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AgentV
Profile Joined November 2010
United States159 Posts
December 10 2010 16:36 GMT
#2501
Perfectly executed games by MC. He was just a step ahead of Jinro ( and most likely all Terrans) at the moment. And I do not see why it would be allin or cheese if your decision making do not strictly follow a certain pattern. If MC scouted that Jinro was expanding, he can make two decisions: expand as well, or build up units for a timing attack when Jinro is vulnerable before his macro kicks in. Decision making and execution is the beauty of this game that make it exciting and unpredictable.
Don Rag U
Brown Boy
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada39 Posts
December 10 2010 16:37 GMT
#2502
I don't think people are under-estimating TSL_Rain but the caliber of games oGsMC has played are just so much better. Rain deflected HongUnPrimes's but when you watch todays game against Jinro it was the same strategy but it's execution was flawless. Even his force fields were perfect throughout the series. People are saying that Rain is the protoss killer for eliminating HongUnPrime and Squirttle but oGsMC has also eliminated strong terrans like MarineKing and Jinro.

It will be a good series but I see it going 4-2 oGsMC. It'll be interesting to see the games though because both players like the early timing pushes. As a spectator I like the long macro games though. Not sure why everyone believes PvT are all short games. I'm thinking back to DreamHack and the finals there. Naama vs Mana was a really good series (especially Game 3 probably the best game I've ever seen)
Sadist
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States7326 Posts
December 10 2010 16:38 GMT
#2503
game 2 was stupid that a build like that can work. That is what is pretty stupid about TvP, unless you one base you NEVER feel safe (at least I dont)

game 1 jinro played really really bad, didnt keep attacking with the marines. Maybe he was shocked at the zealots or something not sure.

Havent watched the rest though
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
hitman133
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1425 Posts
December 10 2010 16:40 GMT
#2504
So happy to see the protoss that not depend on Colossus and HTs. And Protoss now has more strategies to open than other races.
Logo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
December 10 2010 16:41 GMT
#2505
On December 11 2010 01:31 AJMcSpiffy wrote:
Those games were pretty disappointing :/ I was rooting for Jinro so much but those really didn't seem reflective of his skill. I still can't figure out what exactly went wrong in game one that he lost to 1-gate pressure, and it seemed like he just lost confidence going from there.

Well hey, Jinro did clinch S-Rank this season at least! So we'll get to see him next year where he can amaze us all again :D


Well the bunker wasn't up yet (and was further delayed by the SCV dieing). He then lost marines while trying to kite the zealot as well as the SCVs he had to pull. So when the stalkers arrived he just didn't have enough stuff left to fend it off, especially since he was going 1:1:1 or Thor rush. He may have had a better time of it if he had been constantly producing hellions and used them to launch a more aggressive harass on MC or pulled them back to clean out the zealots. 1 rax 1 fact is probably a pretty risky opening to do on Steppes.
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0neder
Profile Joined July 2009
United States3733 Posts
December 10 2010 16:43 GMT
#2506
Excited to see a really smart, competent protoss win GSL. Also excited to see Jinro get this far.
OsC
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada542 Posts
December 10 2010 16:44 GMT
#2507
On December 11 2010 01:29 mburke05 wrote:
you guys are seriously seriously underrating tsl_rain


jinro is a better terran than rain and mc dominated jinro
DarkRise
Profile Joined November 2010
1644 Posts
December 10 2010 16:44 GMT
#2508
Lesson: Those terrans that rely on bunkers, you are not safe buddy!!
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13070 Posts
December 10 2010 16:44 GMT
#2509
It was expected but i thought that Jinro would take at least one game of MC.
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
mprs
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada2933 Posts
December 10 2010 16:45 GMT
#2510
Im happy for both :D WTB more Jinro and MC!

Their skill level aren't as different as the games showed. MC just showed that he knew Jinro inside and out, every tendency, every build. MC didn't play like he usually does (i.e that 2 Zealot pressure). Everything was designed for Jinro, and done very well.

Can't wait to see him roll Rain!
We talkin about PRACTICE
KillAudio
Profile Joined October 2010
1364 Posts
December 10 2010 16:46 GMT
#2511
I hope MC wins it all. Even though i'm terran, i don't like someone who cheeses their win up to finals. ughhh.
From a scale of sheth to idra, how mad are you?
Perfi
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Poland349 Posts
December 10 2010 16:48 GMT
#2512
On December 11 2010 01:43 0neder wrote:
Excited to see a really smart, competent protoss win GSL.

We haven't gotten that far yet, you know. There's still one obstacle left for MC, and that is Rain.

Can't wait for next Saturday
lowercase
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada1047 Posts
December 10 2010 16:48 GMT
#2513
Game 4, for the record, was pretty ridiculous. Jinro building the engineering bay in MC's base? MC rebuilding in Jinro's natural? Absolutely outrageous.
That is not dead which can eternal lie...
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Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-10 16:49:52
December 10 2010 16:48 GMT
#2514
On December 11 2010 01:44 DarkRise wrote:
Lesson: Those terrans that rely on bunkers, you are not safe buddy!!


Yeah that was mindblowing to me. I'm a zerg player, but it still was nuts to me how quickly those bunkers went down and how little they did with those FFs up.

