Also, I knew Incontrol would win the whole series after that shitty game one. (He send his ovie to a different base a little too early and got mutas really latete.)

ghrur

United States3786 Posts

January 10 2010 04:28 GMT

#84

Noooooooooo, kawaiiiiiiii, but good job avi-love.

R A V

United States217 Posts

January 10 2010 05:32 GMT

#85

sadfase for kawaii, was rooting for you :<

ilj.psa

Peru3081 Posts

January 10 2010 05:47 GMT

#86

I liked the Nyoken vs Dreiven series, very fast paced games

Trap

United States395 Posts

January 10 2010 07:12 GMT

#87

Made me smile. Good luck incontrol!

GreEny K

Germany7312 Posts

January 10 2010 08:25 GMT

#88

On January 10 2010 01:22 Qwertify wrote:
Nyoken vs. Dreiven should produce some good games. I can't wait for the replays.

Wow wasn't expecting a 2-0...

AtlaS

United States1001 Posts

January 10 2010 09:16 GMT

#89

just watched the iNc games. fuck i was nervous after the first one but he played the 3rd one so nicely. would've liked to see the flock of scourge to do a bit more damage but it still turned out OK. Great reaction at the end. It's so hard not to root for iNc

Shame to see Kawaii go down though.

Art_of_Kill

Zaire1232 Posts

January 10 2010 09:22 GMT

#90

On January 10 2010 17:25 GreEny K wrote:

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Wow wasn't expecting a 2-0...

actually i would be surprised if nyoken could have took a sigle game vs dreiven, this dude is my favorit toss since fisheye quit bw

so far only one game was unexpected, g5 beating cloud

when will kollls games played?

AtlaS

United States1001 Posts

January 10 2010 09:31 GMT

#91

On January 10 2010 18:22 Art_of_Kill wrote:

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Nyoken Dreiven was completely unexpected for me. I still though Dreiven was going to win but not like that.

I've never seen a nyoken play but so many people were talking him up to be incredible and one of the top foreigner terran players so I was excited as hell for this series. He played well in the first game but Dreiven was able to pull through. First game was pretty damn enjoyable. But the 2nd game? Lifting the barracks with only 2 rines and the shop still building? I don't think I've seen a barracks be repositioned that early with only 1 fact. I think his biomech build had a great chance of succeeding if those goons and zealot didn't cause damage in his main.

I'm really sad. I wanted to see an epic 3-game series between these two guys.
edit:
Just saw the Sawyer Infernal game. Idk why he did that build in the 3rd game. After the lag was fixed for the 2nd game (i'm assuming this cause they didn't say anything in chat), Sawyer absolutely manhandled Infernal by just going standard.

sad to see one of my favorite polish players out.

2-2 for the Americans
1-2 for the Poles
Could be better. But could be worse

adamisuber

Canada35 Posts

January 10 2010 09:49 GMT

#92

Kawaiiiii nuuuuuuuuuuuu. o____________________o

Substandard

Italy270 Posts

January 10 2010 10:23 GMT

#93

On January 10 2010 18:31 AtlaS wrote:

Just saw the Sawyer Infernal game. Idk why he did that build in the 3rd game. After the lag was fixed for the 2nd game (i'm assuming this cause they didn't say anything in chat), Sawyer absolutely manhandled Infernal by just going standard.

sad to see one of my favorite polish players out.

2-2 for the Americans
1-2 for the Poles
Could be better. But could be worse

And you don't think game 2 was because of Infernals strategy? He went aggressive early which completley failed and then desperatley tried to catch up with a risky double expand. Sawyer just reacted correctley and pushed out early once he hit his timing gg. Imho just a bo win, nothing else.

Drazzzt

Germany999 Posts

January 10 2010 10:36 GMT

#94

I think Dreiven played very impressively, nice micro, nice judgement. Infernal played also very nice. Sawyer, at least in the andromeda game, was way too passive. No vulture raids, no drops, nothing.
Horror vs Nemu was a weak series in my opinion. mediocre control/micro and mediocre game management from both sides.
Arew vs mikoel. The latter showed some nice comebacks, but Arew seemed totally uninspired in the end game, when he had a big advantage (in both games) and threw it away. Overall: nice games, with lacking end-game on arew's side. Mikoel showed some nice turtling etc.

Gamtja outclassed KawaiiRice in my opinion, especially in the second game. I didn't know him before, but I was quite impressed. If he know incorporates more drop ship harrassment in his game, he seems to be quite a strong pt contender.

Incontrol: nice job.

eri: PZ is probably not ur best MU :/.

watching the rest now.

AtlaS

United States1001 Posts

January 10 2010 10:43 GMT

#95

On January 10 2010 19:23 Substandard wrote:

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Well yeah it's gonna be because of Infernal's strategy. But that doesn't change the fact that Sawyer was the one that completely shut down the early goon pressure and then hit a nice timing window that hurt infernal quite a bit. But it's not like Infernal did the wrong decision, did he? My PvT knowledge is a bit rusty but after keeping the terran from taking the gas until 22 or 23 supply, the "correct" follow-up is to do heavy goon pressure, right? I don't even think Infernal was down by too terribly much when he failed to do any damage with his goons early on. I don't really think this game was a BO win

Edit

On January 10 2010 19:36 Drazzzt wrote:
I think Dreiven played very impressively, nice micro, nice judgement. Infernal played also very nice. Sawyer, at least in the andromeda game, was way too passive. No vulture raids, no drops, nothing.
Horror vs Nemu was a weak series in my opinion. mediocre control/micro and mediocre game management from both sides.
Arew vs mikoel. The latter showed some nice comebacks, but Arew seemed totally uninspired in the end game, when he had a big advantage (in both games) and threw it away. Overall: nice games, with lacking end-game on arew's side. Mikoel showed some nice turtling etc.

Gamtja outclassed KawaiiRice in my opinion, especially in the second game. I didn't know him before, but I was quite impressed. If he know incorporates more drop ship harrassment in his game, he seems to be quite a strong pt contender.

Incontrol: nice job.

eri: PZ is probably not ur best MU :/.

watching the rest now.

The one thing that kept bothering about the Gamtja Kawaii games was the fact that Gamtja would stasis a group of units and then do a storm on the stasis units right after it. I thought it was just a simple micro mistake but he ended up doing that multiple times.

Drazzzt

Germany999 Posts

January 10 2010 11:24 GMT

#96

Ghosta vs Marwin: Unfortunately, I don't know anything about TvT, so I am better not commenting on this game

. But in game 2, Ghosta showed a really nice, game deciding (at least in my opionion) mine drag, killing 2 tanks.

Avi vs datoby: seemed to be a pretty even series. Datoby should incorporate reavers into his (moving!) army a little earlier and also drop ship harrassment was too late, avi showed some nice swarm play, but might consider drops to reduce protoss' production capabilities (watch some mondragon reps

).

Castro vs Shad: my z v z understanding is also quite limited, but Castros control seemed superior.

Nice games overall only horror vs nemu was subpar. Looking forward to this afternoon :-).