SC2 Pro Tournament Discussion

GomTV is flaking out on me again so I missed a couple games, but most of the results:

GSL Season 3 - Round of 64 - Day 3 - Results

Early Games

LiquidRet (Z) 2 - 0 Cyrano (P)
JSLZenith (T) 2 - 0 KyrixZenith (Z)
MarineKingPrime.WE/FoxeR (T) W - L NEXLine (Z) (withdraw)
GuMihofOu (R) 0 - 2 ST_Monster (Z)
TSL_GuineaPig (P) 2 - 0 IMJunwi (Z)

Late Games

TSL_Clide (T) 1 - 2 LeenockfOu (Z)
ST_Max (Z) 1 - 2 oGsHyperDub (T)
oGsMC (P) 2 - 0 OdinMvP (T)
ST_July (Z) 2 - 0 cOreZenith (P)

Must Watch: TSL_Clide v. LeenockfOu sets 1-3
Other recommended viewing: JSL v. Kyrix set 1, GuineaPig v. Junwi set 1&2 (creative Protoss play), Ret v. Cyrano if you want to see Ret's crazy macro skills

Damn, finally found this thread!
Sen, Ret - FTW!

Wow. JSL had complete and total control of both those games. Never once felt like he was in any danger in either game. His micro on the tank drop was particularly impressive. Crazy. Very one sided series, but pretty great to watch anyway. If he's as good in the other two matchups as he is against Zerg I wouldn't be surprised to see him get at least to the round of 8.

On to the Random guy's games, which I understand are disappointingly underwhelming.

*Just watched Guinea Pig destroy Junwi. Good lord. I'm assuming there's a very early pressure build that can prevent Guinea Pig's strat from working, but since Roaches failed in the first game I'm a little stuck on what it might be.

Hah! Clide/Leenock is the most epic TvZ I've seen in SC2 yet. Who knew?

Game 3 is pretty incredible, even if only for the sheer number of tech switches that happen throughout.

Thin_J wrote:

Hah! Clide/Leenock is the most epic TvZ I've seen in SC2 yet.

That was unreal good.

If anyone hasn't watched it yet, fast forward in Game 1 to about 30:00 in as there was a technical problem and they had to start over. Then be prepared to drool as you watch a phenomenal series. I wish that series went 7 games.

JSL certainly played well and thumped Kyrix, but I'm not sure that indicates that he'll have success going forwards. His win in the first game hinged upon him correctly anticipating Kyrix's build, and in the second he successfully exploited a map that's pretty heavily tilted towards Terran versus Zerg. I'll be interested to see how he does without the odds stacked in his favour.

Anyways, games are starting for tonight - we've got Idra and Jinro playing later. But I'm having trouble getting on the stream. I try to join and Gom player just hangs on a black screen.
Edit: Never mind. It's working now.

4dSwissCheese wrote:

JSL certainly played well and thumped Kyrix, but I'm not sure that indicates that he'll have success going forwards. His win in the first game hinged upon him correctly anticipating Kyrix's build, and in the second he successfully exploited a map that's pretty heavily tilted towards Terran versus Zerg. I'll be interested to see how he does without the odds stacked in his favour.

He did knock NaDa out from the prelims though, so I think he has pretty good potential to do well. Its crazy how dynamic and unpredictable results from these matches can be when the game is so young.

Jinro time. I think he's probably my favorite player in the tourney so I'm hoping he handles the nerves well.

Yay, Jinro is through. He spanked NEXDrug pretty hard in that 3rd game. I don't know if I've ever seen that many siege tanks in a pro game.

Woo! Jinro advances over NEXDrug, beating him 2-1.

He looked really shaky the second game and made some bad decisions but went right back to playing extremely safe and very solid in the third and just dominated.

After a commanding game 1, it started getting iffy there for a bit, but Jinro pulls through. Well done.

Alright, nice win by Jinro despite some shaky play in game 2.

Just noticed Sen drew Nestea in the RO32. Nestea's ZvZ was pretty much completely perfect in Season 2. Sen's really good, but I dunno if he's that good

It's time to unleash the Gracken!

Moon, after an awful game one, wins it in three. Great to see a zerg win on Delta Quadrant, with a nice use of a nidus to clean up a ledge drop.

And now, time for Idra. It'll be cool to see something that isn't a TvZ for a change.

Not a good map pool for Zerg against Protoss.

Wow, that was amusing. GJ Idra.

Stupid Protoss. You can't pull that against IdrA.

IdrA is good and everything, but that Protoss player was... not very good.

Hmm, that Protoss didn't seem very good. 4 foreigners into Ro32!

Koz wrote:

Not a good map pool for Zerg against Protoss.

If protoss is going to play like that it doesn't matter, apparently. All in all a pretty good round of 64 for the foreigners.

Anyone here is going to watch the Dreamhack tournament? Should be good, and day9 and d.Apollo will be commentating (is this a word?).

And the current TvT game (Lucifron vs Top) is awesome.

Exciting barracks game

Damnit, managed to watch only the final game. At least it was pretty cool.

Ah, poor Sen. He had NesTea on the ropes both games but couldn't finish it off.

Ouch, TLO just got eliminated in the qualifying rounds of DreamHack. I wonder if he's going to stick with Zerg. He hasn't had much success with it so far.

The stream from Dreamhack is offline until 2 pm EST. LiquidTLO just got knocked out of the tournament by LaLush.

Awesome series so far at DreamHack with HuK vs. Socke. Tied 1-1. I actually love this TotalBiscuit guy.

Also, funniest casting moment ever with Day9 kicking his computer and stopping the game.

Koz wrote:

Ouch, TLO just got eliminated in the qualifying rounds of DreamHack. I wonder if he's going to stick with Zerg. He hasn't had much success with it so far.

Even though I agree, it was BO1 in group play and ZvZ is kinda random

Gunner wrote:

Awesome series so far at DreamHack with HuK vs. Socke. Tied 1-1. I actually love this TotalBiscuit guy.

Also, funniest casting moment ever with Day9 kicking his computer and stopping the game. :)

Heheh, I saw that He was so embarrassed.

Man, Mana is the shizniz. DT on hatch, VR on hatch, the dude is all about the mind games and big payoffs. That was amazing.

Huk loses to Socke, Mana beats Morrow. Stream starts again tomorrow at 10 am (which I think local time in Sweden?)

Yeah, Day9 was pretty embarrassed to have kicked his computer hard enough to make it freeze, for the second time during the tournament