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oh course Maru and Dark somehow end up in the same group, rough for those other two randos
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Really well handled by Maru!
It wasnt a disappointing match, especially on abyssal. 
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Dark is an infinitely better play than I could ever hope to be, but I don't get what he was trying game 2. Risky was saying that denying expansions was the correct strat over Zergling runbys/whatever, but when Maru's whole army is parked at his expansion, that doesn't seem right...
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Schedule for today :
Main : Has vs Enterprise / B : Dark vs Elusory
Main : TIME vs Has / B : Enterprise vs Probe
Main : Maru vs Ranger / B : Has vs Probe
* At this point Main stage switches to Hearthstone, so only one sc2 stream :
Probe vs Has
TIME vs HuT
Maru vs Elusory
Has vs HuT
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On January 11 2018 13:05 Boggyb wrote:
Dark is an infinitely better play than I could ever hope to be, but I don't get what he was trying game 2. Risky was saying that denying expansions was the correct strat over Zergling runbys/whatever, but when Maru's whole army is parked at his expansion, that doesn't seem right...
Agreed. Dark had that game in the bag but he just kept attacking with LBH/Ultra into Maru's sieged-up army around a planetary.....I think he lost like five full armies?
No crackling runbys, no bane drops, no teching up to BLs, just repeatedly charging straight into Maru's entire army. It's true that Maru had fewer bases, but he still had more than enough to keep his army maxed while Dark traded horribly.
Even if you have half the bases on the map, Leeroy Jenkins is not a winning strategy when your opponent is maxed out. And even if Dark won (he didn't), it would be a horribly sloppy, inefficient, and dangerous way of winning.
Dark was just playing poorly in general that game, at one point he let an uncloaked Ghost casually walk past transferring drones, stop at one of his saturated bases, and successfully land a nuke.
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On January 11 2018 13:17 pvsnp wrote:Show nested quote +On January 11 2018 13:05 Boggyb wrote:
Dark is an infinitely better play than I could ever hope to be, but I don't get what he was trying game 2. Risky was saying that denying expansions was the correct strat over Zergling runbys/whatever, but when Maru's whole army is parked at his expansion, that doesn't seem right... Agreed. Dark had that game in the bag but he just kept attacking with LBH/Ultra into Maru's sieged-up army around a planetary.....I think he lost like five full armies? No crackling runbys, no bane drops, no teching up to BLs, just repeatedly charging straight into Maru's entire army. It's true that Maru had fewer bases, but he still had more than enough to keep his army maxed while Dark traded horribly. Even if you have half the bases on the map, Leeroy Jenkins is not a winning strategy when your opponent is maxed out. And even if Dark won (he didn't), it would be a horribly sloppy, inefficient, and dangerous way of winning. Dark was just playing poorly in general that game, at one point he let an uncloaked Ghost casually walk past transferring drones, stop at one of his saturated bases, and successfully land a nuke.
yeah, usually zergs are 20-30 supply ahead when they smash their army into the terran army plus planetary, odd to watch
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TIME seems very dedicated to 2-basing against Protoss. I wonder if that's an anti-Has strategy or his view on the match up. That resulted in some super weird games against Probe and luckily Probe was able to handle the scrappy games.
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On January 11 2018 14:02 Boggyb wrote:
TIME seems very dedicated to 2-basing against Protoss. I wonder if that's an anti-Has strategy or his view on the match up. That resulted in some super weird games against Probe and luckily Probe was able to handle the scrappy games.
He said he did not scout Probe's third in game 3, not so sure about game 1 and game 2. But generally speaking Time favors this type of play anyways.
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Australia18228 Posts
H2h tiebreaker before map scores, how do I still get surprised by WESG formats
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On January 11 2018 21:07 Inflicted wrote:
H2h tiebreaker before map scores, how do I still get surprised by WESG formats
smh
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RIP Probe. After he beat TIME, I thought the worst case scenario was 3-1 in group with 4-0 not an outside possibility. According to aligulac, Probe hadn't lost to HuT in a series since 2014.
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As far as I know, we'll be without an English stream tonight because Wardi suffered a loss in his family (Rest in peace Bertie the Schnauzer).
edit: PiG might cast though he's probably going to ladder between series.
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On January 11 2018 23:10 Boggyb wrote:
RIP Probe. After he beat TIME, I thought the worst case scenario was 3-1 in group with 4-0 not an outside possibility. According to aligulac, Probe hadn't lost to HuT in a series since 2014.
A Chinese caster said he saw Probe smashing his keyboard after the loss against Has. I am not sure if this was true but that two games must have been frustrating for him to even think of.
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That chinese caster is wrong
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Well, that tournament bracket gives Maru ample opportunities to exorcise his TvP demons.
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On January 12 2018 23:02 Boggyb wrote:
Well, that tournament bracket gives Maru ample opportunities to exorcise his TvP demons.
If it ever happens we will have the perfect finals 
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Has vs Maru is what everyone's been waiting for, hopefully it happens. I actually think Has is favoured more against top koreans than foreigners, assuming they haven't caught up with who he is yet.
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On January 13 2018 03:33 Fango wrote:
Has vs Maru is what everyone's been waiting for, hopefully it happens. I actually think Has is favoured more against top koreans than foreigners, assuming they haven't caught up with who he is yet.
Maru definitely knows who Has is. He probably has nightmares caused by the IEM Gyeonggi qualifier.
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EPT
Elusory 
Dark
Ranger
Enterprise 
Deruziel 
World Electronic Sports Games 2017/Asia-Pacific
