Letting a truly random group of marines just run past your festors so it can snipe your crucial 5th base is bad positioning. Letting 2-3 creep clearing groups of maybe 6-7 rines/rauders take out something like 8 festors is just bad play.
On December 10 2012 10:05 Fionn wrote: SortOf should have won. He saw Polt's all-in, made him transition into a late game super down on upgrades and weaker tech, and still got bopped.
SortOf accidently queued +3 armor and +3 attack on the same evo chamber and he kept making units pre-emptively which ended up being useless so his economy wasn't as strong. Really, really solid play by Polt nonetheless, especially on picking the timings for his attacks. Never really gave SortOf a chance to drone up safely.
On December 10 2012 10:05 xNSwarm wrote: can anyone give a quick recap of the free for all?
I didn't get to see it, looks interesting. Thanks in advance!
Polt went for a hellion-marauder all in, but decided he couldn't attack, so he pulled back and didn't initiate. SortOf had a 2-2 upgrade advantage to Polt's 1-0, and Polt went for a 160ish supply three base attack with no medivacs, tons of tanks, bio, and hellions. It was moderately successful and SortOf's infestor control was poor. Polt pretty much harassed him a bit for the rest of the game until he could build up ravens. SortOf gave away more infestors to hit squads, and then Polt crapped all over his army with seeker missle.
On December 10 2012 10:05 57 Corvette wrote: I haven't been following Starcraft recently, what the hell is a "patch zerg"?
Following the queen range buff in May a whole bunch of Zergs that were previously either unknown or had never accomplished anything started to have a lot of success. We call all of these players patchzergs in recognition of their dependence on Blizzard to help them win games.
Oh, so its an excuse that people are using to needlessly hate on new pro players? Alrighty then.