Dear wins WCS Season 3 - Page 2

On October 28 2013 12:43 Shellshock wrote:
Congrats Dear! awesome performance this weekend. Maru vs Dear was the series of the tournament!

On October 28 2013 13:19 StarStruck wrote:


Trap plays differently. Please don't compare players like that.

On October 28 2013 13:22 movac wrote:


As much as I want a Terran to win. It was very frustrating to see Maru refuse to make ghosts. As such he didn't deserve to win. I think Maru's TvT was by far more impressive than his TvP.

On October 28 2013 13:33 FabledIntegral wrote:


It's simply a style of play, it's exactly how I play my TvP. You forego ghosts and instead use a ton of multi pronged attacks with constant pressure. You can't afford ghosts if you want to do this style. You also have to go light on the vikings too. Goal is to have your units super spread out and be efficient in small numbers and just pick the opponent apart. And he damn well near did it successfully vs Dear too.

On October 28 2013 13:32 awesomoecalypse wrote:


Of course Trap and Dear have different styles, but still, beating Trap the way he did shows Soulkey is quite solid as ZvP--its not like it was considered a weak matchup for him before playing Dear.

On October 28 2013 13:35 awesomoecalypse wrote:


Defending that style is so fucking hard. In the entire world, only Dear and maybe Rain could have survived what Maru was doing in those games.

Dear then followed almost immediately after with a warp prism full of zealots into Dear's main, dealing even more damage while deftly holding off Soulkey's counter-attack with good micro.

On October 28 2013 13:39 awesomoecalypse wrote:
The best play of the entire weekend was Maru vs Dear game 1 was a craaazy sequence, where Maru was trying to drop Dear's main--Dear got off a feedback which nearly killed the Medivac, and then followed it up with a storm right on top of it, with a Phoenix chasing right behind. Maru boosted ahead just long enough to drop a marauder before the Phoenix could nab the Medivac, and then the Phoenix picked up the Marauder before it could kill probes.

The highspeed decision-making by both players during that sequence really showed how well they were playing. If anyone has a gif or vod, that would be amazing.

On October 28 2013 13:47 dinosrwar wrote:
Dear #1 October Power Rank. What an amazing run.

On October 28 2013 13:48 StarStruck wrote:


No one can deny it.

On October 28 2013 13:47 dinosrwar wrote:
Dear #1 October Power Rank. What an amazing run.

On October 28 2013 13:44 goody153 wrote:


This is so true ! and maru style looks like how mkp plays it ..

Dear showed that he could survive and wont crack on the hyperaggressive drop-happy ghostless style ..

i still yet have to see if Dear can survive top tier ghost utilizers like taeja and jakji

On October 28 2013 14:15 althaz wrote:

Trap and Dear do have different styles, but they are also different calibres of players. No disrespect to Trap who is a quality player, but Dear is on a whole other level at the moment (and in general really).

Trap is a player that's been getting more solid, but is still primarily a superb PvZer and decent player all-around, whereas Dear is just a fucking badass.

On October 28 2013 13:39 awesomoecalypse wrote:
The best play of the entire weekend was Maru vs Dear game 1 was a craaazy sequence, where Maru was trying to drop Dear's main--Dear got off a feedback which nearly killed the Medivac, and then followed it up with a storm right on top of it, with a Phoenix chasing right behind. Maru boosted ahead just long enough to drop a marauder before the Phoenix could nab the Medivac, and then the Phoenix picked up the Marauder before it could kill probes.

The highspeed decision-making by both players during that sequence really showed how well they were playing. If anyone has a gif or vod, that would be amazing.