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On November 23 2011 01:38 Derez wrote:
That's exactly the same position a zerg is in vs a FFE tho. It's fine that Nani tried to play it like this every game, but his build just wasn't safe. Perfect example of that is his fifth game on XNC where his forge wasn't even covered by a cannon, which is the most basic thing ever when it comes to a FFE. At that point you're just crossing your fingers and praying for your opponent to be blind and mess up his response.
You can't expect your opponents to mess up every single game of the entire tournament, and he lost, as he deserved to.
) is well-known for mixing up his openings vs Zerg: Sometimes 1base Stargate, sometimes FFE (nexus first or otherwise), sometimes 2/3gate expand, sometimes 1gate expand into fast Void Rays. Lately, he has been doing more FFEs but I think this is partly map dependent and partly just a trend in Protoss play.That's exactly the same position a zerg is in vs a FFE tho. It's fine that Nani tried to play it like this every game, but his build just wasn't safe. Perfect example of that is his fifth game on XNC where his forge wasn't even covered by a cannon, which is the most basic thing ever when it comes to a FFE. At that point you're just crossing your fingers and praying for your opponent to be blind and mess up his response.
You can't expect your opponents to mess up every single game of the entire tournament, and he lost, as he deserved to.
Well, no, it's not quite the same situation. While you are correct in the sense that zerg gets to take a fast third safely in response, therefore is up a base and therefore has an econ advantage, the FFE keeps you equal on workers for a very long time: until you've got your initial mid-game plan going (whether it be 6 gate pressure/all-in, or 5 gate robo or something else). FFE does a much better job keeping you even on economy going into the mid-game, and while it can't keep up forever (eventually zerg does get the ability to make use of all that extra larva), it keeps up much longer.
