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ShinHanOSL2 - Round of 8 - Game Day 1

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ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
October 27 2006 11:46 GMT
#1
Ah yes, the round of 8. Now we get to see the real competitors in this tournament. And the amazing thing is, there are still 2 toss players left despite the pathetic race balance at the beginning of the tournament. These guys are clearly the cream of the crop, as today’s games showed.

Nada vs Zergman
Arkanoid

Nada (7) opened with the standard fast CC while Zergman (1) placed a typical misplaced hatch first, followed by a pool. Nada built up his infrastructure as he went 2 port wraith and protected against Zergman’s muta build with some turrets. It became clear however that Zergman would have no opportunity to be offensive as his mutas were forced back by cloaked wraiths. He wasn’t going anywhere until overlord speed was done.

Nada quickly switched gears and started building up his signature MnM vessel army as he took his other nat. Zergman had also expanded to his other nat and tried to stop Nada with a little harass, but despite his detection from his speed lords his mutas lost the battle to Nada’s wraiths!

Things were looking good for the Terran as he crossed the map, taking out neutral buildings and irradiating passing mutas. He met Zergman’s hydras in the center and won the battle easily until some newly built lurks forced him back. From there Nada simply dropped Zergman’s expos and eventually trampled him with this…

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Nada always seems to have so much of... everything!


Nada > Zergman

Nada’s opening was sexy. He knew the size of the map would allow him to fight off early harass with wraiths since slow lords would have too much of a distance to cross to be helpful. It seems like this guy can’t lose if the game makes it past 12 minutes. What a monster.

GF vs The Rock
Tau Cross

GF (1) opened with a risky CC first build while his protoss opponent (5) 2 gate gooned. Rock did some moderate harassing with ranged goons while he took his own nat and managed to keep SCVs repairing the bunker long enough that both players seemed pretty much even in the end, though neither had really damaged the other. Rock followed that up with another expansion and a reaver drop. GF was completely unprepared for the reaver and would’ve gotten nailed for it if Rock didn’t needlessly lose his shuttle to a lone turret. GF got away with some moderate damage to his economy, which is far less than he deserved, and cleared the sitting reaver and lots away.

From there it was a macro fest. GF took another expo and Rock continued to pump lot goon from... 4 gates?

He had 3 stargates and a fleet beacon tucked away under his 3rd eco and was building up a fleet. GF eventually clued in, but his new expo got flooded with speed lots while he attempted to deal with this terrifying sight...

[image loading]


Rock spread his carriers out in a line so GF could clearly count the exact number of ships that he would inevitably lose to.


There were some battles that were closer than I’m giving GF credit for, but in the end it all came down to him not moving out soon enough as soon as his opponent started up carrier production.

Rock > GF

What can I say, I love Rock. The guy has always had such bad luck in previous OSLs and it seems like he’s really getting comfortable now. He played a lack luster game on this map against Shine, who was clearly a lesser Terran, so it’s nice to see the guy take this one.

Anytime vs GoRush
Arcadia

Anytime (7) fast expanded and scouted his Zerg opponent first at 11. This early good fortune allowed him to harass the hatch building drone as well as see his opponents drone heavy build. This allowed him to build both an expansion nexus and a gateway before his forge.

Anytime built up cannon defense to secure his min only and scouted GoRush’s duel tech (den and spire) with a corsair. He built up sairs and zealots which lead to this early attack.

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Anytime is deflected by the smart build timing of his Zerg opponent, but he manages to get some lords anyway.


GoRush built up his tech, getting a hive, triple evo for ups and lurker tech. He also expanded to the top middle, which was unacceptable to Anytime. A group of speed lots made quick work of the expo attempt before they were fought off by hydra forces. GoRush laid down another expo at the 1 o’clock main, but Anytime was uninterested. He confronted GoRush infront of the Zerg main and an interesting battle ensued. GoRush separated his forces as he attacked, attempting to make the toss waste his storm, but Anytime refused to bite. He microed his zealots fiercely as he waited for the swarm to come down on him. But it never happened. GoRush lost a bunch of units and Anytime eventually threw a couple storms off and morphed the rest of his HTs into archons. After this very decisive win, he reinforced and leveled GoRush’s entire nats and main.

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Anytime has magical archons that apparently don’t die.


Anytime > GoRush

Have you watched a PvZ in the last 4 years that made protoss units look powerful against ling/hydra? Me neither, until today. Download this VOD.

Midas vs Iris
Peaks of Baekdu

Iris (1) and Midas (7) both opened in a similar manner. They both early expanded and they both partook in some rine/vult cuteness in the center of the map. What Iris did, however, that Midas did not do is throw down a quick port as well. Once he got his first dropship, Iris loaded it up with tanks and escorted it with a wraith to the area behind Midas’ main mineral line. And he did this...

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Iris, spanking Midas just like he did while practicing back in the SumaGO days.


Midas cleared it out, but later looked behind his natural mineral line and saw this...

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...the spanking continues.


Iris dropped that same spot in Midas’ main again and again until the emo Terran gave up.

