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[IEM 2020] Katowice - Championship Sunday - Page 18

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Andi_Goldberger
Profile Joined July 2018
Germany1608 Posts
March 01 2020 11:24 GMT
#341
On March 01 2020 20:16 royalroadweed wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:10 Andi_Goldberger wrote:
Zest PvZ looking gooood, not sure about his PvT tho as he hasnt played a single one yet this tournament. lets go rogue :D

Thats good for Zest. He has info on Maru while Maru has none on him.

I mean the info he has is "1/1/1, defend into tank push". Its not like Maru pulled out any super innovative special builds.. (maybe the combat shield one but thats a garbage build imo). It woule be exciting to see what timings Zest has prepared tho.
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WombaT
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Northern Ireland25541 Posts
March 01 2020 11:25 GMT
#342
On March 01 2020 20:21 BerserkSword wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:19 sudete wrote:
I'm loving some of these comments from reddit

"Seriously... seemed like Serral was playing himself the whole time. He GG'd early in G2 that I'd say he had a decent shot at cleaning up and making a game out of"

"Yeah I think Serral defeated himself today. Haven't seen him that flustered before."

I mean, why bother giving credit to zest for big brain plays amirite


starcraft reddit is literally clueless

It’s really confusing to me that people can follow something to the extent they post on a subreddit and have zero knowledge of it soaked up.
'You'll always be the cuddly marsupial of my heart, despite the inherent flaws of your ancestry' - Squat
BerserkSword
Profile Joined December 2018
United States2123 Posts
March 01 2020 11:25 GMT
#343
On March 01 2020 20:23 Penev wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:22 BerserkSword wrote:
rogue just yawned. he's going to lose the series srs

yawning isn't necessarily a bad thing

unfortunately in this case


TvZ winrates mayne....
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Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
March 01 2020 11:25 GMT
#344
On March 01 2020 20:21 BerserkSword wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:19 sudete wrote:
I'm loving some of these comments from reddit

"Seriously... seemed like Serral was playing himself the whole time. He GG'd early in G2 that I'd say he had a decent shot at cleaning up and making a game out of"

"Yeah I think Serral defeated himself today. Haven't seen him that flustered before."

I mean, why bother giving credit to zest for big brain plays amirite


starcraft reddit is literally clueless


Serral did his part, but so did Zest.
You have to appreciate the fact Serral has never lost worse than 2-3 in bo5 in the last two years; however, I am seeing a worrisome trend for which no only Serral has started losing most of the decider games, he has also started choking in important series(against Reynor at BlizzCon, for example).
Sif_
Profile Joined January 2011
Brazil3106 Posts
March 01 2020 11:25 GMT
#345
Do you guys think Jin Air players have an agreement to share the prize between themselves? And would something like that be against the rules? They all seem so selfless in their cheerings for Maru lol
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
March 01 2020 11:26 GMT
#346
On March 01 2020 20:23 Wombat_NI wrote:
Not sure who I’m rooting for here, I guess of the three remaining I’d like Zest to win and his PvT is a relatively unknown quantity.

Also is Maru the single most boring interviewee in the history of SC2? Number one that I can recall but I’m probably blanking some from the past


I vaguely remember a pregame interview for Maru vs Inno from the Kespa days. They managed to say absolutely nothing of substance the entire time.
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ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
March 01 2020 11:26 GMT
#347
On March 01 2020 20:23 Wombat_NI wrote:
Not sure who I’m rooting for here, I guess of the three remaining I’d like Zest to win and his PvT is a relatively unknown quantity.

Also is Maru the single most boring interviewee in the history of SC2? Number one that I can recall but I’m probably blanking some from the past


He's probably somewhat above par for 2011 Korean terrans unfortunately.
DBooN
Profile Joined May 2011
Germany2727 Posts
March 01 2020 11:26 GMT
#348
On March 01 2020 20:24 imre wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:08 Elentos wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:05 blooblooblahblah wrote:
Serral's skill is still very high but he's become considerably less clutch than he was in 2018. But also this PvZ meta seems to suit the Korean style of well executed aggression so Serral's ZvP struggles this tournament isn't too surprising. He was quite confident in ZvP leading up to the tournament but it's safe to say no-one in Europe plays that aggressive style to same level.

