On September 14 2021 00:43 WombaT wrote:
He did say finals.
Trap has managed it before in the relatively recent past though, playing better than he did here.
In tournament play though a Bo7 against a Zerg generally seems a different beast than managing it earlier in a tournament. To take out a player of Dark’s calibre you have to show your best hand, then when it comes to a Bo7 you’re playing someone of Serral’s calibre who’s seen your best cards already.
It’s just the nature of the matchup I guess. Not sure how the matchup numbers actually work out, from intuition it seems Protoss has a considerably easier time in a Bo3, but when we get to Bo7 finals has a generally awful time.
He did say finals.
Trap has managed it before in the relatively recent past though, playing better than he did here.
In tournament play though a Bo7 against a Zerg generally seems a different beast than managing it earlier in a tournament. To take out a player of Dark’s calibre you have to show your best hand, then when it comes to a Bo7 you’re playing someone of Serral’s calibre who’s seen your best cards already.
It’s just the nature of the matchup I guess. Not sure how the matchup numbers actually work out, from intuition it seems Protoss has a considerably easier time in a Bo3, but when we get to Bo7 finals has a generally awful time.
People used to talk about how Terran was the preparation race, but it really seems like protoss is the preparation race now at least against Zerg. There are so many weekenders where a Protoss will take down one world class Zerg only to be obliterated by another.