[negativedge]

luckily each player intro is like half an hour long

[CubaLibre]

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Let's Play, starring me.

[negativedge]

this sound just could not be worse

[negativedge]

well at least the first game was a riveting two rax bunker ZvT

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[negativedge]

shaky cam, incontrol's mic not working, no game sound, health bars turned off, reverb, crowd too loud. I'd rather just be watching random player streaming

[Talbain]

Turn on WORLD ORDER.
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[negativedge]

at least gretorp and incontrol are on their commentating game

[negativedge]

ret obliterated, didn't even put up a fight

[Talbain]

Yeah, that was rather ugly. Don't think I've seen a TvZ end quite so quickly.
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[negativedge]

at least we have a hot girl doing interviews? can't, you know, hear anything, but she looks nice

[Talbain]

This entire setup is so on the cheap it's hilarious. Doesn't matter to me though, listening to Genki Sudo while watching.
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[negativedge]

crossfire really shouldn't be in the map pool, either

[Talbain]

I'm kind of the opinion that the maps which are stupidly close shouldn't be allowed, simply because they make the play so heavily focused on rushdown (which only makes it worse when so much of the game is rush-centric as it is).
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[negativedge]

oh sheth you are the best ^_^

[negativedge]

they probably should have used some of their money to hire people that have been in the same room as people that have thought about hosting a live event before

[negativedge]

[Talbain]

Yeah, they should talk to some of the Street Fighter guys, because at least the last two big tourneys I've seen (ReveLAtions and Shadowloo Showdown) have been exceptionally well-organized. I expect EVO to be similarly well-organized.
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[negativedge]

testament to the appeal of the game that there are still 40k people watching this shit

[negativedge]

I can't believe these montages are this fucking long good lord

[Talbain]

Wow this is round of 16? Christ when will this end with montages like this?
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[negativedge]

they have mercy killed the sound feed

[negativedge]

all the korean players have on their "should we tell these guys about the GSL?" faces on

[negativedge]

at least incontrol keeps trolling idra

[negativedge]

we have...a game?

[Talbain]

Toss are probably the worst at rushing, and it's damn near impossible to sneak a proxy pylon in against a decent player. So yeah, assuming Zerg rush doesn't succeed, we'll have a match.
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[negativedge]

why did sheth attack on that ramp :(

[negativedge]

I like how we have health bars on those blink stalkers so we can check out the micro owait

[diplo]

twitter thread

[Talbain]

[negativedge]

I warned you guys

[negativedge]

squirtle trolling sheth :(

[diplo]

delete all neggy posts after click speed party is over

[negativedge]

u raggin' on starcraft bro?

[negativedge]

great choice on the DT timing for squirttle

[negativedge]

baneling bomb a nexus to death looooooool sheth ^_^

[negativedge]

sheth neeeeeds a broodlord tech swap he might be fucked ouch :(

waited too long to attack so he was stuck on ling/baneling/muta against storm god that was soooo bad :(

[Talbain]

Sheth took a really unnecessary risk with that all-in push. Did he honestly think psychic storm wouldn't ruin an army like that?
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[negativedge]

sheth why did you throw this game away :(

[negativedge]

[Talbain]

[negativedge]

yeah, and he tried that earlier with the two pronged attack that baneling bombed the nexus, so that was somewhat possible. the problem is mutas suck against protoss. by themselves they would have been vaporized if they tried anything but more harass, which is really just a stalling move at a time where squirtle is the player that would want to be stalling. the gold was the focus because a straight up 200 vs 200 zerg vs. toss on crossfire is not going to work out for the zerg on that map. I think he really needed to break that gold, given the banked minerals he had to keep overrunning if it fell. tough loss either way.