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MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Randomly saw an old blurry video of a rush on twitter about a month ago and thought "I wonder if any of the stuff I used to watch is online" and lost some rainy days getting nostalgic listening to Tasteless say "The Panda Bear Guy." Was sad I couldn't find the monkey milk game and wasn't going to give it a lot more thought until I saw this thread and started watching the new ASL. Could not believe so many of the pros I remembered from 15 years ago were still/back to playing. Can't believe I am going to end up spending money on Professional Starcraft in TYOOL 2023 after basically forgetting about it for over a decade.

Also randomly had a friend ask me about the monkey milk game this weekend who had no idea I was watching.

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MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

as far as i can tell, the overwhelming majority of the gomtv era is lost unfortunately

I was surprised that there was a full season and a half on youtube, but even more surprised the monkey milk clip was no more.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Khorne posted:

sacsri (Z) vs Much (P) game 3 from the RO64 of gomtv classic s3 on the map god's garden is what you're looking for. It took place on 4/28/2009.

This channel had the video up through 2020 at this url but it's privated & while archive.org captured the page successfully twice I don't believe they have public video archives for youtube from that period.

It's highly likely this vod is gone due to friendly requests from the casters involved. Not a whole lot of unlisted starcraft vods from 2009 on the teamliquid archive channel get privated.

When trying to find it I found people talking about SDM being annoyed that people kept bringing up monkey milk to him so I guess I can understand wanting it gone so it doesn't end up as a viral video.

I made it up to the Semi Finals of the ASL without reading spoilers and decided "I'm curious about the history of this thing, let's google it" and immediately scrolled down the list of the winners to the end like an idiot. Really incredible tournament. I love 76.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Khorne posted:

you missed larva deliberately keeping a drone idle during g1, playing with his foot to close out g2, and taking a nap during g3 of an event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSJM9qF0txw

hard to believe that was 5 years ago now. He got banned from future zotac cup events as a result.

Free this man.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Khorne posted:

He didn't get banned from the ASL and went on to win one around that time.

I'll have to go back and watch. I ended up watching Season 14 too and it feels like the quality of play is way more entertaining now than before Starcraft 2. It's hard to judge because I didn't get to watch a ton of old stuff when I got nostalgic this spring, but it does feel noticeable.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!

Fellis posted:

Artosis cast a Terran 1-base mech all-in vs Zerg for the CNSL that he’s covering on youtube right now: https://youtu.be/nbsdBDRp2-o

Probably not a good build, but interesting!

That was definitely worth watching just for how weird it was.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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The crowd during that second set of games was insane.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Group B and C have not disappointed when it comes to funny bad games.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Will be funny if the huge amount of Zerg in the round of 16 leads to people actively trying to go to late game in ZvZ.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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I enjoyed seeing Ample attempt the strategy of "drop on drops" and it just not work at all.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Kermit The Grog posted:

Can someone better versed explain how Ample can constantly bungle and loose a bunch of units but then just be fine and have a ton more units anyway?

Seems like he was focusing on production and ignoring actually microing his units. Seems to fit with what they were talking about him being a lower APM player. I yelled at my screen when he had those marines idling.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
The Round of 16 has begun with some really interesting games.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1CrVC7qNDY

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
I think Mini is my favorite player outside of the guys I have nostalgia for from the 2000s. There is no more perfect player than someone who can just utterly humiliate someone with his wacky builds and cheese or lose in really funny ways.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Next round of 16 group is up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AIhgAibaII

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Artosis: He's probably going to go into a defensive mech build.
Tasteless: I see he's getting the armory, is there any chance he goes mech here?

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Herstory Begins Now posted:

mini vs sharp is a knife fight

Really fun, and sometimes funny series.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Artosis casted a Flash vs Stork ladder game that is pretty ridiculous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm-PXmOELAw

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=608lhcWH52I

The first two games are out of this world.

The rest...not so much.

I don't usually listen to the interviews but I had to this time and the interviewer's first question to Mini had the vibes of "Mr. Burns your campaign seems to have the momentum of a run away freight train. Why are you so popular?" except completely justified, maybe understating how good Mini was.

MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Oct 7, 2023

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Which ASL season did Flash play random in?

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Thanks! All the Flash Zerg and Protoss ladder games had me wondering what this run was like.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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I forgot the Ogre Zerg Gamer origin was in Season 10. I watched the highlights of this game but forgot when it happened.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Artosis has been casting a 14 game ladder series between Rain and ZeLot that was really wild.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ3EL57hz2w

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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This seems to have been uploaded after I was going through old GOMTV tournaments when I was reminded competitive Starcraft was a thing I watched, so if anyone wants to watch horrible quality 2008 GOMTV Invitational with fast talking Tasteless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tioTyedr76c

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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We are back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_LcMkuAiGw

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Group A and B matches were ok but Group C had some really good ones.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Holy poo poo this is incredible.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
Group D is finally up. They recorded it in their hotel room and it does not sound great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryz_fZrc3jI

Tasteless also casted a really fun game recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naNoAR7XI2U

MassRafTer fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Mar 9, 2024

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Khorne posted:

I watched an alternative cast instead. And I always watch artosis/tasteless stuff.

The issue is not even how it was recorded. Whoever edits the video should have made it mono and normalized volume levels. It would take 5-10 minutes to fix the audio.

It's definitely partly how it was recorded. I get why people who use headphones are annoyed by voices on separate channels but the audio quality of the announcing is poor too.

But I'm watching these because whatever I like the jokes.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Nostalgamus posted:

Artosis is casting CNSL (basically everyone who got eliminated in the ASL qalifiers):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY-1NtGINkA
Loser's match in particular is good, but several unusual games due to Leta playing.

Is Queen doing it or would that be too embarrassing?

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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AtillatheBum posted:

Two player maps make PvT so insanely dumb, I can't believe we haven't seen any mapmakers figure out how to prevent gas stealing. Zealots are just too strong when all Terran can make is Marines.

Seems like it can't be too strong given the overall success of Terran pros compared to Protoss pros.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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AtillatheBum posted:

We'll see how the ASL goes but Protoss have been stomping Terran in the KCM all season long. Two Protoss players(Snow and Best) even had an all kill this season (6-0, 3 vs Z, 3 vs T).

That just seems like a good change of pace to me. I mean maybe it is a problem I'm not an expert but when Artosis isn't crying about something being unfair to Terran I feel like it can't be that bad.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Aces High posted:

Watching Snow absolutely destroy in the SCSL (I think that's what it was) seemed to indicate that, no matter the race, when a player gets hot, they just loving rip and tear

This is what I was thinking about seeing some of Jaedong's games leading up to the ASL :(

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:

I have no words for Mini vs Barracks omg. I'm sharing that with all my friends.

Same. Tasteless was so enamored with that kill the scanners strategy and all I could think was "this seems very context sensitive and not something you'd see replicated much" and Mini immediately does it in this tournament.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Group C is up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQyoW_g3xBU

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Sir Mat of Dickie posted:

That is a lot of PvT...

Group D is up as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agSP6WjcZsw

That is a loooooong video. Baseball Opening Day, Sweet 16 and a marathon ASL.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Mooseontheloose posted:

I enjoy Tastotsis but they need to not make wild claims after one bad thing happens.

I enjoyed today's good mix of some insightful commentary, of going too far with a small sample size and being kind of funny.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Somehow what I expected but also not what I expected.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

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Nostalgamus posted:

Final Ro8 is up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW_4vRIVqrc
This is a fun one.

I also recommend watching the final game of this CNSL group:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqzJ7jc_D4Q&t=3808s

Mini doing Mini stuff to get ahead 2-0 and immediately getting too cute.

MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
We got a Light vs Shuttle reaction video, there's a few in the round of 8 I'm hoping for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2vyAcPD7Y

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MassRafTer
May 26, 2001

BAEST MODE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0TLo3rfQ3o

In which Artosis and Tasteless jump to conclusions based on a small sample size.

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