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Lexender
Profile Joined September 2013
Mexico2627 Posts
February 11 2024 19:42 GMT
#1501
This is going to be yet another Serral championship isn't it?
Poopi
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France12780 Posts
February 11 2024 19:42 GMT
#1502
On February 12 2024 04:42 Argonauta wrote:
Maru is just a god of this game lol

Yeah this is incredible gameplay
WriterMaru
Fyzar
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands8010 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1503
On February 12 2024 04:41 Vindicare605 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:39 Fyzar wrote:
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.

Some of these takes are so ridiculous.


20 THOUSAND resources lost in favor of Maru. If it was closer I wouldn't be saying that, but this is ridiculous.

And Serral was equal the entire game which is also impossible.
No shit he goes down eventually when he has to go in and break 3000 turrets and cloaked ghosts.
It appears I have been chosen.
Mizenhauer
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
United States1844 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1504
I just don't how anyone can find it interesting to watch Maru die for 30+ minutes. The game was never close.
┗|∵|┓Second Place in LB 28, Third Place in LB 29 and Destined to Be a Kong
Swisslink
Profile Joined March 2011
2952 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1505
Couldn't Maru have hoped for a draw? I mean... it was unlikely, but it could have ended in Serral not having an opportunity to kill every building, couldn't it?
Gescom
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada3367 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1506
On February 12 2024 04:42 yezzir88 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.


Agreed. In an actual balanced game, Maru would've won easily. We saw a clear example of a better player losing to a worse player because the tournament organizer making a map to heavily favor the inferior player.

Wow dude. Get a grip.
Jaedong Hyuk || Bisu Jangbi || Fantasy Flash
tigera6
Profile Joined March 2021
3339 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1507
I thought Maru could play around those BLord because they are slow, he can clean up Serral bottom bases and force him to not moving out and force a draw.
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1508
On February 12 2024 04:39 Fyzar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.

Some of these takes are so ridiculous.

Nah, this map is so Zerg favored that terran is never expected to win. It shouldn't be in the pool.

Combine that with infestors being impossible to see, and Serral getting at least 5 lucky fungals that dodged scans by one pixel

Yeah Maru played better, that was one of the best terran performances probably ever
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Nasigil
Profile Joined July 2023
137 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1509
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.


Maru got caught with like 10 supposedly "singlehandedly game ending" fungal but was still able to drag it all the way to the end. How does that make him a better player?
stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2747 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1510
Serral got pretty sloppy at the end.
Wp maru
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1511
I feel like I'm the only person who like Radhuset lol

Plus it was a good game. Hopefully, Maru can build on it.
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
Zaros
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom3692 Posts
February 11 2024 19:43 GMT
#1512
I don't think big maps are a problem in themselves but to have it so open without bases that Terran/Protoss can crawl to reasonably is stupid.
Gescom
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada3367 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-02-11 19:45:02
February 11 2024 19:44 GMT
#1513
On February 12 2024 04:43 Swisslink wrote:
Couldn't Maru have hoped for a draw? I mean... it was unlikely, but it could have ended in Serral not having an opportunity to kill every building, couldn't it?

He had 11 Broodlords, more mineral income on the way and infinite transfuse energy. He would have had zero issue.
Jaedong Hyuk || Bisu Jangbi || Fantasy Flash
youaremysin
Profile Joined August 2015
119 Posts
February 11 2024 19:44 GMT
#1514
Maru won't have the opportunity to CC first into fast 3rd tho. It'll be harder to split map without an eco lead
Balnazza
Profile Joined January 2018
Germany1130 Posts
February 11 2024 19:45 GMT
#1515
On February 12 2024 04:43 Fango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:39 Fyzar wrote:
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.

Some of these takes are so ridiculous.

Nah, this map is so Zerg favored that terran is never expected to win. It shouldn't be in the pool.

Combine that with infestors being impossible to see, and Serral getting at least 5 lucky fungals that dodged scans by one pixel

Yeah Maru played better, that was one of the best terran performances probably ever


According to Liquipedia Terran has a slight advantage against Zerg on this map. How is this "terran is never expected to win"?
"Wenn die Zauberin runter geht, dann macht sie die Beine breit" - Khaldor, trying to cast WC3 German-only
Fyzar
Profile Joined January 2011
Netherlands8010 Posts
February 11 2024 19:45 GMT
#1516
On February 12 2024 04:43 Fango wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:39 Fyzar wrote:
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.

Some of these takes are so ridiculous.

Nah, this map is so Zerg favored that terran is never expected to win. It shouldn't be in the pool.

Combine that with infestors being impossible to see, and Serral getting at least 5 lucky fungals that dodged scans by one pixel

Yeah Maru played better, that was one of the best terran performances probably ever

I agree the map is stupid as fuck but to say he played better when he got caught by like 10 game ending fungals and didn’t do any damage to Serral the entire game is ludicrous.
Yes he defended like a god and yes he had no chance because of the map but that doesn’t mean he was the better player.
What did Serral do worse?
It appears I have been chosen.
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
Last Edited: 2024-02-11 19:46:14
February 11 2024 19:46 GMT
#1517
On February 12 2024 04:43 Nakajin wrote:
I feel like I'm the only person who like Radhuset lol

Plus it was a good game. Hopefully, Maru can build on it.


It creates good drama, but it clearly look extremely race biased.
You don't make this kind of map without being aware of what TvZ will look like on it.
" I'm not gonna fight you. I'm gonna kick your ass ! "
Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
February 11 2024 19:46 GMT
#1518
On February 12 2024 04:44 Gescom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:43 Swisslink wrote:
Couldn't Maru have hoped for a draw? I mean... it was unlikely, but it could have ended in Serral not having an opportunity to kill every building, couldn't it?

He had 11 Broodlords, more mineral income on the way and infinite transfuse energy. He would have had zero issue.

The only chance was if Maru sniped all the corruptors and EMPd every infestor. Not gonna happen
Zest, sOs, PartinG, Dark, and Maru are the real champs. ROOT_herO is overrated. Snute, Serral, and Scarlett are the foreigner GOATs
Solio
Profile Joined June 2016
France145 Posts
February 11 2024 19:46 GMT
#1519
On February 12 2024 04:43 Nasigil wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 12 2024 04:39 Vindicare605 wrote:
Maru has been the better player for this entire game, but it's just too big of a map advantage for Serral to overcome.


Maru got caught with like 10 supposedly "singlehandedly game ending" fungal but was still able to drag it all the way to the end. How does that make him a better player?


Because burrowed infestors fungals = bullshit

So much easier to get them than to catch them and defend against them, the fact that Maru was able to make the game close while playing on this difficult map and against this stupid unit clearly shows he is better, like every single engagement that serral won was because of that, without that it would not even be close
Lexender
Profile Joined September 2013
Mexico2627 Posts
February 11 2024 19:46 GMT
#1520
On February 12 2024 04:43 Zaros wrote:
I don't think big maps are a problem in themselves but to have it so open without bases that Terran/Protoss can crawl to reasonably is stupid.


People defend big maps because it's popular to shit on terran but these big open maps are even worse for protoss so it's a very lose-lose scenario to keep having them.
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