[Arena MSL] Group G, 15 May 2008 - Page 15
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JWD
United States12607 Posts
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Wasabi
United States3085 Posts
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Mortality
United States4790 Posts
The results of this group were pretty predictable. The only unpredictable match IMO was Luxury vs Sea on Athena. Poor Upmagic just had the bad luck of getting stuck in a group where he'd have Terran killers in both his games. | ||
drftsx
United States152 Posts
anywho, go sea! | ||
blagoonga123
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FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On May 15 2008 22:24 Wonders wrote: Did you see how many ultras he had at one point? At least 10. If defiler mound and consume would cost the same as one. Plague wouldn't be needed. A defiler would cost the same as another. More ultras might be better in the time after an ultra cavern finishes because about 7 ultras are better than 4 ultras and 2 defilers when the armies are small, and the extra force early on might briefly give you stronger map control long enough to enable taking another expo, for example. But when the armies are so big defilers are a must. the point you're missing is that Luxury wouldn't have had enough defilers to properly defend AND attack, especially if he didn't research plague. Sea's army was MASSIVE, and split in several different places. He always had sufficient defense at his nat and his middle expansions, as well as a large army roaming around the map. With so many vessels (even though he lost a bunch, he had so much gas they were easy to replace), there is absolutely no way Luxury could have held off Sea's repeated attacks with defilers. Additionally, without Plague, Luxury wouldn't be able to do any significant damage to Sea either. It costs a Terran nothing but time to lift a command center and irradiate the defilers and ultralisks under the swarm. And while he's doing that, he can attack somewhere else because if Luxury is attacking he sure as fuck doesn't have gas for defensive defilers at home, because he'll need to replace the ultralisks he lost. Sea's aggressiveness against Luxury's expansions won him that game, and it was over before Defiler could or would become a factor. | ||
FakeSteve[TPR]
Valhalla18444 Posts
On May 16 2008 01:38 jwd241224 wrote: Proof that Canata is actually good at TvT (remember when he beat Flash, 10 games ago?) Canata has always been very, VERY good at TvT. Even when he was playing like total ass he was capable in TvT. I definitely hoped that Sea would win, but this group played out pretty much how I thought it would. Sea vs Luxury on Colosseum was a lock in my mind, Canata would beat UpMagic, and then Sea vs Canata would be a coin toss. If Sea won, Luxury would advance past UpMagic and Canata. If Canata won, Sea would advance past Luxury in the final game. Lo and behold, that's what happened | ||
Purind
Canada3562 Posts
If he took that base to begin with, he's be at 4 gases and while in the long run, Sea probably woulda wittled him down, he woulda put up a better fight | ||
Kuja900
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[X]Ken_D
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[X]Ken_D
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