Great Replays/Discussion

Gummy Panda · 22-08-2010 02:23PM

MistaMagoo wrote: »

Good games, but the german presenter is painful to listen to.

Dennis is great. "let's not talk about imbalance"

Those games weren't great tbh. Idra matches against tarson were better

MistaMagoo · 22-08-2010 02:25PM

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Dennis is great. "let's not talk about imbalance"

Those games weren't great tbh. Idra matches against tarson were better

Was referring to the event in general, its not the german accent that bothers me, its the retarded questions he asks in interviews.

Gummy Panda · 22-08-2010 02:32PM

MistaMagoo wrote: »

Was referring to the event in general, its not the german accent that bothers me, its the retarded questions he asks in interviews.

I know. I think its funny especially when he asked Demuslim something and Demuslim replied that he didnt understand what exactly he was asking.

seraphimvc · 22-08-2010 04:20PM

Sarens is a way better than Tarson, i feel like idra is quite relaxing while playing with tarson

dimiga games are not very exciting atm.

Dustaz · 22-08-2010 07:26PM

Xios · 23-08-2010 09:43PM

Here's a replay of mine.

It's short enough, map Lost Temple (i think)
Terran vs Zerg (me)

Basically the terran bunker rushed me with 2 rax outside my base, i failed to scout them as i was turtling a little, he harassed, i countered, built a nydus and popped it into his undefended base, insta quit lulz

seraphimvc · 24-08-2010 01:55PM

i think currently in silver/gold is all about barrack/bunker/proxy cheese :pac: otherwise protoss turtle up go vr+carrier - all can be counter by good macro, hard to say sometimes tho if the opponent bring some ground army+ a few air can be instant gg.

i played this gold protoss in this replay, i was so happy to see a non-cheeser protoss

scouted early, saw his gas up, no forge = no cannon, i am assuming he is going stalker build, decided to go mass zerglings with upgrades but luckily i suicide some lings saw him has quite a number of zealots and collusus is up, quickly go roaches :pac:

the game ended in 20+mins but i stayed to hoping to get the 10 gold mineral achievement, it didnt work

any comment/critic with my replay is welcomed. i notice too i s*cked in keep making larva during battle.

seraphimvc · 24-08-2010 02:07PM

Xios wrote: »

Here's a replay of mine.

It's short enough, map Lost Temple (i think)
Terran vs Zerg (me)

Basically the terran bunker rushed me with 2 rax outside my base, i failed to scout them as i was turtling a little, he harassed, i countered, built a nydus and popped it into his undefended base, insta quit lulz

lol that cheeser! nice one for the fast response with nydus out! can be a tough game after a few minutes when his expo is up! that is prob the best way to counter his cheese

i learnt something again!

Xios · 24-08-2010 03:11PM

seraphimvc wrote: »

i think currently in silver/gold is all about barrack/bunker/proxy cheese otherwise protoss turtle up go vr+carrier - all can be counter by good macro, hard to say sometimes tho if the opponent bring some ground army+ a few air can be instant gg.

i played this gold protoss in this replay, i was so happy to see a non-cheeser protoss scouted early, saw his gas up, no forge = no cannon, i am assuming he is going stalker build, decided to go mass zerglings with upgrades but luckily i suicide some lings saw him has quite a number of zealots and collusus is up, quickly go roaches

the game ended in 20+mins but i stayed to hoping to get the 10 gold mineral achievement, it didnt work

any comment/critic with my replay is welcomed. i notice too i s*cked in keep making larva during battle.

I'm no pro, but ya did a couple things wrong there. The expos to the gold early on was nice

But bad things, ya never used the xel'naga towers, the toss player did, he could see your army sitting in the middle, which was a bad idea aswell, especially with his collosus, always take the high ground, unless it means you'll be choked. for the towers, just send a zergling to each on, 25 minerals for a very large area scout is well worth it.

edit/ Ya also didn't scout much at all, you just built an army in the middle. That's asking for trouble, keep your army mobile and constantly looking for things to eat

kekeke

The toss player made many mistakes, he had an idle worker the whole game

seraphimvc · 24-08-2010 04:59PM

Xios wrote: »

I'm no pro, but ya did a couple things wrong there. The expos to the gold early on was nice

