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Osaka27177 Posts
thanks to funkie for the round of 8 banner!
On thursday the MSL continued with bo3 series for the losers from last week. To lose this week would mean the end of the line in the GOM MSL, while winning would keep hopes alive and set up a showdown with next weeks losers. Here are the matchups:
Group A
Hwasin vs Silver
Maps: BlitzX / Longinus II / Desert Fox
Group B
Nal_rA vs Xellos
Maps: Reverse Temple / BlitzX / Longinus II
Winner stays, loser goes home. Just like tetherball back in the day. As we did last week, here are the VODs of these games. I hope you enjoy.
Game One: Hwasin vs Silver on BlitzX
*Note, skip half way through this video for the game if you are not interested in the pregame speaking
Note: To watch the games in full screen, you need to visit the video on the Google site. You can find this game here.
+ Show Spoiler +Silver's muta harass was embarassingly bad, and his play was so standard it was painful. After doing no damage but expanding two more times, it was no wonder that Hwasin was able to rumble over him with a two base army and a constant stream of marines. No micro ftw!
Game Two: Hwasin vs Silver on Longinus 2
Note: To watch the games in full screen, you need to visit the video on the Google site. You can find this game here.
+ Show Spoiler +Again, Silver seems to think he is SaviOr with the drone whoring, but Hwasin's three rax took him completely by surprise. A cute firebat placement also helped.
Game Three: Nal_rA vs Xellos on Reverse Temple
Note: To watch the games in full screen, you need to visit the video on the Google site. You can find this game here.
+ Show Spoiler +rA showed his remarkable adaptaion and quick thinking this game, dealign with the earl bunker perfectly. He is the greatest. HEAR THAT ETTERSTYLE? THE GREATEST!
Game Four: Nal_rA vs Xellos on BlitzX
Note: To watch the games in full screen, you need to visit the video on the Google site. You can find this game here.
+ Show Spoiler +A gas steal, a fast expansion, and devastating reavers. rA showed just how awesome his adaptation was in the first game, when the second game showed how poorly xellos dealt with it.
Current Standings
Check out jkillashark's Results and Standings thread for the big picture, all the results, and what is left for this, the tenth MSL.
Picture of the Week
Last weeks picture was a shot of the MSL Hall of Fame. However, this week's picture comes from in the game, where Hwasin showed the power of a single firebat (and his two hot nurse assistants).
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Next week will feature the winners of last week going at it in a best of three. The winners of that set will move to the semi's, while the loser will go face life or death against todays winners.
Stay Tuned!
Mani. 
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joohyunee
Korea (South)1087 Posts
awesome thanks for uploading them game mani!!
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Canada7170 Posts
Said it before, but I'll say it again!
Vids are awesome!
Mani ftw!
EDIT: Wow. Game 3. Masterful.
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flippin awesome....thanks!!
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i really do enjoy these google vids! thanks so much
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Wow watching the second game between Nal_rA and XellOs made me want to throw up... not only because XellOs did arguably the worst job I've ever seen of countering reavers, but because rA lost three scarabs in a row to 100% retardedly unfair AI. XellOs did such a terrible job against those reavers that he deserved to lose literally every single SCV that he had. rA would've been much closer to accomplishing that feat had it not been for fucky AI. That shit is so annoying.
Awesome! Thank you for the videos, you are my hero!
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Thanks a lot. Great games, great report. I have a question, cause I already was banned once for unintentional spoiler. How do i make these tags +Show Spoiler+ ???
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type [ spoiler ] askdjaskjd [ /spoiler ] without the spaces in between the []
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Hwasin showed the power of a single firebat (and his two hot nurse assistants). + Show Spoiler +:
omg! thanks for the update, sweet!
+ Show Spoiler + i seriously thought silver was going to do well... guess i was badly mistaken. =(
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I am a Terran.
Even though Nal_Ra played much better it was so annoying to see how fucked up the Reaver AI is. As much as I like Terran race I think it doesn't fit Starcraft that one unit acts purely on luck. Especially on these amzing levels where one silly AI mistake can change the life of so many progamers...
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all the games lately seem pretty short and cheesy... interesting sometimes but sometimes i kinda wish for long and epic battles
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this nickname, red sniper..
worst msl nickname ~~
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United States5262 Posts
WOW Awesome stuff Mani! You guys don't really have the need to put spoilers in the recap. If people don't want to be spoiled they usually stay away from threads like these. Meh, whatever. Do whatever you feel like.
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Nice adition with the vid from google. It sure makes easier to follow the progamers scene.
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Yeah Its way better than youtube. BTW Guys I have 5.1 speakers and I cant hear the sound  same with youtube and the others
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+ Show Spoiler +omg silver sucks hard...you just don't three hatch before pool unless your screen name is saviOr...just don't
thanks Mani, again. i'm running out of superlatives to describe that coverage.
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I'm not even a silver fan and I'm disappointed at how silver did
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poor XellOs...bad reaction timing against reaver drops
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u gotta skate8152 Posts
On January 19 2007 21:03 neSix wrote:+ Show Spoiler +
Wow watching the second game between Nal_rA and XellOs made me want to throw up... not only because XellOs did arguably the worst job I've ever seen of countering reavers, but because rA lost three scarabs in a row to 100% retardedly unfair AI. XellOs did such a terrible job against those reavers that he deserved to lose literally every single SCV that he had. rA would've been much closer to accomplishing that feat had it not been for fucky AI. That shit is so annoying.
Awesome! Thank you for the videos, you are my hero!
Totally agreed.
Great work Mani!
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Xellos should play WC3. His surrounding-skills are not bad 
I am glad that I followed my plan, not to bet on him anymore.
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On January 20 2007 10:34 Sewi wrote:Xellos should play WC3. His surrounding-skills are not bad I am glad that I followed my plan, not to bet on him anymore.
he actually botched that 2nd surrond pretty hard, if that was in a war3 replay all the people would laugh at it :p
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I loved how the commentators were like "JIII JIII" in the first Ra/Xellos game.
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woah thanks a lot of google uploads
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anyone know the song at the beginning of the vids?
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that pic with the fbat is amazing o.o
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google uplaods ROCKS!!
I think xellos's scarab dodging skills are awesome :p He dodged them manually instead of just the stupid ai alone I think. It's more like a combination of stupid ai and the abuse of it.
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On January 19 2007 21:49 ZaplinG wrote:
type [ spoiler ] askdjaskjd [ /spoiler ] without the spaces in between the []
Thank you very much mister.
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Scarabs need to be fixed.
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Ra rocks!
I realised for the first time how koreans says "gate" and "robotics facility" during the game 2 with RA ))). The scarab jumped from the second floor in game two Ra, cute ))). I have never seen it before, wow ).
Thanks a lot for a great report and for the google vids )
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