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[Hazaro]

I really hope Huk succeeds in Korea. He certainly has potential. Go Canada!

Unless he gets unlucky in the brackets I certainly feel he's Ro64 material.

 

[Deadman]

People have been proposing that everyone starts calling idra "The Gracken". I fully support this.

 

[Rektash]

Cool

And here is an interview with TLO to read in the break :http://www.sn.se/bloggar/spelbloggen

I start to hate TLO :lol.

 

[close to the edge]

People have been proposing that everyone starts calling idra "The Gracken". I fully support this.

@ ^^: TLO pimpin'.

edit: Nice, nearly 15k viewers.

 

[Ronok]

NeoGAF!

 

[(._.)]

Why was NeoGAF mentioned?

 

[Mairu]

@ ^^: TLO pimpin'.

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol That's awesome

 

[Hazaro]

http://imgur.com/YaQuC.jpg

Bigger

 

[Ronok]

Probably because it was linked to here.

 

[Zzoram]

Why was NeoGAF mentioned?

They're just name dropping any semi-large community that follows Starcraft for the few people who don't frequent Teamliquid to make them feel included.

 

[(._.)]

They're just name dropping any semi-large community that follows Starcraft for the few people who don't frequent Teamliquid to make them feel included.

Oh, that's pretty cool.

 

[Hazaro]

Day9 reppin IdrA hardcore.

 

[pieatorium]

stream die for anyone else?

 

[Spl1nter]

stream die for anyone else?

yes. Almost at 15000 people, servers getting smashed.

Now the stream is off air

 

[Deadman]

yep

 

[Ronok]

Yup dead.

 

[(._.)]

stream die for anyone else?

Keeps dropping out for me. Sad because I may not beadle to watch these grand finals

 

[Dreams-Visions]

stream die for anyone else?

just you.

edit: no, it's down.

 

[Zzoram]

Oh, that's pretty cool.

NeoGAF's Starcraft 2 community is actually really tiny so it doesn't come up often. There are only maybe two dozen people here that actually care about following the Starcraft 2 scene compared to the 10,000+ people actively viewing Teamliquid right now that are all actively following the Starcraft 2 scene. There are almost 15,000 people tuning in to watch the EG.Idra vs Liquid.Huk showmatch.

 

[Ronok]

Worst thing is it's probably being hammered by 15k people spamming refresh now as well.

 

[Spl1nter]

NeoGAF's Starcraft 2 community is actually really tiny so it doesn't come up often. There are only maybe two dozen people here that actually care about following the Starcraft 2 scene compared to the 10,000+ people actively viewing Teamliquid right now that are all actively following the Starcraft 2 scene. There are almost 15,000 people tuning in to watch the EG.Idra vs Liquid.Huk showmatch.

There are a lot more lurkers then there are posters.

Worst thing is it's probably being hammered by 15k people spamming refresh now as well.

I'm not spamming refresh. Just pressing it every 5 seconds consistently.

 

[Hazaro]

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/userstream.php?user=Fosfor

Amusement until stream is back :lol

 

[Zzoram]

Whenever there is a popular game TL traffic spikes like crazy, but unlike GAF on NPD day it doesn't kill the site. That's impressive since TL's peaks are higher than the NPD peaks I've seen on GAF, and the TL peaks happen a lot more often than once a month. They've gone up to 11,500 viewing up from the ~6000ish from earlier this afternoon because of the Idra vs Huk match that should start when the stream gets fixed.

 

[dimb]

Looks like the stream is back.

Edit: Nvm.

You shouldn't have to refresh at least. Just leave the window open and the stream will start up automatically.

 

[Hazaro]

Whenever there is a popular game TL traffic spikes like crazy, but unlike GAF on NPD day it doesn't kill the site. That's impressive since TL's peaks are higher than the NPD peaks I've seen on GAF, and the TL peaks happen a lot more often than once a month.

The code behind TL is fucking amazing.

Would be nice if threads and posting was cleaner though.

