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On March 24 2012 13:50 Zanno wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:45 hunts wrote: Sorry if this isn't the place to ask, but when do VODs go up for gold members? I was at work during most of the games and just came back and saw stephano vs polt and would love to see some of the earlier games. the vod is immediately put up as one big block of footage, you can skip around through the couple hours as much as you want
ah ok I see, so it's like the old format, TY. I thought it would be like the winter arena where you had to watch the individual VODs. TY
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On March 24 2012 13:50 Shellshock1122 wrote:I think he's on vVv
Hes a guy who has like three builds, all of them are all ins.
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who is observing those games? pretty good job, just watched the naniwa/demuslim game i think he catched everything what was going on
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Look, Stephano had the first game, but he screwed up. That's the bigger tragedy of the night. The third game was really a coin toss because Stephano deviated from his roach ling build which he used twice in a row and then decided to meta-game Polt and go pure lings just as Polt meta-gamed him with a greedy hellion marauder all-in and that was the series.
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On March 24 2012 13:49 bokchoi wrote: The build is cheesy for a number of reasons. If its scouted properly Terran pretty much loses the game if they commit to it. Even if it isn't scouted if Zerg is going mutas (which I would call the more common/standard play) Terran is screwed. Or even if Zerg has some banelings and micros properly he can hold and come out very ahead. Its cheesy, but Polt metagamed Stephano and his style (much like MVP did at Blizzard Cup). oh it's totally a cheese build, i don't see why anyone would dispute that - but in a chat with some friends i was talking about what a great idea it was given that hard countered stephano's build
even if he did do the roach build he did the previous two games i think he still gets slaughtered because you need a spire not an infestation pit halfway done
stephano didn't build a single muta or baneling the whole series - mutas shut this down, banelings can possibly help against the hellions if you get a good hit
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On March 24 2012 13:51 chosenkerrigan wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:44 lannisport wrote: So who can actually take Stephano on in a straight up zvt? I'd really like to see him against MMA, MVP or jjakji. Not taking any credit away from Polt, but it seems like if you let Stephano macro up he will just overrun you. I think he has BETTER infestor control/BL/late game army control than ANY zerg right now, including DRG. And he shuts down drops fairly easily plus likes to play safe with spines. Any Code S terran can take stephano in macro games, including Polt. One perfect example would be alive, who is undefeated against stephano, and all the games weren't even close. Yea they faced in NASL S3 Qualifiers and Stephano got manhandled by aLive doing like 3 simultaneous drops and then pushing him with marine tank
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On March 24 2012 13:51 chosenkerrigan wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:44 lannisport wrote: So who can actually take Stephano on in a straight up zvt? I'd really like to see him against MMA, MVP or jjakji. Not taking any credit away from Polt, but it seems like if you let Stephano macro up he will just overrun you. I think he has BETTER infestor control/BL/late game army control than ANY zerg right now, including DRG. And he shuts down drops fairly easily plus likes to play safe with spines. Any Code S terran can take stephano in macro games, including Polt. One perfect example would be alive, who is undefeated against stephano, and all the games weren't even close.
I would say overall I agree with you, but Stephano has more than shown that he can stand toe to toe with Polt. I wouldn't so easily write him off. Yes, he did lose, but he lost in a pretty great series.
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On March 24 2012 13:50 Shellshock1122 wrote:I think he's on vVv
Yep, vVv is having quite the good showing so far (glon, RuFF). As are LighT (Heavens almost beat aLive, Golden).
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their seris have always being great. no one is saying otherwise <.<
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On March 24 2012 13:52 Dexington wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:50 Shellshock1122 wrote:On March 24 2012 13:49 beatitudes wrote: who is RUFF? I think he's on vVv Yep, vVv is having quite the good showing so far (glon, RuFF). As are LighT (Heavens almost beat aLive, Golden).
I didn't know Ruff was vvv. Seems like they are indeed having a good showing!
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Looking through the open bracket, any foreign resistance has already been crushed, I did not find one series a korean has lost. So basically outside of Huk and maybe Thorzain, the top 16 will basically be korea.
Don't really mind koreans winning, but I wish foreigners could go at least something like 20-80 against them, that would make competition more juicy. Now it is just again a slaughter.
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On March 24 2012 13:52 Dexington wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:50 Shellshock1122 wrote:On March 24 2012 13:49 beatitudes wrote: who is RUFF? I think he's on vVv Yep, vVv is having quite the good showing so far (glon, RuFF). As are LighT (Heavens almost beat aLive, Golden). LighT also has KawaiiRice seeded in round 5
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On March 24 2012 13:44 Azarkon wrote: Polt rolled the dice, Stephano rolled another dice, Polt's came out ahead.
CC first -> Factory is very risky, but that was a good meta-game choice by Polt, since he's never seen Stephano bust out early lings.
Going pure lings is very risky as well, but that was not a good meta-game choice by Stephano, since he's seen Polt do this hellion marauder timing before.
The irony is, and the thing you guys aren't seeing, is that Stephano went roaches TWO games in a row thinking he needed it against this kind of push. He WAS playing safe against it.
