HomeStoryCup III - Day 3 - Page 360

On June 26 2011 04:41 FinnGamer wrote:

Like ToD said, "He doesn't age"

On June 26 2011 04:42 Antithesis wrote:

I need to quote this for the extensive lols i had irl.

Crush your opponent being ahead in upgrades 2-0? Just random stuff you made man, no skill involved.

On June 26 2011 04:42 mholden02 wrote:


Please. Foreigners are catching up to the Koreans. Koreans have an infrastructure/starcraft build in advantagr ATM, but its slowly changing.

On June 26 2011 04:42 mholden02 wrote:


Please. Foreigners are catching up to the Koreans. Koreans have an infrastructure/starcraft build in advantagr ATM, but its slowly changing.

On June 26 2011 04:32 Kettchup wrote:


The micro didn't matter much. It was the 2-0 upgrade advantage that won it for Naniwa, no amount of micro could have overcome that. Seems MC's big weakness is not having good upgrade timings as it was a large part of his loss to Thorzain as well.

On June 26 2011 04:41 alepov wrote:
ok can someone link me brackets please. I just searched on the incredible esl site and google for 10mins, impossible to find. Thanks.

On June 26 2011 04:39 lunchforthesky wrote:


MC is a far better player than Naniwa, it's not close. He's much more consistant, has won far more tournaments and is better in every matchup.

On June 26 2011 04:44 cyclone25 wrote:
The level of insight from Naniwa/Sase is over 9000 ^_^

On June 26 2011 04:43 Markwerf wrote:


This is so true. If anything is wrong with MC's games it's his use of upgrades. He often doesn't get them at all or when he does he prioritizes the wrong one. Seen him a fair number of times go 3-0 in PvT for example where everyone knows that armor is as good or perhaps even better then attack there (gateway vs MMM).
Game 3 vs naniwa he opened brilliantly with the fake 4 gate, however it was stupid he went 2 sentries himself afterwards as that really throws away the advantage of a fake 4 gate. After that he was still in fine shape, slightly later expo but more probes. Then he goes blink afterwards in a robo war.. that's just terrible.

Game 2 was awesome from MC though, DT tech is quite good these days. Against a few strats it wins on the spot like stargate or a slow blink build. Against robo itself it's not even that bad, often the obs is out of the base which can be spotted quite easily and then the tech pays itself back in probe kills. If they do defend it blink + zealots + 1 or 2 archon from the DT actually works quite well against colo. The proper way for the robo player is to expand asap imo and just build up colossi. Colo in small numbers are just not good for pushing..

On June 26 2011 04:43 Eufouria wrote:

He does. He just ages like an asian woman.

On June 26 2011 04:44 ellirc wrote:

Protoss overmind?

On June 26 2011 04:42 Rammstorm wrote:
People get so excited a about a 2-1. Probably Naniwa was preparing his builds all this time, watching MC's games to analyze and counter ... in the meantime... MC sleeps, MC goes around eating having fun/trolling cams, and not watching games...

Also for those saying that Slayers_Alicia is better, the night before the match MC was in a party until veery late not really worrying about his match. Overconfidence keeps being his weak point.

Not taking away anything from Naniwa's win, but stating Naniwa is the better player in that match is just out of scope..

On June 26 2011 04:45 Telcontar wrote:

Plastic hardly ages.

On June 26 2011 04:44 Kimzao wrote:

Granted that MC has won bigger tournaments due to playing on a bigger stage (doesn't get much bigger than GSL) but Naniwa has been pretty damn consistant these last couple of months.