Copenhagen Games StarCraft 2 - Page 204

ThorZain tore apart MC's army and took a huge supply lead during the battle where he nailed every EMP and took out MC's main army. Then he let MC back into the game by dropping MC's main and losing the rest of his army and, more importantly, a bunch of medivacs. That gave MC time to warp-in more HT's and get their energy back up before the next major engagement. If ThorZain had instead reinforced his army that survived the battle and taken out MC's last mining base rather than the main (in which he only took out about 2 pylons and temporarily unpowered 2 of the 12 wg's), then ThorZain probably wins that game.

Also, in Game 5 MC scouted exactly what Thorzain was doing and utterly failed to counter it. He could have made VR's instead of phoenix from his stargate, which would have fared much better in that final battle.

MC's macro game isn't bad, but he's a MUCH better player when the game is simple and there's not too much to focus his micromanagement on.

In the GSL, Polt picked him apart in their second match by dropping him while attacking his front, and MC lost much more than a Code S Protoss should have in those exchanges. I think there's a good case to be made that guys like Trickster, San, & WhiteRa play the Protoss end-game (which necessarily requires better macro) better than MC.

Thorzain tore apart MC's army because of upgrades and EMP, not because of better macro. The fact that MC had a huge supply lead before that fight shows that MC's macro had been superior up to that point. He did not "let MC back into the game" with that drop, it was the fact that MC's army comp was simply better and he was up on bases the entire game.

People think MC can't macro because his 2base timings and his early game is so strong. MC often has very good timings on when to take new expos. His money rarely gets very high (compared to Adel) and he makes good transitions. Fact is if in the first two games MC had even one forge in the early game chronoing upgrades both games he would've won. It all came down to the upgrades in those games, not because he failed to macro or anything.

ThorZain only got off that huge EMP on the immortals due to MC not having an observer there. Yes, at that point ThorZain made the wrong decision and as a result lost a lead that he had just gained, but before that MC had the lead for quite a bit, even maybe enough to end the game after the first engagement with 6 immortals. Its easy to say, "at this point MC could have lost the game" but there were also many points where ThorZain could have lost the game (and he ultimately did). Both players made some mistakes. However, as for the case of MC's macro, he stayed in the early game by pure force of having more units/money than ThorZain. Despite being behind in upgrades and not having great tech, MC fought off ThorZain's early pushes and almost constantly stayed ahead in supply.

As far as game 5 goes, it was just an incorrect response to ThorZain's BO and not indicative of macro skills.

As for Polt, MC just played poorly in both games, pretty much losing the the first 6 minutes both games, the drops were good but inconsequential, at that point MC was already so far behind there was no way to defend the 2 pronged attack by polt.