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Believe it into Existence: Reynor wins IEM Katowice 2021
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Sirris
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On March 10 2021 15:53 Sirris wrote: Fantastic article. Even as someone who very loosely follows sc2(broodwar is my thing), I'm definitely going to watch all these games now even though I know the results I also had to rewatch the Dark series, because I couldn t watch it live unfortunatly. Still was absolutly amazing | ||
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bastiensky
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parksonsc
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Edpayasugo
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HolySmoke
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DevilDriver
Germany77 Posts
The question for me is: Will we see (non-AI) players who will become even better than that (on a non-strategic level)? I can't imagine it, but the current trend suggests that. If Starcraft was a more stable e-sport and had a more promising future, I could see team houses introducing this archon method as a standard training device and a lot of youngsters rising to unimaginable heights. Most team houses are gone for now, but there still seem to be youngsters starting to play on a competitive level, but I doubt that many of them will actually consider a professional career, I hope I'm wrong there. | ||
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Charoisaur
Germany16062 Posts
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Noa Greenini
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dbRic1203
Germany2655 Posts
On March 11 2021 01:52 Charoisaur wrote: absolutely heartbroken Maru choked again Marus loss had nothing todo with him choking, he played amazing, eben in game 4 his error didn t even matter, because it was a build order loss anyways. It was just that Teynor was able to adapt to his opponent and managed to transfer bis almost perfect early game into a midgame win instead a lategame loss | ||
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Xamo
Spain886 Posts
Long live the king! | ||
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virpi
Germany3599 Posts
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Charoisaur
Germany16062 Posts
On March 11 2021 02:26 dbRic1203 wrote: Marus loss had nothing todo with him choking, he played amazing, eben in game 4 his error didn t even matter, because it was a build order loss anyways. It was just that Teynor was able to adapt to his opponent and managed to transfer bis almost perfect early game into a midgame win instead a lategame loss In game 3 he also put himself incredibly far behind by not walling off correctly and letting his 3/3 get sniped for free due to poor ebay placement | ||
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rwala
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26693 Posts
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xsnac
Barbados1365 Posts
On March 10 2021 12:30 kawoq wrote: I recall Boxer used to practice with Archon mode in Broodwar 1v2, no? Great tournament to watch! Glad to see Reynor won it all, he deserve it, gg wp. boxer? bro archon wasant in the game until last expansion of sc2... | ||
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Neemi
Netherlands656 Posts
On March 14 2021 15:03 xsnac wrote: boxer? bro archon wasant in the game until last expansion of sc2... Brood War had team melee, which was essentially the same thing with a different name. Boxer indeed used it a lot, he says a lot about this in his autobiography. https://thethroneesports.com/2018/03/12/chapter-2-birth-of-a-progamer/#Four | ||
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MyLovelyLurker
France756 Posts
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ExpatRights
53 Posts
On March 14 2021 02:44 rwala wrote: So happy for Reynor! What a champ! He just brought such epic matches and an amazing attitude and energy. The whole tourney was pretty awesome, one of the better ones in a long time. That said, as a huge Maru fan, it was painful to see how he went down to Reynor in game 4. It's being talked about like it was a build order loss (and maybe that's how the game would have played out anyway), but the straight up mistakes that Maru basically never makes were painful to watch. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened if he had actually gotten the fusion core up instead of mistakenly building a 3rd starport (probably dead anyway, but still...). Seems like Maru kind of made a meta/strategic miscalculation though in the series anyway. After those first two games how does Maru not stick with a survive-till-late-game approach for all the following games? Reynor clearly was outmatched in the late game so even with thoughtful adaptation you'd think Maru is pretty much 100% going to get 1 out of 3 games that go late game. Anyways, it's nice to see Maru back in form after seemingly having made a strong recovery from his injury. Hoping to see some Maru magic in 2021! Hmmm. When a player makes tons of uncharacteristic mistakes, like refusing to use a strategy that just won them the previous 2 matches in the next 3... hmmm.... | ||
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tigera6
3483 Posts
On April 18 2021 01:17 ExpatRights wrote: Hmmm. When a player makes tons of uncharacteristic mistakes, like refusing to use a strategy that just won them the previous 2 matches in the next 3... hmmm.... Maru couldnt play the same way as in the first 2 games even if he wanted to, that because Reynor were DONE with using Lurker and Broodlord after those losses. Sure Maru made mistake with his build and wall-in in game 3 and 4, but he wouldnt be able to fight the same way. Just look at game 5, where Reynor was doing lingabane Muta into lingbaneUltra, try to use the quick pace to force Maru into fighting head on rather than turtling behind his defense. | ||
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