Immediately following THIS I was contacted by White-rA with the intent of establishing the rematch.
White-rA is mad.
He wants blood.
And he will have it.
Saturday, 21 CET (12pm PST, 2pm CDT, 3pm EST) White-rA vs Machine in a bo7 for 100$
This time the match will be sponsored by goodgame.ru and white-ra.com <-- check em out!
First map will be Lost Temple with loser picking from the full map pool and repeat maps allowed.
replays from the previous match can be downloaded in that thread and replays for this match will be made available upon completion of the series.
With Machine winning 4-1 in the last show match there is little wonder why White-rA, the beast from the east, is eager to take revenge. Check out this match and get hyped, this will be amazing!
Casting will be done in both English and Russian with Lzgamer and myself CASTING the former and goodgame.ru casting the latter.
Hell yeah, looking forward to this. Hopefully White-Ra will go back to the drawing board and show us some innovative play. But, even if he doesn't, I'm entertained by White-Ra's play regardless.
Awesome. White-ra clearly thinks he underperformed during that series, so it'll be great to see him train for this one and show us awesome matches like he did against IdrA.
P.S. Would like to see IdrA come back as well, but not against Machine since ZvZ is, well, ZvZ. Maybe Lz will reignite his old grudge and show us something?
On June 04 2010 06:03 Azarkon wrote: P.S. Would like to see IdrA come back as well, but not against Machine since ZvZ is, well, ZvZ. Maybe Lz will reignite his old grudge and show us something?
White-ra has been in a slump for a while... He dropped out of the world cup tournament with some less than stellar games and i heard his games with TLO in the tli weren't great either.
On June 04 2010 07:18 willeesmalls wrote: White-ra has been in a slump for a while... He dropped out of the world cup tournament with some less than stellar games and i heard his games with TLO in the tli weren't great either.
Well, the games weren't great, but White-Ra actually convincingly beat TLO in the TLI when TLO rolled Protoss. And in the Altitude Invitational, he basically won TLO's Terran with stalker micro. TLO as Zerg, though, is a different story.
I missed the last showmatch, is WhiteRa vengeful to the max due to somethign that happened in the match? Whats the drama I guess is what I'm asking lol, and if theres no drama then this is just a friendly rematch?
can't decide who to cheer for...but seeing as losing two bo7's in a row to machine could really dampen white-ra's spirits (regardless of his MASSIVE experience, friggin 30+ beast progamer), ill cheer for white-ra this time!
rofl. Amazing quotes. Btw, not gonna lie, I thought machine was good but not white-ra good, and certainly not 4-1ing white ra good. the rematch ought to shed more light on the matter.
maybe if White-ra didnt do the same tactics in all 5 games.. maybe try something different. Was quite repetitive and well layed by machine, will be interesting to see what happens in the rematch!!! Hopefully White ra will revenge and wlel get a 3rd eithier before end of beta or start of the retail!!!
On June 04 2010 06:30 Slayer91 wrote: Of course he wants blood. Just because he actually has manners and doesn't talk smack like you yanks doesn't mean he doesn't hate losing any less.
And you're basing your opinion on...? Don't make such rash, and completely ridiculous. comments. It makes you look pretty petty and ignorant. To date the worst I have ever seen anyone behave in a Starcraft game was someone I played who was from London who not only spent the entire game talking trash and cursing but began messaging me after the match through PMs as well to do so...AND he won the match. Now do I go and say 'Well, everyone from England are just poor sports and trash talkers'? No, because I'm intelligent enough to know better.
I'm not familiar with Machine yet, so I don't know if he has a reputation for trash talking or whatever, but your comment extends to all 'yanks' so I'm responding to that. For every player from the US that trash talks I can show you 100 that are polite and good sports. I've seen some pretty petty comments and poor sportsmanship from around the globe as well, but I would never go so far as to be ignorant enough to think because of an idiot or two that an entire region was to blame.
Idiots come in all shapes, sizes, and nationalities.
White-Ra will probaly play without his blindfold and 80-pound wristweight for this rematch. That's how mad he is. If Machine takes it to 3-0 we could even see him bring out the left hand.
On June 04 2010 06:30 Slayer91 wrote: Of course he wants blood. Just because he actually has manners and doesn't talk smack like you yanks doesn't mean he doesn't hate losing any less.
