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Carnac
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
Germany / USA16648 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-19 10:36:22
March 19 2007 07:13 GMT
#1

Thanks to Xeofreestyler for the awesome banner!


When talking about OSLs we have heard nothing but ShinHan for almost one and a half years by now. It all started with the Shinhan Bank OSL 2005, in which we saw iloveoov claming his 2nd OSL title and July receiving his 2nd 0-3 defeat in an OSL final.

Apparently the Shinhan corporation was extremely pleased with the publicity they got through sponsoring it, so they decided to sponsor all three OSL seasons in 2006. Though partially controversial because of the changed 24 player format with massive amount of games on two days a week the three Shinhan OSL seasons of 2006 proved to be quite entertaining.

We saw Casy, or "Neo-Emperor" how some like to call him because of his often micro and strategy oriented low economy playing style, avoiding all the competent Protoss players (anyone remember how bad of a rape he received in the match for 3rd place the season before vs Pusan?) and making his way to the finals where he won desively with 3-1 against Chojja.

Then we finally saw the Golden Mouse that had been promised to the first player to claim three OSL titles actually in the hands of a player. Five players had been able to win two OSLs so far: Boxer, Garimto, Nada, July and iloveoov. It was the most accomplished player in Stacraft History, NaDa the "Tornado Terran" who stepped up in the 2nd Shinhan season of 2006 and became the first (and so far only) player ever to win three OSL titles by denying Anytime to abuse the "Legend Of The Fall".

And last but not least we saw Savior extending his long time MSL dominance into the OSL, as he won the Shinhan 3 OSL with a 3-1 victory over Nada. It was also the first OSL he ever participated in, making him a "Royal Roader".

Shinhan, however, wanted something more than just sponsor 3 additional OSL seasons, they wanted something special: the Shinhan Masters.

This Shinhan Masters was to feature four players: firstly the three winners of the three Shinhan OSL Seasons from 2006 (Casy for winning Shinhan 1, Nada for Shinhan 2 and Savior for Shinhan 3).
And secondly a fourth player who was to be determined out of 8 players (among those the other runner-ups of the 3 Shinhan seasons) in the Shinhan Pre-Masters Tournament. You can find the details of it in this thread. Suffice to say that Iris went 6-0 in the Pre-Master tournament, defeating Midas, Gorush and Goodfriend each with 2-0, proving once again that he is one of the scariest TvT players around at the moment.

Now, the real deal, the Shinhan Masters!

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The four qualified players - Iris, Casy, Savior and Nada - before the heat starts


It is certainly not a coincidence, that the four players in the Shinhan Masters were also the four players in the Shinhan 3 OSL semi finals, i.e. the last and most recent OSL. While except for Savior they did not qualify for it because of that it still proves that they belong to hottest players at the moment. Everyone was naturally expecting a lot from it, a Nada vs Savior rematch was possible, or one of those insanely intense TvT finals.

Since four players were left the final event started with two Semifinals, Nada vs. Iris and Casy vs. Savior. With Iris recent TvT streak quite some of our readers were expecting him to beat Nada fairly easily, but Nada proved them wrong as he won 3-1:
    Nada > Iris @ Neo Arkanoid
    Nada > Iris @ Reverse Temple
    Nada < Iris @ Sin Peaks of Baekdu
    Nada > Iris @ Sin 815
As for Casy vs Savior, while Casy certainly does have an awesome TvZ, his style is easily countered by Savior's style, who is almost always safe against any kind of attack, getting the needed units at the last possible yet crucial moment. Savior won relatively easily by also winning 3-1:
    Casy > Savior @ Sin 815
    Casy < Savior @ Reverse Temple
    Casy < Savior @ Neo Arkanoid
    Casy < Savior @ Sin Peaks of Baekdu
I don't want to embed the youtoube videos of all the 3 best of 5 series, because I think that might be a bit too much, so I will only embed the final videos, you can get all the videos here. You can also download a torrent with the Semi-Final games here.

What a worthy final indeed. A rematch of the extremely hyped OSL final from a couple of weeks ago between the overall most accomplished player of all time against the most accomplished (and most scary) Zerg player of all time. I guess pretty much all of you will remember Savior's triumph over Nada in the Shinhan 3 OSL. Time for Nada to get his vengence. Or at least try? See for yourself.

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Nada and Savior with the trophy, just before they enter their booths to battle it out


Many will have seen the games by now , for those who have not you can either download this torrent or just watch the Youtube videos, for which I have also written short game summaries:

Nada vs Savior - Game 1 - Sin 815


Nada bunker rushed Savior's hatch at the natural and killed it at the very last possible second. Savior was so much behind that he saw his only chance in gathering lings only from his single hatch and try to overrun Nada as soon as he comes out again. His attack on Nada's outcoming forces failed, forcing Savior to say GG, play time round about seven minutes.
Nada 1-0 Savior

Nada vs Savior - Game 2 - Arkanoid


Fast expansion by both, into 2nd expansion from Savior, while teching. Savior basically tried to get to defilers as fast as possible while maintaining a reasonable army and a good economy, however, he was not good enough at trying to slow down Nada at the crucial moments of Nada's advance, play time round about 15 minutes.
Nada 2-0 Savior

