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kethers
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States719 Posts
July 24 2011 05:29 GMT
#401
Personally I can appreciate high level ZvZ that is shown by Sen. Because it is a very thin and volatile matchup, you can see brilliant tactics being experimented and discovered to exploit small advantages here and there to give him the advantage.
Mohdoo
Profile Joined August 2007
United States15743 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-24 05:29:50
July 24 2011 05:29 GMT
#402
Good thing that EG makes Idra do dumb shit like random shows and casting. Clearly helping him improve and focus on his gaming. Oh wait, no. I really hope that EG stops using their players are celebrities and tries to lean them more towards being killing machines. They aren't keeping up.

I miss the Idra from GSL.
Pwere
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1557 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-24 05:32:35
July 24 2011 05:29 GMT
#403
On July 24 2011 14:20 brain_ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 14:18 FAKEnameHere wrote:
On July 24 2011 14:15 brain_ wrote:
On July 24 2011 14:14 walklightwhat wrote:
On July 24 2011 14:14 brain_ wrote:
What shitty finals... Same thing every time. IdrA makes a round of drones when Sen made Zerlings, IdrA immediately loses.


Welcome to zvz.



Believe me, I know... I play Zerg... ZvZ is not fun.

On July 24 2011 14:15 Apollo_Shards wrote:
On July 24 2011 14:14 brain_ wrote:
What shitty finals... Same thing every time. IdrA makes a round of drones when Sen made Zerlings, IdrA immediately loses. Impossible to scout in time since Zerglings cross the map in a quarter second. Impossible to be greedy in ZvZ. :/

It wasnt shitty, just because the person you wanted to win didn't doesn't mean its bad.


It was shitty regardless of who won, all the games were short and looked exactly the same. Had IdrA 3-0'd Sen with all-ins before the 10 minute mark, I'd say the same.

If every matchup was like ZvZ, nobody would watch (or play) Starcraft.


PvP used to suck almost as bad, but has improved. TvT is great! ZvZ makes me a sad panda.

In this case I wasn't sure what to look forward to because I don't think Axslav could have beat IdrA.



And ZvZ has been shittier for longer than both of them.

Seriously, ZvZ started out as Roach vs Roach, then evolved into Baneling wars. It hasn't changed since, except now you have to throw in Infestors.
And now that infestors don't counter mutas as hard, there's also the random muta all-in you can lose to, plus roach/infestor fights all come down to a few key fungals...

Maybe it could be fixed if we finally learned to use Nydus.
On July 24 2011 14:29 kethers wrote:
Personally I can appreciate high level ZvZ that is shown by Sen. Because it is a very thin and volatile matchup, you can see brilliant tactics being experimented and discovered to exploit small advantages here and there to give him the advantage.
Small advantages don't end the game. While Sen's play was good, he basically went all-in every game and won. He didn't use "brillant tactics", Idra simply guessed wrong (or didn't care enough and went auto-pilot, but that's not relevant to thsi discussion).
damod
Profile Joined March 2011
1106 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-25 04:14:33
July 24 2011 05:32 GMT
#404
On July 24 2011 14:15 GreyArrow wrote:
Good job Sen!, can't help but feel slightly happy the EG lost today.

EG lost ? they were rated the highest in this tournament.
idra 2nd
axlave 3rd
demuslim 4th
Machine 5th

that a huge win imo.
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SafeAsCheese
Profile Joined June 2011
United States4924 Posts
July 24 2011 05:33 GMT
#405
If only Demuslim had sieged his tanks Sen would have never made it back to the finals xD
GenoZStriker
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States2914 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-24 05:36:41
July 24 2011 05:34 GMT
#406
On July 24 2011 14:23 Apollo_Shards wrote:
I am really glad for verizon sponsoring sc2 tournies! And can anyone confirm the prizes?

There were 43 players. So the prize pool should have been $860 and the $1000 guaranteed. Distribution is 60/30/10 so $1116/$558/$186

On July 24 2011 14:32 damod wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 14:15 GreyArrow wrote:
Good job Sen!, can't help but feel slightly happy the EG lost today.

