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On November 03 2006 04:30 mrmin123 wrote: I'm going to get less than 2 hours of sleep because I stayed up to watch this but it was fucking worth it. God fucking damn it was worth it. rofl are you in the US or sometihng? xd
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On November 03 2006 04:18 zulu_nation8 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2006 04:16 HonestTea wrote: 1. Midas saw the gates. But what was he going to do? He had already invested in FD (1-fac, mines first, late siege) when what he needed was two-fac tanks with seige.
better placed mines, more mines, cancel cc, build 2 rines, bunker on ramp, scv blocking, build cc in base and he still wouldve been up.
is there a respectable terran player here that can comment on this. I do not believe that midas saw his gates and didn't do anything about it. Something feels wrong
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Whooooooohoooo! go anytime, you are the sexiest ninja in starcraft, what an awesome autumn ledgend
and nice song luhh! well adapted ... i liked the prayer one too....
ANYTIME FIGHTING!
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im not a respectable terran, but im terran but i dont want to comment on if this possibility would have worked. all i want to say is: he saw the gates warping. while midas was pressuring with his first push -> rinez,vults (mines) and tank he was up the ramp and saw 3 GWs...
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HonestTea
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Ok here is my understanding of FD Terran
FD was developed because of maps like Luna, where Terrans cannot wall their ramp.
1. Build up to 6 marines and close choke. 2. Fac->Shop->Tank while researching Mines 3. Send your marines and your tank (and one SCV) to push 4. Rally vulture to your forces 5. When you reach toss base, your vulture should have caught up. 6. Attack with rines, mines, and tanks 7. AND THIS IS MOST CRITICAL - Expand at nat
FD Terran is most definetly not an anti-DT build. It is, when most effective, a counter to 1-gate expanding tosses (which was the trend a year ago). But the beauty of the strat is, even if it fails, with your mines and early pressure you can contain the toss and take your nat very, very safely while denying Toss nat.
It's not even that big of a deal if you lose your initial push forces (although retreat your tank if you can). A successful FD will make it so Terran takes their nat with no pressure, while Toss is cut off from their nat and contained.
This terrorized Tosses last year, until opening with two-gates became the norm.
Midas' FD failed because 1. Anytime went ranged 3-gate goon 2. Anytime got quick obs, rendering Midas' mines useless. 3. Midas was formulaic
I understand zulu is in disbelief, but I honestly think Midas just failed to react quickly enough. Even if he had reacted quickly he was in trouble, but his wits failed him I think. You can tell that he was desperate to do something, because he had his tanks and SCVs out at his ramp to make a last stand against the goon onslaught
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yea and theres no way in hell midas has never practiced vs 3/4 gate (same thing) ob rush vs fd opening on arcadia. If he just stopped it even losing maybe 5 scvs he still would've been up. But by the time anytime's goons killed 2 (?) mines and arrived at midas' nat, midas' tank was getting repaired by 5 scvs on the ramp while his cc was still building. I know he built his rax kinda far in his base, didn't see where it was but at least couldve flown it back or something. He just shouldve done so much better to defend vs that rather than just having two tanks killed for no reason and defending with scvs in the end. He's the best tvp player in the world. I just, again, don't believe he did pretty much nothing to stop that.
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All i was able to say after Midas's gg , was " YUPIIIIII ! " Day(9) expressed exactly what i am feeling : "All my favorite players are protoss" But i wont be sad if NaDa take the Golden Mouse . May the best "," win .
Edit - I think i miss a ","
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On November 03 2006 04:50 DeathBlow wrote: All i was able to say after Midas's gg , was " YUPIIIIII ! " Day(9) expressed exactly what i am feeling : "All my favorite players are protoss" But i wont be sad if NaDa take the Golden Mouse . May the best win .
lol yeah omg i cant fuckin wait for nada vs anytime finals now ><
i want the old nada times back, huge macro wars and a billion tanks running over everything.
TORNADO TERRAN ftW!!
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Yes..i think Nada is in a really good shape..it will be hard for anytime
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Actually from the sound of it this is pretty much the *exact* same scenario as Midas vs Savior last MSL: Game 1: Midas doesn't play very well, gets crushed after a mid-long game (Arcadia 2 both games) Game 2: Both go for weird builds and Midas' opponent totally fails, Midas wins (Arkanoid today, The Eye vs Savior) Game 3: Pretty standard game with Midas winning with rock-solid play (Tau Cross today, RH3 vs Savior) Game 4: Midas takes a comfortable lead then gets overconfident, doesn't attack at the right timings and screws up his micro when he does, ends up losing (Sin Peaks today, 815 vs Savior) Game 5: Midas loses badly (Arcacia 2 both games).
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By the way, that time Savior won the finals 3-1 vs Nal_rA who was making a huge comeback and who'd won his semi 3-0 in a mirror matchup.
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On November 03 2006 04:58 PoP wrote:By the way, that time Savior won the finals 3-1 vs Nal_rA who was making a huge comeback and who'd won his semi 3-0 in a mirror matchup.
lol sorry what do u mean ? dont get ur post ><
who won his semi in a 3-0 mirror matchup?.. ra?
