SC2 E-Sports Thread

[Not Kuno]

Links to good FruitDealer matches? Most of the random ones I pull up on youtube are his loses. D:

[Rehn]

http://www.sc2rep.com/replays/index?search=fruitseller

pick any of the downloadable replays listing him as zerg.

Recommend the match of him vs. oGsTheStC on metalopolis. Learned of a new zerg trick after I watched that.

[Syntex]

Ok are Fruitseller and Fruitdealer the same person or just 2 people with similar names?

[Bweigelt]

Same guy, he changes his name all the time.

[Syntex]

I watched both games on metal vs stc and didn't see anything new regarding zerg strat but that might be because the baneling drop or clever nydus usage I seen the other day watching him play games vs torture.

[Kaylia]

Why people say "clever nydus usage" anyway? I mean, is there any other usage than backstab someone in the back and going to island?

[Correction]

It was clever in that he kept a Terran with starports and scans available from scouting it and the timing of the eruption was perfect.

[GRT]

not enough people use it as a speedy retreat imo

[Rehn]

Was talking about the overlords being converted to a bomber via using banelings lol. First time I ever saw that and seeing the marine army run away the moment he saw those overlords made me laugh a little. It was something good to note down since I play zerg.

[Falaras]

I find it funny that I was suggesting all this as a way to break seige-ing terrans a month ago and everyone said I was an idiot.

[geno]

The fruitdealer vs rainbow series was definitely exciting to watch, but in all honesty rainbow did not play very well at all. I don't know if it was the pressure, poor planning, or just bad TvZ, he just did not approach the games well at all. Cool's roach defense of his high yield on Kulas was clever and fairly innovative, but most of everything else he got away with (ESPECIALLY the nydus) was really poorly reacted to. Rainbow let that nydus get up right in his vision despite not actually doing any attacks (it came after he already more or less failed his tank drop). He pursued those gimicky ultrafast but weak and unreinforced tank drops multiple times and let cool expand far too much. I think a better terran could have made the games look a lot closer. Don't get me wrong, Fruitdealer is still an amazing player and probably would have beaten most anyone anyways, but based on what we saw out of rainbow in those games, there are certainly much better TvZ players out there.

[Syntex]

Fruitdealer Vs TLO

I would kill for a series of games between those 2.

[Ramor]

Fruitdealer Vs TLO

I would kill for a series of games between those 2.

i would like it a lot more if TLO was still a random only player, his terran is pretty boss but his random game was the most awesome.

[Sylvrdragon]

Is anyone else watching the IEM right now? Day9 and TheGunrun are casting (well, Day9 is casting, TheGunrun is just kinda there). Awesome games so far.

[geno]

I wish Gunrun would just shut up a bit. He's talking over day9 way too much which doesn't really work when he has nothing important to say.

[Maguspk]

I thought it was on Sunday?? My stream isn't working just says 'We will be right back', is it over for today or what.

[Sylvrdragon]

Sunday is day2

OMFG at KiwiKaki vs Fenix game 3 (and Fenix in general). This guy is a complete monster. The guy will not hesitate to just swamp you on 3-4 fronts simultaneously and let you split your army, then regroups his forces and just fucks you up the ass.

[Maguspk]

uh so where can I watch the games that took place today? Pretty sure there are games tomorrow too (18 hours from now)

[Sylvrdragon]

VODs might not be up for a while... try the IEM site. No more IEM till the 10th (Sunday).

According to the TL schedule, the GSL2 Qualifiers start in about 45 minutes, but I can't tell if that's gonna be streamed or live or anything like that...

[Sylvrdragon]

I found the replays.

http://www.esl-world.net/masters/sea...c2_groupstage/

Go here, look for the Set you wanna see and click the "vs" between the names. There will be a small section labeled "Media" toward the middle of the screen with the replays listed beneath. Unfortunately (IMO) these are just replays and not the actual commentary, but at least you'll get to see the games.