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stuchiu
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
I watched the vods. Zest thought it was an scv pull and played herO vs Flash anti-scv pull timing. Got caught, out maunevered and outcontroleld g1. Tried to kill Taeja with Squitle in g2, but got held. g3 got scouted and countered and out microed. He broke mentally, but since no one says Zest threw against TRUE it doesnt matter. | ||
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vult
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purakushi
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Jazzman88
Canada2228 Posts
On July 20 2014 13:24 juvenal wrote: Could you please stop hyping the fuck out of taeja thank you very much TAEJA, THE CROWN PRINCE, THE FIRST OF HIS NAME, FORGOTTEN OF SLAYERS, CONDUCTOR OF THE HYPE TRAIN, THE ONE TRUE LORD OF SUMMER, CONQUEROR OF THE FOREIGN LANDS. GET HYPEUUUUUUU! | ||
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pure.Wasted
Canada4701 Posts
On July 20 2014 13:25 vult wrote: A win here in the finals would put Solar in 19th place in the WCS standings. Aw, shit. Don't make me root for Solar. We need more Kespa pros at Blizzcon.  | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
United States30730 Posts
On July 20 2014 13:26 Jazzman88 wrote: TAEJA, THE CROWN PRINCE, THE FIRST OF HIS NAME, FORGOTTEN OF SLAYERS, CONDUCTOR OF THE HYPE TRAIN, THE ONE TRUE LORD OF SUMMER, CONQUEROR OF THE FOREIGN LANDS. GET HYPEUUUUUUU! THE WARRIOR KING OF THE UNIVERSE! | ||
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Popkiller
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blacksheepwall
China1530 Posts
Not sure how I feel about Taeja playing a bit more passive in the early game here. | ||
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FrostedMiniWheats
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emidanRKO
United States137 Posts
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Jazzman88
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Larkin
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Foreverkul
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Kitai
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vult
United States9400 Posts
THE CHAMPAGNE APPRENTICE! THE WORLD'S CLAPPER! IMMUNE TO CARPEL-TUNNEL! | ||
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Deleted User 261926
960 Posts
On July 20 2014 13:25 stuchiu wrote: I watched the vods. Zest thought it was an scv pull and played herO vs Flash anti-scv pull timing. Got caught, out maunevered and outcontroleld g1. Tried to kill Taeja with Squitle in g2, but got held. g3 got scouted and countered and out microed. He broke mentally, but since no one says Zest threw against TRUE it doesnt matter. From dwf's post: I just watched the VODs and... wow. Zest played way below his level. Game 1. TaeJa gets away with CC rax gas into 2 rax Medivacs and a 8'20 third. Zest opts for the now classic colo dual forge 4 gas Stormless army. OK. He defends without troubles TaeJa's vague attempts at dropping. OK. At 15'30 he has started 3-0-3 and his 7th (!) colo, and he still has 400 gas left; why not build an archives now? Soon after he's max, with gas banked, and he still doesn't start the Archives. He only starts it at 17'10. When 3-0-3 completes he does nothing. The whole point of his play is to aim at this timing, when Terran is still 2-2 with not enough Vikings to handle the Zealots/Stalkers/Colossi army. But Zest sits. He doesn't even try to pressure TaeJa's fourth, nor does he try to capitalize on his superior upgrades. His composition has a clear expiry date but he lets time pass. Meanwhile, TaeJa strenghthens his composition with more Ghosts/Vikings then attacks Zest's fourth before he has Storm (see the consequences of the late archives). Zest inexplicably Blinks all his Stalkers in front of TaeJa's bio despite his Zealots and Colossi not even being yet in the battle and gets rolled. Pigbaby's usage of the colo dual forge was considerably superior. Game 2. Zest goes for a 2-bases colo timing but forgets Warpgate and only starts it at 7'05, i.e. 3 minutes late. He does not immediately produce from his unique gate to compensate. As a result, he gets his first Sentries only at 9 minutes, which means they have little time to bank energy before the push (same pattern for the 3 ones he warps at 9'40, which only come with a single Forcefield for the battle). He's also forced to chrono Warpgate instead of his colo production. His first Colossus almost dies to TaeJa's stim timing because he has no Sentry to Forcefield the bio away (this is critical as a wounded colo dies much earlier and thus deals of course less damage). Luckily for him, he catches TaeJa out of position despite having... less supply when he attacks. Since the execution of his build is off, he floats 450 minerals after his second warp-in despite having 7 gates. He would have also been supply blocked even if TaeJa had not destroyed his proxy pylon (93/100 with no Pylon started when he needs 14 supply for each warp-in). He has no Guardian Shield. His injured colo is pulled back from TaeJa's charge but is quickly destroyed by a Marauder coming from the main. The third colo comes late to the party when most of his army is already wiped. The MSC then arrives to witness the disaster and casts a Time Warp to slow the corrosion of the metal on the ground before being destroyed by 2 Vikings. Despite all of this Zest is still not in a completely hopeless position as TaeJa lost tons of SCVs… But Zest doesn't immediately remake his MSC despite having the gas for it; he starts it at 13'15 despite losing it at 11'35. When TaeJa pulls SCVs for the second time, scouted by Zest's Observer, he inexplicably moves his whole army towards the main, then wants to come back to his natural and thus has to funnel all his troops through the ramp with colos going full BW Dragoons on the ledge as a result. Game 3. Zest scouts gas first and tries a 3g Stalker counter-attack. Why not. He does not poke TaeJa's natural, if only with a Probe, to check if the Bunker was done in time (which was not the case here). He waits 9 Stalkers to start destroying the rocks before attacking from there. The onslaught is somewhat successful but he does nothing at home. No transition. He doesn't launch any building despite already floating 500 minerals after his 9' warp-in and still building Probes (i.e. his bank would only increase over time). He wakes up only at 10 minutes to build 2 gas at his natural. He's still on 3 gates despite floating now 1k mineral. Still no tech. Only at 10'55 does he add 4 gates to match his income. It has been 5 minutes now that he's on his basic 3gR infrastructure. But now it is too late; he's still in TaeJa's natural with a bunch of unupgraded Zealots/Stalkers and only one Sentry versus stimmed bio + Medivacs. After that he still finds a way to blunder with his MSC, unrealistically trying to kill off a 35 hp flying OC with a unit void of any anti-air. Uh… It's no wonder Zest got 0-3'ed here. His play was barely Code A level. | ||
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Fanatic-Templar
Canada5819 Posts
TAEJA! A-Ah! Savior of the Universe! | ||
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Circumstance
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