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On November 03 2006 05:01 alffla wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2006 04:58 PoP wrote:By the way, that time Savior won the finals 3-1 vs Nal_rA who was making a huge comeback and who'd won his semi 3-0 in a mirror matchup. lol sorry what do u mean ? dont get ur post >< who won his semi in a 3-0 mirror matchup?.. ra?
Yeah. Well I'm being contaminated by Plexa probably, seeing coincidences/"patterns" everywhere. :D
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Gj anytime!
Finals gonna be great!
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On November 03 2006 04:40 HonestTea wrote: Midas' FD failed because 1. Anytime went ranged 3-gate goon 2. Anytime got quick obs, rendering Midas' mines useless. 3. Midas was formulaic
I understand zulu is in disbelief, but I honestly think Midas just failed to react quickly enough. Even if he had reacted quickly he was in trouble, but his wits failed him I think. You can tell that he was desperate to do something, because he had his tanks and SCVs out at his ramp to make a last stand against the goon onslaught
I just don't think you lose cuz you're "formulaic". I could be completely mistaken on this but I really don't think I am. There's no build that "counters" FD that well, especially on arcadia since the starting positions are pretty much as far as they could be. There's really not THAT many variations in tvp openings. At least there shouldn't be so many as to midas as not practiced 100 times vs them all. Something went wrong that game. Either midas didn't research siege at all, which i have no idea when you're supposed to, but i'm guessing right after you start your cc, midas lost on purpose, or midas got really really nervous and just forgot to react which is highly highly highly highly highly unlikely unless he's never seen the build before which is impossible, and even if he hadn't, it's 1 gate robo with another gate plus 2 more gates, I think even players like us could figure out the timing and how fast goons will get to your base. In other words, I don't think Midas failed to react quickly enough, he just didn't react. Midas is a progamer, his multitasking even for a progamer is excellent, anytime got observer before those goons, that rush was slow as hell, Midas had enough time to set up a defense. And I'm 1000% certain he knows that if he stopped the rush and built cc in base he still would've been up. So it's either, midas didn't research siege cuz I have no idea why, or Midas didn't react cuz i have no idea why. I'm confused, i don't know what just happened.
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On November 03 2006 04:32 zulu_nation8 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2006 04:18 zulu_nation8 wrote:On November 03 2006 04:16 HonestTea wrote: 1. Midas saw the gates. But what was he going to do? He had already invested in FD (1-fac, mines first, late siege) when what he needed was two-fac tanks with seige.
better placed mines, more mines, cancel cc, build 2 rines, bunker on ramp, scv blocking, build cc in base and he still wouldve been up. is there a respectable terran player here that can comment on this. I do not believe that midas saw his gates and didn't do anything about it. Something feels wrong i believe that not losing 6 marines and a vulture like a moron would have helped, at least he then could have built a bunker at his nat, 4-rine bunker+2 tanks+scvs > goons
after losing those units it was pretty hard to stop those goons and even if he stopped them, shuttle + 4 zealot would follow
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And to back up my case, watch midas vs cobo on azalea. That was same build anytime did minus robo and ob and with a proxy gate. Which means, anytime's build was a loooooooooooot slower since he actually had to get the observer out. Yet when Cobo got to Midas' base Midas' siege was almost done, just like last game when anytime was at Midas' base. Except anytime got to midas' base certainly later than cobo. wtf happened?
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On November 03 2006 05:25 Sabbath wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2006 04:32 zulu_nation8 wrote:On November 03 2006 04:18 zulu_nation8 wrote:On November 03 2006 04:16 HonestTea wrote: 1. Midas saw the gates. But what was he going to do? He had already invested in FD (1-fac, mines first, late siege) when what he needed was two-fac tanks with seige.
better placed mines, more mines, cancel cc, build 2 rines, bunker on ramp, scv blocking, build cc in base and he still wouldve been up. is there a respectable terran player here that can comment on this. I do not believe that midas saw his gates and didn't do anything about it. Something feels wrong i believe that not losing 6 marines and a vulture like a moron would have helped, at least he then could have built a bunker at his nat
Agreed 100% with that.
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On November 03 2006 05:25 Sabbath wrote:Show nested quote +On November 03 2006 04:32 zulu_nation8 wrote:On November 03 2006 04:18 zulu_nation8 wrote:On November 03 2006 04:16 HonestTea wrote: 1. Midas saw the gates. But what was he going to do? He had already invested in FD (1-fac, mines first, late siege) when what he needed was two-fac tanks with seige.
better placed mines, more mines, cancel cc, build 2 rines, bunker on ramp, scv blocking, build cc in base and he still wouldve been up. is there a respectable terran player here that can comment on this. I do not believe that midas saw his gates and didn't do anything about it. Something feels wrong i believe that not losing 6 marines and a vulture like a moron would have helped, at least he then could have built a bunker at his nat, 4-rine bunker+2 tanks+scvs > goons after losing those units it was pretty hard to stop those goons and even if he stopped them, shuttle + 4 zealot would follow
if he didn't lose the 6 rines and vulture he wouldn't have seen anytime's base let alone prepare for the rush. I don't think you can expand and defend a 1 base 4 gate bulldog and i'm sure midas knows that too so he would've used the ramp to help.
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