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[Interview] GSL RO16 Day 1 Cool vs TOP winner

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Milkis
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
5003 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-24 17:14:51
September 24 2010 16:07 GMT
#1
(Z)Cool: I really like this patch.
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- How does it feel to reap a 2:1 victory and get into the round of 8?
▲ I'm really happy. I've played a lot of games with TOP since before. I started filtering who I play against on Battle.net because of strategies, and recently I have a lot of memories of losing but I thought "I should be able to win even though the map is difficult". But when I was up there and playing, I was very nervous.

- During game 1, you built 2 Baneling Nests, and 2 Roach Warrens
▲ I didn't know I did anything like that during game 1. I knew that I built two roach warrens during game three though. I was really nervous so I received damage in the early game, and I built two Roach Warrens. I'm the type of person who gets overly nervous.

- You may have been nervous, but you won game 1.
▲ I didn't know but people told me I had about 90 drones. You can't win if you have that many drones, so I thought "Wow, I was really nervous" [T/N: Potentially, "Wow, he was really nervous"]

- You were really active in using Ultralisks
▲ The bug is only there when you hit buildings, so I'm hoping the patch keeps going this way [laugh]. I don't think it's bad at all.

- Did you think of Ultralisks as a solution to playing against Terran?
▲ Terrans nowadays don't come out attacking first. I've lost a lot of games when my opponent attacked during the timing where I exhausted my units and before I hit 200 population on Ultras. It'll be difficult for me to make Broodlords because they take longer to make than Ultralisks, so I think Ultralisks are the only answer. A lot of Terrans started using the Marines - Siege Tank combination a lot more and started using Marauders less, so that could also be an answer.

- You tried using the Nydus Network in Game 2 and failed and lost.
▲ If you look at my ladder records, you'd know that I didn't get to practice this strategy before. I tried this about a week ago and got stopped, it worked once yesterday during practice, but this morning, I lost all 5 matches I've tried it on. People around me just told me to go for a management game, but after I won game 1, I tried it as an all in strategy. Since it didn't work, I even thought "Maybe it's just me" [laugh]. But it doesn't matter because I won game 3.

- You started game 3 by receiving a lot of damage in the early game.
▲ I thought I lost so I thought of just announcing GG, but when I just played like I have practiced things went well. My opponent didn't even use Medivacs and started collecting Thors, and because I thought I lost, I excluded everything and only made Drones. But my opponent didn't come attacking during that time, and later on when I saw that his Thors weren't upgraded, I figured I had won.

- What do you think of Patch 1.1
▲ The time when I recovered my condition was around the time when the patch went live, and after that, I didn't lose as much. It's because Terran didn't come rushing as much anymore, since I'm just playing as I normally do. (T)Clide and other Terrans started saying that they can't beat Zerg anymore, but I think they're only saying that because they're used to thinking that when Terran faces Zerg, they need to win 9 out of 10 times [laugh]

- Recently, You've vented about difficulties about Zerg at an online community.
▲ That was the day right before the patch. Even though I had a huge advantage, I had no way to win and no way to play through, but after the whining, things started opening up a bit [laugh]. If there was no patch I would have quit playing Zerg, but now that there's a patch, I'll continue to play Zerg.

- Any resolve regarding your next match?
▲ I've played a lot of games with , but I want to play him once in the remaining games. And the maps have been really bad for me up to now, so I'm hoping the next map pool comes out favorably.

- Anything else you want to say?
▲ (P)RainBOw hyung supported me a lot, so I want to thank him because he was a lot of help. I hope (P)TesteR, RainBOw, and Maka all make it to the top 8. But I think TesteR is a little afraid of RainBOw hyung [laugh].

Source: http://fomos.kr/star2/news_read.html?mode=read&keyno=110681&db=interview
Special Thanks to Harem for helping me out with SC2 unit name
Happy.fairytail
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States327 Posts
September 24 2010 16:11 GMT
#2
awesome, thanks for the interview translation.

and i guess cool isn't switching after all
oBlade
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States6240 Posts
September 24 2010 16:13 GMT
#3
Really important interview with all the zerg discussion. But this was the Ro16 Day 1.
"I read it. You know how to read, you ignorant fuck?" - Andy Dufresne
CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
September 24 2010 16:14 GMT
#4
thanks for the translation!
By the way, my name is Funk. I am not of your world
attackfighter
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada308 Posts
September 24 2010 16:15 GMT
#5
Interesting, he seems to think the patch helped Zerg a lot. Contrasts with idra's recent statement regarding it.
KamikazeFrog
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark64 Posts
September 24 2010 16:16 GMT
#6
- Recently, You've vented about difficulties about Zerg at an online community.
▲ That was the day right before the patch. Even though I had a huge advantage, I had no way to win and no way to play through, but after the whining, things started opening up a bit [laugh]. If there was no patch I would have quit playing Zerg, but now that there's a patch, I'll continue to play Zerg.

Thank god, Cool isn't going to switch
dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
September 24 2010 16:16 GMT
#7
On September 25 2010 01:07 Milkis wrote:
- You were really active in using Ultralisks
▲ The bug is only there when you hit buildings, so I'm hoping the patch keeps going this way [laugh]. I don't think it's bad at all.


