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BookTwo
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1985 Posts
July 08 2009 13:28 GMT
#21
+ Show Spoiler +
It's another typical Tuesday in the SK Telecom House. The clock reads 3:00 AM. Coach iloveoov is sleeping soundly, mumbling about macro as he snores. Bisu, in full DT costume, slips silently into the room. His eyes lock onto one thing: the folder on oov's desktop, labeled "replays of secret builds fantasy will use against Bisu in the Avalon MSL Round of 16."

Bisu smiles, and quietly begins to take a step forward. He checks his watch, and begins setting the alarm for the next day. He starts folding one piece of laundry, his clothing bag open and ready. He takes a second step forward. He boils some water. He makes a perfect diagonal fold on a piece of paper. He readies some paintbrushes for a watercolor portrait of himself. He finishes folding the laundry. He takes a third step forward. He finishes setting the alarm. He puts ramen into the now boiling water. He puts the folded piece of clothing into his bag. He makes a second box fold in the paper. He takes a fourth step foward. He mixes the watercolor paints to get his porcelain skin tone just right. He takes a fifth step foward...

Suddenly, a loud CLICK sound, and something pops up from under the floor boards. It races toward Bisu and explodes, doing 125 damage. Bisu can only take one more hit. There's still three feet between him and Oov's computer. He hasn't finished folding his clothes, and his self portrait is only half done. His ramen sits on the counter, cold and forgotten. Bisu hesitates, then takes another long step. He checks his email as he copies the replays onto his 14cc gb Flash drive, and turns quickly to exit the room, when...

BOOM!

Fantasy bursts into the room, crashing directly through the wall, riding a large red SK Telecom motorcycle. Before Bisu can react, Fantasy jumps off his bike and hits him with a large foam bat, labeled "3/3". Bisu screams, crumpling to the floor.

Fantasy, waving his bat, yells "YOU gonna f**k on ME??"

Bisu is too hurt to answer, but it's probably a rhetorical question. Nobody fucks on Fantasy. Fantasy hits him with the bat again. And again. Bisu's screams become weaker and weaker.

Coach iloveoov is still sleeping. The clock reads 3:45.

The next morning, nobody asks about Bisu's fresh bruises or the gigantic, nerd-on-a-motorcycle sized hole in the Terran coach's wall. But when Fantasy walks by, Best and Mujuk cower in fear. Doctor.K, busy bandaging up Bisu's swollen, black and blue face, jumps up and screams, "I'm just trying to help, man, please. I'm not here to fuck on you. I hate Stork and Jaedong. They got lucky. Protoss is imbalanced. I'm sorry. Please. I have kids man, I have kids."

Fantasy ignores him and walks straight into the practice room. He says "hello" to Boxer, and fetches the Emperor a glass of water.

The Protoss players don't say a word. But they know. They all know.


THIS WAS SO GREAT! HAHAHA <3'ed it!
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36390 Posts
July 08 2009 13:28 GMT
#22
On July 08 2009 22:18 mog87 wrote:
I think ForGG will actually beat Calm, his safe play and incredible macro should be enough to take home a victory. Id say 2-1 Forgg. I dont think you can win a series against a terran like forgg with 2 hatch lurker. Then again...

If you're referring to his game against Sea, Calm's build was far more than simply a 2-hatch lurker allin. It was well planned and thought out all the way to hive tech.
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StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
July 08 2009 15:03 GMT
#23
Wow, that blurb was so good made me laugh so hard.

though i can imagine fantasy "slipping" out a "secret build order" and bisu finds it, practices vs it. only to face something totally different designed to pwn. T > P for strats in the T1 house
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
Virtuoso
Profile Joined December 2008
United States119 Posts
July 08 2009 15:19 GMT
#24
hahahaha omg! awesome post of (T)fantasy and (P)Bisu! hahahaha
fan of the top 3 terrans Flash Fantasy leta GOGO TERRANS
samachking
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Bahrain4949 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 15:28:51
July 08 2009 15:23 GMT
#25
On July 08 2009 22:28 Hot_Bid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2009 22:18 mog87 wrote:
I think ForGG will actually beat Calm, his safe play and incredible macro should be enough to take home a victory. Id say 2-1 Forgg. I dont think you can win a series against a terran like forgg with 2 hatch lurker. Then again...

If you're referring to his game against Sea, Calm's build was far more than simply a 2-hatch lurker allin. It was well planned and thought out all the way to hive tech.


No he is referring for the game vs Flash. ForGG's micro is more solid than most of you take it for, I think he is simply going to roll Calm with pure mechanics, this guy has sick mechanics in TvZ. Also its quite likely that there will be 0 toss in Ro8 as all of them are underdogs, thank you Jangbi for making one dumb group.

