Seemed like Stats was outplayed positionally and eventually lost his patience. I think he still had some winning chances until that fight in the top middle.

Even if storm is not plan A, having storm to deal with the clustered libs/vikings or against that weak bio once Maru no longer had the gas to keep a high ghost count, would have been good.

Andi_Goldberger

Germany1608 Posts

December 20 2020 00:35 GMT

#245

stats playing at 4 am but maru playing at 2 pm?

Snorkels

United States1015 Posts

December 20 2020 00:36 GMT

#246

its replays apparently which super makes sense for the timezone issue. I was wondering earlier but apparently this week/round isn't live because, you know, 2 am - 7 am tourney for kst

Snorkels

United States1015 Posts

December 20 2020 00:37 GMT

#247

I'd like to see Stats do something but the collossi wipe sorta did it for hopes

TvZ going to be a good wrap-up to the night

Topin

Peru10122 Posts

December 20 2020 00:41 GMT

#248

Maru is so good

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

December 20 2020 00:41 GMT

#249

Congratz Showtime, you're the great Protoss hope.

Xamo

Spain886 Posts

December 20 2020 00:43 GMT

#250

Stats seemed to be uncaracteristically impatient, Maru played better. Well done!

shid0x

Korea (South)5014 Posts

December 20 2020 00:44 GMT

#251

Maru's micro is amazing, his positioning too.
how he manages to be so aware all the time is beside me

irvnasty

United States211 Posts

December 20 2020 00:55 GMT

#252

That was an ESL Cup first round sort of game.

Topin

Peru10122 Posts

December 20 2020 00:56 GMT

#253

hahahaha nice mind game into win

Husyelt

United States839 Posts

December 20 2020 01:01 GMT

#254

Oh shit, I missed game 1, how did Byun win?

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

December 20 2020 01:03 GMT

#255

ByuN is playing Elazer like a fiddle.

On December 20 2020 10:01 Husyelt wrote:
Oh shit, I missed game 1, how did Byun win?

He walked across the map with marines earlier than Elazer expected.

Waxangel

United States33665 Posts

December 20 2020 01:08 GMT

#256

On December 20 2020 10:01 Husyelt wrote:
Oh shit, I missed game 1, how did Byun win?

byun did a weird reactor exp with CC on high ground; Elazer misread as some kind of cheese and got an early spine crawler and lings. That threw him off balance and he lost to a pretty simple marine-medivac follow.

Chocolate

United States2350 Posts

December 20 2020 01:11 GMT

#257

It looks like Byun accidentally trapped a lot of MM in his main

Waxangel

United States33665 Posts

December 20 2020 01:12 GMT

#258

On December 20 2020 10:11 Chocolate wrote:
It looks like Byun accidentally trapped a lot of MM in his main

Jaedong'd himself :d

irvnasty

United States211 Posts

December 20 2020 01:13 GMT

#259

Elazer looks so thoroughly outclassed. Thinking now, I can remember a lot of great performances he's had against zerg and protoss, but I can't remember a big result recently against terran. Is vT his weakest matchup?

EDIT: He had a 2-1 against Cure in ASUS. Other than that, HeroMarine, uThermal, and Special he's beaten in recent history as slightly lower-tier players, but he's also lost lots of series to those players and similar. Kelazhur seems to be the strongest terran that he consistently defeats.

Xain0n

Italy3963 Posts

December 20 2020 01:14 GMT

#260

On December 20 2020 10:13 irvnasty wrote:
Elazer looks so thoroughly outclassed. Thinking now, I can remember a lot of great performances he's had against zerg and protoss, but I can't remember a big result recently against terran. Is vT his weakest matchup?

Yes, by far I would say.