EG lost ? they were rated the highest in this tournament.
idra 2nd
axlave 3rd
demuslim 4th
lzgamer5th

that a huge win imo.

Yup. Pretty much. Might not be first place, but taking top placements is more than enough to be satisfied. But if you know why the people are commenting like they you'd understand.
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hmunkey
Profile Joined August 2010
United Kingdom1973 Posts
July 24 2011 05:39 GMT
#407
On July 24 2011 14:29 Mohdoo wrote:
Good thing that EG makes Idra do dumb shit like random shows and casting. Clearly helping him improve and focus on his gaming. Oh wait, no. I really hope that EG stops using their players are celebrities and tries to lean them more towards being killing machines. They aren't keeping up.

I miss the Idra from GSL.

He 2-0ed Sen earlier in this tourney, right? And he beat everyone else there getting back into the finals where he then lost to the other best non-Korean zerg. I don't really see how this represents IdrA as being a bad player now in any capacity. Losing to Sen 3-2 overall is really not a big deal.
Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
July 24 2011 05:39 GMT
#408
On July 24 2011 14:32 damod wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 14:15 GreyArrow wrote:
Good job Sen!, can't help but feel slightly happy the EG lost today.

EG lost ? they were rated the highest in this tournament.
idra 2nd
axlave 3rd
demuslim 4th
lzgamer5th

that a huge win imo.


Great point, they did awesome at this event. Looking forward to MLG!
You may delay, but time will not. Current Music obsession: Opeth
Quintum_
Profile Joined May 2011
United States669 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-24 05:41:27
July 24 2011 05:40 GMT
#409
Wow interesting results, So Sen gets knocked down to the losers bracket being 0-2 by idra but then fights his way back to 3-0 idra in the finals, nice. Fan of both of them so i am sad to see one of them lose.

Still cant say who is the best foreign zerg is from this, seeing as both sen and idra can take series off each other. Plus ZvZ is so bad that the tiniest mistake can cost you a game.

I would say idra is still the better macro player while Sen deals with early aggression a lot better then idra. Why can they just combine there talents and make one super zerg player. Or at least another super zerg with nestea xp
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Kraznaya
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3711 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-24 05:41:05
July 24 2011 05:40 GMT
#410

Yup. Pretty much. Might not be first place, but taking top placements is more than enough to be satisfied. But if you know why the people are commenting like they you'd understand.


After Sen it was pretty much an in house tourney. It's not like anyone else of note besides Sen showed up.

If EG couldn't beat the no names who showed up at the tourney they might as well disband.
do you have enough resolve, hero of justice?
Pasado
Profile Joined December 2010
United States142 Posts
July 24 2011 05:40 GMT
#411
On July 24 2011 14:12 ZeaL. wrote:
Sen was like lol imma lose 2-0 first time around, beast the losers bracket and then 3-0 in the finals just to troll Idra.


Scumbag Sen.

Just kidding Sen is awesome.
Angelbelow
Profile Joined September 2010
United States3728 Posts
July 24 2011 05:42 GMT
#412
On July 24 2011 14:40 Kraznaya wrote:
Show nested quote +

Yup. Pretty much. Might not be first place, but taking top placements is more than enough to be satisfied. But if you know why the people are commenting like they you'd understand.


After Sen it was pretty much an in house tourney. It's not like anyone else of note besides Sen showed up.

If EG couldn't beat the no names who showed up at the tourney they might as well disband.


lol haters gonna hate
You may delay, but time will not. Current Music obsession: Opeth
MenSol[ZerO]
Profile Joined January 2010
Canada1134 Posts
July 24 2011 05:44 GMT
#413
i think both sen and nerchio are above idra
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red4ce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States7313 Posts
July 24 2011 05:47 GMT
#414
On July 24 2011 14:40 Quintum_ wrote:
Wow interesting results, So Sen gets knocked down to the losers bracket being 0-2 by idra but then fights his way back to 3-0 idra in the finals, nice. Fan of both of them so i am sad to see one of them lose.

