omfg Avi was down like 70 supply at one point.

it was literally 170 vs 100 or something ridiculous in favor of Datoby after the mid game when Avi lost 9 I thought it was over for sure cuz Avi was already down 0-1 at that point after the fail 2hatch hydra bust in game 1. woo such amazing good hive play.

SkelA

Macedonia13090 Posts

January 09 2010 21:03 GMT

Great play by Avi !! but horible macro from toss banking a huge 2000 minerals and gas.... any other TSL toss would never lose this

Papvin

Denmark612 Posts

January 09 2010 21:41 GMT

Watching Avi awakes so much nationalism in me it's scary. And thrilling xD. Go Avi!!! And ye, his defiler play in game 2 was really amazing. But as a zerg, those 5 to 10 minutes that avi's evo chamber was idle when he could have upgraded +3 carapace (against toss +3 wep) was heartbreaking!

QuakerOats

United States1024 Posts

January 09 2010 22:36 GMT

On January 10 2010 06:03 SkelA wrote:
Great play by Avi !! but horible macro from toss banking a huge 2000 minerals and gas.... any other TSL toss would never lose this

Yeah toss had 2k gas for so long. I don't think he realizes how good archons are... just kept making zealots.

zulu_nation8

China26351 Posts

January 09 2010 23:12 GMT

FUCK YES INCONTROL

Julmust

Sweden4867 Posts

January 09 2010 23:38 GMT

just watched this, fucking amazing game! I'm always commenting the games in my head while watching and went "I'm ready to call this for datoby" and later.... WOAH AVI MIGHT WIN!

DarkShadowz

Sweden321 Posts

January 10 2010 01:45 GMT

#10

So frustrating to see datoby insist on using such a horrible unit composition. Avi has amazing macro that's for sure, but datoby played better each game strategically untill late mid - late game. Then he just insisted on cashfloating and buildings tons of goons vs cracklings. if he just stopped goon production and went for archon and zeal only he owudl win so easily, considerign he had a ton of goons already.

Heaven.ReV

Norway86 Posts

January 10 2010 02:21 GMT

#11

eeh, Datoby DID go pretty much Archons and zealots + reavers in the last part of the game. In my opinion, he wasn't that much better strategically but then again I'm just some random noob who don't really know what he's talking about ^^

Really nice game, though :D

jalstar

United States8198 Posts

January 10 2010 05:29 GMT

#12

On January 10 2010 11:21 Heaven.ReV wrote:
eeh, Datoby DID go pretty much Archons and zealots + reavers in the last part of the game. In my opinion, he wasn't that much better strategically but then again I'm just some random noob who don't really know what he's talking about ^^

Really nice game, though :D

I don't think datoby built a single reaver. Where were the reavers?

Durak

Canada3685 Posts

January 10 2010 06:01 GMT

#13

On January 10 2010 10:45 DarkShadowz wrote:
So frustrating to see datoby insist on using such a horrible unit composition. Avi has amazing macro that's for sure, but datoby played better each game strategically untill late mid - late game. Then he just insisted on cashfloating and buildings tons of goons vs cracklings. if he just stopped goon production and went for archon and zeal only he owudl win so easily, considerign he had a ton of goons already.

Yeah, this is what I got out of the series. datoby seemed solid early-mid game but super fail late game PvZ. Not even sure how that's possible.

Heaven.ReV

Norway86 Posts

January 10 2010 11:03 GMT

#14

On January 10 2010 14:29 jalstar wrote:

Show nested quote +

I don't think datoby built a single reaver. Where were the reavers?

My bad, I thought this was the third game, hehe

I still don't agree with the unit combination being THAT horrible, he won 2-4 battles with his goons/ht's/zealots before Avi was able to take it out with lings and swarm. After that, he DID focus more on archons and zealots but it seemed like he wasn't able to get a real Archon count because of all the fighting

Some gosu correct me if I'm wrong =)

thopol

Japan4560 Posts

January 10 2010 11:14 GMT

#15

This game was incredible. I was convinced that Datoby had it in in the bag early (not early, but compared to the length of the lategame), but Avi managed to really get back into the game and lay down the law. I was impressed both by how Avi used lurker ling to defend against multiple attacks while still keeping the Protoss army down as best he could, and how Datoby was able to multitask and control his army properly (if not engage while it was composed properly).

KwarK

United States44361 Posts

January 10 2010 16:08 GMT

#16

Avi so good. Especially given his hardware issues.

Roffles

Pitcairn19291 Posts

January 10 2010 17:44 GMT

#17

God I was so convinced Datoby had it in the bag, being on equal bases at one instance and had crushed Avi for like half the game.

Incredible game nevertheless. Props to Avi for playing well throughout.