[GSL] Code S Semifinals - Page 95

On March 12 2011 21:07 m3rciless wrote:
overall, not super super solid, but when has july ever been a super super solid player. He lives and dies with ultra-aggressive knifes-edge decision making.

On March 12 2011 20:44 Talin wrote:


And when you say unbiased, you mean... uninformed?

The only, ONLY reason why players like MC and especially MVP are "dominating" these early stages of SC2 as an esport is because they were one step ahead of most other SC2 players when it comes to their BW ability. They aren't particularly talented and there's really nothing special about them as RTS players in general - they're only exploiting the fact that there's nobody better playing the game that seriously for the time being and using their skills (that 95% of crossed over from bw) to beat everybody else.

Now players like July and Nada (and maybe even Boxer at a stretch) are guys that are genuinely talented and mechanically superb players on global scale. It's only a matter of how much they practice and how much they get into the game before they're better than the people playing sc2 currently. Now Boxer and I think Nada are both married, they both live at their own homes and they don't really get the top level training environment they need and probably don't put in nearly the same hours as they did during their progaming peak.

July on the other hand does get that training at ST house, he's taken enough time to figure out how to play the game his own way, plus he has the mindset of a proven, seasoned champion. In fact, I'm pretty sure out of the two of them, MC will be the one who goes into the finals feeling more nervous.

On March 12 2011 21:22 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:


I think his play this season has shown that he *should* be able to dismantle July quite handily. MC has been beasting through every round; I really hope he doesn't choke.

On March 12 2011 19:31 syllogism wrote:

It's not the aggression that's the issue; it's that he overdoes the aggression, his builds doesn't seem smooth and his decision making in general isn't good. It also seems to rely rather heavily on your opponent making mistakes. It would be great if such aggression was viable a zerg, but I'm not convinced. Definitely not as a standard playstyle. 6 pools and baneling busts also produce extremely unentertaining games.

On March 12 2011 21:07 m3rciless wrote:


6pool game 1 --> win
anypro opens 3 phoenix, and then delays a bit and makes a lot more, goes for a push with blink stalkers, july plays reactively with corruptors and roach ling crushes the push --> win
game 3 --> both players play passively at start, july goes up to 4base, anypro on 2 and then 3 pretty fast, relatively standard game --> lose
anypro FFE on XNC, july abuses the open nat for 2 ling runbys into anypro has no probes, game was over right then but anypro stays in for a while, july harasses with mutas and roach and then ends it with a bust.

overall, not super super solid, but when has july ever been a super super solid player. He lives and dies with ultra-aggressive knifes-edge decision making.

On March 12 2011 22:14 Weasel- wrote:
When I fullscreen the GSL vod how do I get the video's info bar to disappear? It stays and covers up the progress bar of every unit that gets produced...

On March 12 2011 22:35 hugman wrote:

Move the mouse to the upper half of the screen

On March 12 2011 23:03 McGuire72 wrote:
where can I watch vods of these games?? specifically July's games??