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Excellent play by both players, amazing finals!
On March 25 2015 13:03 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: With everything on the line, Life went back to his roots for the most important game of the year. He went blind 9 pool on a huge 4 player map Soooo, Life officially has Mvp's balls now?
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On March 25 2015 23:54 Mutt0nDante wrote:Excellent play by both players, amazing finals! Show nested quote +On March 25 2015 13:03 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: With everything on the line, Life went back to his roots for the most important game of the year. He went blind 9 pool on a huge 4 player map Soooo, Life officially has Mvp's balls now?
Yep. Not his brain, but definitely his balls
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Life doesn't lose 3 times in a row. Simply the best Starcraft player right now and it's not even a debate IMO
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Rebroadcast now live!! Nice
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And what an excellent series it was, too.
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Really was a great series to watch, so glad that it just went to 4:3 with so many crazy games, because I would have been fine with either of them winning! Great job to Life though!
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On March 25 2015 14:21 Deathstar wrote:Show nested quote +On March 25 2015 14:01 Random_0 wrote: One aspect of Game 7 that should be noted is that Parting didn't go nexus first in any of the first 6 games. He'd played defensively because of Life's reputation for aggression. And Life didn't go early pool in any other game, putting himself ahead economically.
Then, in Game 7, Parting thought he'd get an economic lead in response to Life using nexus first on a huge, 4 player map... and Life guessed correctly by cheesing him.
Just amazing mind games by Life. What mind games? Life just went YOLO and cheesed parting. He even says so in his interview Mind games are all about instinct.
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It's kind of sad that there's plenty of people in this thread dissing this series. Both Parting and Life displayed some of the best micro I've ever seen, and when they made mistakes (other than Sejong) it was because they were pushing each other in so many different ways that their attention because the principle resource.
Seriously this finals was, along with MVP vs Squirtles, prolly the best GSL I've ever seen. I can't understand how someone in a starcraft forum could hate the series, it was simply phenomenal.
Anyways, sorry for the rant I just had to get this off my chest
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This is one of those series that sc vets enjoy. Not the most "epic 50 minute games that are explosions everywhere," but a series of quick and calculated mind games that are more played out in their brains than on the screen. It's a beautiful thing to watch a series like this.
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Fantastic series. A series all Starcraft veterans can love.
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On March 26 2015 01:00 sc2_FeaR wrote: Life doesn't lose 3 times in a row. Simply the best Starcraft player right now and it's not even a debate IMO Eh things are always debatable. I believe Life is the best right now but I think a claim could be made for someone like Maru or Inno or perhaps (vomits in mouth slightly) Zest
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This was an excellent series. When a bo7 series goes into game 7, especially for the finals, you know something awesome is going to happen. And in this case, it was Life mind-gaming Parting by going for an early pool which he did not do throughout the whole series.
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V impressed w both players, especially partings macro and life's decision making (beating the cheese in games 1 and 2, and choosing the 9 pool g7)
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Would have been a great series to watch.
But no way in hell am I going to pay for subscription.
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On March 26 2015 11:55 QuantumTeleportation wrote: Would have been a great series to watch.
But no way in hell am I going to pay for subscription.
http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/GSL
The rebroadcast is streaming in source right now for free. So you can watch the excellent series
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On March 26 2015 11:55 QuantumTeleportation wrote: Would have been a great series to watch.
But no way in hell am I going to pay for subscription.
The VODs (not just the first set) will eventually go up on GOM's youtube (https://www.youtube.com/user/exp). The first set thing only happens while the season is still underway, afterwards all the VODs go up!
Brilliant, brilliant series! Sad for Big Boy, but I'm sure he can reach another Code S finals.
Bring on Season 2 please! :D
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This final was pretty brutal. Life basically just played brilliantly and then just got a crazy read on parting in game 7.
That's life for you.
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What's next for Life?? Retirement, presumably
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Parting got exactly what he deserved for the cheeses in the first two games -- the regret that had he not done that maybe he would have won. Life's cheese in the last game was just payback. Furthermore so many terrans tried to cheese him with proxy rax in the earlier rounds and just got owned. They all got exactly what they deserved for cheesing - elimination. Life almost always took the high road in the earlier series by trying to play macro games (but this is also out of necessity - Blizzard has set the game up so that zerg basically can't win games early on against T or P. What's truly unfortunate (and this has never changed) is that proxy rax cheese has always been viable, and often works even when it's scouted. Zerg can't cheese at all in the early game unless the opponent just doesn't scout at all and also plays too greedy. Why Blizzard chose to further imbalance the early game ZvT in favour of T in HOTS with reaper heal, hellbats, hellbats not even needing an upgrade at armory and fast medivacs and widowmines while zerg has nothing new to answer it besides being able to build spores without an evo is mindboggling.
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