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Croatia9462 Posts
On March 07 2016 03:52 538 wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2016 03:38 2Pacalypse- wrote:On March 07 2016 03:33 538 wrote:
Which matchups are casted today? Are all games going to be casted from here on, or just a selection until they get few enouh for one cast per week? Just a selection. Few series will get casted today. Is it decided yet from what point on will all games be casted? It would be neat if unofficial casters covered the uncasted replays. For me, a tournament stage doesn't feel proper until all the games in it are casted 
Yeah, if there's big enough interest, we might do some "unofficial" cast during the week of the games we don't cast tonight, before the Ro16 starts ^^.
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On March 07 2016 04:08 2Pacalypse- wrote:Show nested quote +On March 07 2016 03:52 538 wrote:On March 07 2016 03:38 2Pacalypse- wrote:On March 07 2016 03:33 538 wrote:
Which matchups are casted today? Are all games going to be casted from here on, or just a selection until they get few enouh for one cast per week? Just a selection. Few series will get casted today. Is it decided yet from what point on will all games be casted? It would be neat if unofficial casters covered the uncasted replays. For me, a tournament stage doesn't feel proper until all the games in it are casted Yeah, if there's big enough interest, we might do some "unofficial" cast during the week of the games we don't cast tonight, before the Ro16 starts ^^.
There is definitely interest - this is the league where the foreign players who put in the hard work gets to shine the most since a long time ago
HYPE!
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What a day to look into TL.net. Looking forward to some BW!
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Casters, can you fix your sound levels so that LRM)Cats_Paw is not this much louder than Sayle?
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And the first games I watch are ZvP and not ZvZ like it says in the Liquibet, man that confused me ...
I get a lot of reavers though so I am happy
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vOddy you are my hero, dweb reaver is all you need :D GG
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vOddy must be really confident in this build if he staked his advancement on it by using it two times in a row. Great fan service, but I feel he unnecessarily risked the series after looking comfortably superior in game 1.
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are replays going to be released from ro32 and onward?
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Croatia9462 Posts
On March 07 2016 05:54 FyRe_DragOn wrote:
are replays going to be released from ro32 and onward?
Yes.
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Finally a Terran - Please advance, someone needs to show those dirty Z's how its done !
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Cats_paw loves his TvP ^^
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Great series, shame these two players had to meet so early.
Thanks 2Pac 
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soo...every ro16 matchup is posted except mine. Sup with the djem5/spx match? when will I know who im facing?
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So 1-2 weeks before Christmas I asked 2Pacalypse- for a schedule regarding the TLSC because I already knew at the time that I would not be able to play at my home desk for several weeks in February, March due to work and I would not be able to play at my best because of this. But the time for that was a little bit flexible so some information would have been nice. I had to make the arrangements fast though.
But of course who would have a schedule 3 weeks before a 3 month tour starts? Alas, no schedule was available and I had to guess the length of the qualifier which naturally went horribly wrong, seeing the announcement after New Years stating a preliminary phase, which is longer than the actual Championship. So my time away from home would start right at the time the elimination bracket begins.
But misfortunes never come singly. An additional look at the "amazing" mappool and I strongly considered not participating at all. Thinking it over, my optimistic self thought, okay they want to sort out the surplus of Terrans in the foreign scene for whatever reason like SSL11. Afterwards they surely won't pick such ridiculous maps, so I started training and participating anyway.
Fast forward to the end of the preliminaries, I got some decent results with an improved TvP despite the maps and tried to play the tiebreaker games away from home, as the result didn't matter much to me, as it would just decide if the next games would be a TvP if I lose or a most likely TvP if I win(which it would have been anyway). And as you could see vs Julia, my skill was not even close to what I am capable of. So for the next Round I would definitely go home to play better games.
And then I see the maps, again a Terran graveyard, infact the same I fell into in TLS3. Thank you very much.
So basically my plan for the series was to win the games on Electric Circuit and Fighting Spirit and if I am very lucky a game with cheese on Aztec.
So for the first game I planned a strong 3base +1 timing attack to kill him outright, which went as expected until he kills a control group of vultures with a cloaked zealot during my macro cycle which I didn't react to as cloaked units don't show on the minimap and basically wins the game right there. Protoss is sooo fucking hard. Well it was probably nice for the viewers that LancerX was bad enough that he needed 20 more minutes to finish the game.
So Aztec being my last hope, I go for 2 factories but it gets of course scouted with a zealot first opening because LancerX is not braindead. So yeah, another macro game on Aztec incoming where Terran can never secure more than 5 bases (and 2 only have 1000 mineral patches) and Protoss gets 7-8 and the only way to kill a Protosss expansion without losing to a counter is to get a good engagement in the middle because every base except for the inner once are super far away and you need the window of protoss rebuilding his army, otherwise he just kills 2 of your bases for his one.
So yeah, doesn't take a genius to guess the outcome, not even talking about the general carrier and arbiter friendliness.
I bet 2pac was sitting in his armchair thinking with a smile after he saw my games:"1 down, 5 to go."
After I wrote all of this, what I actually really wanted to say is:
Fuck you 2pac and your bullshit.
So I'm done.
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On March 07 2016 09:05 Cryoc wrote:
So 1-2 weeks before Christmas I asked 2Pacalypse- for a schedule regarding the TLSC because I already knew at the time that I would not be able to play at my home desk for several weeks in February, March due to work and I would not be able to play at my best because of this. But the time for that was a little bit flexible so some information would have been nice. I had to make the arrangements fast though.
