To add to this, I remember reading abou why Stephano was so dominant a little bit in the past and I feel that the ESSENCES of Life's and Stephano's games are similar. They both have stellar unit control and use that to force the game into their pace. They're not afraid as zergs to build units instead of drones and instead of forcing T to keep up with economy, they force T to keep up with army. The difference between them is that Stephano seems to prefer roaches as his main poison before going into infestors and bl's while Life goes aggressive with lings from the get-go. And only they can do it this way. Amazing players.

They both have infestors

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udgnim

United States8024 Posts

November 04 2012 03:46 GMT

#11603

oh nice Suppy 2-0ed Revival and eliminated him

Suppy cements himself as 2nd best EG player behind Stephano

scaban84

United States1080 Posts

November 04 2012 03:46 GMT

#11604

Was that a dozen scvs just hugging the armory?

GolemMadness

Canada11044 Posts

November 04 2012 03:46 GMT

#11605

On November 04 2012 12:37 Orek wrote:
Those complaining about 2rax need to just watch this game in 2007. Flash made his name as a cheeser in his early career.

and this is the Hwasin vs Bisu game Klazart is talking about that was played a day before.
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babylon

8765 Posts

November 04 2012 03:46 GMT

#11606

On November 04 2012 12:44 Laryleprakon wrote:
Life seems like he has so much free time while playing to do all his cute stuff, he never gets behind on his macro.

Yeah, he's having fun. Nice to see him go back to his funky style after that GSL finals.

Havik_

United States5585 Posts

November 04 2012 03:47 GMT

#11607

Quick question, will vods be available right after the games are done on twitch? I don't have gold or an hd pass.

EDIT: They're on the twitch page. nvm

triforks

United States370 Posts

November 04 2012 03:47 GMT

#11608

taeja is gonna do decent this game

hes trying a little harder than usual

should make for an epic game

silent_owl

Philippines3098 Posts

November 04 2012 03:47 GMT

#11609

Nice comeback by Taeja.

fuzzylogic44

Canada2633 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11610

On November 04 2012 12:44 triforks wrote:
this just makes me sick.

taeja seriously is playing WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY off his usual self (pre-gsl s4 failure).

what happened?

People were wondering the same thing when suddenly he won Dreamhack

AlgeriaT

Sweden2197 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11611

Scarlett down 1-0 vs Daisy, some awesome redditor live reporting from the event:

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/12life/scarlett_games_as_they_happen_starting_from_vs/

GO SCARLETT FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

kju

6143 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11612

aaand crushed

WombaT

Northern Ireland26225 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11613

On November 04 2012 12:43 frogrubdown wrote:

Show nested quote +

On November 04 2012 12:42 Wombat_NI wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:34 rasers wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:29 Wombat_NI wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:25 Grumbels wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:19 Wombat_NI wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:17 J1.au wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:15 Wombat_NI wrote:

On November 04 2012 12:13 TurboMaN wrote:
In BW Flash would win without a single loss.
SC2 is so much easier that even Foreigners get wins from Koreans.

At least he beat Naniwa with his own cheese style

This is such a stupid post.

Yeah, Flash would never lose in BW, when he practiced 12 hours a day, had a pro-house system built around a Korean TV audience.

A practice regimen that is so intense that he had to get shoulder surgery. Yes that is so desirable to want to bring back.

"Bring back"? It's already here. When SC2 came around all the KeSPA pros didn't suddenly decide to take it easy.

They're applying such a practice regimen, or close to it. But it doesn't give the insurmountable advantage that it did in BW. There's still a big gap of course, but it's at least possible to compete.

There's no coincidence to me that Terran is the race that requires ridiculous mechanics to compete with at the highest level, and that a majority of the current SC2 progamers who are having issues with wrists/necks etc are all Terran.

That seems really arbitrary, all good Koreans have very high apm, regardless of whether they actually use it or not. DRG has 400apm, maybe he only needs 30 for brood lord infestor, but he still clicks really fast. It's the same for all of them. And I don't think it's a good thing when speed of execution starts to become irrelevant.

I just find it somewhat curious that all the players I am aware about, with wrist problems in SC2 are Terran players. They shouldn't have to injure themselves in an effort to compete. Might be an entirely random coincidence though!

Just curious. how many Terrans with real wrist problems do you know?

Well, beyond conjecture it's pretty hard to know, Korean teams are pretty secretive, and even when they realise information it turns out to be wrong (i.e Puzzle being ill).

MVP for one, although from what I've heard his issues are also related to his neck, Taeja is out with his wrists strapped recently and others, going back. I can't go search every single thread to find examples, I was pointing out something that I instinctively felt was a bit skewed towards Terran players, not definitively stating it WAS the case.

MVP indeed said that he couldn't play Marine/Tank TvZ even though he felt it was the best style at the time, namely that playing Terran optimally, to him was too mechanically demanding on his wrists over other styles such as Mech. Now that Mech seems to be switching over to be a favoured style of a lot of players this may be less of an issue of course.

Thorzain and terran-era TLO developed wrist problems as well, for what it's worth.

Well I've long found it curious, I actually think it's got a lot to do with bio micro, especially boxing/splitting and sutter steppin, I know my wrist wreck when I off race!

geokilla

Canada8245 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11614

Infestors pretty good unit

firehand101

Australia3152 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11615

dont know if life good.....or zerg imba.......

Deathstar

9150 Posts

November 04 2012 03:48 GMT

#11616

ugh that sucked.

fuzzylogic44

Canada2633 Posts

November 04 2012 03:49 GMT

#11617

On November 04 2012 12:46 udgnim wrote:
oh nice Suppy 2-0ed Revival and eliminated him

Suppy cements himself as 2nd best EG player behind Stephano

We can't say that yet. He hasn't really done that much still. Certainly at least Thorzain is better.

Dodgin

Canada39254 Posts

November 04 2012 03:49 GMT

#11618

aaaaaand everythings dead

Figgy

Canada1788 Posts

November 04 2012 03:49 GMT

#11619

The power of a GSL champion. Taeja has absolutely no chance against Life's playstyle. I don't think any Terran has any chance against him except for Mvp.