And you're basing your opinion on...? Don't make such rash, and completely ridiculous. comments. It makes you look pretty petty and ignorant. To date the worst I have ever seen anyone behave in a Starcraft game was someone I played who was from London who not only spent the entire game talking trash and cursing but began messaging me after the match through PMs as well to do so...AND he won the match. Now do I go and say 'Well, everyone from England are just poor sports and trash talkers'? No, because I'm intelligent enough to know better.
I'm not familiar with Machine yet, so I don't know if he has a reputation for trash talking or whatever, but your comment extends to all 'yanks' so I'm responding to that. For every player from the US that trash talks I can show you 100 that are polite and good sports. I've seen some pretty petty comments and poor sportsmanship from around the globe as well, but I would never go so far as to be ignorant enough to think because of an idiot or two that an entire region was to blame.
Idiots come in all shapes, sizes, and nationalities.
Oh man you got angry there. I'm not allowed to make sterotype jokes now? :p whitera is like the most manner person ever and more than a few people from the united states have made quite a few serious/non serious comments which could be classified as "trash-talking". [God i'm so P.C!!] "At the end of the day I'm gotta show him why wooden shoes are not efficient footwear" hehe its just culture man calm down. The way americans talk TENDS TO sound slightly obnoxious/arrogant to many europeans, even the accent.
"At the end of the day I'm gotta show him why wooden shoes are not efficient footwear"
haha thanks for making me remember this, made my day twice now =P
Machine vs White-ra rematch will be sick, results don´t matter i love both of them. The Ukranian who killed Boxer on main stage vs the Tapatio Hero !! =D
I am very excited for this re-match, White-Ra will have to change his timings or else face the same result, Machine's build just seemed rock solid, kudos to the Russian stream also, it came in much better than the livestream.
go go white ra fight for europe.That irish guy was right cuz i find somme of the remarks of the comentators like ,, learn better english '' (he said it like 4 times or more) annoying ....and disrespectful...
My main concern in all this is stream quality. At the beginning of the last series livestream was really choppy/unstable. So why not switch to the simply BETTER ustream-service, so everyone can enjoy the match in a way it deserves? Im looking forward for some nice games, gl hf
On June 04 2010 06:30 Slayer91 wrote: Oh man you got angry there. I'm not allowed to make sterotype jokes now? :p whitera is like the most manner person ever and more than a few people from the united states have made quite a few serious/non serious comments which could be classified as "trash-talking". [God i'm so P.C!!] "At the end of the day I'm gotta show him why wooden shoes are not efficient footwear" hehe its just culture man calm down. The way americans talk TENDS TO sound slightly obnoxious/arrogant to many europeans, even the accent.
Alright, fair enough. I guess I'm just kind of rubbed the wrong way by the whole nationality stereotyping. 'If you're not from Korea you'll never be good at Starcraft' or 'No Americans are even close to the top players.' It kind of wears on a person and is a shot to national pride, you know?
Not every American has the sterotypical New York accent, curses every other word, and thinks the United States is the best country in the world. It's unfortunate that people tend to immediately think that way. I don't think of Nazi's when someone mentions someone from Germany nor do I think of everyone from France being completely rude. I don't buy into sterotypes.
So it's all good, and know that there's at least one American here that isn't replying to your post by telling you to go f yourself.
On June 05 2010 23:54 iG.CatZ wrote: goooooo s e x m a c h i n e ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! you can do thissssss!!!! i'll probably be at work, but 'ill be rooting for ya my swarm brotha! glgl
On June 05 2010 15:49 xenobius1982 wrote: go go white ra fight for europe.That irish guy was right cuz i find somme of the remarks of the comentators like ,, learn better english '' (he said it like 4 times or more) annoying ....and disrespectful...
LOL made my day! Seriously, you guys are way too easy to troll.
Please everyone switch to UStream or Justin.tv or something else. I'm forced to watch and refresh the Russian Justin.tv and when I'm in it perfect quality with no lag whatsoever.
On June 06 2010 05:17 {88}iNcontroL wrote: we need a non livestream streamer livestream is dead now
Please contact
You guys should know there's always been an issue with livestream if you have thousand+ viewers and you restart the stream, bad things always happen. It's caused by the way they designed the infrastructure, i heard. That's why some streamers switched to ustream lately. If you never restart the stream in the middle, livestream should be okay.