Nada vs Savior - Game 3 - Reverse Temple


Pool first then hatch at expo for Savior, rax then CC for Nada. Savior tried some early pressure with his first lings, but couldn't do any damage. He then proceeded to tech to lair, while building as many lings out of three hatcheries as he possibly could. As he had around two groups of lings and some more building he decided to go basically all in on Nada's natural, who only had a single bunker and some stray marines for defense. He also had only just completed his 2nd rax and had two more building. Savior just ran over him with ling only. Total play time less than six minutes. For reference on how to win against fast expanding Protoss/Terran players by going three hatch ling you may also want to have a look at ToT)Hullah('s all kill of xLo in the latest fragbet encounters. You can get the replays here.
Nada 2-1 Savior

Nada vs Savior - Game 4 - Sin Peaks of Baekdu


Again pool the hatch at exp into 3rd hatch from Savior, but something totally different from Nada! He went rax into gas and built a fac at the close high ground expansion of Savior. Even though Savior scouted it with his overlord after Nada had floated it to the other side, and accordingly reacted with placing a sunken in his main base, Nada was still able to majorly disrupt Savior's game flow by forcing him to build lings and hindering his mining, while also killing a couple of drones. Nada proceeded with infantry from three rax, while also expanding. As soon as he had about one group of infantry he moved out, Savior was late on sunkens at his natural, costing him the game. Play time 7:30.
Nada 3-1 Savior

Overall we saw three fast games and one with average game length. Even though Nada lost one of the shorter games he proved that the best way to beat Savior is to kill him before he gets his feared defilers.

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One more trophy for the collection


So, Nada got his revenge, once more proving his status as a player who should never really be seen as an underdog, no matter the strength of his opponent!

A nice interview tranlates by ilovezil and mrmin123 can be found here. Fifo pictures can be found under the three following links: 1, 2 and 3.

Cheers

I ran into a nasty bug when writing this newspost, thanks to mnm for trying to help me <3
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GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
March 19 2007 07:20 GMT
#2
in before this topic actually turns into anything =P
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lostman
Profile Joined February 2007
194 Posts
March 19 2007 07:21 GMT
#3
haha me too
look forward to whatever is coming ^^
to miss the mark
Profile Joined November 2005
Bosnia-Herzegovina1381 Posts
March 19 2007 07:24 GMT
#4
Goodjob Carnac.

This is like News foreplay.
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Nyovne
Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19135 Posts
March 19 2007 07:35 GMT
#5
Why be shit carnac, wheres the German thoroughness!
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Nyovne
Profile Joined March 2006
Netherlands19135 Posts
March 19 2007 07:35 GMT
#6
On March 19 2007 16:24 to miss the mark wrote:
Goodjob Carnac.

This is like News foreplay.


rofl btw :D
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Cpt Obvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany3073 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-03-19 07:53:34
March 19 2007 07:46 GMT
#7
anticipation is almost too much to handle.

edit: this newspost utterly reminds me of a new Microsoft OS release event. Don't know why, really.
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useLess
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4781 Posts
March 19 2007 07:51 GMT
#8
IBtopic
Moonlight Shadow
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Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States6657 Posts
March 19 2007 07:54 GMT
#9
best news ever
SAY YES TO STIM KIDS!!! XD
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10828 Posts
March 19 2007 07:55 GMT
#10
this is like the GG.net ladder announcements
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ATeddyBear
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Canada2843 Posts
March 19 2007 08:01 GMT
#11
^ LMAO lowblow
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Last Romantic
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States20661 Posts
March 19 2007 08:02 GMT
#12
On March 19 2007 16:55 LosingID8 wrote:
this is like the GG.net ladder announcements


ouch! XD
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mel_ee
Profile Blog Joined August 2003
2448 Posts
March 19 2007 08:03 GMT
#13
muahahha the comments cracked me up. ^^
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funkie
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Venezuela9374 Posts
March 19 2007 08:19 GMT
#14
On March 19 2007 16:55 LosingID8 wrote:
this is like the GG.net ladder announcements


Someone give him a Star, he totally deserves it :D
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Lord.of.Nukes
Profile Joined December 2005
United Kingdom226 Posts
March 19 2007 08:41 GMT
#15
Screenshot for the win.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6717/ownedcarnacdj1.png
Vin{MBL}
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
5185 Posts
March 19 2007 08:52 GMT
#16
On March 19 2007 16:20 GrandInquisitor wrote:
in before this topic actually turns into anything =P


Haha me too!
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Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States888 Posts
March 19 2007 08:54 GMT
#17
LOL about GG.net ;]
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ZaplinG
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
United States3818 Posts
March 19 2007 09:01 GMT
#18
On March 19 2007 17:41 Lord.of.Nukes wrote:
Screenshot for the win.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6717/ownedcarnacdj1.png


waste of time for the loss
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mikeymoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada7170 Posts
March 19 2007 09:02 GMT
#19
I'm dying of suspense!
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Lord.of.Nukes
Profile Joined December 2005
United Kingdom226 Posts
March 19 2007 09:07 GMT
#20
On March 19 2007 18:01 ZaplinG wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 19 2007 17:41 Lord.of.Nukes wrote:
Screenshot for the win.

http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/6717/ownedcarnacdj1.png


waste of time for the loss
I'll keep the link bookmarked and find a way to interject it into a thread in a year or two.
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