Even right before Tasteosis mentioned it, I saw the tech structures all in one place and wondered if that would end up hurting. Then I thought Nestea had the game won, but he underestimated the marine production + the ones running back and getting his mutas flanked. I realize a "perfect build" might mean only building one of every tech building, but I was thinking when I saw them all together and then the tank push, that he should have pre built more tech structures and made another lair.

But that's easy to think when you're eating cookies and sipping OJ. The stress of dealing with that attack and making prescient decisions is pretty huge.

Pinith

651 Posts

January 23 2011 05:55 GMT

#844

The attack down that narrow ramp was definitely a turning point. Nestea had so many units before the attack, but lost almost all of them and still didn't clean it all up.

On a random note, I wonder how these two practiced for this match. If they normally practice with each other for ZvT, I don't see how they could have found better alternate practice partners

zex66

Canada651 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#845

lol i totally stood up and fixed my posture!

Ihsahn

Chile132 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#846

Its almost 3am here in Chile , but DAMN cant go to sleep with these games on..

CustomKal

Canada749 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#847

Nestea shouldn't have attacked into such a bad choke. Going for the main would have just destroyed MVP.

mango_destroyer

Canada3914 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#848

On January 23 2011 14:55 imperator-xy wrote:

Show nested quote +

do you have a different style of counting over there in the us or what

2-1 + 2-0 --> 5 upgrades
2-2 + 0-0 --> 4 upgrades

Lol , when NesTea`s army mainly consisted of zerglings, you think those ground upgrades beat 2-2 marines? Play the game. Marines shoot air too, lawl.

JWD

United States12607 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#849

On January 23 2011 14:53 57 Corvette wrote:
@The mods, Are you guys going to be giving out weeklong temp bans for balance discussion in the finals thread next week?

Posts that we're banning for cannot be qualified as "balance discussion" — they're one-liner complaints about the state of the game.

This is fun!

Velocity`

United Kingdom343 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#850

I think Nestea maybe lost too many muta that game, that and the choke was horrible to engage in.

Tachion

Canada8573 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#851

The one idea glaring in my head is that zerg has to kill their back rocks and prevent the Terran from ever getting there, cause once they're sieged up on that ramp they're so damn well defended. Of course they can always do a slower bunker + turret + siege push forward up there anyway. It'd buy you some time, but still, once they get around to your main I still have no idea how to stop it.

KonohaFlash

Canada1590 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#852

On January 23 2011 14:56 CustomKal wrote:
Nestea shouldn't have attacked into such a bad choke. Going for the main would have just destroyed MVP.

There was a wall of 3 barracks. :o

LunarC

United States1186 Posts

January 23 2011 05:56 GMT

#853

On January 23 2011 14:55 Fruscainte wrote:
Guys

Having 4 bases doesn't mean you have 4 saturated bases. Nestea probably had 2 1/2 bases saturated.

Yes. This has been established more times than the "4 base zerg lose to 2 base terran" comment has been.

StorkHwaiting

United States3465 Posts

January 23 2011 05:57 GMT

#854

With that much money, Nestea really should have had better upgrades for his lings. He also should have used baneling bombs mixed in with ling drops to help deal with the terrain. He really handled that poorly. Also with 4 bases, there was absolutely no reason to panic about losing his main. He had more than enough time to rebuild his tech at the 4th and then fight in the larger area of his main. Losing the main is alright, but losing that area is not. If he had mixed roaches in with his bling/ling, he could have crushed that with the wider area of his main. He just shouldn't have engaged at the ramp. It was the worst possible location.

Moonwrath

United States9568 Posts

January 23 2011 05:57 GMT

#855

As others said, the single tank on the ramp at nestea's backdoor won that game for mvp, it funneled all the units into the siege tanks 1 by 1.

Taf the Ghost

United States11751 Posts

January 23 2011 05:57 GMT

#856

Kind of interesting to read someone's post then seem them on live TV. hehe

1-1 going to Blistering. Hopefully Nestea can flank MVP when he tries to seige-tank the gold, like against Idra.

kiniko

Canada163 Posts

January 23 2011 05:57 GMT

#857

this might really go down to the last game cos i cant see mvp winning on blistering sands and nestea on jungle basin

SC2Phoenix

Canada2814 Posts

January 23 2011 05:57 GMT

#858

lol at all the girls screaming for Nestea.