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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
Battle Royal, full of Zergs' love (?)
[Fomos = Reporter Kim Gyung Hyun] 4 in 5 matches played are ZvZs.
Battle Royal was influenced by the movie of the same name, with early back-and-forth fights, and battles occurring outside the center during mid-game. In the beginning, the center route is connected, but once the assimilators are destroyed, like Troy, the rush route will be cut off. Late in the game, the players will have to expand out of the center region, hence promoting battles to occur out of the center region.
The new map 'Battle Royal' is receiving a lot of love (?) from the Zergs.
This is a new map added to the map pool for the Shinhan Bank Proleague Round 4. It is a two-player map designed with a concept of starting off with a lot of early rushes and battles. Although the bases are connected via a short route, once the assimilators are destroyed, battles will be forced to occur outside the center region.
If one looks through the entries released by KeSPA on the 9th, excluding ace matches, there are 5 matches occurring on Battle Royal. But the fact that 4 of the 5 matches are ZvZ mirrors is raising eyebrows amongst people.
Excluding the match between WeMade FOX's Roro and KTF's Tempest, the rest of the matches played are ZvZ mirrors. It seems that progamers have determined that the map is zerg favored.
On Battle Royal, you can first attack with ground units. But once you destroy the assimilators, it becomes a semi-island map. If one wants to get out of the center region, they will need to destroy a neutral building. It is because of this unique design of the map that the matches occurring on this map were expected to involve aggressive early fights, and big battles occurring outside the center region as the game progresses.
But this concept does not apply to ZvZ at all. Because of mutalisks' air-battles, the concept that the map is based on becomes totally obsolete. It seems that most of the progamers have determined that the map is zerg favored.
One progaming team staff mentioned that when the map was first announced, there was a lot of talk amongst the progamers that 'the map is going to be fun'. But upon further play, due to the short distance between the mains, the overlords could easily scout Terran and Protoss' builds, hence determining that it is very difficult for Terran and Protoss players to play on the map.
If one looks at the map slowly, many mechanics are bringing out the concepts that the map is based on. But the air-to-air distance between the mains are much closer than the ground-to-ground distance between the mains, and due to the design of the center, it has a similar concept to Raid Assault 2. Raid Assault 2 too had a long ground-to-ground distance, but very short air-to-air distance, which ended up with a large number of ZvZ matches.
For now, it is a map that is being strongly loved by the Zergs. But we still do not know. It had only been a week since the maps were released, and the progamers would not have had a lot of time to practice.
Will Battle Royal be able to constantly gather such great amount of love from the Zergs? Like Raid Assault 2's case, a map with too much ZvZs occurring do not last long, and Battle Royal's start does not seem good. The only oddball, KTF's Tempest, can be said to be the 'key' to saving this map from ending up with the same fate as Raid Assault 2.
Shinhan Bank Proleague Round 4 Matches on Battle Royal:
11th April: GGPlay (Woongjin Stars) <Battle Royale> Juni (Samsung Khan)
12th April: RorO (WeMade FOX) <Battle Royale> Tempest (KTF MagicNs)
13th April: HyuN (MBCGame Hero) <Battle Royale> Thezerg (SKTelecom T1)
14th April: HoGiL (Hite Sparkyz) <Battle Royale> oDin (Samsung Khan)
15th April: RorO (WeMade FOX) <Battle Royale> Calm (STX Soul)
Source: Fomos.kr
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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
Decided to translate this since it proved to be an insightful and interesting read.
Is Battle Royal bound for doom? I played a few TvPs and TvZ's on this map, very fun map to play, but very tough. Had to adjust builds several times =.="
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Thanks for translation. I hope it doesn't get Raid Assaulted, it looks like a map with lots of potential for creativity.
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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
On April 10 2009 09:45 Crunchums wrote:
Thanks for translation. I hope it doesn't get Raid Assaulted, it looks like a map with lots of potential for creativity.
Yeah, I had to go 3-Starport Valkyrie/wraith/dropship + mnm against this zerg after I destroyed his assimilators, ended up with a crazy air-to-air battle which I won with like 10 science vessels versus his 150-ish food mutalisk army lol. Lots of fun games.
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United States20661 Posts
Let's hope Tempest wins then.
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United States37500 Posts
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United States12607 Posts
Between you and Smix, BW is flooded with great translations...it's awesome!
I'm not really sure why this map made it into the PL map pool. It has a really interesting concept, but two seconds' look at that ultra-short rush route and you can tell that it's just going to result in ZvZs. I wonder if Hwaseung paid off KeSPA to let this one in? Having this in the map pool is essentially the same as putting OZ up 1-0 and having JD play only in the ace (if necessary).
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I could see this being hell if zerg went 9pool. thats a really short rush distance. same with 10/15 gate pvt
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On April 10 2009 09:54 arb wrote:
I could see this being hell if zerg went 9pool. thats a really short rush distance. same with 10/15 gate pvt
9 Pool -> 8 lings using the last 2 to kill assimilators -> Mass Zerg Expo.
You'll see...
