[GSL] Open S1 - Grand Finals - Page 182

On October 03 2010 10:42 Maeldun wrote:
Never ever seen a SC2 player play like that before. It reminded me of a BW pro, multitasking and not missing a thing. People say ITR played bad. Really Fruit Dealer just shut him the fuck down. Hard. He was pretty flawless. ITR should have changed his style, yeah. But who's to say Fruit Dealer couldn't manage other styles of play as well? I think the result would have been much the same, if perhaps a little closer, even if ITR did some of the plays all these TL elitists say he should have done. Fruit Dealer was just in the zone, at the top of his game. In the interview he said he played at 130%, and it certainly showed.

On October 03 2010 03:27 Chen wrote:

there are not 10 S-class players >.>
A-class is a good estimate. people like kwanro etc still make a decent 50-60K USD a year. so over 2-3 years they have earned more than cool.
S-class players like Flash/Jaedong/Bisu make a shitton. discounting tournament winnings they make 200k a year.

On October 03 2010 07:52 Boundless wrote:
It wasn't necessarily "bad", it was just not "finals" level. He didn't play S-class, he played A-class. In the first two games, he went for cutesy harass tactics that Cool repeatedly shut down. However, he continued to go for them, and Cool happily warded them off.

ITR didn't do any of the things that really punishes Zerg, and didn't exploit any of the timings that Terran can pull off when the Zerg player is still in the "early game" stage; this stage is the one at which the Zerg race is very weak. Cool 14 hatched four out of the five games IIRC (four out of five for sure), and ITR did not adapt. He continued to let Cool tech, allowing him to speed to the stage of the game where Zerg is strong.

Case in point. TheLittleOne uses a refinery first build against Zerg that gets an insanely fast Hellion. If the Zerg player is going 14 hatch, then he is almost guaranteed to lose 4-5 drones before he can defend. From there, the Terran can take his natural at his leisure, because he has the units (Hellions) that hard counter the units (Zerglings) that the Zerg player can only make for at least 2-3 minutes. Then tech to Marauder/Thor, get turrets to fend off mutas, push, and win the game.

I would have liked ITR to go for some early attack build like this, since Cool demonstrated his willingness to keep 14 hatching. However, he stuck to hard harass builds until game 4. He then goes for 3 rax mass marine timing push, only to have it stopped by Cool going for an early baneling nest (this was pure luck). However, he manages to win game 4. Instead of saying "Wow, that actually worked" and sticking with it, goes back to his harass builds in G5, and Cool runs him over.

Just not smart.

On October 03 2010 16:54 TheNessman wrote:
Where can i watch the mathces with KOREAN commentary even????

On October 03 2010 12:51 Techno wrote:
Im happy a zerg player won. I think we all are.