But bad things, ya never used the xel'naga towers, the toss player did, he could see your army sitting in the middle, which was a bad idea aswell, especially with his collosus, always take the high ground, unless it means you'll be choked. for the towers, just send a zergling to each on, 25 minerals for a very large area scout is well worth it.

edit/ Ya also didn't scout much at all, you just built an army in the middle. That's asking for trouble, keep your army mobile and constantly looking for things to eat kekeke

The toss player made many mistakes, he had an idle worker the whole game

i know is kinda a gamble, but atm thats the best i can do

the scouting:
my overlord is in his expo, i put the puking creep ability to annoy him, he didnt even bothers = he is not turtling and no cannon = unlikely he goes void ray(already knew he is not turtling/cannon with my drone scout anyway), plus the early gas, high chances he is making ground units - either mass stalkers or mixed with zeals. i usually put 1 or 2 lings in xelnaga tower but i know in this game is kinda silly caused' from the replay i can see he knows my lings there all the time lol

the army in the middle was for a soon attack, but before i go i suicided/scouted with 3/4 lings to his base and realised i need roaches when i see his colusus (if he has no colussus my 20larva in base into lings will gg him together with the army in the middle).

as for the gold mineral :P i need minimal gas(i only need to down 2 evo chamber for upgrades) but tonnes of mineral for mass lings, and try to fool him i dont do expo :pac: knew his observer will be watching me soon.

i'd say he is a fair player, 10mins down he has a nice army,if i let him play his game with another few mins i am facing with some immortals.

Xios · 25-08-2010 12:27PM

Watching some day9, He talks so much ****. Get to the damn game ya babbling fool :pac:

rant over.

MistaMagoo · 25-08-2010 12:37PM

Xios wrote: »

Watching some day9, He talks so much ****. Get to the damn game ya babbling fool :pac:

rant over.

No love for day9? I think he is great, I like the tangents.

Xios · 25-08-2010 12:57PM

MistaMagoo wrote: »

No love for day9? I think he is great, I like the tangents.

Was just gettin annoyed cause i watching it on ustream which constantly froze for buffering, even though the video was half loaded. And he was still talking about jack bower. :S

NeoSlicerZ · 26-08-2010 06:14PM

This is the last placement match I played which put me against some plat protoss. I go 2gate/stargate phoenix. Made a fairly big mistake midgame but manage to recover though it made the game much closer than it should have been. I did like some of my sentry play here though, it's the second time I've done this build and the first was only 2 games before. I'm really not comfortable with this build and I'd probably have been able to win a lot sooner if I went the standard 3gate robo but since it was scrap station, air was too appealing.

Xios · 31-08-2010 08:39PM

Here's a replay of mine, even matched players, both platinum.

Steppes of War
Zerg Vs Protoss, 15 mins long

Winner = me

Basically i did a delayed rush, he failed at blocking by not putting his zealots on hold position, i ran around him and did some serious economic damage.
But the best bit was the decisive battle that followed, i love my little trick with the spine crawlers behind the tall grass

it ended the game quite quickly

seraphimvc · 31-08-2010 11:01PM

xios that is a good replay

but luck is defo sided with you abit in that. i am noob but here is my opinion :P

1.silly player who didnt press hold at his choke point

that is a silly mistake that for a moment i forget he is a plat player. and after he let you slip in you could have done more damage to his econ since you have a big group of speedlings - get some of them kill more probe and some deal with stalker.

2.he should have sent his 7/8 zealots to you right after your harassment - your army were gone and you only killed his 1 stalker, he should knows your base is kinda empty right after that. he actually did bring the army out but then back off for no reason :P could be your harassment scared him.
gj for you built 4 spines to prevent that but if he push at that moment with his 7/8 zealots+few stalkers to your main base then is probably gg.

3.no observer?he was blind shooting what army you are going to. and i have no idea why he gets immortal before colosus,especially against zerg player.

gj overall nice macro and micro

the opponent on the other hand needs more experience to deal with zerg player.

Nody · 05-09-2010 07:18AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVbXyZpsUYA&feature=player_embedded

PvZ match from Korea (English commentator) lasting over 50 min! Not the usual strategies either (at least from what I've seen) so interesting from that point of view as well.

valor · 05-09-2010 09:56AM

The Zerg use of Nydus in that game was epic

The Mad Hatter · 05-09-2010 01:03PM

Was just about to post that - amazing use of the Nydus network. Think we might see a whole new style of Zerg play emerge from this?

