If I get any of the details or even players wrong here, forgive me -- I am deliberately not looking these games up, I'm just naming the games that immediately come to mind when I think of SC2. Without further ado:
--MVP v. Squirtle in the GSL Finals: BCs vs. Archon Toilet
--MVP v. Squirtle in Game 7 of the same GSL Finals: MVP goes proxy 2-rax with everything on the line
--Scarlett vs. Bomber -- the baneling land-mines heard 'round the world
--sOs vs. Bunny (?) -- proxy nexus to proxy DT shrine to proxy DTs to GG
--TY vs. Scarlett "game sounds" nuke -- the casters revealed Scarlett had been practicing without game sounds, everyone wondered what would happen if she missed a nuke going off, and a nuke hit her directly in the center of her army --Scarlett cheeses Rogue out of the RO32 -- Scarlett has a flair for the dramatic.
--Idra ggs to a hallucinated army
-- Idra ggs after Taeja destroys his own PF on the gold base (bonus points for Day[9] and DjWheat's reactions)
-- Has makes his run at an actual regional championship, leading InControl to say "I'M JUMPING ALL THE GUNS! HAS IS GOING TO WIN BLIZZCON!"
-- TY proxy-raxing Classic to win the championship for KT Rolster
-- MVP bringing out a 2-factory blue-flame hellion strat to go up 3-2 on [REDACTED] in the GSL Finals, only to end up losing the next two games and getting Royal-Roaded -- this was also the beginning of the G5L curse
-- MKP **somehow** not seeing creep in his base when Byul spine-rushed him
-- Maru's epic comeback against Solar in GSL Super Tournament after his proxy-rax were almost completely shut down
-- Sniper and Hyun's Broodlings fighting each other in the trenches as we all realized it was maybe time to leave WoL behind forever
-- Innovation getting reverse-swept by roach/bane all-ins (and a failed proxy) in the GSL Finals against Soulkey
Well, those are the ones I can come up with off the top of my head -- how about you guys?
-Mvp coming back after being reduced to 9 vs 33 Scvs vs Innovation on Akilon Waste -TY vs Zest GSL finals on Dusk Towers -ByuN vs Dark Blizzcon Finals on King Sejong Station -Solar grinding out a lategame win vs the lategame god Maru only to lose everything to a Nuke -DRG being the first one in ages in 2013 to stop Inno's 'unbeatable' parade push -Maru dropping Mines after mines vs phoenixes, not doing any damage and then just killing MyungSik and manner CC/muling him -Maru 'trolling' Serral with 7 Nukes at a time and lategame mech into bio switch at WESG -Rogue cheesing Serral every game to win TSL in like 15 minutes -Life cheesing Lilbow every game at Blizzcon to win in like 15 minutes
2014 WCS America Season 2 Finals - Pigbaby vs. Bomber
The whole series was a classic but Game 1 with Pigbaby doing a Carrier rush set the tone for probably the most iconic Bo7 in the history of WCS America.
On December 14 2021 07:06 ScrappyRabbit wrote: What was the game in GSL where the Protoss player blocked his own nexus with a pylon and had to pretty much immediately gg?
San vs Check (the WC3 Check not JinAir Check)
On December 14 2021 06:00 Chris_Havoc wrote: 2014 WCS America Season 2 Finals - Pigbaby vs. Bomber
The whole series was a classic but Game 1 with Pigbaby doing a Carrier rush set the tone for probably the most iconic Bo7 in the history of WCS America.
That whole run was insane, random backbencher from Korea shows up and beat a gauntlet that has about 25 trophy, about 40 finals, 7 GSL semi-final and about a dozen regional championship. (He even came back the next season to eliminate JD and TaeJa for good mesure)
It's obviously difficult to compare different ages and what we saw in the past is not as impressive if we look back at it from today's perspective. But games like Life vs. Last at MLG and especially Life's ling-micro vs. blue flame hellions was just insane back then.
EPT
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