[GSTL] 2012 Season 1 Grand Finals

On April 09 2012 01:25 iSunrise wrote:

On April 09 2012 00:56 Fubi wrote:

On April 09 2012 00:41 ppdealer wrote:

On April 08 2012 23:45 noddy wrote:

On April 08 2012 23:30 Serinox wrote:

On April 08 2012 23:18 Gandhi wrote:
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Here's something to think about: If the game had DC'd when Bomber was calling down a manner mule in the game vs. MKP, would you have given the win to Bomber?

No, because they were very even and Bombers drop failed.

They weren't even. Bomber had double the SCVs, a third base.

MarineKing had one mining base and barely had an army. He lost the game at that point.

That's completely wrong, did you even watch the game? MKP had over twice the amount Siege Tanks Bomber had, and a much higher army supply overall. How do you think he won the base trade? Not because of his superior micro that's for sure. In his game against Parting, he had no army left, his main and natural 5 seconds away from Parting's 50 supply army full of chargelots, Blink Stalkers, and HTs, and more warping in directly in his base from a Warp Prism.

You can easily defend a base with 2 seige tanks (1 more popping out) against 5. It was a 80% win if bomber simply sat in his base until he maxes out before MKP, and attack. MKP had half the # of workers, and 1 mining base vs 2.

Bomber messed up, because players make mistakes, and because they don't know what we know.

And this is the exact reason why the regame is justified. Parting does NOT know what MKP has, what his production are, when his next wave of units are going to pop out, etc. So yes, from OUR point of view, if he can definitely win if he does this, and that. But that's theorycrafting; we can't assume that Parting really would of done this and that. Parting might of tries to play it safe (safe from his point of view) and pull back, get his economy back up more, and attack when he has a much bigger army; but at that point MKP would of recovered part of his army and might be able to win with his micro. The point is, we won't know for a fact what players will do FROM THEIR point of view.

A regame is never justified. It´s a needed instrument to solve problems that arrive when there is no other solution for, technology wise, people wise or something else. People are only arguing over this, because technology failed. PartinG mentally had the upper hand in this, he destroyed everything MKP could throw at him. Several times.

Technology is why we have eSports, and we all love Esports. But technology shouldn´t stand still, it should help the players avoid such situations, but Blizzard does stand in the way. Everyone that works in marketing talks about "innovation". The truth though is that companies want money, and real innovation often requires to make some tough calls and it can also be very expensive. So exactly where are the tough calls?

GOM did the right thing, they are a very professional organization. But that doesn´t mean that a regame is ever "justified". Don´t make it sound like you don´t know that. You are way more intelligent than that, I can see that in your good posts.

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