BopNiblets · 05-09-2010 05:09PM

Nexus can't lift off btw guys...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ6GatyhobQ

Haha.

Dacian · 06-09-2010 11:02PM

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Was just about to post that - amazing use of the Nydus network. Think we might see a whole new style of Zerg play emerge from this?

Amazing play. The Ultras kill the Nexus then jumping into the nydus just as the protoss army arrives in....very cinematic!!

seraphimvc · 08-09-2010 08:30AM

MOTHERSHIP RUSH!!!:D

HuK is just awesome!
'nothing suspicious is going on here' lol

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

NeoSlicerZ · 08-09-2010 11:01AM

I gotta recommend the games InCa and Polt played in the GSL today. Great PvP by Inca and just sick game sense by Polt.

Zapp Brannigan · 08-09-2010 06:25PM

seraphimvc wrote: »

MOTHERSHIP RUSH!!!:D

HuK is just awesome!
'nothing suspicious is going on here' lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbSodiGyABg

HuK is so awesome. Always entertaining to watch his games.

Xios · 08-09-2010 08:43PM

Zapp Brannigan wrote: »

HuK is so awesome. Always entertaining to watch his games.

Zapp, your tactics suck, you just send wave after wave of marines at the zerg till their kill limits are reached. :mad:

Kirby · 08-09-2010 09:29PM

banelings.........

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar · 18-09-2010 12:01AM

tonight I had my favourite sc2 match of all time

ill upload the replay if anyone wants, but I doubt it will be as interesting to other people as a game. it's more the sheer mindfucckery that my opponent was trying that i love

the map was scrap station, i was on left him on the right, we're both terran.
he builds a barracks just outside my ramp, before i'd even started my supply depot so he had a marine or two out just as my barracks was finishing. I managed to hold them off with scv's, then pulled them back to mining. It never occured to me that he must have had a barracks so close.

he sneaks an scv into my base and builds a bunker, into which he deposits a few more marines and starts raping away at my depots/barracks. i dont have too much gas at this point, so I start throwing down 3-4 barracks out of reach of his bunker. I start mining gass, and when the barracks are done attach tech labs to them all.

all the while this is going on he is saying 'omg' and 'u won'. he said 'u won' 2-3 times to me before I'd taken out his bunker, I was more than a little bit confused as he was still fighting but i didn't say anything.

Thus begins about 5 minutes of my trying to weaken his full bunker with a few mauraders, pulling back bfeore I lose too many and him rushing in to repair the bunker. he trains more marines, builds another bunker and behind them slots a barracks.
by the time his rax is finished (inside my base no less) I have about 8 mauraders, so I walk around the backside of my base and take out the barracks and his bunkers. I saunter on into his base and destroy his depots etc, but his command centre isn't there!

now while all this had been going on, he had been chatting with me. saying how 'polite' I was, and how he hadnt played anyone as polite as me. Assuming english wasn't his first language, I just said thanks and 'gg' figuring the match to be over. he repeats 'u won' and just doesn't surrender. realising I hadn't destroyed his command centre, I start wandering around the map looking for it and fine one being built at the gold expo. Then I scan the floating island in the top right corner of the map, and wouldn't you know it.. a command centre and a barracks

fair enough, says I.

I throw down a factory, and then start building about 4 starports all the while he is doing the same and peppering the island with what I can only assume is a ****load of missile turrets. around this time he messages me 'plz plz plz let me win'

'teh ****?' I think to myself

'I'm only a silver, trying to get into gold., plz plz let me win'

truth be told, I considered it for a moment. but only a moment, something wasn't right about all this. So I throw down 3 command centres to get my minerals/gas going. Around this time I have a couple of banshees, so I take a potshot at one of his turrets and run back to mine.
he msgs again asking me to let him win, so I train up another round of banshees and build an engineering bay, naturally forgetting to build turrets when it's finished.

In pop his 6-7 banshees and proceed to rape my main base. I bring everything down to the gold expo and start building somewhere between 12-15 missile turrets all around it. once my starports are up and running down there, properly protected I move my 10 odd banshees into his base and do what must be done.

