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Watch how you approach the topic of match fixing. You can speculate, saying "I'm not so sure about the finals, something doesn't sit right with me," but if you are going to outright accuse players of match fixing you need something more than your word.

TL takes match fixing/abuse seriously and as such there is a burden a proof when you are accusing players.

- p4NDemik
thebig1
Profile Joined March 2011
248 Posts
October 23 2011 00:53 GMT
#5941
I think it's a bit harsh to call it fixed, but I don't understand how the people saying that final game was epic. It just didn't feel like either of them WANTED the win. The complete lack of competitive feel ruined the match for me. It felt like two low masters players playing with many mistakes.

I suspect they decided to split the prize and show "good games" to the fans. As a result neither of them wanted to end the game too quickly without something "awesome" happening. Personally, that's not what makes a game good...


And even with that aside. It was just even worse of a turtle fest than basically every TvT i've ever seen.
pPingu
Profile Joined September 2011
Switzerland2892 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5942
I think both of them must be really tired, that was a really long day with a lot of matches.

GSL is a lot more player firendly in that way.
j0ker
Profile Joined August 2011
275 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5943
anyone whining about ghosts is conveniently ignoring nestea 1) staying on 90+ drones for too long 2) nestea failing to inject late game and keep up the production to remax with his 11k/6k bank 3) nestea utterly botching his doom drop 4) nestea REPEATEDLY failing to multitask enough to pull drones away from nukes 5) nestea wasting 15 spines in the center while his tech and production got ravaged by tiny drops and most of all 6) nestea making 25 broodlords against a primarily ghost viking army and not supporting them with ANYTHING when he engaged. nestea completely botched that game and mvps control and multitasking was simply better throughout. theres no point in going to 90+ drones and quickly maxing if you are going to let the terran split the map without a fight.
Genome852
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States979 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-23 01:00:25
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5944
On October 23 2011 09:48 TaKemE wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2011 09:45 Micket wrote:
Can someone describe to me a max army that could touch MVP's army? I don't care how Nestea blundered in terms of defending expos, his bank was large enough for 4 remaxes. MVP's turtle on side expos was impenetrable, turrets, sensor towers everywhere. As blunderous Nestea's failed drops looked, he was faced without the problem of defeating the cloaked ghost army. Once MVP reached an economy of similar prowess as Nestea, he could start throwing drops everywhere just like a Zerg could throw zerglings away, and Nestea couldn't deal with it.

I blame Shakuras Plateau (which was the best Zerg map in the pool WTF)


He had almost no way to killing what MVP had in the end but he could have attacked alot more early and used some of all that income he had and not just save it.


Agree

The easiest way to deal with it is to not need to deal with it at all.

You should not wait for the Terran to replace ALL of his marines with the much more supply efficient ghosts (and supply efficiency is extremely important in late game)... because then you're going to be in a world of ****. Attack / trade armies before then.

It's like TvT bio vs tank player... bio player wants to trade armies constantly if possible because tanks are much more supply efficient than bio... only in this case bio is zerg and tank is ghosts.

Theorycraft: If you do end up in nestea's situation the best solution would probably be a TON of lings (remax after remax). In small armies lings beat ghosts, but in larger armies they trade rather equally. Then arises the issue of cloak... your overseers get sniped and landing an ace fungal to decloak them could be difficult... so abuse the immobility of ghosts and send lings everywhere the ghosts aren't, harassing using drops etc.

