Neeb defeated uThermal 4-1 in the grand finals of Cheeseadelphia 11, claiming the $4,000 first place prize and his third Cheeseadelphia championship.
While uThermal threw a variety of different tactics at Neeb—including proxy barracks rushes, SCV-pull all-ins, and fast banshees—the American Protoss was able to successful navigate the threats on his way to the title. However, there was more to uThermal's game than just early game attacks, as the highlight game of the finals featured the two players slugging it out in a fierce, 29 minute brawl on Ephemeron. uThermal's hybrid bio-mech army looked overpowering for much of the game, but Neeb was able to exploit its lack of mobility to steal an upset in the end.
North American stalwart MaSa took third place, while 2019 breakout player Astrea finished in fourth.
At least it was better competition than Psistorm cup. The questions there wasn't if Neeb would win there, it was if he would drop a map. Still a great time to be sure, but there are few in the world that can compete with him, let alone an NA tourney without Special or Scarlett. USA representing!
On December 17 2019 04:06 dswarm wrote: At least it was better competition than Psistorm cup. The questions there wasn't if Neeb would win there, it was if he would drop a map. Still a great time to be sure, but there are few in the world that can compete with him, let alone an NA tourney without Special or Scarlett. USA representing!
that's giving way too little credit to the competition, considering that Neeb has LOST in all-NA cheeseadelphias before
These are just the casted games, we don't (yet) have a good way to pull all the replays from the open bracket.
Sorry in advance there's zero sorting beyond a rename and adding the map! I'm super exhausted today and have a lot of stuff I still need to do but wanted to get this out as fast as possible.
On December 17 2019 04:06 dswarm wrote: At least it was better competition than Psistorm cup. The questions there wasn't if Neeb would win there, it was if he would drop a map. Still a great time to be sure, but there are few in the world that can compete with him, let alone an NA tourney without Special or Scarlett. USA representing!
that's giving way too little credit to the competition, considering that Neeb has LOST in all-NA cheeseadelphias before
Get the torches out and call people names such as racist. I don't know how blatantly naming someone a racist doesn't get someone temp banned. Guy may not know Tempo, although he should as he's been here since 2014.. His post could be down to misinterpretation or a moment of frustration, but don't be quick to ask for perm bans on your fellow community.
The final series reminded me a lot of IEM Shanghai finals, with uThermal doing lots of aggressive and unorthodox openings to get ahead in the early game, but Neeb was much better at recovering today than he was back then.
On December 17 2019 10:40 Matroid_Prime wrote: Get the torches out and call people names such as racist. I don't know how blatantly naming someone a racist doesn't get someone temp banned. Guy may not know Tempo, although he should as he's been here since 2014.. His post could be down to misinterpretation or a moment of frustration, but don't be quick to ask for perm bans on your fellow community.
If someone doesn't want to be called a racist, they shouldn't say racist things. Pretty simple.
On December 17 2019 10:40 Matroid_Prime wrote: Get the torches out and call people names such as racist. I don't know how blatantly naming someone a racist doesn't get someone temp banned. Guy may not know Tempo, although he should as he's been here since 2014.. His post could be down to misinterpretation or a moment of frustration, but don't be quick to ask for perm bans on your fellow community.
Even if it wasn't Temp0, even if it was a random dude off the street, it would still be racist.
On December 17 2019 10:40 Matroid_Prime wrote: Get the torches out and call people names such as racist. I don't know how blatantly naming someone a racist doesn't get someone temp banned. Guy may not know Tempo, although he should as he's been here since 2014.. His post could be down to misinterpretation or a moment of frustration, but don't be quick to ask for perm bans on your fellow community.
There's no interpretation of the statement "wow they just had the black guy on for diversity so he could say stupid sentences" that isn't racist. they saw Tempo in the cast, instead of criticizing his commentary (which btw was stellar all weekend), he goes straight to "diversity hire" line and makes it about his race.
Fuck that, it's absolutely the type of hate speech that should have no place in the community. I've seen people perma banned over balance whining, being a racist shithead definitely should go up there
Neeb has shown some improbable defences/comeback wins in recent times. Against TIME in a recent WCS, soO (and to a lesser extent Stats) in NW, uthermal here...
Which is eerily reminiscent of his two-part hold in WESG 2017 (game 4) against uthermal of all people
On December 17 2019 10:40 Matroid_Prime wrote: Get the torches out and call people names such as racist. I don't know how blatantly naming someone a racist doesn't get someone temp banned. Guy may not know Tempo, although he should as he's been here since 2014.. His post could be down to misinterpretation or a moment of frustration, but don't be quick to ask for perm bans on your fellow community.
There's no interpretation of the statement "wow they just had the black guy on for diversity so he could say stupid sentences" that isn't racist. they saw Tempo in the cast, instead of criticizing his commentary (which btw was stellar all weekend), he goes straight to "diversity hire" line and makes it about his race.
Fuck that, it's absolutely the type of hate speech that should have no place in the community. I've seen people perma banned over balance whining, being a racist shithead definitely should go up there
Yup, should have been perma ban. I hate balance whine and can t stand it at all, but that comment was pretty much the ugliest I ve seen on this forum so far.
EPT
Neeb defeated 
