Good timings and mix of builds from MC. He simply out maneuvered Stephano over the course of the series. It's easy to give advice in hindsight, but Stephano really should do everything in his power just to take games to the late game. Let MC get his third. MC techs too slowly and is not good at all in late, late game situations. He's very, very good up until that point though. Time for MC to lose to Squirtle now I guess.

power-overwhelming

Canada306 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2986

Let's be honest. The 11 min roach max rush is basically the zerg version of 1-1-1, only better and safer as you can still play standard if it didn't outright kill the toss. The other style stephano plays is the mass bl roach infestor ling play which is in late game.

Other than those two styles he is pretty one dimensional. Players of MC and MVP's caliber who can adjust within a series is always going to find a way to win the series whether it be cheese (MVP vs Toss) or just adjusting timings and build orders (MC vs Stephano).

Stephano fans like to ignore the IPL fight club even though it only happened a month ago, but MC adjusted fully to Stephanos style and won 5-2.

bertu

Brazil871 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2987

On May 28 2012 07:54 SealOverseer wrote:

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He doesn't have a codeS spot to begin with

And on Entombed he won a game by going Ling/Infestor against pretty much the same composition MC used to beat him in the last game

It was just a matter of not getting the 3rd for 100HP.

Wasn`t he invited to code S this season?

Stephano uses this strategy because its good and he can execute it perfectly... the games were really close.

But I agree that to play in Code S he needs to diversify or he will be blind countered every time (and this is not only in ZvP).

iamahydralisk

United States813 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2988

is anyone else getting weird audio lag? the audio seems to desync from the picture the longer I let the stream go. it's fine right when I refresh, but it starts to desync and just gets worse from there.

mememolly

4765 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2989

On May 28 2012 07:57 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
So I thought Stephano had unbeatable best ZvP in the world?

MC is one of the best Ps in the world, no shame in 2-3 to bosstoss

power-overwhelming

Canada306 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2990

On May 28 2012 07:57 The_Darkness wrote:

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Top 4 not too shabby. Somewhat disappointed that the better player lost

Diagnosis: Mad

Heavenlee

United States966 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2991

On May 28 2012 07:54 Diavlo wrote:

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To be fair to IdrA, most of their games were at a time where protoss was completely broken and they had to play on ridiculous maps.

Then again if IdrA was to play MC right now i don't think the result would be very different than it was before.

No...MC won at least half of the games against IdrA when zerg was favored in the matchup, even heavily favored. Historically Z has probably been more favored in the matchup than P, though both have had month long streaks.

RogerChillingworth

Chad3116 Posts

May 27 2012 22:58 GMT

#2992

On May 28 2012 07:57 Aeroplaneoverthesea wrote:
So I thought Stephano had unbeatable best ZvP in the world?

only when protosses play into his hands or do stupid shit.

nojok

France15845 Posts

May 27 2012 22:59 GMT

#2993

I thought MC choosed his builds very wisely on each map.
From a low level T point of view, it seems to me that the problem is holding this style as master P in the same way it is to deal with lategame P as a master T. I mean there is obvious happiness for some P players to see this roach style punished, which is a good thing as the mu is terribly boring at the moment, but the porblem if this roach max has been an answer to protoss timing attacks after ffe. PvT & specially PvZ are far from becoming as interesting as TvZ to me as a spectator. In game it is still really nice mus.