TBH the BCs were a great idea, some better positioning and maybe some EMPs for a vortex would have won him the game.
As for the true genius - SQUIRTLE!
Why? i thought that going archon vortex was stupid idea. but infact it's so genius because BCs accelerate so slowly! If it wasn't for his amazing flank and that vortex MVP would have won.
Great game and it sure made everyone at barcraft go nuts.
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Formerly known as neozxa
Instead of complaining about balance, try, try again.
Earlygame ZvZ is basically a knifefight with suicide bombers.
With MVP 3-1 up I felt he just wanted to put on a show and starting making BCs for funsies, if not it would have become a very quick finals. It looked like he could just A-Move after he killed all the collosi or do that multi prong he has been doing so well (vikings go to main and kill probes while his army attacks front) but he dragged it out. I thought he was massively ahead the whole game from that point onwards.
The crowd was laughing at squirtle when he trapped half his army on the island and then started ferrying it back slowly with one shuttle. So like everyone felt Squirtle would not win the final battle and that archon toilet was just freaking amazing to see and the whole room exploded with cheers, the loudest i ever heard. it was amazing to be sitting there in that atmosphere, like in a football stadium and your favourite team scores the winning goal in extra time and the crowd goes wild!!!!!! man city anyone? haha anyway im a huge squirtle fanboy now, after his amazing holds in game 5 and 6. I felt he deserved to win after that but oh well, such small mistakes he made in the last game turned out to be the deciding factor for a lot of money.
Actually I feel like Battlecruisers was the correct late game transition because without them he'd have to have an army compositor that would get raped by storms all over the map. I saw Squirtle with a 10k bank and I knew he had something in mind, I actually thought he would be going carriers but that archon toilet + vrs was the most ******* amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
I thought that DRG vs MMA game 7 of blizzard cup finals would be the most intense back and forth game ever but .... holy shit. DAT VORTEX
I sat upright squealing and laughing when that vortex popped! I thought only 2 archons got in but like 8 popped out and storm blanketed everything, feedbacks kicked in to boot and I was soo excited could not believe he managed to kill such a well upgraded army, especially with mvps impressive army supply lead. So hawt
watching it again that mothership flank where MVP would least expect it was AMAZING!!!!!! I also love how squirtle in the next game held his zealots on hold position when them marine scout came and wrapped in a stalker so as not to give away they had charge
If you missed out on the games and or don't have a superscription search in soku.com there all in there in Chinese. Only was I was able to watch it when I'm traveling.
As for the game, felt sorry for Squirtle in the first few games because I think his nerves got the better of him and I hated the last game. The rest of it was the most epic finals series I've seen come out of this game , dat vortex..... I'll be drinking to that again this weekend.
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