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ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
February 03 2007 04:21 GMT
#1
Each round of 16 series had the potential to end this past Wednesday as the remaining OSL contenders took the stage for the 2nd game in their best of 3 series.

Game 1 – Much vs. GoRush
Longinus

Much (11) luckily scouted his opponent first and was able to throw down a nexus and even a gateway before building a forge to protect his FE. GoRush (6) went with a standard hatch first at his nat followed by a fairly late pool. GoRush quickly took the aggressive as he pumped hydras instead of drones and made literally zero drones at his new third hatch at his mineral only.

Much got a stargate for a scouting sair and began to produce ranged goons as he tried to take advantage of his quick economic boost. Just as he began to mass, GoRush attacked his wall with everything he had.

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Much brings in his probes to make the save as he waits for Goon range.


After deflecting that attack with few loses, Much simply waited for range and easily blocked the next attack. He could see that his opponent still had very few drones, so Much waited for a couple rounds of speed lots and ran GoRush over easily.

Much > GoRush

Again, Much plays a solid game and GoRush makes his opponent look like god because his ZvP has, incredibly, reached a new low. Who was the one that told me GoRush’s ZvP was his best matchup a couple months ago? I don’t hear you piping up now do I?

Game 2 – Midas vs. Savior
Arkanoid

Midas (5) did the standard fast CC to nat build while Savior (7) did the same. Savior began to break through the neutral buildings while he began to mass upgraded hydras. Then this gem of a battle occurred when their forces met in the middle of the map.

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Oh yeah, that’s a smart battle to engage in. Exactly what I’d expect from the number one player in the world. o_0


Savior tried to pressure Midas as he added lurkers to the mix, but the narrow passages of Arkanoid were his worst nightmare. After a nice drop in Savior’s main and an effective levelling of all of Savior’s tech and main following soon after, Midas took the game.

Midas > Savior

Savior played a goofy strategy that seemed dependent on Midas being greedy and trying to hold both naturals early on in the game. Midas didn’t want to and effectively out massed Savior using his main and one nat. A pretty lame performance from Savior, but we can forgive him since seeing a weak game from this guy is as rare as catching a unicorn.

Game 3 – Oov vs. Yellow[name]
Hitch Hiker

Rather than pressuring as is customary on this map, Oov (5) went with a one rax CC build, while Yellow Jr. (11) happily took his nat and min only without worry. Early on Oov was able to sneak 4 marines and a medic past Jr’s sunken line, but after only 2 drone kills the infantry was wiped out by some timely muta reinforcements. It was then Jr’s turn to harass.

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Yellow has his way with Oov despite the typical wall of turrets built by the gorilla.


Yellow had a field day swiping SCV kills at the Terran nat. Oov didn’t have the marine numbers to keep up with Jr. and built a ton of turrets that ultimately didn’t stop the harass anyway.

Oov soon had his nat CC floating back to his main as Jr’s tech swing to lurk/ling caused tons of units to flood into the Terran natural. Jr. was eventually forced out, but he had hive tech on the way and both corner gas expansions building.

Oov, forever the cheater, somehow hacked himself a sizable tank force supported by some infantry and made his way toward the Zerg nat. The only thing stopping him from running over the Zerg in the narrow center path was the arrival of Jr’s defilers. Under dark swarm Yellow was able to force Oov back and ultimately win a forgone conclusion.

Yellow > Oov

Want to see a Zerg player completely outclass a top 10 Terran on a less than fun ZvT map? Watch this game. This kid’s ZvT is so good he puts his namesake to shame.

Game 4 – Casy vs. July
Longinus

Casy (11) opened with a wall in front of his nat, looking to secure an expansion early, while July (6) opened with his once signature 9 pool. His initial harass of Casy’s wall was very successful as he was able to force the Terran to pull large numbers of SCVs to combat the early lings. July then made an unlikely tech switch and went with one base spire. Casy scouted it quite clearly, but was still punished badly as he lost wild numbers of SCVs to July’s smooth mutas.

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July gets far more SCVs than he needed to make this raid worthwhile.


July’s natural was now up and he had secured it with a wall of sunkens. As he gathered a lurker/ling army Casy attempted to camp in front of the Zerg nat waiting for the force to come to him. July had other ideas and packed the units into overlords for a sizable doom drop. Casy had nothing there to defend and lost his entire main to lurker spikes as the last of his infantry was shredded at July’s sunken wall.

July > Casy

July is so cool. Playing a 9 pool into one base muta into doom drop... on longinus of all maps! Brilliant strategic play and smooth execution from the Sumo Zerg. This game will remind you why you loved July so much during his Oov smashing days.

VOD of the Game Day:
Casy vs. July AGAIN!

This game made me feel nostalgic. Personally I love 9 pool ZvT play and this game shows why July is and will always be the master of it. He uses his early gains to keep the pressure on his opponent and win with style.