Iris > Midas

Midas got pushed around by harass the entire game and fell so far behind that a major confrontation was never necessary. Seems like he’ll have something real to cry about tonight.

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Midas, not one to show disappointment, keeps a straight face rather than showing his heart wrenching pain to the world.


Recommended VOD of the night:
Did you even read the report! Anytime vs GoRush! Get it now!! Go here!

GET IT NOW!
(And don’t forget to thank Cadical for uploading it. )

That’s it for this game day. The next set of games are coming up and may very well decide some players fates, as these series are best of 3.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
Aurious
Profile Blog Joined April 2006
Canada1772 Posts
October 27 2006 11:48 GMT
#2
Aweosme now reading 1st ^^
Detonate
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Iceland578 Posts
October 27 2006 11:52 GMT
#3
SKULLIOUSIS~!
inept @ west always up for TMM and 1vs1. TLT3 goGOgOG
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
October 27 2006 11:58 GMT
#4
On October 27 2006 20:48 HellAngel wrote:
Aweosme now reading 1st ^^


I'm glad you appreciate it dude, but don't go throwing around 'first floor' variations in my news threads. It hurts my feelings.

On October 27 2006 20:52 Detonate wrote:
SKULLIOUSIS~!


Don't.




This is not what I look forward to in terms of responses when I make these posts. -_-
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
GuYuTe-
Profile Joined February 2005
United States550 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-10-27 12:21:46
October 27 2006 12:20 GMT
#5
Awesome reports, Manablue.

You always keep the suspense flowing. Well done!

LOL at "emo Terran"
SoMuchBetter
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia10606 Posts
October 27 2006 12:24 GMT
#6
lol i love the screenshots and the comments
great reports as always

even the protoss bias and comments on imbalance were kept to a minimum this time
AUSSIESCUM
TeamLiquid eSTROgeneral #1 • RIP
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
October 27 2006 12:35 GMT
#7
On October 27 2006 21:24 SoMuchBetter wrote:
lol i love the screenshots and the comments
great reports as always

even the protoss bias and comments on imbalance were kept to a minimum this time


Protoss bias? Whatever are you talking about?




Hahaha, I can't even try to fake impartiality anymore.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
Raidern
Profile Joined February 2005
Brazil3811 Posts
October 27 2006 12:42 GMT
#8
really enjoyed it
except that I always thought protoss units look powerful against hydra-ling, except when they are outnumbered hehe
For the Swarm!
oshibori_probe
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States2932 Posts
October 27 2006 12:51 GMT
#9
On October 27 2006 20:48 HellAngel wrote:
Aweosme now reading 1st ^^

man thats what u see on pgt, gosu gamers, sk gaming...
omg man i posted 1st woot cool im like ekii
Fuck KeSPA.
pooper-scooper
Profile Joined May 2003
United States3108 Posts
October 27 2006 13:43 GMT
#10
God, I'm so excited to see Anytime!
Good...Bad... Im the guy with the gun
EmilyJieunChoi
Profile Joined March 2006
China246 Posts
October 27 2006 14:07 GMT
#11
Anytime is the sex
Bisu[Shield]
TserHossHiBreed
Profile Joined May 2005
Algeria87 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-10-28 06:04:41
October 27 2006 14:34 GMT
#12
I contest your report, I have plausible arguments that lead me to believe we could have a debate on the potential imbalance of PvZ.
NoName
Profile Joined October 2002
United States1558 Posts
October 27 2006 14:43 GMT
#13
action screenshots ftw
Wam-bam-ba-boom! Bada-bing!
GrandInquisitor *
Profile Blog Joined May 2005
New York City13113 Posts
October 27 2006 15:25 GMT
#14
it's not protoss bias

just cheering for the underdog <3
What fun is it being cool if you can’t wear a sombrero?
jkillashark
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States5262 Posts
October 27 2006 16:04 GMT
#15
I love it when you put captions with photos. Makes me realize how sexy you are. ;D
Do your best, God will do the rest.
useLess
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4781 Posts
October 27 2006 18:08 GMT
#16
Anytime vs GoRush game looks like sex. I want to watch it now.
Moonlight Shadow
Lukeeze[zR]
Profile Joined February 2006
Switzerland6838 Posts
October 27 2006 19:59 GMT
#17
these archons were nuts, if i remember correctly anytime finished the game with 4 archons and 3 of them had +30 kills
Terran & Potato Salad.
In)Spire
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States1323 Posts
October 27 2006 20:45 GMT
#18
WOOOOOOO great reports thx
Coulthard
Profile Joined September 2005
Greece3359 Posts
October 27 2006 22:42 GMT
#19
holy ..nice report
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22251 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-10-27 22:47:59
October 27 2006 22:44 GMT
#20
Hahaha, awesome captions. Nice reports MB!

I didn't even notice you wrote this until someone else pointed it out, this was a Mani-quality report.
Moderatorhttp://carbonleaf.yuku.com/topic/408/t/So-I-proposed-at-a-Carbon-Leaf-concert.html ***** RIP Geoff
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