BRAT_OK really impressed me in his games against Nony. His micro was impressive.in the first game, and his dropship play was sick in Zodiac (with 179 APM no less). I haven't heard much about this guy before, who is he? He's only 13-11 on gg.net, been really inactive until recently, but beat some big names before that.

radar14

United States1437 Posts

May 05 2008 04:24 GMT

#102

whew really exciting day imo

some great matches

now is there gonna be a whole selection process like in osl?

ahole-surprise

United States813 Posts

May 05 2008 04:26 GMT

#103

On May 05 2008 13:12 HaXxorIzed wrote:
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Dinot's allins were pretty clever, all things considered. He made use of the lag, I guess. But daaaaymn, Brat Ok did great. Nony/Cloud/Draco/Brat Ok advancing was the best I could hope for

All-ins? Dinot beat Kwak 2-0 in pretty straightforward macro games and beat Idra in the first game with macro play as well. He all-in'ed with the speedling rush in the final game but I think that was more because he saw an opportunity, and that was one game.

Vasoline73

United States8195 Posts

May 05 2008 04:50 GMT

#104

BRAT_OK is pretty badass. I'm hoping he or Idra wins the TSL for the race that deserves the win (terran!!!!)

HaXxorIzed

Australia8434 Posts

May 05 2008 05:08 GMT

#105

Must have been thinking of some of the TSL ladder games involving him I saw, then.

vnlegend

United States1389 Posts

May 05 2008 05:10 GMT

#106

Hmm, how come I don't see any all-ins from Dinot? Is the game on Blue Storm where Dinot goes a 3 hatch lair build the all-in? What was all-in about it? His 3 hatch? The lair? The good amount of drones? Should he have built sunkens, therefore removing any offensive power whatsoever, instead so this can be considered standard?

Spike

United States1392 Posts

May 05 2008 05:15 GMT

#107

bahh temujin lost

wanted to see more of his PvZ. seemed to have played well though, all 2-1.

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

May 05 2008 05:21 GMT

#108

Busy so I couldn't watch it lives. 2nd day replays are yet again so much better than the 1st day. The quality of the games in Group B was so awesome. It felt I was watching Korean semi-pro replays.

aTnClouD

Italy2428 Posts

May 05 2008 07:22 GMT

#109

Brat_Ok is so good

I'm glad he passed the group.

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

May 05 2008 09:01 GMT

#110

Comments on Group E:

Russian TvT is sooo good. BVG.Tarson had a huge advantage against RoX.Brat on Longinus yet Brat came back to win it. It helped that Brat had 2 double gas expansions and Tarson's timing on the BC was off.

NonY's pvp is a monster. Played ToT)iNfeRnaL twice and won 2-0 both times! Not only that, each game was 1 sided rape.

EDIT: or ToT)iNfeRnaL's pvp was just very bad.

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

May 05 2008 09:16 GMT

#111

Comments on Group D:

What happen game 1 on Longinus between Idra vs Dinot???!!! Idra with 2 m&m armies, I thought 1 would be hunting expos with another 1 just defending. It just allowed Dinot to take double gas expansion then eventually the map so GG. Looked sluggish compared to his R1 game against ToT)Dashwriter where he just constantly pressured.

I don't know NT.hanniGan, but his Terran was really good. Too bad he didn't pass his group

KlaCkoN

Sweden1661 Posts

May 05 2008 10:02 GMT

#112

To me it looked like he underestimated Dinot, as in he thought he was much worse than he was and thus likely to go for an allin counter. Idra wanted to counter this by keeping an entire army waiting for him but since Dinot apparantly is really (really) good he was sure of himself and didnt need the allin, making Idra's descion look strange.

Anyway, I for one am happy that he pulled through in the end

His micro looked spectacular at times.

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

May 05 2008 11:14 GMT

#113

On May 05 2008 03:20 sAAvior wrote:

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I don't think players' request should be respected. In most competetive games which require preparation (like starcraft) all tournament games are public (chess, go comes to mind). My guess is that some players don't like the perspective of being studied by their opponents during the group. I think giving them right to hide the replays is bad for sport and spectators.

Korean Starleagues don't release replays period. They allow VODs, but they aren't the same as replays. With replays, you can see all the players timing and builds. Tournament replays may be something that the foreign community will be have to move away from if it wants to be more "professional." Notice in WCG, pros don't even play like their true self other than the lower competition. With VODs only, people are force to watch the VODs and its commentary, production value, & commercial while it sort of brainwash the viewers

[X]Ken_D

United States4653 Posts

May 05 2008 11:36 GMT

#114

Group G:

Group of Reaver micro!!!

IefNaij won his group convincingly.

Temujin vs Stelok was a close series, but Strelok had an early lead in the 3rd game and kept it til the end. Game 2 Temujin's recall fail to do enough damage so GG. Not sure if it was that game, but I think Temujin had a huge lead, but lost the advantage by throwing away units on Blue Storm.

qrs

United States3637 Posts

May 05 2008 17:47 GMT

#115

IefNaij pulled off a pretty nasty move in his third game against Temujin. It takes place around 10:15-10:40. He sends a single DT to Temujin's natural. Temujin doesn''t have detection yet, so he runs all the probes to his main.+ Show Spoiler +

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Ouch.

Samejima

Canada534 Posts

May 05 2008 23:36 GMT

#116

Nice screenshots qrs, I think I missed that reaver when I checked the rep lol (when I got so many replays to watch at once I kinda watch them quick).
I think JF have the best reaver control outside korea, what do u guys think?

OrderlyChaos

United States1115 Posts

May 05 2008 23:46 GMT

#117

JF's is pretty good, though I think Nony has excellent reaver control as well. I'd guess that those two have the top reavers, but I haven't seen some tosses' (like Draco or Leg) play.

comabreaded

United States2166 Posts

May 06 2008 00:30 GMT

#118

can someone clear up Infernal vs Tarson for me?

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results say he won 2-1 but:
in game 1 on bluestorm infernal leaves before both maxed armies clash
in game 2 on bluestorm infernal leaves
in game 3 on zodiac it looks like infernal won

is there something wrong with the reps? or is game 2 a re of game 1 and game 1 is really missing?