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Okay calm down folks, stop balance whining or the bans are going to get long.
Storm-Giant
Profile Joined March 2012
Spain416 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3041
Archon flank lol!
<3 Rain
Godwrath
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain10137 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3042
On February 17 2014 03:21 Fission wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 17 2014 03:20 Godwrath wrote:
On February 17 2014 03:19 Fission wrote:
I'm a bit dissapointed in polt. A player of his quality should know that you shouldn't play late game vs Protoss, let alone a master of P lategame like Skt.Rain

You are wrong, P lategame is possible, if you get to a critical amount of CCs so you can be trading the whole time.


I'm sorry but this is just low-league nonsense reasoning. There are hardly any examples of terran players winning late game vs code S level P at all.

Just check the games when taeja destroyed Rain.
oogieogie
Profile Joined June 2011
United States3657 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3043
the power of protoss gg

User was warned for this post
jakethesnake
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada4948 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3044
GG! Another great PvT at IEM. Wow.
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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12680 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3045
beautiful end to a beautiful game
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
KelsierSC
Profile Blog Joined March 2013
United Kingdom10443 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3046
GG!!!

also imagine being a marine and getting flanked by archons, that must be some terrifying shit.
Zerg for Life
Lorning *
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgica34432 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3047
On February 17 2014 03:23 Lorning wrote:
Poll: Recommend Semi Final 1 Game 1?

★- Do not see this game no matter what (6)
 
9%

★★- Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do (5)
 
8%

★★★- Good game (9)
 
14%

★★★★- Highly recommended game (27)
 
42%

★★★★★- One of the best games this season (18)
 
28%

65 total votes

Your vote: Recommend Semi Final 1 Game 1?

(Vote): ★- Do not see this game no matter what
(Vote): ★★- Not recommended unless you have nothing better to do
(Vote): ★★★- Good game
(Vote): ★★★★- Highly recommended game
(Vote): ★★★★★- One of the best games this season


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ffadicted
Profile Joined January 2011
United States3545 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3048
gg Rain, great game. Great game for Polt too, just a matter or who made less smaller mistakes
SooYoung-Noona!
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3049
On February 17 2014 03:21 The_Templar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 17 2014 03:18 The_Templar wrote:
On February 17 2014 03:14 The_Templar wrote:
On February 17 2014 03:10 The_Templar wrote:
On February 17 2014 03:07 The_Templar wrote:
On February 17 2014 03:04 The_Templar wrote:
On February 17 2014 03:00 The_Templar wrote:
On February 17 2014 02:56 The_Templar wrote:
IEM Cologne: RO4

(T)Polt vs (P)Rain
0-0


Map: Frost


Polt spawns in the bottom left
Rain spawns in the top right

2:00
Polt going refinery after his first barracks.
Rain getting a gateway followed by a single refinery.
Reaper for Polt.
Rain getting a zealot and a cybernetics core.

3:00
Rain getting his expansion, and so is Polt.
Rain getting a mothership core.
Polt getting a reactor on his barracks.
Second assimilator for Rain.

4:00
Bunker at Polt's natural.
Rain researching warp gate.
Rain scouting the main base of Polt.
Two marines finish and kill the probe.

5:00
Reaper gets into the main but is forced out by a stalker.
Robotics facility from Rain.
Polt getting a factory.
Forge for Rain.
Polt getting a widow mine.
Polt getting a starport.

6:00 (T)Polt 48 vs (P)Rain 48
Reaper gets back into the natural of Rain, and then the main, and sees all the tech.
Robotics bay and observers for Rain.
Polt getting medics and has two widow mines.

7:00 (T)Polt 57 vs (P)Rain 57
Rain moving his observers into position.
Rain getting a twilight council and two more gateways.
Third CC for Polt.

8:00 (T)Polt 67 vs (P)Rain 64
Polt moving into the natural while doing a widow mine drop in the main.
Rain defends both with practically zero losses, just a pylon.

9:00 (T)Polt 69 vs (P)Rain 64
Polt brings his widow mine drop to his army to save it.
Rain getting blink and colossi + extended thermal lance.
+1 attack for Rain and Polt.

10:00 (T)Polt 83 vs (P)Rain 84
Polt getting three more barracks.
Rain taking a third which is scouted by a factory.