I mentioned earlier that something didn't sit right with me about this chap. when he was flying his banshees around after destroying my base, he sees one of my expos with a few turrets around it 'omgz' he says. Now I'm no stranger to the internet cutesy-speak, but there was something else going on here. I was being manipulated. I began to question whether this young man was indeed a silver, trying to make it into gold.
he flew around a bit more, spotting my missile turrets I'd dotted around the place letting out a few more 'omg' until he came to the sheer mess of turrets i'd created around the gold expo and quit.

"lol" says I to myself, and exit the game to check his profile

#1 in his gold division with 989 points. Fair ****s buddy.

I played neoslicers in a few games of 1v1 after that, and when I checked his profile again.. he had been promoted to platinum.

"this" I thought to myself "was a right sneaky bastard". I've had better games. I've won better, and I've certainly been beaten after playing better. But the cheek of trying to manipulate me into feeling sorry for him, the poor young man in silver struggling along the long hard road to gold, when he must have known he was only a short hop skip and a jump away from plat, this I appreciated. This I loved.

TheDoc · 19-09-2010 09:37PM

Had to upload this replay.

I was just playing a Zerg and after being afk for the start of the game I found myself on the backfoot, after holding off his initial assault and moving forward, I got kicked in the ass by mass mutas. After constant harass I thought it was time to summon the Thor.

Watch the rest, this guy was fuming, so much he tried to add me to friends just to flame me.

Xios · 20-09-2010 02:33AM

TheDoc wrote: »

Had to upload this replay.

I was just playing a Zerg and after being afk for the start of the game I found myself on the backfoot, after holding off his initial assault and moving forward, I got kicked in the ass by mass mutas. After constant harass I thought it was time to summon the Thor.

Watch the rest, this guy was fuming, so much he tried to add me to friends just to flame me.

That zerg was horrifically bad. He kept getting mutas even though you had thors, he had idle workers lying around, both queens had full energy, creep wasn't spread anywhere. total noob tbh.

You could've stopped that early push by repairing that depot on the bottom instead of the top one, that's what gave the noob the chance to live longer. Also with your first attack into his main, you wasted so much time killing his evo chamber, wtf, kill some drones

BlitzKrieg · 20-09-2010 03:12AM

heeheehee

not great gameplay...but here is a game that went down to the wire literally

steppes of war. terran (gold opponent) vs zerg (me, silver). My natural anti terran game is to go mass speedlings and tech into mutas. banelings optional if I feel they are needed, but my baneling micro is pretty horrific.

This was no different, got spawning pool got zerglings out and kept an eye on the map. He did a strange half wall in with a bunker/barracks and wasnt expanding. So I expanded and got tech upgrades for zerglings and banelings to bust the wall.

Out comes his force marching up my ramp RIGHT pass my banelings into my zerglings so I crushed the first attack. teched up, massed zerglings. At this point I am paranoid he has expanded so constantly running around the map creeping the creep everywhere. Decide to hit the door hard with banelings and sent a tonne of them in his front door where I minced most of his army and his barracks. Zerglings follow in and it took most of his standing army and his scvs to hold them off. During this I teched to muta and got about six out only to discover during this attack that he had gotten alot of vikings and pretty much had a MM ball rolling with a siege tank and medivacs in support.

hbe walks over my base + expansion. But I sent muta to his base and they took down all his scv. Now he bugs all his buildings out to the corner of the maps as we were base racing. Only problem is I got about 5-6 drones out of my base and sent them to the four corners of the map and set up multiple hatcheries. (I was heavily floating on mineral) and started punching out zerglings when I got the chance, he found 3 of them and by the time he got to the fourth I had a zergling army again where I kill the tank and most of his units but he took down the hatchery. So I have 1 spawning pool left. About 12 zerglings and 4 muta which were blowing up all his buildings. He has 3 vikings, 4 marines and 4 marauders all cooped up in his medivacs. But they were all badly hurt and everytime they popped out I'd get the surrond. i went for the vikings specifically cause once they went down he lost his AA aside from the marines which the zerglings could handle. So neither of us with any form of base anymore dancing and hoping around each other units until finally I get the last viking and the muta swing in and he ggs.

It was a game that made me smile

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