I really liked savior's strat of drone blocking his ramp throughout the series. It basically forced free to go cannon first and slowed down his expo, and allows savior to either go agressive or macro, with no ability of free to scout (slower zealot due to the expo).

Combine this with his tendency to go pool > pool finishes > 3 larvae > 3 eggs > 3 drones (OMGWTF??!).

And savior has the ability to deny protoss scouting to either go for super aggressive early game builds or super macro heavy builds, with basically a free hand until the protoss gets his first corsair.

strongwind

United States862 Posts

October 27 2007 16:25 GMT

#22

On October 27 2007 21:42 TheFoReveRwaR wrote:

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Yes, of course you are more aware of Free's potential than himself. That makes complete sense.

And who are you to say that he understands how good he is? A lot of games he shows such great flair, and others he looks as if he's doubting himself. I don't think I said anything that far-fetched.

But I'm glad you can hide behind your sarcasm without any real argument.

3 Lions

United States3705 Posts

October 27 2007 16:30 GMT

#23

nice...
sAviOr is beast!!

Kage

India788 Posts

October 27 2007 16:36 GMT

#24

Great writeup !

relaxxl

Japan78 Posts

October 27 2007 17:44 GMT

#25

Good info, nice to see the MSL getting some shine.

Your writing leaves much to be desired, it was a tad sporadic. I definitley appreciate the effort but do try to practice being more concise.

bine

United States2352 Posts

October 27 2007 18:19 GMT

#26

Awesome article!!!! Thanks!

Jolle

Norway185 Posts

October 27 2007 20:06 GMT

#27

disappointing of flash and Savior seems strong. There's a smoothness in Saviors play i haven't seen since his last "top" over a year ago.

Savior vs Bisu in the finals will be huge

Pressure

7326 Posts

October 27 2007 21:24 GMT

#28

dissapointed that free didnt win
interesting to see savior do all this different stuff now
i remember watching every savior ZvT(i know its a diff mu) and it was always the same build and timing -_-
makes it more fun to watch him now hes doing all this diff stuff :D

axel

France385 Posts

October 27 2007 22:08 GMT

#29

Good article -- thanks --

Game 3 is the best .

LemOn

United Kingdom8629 Posts

October 28 2007 09:14 GMT

#30

Oh my good the reports are back!

You know its nice that we can watch the games live easily, but this is what always made TL TL, the reports from the perspective of the writer with analysis, and I almost stopped visiting TL after they were not here anymore , high five!

Jolle

Norway185 Posts

October 28 2007 12:01 GMT

#31

Think Free realy didn't play well at all.
All props to Savior who were excellent, but Free made alot of mistakes and didn't realy show anything. Think he even was a bit lucky winning game 3, with the misstakes he made.

tomatriedes

New Zealand5356 Posts

October 28 2007 16:45 GMT

#32

Looks like the final will most probably be between savior and bisu now. I don't think bisu will be able to win 3-0 this time it should be a lot closer.

knyttym

United States5797 Posts

October 28 2007 22:29 GMT

#33

why does sAviOr look like he is crying in the last picture?

ray1234

Canada679 Posts

October 29 2007 03:56 GMT

#34

aren't we being a little too hard on savior?
i think he played excellent esp in game4, even though a better player like bisu might be able stop savior from taking all those expansions, savior showed that he's evolved alot from that old 3 hatch straight into spire build.

plus i think bisu's cannon expo corsair tech is highly vulnerable if the zerg player is alittle more aggressive with lings in the beginning like kwanro vs bisu. (except that kwanro showed his inexperience and couldn't finish bisu off).

I believe if we get to a savior bisu final, bisu will have his hands full

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

October 29 2007 09:38 GMT

#35

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=jaho101&p=r Youtube video links. Pretty High Quality too.

In the first game part 2 vid savior sets rally and a drone comes half way to Free's base. Are they (crowd) laughing at this or what the announcer is saying a joke about it? If so what is the joke?

I don't know why Free gave up so fast in the first game, he was at a disadvantage gut I didn't think it was over yet.

second game lol, wtf was that? First of all why did he make pylon/forge then nexus and not a canon. waste of time.

Game 3, lots of early mistakes from savior and lack of scouting. Later on Free's smashing all over the map making zerglings bleed everywhere. Savior must've lost like 100 lings from Free just randomly moving around on the map alone. Also a lot of bad luck/timing with his drops being at the same time Free's is crushing his bases. Arbiter albeit unnecessary seals the deal.

Game 4, hmm the pylon on the nat with the drones glitching through the minerals to fight the probe. I wonder if it would have been better to let the pylon finish and waste the time of the drones from mining. Free wasting units in small groups vs the mutas throughout the game He should have kepy on with the zealots stopping 6 over and over before defenses were up for it meanwhile using all gas on sairs,cons, and templar/storm. Where the fuck were the storms???? a couple HT's at every base instead of an archon are 2 are much more of a threatening fight from the mutalisk standpoint.

Lol set4 4/4 2:24 Free's face/reaction are priceless to those guardians.