Well the best European Protoss generally exhibits the opposite of killer instinct.


Lilbow at his best was actually a nice change from that.

Is it killer instinct if you play the same allin every game?
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15968 Posts
March 01 2020 11:27 GMT
#349
On March 01 2020 20:25 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:21 BerserkSword wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:19 sudete wrote:
I'm loving some of these comments from reddit

"Seriously... seemed like Serral was playing himself the whole time. He GG'd early in G2 that I'd say he had a decent shot at cleaning up and making a game out of"

"Yeah I think Serral defeated himself today. Haven't seen him that flustered before."

I mean, why bother giving credit to zest for big brain plays amirite


starcraft reddit is literally clueless


Serral did his part, but so did Zest.
You have to appreciate the fact Serral has never lost worse than 2-3 in bo5 in the last two years; however, I am seeing a worrisome trend for which no only Serral has started losing most of the decider games, he has also started choking in important series(against Reynor at BlizzCon, for example).

But he has lost worse in bo7
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
pvsnp
Profile Joined January 2017
7676 Posts
March 01 2020 11:27 GMT
#350
On March 01 2020 20:25 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:21 BerserkSword wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:19 sudete wrote:
I'm loving some of these comments from reddit

"Seriously... seemed like Serral was playing himself the whole time. He GG'd early in G2 that I'd say he had a decent shot at cleaning up and making a game out of"

"Yeah I think Serral defeated himself today. Haven't seen him that flustered before."

I mean, why bother giving credit to zest for big brain plays amirite


starcraft reddit is literally clueless


Serral did his part, but so did Zest.
You have to appreciate the fact Serral has never lost worse than 2-3 in bo5 in the last two years; however, I am seeing a worrisome trend for which no only Serral has started losing most of the decider games, he has also started choking in important series(against Reynor at BlizzCon, for example).


Not quite. Inno beat him 3-1 at HSC.
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imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
March 01 2020 11:27 GMT
#351
On March 01 2020 20:26 DBooN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:24 imre wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:08 Elentos wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:05 blooblooblahblah wrote:
Serral's skill is still very high but he's become considerably less clutch than he was in 2018. But also this PvZ meta seems to suit the Korean style of well executed aggression so Serral's ZvP struggles this tournament isn't too surprising. He was quite confident in ZvP leading up to the tournament but it's safe to say no-one in Europe plays that aggressive style to same level.

Well the best European Protoss generally exhibits the opposite of killer instinct.


Lilbow at his best was actually a nice change from that.

Is it killer instinct if you play the same allin every game?


Well does PartinG have a killer instinct according to you

I think most "killer" P were extremely good with sentries and/or blink stalkers.
Zest fanboy.
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
March 01 2020 11:29 GMT
#352
On March 01 2020 20:22 Poopi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:19 Xain0n wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:17 Poopi wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:14 Xain0n wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:08 Charoisaur wrote:
Maru vs Serral denied again. Serral just doesn't fulfill his part


True story! It's not like Maru failed six times by placing lower than Serral in tournament where they were both present already.

Also, a player reaching the finals in Katowice has to be washed up.

Why do you have to be such an unreasonable hater?

Pretty sure that when he "failed" terrans performed super poorly, whereas zergs were doing hella fine.

So there's that.



Sure, just like when Inno won WESG.

