On March 16 2014 03:41 bo1b wrote:
Honestly that was incredibly dissapointing from life, his micro was back in shape but he kept making such silly decisions over and over, we saw the constant run by metagame like 3/4 months ago, and it never worked there so I don't know why he's trying it now.

Undermaking banelings, suiciding banelings, not making mutas for no real reason (when muta/ling/bling is almost indisputably the best comp until ultra/infestor comes out and even then it's pretty fucking good). Ugh, really disappointing to see him get a pretty sizable lead every game then throw it away. Should have been a 3:0 tbh

it's his style so you can't ask him to change that.

I can ask him to run by into targets that are actually worth hitting, like production though. Honestly his style is self defeating

He did some pretty good damage with it. I'm not sure how familiar you are with BW but as an example: Bisu is known for his use of dts and corsairs. Even after his opponent know his style and adapt to it(spores+hydras to defend), they will eventually suffer damage with it. In starcraft, all it takes is for you to not notice a runby, drop etc... and you can lose quite a lot of infrastructure, workers and such. I blame life losing for his mistakes and less so for the runbys even if some weren't very cost efficient.

On March 16 2014 03:45 ArTiFaKs wrote:

On March 16 2014 03:42 BigFan wrote:

it's his style so you can't ask him to change that.

Throwing away banelings for SCVs is the dumbest "style" you can ever have. He will never beat a decent Terran if he keeps doing that. Everyone has basically figured out that the more muta heavy compositions are x10 better than the heavy ling style. 35 Mutas is way more of a threat than 80 lings that can die in 5 seconds. And he was consistently banking like 3k gas all game he could've easily cut back on the lings and made more banelings/mutas/bases in general. Just my opinion anyways and I think the recent ZvT's have shown that's true.

I wasn't actually commenting on the banelings aspect but more so on the constant ling runbys. He's been doing it since he came onto the scene(or at least GSL and other tourneys) so I don't see why he should stop. In those games, the runbys did a lot of damage. I think Taeja needs to be given a lot of credit for minimizing the damage and if it wasn't for life detonating his banes in games 1 and 2, then this could've been his series..

I've actually watched quite a lot of broodwar, though I haven't played enough for me to feel confident giving out even a wrong understanding of the game

That said, the style of harrassing the economy of terrans in zvt doesn't work because of mules, while harassing production lines of terrans is game winning. Yes, if you were to keep emptying mineral lines it would pay off, but the style almost never pays off because outside of maybe drg there just isn't anyone with the mechanics to keep it up for enough time to pay off.

did you end up watching SSL9 finals today? it was sick. Bisu vs hero, PvZ. If you plan to watch, don't look at this gif below:
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Anyways, I think production is also a good idea but does life know that?

lol

I didn't see, but that observer has about 80000 apm lol look at the building selection rate

ya umm, that was from the gif LOL. You should check them out then ^^

sharkie

Austria18473 Posts

March 15 2014 19:03 GMT

#4245

Polt's marauder heavy style vs herO's immortal heavy style?
Who has the advantage there?

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

March 15 2014 19:03 GMT

#4246

On March 16 2014 04:02 stuchiu wrote:

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Looks like a complete split.

I think the winning option counts as "good".

kaykoose

United States2302 Posts

March 15 2014 19:03 GMT

#4247

Polt Polt USA USA

imrusty269

United States1404 Posts

March 15 2014 19:03 GMT

#4248

Kalearis for this match, why?

bo1b

Australia12814 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4249

On March 16 2014 04:03 Incognoto wrote:
I think Taeja has the least chance to take it all, imo.

That showing vs life was shaky to say the least

liberate71

Australia10252 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4250

Solidist ftw

slowbacontron

United States7722 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4251

Which is the solidest???

Skynx

Turkey7150 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4252

This game doesn't matter that much, sOsick just can't lose.

Sakkreth

Lithuania1096 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4253

On March 16 2014 04:03 Incognoto wrote:
I think Taeja has the least chance to take it all, imo.

It's Polt by far.

Undead1993

Germany17651 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4254

On March 16 2014 04:03 imrusty269 wrote:
Kalearis for this match, why?

why not?

BigFan

TLADT24920 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4255

On March 16 2014 04:03 sharkie wrote:
Polt's marauder heavy style vs herO's immortal heavy style?
Who has the advantage there?

immortal style unless ghosts enter the equation

TLOsuperfan

Bangladesh1 Post

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4256

How professional of IEM to let that fat fuck retard incontrol cast a final event before they roll him back into the ocean.

Thank goodness he's not casting this series

User was banned for this post.

Darkhorse

United States23455 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4257

On March 16 2014 04:03 imrusty269 wrote:
Kalearis for this match, why?

Specifically to upset you. You should be proud they consider you when choosing their casters.

GumBa

United Kingdom31935 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4258

Ok stream has died and hasnt stopped lagging etc. Anyone got a fix?

ssxsilver

United States4409 Posts

March 15 2014 19:04 GMT

#4259

Polt is the overwhelming fan favorite just like JD was the favorite at Blizzcon. All setting up another sOs sniper moment. I hope Polt has the sense to split the money with sOs.

Noonius

Estonia17413 Posts

March 15 2014 19:05 GMT

#4260

On March 16 2014 04:03 imrusty269 wrote:
Kalearis for this match, why?

better now than in the final.

I bet my Tuesdays underwear that final will be cast by Apollo and Artosis