But of course who would have a schedule 3 weeks before a 3 month tour starts? Alas, no schedule was available and I had to guess the length of the qualifier which naturally went horribly wrong, seeing the announcement after New Years stating a preliminary phase, which is longer than the actual Championship. So my time away from home would start right at the time the elimination bracket begins.
But misfortunes never come singly. An additional look at the "amazing" mappool and I strongly considered not participating at all. Thinking it over, my optimistic self thought, okay they want to sort out the surplus of Terrans in the foreign scene for whatever reason like SSL11. Afterwards they surely won't pick such ridiculous maps, so I started training and participating anyway.
Fast forward to the end of the preliminaries, I got some decent results with an improved TvP despite the maps and tried to play the tiebreaker games away from home, as the result didn't matter much to me, as it would just decide if the next games would be a TvP if I lose or a most likely TvP if I win(which it would have been anyway). And as you could see vs Julia, my skill was not even close to what I am capable of. So for the next Round I would definitely go home to play better games.
And then I see the maps, again a Terran graveyard, infact the same I fell into in TLS3. Thank you very much.
So basically my plan for the series was to win the games on Electric Circuit and Fighting Spirit and if I am very lucky a game with cheese on Aztec.
So for the first game I planned a strong 3base +1 timing attack to kill him outright, which went as expected until he kills a control group of vultures with a cloaked zealot during my macro cycle which I didn't react to as cloaked units don't show on the minimap and basically wins the game right there. Protoss is sooo fucking hard. Well it was probably nice for the viewers that LancerX was bad enough that he needed 20 more minutes to finish the game.
So Aztec being my last hope, I go for 2 factories but it gets of course scouted with a zealot first opening because LancerX is not braindead. So yeah, another macro game on Aztec incoming where Terran can never secure more than 5 bases (and 2 only have 1000 mineral patches) and Protoss gets 7-8 and the only way to kill a Protosss expansion without losing to a counter is to get a good engagement in the middle because every base except for the inner once are super far away and you need the window of protoss rebuilding his army, otherwise he just kills 2 of your bases for his one.
So yeah, doesn't take a genius to guess the outcome, not even talking about the general carrier and arbiter friendliness.
I bet 2pac was sitting in his armchair thinking with a smile after he saw my games:"1 down, 5 to go."
After I wrote all of this, what I actually really wanted to say is:
Fuck you 2pac and your bullshit.
So I'm done.
Sad to hear about how terrible things went for you despite working hard to prep for the matchup with Lancerx (amongst other things). However, I don't think talking badly about your opponent or one of the main organizers is a great idea. Venting is understandable though but there are better ways to vent.
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No one can prepare for lancerx, not even lancerx is prepared for what he does in games.
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im in the same situation as Cryoc because i already knew around december that i will be away for 1-2 weeks and also often bugged 2pac for schedule/maps..... i just want to add in that this tournament so far has been a nightmare to prepare for anything. each prelim round, sunday (and often most of saturday) was completely wasted because we only got to know our enemy on monday. so you had to prepare when there are the fewest people online to play with because of work and stuff. And now for ro32 we had 7 days total to prepare 2 new maps, while hoping we predicted this round correctly so reallife gives us enough time. i was very lucky that zaraki wasnt able to play otherwise it might have been hard for me because i could only prepare on saturday/sunday (after work) after the maps were announced because the other days i was working, packing my baggage and preparing my trip for japan, flying to japan and setting up everything for bw at the hostel after i arrived on saturday morning so that after i slept, i could play the games.
well now we have the maps and we can predict our enemy, great. but i dont think there is any real time to prepare new builds or even map specific builds besides random all ins because there just isnt enough time. At most you will see our usual fs builds just being adjusted enough to work on those non-fs maps.... or stupid bad played/executed stuff being thrown at each other....
now i have to practice here at hostel with slow pc, no ability to host (so i cant ladder) and still only being able to play monday-friday because on sunday i went to an event and solved my jetlag, while still fiddling around with the pc to get the settings right. if a miracle happens and i beat trutacz, i cant practice again on saturday/sunday because of concerts (the reason i actually went to japan).....i pack everything on monday, fly back home on tuesday and then can finally practice again after work for 3 and a half days until i play again on saturday. gl hf!
for next tournament, please use ladder prelims or qualifier tournaments and please release the maps earlier.... way earlier.....
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On March 07 2016 05:46 538 wrote:
vOddy must be really confident in this build if he staked his advancement on it by using it two times in a row. Great fan service, but I feel he unnecessarily risked the series after looking comfortably superior in game 1.
I don't do "fan service".
I want to show worthy games for the viewers that don't waste their time, but I I play in the way that I believe gives me the best chance of winning. Which is the best way to serve fans of StarCraft anyway - playing at the highest level you are capable of.
DragOn helped me prepare for this PvZ, and he kicked my ass. But I won a few games with corsair reaver, so I decided to use it in the tournament.
if I am very lucky a game with cheese on Aztec.
I don't think that Aztec is a bad map for Terran. It's hard when you start out playing on it as a beginner, but once you learn how to use it to Terran's advantage, it becomes a fine map. It ended up being my strongest map for TvP once I figured out how to play on it (I played on it exclusively because I was sick of losing on it against Protoss). In ICCup tournaments, I would pick Aztec if my opponent was Protoss, and I don't remember ever losing a TvP tournament game on it.
In fact, the post KeSPA statistics for it are:
PvT: 8-11 (42.1%)
TvZ: 10-3 (76.9%)
A small sample size, but still.
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