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Fomos, 5/23/09
SPL - Battle Royal Replaced by Shadow of Twilight
08 - 09 season R5 official maps announced
KeSPA announced the official maps for SPL 08 - 09 season R4 which begins on May 30.
Battle Royal has been replaced by Shadow of Twilight. Neo Medusa has been changed as not to enable Zerg to build Hatchery on the middle area of the map. No change has been made on the other four maps.
Shadow of Twilight is a reverse ramp map like Neo Requiem.
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Previous discussion on the change of Battle Royal:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=93765
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Neo Medusa has been changed as not to enable Zerg to build Hatchery on the middle area of the map.
Lame, I liked that strat.
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I really don't see why they needed to make proxy hatch impossible on Medusa, but I'm glad to see BR gone...
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uh... shouldn't it be the player's job to keep tabs on whether he's being contained, rather than the e-sports administration's job to save them from enemy strats?
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The layout reminds me of reverse temple.
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Russian Federation1381 Posts
On May 23 2009 01:18 BWdero wrote:Show nested quote +Neo Medusa has been changed as not to enable Zerg to build Hatchery on the middle area of the map. Lame, I liked that strat.
Yeah, it was something new and fun, not unbeatable. Protoss didn't want to adapt nor they had enough games to do so.
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United States11390 Posts
Proxy hatches are awesome.
Sucks they got taken away.
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konadora
Singapore66163 Posts
NO
WHAT HAPPENED TO CENTRAL PLAINS =(
On May 23 2009 01:21 Magic84 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2009 01:18 BWdero wrote:Neo Medusa has been changed as not to enable Zerg to build Hatchery on the middle area of the map. Lame, I liked that strat. Yeah, it was something new and fun, not unbeatable. Protoss didn't want to adapt nor they had enough games to do so.
Totally agree. I bet Bisu complained to KeSPA directly
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Haha, every Zerg to comment on this thread only commented on the proxy hatches on Medusa.
It's too bad they got rid of Battle Royale though, I didn't mind it. But I like ZvZ. 
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Hope Shadow of Twilight is good :x
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I hate to say it. But if you get contained then you deserve to have to deal with proxy hatches...
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konadora
Singapore66163 Posts
Proleague version of Byzantium... =(
At least release Central Plains so that we can play on ICCup!
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i dont understand why they removed the proxy hatch, mabey kespa are full of tosses
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konadora
Singapore66163 Posts
On May 23 2009 01:30 Scaramanga wrote:
i dont understand why they removed the proxy hatch, mabey kespa are full of tosses
Bisu complained
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No point in having a map that is only playable in one matchup
Good riddance
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On May 23 2009 01:30 konadora wrote:Show nested quote +On May 23 2009 01:30 Scaramanga wrote:
i dont understand why they removed the proxy hatch, mabey kespa are full of tosses Bisu complained
Serously? wtf is sc comming to
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Obviously neo medusa was removed because kespa just looked at zerg's win percentage against bisu using the strategy and decided it was imbalanced.
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Let me get this right: They made a map where zerg can use infested terrans, but... they can't make a proxy hatch on Medusa? Lol, yeah ok... And here I was thinking zerg was using a good strategy, but now I come to find out the strategy is horribly imbalanced and they were abusing the game. I like the precedence this sets: if a race decides to only use 1 strategy every game, but another race developes a good counter to this, they can alter the map instead of encouraging more diverse and entertaining strategies. Bah.
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konadora
Singapore66163 Posts
On May 23 2009 01:34 Nytefish wrote:
Obviously neo medusa was removed because kespa just looked at zerg's win percentage against bisu using the strategy and decided it was imbalanced.
Yeah
Bisu 0-1 Zerg on Neo Medusa
imba
On May 23 2009 01:35 MachineHead wrote:
Let me get this right: They made a map where zerg can use infested terrans, but... they can't make a proxy hatch on Medusa? Lol, yeah ok... And here I was thinking zerg was using a good strategy, but now I come to find out the strategy is horribly imbalanced and they were abusing the game. I like the precedence this sets: if a race decides to only use 1 strategy every game, but another race developes a good counter to this, they can alter the map instead of encouraging more diverse and entertaining strategies. Bah.
You can proxy hatch on Holy World fyi
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If proxy hatch is such a fun strat, I don't see why the zerg players can't try it on another map. It's not like KeSPA forbade it.
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