Still cant say who is the best foreign zerg is from this, seeing as both sen and idra can take series off each other. Plus ZvZ is so bad that the tiniest mistake can cost you a game.

I would say idra is still the better macro player while Sen deals with early aggression a lot better then idra. Why can they just combine there talents and make one super zerg player. Or at least another super zerg with nestea xp


Sen has outlasted Idra at 4 consecutive tournaments (that they both participated in). I'd say Sen holds a small but definitive enough edge over Idra to be called the best foreign zerg at the moment. Not really a surprise since Sen ladders against Koreans and Idra ladders against North Americans.
SafeAsCheese
Profile Joined June 2011
United States4924 Posts
July 24 2011 05:47 GMT
#415
On July 24 2011 14:44 MenSol[ZerO] wrote:
i think both sen and nerchio are above idra


Oh yeah?

Well Destiny and Haypro are better than Sen and Nerchio.

My logic is infallible :D
Apollo_Shards
Profile Joined February 2011
1210 Posts
July 24 2011 05:52 GMT
#416
On July 24 2011 14:40 Kraznaya wrote:
Show nested quote +

Yup. Pretty much. Might not be first place, but taking top placements is more than enough to be satisfied. But if you know why the people are commenting like they you'd understand.


After Sen it was pretty much an in house tourney. It's not like anyone else of note besides Sen showed up.

If EG couldn't beat the no names who showed up at the tourney they might as well disband.

Inka showed, but is that still kinda EG?
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KonArtifex
Profile Joined May 2011
United States2 Posts
July 24 2011 05:53 GMT
#417
Sen didn't want to go into the late game because in the two previous games he played IdrA he got destroyed, he was just doing what he thought would win him the games and he did. I don' think you can find out who is the better player just from this tiny lan.
Quintum_
Profile Joined May 2011
United States669 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-24 05:59:22
July 24 2011 05:57 GMT
#418
On July 24 2011 14:47 red4ce wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 14:40 Quintum_ wrote:
Wow interesting results, So Sen gets knocked down to the losers bracket being 0-2 by idra but then fights his way back to 3-0 idra in the finals, nice. Fan of both of them so i am sad to see one of them lose.

Still cant say who is the best foreign zerg is from this, seeing as both sen and idra can take series off each other. Plus ZvZ is so bad that the tiniest mistake can cost you a game.

I would say idra is still the better macro player while Sen deals with early aggression a lot better then idra. Why can they just combine there talents and make one super zerg player. Or at least another super zerg with nestea xp


Sen has outlasted Idra at 4 consecutive tournaments (that they both participated in). I'd say Sen holds a small but definitive enough edge over Idra to be called the best foreign zerg at the moment. Not really a surprise since Sen ladders against Koreans and Idra ladders against North Americans.


Ya, now that i think about i would have to agree, as much as i am an idra fan he is just so inconsistent. Some days idra is a beast like no other and other days he plays so bad. Sen allways has consistent play that is always high level giving him that small edge like you say. Plus he is not as easy to tilt as idra xp.

I wonder how dimaga stacks up to idra and sen now, he was the other zerg that was constantly thrown in with idra and sen as the top three foreign zergs, I dont follow him but i know he is a high level player.
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KillerPlague
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1386 Posts
July 24 2011 05:59 GMT
#419
wow fail by me for just seeing this. i drove on this street today bored out of my mind.
Side 1: Why no dominant players with 90% win ratio Side 2: Nerf Side 1
JoeSchmoe
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2058 Posts
July 24 2011 06:10 GMT
#420
On July 24 2011 14:32 damod wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 24 2011 14:15 GreyArrow wrote:
Good job Sen!, can't help but feel slightly happy the EG lost today.

EG lost ? they were rated the highest in this tournament.
idra 2nd
axlave 3rd
demuslim 4th
lzgamer5th

that a huge win imo.


not really when the only big names in the tournament is EG and Sen.

Sen is a fucking beast. People don't give this guy enough credit.
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