1) dont let all your overlords sit near battle. they get sniped and set you behind
2) how does zerg defeat that 2base tier1 timing push before his third is running. i think the answer may be to avoid getting zergling speed (save 100min/100gas) and use that saved money to pump out more roaches and get roach/hydra/normal zerglings. thats just one idea im thinking of. maybe that can defeat it, maybe it cant.... dunno
machine has to think about what can defeat that tier1 push before his third gets running. if he finds out how to beat that push it looks like he wins the game after that
On June 06 2010 06:21 roymarthyup wrote: lessons learned by machine in game7
1) dont let all your overlords sit near battle. they get sniped and set you behind
2) how does zerg defeat that 2base tier1 timing push before his third is running. i think the answer may be to avoid getting zergling speed (save 100min/100gas) and use that saved money to pump out more roaches and get roach/hydra/normal zerglings. thats just one idea im thinking of. maybe that can defeat it, maybe it cant.... dunno
machine has to think about what can defeat that tier1 push before his third gets running. if he finds out how to beat that push it looks like he wins the game after that
Machine needed a good amount of crawlers + hydras to beat White-Ra's 7-gate.
Great games, white-ra/Vo-one are packing replays as we speak so they should be up really soon; Great play by the Machine as well. Not sure if they will have another re-match, but if they do it might be fair to have this one on the EU server.. I also think machine's connection to EU will be better than Ra's to NA
In G7, I think if Machine cut drones for a period just before the toss timing push it would allow him to get a few more hydra out. Also, keeping some speedlings out of the base, out of the way would be good for a flank when White-Ra pushes in -- hydras in front, zerglings in back, much more difficult to forcefield block
Yeah, beta is shutting down for a while. White-Ra needs some spare time cuz he's graduating from the institute this year. Also there's no info about WCG Ukraine atm, but it gonna happen on aug.-sep. so he needs get back to the roots
Even tho White-ra won his inability to dominate Machine is suprising. Machine is 7-5 against him in these last few days. I think that still makes clear who is better between these two in this particular MU.
I can make no excuse, he clearly outplayed me and showed why he is the beast from the east, it still does not mean that I will give up ^_^, look forward to series 3.
On June 06 2010 07:20 Machine[USA] wrote: I can make no excuse, he clearly outplayed me and showed why he is the beast from the east, it still does not mean that I will give up ^_^, look forward to series 3.
I must admit I was unaware of how good you are (you need to play in more international events!). I was really impressed by your play. Really solid ZvP.
On June 06 2010 06:10 WiljushkA wrote: lol there are americans (or at least english speaking viewers) being total dicks on the russian stream
<_< Everyone bashes Russia for the fun and also you can't tell if the english chatters are Americans.
Again too easy to troll Nice one Jeff.
It's pretty rare for Aussies to bash the Russians and I never see Europeans doing it. Not to be racist, but NA is the place of the lame "mother Russia" jokes..
On June 06 2010 07:03 On_Slaught wrote: Even tho White-ra won his inability to dominate Machine is surprising. Machine is 7-5 against him in these last few days. I think that still makes clear who is better between these two in this particular MU.
Gratz to both players.
Don't see how that makes it clear who is better between the two, people have off days, if Machine was clearly better he woulda finished this series 4-1 as well. Same goes for White-ra Anyway, Machine played great, he repeatedly shown that he is one of top players right now. No matter of how series 3 ends I'll see both as really good players (maybe it will be worth it for both of them to play practice games vs e/o). Hope i get to watch tomorrow's games live
Pretty amazing games. I've seen whitera play before and he was very good vs Idra in those finals a while back, but I was mostly impressed with Machine here, despite his loss. A real delight to see his zerg play.
Big timing tell. Games up to 12 minutes in length = protoss wins because zerg hasn't been able to mass a huge army yet and is still struggling with "boosting his econ" vs "pumping units". Games over 12 minutes = zerg wins.
When Whitera lost the 6th game on LT he said "lt again", I think he figured out he had to punish Machine earlier for taking the gold so fast and attack in the right timing window, and he did.
EDIT: looking forward to the bo7 tonight between those two! (and combined bo21) Not sure if I can watch the stream but I hope replays won't take long to be released.
On June 06 2010 06:10 WiljushkA wrote: lol there are americans (or at least english speaking viewers) being total dicks on the russian stream
<_< Everyone bashes Russia for the fun and also you can't tell if the english chatters are Americans.
Again too easy to troll Nice one Jeff.
It's pretty rare for Aussies to bash the Russians and I never see Europeans doing it. Not to be racist, but NA is the place of the lame "mother Russia" jokes..