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Disasterpiece Theater: soO vs Zest (2014-04-05) - Page 2

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Executer08
Profile Joined June 2015
Germany163 Posts
May 14 2019 10:55 GMT
#21
On May 13 2019 08:00 Charoisaur wrote:
Zest doesn't get enough credit for that game, he played that amazingly. I'd say this was more a comeback than a throw.


On May 13 2019 08:42 NotSoHappy wrote:
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On May 13 2019 08:00 Charoisaur wrote:
Zest doesn't get enough credit for that game, he played that amazingly. I'd say this was more a comeback than a throw.


yep, i disagree it was a throw after roach/ling all in soo had 34 lings, ~20 drones, queen and little larva. zest was still on 2 bases with 23 probes that's almost even


yes but in a time of forge fast expands and mothership cores you have to consider how incredilby delayed actual protoss tech is if you suffer any early losses. you almost exclusively built sentries at the start of which he also lost 2 and his twilight goes down 9 minutes into the game. there were no adepts in hots, Zest doesnt have a robo for a prism, no stargate, literally no way to get out on the map until his dark shrine finishes 4 minutes after soO's attack ended. thats 4 minutes of pure droning for soO.

you can really see it in the later attacks described in the article how bad this early game actually was for Zest. it was 100% a huge throw by soO. Zest did the best he could after the disastrous start, but even playing perfectly from that point onward he had no business winning that game.
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Ben...
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada3485 Posts
May 14 2019 15:07 GMT
#22
Yeah, I think had soO gone for the "standard" thing most other zergs were doing on that map at the time, which was roach/swarmhost into hive into infestor/broodlord/corruptor he would have easily won that game given his economic and map control advantage going into the midgame. Zest did have colossus tech but he would still have been pinned at his third base defending the swarmhosts and being forced to delay his tech by getting more sentries since he lost all of his earlier ones. soO had to have known Zest would be prepared for his trademark muta/corruptor play, and as soon as he transitioned into that composition it was clear that Zest indeed was prepared. soO got basically nothing done with his mutas outside of killing a stargate and a dark shrine and later trading a huge chunk of his mutas for a nexus.
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starkiller123
Profile Joined January 2016
United States4030 Posts
May 14 2019 15:10 GMT
#23
I'm loving this series so far, for some reason its very entertaining to go through these "bad" games
Akio
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Finland1838 Posts
May 14 2019 16:28 GMT
#24
I like these Disasterpiece writeups! This was painful in many different ways, what on earth can soO do when the determinst curse living inside the man starts playing your games to guarantee a second place?
Mine gas, build tanks.
RealityTheGreat
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China564 Posts
May 17 2019 05:03 GMT
#25
Translating Mizen's article is such a tiring task...
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