(Still waiting for a pimp play to happen: infestor sneaks up and neurals a ghost and EMPs the entire ghost group - Z army then kills everything due to no snipe energy).
scarper65
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
1560 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5945
People complain about ghosts countering tier3, but if you realize this than why continue going tier 3?
.:Myr:.
Profile Joined July 2011
Portugal24 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5946
Why are all the tournament endings this awkward ?
I thought they were going to interviewed...
They just stood there with their prizes, crowd was silent, no background music ....... just .... awkward.
Terranist
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2496 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5947
On October 23 2011 09:51 Eraserhead wrote:
Lol, Nestea and MVP rigged this whole tournament, first game between them in winners bracket was also rigged, MVP let Nestea win because the chance of him beating Sen is bigger than Nestea. Remember first game on Shakuras? MVP doesn't even make a fucking wall-in at his first or 2nd ramp, what a terrible tournament


you mean the guy with the 92% winrate in ZvZ was afraid of sen? you don't understand, this is their job. they don't mess around with that much money on the line, and they certainly don't split the pot.
The Show of a Lifetime
Woizit
Profile Joined June 2011
801 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5948
When you have over 100 banelings against a Terran that has 50 SCVs and over 10 Vikings for non-existent Broodlords, I don't care how OP Terran is, they can't have enough supply to counter-push efficiently before the ling remax.
Medrea
Profile Joined May 2011
10003 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5949
On October 23 2011 09:51 Angra wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2011 09:49 Itsmedudeman wrote:
Yeah guys, they fixed the pot and decided that nestea would lose on purpose. Are you guys fucking dumb? Why the hell would nestea need to lose in a situation like that? If they were going to split the pot then who the fuck cares who wins. This argument is embarrassing for the entire site and community.


people used to get banned for even suggesting it.

guess it's ok to do now :/


Well there is a thread here on TL where very many pro players admitted to pot splitting so i guess it is standard EZPZ now.
twitch.tv/medrea
Whiztard
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States241 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5950
On October 23 2011 09:52 xCenasfu wrote:
I wonder what the BW pros thought of that final..


they're not going to switch to SC2
when Bisu switches to SC2...... (2014 update: sighh)
AutomatonOmega
Profile Joined February 2011
United States706 Posts
October 23 2011 00:54 GMT
#5951
On October 23 2011 09:51 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2011 09:50 diophan wrote:
On October 23 2011 09:45 tlrocksss wrote:
On October 23 2011 09:44 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
On October 23 2011 09:43 freewareplayer wrote:
A tier 2 unit countering a tier 3 unit is ok, but a tier 2 unit countering the complete tier 3 of a race is not right no matter how you look at it

It's countered by the tier 1......


Ghost counter lings.


If you can use 30 ghosts to hit snipe on 100 lings before they die then sure.


Kill the detection, cloak, profit.
Also, they do well vs light, 30 ghosts would kill 100 lings without abilities...

Because a ghost is worth 12 lings worth of resources? What about 360 lings vs 30 ghosts?
Rykros
Profile Joined May 2011
483 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5952
Thanks alot blizzard stream i can rewatch the games i missed <3
T3tra
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States406 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5953
I'm leaning towards them splitting the money as well. I don't want to take anything away from MVP's win, but Nestea didn't seem like he was playing his best at all. I just hope MVP doesn't go into a slump after losing to MMA in GSL. This confidence boost will hopefully keep him in a good enough mind set to continue to be an amazing Terran.

Congrats to IM for beating pretty much everyone. Their team manager must be insanely happy :D
I need this place like I need a shotgun blast to the face.
garlicface
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada4196 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5954
On October 23 2011 09:53 thebig1 wrote:
I think it's a bit harsh to call it fixed, but I don't understand how the people saying that final game was epic. It just didn't feel like either of them WANTED the win. The complete lack of competitive feel ruined the match for me. It felt like two low masters players playing with many mistakes.

I suspect they decided to split the prize and show "good games" to the fans. As a result neither of them wanted to end the game too quickly without something "awesome" happening. Personally, that's not what makes a game good...


And even with that aside. It was just even worse of a turtle fest than basically every TvT i've ever seen.

hahahaha holy shit. Okay, you win. This is the post that will make me log off TL for the night.

