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WCS 2015 Recap: Polt Victorious
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At the dawn of the third day, 8 players were ready to challenge for the throne. Yet among those 8 only one could remain. In the upper bracket, Hydra dominated his competition as he slew TLO and Showtime in quick succession. In the bottom bracket, Snute and Bunny played an exciting series that ended with Bunny proving to be the superior this time and very nearly became the first foreigner player to reach a WCS Finals since Stephano in 2013. Yet everything was overshadowed by Polt’s insane run. In the ro8, he matched against ForGG, a player that had beaten him in their last 2 series and was considered the best TvT in Europe. Polt won 3-2. Polt then played Bunny in the semi-finals and again he was faced against a player that had won their most recent series. And again Polt won 3-2.
In the finals, he faced off against Hydra, a player utterly confident in his victory. And everything was going Hydra’s way as he went up 1-3 against Polt. Yet in the critical fourth game, Polt went all the way down to 0 scvs, yet refused to GG out. This delay tactic became crucial as Polt was able to compose himself, look back at his games and find a way to make a comeback against Hydra. In the next 3 games, Polt battled Hydra for every inch on the screen as they went for massive non stop fighting macro games with both players teetering on the edge multiple times. Yet when it came to the single most important moments, Polt continually kept his calm and never let the pressure get to him as he took the game to Hydra and completed the amazing 4-3 comeback.
With that victory, Polt secured his first victory of 2015. He is now the first player to ever win three WCS titles and the first player to win a Premier Tournament in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
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Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
Incidentally:
Scenario 1: (T)Polt 4 - 3 (Z)Hydra.
I've read enough comicbooks to know now that the showdown happens in the finals and that it must be Captain America vs Red Skull Hydra. As Polt cuts down Hydra in the 7th game, Hydra will scream, "CUT ME DOWN AND 2 MORE KOREANS WILL RISE IN MY PLACE." Then in WCS Season 2 he comes back with Jaedong and Stardust. Dun dun dun.
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On April 06 2015 08:17 stuchiu wrote:
Incidentally:
Scenario 1: (T)Polt 4 - 3 (Z)Hydra.
I've read enough comicbooks to know now that the showdown happens in the finals and that it must be Captain America vs Red Skull Hydra. As Polt cuts down Hydra in the 7th game, Hydra will scream, "CUT ME DOWN AND 2 MORE KOREANS WILL RISE IN MY PLACE." Then in WCS Season 2 he comes back with Jaedong and Stardust. Dun dun dun.
Evil truly never dies.
Also that's amazing that Polt has won a tournament every year since SC2 came out
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That will teach Hydra to dance his units again! God that made me angry :S . But it turned out good in the end at least :D
Always liked Polt for being such a sport and hearty person. Glad he won 
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This final was insane... Hydra really went on tilt at some point, running all his banelings into thors off creep, standing on widowmines with a bunch of zerglings, getting careless with his mutas and stuff like that. I guess this is where Polt really showed how good a starcraft player he is.
Mechanicaly Hydra is a beast, hard to be matched, and because he is so fast, he can do good stuff with his army even off creep. But he was overconfident after his 3-1 lead and took way too many bad engagements, ignoring widowmines and going off creep every time.
In the following game Hydra again was too eager to finish it all, letting himself bait into minefields way too often and overall it just felt like he was beginning to play Polts game, instead of his own.
Polt figured him out and tried to get Hydra into a game, which he couldn't win, even with his supperior mechanics and speed... and succeeded.
Polt: Well played against a player I think we will see even more rounded by Root (make all the fun you want about catz, but he understands the game) again in the next season, maybe that time winning it all.
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Insane finals, insane storyline. Congratulations Polt, you're an amazing champion.
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That was just heroic by Polt, what a champ.
Hopefully next time we'll have a foreigner in the finals though
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Really good play by Polt, but I kept thinking that if Wolf and Brendan or Khaldor were casting, they'd criticize Hydra for taking so many fights off creep, and not spreading his creep that well either.
Like ninigi said, hydra definitely went full tilt at some parts in the game.
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Vatican City State35 Posts
Polt's composure under pressure never ceases to amaze me. I thought he was dead in game 5 when Hydra was on 5 bases but his decision to go Ultra's cost him and Polt never lost the momentum from that point.
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On April 06 2015 09:11 Feisty wrote:
Polt's composure under pressure never ceases to amaze me. I thought he was dead in game 5 when Hydra was on 5 bases but his decision to go Ultra's cost him and Polt never lost the momentum from that point.
Yeah, game 5 was when Hydra went on tilt. Ultras were the right decision, Polt did nothing out of the ordinary to get Hydra into that position. Polt pressured a hatch, which Hydra should have given him for the cost of upgraded ultras and a huge army, with a lot of banes. He would have crushed Polts army right there and Polt had nothing behind that, he was desperate.
But right there HOTS is still a game of decision making. And Hydras decision was quite bad... (that's btw the reason why I don't like Blizzards approach to lotv. It shouldn't all come down to micro)
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ZigguratOfUr
Iraq16955 Posts
Woah. Polt actually won. I had to leave after seeing Hydra push him around for a few games.
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Dont Dance.
That motivated Polt to win.
Hydra took so many engagements out of creep. And alot of em for nothing, sometimes 1-2 screens from creep away in the middle of nowhere. If he had a better decision making / engagement style, he could easily transform one of the loses into a win taking the whole series.
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I knew Polt would win. I was wondering what the commentary and analysis team were smoking when they said Polt would lose to forGG, no disrespect to forGG, of course.
Congrats, Captain America, well deserved and well played. Commiserations to Hydra et al.
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Canada8160 Posts
ForGG has world class TvT, that's why they said ForGG
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Cricketer12
United States14003 Posts
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Will this finally give Polt consideration for one of the best sc2 terrans...ever?
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Will this finally give Polt qualification for one of the best sc2 terrans...ever
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We can call him one with longest period of consistent success, sure, but doubt he can be called best ever playing mostly in NA.
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On April 06 2015 11:25 BretZ wrote:
Will this finally give Polt qualification for one of the best sc2 terrans...ever
Was this ever called into question?
Mvp > Taeja > MMA > Bogus = Polt = Maru
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United States97277 Posts
I'm so bummed about Hydra not winning this
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