 

[Ronok]

Stream is playing for me again now.

 

[Zzoram]

The code behind TL is fucking amazing.

Would be nice if threads and posting was cleaner though.

TL uses purely custom code. I love the layout of the site. I think they need the quickbar on the left because of how many separate boards they have, GAF only has Gaming and Off-Topic so it's not as difficult to manage navigation. It's also nice that they allow imbedded Youtube in posts.

Over 12,000 viewing on TL now, and the game hasn't even started. I don't think it'll break 13,000 though.

 

[Deadman]

Amazing trolling, just amazing :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Ronok]

Missed game 1, but apparently it was SO amazing. :'( Elimination race with a fucking mothership! FUUUCCCKKK!

Ok wow, I got trolled. FML! :lol

 

[(._.)]

Are they busting our balls? :lol

 

[close to the edge]

Amazing trolling, just amazing :lol :lol :lol :lol

Hahahaha.. nice. I was trolled too. Excellent. :lol

edit: IdrAWWW SNAP!

 

[Meeru]

dang mlg dallas is 30 minutes away from my house

 

[Visualante]

Come at me bro.

 

[(._.)]

I enjoy watching scrap station matches.

 

[Meeru]

wow idra vs huk

 

[Zzoram]

Is the stream viewers number not updating or did half of the people really give up and leave?

 

[(._.)]

It just went from 7000 to 12000 in a second for me so things seem to be working now.

 

[Hazaro]

There's HuK with 9 goddam sentries before stalkers again.
That's exactly what I was talking about.

With that brutal Stalkers follow up I want to know what IdrA is going to do.

More importantly HuK goes Zealot sentry in the beginning and isn't afraid to sac his zealots for a trade. He knows that the early pressure forces lings and HuK gets that sweet, sweet early +1 to have his zealots 2 hit lings. In almsot every game HuK get 6-8 sentries before even making his first stalker and just masses an absurd amount of energy before transitioning into stalkers (if he needs them) to clean up (and survive) then gets his expo and robo.

It's just really really clean PvZ. Can't wait for IdrA to play him, I think HuK will come out on top using this kind of strategy unless IdrA has specifically prepared for this kind of build and aggression.

 

[Deadman]

wow.



wow.

 

[Ronok]

Wow! WP Huk!

 

[Dreams-Visions]

CRUSHED.

 

[(._.)]

Yeah, Scrap Station win for HuK!! Love pro Protoss players.

 

[close to the edge]

Holy crap. That was perfect play by HuK and I didn't see any big mistakes by IdrA, amazing timing. I begin to see that you need to kill Zerg before he reaches this critical mass of Mutas.

 

[Spl1nter]

that was a decisive win. So many sentries before anything else, just crazy.

 

[V_Arnold]

HuK dominatin'!!!!!

 

[Zzoram]

Idra is going to lose this showmatch. Whoever loses the first game is at a psychological disadvantage and Idra is a player known to tilt easily when shaken.

 

[Pyke Presco]

Good god, that push was like 4 zealots, 2 stalkers and 10 bloody sentries. Completely nerfed all muta damage, lings were barely scratching the armour with triple guardian shields and mass forcefields. So many sentries and they just rocked shit.

 

[Spl1nter]

How the hell did Huk afford that many sentries and +1 attack. So much vespene. +1 attack was what won the game for him.

 

[Deadman]

I think (hope) that if Huk gets 2-0 he mothership rushes.

 

[Hazaro]

Good god, that push was like 4 zealots, 2 stalkers and 10 bloody sentries. Completely nerfed all muta damage, lings were barely scratching the armour with triple guardian shields and mass forcefields. So many sentries and they just rocked shit.

Shield is only for ranged damage.
Lings do full damage, but that is 0 since a zealot 2 hits them and with 900 energy for forcefield they funnel in 1 at a time. Shield reduces muta damage by around 40%, FF traps and funnels roaches,clean up with stalkers.

I want to see 1 base early roach aggression from IdrA to counter it.