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Canada8990 Posts
After a 2-1 loss at the hands of Polish Protoss Kristianer in the latest EPT EU cup, Psistorm's MaxPax record-breaking pvp run has finally ended at 39 matches.
The Danish protoss had been unbeaten in mirror matches since September, recording the longest matchup streak in professional Starcraft 2 history.
In doing so, he surpassed the previous record of 36 straight zvp victories of Serral in 2020. While MaxPax did not quite manage to match Serral's winning streak, giving out a 1-1 draw to Stats in WTL, he easily surpassed his rival's winning percentage. He flew almost 10 percentage points above Serral, with an unbelievable 91,4% map win rate during his era of dominance.
Those who hope the surprising upset he suffered to end his streak just short of 40 indicate a newfound weakness will likely be disappointed. MaxPax holds a 92-8 record over his last 100 pvp, a match-up long derided for being the most random SC2 had to offer, and there's little to believe anyone has figured out a stable answer to his trademark one-gate expand opening. We'll have to wait and see if he can someone one-up his record in the months to come.
For now though; the king is dead, long live the king.
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Congrats to maxpax that's an incredible achievement
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Wow, that's actually really cool.
I knew he was good at pvp, but I clearly wasn't paying attention lol
grats to both players
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amazing statistic, thanks for this
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France12980 Posts
I remember playing vs MaxPax in 2016-2017, he was a mass carriers one-trick pony in PvT back then, and now he is top 2 Protoss in the world (online), impressive
Krystianer upset is that much more impressive given MaxPax's insane streak
Congrats MaxPax for figuring out PvP
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Amazing achievement here for both players involved :D
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The streak was great so that upset has much more value. Not a fluke considering he beat Lambo 2-0 afterwards.
BUT the tweet (sorry Musk, this is not a X) Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish, bluntly put.
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not quite comparable cause there weren't weekly ept cups back then where most of the early round opponents are walkovers. still insane though, for someone following the scene for over 12 years, mirror matchups esp pvp have always been perceived as coin flippy. hes the first player to show that it is skill based if your brain is big enough. it's sad that his streak was broken by a not premier player though..
the tweet Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish,
Special's response was absolute gold, he's a gem lol
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France12980 Posts
On November 08 2023 02:59 Philippe wrote:
The streak was great so that upset has much more value. Not a fluke considering he beat Lambo 2-0 afterwards.
BUT the tweet (sorry Musk, this is not a X) Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish, bluntly put.
Yeah, he is not supposed to beat Clem, even in PvP I would favor Clem, the gap is too big, nothing to do with the patch
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Canada8990 Posts
On November 08 2023 07:04 Poopi wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2023 02:59 Philippe wrote:
The streak was great so that upset has much more value. Not a fluke considering he beat Lambo 2-0 afterwards.
BUT the tweet (sorry Musk, this is not a X) Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish, bluntly put. Yeah, he is not supposed to beat Clem, even in PvP I would favor Clem, the gap is too big, nothing to do with the patch
This just in: TL writter say protoss players are so bad, Clem would beat MaxPax with his off-race.
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France12980 Posts
On November 08 2023 07:18 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2023 07:04 Poopi wrote:On November 08 2023 02:59 Philippe wrote:
The streak was great so that upset has much more value. Not a fluke considering he beat Lambo 2-0 afterwards.
BUT the tweet (sorry Musk, this is not a X) Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish, bluntly put. Yeah, he is not supposed to beat Clem, even in PvP I would favor Clem, the gap is too big, nothing to do with the patch This just in: TL writter say protoss players are so bad, Clem would beat MaxPax with his off-race.
Krystianer not MaxPax though!
There is no transitivity rule in sc, MaxPax can lose to Krystianer 5% of the time, doesn’t mean Clem’s Protoss is better
It’s probably 55-45 for Clem’s P vs Krystianer 
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Massive achievement, no doubt. One caveat though: not a single offline match in this streak.
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On November 08 2023 17:38 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
Massive achievement, no doubt. One caveat though: not a single offline match in this streak.
True. I think we shouldn't compare directly with Maru's TvT, Cure's TvP or Serral's ZvP matchup streak since their results have been mixed with offline matches as well.
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Northern Ireland27148 Posts
Man I knew MaxPax was good at PvP, I hadn’t realised prior to this quite how good
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On November 08 2023 07:31 Poopi wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2023 07:18 Nakajin wrote:On November 08 2023 07:04 Poopi wrote:On November 08 2023 02:59 Philippe wrote:
The streak was great so that upset has much more value. Not a fluke considering he beat Lambo 2-0 afterwards.
BUT the tweet (sorry Musk, this is not a X) Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish, bluntly put. Yeah, he is not supposed to beat Clem, even in PvP I would favor Clem, the gap is too big, nothing to do with the patch This just in: TL writter say protoss players are so bad, Clem would beat MaxPax with his off-race. Krystianer not MaxPax though! There is no transitivity rule in sc, MaxPax can lose to Krystianer 5% of the time, doesn’t mean Clem’s Protoss is better It’s probably 55-45 for Clem’s P vs Krystianer
You forgot the eternal rule of PvP (its a fucking stupid mu mostly) so more Like 50/50
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On November 09 2023 19:17 darklycid wrote:Show nested quote +On November 08 2023 07:31 Poopi wrote:On November 08 2023 07:18 Nakajin wrote:On November 08 2023 07:04 Poopi wrote:On November 08 2023 02:59 Philippe wrote:
The streak was great so that upset has much more value. Not a fluke considering he beat Lambo 2-0 afterwards.
BUT the tweet (sorry Musk, this is not a X) Krystianer threw after his series against Clem is childish, bluntly put. Yeah, he is not supposed to beat Clem, even in PvP I would favor Clem, the gap is too big, nothing to do with the patch This just in: TL writter say protoss players are so bad, Clem would beat MaxPax with his off-race. Krystianer not MaxPax though! There is no transitivity rule in sc, MaxPax can lose to Krystianer 5% of the time, doesn’t mean Clem’s Protoss is better It’s probably 55-45 for Clem’s P vs Krystianer You forgot the eternal rule of PvP (its a fucking stupid mu mostly) so more Like 50/50
If you re in a range of like 500 MMR to each other, your Chance of winning a PvP is 50%.
Unless you re playing vs MaxPax, wich makes his streak so much more impressive.
There have allways been 2 matchups that were regarded especially coin flipy; ZvZ and PvP. Now Max has found a solution to it, the 1 gate expand. He plays that opener for multiple years over multiple patches now.
But no other Protoss is good enough with that build to replicate it.
He is the only one who isn t dieing against random bulshit when he does it. He is just SO good in these scenarios and no other Protoss seem to be able to figure out how to replicate it.
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That's insane. WP to both!
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