[GSL] Oct Code A Grand Final - Page 43

On October 10 2011 21:57 aksfjh wrote:


This just in: Artosis is wrong a lot of the time. I'm not sure why people listen to him. He's the king of disappointing predictions.

On October 11 2011 02:10 1800STFU wrote:
I am going to laugh when no Protosses get out of the up/downs and we're left with Huk and Killer as the only 2 Tosses left.

On October 11 2011 02:21 Belial88 wrote:


The whole Take-Super-Fast-Third vs FFE strat is kind of new, so I think the real strat is taking a super fast third, not muta/ling. I think some people have figured out that muta/ling is a really good way to transition from taking a super fast third.

Game 3 was not about Curious' amazing ling/muta usage, but rather the failed hidden base and then Curious getting in huge ling runbys. The former is a weak coinflip, the latter was a blunder not fit for a code A champion, which is exactly why he lost. If that third was just his normal third instead, or he hadn't let those lings run into his base, he would've done much better.

Curious was using mostly roach play in that game, and I think he threw up the spire actually as a way to be ready against Colossi. But then he found the hidden third, so he sacced his roaches to kill it. He didn't kill it, but he knew Oz was spread extremely thin, so that mutas would work excellently against someone sticking to gateway units, and he also knew with mutas he could just FF the nexus down.



You can't afford that with muta/ling, and what good is 15 spines if they don't guard your third? Muta/ling just gets owned by mass gateway timings like 6-7-8 gates that were popular, they get owned by the increased popularity of stargate, they get owned by normal play, and they get owned by archon play. What they do good with, is maps that are very large, maps where the third is 'inside' your base like Crevasse or Terminus, maps where the third is extremely far like Crossfire (or BelShir beach when you make your 4th your third) where you can force the enemy to have to run back and forth to protect their base, and when your opponent has an extremely low stalker count and you want to exploit it.

On October 10 2011 21:36 s4life wrote:
One sided match.. but seriously, another zerg winning and important tournament in the last week.. it's getting really hard to argue about zerg being the 'weakest' race...

On October 10 2011 22:19 Telcontar wrote:
Nice to see Asha's hype about Curious was right all along.

On October 11 2011 04:59 Goshdarnit wrote:
People complaining that Oz lost to a beast like curious? Sad Zealot my ass curious just happened to be the best player in code A this season, he proved that thoroughly. Its not like every Z won all their matches except zvz.
Plus, just because the few zergs in code S actually get far is because they are really good obviously, the reason there aren't more zergs in code S is because its freaking hard to be that good. Maybe when protoss figure out PvT they can start winning in code S because like it has been said pretty much 2/3 of players in code S are terran.

On October 11 2011 04:44 Asha` wrote:


Who do you take me for, Artosis? =p

Super happy to see Curious 4-0! Like I said, it would be a well deserved win, and in the end he really pulled through in convincing fashion ^_^

On October 11 2011 05:05 windsupernova wrote:


Yeah Curious was definitively the better player here. But thats what you get when TL endorsed balance whine happens.I kinda expected Oz to continue his vZ winstreak but oh well anyone who saw the games knows that Oz lost because of how he played, not his race

On October 11 2011 03:45 windsupernova wrote:


its been like that for a while man. Zergs are hardly a weaker race now. Hell even 2with 20 T in Code S 70% of the Zergs made it into RO16. And this season TvZ in GSL is at 52%. Its only Destiny and idra complaining about Zerg being weak.

Hopefully P/Blizzard can figure out stuff more because P is overall doing badly atm.