To those who play PvT:

Would Jinro have faired better or worse by getting stim or combat shield before conc shells? It seemed like he never made use of conc shells and had a marine heavy army to start. Stim seems like it would have helped him a lot to deal with those early pushes and with an rax->expand strategy conc shells seems kind of wasted as a first upgrade.
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Sapphire.lux
Profile Joined July 2010
Romania2620 Posts
December 10 2010 16:49 GMT
#2515
On December 11 2010 01:06 cordlc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2010 00:24 Sapphire.lux wrote:
On December 10 2010 23:46 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
How can you keep calling him "Jinro" and asking "why are people being so nice when he lost?" But then ignoring his clan tag... Liquid... he best damn well get gentle treatment... he is a friggin hero on his team's website and he just lost a top 4 match against the guy who will probably win.

While trying to play macro games and his opponent one base all-ining no less.

Congrats to Jinro! Very proud of you, the best showing of a foreigner by far in the GSL.


Erm, this only applies to one game - the third, where MC went void rays.
Game 1: Jinro dies to single gateway pressure (not proxy'd, not all-in)
Game 2: MC expands early, long before the initial push (count: 2 base).
Game 4: Jinro goes for a proxy thor rush (not exactly a macro build).

2 games out of 4 were all in/cheese by MC (game3 and 4). It is not a dig at him or anything, just did not expect him doing that.
Head Coach Park: "They should buff tanks!"
Logo
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States7542 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-10 16:51:08
December 10 2010 16:50 GMT
#2516
On December 11 2010 01:49 Sapphire.lux wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2010 01:06 cordlc wrote:
On December 11 2010 00:24 Sapphire.lux wrote:
On December 10 2010 23:46 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
How can you keep calling him "Jinro" and asking "why are people being so nice when he lost?" But then ignoring his clan tag... Liquid... he best damn well get gentle treatment... he is a friggin hero on his team's website and he just lost a top 4 match against the guy who will probably win.

While trying to play macro games and his opponent one base all-ining no less.

Congrats to Jinro! Very proud of you, the best showing of a foreigner by far in the GSL.


Erm, this only applies to one game - the third, where MC went void rays.
Game 1: Jinro dies to single gateway pressure (not proxy'd, not all-in)
Game 2: MC expands early, long before the initial push (count: 2 base).
Game 4: Jinro goes for a proxy thor rush (not exactly a macro build).

2 games out of 4 were all in/cheese by MC (game3 and 4). It is not a dig at him or anything, just did not expect him doing that.


Going DTs is not all in, that's ridiculous to say. He has to do damage to stay in the game, but it's not all in. Even the VR play he could have transitioned out of if he dealt a reasonable amount of damage.
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Roezz
Profile Joined September 2010
United States16 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-10 16:52:59
December 10 2010 16:51 GMT
#2517
Those all in--or close to it--early timing rushes that seem more based on chance than anything, take away from the game, imho.

Watching the four matches today as well as the Nestea matches the other day reminded me of watch WoW's arena play, where you knew things outside of player's abilities were controlling as much of the outcome or more than the players themselves.

Major let down as far as entertainment value.
hitman133
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1425 Posts
December 10 2010 16:53 GMT
#2518
On December 11 2010 00:04 HowardRoark wrote:
The finals will be dreadful. PvT is completely broken from a spectator point of view. Either it is rush coinflip, OR, it will be a longer game where it is Ball vs Ball moving around with the same speed trying to find the best position to attack. I feel Blizzard strongly need to make PvT more interesting to watch, since now even the mirrors are more interesting.

Keep in mind this is not balance I am talking about, for all I care Stalkers could have a special nuke the whole map-ability, as long as it is interesting to watch.

But if I were the Terran I would do my best to cheese a win in the first 5 minutes, since the longer the game goes the less my chances of winning are, so probably no match will go past 8 minutes. Where are the days where I sat astounded of how impossibly good the players were, knowing I could never do what they are doing?

Blizzard must do balance changes, not to balance the game, but to force PvTs to be worth to watch.

Bullshit, TvZ is fucking boring with lings,banelings,mutal vs marines

PvT involves everything in the games, HTs,Colo, VRs, Carriers, DTs everything vs MMM,ghost, vikings, thors,banshee. In late game, nothing better than seeing ghost and EMP,dropship everywhere.
Elmo
Profile Joined July 2010
France90 Posts
December 10 2010 16:57 GMT
#2519
PvT is a great matchup to watch.
I'd say as great to watch as TvZ.


Hey at least, this ain't PvP or ZvZ...
Sapphire.lux
Profile Joined July 2010
Romania2620 Posts
December 10 2010 17:03 GMT
#2520
On December 11 2010 01:50 Logo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 11 2010 01:49 Sapphire.lux wrote:
On December 11 2010 01:06 cordlc wrote:
On December 11 2010 00:24 Sapphire.lux wrote:
On December 10 2010 23:46 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
How can you keep calling him "Jinro" and asking "why are people being so nice when he lost?" But then ignoring his clan tag... Liquid... he best damn well get gentle treatment... he is a friggin hero on his team's website and he just lost a top 4 match against the guy who will probably win.

While trying to play macro games and his opponent one base all-ining no less.

Congrats to Jinro! Very proud of you, the best showing of a foreigner by far in the GSL.


Erm, this only applies to one game - the third, where MC went void rays.
Game 1: Jinro dies to single gateway pressure (not proxy'd, not all-in)
Game 2: MC expands early, long before the initial push (count: 2 base).
Game 4: Jinro goes for a proxy thor rush (not exactly a macro build).

2 games out of 4 were all in/cheese by MC (game3 and 4). It is not a dig at him or anything, just did not expect him doing that.


Going DTs is not all in, that's ridiculous to say. He has to do damage to stay in the game, but it's not all in. Even the VR play he could have transitioned out of if he dealt a reasonable amount of damage.

If one base DT is not cheese and 3 gate stargate is not all in then what is? If you almost kill your opponent then yeh, you can transition out of it lol.
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