Some of the series end in 2-0 victories as we see Yellow Jr. and Much move on to the next round. The final games played on Friday decided the winners of some of the most exciting match ups in the round of 16, notably, Midas/Savior and Casy/July. Hang tight for results and reports on those games, coming soon.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
Live2Win *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6657 Posts
February 03 2007 04:30 GMT
#2
Nice report! I loved the latter two ZvT's as well.
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SainT
Profile Joined February 2005
Chile1067 Posts
February 03 2007 04:32 GMT
#3
Gg Midas , and Thx Mana
Well i'm a lucky man...
SiZ.FaNtAsY
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Korea (South)1497 Posts
February 03 2007 04:34 GMT
#4
Awesome Report!!

but we can forgive him since seeing a weak game from this guy is as rare as catching a unicorn.

That made me laugh so hard for some reason
Karma is a bitch
SCNewb
Profile Joined June 2006
Canada2210 Posts
February 03 2007 04:35 GMT
#5
thanks for the report manablue
Huge iloveOov fan
BuGzlToOnl
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
United States5918 Posts
February 03 2007 04:38 GMT
#6
NIce report.
If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans.
sOnagi[3.33]
Profile Joined November 2006
Korea (South)886 Posts
February 03 2007 04:51 GMT
#7
+ Show Spoiler +
haha...iloveOOv won't be able to play NaDa as he promised, now that he's eliminated.


thanks for the report!
서지훈, XellOs[yG]: the Perfect Terran...이성은, FireBatHero: braQ Terran.
toshi
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Poland469 Posts
February 03 2007 05:12 GMT
#8
where are VOD'S from matchs ?
pro-
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
February 03 2007 05:44 GMT
#9
On February 03 2007 14:12 toshi wrote:
where are VOD'S from matchs ?


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I used to have good humour, but I'm getting sick of answering this question. We've publicized the hell out of the tracker. Use it people!

It's where I get all of my VODs. All of them!
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
KizZBG
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
u gotta skate8152 Posts
February 03 2007 05:54 GMT
#10
You get all of my respect Mana
eSTRO for life | #2 Sea.Really fan! | #1 GosI[Flying] fan! | Clide - best SC2 terran!
Enki
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States2548 Posts
February 03 2007 06:05 GMT
#11
Wow, nice job Midas!
My favorite ran player, Casy lost to fatzerg but its all good, ggs.

Thanks for the report <3
"Practice, practice, practice. And when you're not practicing you should be practicing. It's the only way to get better. The only way." I run the Smix Fanclub!
Live2Win *
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6657 Posts
February 03 2007 06:37 GMT
#12
On February 03 2007 14:44 ManaBlue wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 03 2007 14:12 toshi wrote:
where are VOD'S from matchs ?


[image loading]


I used to have good humour, but I'm getting sick of answering this question. We've publicized the hell out of the tracker. Use it people!

It's where I get all of my VODs. All of them!

Well people who are new to TLnet and are computer illiterate may not know what a tracker is... so they might see it but not know where it leads to (VODs)...

Of course a little bit of browsing would help.
SAY YES TO STIM KIDS!!! XD
Pressure
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
7326 Posts
February 03 2007 06:38 GMT
#13
that was beautiful manablue
thank you!!~~!~!~!~!`
boghat
Profile Joined January 2007
United States2109 Posts
February 03 2007 06:43 GMT
#14
Hey Mana...the screenshots really add to the reports, is there any chance you could do 2-3 for each game? I doubt 12 pictures would be slow for most people's connections but if you think it would you could always just display the best picture and link to a couple others. Obviously I'm not trying to make more work for you as you're generous enough but it would be a cool improvement.
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22254 Posts
February 03 2007 07:27 GMT
#15
Great reports MB... all in all, this has been a VERY entertaining Ro16. We're seeing a lot of great matchups, and a lot of fresh faces.
Moderatorhttp://carbonleaf.yuku.com/topic/408/t/So-I-proposed-at-a-Carbon-Leaf-concert.html ***** RIP Geoff
mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
February 03 2007 07:30 GMT
#16
hahaha Midas vs Savior caption

Keep it up!

Many thanks.
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27149 Posts
February 03 2007 10:05 GMT
#17
Nice reports, part two will be up shortly

I think this OSL playoffs have been the most exciting for me in the shinhan era. Hopefully in the future they ditch the round of 24 and go straight to the good stuff.
ModeratorGodfather
oddeye
Profile Joined March 2005
Canada716 Posts
February 03 2007 11:23 GMT
#18
I think Yellow[Name] vs Iloveoov is somewhat better than casy vs july. Yes casy vs july was significantly good, but not exactly the old july. Loved his strat more than his micro on this one.
Your soul shall suffer!
uK]BosNia
Profile Joined September 2003
Canada78 Posts
February 03 2007 13:30 GMT
#19
nice post <3
;o
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-02-03 14:27:22
February 03 2007 13:58 GMT
#20
On February 03 2007 19:05 Manifesto7 wrote:
I think this OSL playoffs have been the most exciting for me in the shinhan era. Hopefully in the future they ditch the round of 24 and go straight to the good stuff.


I totally agree. I think it has a lot to do with the games these guys are showing us though. So many different styles and approaches to the game and the tightness of many of the series and games adds to excitement as well.

Maybe this format is making it better because the earlier rounds past 16 are so much more important now, whereas the group stages in the old 16 man tournaments yielded pretty crappy games most of the time.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
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