In today's GSL U&D (Group E) tiebreaker match between Bbyong and Sniper something happened that can only be described as an epic fail.
This thread is for fails like this. Moments in which progamers do really bad stuff. Not the average "he ran 8 Zerglings into a Baneling" thing but extreme micro/macro mistakes or inexplicable ingame decisions or extremely bad luck. I remember Jaedong (in BW) once blocking over 50 (!) supply worth of units inside his main base with a Drone who got stuck on a ramp for over 10 minutes without noticing it. This kind of stuff.
I know that every progamer plays a million times better than me so this thread is not meant condescending. It is also not meant scornful but should rather be seen as a tribute to their skill because if a mediocre player fails no one would care.
Here is what happened in said game: In the first round of the tiebreakers of group E Bbyong played an awesome game against Sniper. After a failed 2-rax he went into 7 Orbitals on 3 bases and then 5 bases and then destroyed Sniper's late game Broodlord Infestor Corrupter combination with his great economy and a giant fleet of vikings (and pretty nice Viking control). It helped that he managed to keep the number of Vikings he made hidden but it was still quite impressive. Then in the next round of the tiebreakers they met again. After another wild game (this time it was Bbyong who gave away a big lead) they were again in the late game. Once again he managed to get up a lot of CCs and an insane Viking count and he seemed in a solid position. And then it happened: For unknown reasons Bbyong decided to take all of his Vikings (25+), fly them accross the map, land them inside Sniper's main base and fight with them for at least half a minute. They OBVIOUSLY got fungaled when the Infestors came back. But Bbyong didn't seem to care. He just kept fighting even with those Vikings who were not fungaled. So they all got killed by a couple of Zerglings, Queens and Roaches. Sniper then just flew his Broodlord army inside of Bbyong's bases, Bbyong had nothing to fight them and Sniper won the game.
Idra vs Huk (the hallucinated army incident) Idra vs MMA (This was kind of both progamers making huge mistakes, MMA killing his own CC, and Idra playing with the mentality that he was behind)
There was that time when MKP nuked his own army against Drewbie at MLG Orlando. MKP ended up losing the series to Drewbie.
There was that time when Naniwa decided to worker rush in the Blizzard Cup.
There was that time in GSL (early 2011) when San blocked his own Nexus during a FFE.
During the GSTL finals at IPL 4, Bomber and MKP faced off in a TvT. Bomber held off MKP's siege timing, and dropped manner mules thinking that he had won. He didn't, and MKP ended up beating him and 4 killing Startale to give Prime the GSTL title.
On March 07 2013 07:12 Fenrax wrote: I remember Jaedong (in BW) once blocking over 50 (!) supply worth of units inside his main base with a Drone who got stuck on a ramp for over 10 minutes without noticing it. This kind of stuff.
Just to throw this out here, Jaedong pretty much won the very moment he freed all those Hydras. Not sure if that qualifies as epic fail or just laughable :p
Huk cancelling warpgate at 90% against Leenock in MLG, and then use a guardian shield instead of a forcefield. He loses that game in 5 seconds, it was a really sad fail.
There was some weird ZvZ on Steppes of War in one of the open seasons (?) where some player just put a proxy hatch in one of the most random locations, did some more stupid shit and then gg'd. I have never seen anything worse.
On March 07 2013 07:27 achan1058 wrote: IMHappy vs Roro:
11/11 vs 3 hatch gas before pool. Guess who wins. + Show Spoiler +
Happy did not even get a single hatch.
Do you have the VOD? I keep on hearing about this game, but never seen it yet.
It's on gomtv, but you will have to pay for it. Set 4, game 1: http://www.gomtv.net/2012gsls5/vod/70985 (ever since they changed the layout you can't just like to a particular game instead of the series, sad)
On March 07 2013 07:48 LuckyMacro wrote: I remember a protoss messing up and placing buildings where his natural nexus would go, so he was unable to expand...was it Sanzenith?
Jaedong's drone block game was hilarious because he was holding off the Protoss' attacks without those hydras, but once the floodgates opened, he rolled over him.
On March 07 2013 07:15 Bagration wrote: This thread just screams Idra
Idra vs Huk (the hallucinated army incident) Idra vs MMA (This was kind of both progamers making huge mistakes, MMA killing his own CC through siege tank splash, and Idra playing with the mentality that he was behind)
There was that time when MKP nuked his own army against Drewbie at MLG Orlando. MKP ended up losing the series to Drewbie.
There was that time when Naniwa decided to worker rush in the Blizzard Cup.
There was that time in GSL (early 2011) when San blocked his own Nexus during a FFE.
MMA actually targeted his own CC, it wasn't splash. I watched the replay to see what he was doing while that was happening...AND HE WAS STARING AT HIS CC GET SHOT BY TANKS THE ENTIRE TIME.
Flash vs Ryung in the latest season of code A - in game 2 (I think) Flash flew 3 full medivacs into a pair of turrets, reached the drop point, and then his medivacs just hovered there without unloading and they all got shot down. He still won though lol.
EPT
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