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h3r1n6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Iceland2039 Posts
July 13 2009 22:49 GMT
#21
JWD you slowly but surely made your way to my favorite writer. <3 your writeups
Simple
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States801 Posts
July 13 2009 22:55 GMT
#22
is there a chart showing which races dominated which eras throughout the last decade?
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-13 23:06:10
July 13 2009 23:05 GMT
#23
all the flash bashing

good job though jwd
beep boop
dekuschrub
Profile Joined May 2008
United States2069 Posts
July 13 2009 23:08 GMT
#24
so much flash hatred

i must admit that game against yarnccc omgggg
Kong John
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Denmark1020 Posts
July 13 2009 23:10 GMT
#25
This OSL is getting really interesting. My guess is another Fantasy vs JD again but idd love a zvz final :D:D
This is real life, where nerds must battle!
Teejing
Profile Joined January 2009
Germany1360 Posts
July 13 2009 23:18 GMT
#26
you linked effort vs yarnc instead of effort vs flash...

I as a zerg am a bit disappointed to see no effort and no protoss at all : /
Husky
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States3362 Posts
July 13 2009 23:32 GMT
#27
Holy shit JWD, this writeup is simply amazing, one of my favorites to date. I really like how you analyzed Bisus group, I never thought about it that way before.

Either way, good job, this is the first 'TL:DR' post that I actually went back and couldnt stop reading until I had finished it.

5/5 gold stars
Commentaries: youtube.com/HuskyStarcraft
7mk
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Germany10157 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-13 23:42:03
July 13 2009 23:37 GMT
#28
On July 14 2009 08:18 Teejing wrote:
you linked effort vs yarnc instead of effort vs flash...



probably because effort vs yarnc was the better game? ^^


On July 14 2009 08:32 HuskyTheHusky wrote:
Holy shit JWD, this writeup is simply amazing, one of my favorites to date. I really like how you analyzed Bisus group, I never thought about it that way before.




Oh that's just because JWD is a little SKTT1 fanboy and therefore everyone is out to get his beautiful bisu, bisu against the world...

jk
beep boop
Crunchums
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States11144 Posts
July 13 2009 23:45 GMT
#29
On July 14 2009 07:45 Harem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2009 07:40 Crunchums wrote:
yarnac did not use standard 2 hatch muta vs flash

Yeah, he went 12pool so the timing was earlier than usual.

Also, his gas timing was so early it was basically a ZvZ build:

12 pool
11 gas
12 hat (not sure cause of cuts to crowd)
11 lair
make a few (4?) lings
17 spire
16 sunk
22 nat gas
21 4-5 mutas

Flash made an ebay once he scouted the super early spire and (I think) started turrets as soon as the ebay finished.

Basically yarnac's build order hard counters any sort of fantasy-ish build that defends muta harass with a bare minimum of gols / turrets / valks, but is bad against anything else because unless you kill them with your first mutas your economy is going to be in shambles.
brood war for life, brood war forever
Promises
Profile Joined February 2004
Netherlands1821 Posts
July 13 2009 23:49 GMT
#30
So who can pick up the Protoss Banner? I'm not quite sure Violet has got it in him to be a real top player, and none of the other tosses have either been consistent or very promising lately =/
Apart from that, I cant really recall any protoss ever doing consistently well against Z's while not being horrible in the other 2 mu's. I might have to wait for SC2 for the re-emergence against Protoss ^^
I'm a man of my word, and that word is "unreliable".
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
July 14 2009 00:08 GMT
#31
Nice write up =) Poor bisu...
Jaedong :3
AzureEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1360 Posts
July 14 2009 00:19 GMT
#32
Hey JWD, is Fantasy and JD on the opposite or same side of brackets? If they are on opposite ends, this might end up looking like Fantasy vs JD finals all over again lol
Terrans who whine: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=107788
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
July 14 2009 00:26 GMT
#33
Damn you Bisu T_T
Peace~
Crissaegrim
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
2947 Posts
July 14 2009 00:35 GMT
#34
To a certain degree, it serves (P)Bisu right. As good as (P)Bisu is, I always feels he lacks a certain killer instinct unlike (Z)Jaedong or (T)fantasy.

TL.net should have a minute of silence for the fact that there are NO PROTOSS in the ro8. Sad sad days indeed.
CursOr
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States6335 Posts
July 14 2009 00:42 GMT
#35
just a great post, got me all caught up. not too wordy, and great descriptions.
im not terribly pleased with the fact that the race diversity has already been narrowed to 2.
and just a year ago- the protoss were ruling all~
what a great game :D
CJ forever (-_-(-_-(-_-(-_-)-_-)-_-)-_-)
Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
July 14 2009 01:05 GMT
#36
12 hatch isn't a risky build JWD
Python is garbage, number 1 advocate of getting rid of it.
TwoStep
Profile Joined January 2009
United States294 Posts
July 14 2009 01:07 GMT
#37
I think he meant that because Flash had a high chance of cheesing, going 12 hatch was risky.
Arf
JWD
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States12607 Posts
July 14 2009 01:20 GMT
#38
On July 14 2009 10:07 TwoStep wrote:
I think he meant that because Flash had a high chance of cheesing, going 12 hatch was risky.

Yeah, exactly...of course 12-hatch is safe and standard (especially on a 4-player map) but in this particular context it was risky.
✌
Athos
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2484 Posts
July 14 2009 01:26 GMT
#39
On July 14 2009 10:20 JWD wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 14 2009 10:07 TwoStep wrote:
I think he meant that because Flash had a high chance of cheesing, going 12 hatch was risky.

Yeah, exactly...of course 12-hatch is safe and standard (especially on a 4-player map) but in this particular context it was risky.


I don't think his build is to blame at all. He should have been able to micro against a bunker rush, he didn't so he lost.
ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
July 14 2009 01:33 GMT
#40
Stork vs Fantasy really was an excellent game. I thought Fantasy would get smashed, but his vulture + 2 tank in a dropship attack is really just powerful.

Also, even if Flash didn't go for the gay bbs, effort might not have made it out of the group. Although he is no slouch at zvz, yellow[arnc] and jaedong are both zvz specialists (even if yarnc's record doesn't show it) and he would have had a devilishly difficult time with the tiebreakers, especially since jaedong doesn't have any more proleague obligations and would have been more prepared for tiebreakers than he would have been for gom.
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