kill.. Well - now we officially know that you can't outright kill Terran.. Even if they went super greedy opening and losing a sh*t ton to a proxy Star-Gate.. But damn - sOs threw that game away.. :/

Then I guess my b*tching session came up so I didn't watch G3..

But G4 man - that thing - that was awesome.. Was like watching White-Ra play a game vs Terran in Beta.. But yah - even if Innovation faced up a strat that he 100% hasn't had the chance to prepare for - nevermind - doesn't matter if I don't know a sh*t to do against that - you're a Terran, and you do Marines, and then go for the kill..

IDK about you guys, but I'm really pissed by the fact that NO stargate unit is good vs Marines.. Sucks bad..

Were good finals though - not saying that sOs could've won this - not a damn chance, but deffinitely looked like some other "mystical force" broke him.. In all the games (well didn't watch the G3) he was in a good position/ahead and ended up eventually losing them..
Another world, another place, another universe, won the race.. :) ;) :P
GolemMadness
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada11044 Posts
June 09 2013 23:13 GMT
#40
sOs wasn't ahead until the nexus snipe. He was down by about 20 supply and lost very quickly afterwards.
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