Fuck it, I'm outtie.
#TeamBuLba
jmbthirteen
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States10734 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5955
On October 23 2011 09:53 dolvlo wrote:
How do you go about countering 18 full upgraded ghosts with siege and viking support? I honestly have no idea, I saw MVP do this to July in the GSL too.

the similarity in both of those games? MVP was ahead before he got so many ghosts out. When Nestea's doom drop failed miserably, the game was over.
www.superbeerbrothers.com
Micket
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2163 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5956
On October 23 2011 09:49 Jtom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2011 09:45 Micket wrote:
Can someone describe to me a max army that could touch MVP's army? I don't care how Nestea blundered in terms of defending expos, his bank was large enough for 4 remaxes. MVP's turtle on side expos was impenetrable, turrets, sensor towers everywhere. As blunderous Nestea's failed drops looked, he was faced without the problem of defeating the cloaked ghost army. Once MVP reached an economy of similar prowess as Nestea, he could start throwing drops everywhere just like a Zerg could throw zerglings away, and Nestea couldn't deal with it.

I blame Shakuras Plateau (which was the best Zerg map in the pool WTF)

Mass lings, 3 or 4 times would've killed MVP at any point which Nestea could've easily done with his 15,000 minerals.

Ok just tested his with my friend a few times. The Zerglings are barely able to reach the Terran army let alone attack. By the time the Zerglings reached the Terran army, the marines alone could clean up the lings. Let alone the planetary, ghosts which 2 shot lings, tanks that kill 10 lings a volley (and there are around 10 tanks...). You're wrong I'm sorry.

You clearly haven't played enough ZvT to realise that when the Terran reaches the 160 supply area, Lings become useless in actual fights and are mainly for drop denial and fodder. Of course with infestors ling are still great but infestors would not have touched MVP there, knowing his micro.
ThePlayer33
Profile Joined October 2011
Australia2378 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5957
On October 23 2011 09:30 kiy0 wrote:
This is just perfect. An unparallel demonstration of how OP Terran really is. And all of this right at Blizzcon.

Take that Blizzard. Lets hope you don't screw up HotS.

User was temp banned for this post.


blizzard already stuffed up HotS. the game is gonna turn into a spellcaster game like those other "strategy" games out there. It will deviate from the starcraft as we know it.
| Idra | YuGiOh | Leenock | Coca |
Torqq
Profile Joined August 2011
Finland21 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5958
On October 23 2011 09:48 jmbthirteen wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 23 2011 09:47 Angra wrote:
On October 23 2011 09:45 tlrocksss wrote:
On October 23 2011 09:44 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
On October 23 2011 09:43 freewareplayer wrote:
A tier 2 unit countering a tier 3 unit is ok, but a tier 2 unit countering the complete tier 3 of a race is not right no matter how you look at it

It's countered by the tier 1......


Ghost counter lings.


lol?

and immortals counter mutas

see i can make up shit too

I actually lol'd

Well it was pretty funny, but anyway ghosts arent really shit against zerglings.

The rings looked reaally nice
j0ker
Profile Joined August 2011
275 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5959
On October 23 2011 09:54 pPingu wrote:
I think both of them must be really tired, that was a really long day with a lot of matches.

GSL is a lot more player firendly in that way.


nestea only played the 7 games that they played against each other. mvp played the fucking gsl finals the night before and had to go through the losers bracket as well.
Bromazepam
Profile Joined August 2011
820 Posts
October 23 2011 00:55 GMT
#5960
On October 23 2011 09:49 Itsmedudeman wrote:
Yeah guys, they fixed the pot and decided that nestea would lose on purpose. Are you guys fucking dumb? Why the hell would nestea need to lose in a situation like that? If they were going to split the pot then who the fuck cares who wins. This argument is embarrassing for the entire site and community.


We care because the game was rubbish. It wasn't entertaining, at all.
Snipes aren't fun. Nestea got us all excited with 100 banelings and then just threw them away, letting them die inside of the sniped overlords. 30 brood lords are fun, 30 brood lords turning instantly into red goop caused by some blue shimmers on the ground are lame.

This game sucked. If they wanted to do a showmatch for the crowd they completely failed.
Saying that something is killing esports is killing esports.
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