The one game he goes pure lings, he loses to it. Sad but it's the issue with not saccing an overlord. Drone scout isn't that useful in this case because you can't see what's inside the Terran's base.
The map is huge so it's not easy to send an overlord.
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WTF Ruff actually got far? I don't think I have ever lost to him on ladder, I guess people don't know his 3 retarded all ins.
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On March 24 2012 13:54 Malinor wrote: Looking through the open bracket, any foreign resistance has already been crushed, I did not find one series a korean has lost. So basically outside of Huk and maybe Thorzain, the top 16 will basically be korea.
Don't really mind koreans winning, but I wish foreigners could go at least something like 20-80 against them, that would make competition more juicy. Now it is just again a slaughter. Sase and some other players have upset potential
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On March 24 2012 13:51 chosenkerrigan wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:44 lannisport wrote: So who can actually take Stephano on in a straight up zvt? I'd really like to see him against MMA, MVP or jjakji. Not taking any credit away from Polt, but it seems like if you let Stephano macro up he will just overrun you. I think he has BETTER infestor control/BL/late game army control than ANY zerg right now, including DRG. And he shuts down drops fairly easily plus likes to play safe with spines. Any Code S terran can take stephano in macro games, including Polt. One perfect example would be alive, who is undefeated against stephano, and all the games weren't even close. Polt gets destroyed in long macro games versus Stephano, check their history. There is a reason why Polt want to avoid such games.. Game 1 is terran favored (map) if they go tanks, but in longer series I doubt polt would ever want to play the macro game with Stephano. Their series in Texas shows what happens.
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On March 24 2012 13:54 Thurken wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:44 Azarkon wrote: Polt rolled the dice, Stephano rolled another dice, Polt's came out ahead.
CC first -> Factory is very risky, but that was a good meta-game choice by Polt, since he's never seen Stephano bust out early lings.
Going pure lings is very risky as well, but that was not a good meta-game choice by Stephano, since he's seen Polt do this hellion marauder timing before.
The irony is, and the thing you guys aren't seeing, is that Stephano went roaches TWO games in a row thinking he needed it against this kind of push. He WAS playing safe against it.
The one game he goes pure lings, he loses to it. Sad but it's the issue with not saccing an overlord. Drone scout isn't that useful in this case because you can't see what's inside the Terran's base. The map is huge so it's not easy to send an overlord. But Day9 called it one of the smallest maps in the pool?
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On March 24 2012 13:54 hysterial wrote: WTF Ruff actually got far? I don't think I have ever lost to him on ladder, I guess people don't know his 3 retarded all ins. He's had a much easier bracket than other people round 1: Bye round 2: iamtheman3 round 3: Lobber round 4: Catz
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On March 24 2012 13:55 BBMorti wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:51 chosenkerrigan wrote:On March 24 2012 13:44 lannisport wrote: So who can actually take Stephano on in a straight up zvt? I'd really like to see him against MMA, MVP or jjakji. Not taking any credit away from Polt, but it seems like if you let Stephano macro up he will just overrun you. I think he has BETTER infestor control/BL/late game army control than ANY zerg right now, including DRG. And he shuts down drops fairly easily plus likes to play safe with spines. Any Code S terran can take stephano in macro games, including Polt. One perfect example would be alive, who is undefeated against stephano, and all the games weren't even close. Polt gets destroyed in long macro games versus Stephano, check their history. There is a reason why Polt want to avoid such games.. Game 1 is terran favored (map) if they go tanks, but in longer series I doubt polt would ever want to play the macro game with Stephano. Their series in Texas shows what happens.
have you checked the maps for those macro games?
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On March 24 2012 13:52 Zanno wrote:Show nested quote +On March 24 2012 13:49 bokchoi wrote: The build is cheesy for a number of reasons. If its scouted properly Terran pretty much loses the game if they commit to it. Even if it isn't scouted if Zerg is going mutas (which I would call the more common/standard play) Terran is screwed. Or even if Zerg has some banelings and micros properly he can hold and come out very ahead. Its cheesy, but Polt metagamed Stephano and his style (much like MVP did at Blizzard Cup). oh it's totally a cheese build, i don't see why anyone would dispute that - but in a chat with some friends i was talking about what a great idea it was given that hard countered stephano's build even if he did do the roach build he did the previous two games i think he still gets slaughtered because you need a spire not an infestation pit halfway done stephano didn't build a single muta or baneling the whole series - mutas shut this down, banelings can possibly help against the hellions if you get a good hit
No, he doesn't get slaughtered if he goes roach. Polt played this style vs. Stephano before. It made for really great micro games when it was roach ling vs. hellion marauder. I think Stephano is 50-50 vs. it when he goes roach ling.
Going spire is a hard counter, but it depends on how much Terran commits. Muta ling baneling will destroy the composition but without roaches you're still looking to take some damage and then Terran can transition to marine medivac if he didn't commit too much. Polt did that game, but that was because he saw Stephano wasn't going muta.
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