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On July 29 2008 10:34 asel wrote:
why does the new ktf coach need a frostmourne copy in th ktf house :D ?

On July 29 2008 10:56 ScarFace wrote:
Best has never played on Othello before?
http://www.teamliquid.net/tlpd/players/16_BeSt/games#tblt-96-1-default-0-othello

Yeah, he has.

On July 29 2008 10:56 Wasabi wrote:
Well, no one's outright saying that Midas would have won the ace match, it's just that it would have made more sense for him to be the ace.

On July 29 2008 11:16 thunk wrote:


Well, Frozen's translation says that they basically used Best as an Ace snipe (wtf, you don't need Best to snipe anybody) on Othello and failed. If they used midas (or Canata) versus Leta, a TvP beast would have not been able to take his game. That combined with if they used Best on Katrina (the PvP monster) they would have had the games not go to Ace. Even then, They could have used Bisu against lux and he would have had the benefit of more practice time, plus Midas would have been a threat (OGN basically took one look at the the lineups and said that Lux is playing against a protoss).

Edit: now the KTF coach is probably the worst in the league at starcraft, haha.

On July 29 2008 11:32 il0seonpurpose wrote:
Ok whatever they said about that mind game confused me. And I thought they pre determine the players playing in each map, do they improv during the pl playoffs?

On July 29 2008 11:56 ForAdun wrote:
Well I must say I'm confused, too. I as a terran player got the feeling that Othello favors terran over protoss in the long run and I mean favors as in unlikely to lose a single game if done correctly. On Othello this imbalance is a combination of several things, terran gets 3 gas pretty easily, can use tankdrops at several quite easily reachable locations, has pretty secure bases because of short distances, can stop counterplay very well because protoss doesn't have much space to attack from the sides. As long as terran is aware of what his opponent is doing he has much better chances in a macro-battle with the newly discovered strengths of terran like EMP and quick 3-3 or 3-2.
Having Midas play on that map would've made so much more sense, it was a horrible decision not to give him that spot. Bisu on Colosseum was alright. I don't see this as a mistake, I just think he was very unfortunate in that game. I even think he was the better choice because he was already kinda warmed up from his first game on that day.