You'll all see!
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Thank you very much! Hopefully this article can be revisited after the first few weeks and we can see if Zergs still own this map.
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The rush distances look so short on that map, no wonder so much Zergs are being sent out. But that's just based on appearance. Hopefully, the map won't be as imbalanced. God knows we need another Raid Assault.
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Having the minerals at the nat jammed up that close to the wall is going to make it difficult to defend muta harass as well.
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I honestly can't see how Protoss could stop a zergs early rush. FE is out of the question I think since you wouldn't be able to get cannons up in time. I guess you could do something like 7 pylon 7 gate at the assims but that puts you behind economically vs a 9 pool and it still leaves you assims vulnerable. I think it'd be a bit more balanced if they either pulled the assims back some toward the natural so an FE with probe block would be possible and made the choke that goes into the main possible for a 1 depot/barracks wall for terran. I think if there are ever any PvTs here it's going to end up being exactly like troy. 2 gate goon, kill assims then expo/defend drops.
@NoveTheFeared
that's not the biggest issue because the destination nat mins and medusa main mineral placements are similar to this and it's managable.
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IdrA said it was terran favored in TvZ. Guess he was wrong, unfortunately.
But it should balance out, since island maps are not in the zergs favor.
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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
On April 10 2009 11:38 Pioneer wrote:
I honestly can't see how Protoss could stop a zergs early rush. FE is out of the question I think since you wouldn't be able to get cannons up in time. I guess you could do something like 7 pylon 7 gate at the assims but that puts you behind economically vs a 9 pool and it still leaves you assims vulnerable. I think it'd be a bit more balanced if they either pulled the assims back some toward the natural so an FE with probe block would be possible and made the choke that goes into the main possible for a 1 depot/barracks wall for terran. I think if there are ever any PvTs here it's going to end up being exactly like troy. 2 gate goon, kill assims then expo/defend drops.
@NoveTheFeared
that's not the biggest issue because the destination nat mins and medusa main mineral placements are similar to this and it's managable.
A rectangular piece of land below and on top of the four assimilators cannot be built on, so basically even if you do go 7 pylon 7 gate, you won't be able to wall off completely. I went BBS at the assimilators, and still couldn't wall.
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On April 10 2009 11:44 konadora wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2009 11:38 Pioneer wrote:
I honestly can't see how Protoss could stop a zergs early rush. FE is out of the question I think since you wouldn't be able to get cannons up in time. I guess you could do something like 7 pylon 7 gate at the assims but that puts you behind economically vs a 9 pool and it still leaves you assims vulnerable. I think it'd be a bit more balanced if they either pulled the assims back some toward the natural so an FE with probe block would be possible and made the choke that goes into the main possible for a 1 depot/barracks wall for terran. I think if there are ever any PvTs here it's going to end up being exactly like troy. 2 gate goon, kill assims then expo/defend drops.
@NoveTheFeared
that's not the biggest issue because the destination nat mins and medusa main mineral placements are similar to this and it's managable. A rectangular piece of land below and on top of the four assimilators cannot be built on, so basically even if you do go 7 pylon 7 gate, you won't be able to wall off completely. I went BBS at the assimilators, and still couldn't wall.
I didn't mean walling with it. You would use the the zealot to block the space between the assim with a probe or 2.
similar to how you would go 1 gate tech on troy pvz.
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Duh it's zerg favored, Raid Assault II anyone?
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I hate zerg favored maps. The victories always feel so cheap...
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konadora
Singapore66356 Posts
On April 10 2009 11:47 Pioneer wrote:Show nested quote +On April 10 2009 11:44 konadora wrote:On April 10 2009 11:38 Pioneer wrote:
I honestly can't see how Protoss could stop a zergs early rush. FE is out of the question I think since you wouldn't be able to get cannons up in time. I guess you could do something like 7 pylon 7 gate at the assims but that puts you behind economically vs a 9 pool and it still leaves you assims vulnerable. I think it'd be a bit more balanced if they either pulled the assims back some toward the natural so an FE with probe block would be possible and made the choke that goes into the main possible for a 1 depot/barracks wall for terran. I think if there are ever any PvTs here it's going to end up being exactly like troy. 2 gate goon, kill assims then expo/defend drops.
@NoveTheFeared
that's not the biggest issue because the destination nat mins and medusa main mineral placements are similar to this and it's managable. A rectangular piece of land below and on top of the four assimilators cannot be built on, so basically even if you do go 7 pylon 7 gate, you won't be able to wall off completely. I went BBS at the assimilators, and still couldn't wall. I didn't mean walling with it. You would use the the zealot to block the space between the assim with a probe or 2. similar to how you would go 1 gate tech on troy pvz.
And watch JulyZerg drone-drill you lol
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On April 10 2009 12:53 Ozarugold wrote:
I hate zerg favored maps. The victories always feel so cheap...
Yeah as zerg players we get used to always being cheated and having to work twice as hard for everything, this is just not right lol.
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