11:00 (T)Polt 109 vs (P)Rain 98
Combat shields finishing up for Polt.
Polt getting vikings, +1 armor, and concussive shells.
Polt moving around the map but observers see everything.
Rain moving out with his army and killing the factory.

12:00 (T)Polt 143 vs (P)Rain 122
Rain loses a pylon on the top bridge.
Second starport for Polt.
+1 vehicle/air weapons for Polt.
+1/2 on the bio of Polt.

13:00 (T)Polt 165 vs (P)Rain 134
Polt getting a ghost academy.
5 seconds later, a Templar archives goes down for Rain.
Polt still moving around the center of the map.
Rain loses an observer near Polt's third base.

14:00 (T)Polt 184 vs (P)Rain 149
Storm being researched by Rain.
Polt building missile turrets.
Rain loses another observer to a missile turret.
Polt goes for a huge drop but idle stalkers in its path pick them off.

15:00 (T)Polt 200 vs (P)Rain 170
Polt getting +2 mech attack, finishing +2/2 bio.
Polt moving out again while doing a huge drop.
Three feedbacks land and bring all the medivacs to low health.

16:00 (T)Polt 199 vs (P)Rain 186
Stargate and +3/3 for Rain.
Polt building four more CCs and getting ghost cloak.
Engagement near the center where storms and vikings do some damage.
Polt moving into the natural and killing the Templar Archives.

17:00 (T)Polt 180 vs (P)Rain 189
Polt moves into the main but loses the bio force.
Ravens for Polt.
+3/3 bio for Polt.
Rain moving with his colossus army through the center of the map, but Polt has PFs prepared.
Two more stargates for Rain, as well as +1 air and a fleet beacon.
Polt getting +3 mechanical weapons.
Three more medivacs for Polt.
Polt moving through the right side path and the upper path, attempting to pressure.

20:00 (T)Polt 198 vs (P)Rain 187
Rain getting tempests.
Polt getting an expansion at the bottom right and a 4th, and a 5th base.
Rain is on 4 bases.
Polt getting building armor.
Rain moving into the center again.
Polt has a small skirmish in the upper part of the map.
Rain taking a base next to Polt's hidden expansion.

21:00 (T)Polt 197 vs (P)Rain 197
Polt sacrificing some SCVs.
Vikings, sensor towers for Polt.
Building range being researched.
Rain getting +2 air weapons.

22:00 (T)Polt 200 vs (P)Rain 196
Polt is doing The_Templar stategy and expanding literally everywhere.
Polt taking the top right main and drops the natural of Rain while attacking the hidden expansion.
Storms and zealots clean up the army at the natural and Rain pushes off more aggression at the top path.
Tempests kill medivacs in the center of the map.

23:00 (T)Polt 171 vs (P)Rain 195
Polt has mostly marauders, vikings, and ghosts. Rain has 6 tempests.
Rain going for the 5th base of Polt but backs off.
Two HTs are picked off by a small bio force.

24:00 (T)Polt 199 vs (P)Rain 199
Rain finds the top left base of Polt.
Rain going for the PF at the third base, PDD is landed as well as EMP.
Polt going for the third of Rain, zealots are warped in.
Polt attacking the natural now.
Polt being chased to the top of the map.

25:00 (T)Polt 170 vs (P)Rain 183
Polt is forced to lose 3 medivacs full of units. He chooses for them to get feedbacked.
Rain going for the 5th of Polt and kills it.
DTs being warped in somewhere.

27:00 (T)Polt 191 vs (P)Rain 199
Polt getting another starport.
Rain not building any more tempests, he still has 6 of them.
Cloaked ghosts EMP a bunch of the HTs but there are still two storms available.
Polt has 20 or so vikings and chases Rain.
Storms landing on all the vikings.

28:00 (T)Polt 101 vs (P)Rain 140
Polt loses his army to storms and Tempests.
Polt loading up all his remaining units into medivacs and going for a drop.
He lands the units and kills some DTs and zealots.
Rain going for the PF and kills it, despite repair.

