iCCup/Nationvoice Korean Weekly Finals #1 - $500! - Page 30

On July 19 2011 14:03 Caesarion wrote:
Isn't Byun's portrait Puma?

On July 19 2011 14:03 Noocta wrote:
I don't understand why Byun didn't try any bunker during the 2rax.

On July 18 2011 04:27 CosmicSpiral wrote:
I just have to say that iCCup Weekly is the most underrated tournament in the scene. You guys consistently have the deepest talent pool besides SK Asia Champions Trophy and GSL, yet you only get a fraction of the views of NASL (hell, SK Asia has the same problem). 10,000 views should be the minimum whenever you have players like Younghwa, Puzzle, Huk, and Puma competing every week.

Just letting you know how much I appreciate what you're doing.

On July 19 2011 14:03 HolyArrow wrote:


Sage vs. Byun Game 1: Sage takes a pretty fast expansion, holds Byun back at his base with Blink pressure, feigning a Blink all-in, long enough to get Colossi + thermal lance out. Byun waits too long, tries to push when Sage is completely ready, gets his army decimated and pushed all the way back to his base, GGs.

Game 2: I missed most of it, but from what I read, Sage did some DT play and in the end got pretty far ahead of Byun (I'm missing a TON of details here so maybe someone else can fill them in), finished off Byun with a huge push.

Sage vs. Puma: Game 1: Sage goes for a 6gate all-in, Puma holds, Sage GGs. Unremarkable. A cool detail that I liked is that Puma put his SCVs in front of his bunkers rather than behind them, so if Sage wanted to prevent them from repairing the bunkers, he'd have to FF the front, which would prevent Zealots from attacking the bunkers. I'm not too sure how good that actually is since you just lose all those SCVs, but it was interesting.

Game 2: Sage goes Nexus first, Puma techs all the way to cloak banshee and does minimal damage, putting Sage in a comfortable lead. Puma responds by double expanding, taking a proxy base in a corner of the map - meanwhile, Sage techs to High Templar while putting on some pressure at Puma's front to try to maintain his lead. Meanwhile, Puma tries to do several drops on Sage, and loses 3 medivacs, all of them full, to Feedback, putting Puma way behind. Sage macros up a massive army, and after a few small engagements (Sage finds Puma's proxy base eventually and destroys it) Sage eventually rolls Puma over by just having too much stuff.

Game 3: Sage goes Nexus first again. Puma tries to do a 1-1-1 all-in on Terminus Re, but the positions are the furthest possible, and he also tries to get cloak first, which delays the push even more. Sage easily holds the attack, putting him double Puma's supply. Puma tries one more attack in a futile attempt, and ggs.

On July 19 2011 14:14 tdt wrote:
Is Lizzuma fucking eating on a cast?

On July 19 2011 14:14 tdt wrote:
Is Lizzuma fucking eating on a cast?

On July 19 2011 14:14 tdt wrote:
Is Lizzuma fucking eating on a cast? Have to take back what I said about professional.

On July 19 2011 14:17 HolyArrow wrote:


Does it really matter? If I had to cast for that long I'd certainly want some nourishment at some point... cut them some slack. It's not like it's impeding his casting abilities, unless your ears simply can't handle the occasional sound of chewing.

On July 19 2011 14:24 forgottendreams wrote:
+1 for Ithica being one of the most solid maps I've seen played.

As much as I hope it becomes a standard tourney map in the big tournies I know it wont happen

On July 19 2011 14:05 out4blood wrote:

Yea, this series has had some great talent (the unsung Korean heroes who have yet to get into Code S) and I have really been digging Orb's casting. He focuses on the game more than on stupid in-jokes.