On September 04 2025 22:48 tigera6 wrote: So the plan to have a Protoss win a world title is to buff them so that other players will switch race to Protoss? Would be hilarious to see a Ro4 of Clem Maru Reynor and Hero/Classic and guess who pick which race.
Weirdly, Maru only race-switched versus Zerg. He played Terran against MaNa.
From a statistical point of view, TvZ is just as favoured towards Terran as PvT is towards Protoss.
Seems likely he race-switched versus Zerg for reasons other than balance.
Statistics don't always describe balance perfectly, so it might still be due to balance considerations.
It just seems weird that a Terran would race pick against Zerg for balance reasons, if they're not also going to do it against Protoss, given what the statistics look like.
I think Maru might be avoiding the most mechanically demanding Terran match-up, which is undoubtedly TvZ, because of his shoulder and wrist issues.
Astrea having a disaster in game two against Reynor. Carelessly lost three Carriers for nothing whilst doing a Carrier rush, and then died to the counter-attack. I bet he's kicking himself.
Trigger almost threw the F away in game 2 against Byun, hes up 3 base, have map control and built a big bank but keep taking terrible fight and almost lost the game.
if you guys don't mind, I'm gonna post the youtube link here. Since when you click open the match, there is no direct link to that specific game. It's not recorded in Twitch.tv either. The Beginning time is 6AM for me, it's too early. So i usually watch backwards.
as always, GLHF. (btw, if posting youtube link to the game is not allowed for whatever reason, please let me know)
On September 06 2025 20:42 tigera6 wrote: Trigger almost threw the F away in game 2 against Byun, hes up 3 base, have map control and built a big bank but keep taking terrible fight and almost lost the game.