Good writeup Dox, there is certainly room for improvement future NRG events, but yesterday's event was not bad at all.
Iaguz: I usually switch up between 2Gate Robo/expo or 3 Gate pressure depending on spawning positions, and pull out occasional 4gate or Stargate expo/play. On our second game I 2gate Robo'd because I thought you were close air.... turned out my probe just didn't see the CC in the close spawns T_T. On our 4th game you totally crushed me when I saw 6 marauders move out into the middle of the map, catching my sentries completely off guard, at that moment I knew you were catching on to my build. Our 5th game I decided to go 2 gate expo into double forge, hopefully switching it up a bit. I understand we both made mistakes and stuff as we were so tired, but nontheless it was a great pleasure playing you sir.
Few observations/notes I want to add:
- YYJ was very mannered and nice yesterday, he came around greeting everyone, and the leaving on game 3 was just extremely mannered even though he could have floated and forced a draw.
- It is unfortunate we didn't see Tgun advance very far (even though he is one of the best players there yesterday), he will need to fix his ZvZ to really destroy all his competition.
- Sorry for team-killing you nGenBenji and nGenStarHunter (who invested a lot in airfare to fly over to play/socialize)
- Once again, TAScarecrow and TARossi ended up with very nice standings, having improved tremendously from the first time I watched them play!
- Everyone there was nice and friendly, and I thank everyone for supporting me (TA/nGen/Azz/CjC/Staff/Everyone else) when I went on my run of adrenaline through the lower bracket (Was averaging close to 300apm on every game), totally forgetting about what being "tired" was. I was so exhausted after Yoon's games but I think my adrenaline kept me going through Iaguz's games. My adrenaline died as soon as I knew I was going up against Ace.
- Ace is just incredible and plays on a complete different level, watching him make 100% crisp moves during warm-up and games really made you understand the difference between casual gamers and a professional who TRAINS 15 hours a day, it was like witnessing perfect micro, perfect macro, perfect decision making. Now I am certain that I do not want to improve no more in SC2, there is no way I can possibly be on that level to compete without SC2 being my job (which isn't an option financially or family opinion).
- With that said, I have high hopes for SEA SC2 level as we were able to take 3 games off him yesterday! 3 games off the freaking IEM champion!
- Had a lot and a lot of fun!
Last edited by nGenLight; Sun, 3rd-Apr-2011 at 2:17 PM.
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