29:00 (T)Polt 126 vs (P)Rain 134
Polt trying to hold his third but storms are landing everywhere.
Polt lands 10 MULEs in the bottom right base.
Rain has no more HTs with his army.
Polt kiting the army of Rain.

30:00 (T)Polt 84 vs (P)Rain 106
Rain still pushing into the third base, forcing all the OCs at the third to evacuate.
Polt has 3000 mineral income.
Polt trying to get something done with marauders in the main base of Rain.
Rain warping in DTs and zealots to stop drops while chasing with stalkers.
Rain cleans up Polt's drop.

31:00 (T)Polt 133 vs (P)Rain 155
Polt still producing a lot of bio.
Rain hasn't scouted the bottom right base but there are no workers there.
Four stalkers getting into the bottom right expansion, now Polt has no mining.

32:00 (T)Polt 164 vs (P)Rain 169
Polt doing another drop near the third of Rain.
Marauders killing the Templar archives.

33:00 (T)Polt 148 vs (P)Rain 160
DT wreaking havoc at the bottom right base.
Polt walks into a ton of storms.

34:00 (T)Polt 131 vs (P)Rain 152
Rain taking a 5th base.
More MULEs at the bottom right base of Polt but the army of Rain is moving down there.

35:00 (T)Polt 140 vs (P)Rain 163
Tons of zealots move into the bottom right base with HTs but they back off.
Polt has been producing only bio, I thought he would go mass air or something eventually.
Storm at the mineral line of the bottom right base.

36:00 (T)Polt 149 vs (P)Rain 179
Rain finally kills off the bottom right expansion, but Polt has his 4th still.
Polt engaging with most of his army in the center.
Huge storms land on the bio force of Polt but he still has units left.

37:00 (T)Polt 124 vs (P)Rain 142
Polt is rallying bio into the center of the map to try to kill the last tempest.
Rain moving archons into the 5th base of Polt and disrupts mining.
Polt running out of workers.
Rain using DTs as a part of his army.

38:00
Polt gets trapped between archons and zealots.
Polt GG's!
Rain goes up 1-0!
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Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3050
On February 17 2014 03:21 kusto wrote:
How is polt supposed to win this?

Not having a pathetic amount of production all game long, especially with 6 bases would be a good start.
Refer to my post.
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3051
gg!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
VictorX
Profile Joined April 2011
United States773 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3052
I feel like Polt should have started nuke harassing instead of chasing a maxed out storm army across the entire map
KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3053
Wow that was amazing PvT. The rest of this series should be amazing.
Rain | herO | sOs | Dear | Neeb | ByuN | INnoVation | Dream | ForGG | Maru | ByuL | Golden | Solar | Soulkey | Scarlett!!!
sorrowptoss
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Canada1431 Posts
February 16 2014 18:23 GMT
#3054
Excellent game. Most intricate TvP I've watched. Definitely recommend!!!
Storm-Giant
Profile Joined March 2012
Spain416 Posts
February 16 2014 18:24 GMT
#3055
Rain played much better than Polt. amazing reactions :O
<3 Rain
SoFrOsTy
Profile Joined December 2011
United States525 Posts
February 16 2014 18:24 GMT
#3056
Imagine if Polt made ghots and/or dodged storms. I really think he could have had that game. Just during engagments he eats storms pretty hard.
Julyzerg ftw
floatinghostility
Profile Joined November 2013
39 Posts
February 16 2014 18:24 GMT
#3057
Man I love starcraft.
Greendotz
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom2053 Posts
February 16 2014 18:24 GMT
#3058
That Archon sandwich at the end was awesome! What a fantastic game!
bo1b
Profile Blog Joined August 2012
Australia12814 Posts
February 16 2014 18:24 GMT
#3059
On February 17 2014 03:20 shid0x wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 17 2014 03:18 juvenal wrote:
TIL: rain never uses the "select all army units" key. Defended everywhere.


Any pro should not use this hotkey i think.

I didn't think anyone used it above diamond
VmY
Profile Joined August 2011
Netherlands1286 Posts
February 16 2014 18:24 GMT
#3060
On February 17 2014 03:23 bo1b wrote:
3/3 vs 2/2 or am I wrong?


Both had 3/3, Rain had level 2 shields aswel.
Why can't I quit you, siege tank? FanTaSy, Mvp.
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