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[unknownstranger]

Good early group. Think Trap and either Symbol or Billowy will come out of it.

LOL at that build. Built a proxy Nexus so he could recall his Colossi there to not get caught in the middle of the map.

Overgrowth seems like an extremely generic map other than the gold bases. Billowy should have recalled immediately when he got surrounded.

Awful choke by Symbol. Took the worst possible fight twice and was still leading until the 3rd one.

Lol what an awful strat by hitmaN.

 

[Crimsonlink]

lol Derek were you the only one watching? I'm gonna wait for the 2nd group for the last of the Terrans.

 

[Aaron]

Had it on while doing other stuff, but not really paying attention to it. Don't care about anyone in this group.

 

[Crimsonlink]

Had it on while doing other stuff, but not really paying attention to it. Don't care about anyone in this group.

Yeah pretty much. But it was nice seeing Hitman doing well in game 1.

 

[unknownstranger]

lol Derek were you the only one watching? I'm gonna wait for the 2nd group for the last of the Terrans.

Twitch has been sucking on my phone recently so I haven't really been able to watch the second groups lately.

hitmaN was just outclassed that series.

Great Oracle harass won that game for Trap.

Awful Muta control cost hitmaN that game.

 

[SamuraiX-]

git fuqin rekt billowy

GOGO SYMBOL

 

[unknownstranger]

Nice hold by Symbol. Group basically went as expected.

 

[Aaron]

Fantasy has every advantage, and keeps throwing them away with these terrible engagements.

 

[SamuraiX-]

That was the most senseless SCV pull ever by FanTaSy.

Wtf was he thinking?

 

[unknownstranger]

Really bad SCV pull.

 

[Aaron]

Both of his fights were god awful, sub-MKP scrub tier.

 

[SamuraiX-]

Widow Mine hits of the gods right there. LOL

 

[unknownstranger]

Twitch still broken on my phone, will watch VoD's if decent.

 

[Aaron]

Those widow mines hit like a half dozen perfect banelings. Lucky Fantasy.

I imagine Flash watching this series and going, "WTF? Easy win for terran!"

 

[SamuraiX-]

FanTaSy so slick hiding that Widow Mine. Can't believe every Terran isn't do that at this point. It's too easy for Protoss to spot burrowed mines nowadays.

 

[Aaron]

How do battlecruisers do against tempests?

 

[SamuraiX-]

FanTaSy's splits are almost as good as a player in Gold League.

 

[Striek]

Fantasy played well also? Lol?

His entire engagement policy was cloak every ghost, hope you've killed all their obs and (edit) 1a 1ta.

 

[Aaron]

I'm not sure what the answer is to that comp. Bio gets stormed and burned. Vikings get stormed and zapped by phoenixes. Ravens are too fragile to last long enough to have any impact. Even widow mines are no good with the insane range of the tempests.

Fantasy played like garbage the whole series.

Edit: These protoss builds scare me. RIP in peace other races.

 

[AdventureRacing]

This may well be the lowest quality match i've seen since the first ever GSL. My god this is awful.

Edit: I can't remember the last time i've ever seen a pro player float minerals like this. Scratch that i can't remember the last time i saw a player i faced on the ladder float minerals like that. I don't know what happened to fantasy but i honestly can't remember watching a series this bad.

 

[Majine]

Stephano vs Demuslim coming up in the qualifiers:

http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/EG.Stephano

 

[Syf]

Stephano qualifies for WCS EU

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

EDIT: Whoops wrong thread

 

[unknownstranger]

Awful games from Tails.

Horrible harass from Bbyong. Built 10 Hellions and didn't even kill a Queen.

Great early hold by Dark. Also smart to skip armor upgrades to get both melee and ranged. Sniping the only Armory early was huge too.

 

[Syf]

Stephano about to play for a spot in EU premier league: http://www.twitch.tv/wcs_europe2

 

[Aaron]

And Stephano takes it in a pretty excellent zvz series.

 

[Syf]

Gotta say the EU and AM premier leagues are shaping up nicely so far in terms of racial distribution. Just about even representation for all three races. With the hellion/hellbat buff coming, it looks like things might finally be balancing out.

Spoiler

just don't look at GSL

 

[unknownstranger]

Really curious how RagnaroK looks tonight. He looked insanely good in Code A in ZvZ but I still think soO and Trap come out of the group.

 

[unknownstranger]

So stupid of RagnaroK to open ridiculously greedy on his map pick. Also a bad choke in game 1.

 

[Majine]

It's funny how Stephano can qualify for Premier league even as retired. The guy is a natural.

 

[Aaron]

ToD just demolished Targa, beating him 3-0 with some crazy multitasking. His DTs and zealots were all over the map. Poor Targa couldn't save his hatches from harass and defend against ToD's monster army at the same time.

 

[survivor]

Targa was just bad, you gotta learn to adapt when you realize your strategy isn't working. Instead he opted to do the same thing 3 times in a row and kept getting owned.

 

[unknownstranger]

Kind of meh group tonight. Curious to see how Stork does but I think Rain and Symbol will make it out.

 

[Aaron]

Pretty dull series from what I watched. Rain and Stork advance, with the latter just narrowly making it through. Rain crushed his opposition with no real effort.

 

[unknownstranger]

Don't really like ZvZ but looking forward to Life vs Rogue tonight more than any other round of 32 match except maybe herO vs Innovation.

Life is the best at Ling/Baneling control. Game 2 was one of the worst games I've seen him play in awhile though.

 

[Syf]

WCS AM groups announced:

Very good racial distribution aside from a couple groups. Should be fun!

 

[Aaron]

Solid anti-protoss build by gumiho. Hits before storm, uses a combo of SCVs and hellbats to buffer his mostly marines with just enough vikings to clear the collossi. While Billowy made the mistake of counterattacking when he needed those units at home.

 

[unknownstranger]

Stupid strat my Myungsik both games. I don't see the appeal of Immortal drops at all in PvT and in game 2 he scouted the early Factory and should have just gone Robo.

 

[unknownstranger]

Best group top to bottom is on right now. Pretty sure Parting will get out but I have no idea who else.

 

[Aaron]

Best group top to bottom is on right now. Pretty sure Parting will get out but I have no idea who else.

Probably Byul, but Supernova has a fighting chance. I'd be shocked if Solar got out.

 

[unknownstranger]

Good freaking god that was insane micro from Parting.

What a ridiculous series. Stephano needs to teach Solar how to micro Swarm Hosts.

 

[Aaron]

Yep, what I expected from Solar. Nice for Supernova, but I expect Parting will smash him.

Ugh, Supernova blew the final game by doing the most obvious thing in the world.

 

[Aaron]

Both koreans have lost so far in EU 32. Maybe neither will get through.

 

[Syf]

Jjakji playing horrible today. Mistakes everywhere so far.

 

[unknownstranger]

Probably the weakest group in Code S is on in 15 minutes. Will be shocked if both sOs and Soulkey don't make it out.

 

[Aaron]

Wow, sOs is full on sOs in this series. Does not give a fuck.

 

[unknownstranger]

So stupid of Shine not try to stop that cannon rush.

 

[Zen]

Hyun was trying to steal MC's trophey. MC was like nah get your own. Hyun is like fine.

My god they are practically clones, I still remember the old thin MC.

 

[Stephen_drewz]

Been about a year and a half since I followed anything Starcraft related but have been gaining interest again lately. I'm hoping its just because I'm tired but far out the new system is confusing. Prize pool seems kind of weak, would expect blizzard to be able to do much more.

 

[Aaron]

Lack of terran continues to hurt my interest. I want a big shake up, but the new expansion is probably very far away.