Although I did root for Stork, this put a huge grin on my face because this brought back the Fantasy I admire, the fantasy that goes toe-to-toe with Stork on Outsider and rapes smaller tosses with vultures/mine drags alone.

Great series planning by Fantasy - Stork's game plan (which was I think the same vs Hiya) of aggression => free money UMS shuttle micro => expand while opponent is distracted => lol pure goon/lot breaks got completely shut down by Fantasy's foresight of getting mobile anti-air >______>;

Great multitasking and pressure by Fantasy too...God I enjoyed this series, as one sided as it was.

don_kyuhote

3006 Posts

January 29 2011 16:59 GMT

Stork reverted back to his old style of being predictable in the final.
That was why he got 3-0ed by Flash 3 years ago, and now this.
If you remember Stork from the Incruit OSL, the one which he won, he was being anything but predictable, and hence why he was able to win.
I will never forget Stork schooling Best in the semi-final of Incruit OSL.
That was creativity. That was being unpredictable. That was championship material.

Chef

10810 Posts

January 29 2011 17:06 GMT

Edit: Actually we should just talk about this in the main thread

imperfect

Canada1652 Posts

January 29 2011 17:45 GMT

T_T i just lost all motivation to watch sc

no protoss champion AGAIN

and i think this was the best chance considering god youngho is out of both leagues

congratulations to fantasy though..

bITt.mAN

Switzerland3689 Posts

January 29 2011 18:00 GMT

You've got to admit, I don't think I've ever seen dropships used like that in game 3, just ridiculous harass all over the place from Fantasy, I liked the games (ok ok, Fantasy's my favorite Terran, from my favorite team yadiyadiyada and I play Terran but still, it was a well-orchestrated rape)

a176

Canada6688 Posts

January 29 2011 18:48 GMT

you guys should be happy for fantasy. he played so well in the incruit and batoo finals ( let alone during regular season), only to be edged out.. he def deserves this more than effort did last year.

Boblion

France8043 Posts

January 29 2011 18:51 GMT

On January 30 2011 03:00 bITt.mAN wrote:
You've got to admit, I don't think I've ever seen dropships used like that in game 3, just ridiculous harass all over the place from Fantasy, I liked the games (ok ok, Fantasy's my favorite Terran, from my favorite team yadiyadiyada and I play Terran but still, it was a well-orchestrated rape)

Flash vs Best @ proleague was another good exemple of dropship abuse.

Comeh

United States18918 Posts

January 29 2011 18:53 GMT

Eh, i'm not so impressed by Fantasy as disappointed by Stork - he really didn't seem prepared for any sort of dropship style harassment - one of the main styles that Fantasy plays by - on maps that seems to favor that style of TvP. He really didn't seem to be making good decisions / engaging oddly / not hitting weak timings by the terran properly / making risks that didn't seem necessary.

Also, Fantasy had a VERY easy run to get this championship - if you look at his quality opponents, his toughest person in his group was probably Free, and Calm isn't exactly the greatest ZvT player (whatsoever).

Granted, stork's opponents weren't that impressive eitherr, but this is one of the less impressive OSL runs for me - but grats to fantasy for at least managing to win once - especially after failing so hard in game5 against jaedong :O

puppykiller

United States3126 Posts

January 29 2011 19:09 GMT

On January 30 2011 02:45 imperfect wrote:
T_T i just lost all motivation to watch sc

no protoss champion AGAIN

and i think this was the best chance considering god youngho is out of both leagues

congratulations to fantasy though..

Well Im sure that if tls3 was BW again. that you would get your protoss champion.

r3z3nd3

Brazil522 Posts

January 29 2011 19:39 GMT

#10

what can be done when they are that inconsistent? (Stork raping WL and losing 3-0 in both leagues ¬¬')

Edit: Even in favorable maps =/

DyEnasTy

United States3714 Posts

January 29 2011 20:39 GMT

#11

On January 30 2011 01:59 don_kyuhote wrote:
Stork reverted back to his old style of being predictable in the final.
That was why he got 3-0ed by Flash 3 years ago, and now this.
If you remember Stork from the Incruit OSL, the one which he won, he was being anything but predictable, and hence why he was able to win.
I will never forget Stork schooling Best in the semi-final of Incruit OSL.
That was creativity. That was being unpredictable. That was championship material.

Ya, and its such a shame too. I personally was pulling for Stork. I think he is such an awesome player even though I play Terran.

Shinshady

Canada1237 Posts

January 29 2011 21:15 GMT

#12

I felt that Stork's play was subpar from what it normally was, and he faced many problems, possibly due to over expanding, where as fantasy completely read Stork's play and just counter builded everything he tried. Game 3 was more or less a big blunder from Stork allowing elevator play, to completely make him lose his main, and his control of the map.

gen.Sun

United States539 Posts

January 29 2011 21:33 GMT

#13

stork lost due to ee han timing by his girlfriend

esla_sol

United States756 Posts

January 29 2011 22:13 GMT

#14

stork had some bad luck with spawn positions

the double expo into fantasy on aztec after failed reavers was just desperate though

ymir233

United States8275 Posts

January 30 2011 01:34 GMT

#15

For some reason (forgive me if I'm wrong) Stork just doesn't seem clutch in the right moments - that is finals, ro4, spotlight situations...is it just nervousness from being so close to the top or is it that every time that he gets near the gold, coincidentally there's just someone there who's better prepared (regardless of how good Stork is at that time) or ready to break out (JD '07, Flash '08, Fanta '11 [guided through the Force by oov no doubt])? Because there's definitely a difference between a mental obstacle and just sheer bad luck.