Wow, it's surprising that even some of the pros don't seem to realize this affects large units and has affected large units since release.
Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
September 24 2010 16:16 GMT
#8
thanks for translating milkis~
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Lennon
Profile Joined February 2010
United Kingdom2275 Posts
September 24 2010 16:17 GMT
#9
He deserved it.
The whole series was entertaining.
ALPINA
Profile Joined May 2010
3791 Posts
September 24 2010 16:17 GMT
#10
"The bug is only there when you hit buildings, so I'm hoping the patch keeps going this way [laugh]. I don't think it's bad at all."

Lol that's funny xD

And wow at game 3, he pretty much lost it and an attack would have completely killed him cause he was only droning but he got lucky that terran didn't attack.
You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity
UberThing
Profile Joined April 2010
Great Britain410 Posts
September 24 2010 16:18 GMT
#11
Cool work dude!!
Wag1
Ichabod
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1659 Posts
September 24 2010 16:19 GMT
#12
Good to hear Cool has reconsidered and is staying Z
biskit
Profile Joined August 2010
Australia355 Posts
September 24 2010 16:19 GMT
#13
Thank you for translating .

Wow he's really nervous, it's not apparent at all watching the game other than the game 3's second roach warren. He's really lucky too in game 3, if Top decided to keep harrassing he would have lost.
razamanaz
Profile Joined August 2010
271 Posts
September 24 2010 16:19 GMT
#14
On September 25 2010 01:16 dcemuser wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 01:07 Milkis wrote:
- You were really active in using Ultralisks
▲ The bug is only there when you hit buildings, so I'm hoping the patch keeps going this way [laugh]. I don't think it's bad at all.


Wow, it's surprising that even some of the pros don't seem to realize this affects large units and has affected large units since release.


Its not bug for units , it is supposed to be like this . As cool said , bug is only on buildings .
attackfighter
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada308 Posts
September 24 2010 16:20 GMT
#15
On September 25 2010 01:17 Fantistic wrote:
He deserved it.
The whole series was entertaining.


Not really, the second game was very poorly thought out cheese and in the third game the Terran played VERY poorly after the first 5 minutes (Cool even mentions how he just turtled with Thors and didn't upgrade/expand/pressure).
razamanaz
Profile Joined August 2010
271 Posts
September 24 2010 16:22 GMT
#16
On September 25 2010 01:20 attackfighter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 01:17 Fantistic wrote:
He deserved it.
The whole series was entertaining.


Not really, the second game was very poorly thought out cheese and in the third game the Terran played VERY poorly after the first 5 minutes (Cool even mentions how he just turtled with Thors and didn't upgrade/expand/pressure).


So you want to say that cool dont deserv the win if his oponent made a big/more mistake ? thats silly ...
And games was still very entertaining , even if players made big mistakes
JinDesu
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States3990 Posts
September 24 2010 16:22 GMT
#17
oooooooooooo, cool says Tester is a little afraid of Rainbow... that is interesting, and I sorta feel that Tester may have some trouble there. But Tester's PvT is pretty damn good though.
Yargh
dcemuser
Profile Joined August 2010
United States3248 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-09-24 16:23:55
September 24 2010 16:23 GMT
#18
On September 25 2010 01:19 razamanaz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 01:16 dcemuser wrote:
On September 25 2010 01:07 Milkis wrote:
- You were really active in using Ultralisks
▲ The bug is only there when you hit buildings, so I'm hoping the patch keeps going this way [laugh]. I don't think it's bad at all.


Wow, it's surprising that even some of the pros don't seem to realize this affects large units and has affected large units since release.


Its not bug for units , it is supposed to be like this . As cool said , bug is only on buildings .


Well the only way to make Ultralisks not do that to buildings is to remove the "splash radius extended by unit size" option from the Ultra attack OR to give it two different attacks again, so regardless of whether or not it is intended for units, it will probably get removed, unfortunately.
ALPINA
Profile Joined May 2010
3791 Posts
September 24 2010 16:23 GMT
#19
On September 25 2010 01:20 attackfighter wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 25 2010 01:17 Fantistic wrote:
He deserved it.
The whole series was entertaining.


Not really, the second game was very poorly thought out cheese and in the third game the Terran played VERY poorly after the first 5 minutes (Cool even mentions how he just turtled with Thors and didn't upgrade/expand/pressure).


Why poorly played in game 2? He would have made huge damage if only terran didn't make blue flame hellions.
You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity
razamanaz
Profile Joined August 2010
271 Posts
September 24 2010 16:24 GMT
#20
On September 25 2010 01:22 JinDesu wrote:
oooooooooooo, cool says Tester is a little afraid of Rainbow... that is interesting, and I sorta feel that Tester may have some trouble there. But Tester's PvT is pretty damn good though.


Now im scared for Tester From what ive seen : if hes having a good day - then hes playing on another lvl than his oponents . i just hope he will have that good day and wont go scared
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