You mean like when Maru struggled to get past Scarlett at this WESG? Yeah!
And Serral was sick and still got INno the 2nd GOAT to game 7


Man, you can happily live in the delusion that it wasn't Maru fault for the dream match not happening but, before, I'll just remind you that Maru was capable of losing to TIME last BlizzCon.
Penev
Profile Joined October 2012
28482 Posts
March 01 2020 11:29 GMT
#353
I was most impressed by Lilbows getting killed instinct tbh
I Protoss winner, could it be?
Noonius
Profile Joined April 2012
Estonia17413 Posts
March 01 2020 11:29 GMT
#354
I'm already triggered
Terran forever | Maru hater forever
GoloSC2
Profile Joined August 2014
710 Posts
March 01 2020 11:30 GMT
#355
maru didnt need those banshees anyway
"Code S > IEM > Super Tournament > Homestory Cup > Blizzcon/WESG > GSL vs The World > Invitational tournaments in China with Koreans > WCS events" - Rodya
Xain0n
Profile Joined November 2018
Italy3963 Posts
March 01 2020 11:30 GMT
#356
On March 01 2020 20:27 pvsnp wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:25 Xain0n wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:21 BerserkSword wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:19 sudete wrote:
I'm loving some of these comments from reddit

"Seriously... seemed like Serral was playing himself the whole time. He GG'd early in G2 that I'd say he had a decent shot at cleaning up and making a game out of"

"Yeah I think Serral defeated himself today. Haven't seen him that flustered before."

I mean, why bother giving credit to zest for big brain plays amirite


starcraft reddit is literally clueless


Serral did his part, but so did Zest.
You have to appreciate the fact Serral has never lost worse than 2-3 in bo5 in the last two years; however, I am seeing a worrisome trend for which no only Serral has started losing most of the decider games, he has also started choking in important series(against Reynor at BlizzCon, for example).


Not quite. Inno beat him 3-1 at HSC.


My bad. I was thinking of direct elimination series only!
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
March 01 2020 11:31 GMT
#357
Rogue: "Serral lost, no need for you to go to the finals now Maru, DIE!".
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Noonius
Profile Joined April 2012
Estonia17413 Posts
March 01 2020 11:31 GMT
#358
On March 01 2020 20:21 BerserkSword wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:19 sudete wrote:
I'm loving some of these comments from reddit

"Seriously... seemed like Serral was playing himself the whole time. He GG'd early in G2 that I'd say he had a decent shot at cleaning up and making a game out of"

"Yeah I think Serral defeated himself today. Haven't seen him that flustered before."

I mean, why bother giving credit to zest for big brain plays amirite


starcraft reddit is literally clueless



sc reddit has worse mods than this place
Terran forever | Maru hater forever
sudete
Profile Joined December 2012
Singapore3054 Posts
Last Edited: 2020-03-01 11:31:42
March 01 2020 11:31 GMT
#359
On March 01 2020 20:29 Xain0n wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 01 2020 20:22 Poopi wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:19 Xain0n wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:17 Poopi wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:14 Xain0n wrote:
On March 01 2020 20:08 Charoisaur wrote:
Maru vs Serral denied again. Serral just doesn't fulfill his part


True story! It's not like Maru failed six times by placing lower than Serral in tournament where they were both present already.

Also, a player reaching the finals in Katowice has to be washed up.

Why do you have to be such an unreasonable hater?

Pretty sure that when he "failed" terrans performed super poorly, whereas zergs were doing hella fine.

So there's that.



Sure, just like when Inno won WESG.

You mean like when Maru struggled to get past Scarlett at this WESG? Yeah!
And Serral was sick and still got INno the 2nd GOAT to game 7


Man, you can happily live in the delusion that it wasn't Maru fault for the dream match not happening but, before, I'll just remind you that Maru was capable of losing to TIME last BlizzCon.


To be fair, Maru did crush TIME in the decider. If we're onto bo3s and such, Serral has lost against the likes of Rail previously and Hurricane most recently...

My point not being that it's Serral's fault of course, but it's just a funny example you gave when there's much better ones to suggest e.g. losing 3-0 to sOs in 2018
Year of MaxPax
sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
March 01 2020 11:32 GMT
#360
Rogue looking like he's in top patchzerg form
"I saw what sneakyfox wrote on TL.net and it made me furious" - PartinG
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