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Yeah, Khorne, thanks for the thorough explanations. You're a real Thread Badass, you enrich the experience of watching BW for me. Can't thank you for your time/wisdom enough.
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Gmaz posted:Hope we'll get to see Flash's muta micro by the end of the tournament, I wonder how he'll fare when he's not on the receiving end of it. I haven't watched it in quite some time but I'm the few games I've seen him play Z on his personal stream it's pretty good but less about the mechanical skill avoiding hits and maximizing damage and more about the game sense with taking really good engagements overall.
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Larva vs Soulkey is up. It's not bad as far as zvz goes. soulkey's interview before the match gives away how the match is going to go One interesting side effect of ro8 is if zero beats best then flash will only have to prepare vs z. I think tastosis are sleeping on how game warping the 1/3 zvz will be for his opponents on some maps. Flash is the type of player who will choose a single all-in for zvz and do it every single time he randoms zerg. Khorne fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Oct 25, 2020 |
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look at that, Larva has finally reached a final 4, he did it
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Is this still the tournament that started with the best of 1? I actually kinda liked the format. I don't think it would work for most other games but SC is well balanced enough and also not so luck heavy that I don't have any problem with the upsets.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Is this still the tournament that started with the best of 1? I actually kinda liked the format. I don't think it would work for most other games but SC is well balanced enough and also not so luck heavy that I don't have any problem with the upsets. The round of 32 isn't really Bo1, it's a group system with Bo1 matches. Essentially, 2 game wins to get through.
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Oh yeah I figured they switched it up as it went along I was just wondering if it was the same one. PERPETUAL IDIOT posted:Essentially, 2 game wins to get through. That also sounds like a Bo3?
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Milo and POTUS posted:That also sounds like a Bo3? Not all against the same person though. The winner of a group has to beat two people once.
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Each group is like a tiny Bo1 double-elimination tournament except instead of a grand finals they just pass both players to the next round.
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Oct 30, 2020 20:35
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Quite a series today, especially games 3 and 4...
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Heavy_D posted:Quite a series today, especially games 3 and 4... G2 was the kind of strategy I expected. With real unfortunate results that time, but imagine how that game would have gone if soma opened a bit more normal. It would have been crazy. G1 was really typical: extremely tight macro, extremely tight timings, being in the right place at the right time, and putting the least actions possible into as many places as possible. G4 is a good game also. I am confused about why he didn't go up the ramp and instead auto attacking the sunk with a few marines from the bottom. Looked like the worst of all worlds - mutas can just pot shot the frontline & you miss the sunk so much with those marines. Was his attention just elsewhere and that wasn't the sunk position he expected so it looked weird to spectators but wasn't an active choice from the player? G5 so much went wrong  everyone has had plenty of those games but not as the best player in the world in the ro4 @ asl
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I have to say that I felt like this was a little more lopsided than I would have thought, like despite the fact that Flash won 2 games he got absolutely trounced in a couple of those matches However, this is only the first tournament so I'm sure that Flash will be Flash and just absolutely school everyone in the next tournament he does.
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I don't get why tasteless & artosis favor queen. Yes, when he was at his peak he was a better player than Larva was at the time. Right now in 2020 I'm not convinced. Larva's ZvZ has been very good & consistent lately. He likes to get slightly ahead and then play defense until just overpowering the other zerg. Second Ro4 match is up between those two. Can't wait to watch. edit: G1 reaction: see it's exactly like I thought. Rest of the games: ouch. Khorne fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Nov 2, 2020 |
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Khorne posted:I don't get why tasteless & artosis favor queen. Yes, when he was at his peak he was a better player than Larva was at the time. Right now in 2020 I'm not convinced. Larva's ZvZ has been very good & consistent lately. He likes to get slightly ahead and then play defense until just overpowering the other zerg. Zero is extremely good in Bo7. He's historically been at his best when he has a lot of time to prepare for 1 opponent. Zero's always been a player who is extremely creative and has an immense peak but when he hasn't planned a game out, he becomes super predictable and is easy to out-think. That's why he often gets bopped in group stages when he's the superior player - he just isn't stellar when he hasn't mapped out an entire series. Larva is a great player but also seems to suffer in long series play - he can plan around a short series extremely well but the longer something drags out the more unprepared he seems. I'd always favor Zero over him in a Bo7 but probably favor Larva in group play.
