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i felt so disgusted while watching MAKA vs Fruit Trader.....
zerg is clearly the most overpowered race at the moment. for example, in the 2nd metalopolis game, where MAKA builds exterior baracks, i cannot believe fruit trade was able to defend it so easily without even scouting or anticipating it. And after the attack, he simply gets mutalisks and wins because marines are so weak they cannot do a thing? disgusted...
and the next game in which fruit trader rushes with fast roach and the queen. in that game, i was just like what the fuck... fruity boy should do that every single game its freaking impossible to stop.
it seemed like even though both MAKA and fruity boy are on top of their respective races, fruity boy has a much larger advatnage that he can easily take wins whenever he wants to from MAKA.
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So, yet another slow update with games many have probably already watched, oh well.
1. Freedom vs Super // Freedom vs 小白兔, 6 matches in all. I've listed these together as both of his opponents are Chinese protoss players but in theory the showmatch was vs Super, billed as a revenge fight as he hoped to make up for Freedom crushing him in the semi-final of the China Hero Cup. I honestly don't know anything about either of the two Chinese players however and everyone already knows how awesome Freedom is, so vods ahoy:
Super
Game 1 - Incineration Zone
Game 2 - Desert Oasis
Game 3 - Metalopolis
Game 4 - Lost Temple
小白兔
Game 1 - Kulas Ravine
Game 2 - Metalopolis - The commentators loved this one and you will too!
2. hannibal vs Gerrard in a best of 5. hannibal is a Korean terran user, already featured in an earlier showmatch. From watching his recent play I'd say he is definitely closing the skill gap that previously existed between him and Maka, coming agonizingly close to beating him in a best of 3 in the PlayXP exhibition last Friday. Gerrard is not someone I'm familiar with though (is he wearing an sc pro's uniform in his picture?). He's a zerg user who had a 40-18 record before the reset and according to the match announcement he is maintaining a ~70% win rate again so he surely has to be a decent player.
Game 1 - Kulas Ravine
Game 2 - Metalopolis
Game 3 - Scrap Station
Game 4 - Lost Temple
Game 5 - Desert Oasis - Does this match fail to play back correctly for anyone else? It's a bit of a tease not knowing how things ended. 
Happy viewing!
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There was an excellent Korean War3 player named Gerrard.WeRRa back in the beta... I vaguely recall him having played BW too, but I don't remember what his ID was back then.
I remember being in a bnet channel (...those were the days...) with him in the War3 beta, and these Blizzard employees were trying to get him to send in his replays to Blizzard, but he spoke no English... (his record was like 275-25 at the time). Kind of funny how I still remember that.
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On May 06 2010 10:18 SoleSteeler wrote:There was an excellent Korean War3 player named Gerrard.WeRRa back in the beta... I vaguely recall him having played BW too, but I don't remember what his ID was back then. I remember being in a bnet channel (...those were the days...) with him in the War3 beta, and these Blizzard employees were trying to get him to send in his replays to Blizzard, but he spoke no English... (his record was like 275-25 at the time). Kind of funny how I still remember that.
Well I'm glad you did remember it since that's all good to know! Looking via google he seems to have been at his peak during RoC and he took part in the proleagues that MBC and OGN ran also.
I wish they'd slow down with the matches though as yet another has appeared and it seems like one more is planned for tomorrow.
Maka vs InCa in a best of 5. These two recently clashed in the final of the PlayXP exhibition and InCa managed to take the win so Maka will no doubt be looking to try and step up a gear in his play today. They talk of InCa as being a bit of a rookie so I'm unsure whether he's previously made an impact in either sc or wc3, although [InCa] was a fairly big sc clan name wasn't it? In sc2 he is a NEX member (seemingly the big new team for aspiring sc2 pros) alongside Maka and of late his protoss play has been incredibly strong, beating Tester and then Maka in consecutive best of 3s is no mean feat after all. Anyway, regardless of how it turns out it promises to be a great matchup.
Game 1 - Incineration Zone
Game 2 - Lost Temple
Game 3 - Steppes of War
Game 4 - Lost Temple
Game 5 - Steppes of War
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The hosts said that they wanted to get some American Sc2 big names on the show. I think they want LZgamer!
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Interesting games so far. Sen expands like nobodies business.
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Ugh man it's not looking pretty. I don't wanna spoil it though, lol.
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It looks Zerg is overpowered....Sen is ex-broodwar progamer from Taiwan. Inca is PTX champion from Korea
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That was a slaughter... my goodness!
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On May 05 2010 09:32 ramen247 wrote:
i felt so disgusted while watching MAKA vs Fruit Trader.....
zerg is clearly the most overpowered race at the moment. for example, in the 2nd metalopolis game, where MAKA builds exterior baracks, i cannot believe fruit trade was able to defend it so easily without even scouting or anticipating it. And after the attack, he simply gets mutalisks and wins because marines are so weak they cannot do a thing? disgusted...
and the next game in which fruit trader rushes with fast roach and the queen. in that game, i was just like what the fuck... fruity boy should do that every single game its freaking impossible to stop.
2nd metalopolis game... terran proxies two barracks and pumps marines, in addition to one pumping marauders and his factory with some hellions. the proxy was pretty useless as he could just have built those two rax in his base instead as he had to wait for his main army from his base to attack anyway, and rallied marine reinforcements made little difference that late into the game. if he had had a more marauder heavy army he would have walked over the zerg there and then. however, he switched to marauders a bit later and still kept building hellions and didnt see a spire, so YES, the 3-5 marines he had got raped by 4-10 mutalisks. imbalanced? i don't think so, I just think that you like to look at a game and go "Lol imbalanced cause terran lost and I play terran" instead of looking at the game in its context and see why a player *really* lost.
the "queen" rush ? terran scouted the zerg was 1 base and saw roaches, yet opted for a 2 factory build going for fast tanks. the roaches alone would have won that attack because the terran had no army to deal with the 1 base build as he was himself teching. "freaking impossible to stop" ? no, it really isn't. he would have won easily without the queen there, it only had energy to heal once, and besides the queen speed off creep was nerfed in a latest patch and these games were before that. to me, you seem like a bronze/practice league terran with no understanding of the game. look how badly maka got crushed in the last game when he tried going for mutas
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lol Sen destroyed inca 5-0 what a rape.
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Thank you very much sir for taking the time to translate and post all of this.
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