On July 30 2012 04:32 imallinson wrote:
Don't know why Naniwa keeps doing these early game attacks. They haven't done damage in any of the games so far.

Because he's hoping to catch JonnyRecco doing a greedy build, like straight-up Muta/ling. There's no way to scout in the early game as Protoss. so you just need to do bad builds sometimes to dissuade Zerg from being greedy.

The KY

United Kingdom6252 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#728

I am not liking these 3 base immortal timings.

kaokentake

383 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#729

i think the build oz used against stephano at the mlg arena is the future pretty much it allows him to be at a much better competition against zergs economy

currently zerg can saturate 3bases extremely fast and protoss even with relatively fast thirds cannot match that but oz's third seems to be so fast and he somehow does it safely

oz gets a really fast third at a time where zerg cannot really punish it, gets a stargate off it then gets a cannon at the third surrounded by gateways so lings cannot kill the fast third then by the time roaches could come the third is protected by gateway units+voidrays

pretty much oz's build allowed him to safely get 3bases and be at maybe 90% of zergs economy by 13 minutes. while if you were to use any other build youd probably be at 65% of the zergs economy by 13 minutes

Alpino

Brazil4390 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#730

fucking sloppy by NaNi t_t, come on johan

Braric

Canada184 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#731

This is so sad to watch, If protoss units are weaker then Zerg units then what can Protoss ever hope to do...

Sea_Food

Finland1612 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#732

chill is behind the replay

DOMOI

3 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#733

On July 30 2012 04:31 Liquid`Nazgul wrote:

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It's something from BW where tournaments had four maps and replayed one map once. In our case we have six maps and have two vetos. It leads to a very interesting meta-game within the series where you already faced each other once on that map and then the mindgames start in game five. Lead to some amazing series in BW and it's a really nice format for broadcasting.

OR you could just say the truth, ie TSL organizers fucked up big time and removed at the last moment Korhal Compound, being forced to have this pretty bad double-map played in the ace match because there wouldn't have been the time to pick a new map and allow the players to train for it.

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Sabu113

United States11075 Posts

July 29 2012 19:35 GMT

#734

Recco's too far ahead. ;_;

CosmicSpiral

United States15275 Posts

July 29 2012 19:36 GMT

#735

On July 30 2012 04:35 kaokentake wrote:
i think the build oz used against stephano at the mlg arena is the future pretty much it allows him to be at a much better competition against zergs economy

currently zerg can saturate 3bases extremely fast

oz gets a really fast zerg at a time where zerg cannot really punish it, gets a stargate off it then gets a cannon at the third surrounded by gateways so lings cannot kill the fast third then by the time roaches could come the third is protected by gateway units+voidrays

pretty much oz's build allowed him to safely get 3bases and by at maybe 90% of zergs economy by 13 minutes. while if you were to use any other build youd probably be at 65% of the zergs economy by 13 minutes

The only reason Oz's build works is because no one does Stephano-style roach max anymore.