On September 02 2010 07:03 lac29 wrote:
It definitely has hyped it 10x more for me ... and it's only the opening round =). If anyone wants to analyze TLO, Torch, and Artosis' opponent that'd be great as well!

Edit: Even just starting up a thread introducing the Korean opponent and finding some replays so the TL community can comment on them would be pretty cool and potentially helpful to our GSL heroes.

I was actually already on it, but didn't decide to post a thread on each person because info on them were lacking. I'll add it to the OP since u asked.

Skyze

Canada2324 Posts

September 02 2010 17:38 GMT

#65

heres a cast of Acupuncture.. very awesome style, im glad to see it, although sad that zergs have one more thing to worry about in ZvT lol poor zergies.

http://sc2casts.com/cast579-Acupuncture-vs-JanGyUk-1-Game-No-Event-Korean-Games

Snowfield

1289 Posts

September 02 2010 17:54 GMT

#66

On September 01 2010 12:12 never_toss wrote:
lol i love how this tourney could end up being an anime lol

FIRST OPPONENT: USES GHOST WITH DROPS VERY GOOD MICRO

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MUST HOLLDDDDD

Hahahaha, it would be such a classic scenario.

leveller

Sweden1840 Posts

September 02 2010 17:57 GMT

#67

Please make that a TL sc2 "rooting for our pros in korea" meme!

knyttym

United States5797 Posts

September 04 2010 02:40 GMT

#68

o lord Desert Oasis. 5 rax reapers yo

durza

United States667 Posts

September 04 2010 03:08 GMT

#69

Well done, hoping Idra will be ready. Hes the better player, lets hope that he is also the better gamer.

Vokasak

United States388 Posts

September 04 2010 05:11 GMT

#70

I look foward to great games either way.

Alexstrasas

302 Posts

September 04 2010 17:58 GMT

#71

i missed it, anyone care to fill in what took place?

Hunch

Canada336 Posts

September 04 2010 18:01 GMT

#72

On September 05 2010 02:58 Alexstrasas wrote:
i missed it, anyone care to fill in what took place?

a noob got owned and a nerd went through

nekuodah

England2409 Posts

September 04 2010 18:02 GMT

#73

IdrA held off his repaers first game and the terran kept sending in small forces that idra beat easily and just outmacroed and won, 2nd game on DO guy tried ghost drops with nukes idrA went mutas held it off and eventually won after killing off many drops and small attacks.

Sealteam

Australia296 Posts

September 04 2010 18:04 GMT

#74

I didn't catch the first game in its entirety due to stream issues but seemed like Idra comfortably stomped terran fairly standard bio play with ling/bling/muta on Xel'Naga.

Desert oasis was kinda cool, ghost drop rush with a nuke on the main, but Idra didn't build a single pair of lings for the first few minutes of the game so his macro just outshot by a long way, destroyed a few one-base marine+ghost drops with muta play on Desert Oasis to force a GG.

Basically this guy was nowhere near the standard of Idra.

Edit: Slow typer at 4am =P

iNcontroL

USA29055 Posts

September 04 2010 18:06 GMT

#75

terran looked like trash game 1.

Game 2 he had some cool ideas but after they KINDA worked the follow up was bad.

Congrats to IdrA taking care of business on the big stage but that was a fairly easy first round opponent I'd think. That or he made him look easy hehe

JudoChopper

England148 Posts

September 04 2010 18:06 GMT

#76

Yeah also the nukes were rubbish, there were 2 nuke drops, killed 2 workers? and 4 extractors, 2nd ghost got surrounded by Zerglings and fully loaded Medivacs got owned by Mutas.

Nexic

United States729 Posts

September 05 2010 02:12 GMT

#77

You have to give it to him for being creative though, the nuke drop came SO damn fast, definitely the most original thing to see since release imo. I could see it really flustering someone who wasn't expecting it.

Contagious

United States1319 Posts

September 05 2010 02:22 GMT

#78

it was definitely cool nukes, but they didn't really do too much and the followup left him dead.

unit

United States2621 Posts

September 05 2010 02:26 GMT

#79

where are the vods for this? or do we have to pay for them?

awesomoecalypse

United States2235 Posts

September 05 2010 02:29 GMT

#80

Idra is way too fundamentally sound to beat with cheeze/gimmickry if you can't back it up with a seriously high skill level. I mean, originality is great and all, but this is a guy whose trained for 12 hours a day to basically make the exact same build viable in almost every matchup against every strat--the element of surprise may help a little, but ultimately you're gonna have to outplay him even if you do throw him off his game, and there aren't that many players right now who can do that.