Thanks for the write ups hotbid. You always make the best writeups.

The MSL opening is pretty awesome.
"And then Earthlings discovered tools. Suddenly agreeing with friends could be a form of suicide or worse. But agreements went on, not for the sake of common sense, or decency, or self preservation, but for friendliness."
Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8556 Posts
July 08 2009 15:29 GMT
#26
Free wouldn't have done anything. Jangbi maybe, but still questionable.
Jaedong
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66358 Posts
July 08 2009 15:48 GMT
#27
Lmao that Fantasy-Bisu was hilarious. Great read
POGGERS
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11144 Posts
July 08 2009 16:52 GMT
#28
Calm does have a distinctive style >: [
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Lucktar
Profile Joined July 2008
United States526 Posts
July 08 2009 17:00 GMT
#29
Also, Zero is 2-0 in his OSL group and is busy practicing for Bisu on Heartbreak Ridge, the same map on which he'll play Pure the next day. That's like asking the head cheerleader to the prom, and the next day offering to buy dinner for your friend's fat WoW playing sister.


I don't understand this simile. Is Pure the fat WoW-playing sister? Why is Zero buying him (her?) dinner? Although I can totally see Bisu as head cheerleader.
NaDa, much, ZerO fighting!
integral
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3156 Posts
July 08 2009 17:07 GMT
#30
LOL that story is amazing. I especially liked the paragraph where bisu multitasks. Great write-up as usual, hotbid.
pripple
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Finland1714 Posts
July 08 2009 18:02 GMT
#31
excellent writeup, let's see how many of your predictions hit the spot! ;p
Jaedong! <> Team MVP <> Mouz.
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8167 Posts
July 08 2009 18:29 GMT
#32
thanks for the write-up hotbid :D

Free Palestine
Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8167 Posts
July 08 2009 18:31 GMT
#33
On July 09 2009 00:23 samachking wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 08 2009 22:28 Hot_Bid wrote:
On July 08 2009 22:18 mog87 wrote:
I think ForGG will actually beat Calm, his safe play and incredible macro should be enough to take home a victory. Id say 2-1 Forgg. I dont think you can win a series against a terran like forgg with 2 hatch lurker. Then again...

If you're referring to his game against Sea, Calm's build was far more than simply a 2-hatch lurker allin. It was well planned and thought out all the way to hive tech.


No he is referring for the game vs Flash. ForGG's micro is more solid than most of you take it for, I think he is simply going to roll Calm with pure mechanics, this guy has sick mechanics in TvZ. Also its quite likely that there will be 0 toss in Ro8 as all of them are underdogs, thank you Jangbi for making one dumb group.

Thanks for the write ups hotbid. You always make the best writeups.

The MSL opening is pretty awesome.


Calm will probably plan builds to take forgg out in the midgame before his macro kicks in to overpower calm.

And it's not like calm has bad late-game either. Calm is clearly the favorite in this series.
Free Palestine
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10829 Posts
July 08 2009 18:32 GMT
#34
oh god i'm still lol'ing
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Ideas
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States8167 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-08 19:36:35
July 08 2009 19:34 GMT
#35
On July 09 2009 01:52 Crunchums wrote:
Calm does have a distinctive style >: [


he really does. I feel it is influenced a lot by July, but he plays very different from Effort/JD/Zero/Kwanro (IE the other A/S-class Zergs)

His ZvP in particular is a lot different than most Zergs I feel while his ZvT is a bit more like July (in particular hydra-lurk-defiler seems to be the late-game strategysof choice vs Terran by all STX zergs (including by.hero and modesty)).
Free Palestine
bearbuddy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3442 Posts
July 08 2009 19:35 GMT
#36
I love how there's nothing written about Piano - Canata match.
Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8556 Posts
July 08 2009 20:18 GMT
#37
On July 09 2009 02:07 integral wrote:
LOL that story is amazing. I especially liked the paragraph where bisu multitasks. Great write-up as usual, hotbid.

Oh, now I get it. It wasn't very funny before I read this.
Jaedong
Xinliben
Profile Joined May 2009
United States931 Posts
July 08 2009 20:57 GMT
#38
Haha the bisu/fantasy story was fantastic thank you
"life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery"
d(O.o)a
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada5066 Posts
July 08 2009 21:26 GMT
#39
Oh god I couldn't help but sicl at that story of bisu and fantasy.
Hi.
Trezeguet
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States2656 Posts
July 08 2009 22:01 GMT
#40
haha, moar hot_bid write-ups!
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