Spanishiwa vs TLO Bo7 SHOWMATCH - Page 7

TLO for being the fall guy!

The fact that spanishiwa can take TLO 4-0 is actually quite impressive, most of his play is also just great basics (scouting, when to drone, overlord and ling placement, using cost efficient units like queens and spines).

A misread cost him g6 (should have dropped 2-3 more spines asap and gotten more lings).

I wouldn't be surprised if he influenced the top zergs, the fact that they don't use burrow (whether for roach, infestor or saving lings) or queens to their full potential has been brought up before but this is the most convincing use I have seen of those zerg mechanics. This is especially true for the burrowed roaches in ZvT, they act a lot like dts (force scans or turrets, pin the Terran in his base until he gets ravens or is ready to spend a ton of scans) for a much lower cost. The simple fact is a Terran can't afford to spam scans just in case (and remember, burrowed roaches are only visible while moving so they can be used as traps) and it only takes a few roaches to snipe a tank and run away.

People in this thread are saying that TLO needed turrets or a raven but forcing terrans to blindly go turrets is actually pretty brutal on their economy and ravens are a pain to get (and not that hard to snipe off).

I really want to see Spanishiwa in major tournaments ...

It'd be interesting to see how these games would've gone if TLO opted not to try and match Spanishiwa's macro from the get-go. Maybe some more all in-ish behavior, or a delayed first expansion with some more pressure. Really cool games, though.

I'm kind of speechless that TLO got 4-0'd. TLO is no push over at all. But it looked like he got totally out classed... Well played Spanishiwa.

Insane games by Spanish here, queen ultras best combo .

I think it's safe to say Spanishwa is a better player than TLO flat out. I mean they played a super-extended Best of 7, and got 4-0'ed and 5-2'ed total.

I consider TLO as a mid-tier player (but very lovable). I wonder how Spanshiwa would fare against the Koreans or the crazy foreigners of TSL3.

Spanshiwa vs IdrA would be VERY entertaining. Can we make this happen?

Damn Spanishiwa playing such awesome and unusual builds and just stomping TLO down 4-0 makes me stunned. He really plays Zerg as it should be played using all the awesome mechanics. Nydus, Mass Quenn, Infestors&Ultras. And even though he is a greedy greedy guy often he seems to get away with it most of the time.

Would be interested to see how he fares against Korean T aggression

As much as I love Spanishiwa, I'm having a hard time believing that was actually TLO playing. The games for him were played so standard and conservatively. Spanishiwa really slaughtered him. However, into the 5th and 6th games we saw some of TLO's early pressure builds that really punished Spanishiwa. I don't want to use these games as examples for the pro scene in general, but it seemed that when TLO went for a macro game, he simply was overpowered by the economic genius of Spanishiwa's style. Maybe for a terran, early aggression is mandatory?

He's the better player because of winning a series? Are you serious? I don't want to take anything from Spanishiwa, he played great and he played better then TLO obviously but that doesn't make him a better player. He has zero accomplishments right now in tournaments. Does he even has beaten any really good players in tournaments?

Again: He played great and I really enjoyed the series!

Zerg looks damn fine in the hands of Spanishiwa.