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Flash vs Larva 3rd place match is up. G2 is very fun. Khorne fucked around with this message at 14:20 on Nov 7, 2020 |
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Fun match, I feel for the loser.
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I really hope Flash keeps playing as random. Those were some of the most interesting games I've seen in a long time.
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Spoggerific posted:I really hope Flash keeps playing as random. Those were some of the most interesting games I've seen in a long time. Yeah, even little things like sending the scout on a longer path so that it doesn't get spotted mid-map is really cool.
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Double-posting here, but it's been 50 days so I think fair's fair. Tomorrow sees the draft for Season 2 of the ASTL - the team league format from around this time last year. Actual matches don't start until the 17th though. Just gotta hope that we get Tastosis casting it. In the meantime, although it's not got English commentary, here's a pretty nice 9 game show match between Light and Best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EULsJ-y9d0 Best's play in this series was really fun to watch - tons of shuttle, absolute saturation of the field with storm. He did several proxy robo games, then in one game it looked to me like he caught Light out by faking the proxy robo and expanding instead.
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SaiyanSC did an english commentary of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnW26hR0KE Needs to get a better mic though.
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Does anyone else remember playing on the 'gamei' ladder server in the late 90's and having to navigate the website (in Korean)? Rocking that 56k modem that would get disconnected every time someone in the house wanted to use the phone? I was a big fan of 1's on LT and played P. However, I am way too old and slow to even attempt to keep up with a kid that can sustain 140 apm today. Nope. Team liquid is still dope af though.
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So I bought the remastered + cartoon but after a massive download for a game of this age, I have no clue where the gently caress the cartooned version is? This is the first I've ever tooled around with the blizzard launcher ever so I might just be overlooking it
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Pretty sure you switch between the versions via the options menu in the game.
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I don't have cartooned, but F5 cycles the graphics between HD and SD when in game. It may cycle tooned as well.
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Team rosters: Snow [P], Best [P], JyJ, [T] Shuttle [P] Larva [Z], Bisu [P], sSak [T], Killer [Z] Light [T], Mini [P], HerO [Z], PianO [T] Flash [???], Soulkey [Z], Action [Z], free [P] Soma [Z], Sorry [T], Effort [Z], Sharp [T] Queen [Z], Stork [P], Rush [T], MisO [Z]
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Heavy_D posted:Team rosters: Is that ASL? I haven't been keeping up lately, what tournament is this? And where can I watch?
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This is the second AfreecaTV Starcraft Team League. There are some details on Liquipedia https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/2021_AfreecaTV_StarCraft_Team_League_Season_2 Still not actually sure if we're getting an English commentary, but assuming we do then it should be on the youtube channel from 17th Jan https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK5eBtuoj_HkdXKHNmBLAXg/videos
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Artosis has started casting BW on a new youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0ynO5nqkPq_7Xn-973d2w e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aItRqkeRlmw
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Nice stuff, and he seems to be putting out a new vid each day. The only other guy who seems to put out that many Brood War casts is a guy called Falcon Paladin, and he seems to get sent a steady supply of fun replays.
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It's not ASL but it's about as entertaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCSnHyt-S8U
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Wow, never seen that map before, pretty hilarious. Looks like the second round is up now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49DHB9iucHo Sadly Artosis has confirmed he won't be casting the ASTL in English this time round. If you can put up with a cast in the original Korean, the first set of the first match (Snow vs Bisu) has a pretty unusual play that's worth seeing... http://vod.afreecatv.com/PLAYER/STATION/67284891/228400 I like to think that this was a smart reaction on Snow's part to Bisu's failed DT rush. He knew that Bisu was on the back foot, and that the likely follow-up was to go heavy on the Psi-Storm; the blockade is more effective in that case because it's essentially storm-proof.
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Yeah, don't sleep on this one - even you can't understand a word. I initially assumed double Robo into double Reaver drops was the big unusual play, but then...
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SaiyanSC has been casting some ASTL games: https://www.youtube.com/c/SaiyanSC/videos If you like FFA, check out Greth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq9i9EZkbjE
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Is this the only BW thread? I have a question about remastered. I'll siege my tanks and they'll just suddenly revert to tank mode after sieging without any input at all.
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