The game is even more impressive when you realize the background... * This was the upper bracket final, Bo7 and Serral was already up 3-0. He ended up winning 4-0 even though by all accounts he could have just let this one go, still be 3-1 and get the one needed win later. * ShoWTimE was having a great run; in the qualifiers final he beat Reynor to qualify, then at the tourny itself he beat Elazer, maru (sending him to the lower bracket!), Neeb and Lambo through the upper bracket until hitting his head against the iron wall that was Serral in the upper finals. * Serral qualified by beating 3 guys 2-0 and then Kelazhur 3-0 in the finals. In the tournament he beat Solar (2-1), Clem (2-0), GuMiho (2-0) and Reynor (3-2) to reach the upper finals where he faced ShoWTimE. During the entire tournament he lost not one game in the qualifier, and he only lost a single game to Solar, a single game to maru and 2 to Reynor, still winning all the matches for a total of: 10-0 in matches, 26-4 in games (in reality 25-4, as that one point advantage in the Grand Finals was a bonus for the upper bracket winner, but still impressive). * Maru tore through the lower bracket and in the lower finals rematched ShoWTimE, already deflated after being 4-0'd by Serral and defeated him 4-2. That put him in the Grand Finals against Serral for all the marbles. And then Serral beat him 4-1 to take the tournament.🏆
Serral: Destroys gold base ten times ShowtimE: Leaves gold base open ten times accomplishing nothing, eventually totally abandoning all of his probes to be killed, spending his last minerals on Zealots to defend that never move. What a why to throw a game.
ok, I wasn't convinced the game was that amazing, it felt like a pretty standard long macro ZVP. But that end was incredible. I knew serral had won when he killed the oracle, more so than the tempest the oracle was what kept the army together by providing detection
It reminded me something like Scarlett vs Bomber. Great micro, great decision making. Showtime should never stick with Carriers on a low mineral map btw!
I play toss and ShoWTimE is a player I look up to, but this is not GotY. Past min 29 gametime Serral is in a chokehold, he's got no mining and no hope of breaking the gold. Tempests can pick at creep and spores all day long. Showtime should have just gotten another oracle, parked the mothership on the gold base and used his air force to pressure the bottom right base, not go sharking around the middle.
Hey PiG, just want to say that you are likely the best caster SC2's ever had. Frankly, I think casting SC2 and not a more popular game is holding back your channel, if you care about that.
ShoWTimE is like a Diego Sanchez of SC2: never was the champ, probably never will be, yet always is a fan favourite giving us those awesome wars and sometimes pushing the very best to their absolute limit!
This usually doesn't work and ends in a loss for the attacker. Even if it goes unscouted you're usually at a numbers disadvantage since you have to travel the map and the defender will be making more workers while you travel over there. This means you usually get there and have less workers than them to fight with. The closest thing we usually see from pros is pulling workers WITH an army to commit to an early all in, but even that rarely works from what I've seen.
I don't understand how pros make dodging storms/fighting through them look so easy when there's carriers, zealots and Archons fighting too. I'm only plat 1 but, once I see that my opponent has storm I immediately feel like I no longer have a chance to do any eco damage and, straight up fights either force me to back off and go back in several times and making seemingly even trades or even favorable ones but, when it's all said and done I always end up eventually getting overwhelmed by prism warp ins...I know from watching so many pro games that at that level storm doesn't seem like an issue but, I feel like in the lower leagues it's not necessarily imba but, I do think it could use a slight nerf...one thing I thought of as a decent idea is, instead of having storm cost only energy, maybe have it also cost a small amount of gas similar to an interceptor. They could also maybe just raise the energy cost just enough so there's maybe one less storm possible on a fully charged templar.... End rant. lol P.S. PiG, you're hands down the best SC2 caster the amount of knowledge you possess and share is honestly extremely impressive. Thanks for making such great content dawg.
If there's only a few Templar, you can drain their energy by moving in and out like you describe. If there's a lot of Templar, you need Ultralisks. Ultras can ignore the storms and the carriers, and just a-move at the Templars to chase them away, so the rest of your army can fight safely. You just have to know in advance whether he has like 3 Templar or like 10. And a single Templar can already only cast 2 storms, so you can't really reduce that any further without making the spell terrible. What if he has 10 Templar AND like 10 Immortals? That should be super uncommon, but if he does, that's 60 supply that can't attack air, and also isn't great vs lings. Muta-zergling handles that nicely.
I have never been so annoyed by a player than with Showtime. I get it. You are good. but that was some shitty end gaming. you dumped probes, then didn't defend the remaining.
and threw away his last oracle for no reason! plus when he dumped those probes he was at 159 supply and never even got close to remaxing again. such a terrible and frustrating move
Give the other races the ability to take over enemy units like in the campaign! Neural is a hack for zerg! Ive seen top Protoss players lose like this before when WE All know, they should have won! Eliminate neural and see more gifted players win who are not zerg! Is a hack for Zerg. Serral knows it! It adds more army to the zerg supply that they should not have! Every building also has broodlings that kill your army and broodlings dont cost zerg any supply! Unlimited!!! Give Protoss unlimited flyers, see who wins! The dam* carriers are already slow and expensive! Tons of hacks that favor Zerg army supply. Makes watching championships where Zerg should lose, unfair and boring. And yes... I'm Protoss, so I know and see the zerg hacks. Charge for broodlings, eliminate neural and broodlings in buildings based on the workes pkaced in the buildings by the player! Not auto broodlings that shred enemy units. Allow the other races to research a neural block, give everyone that ability or eliminate it! Unless you want to see all zerg player champions. Too many hacks in favor of zerg! We ALL know it! so do you! I am only interested in championships now the have Terran and Protoss in them! Are there any? You know... not many can overcome the zerg hacks.
This game is aweful. It's light years away from the Best Game of the Year. It's shame of the year. Personally, I hate this game because it's not Serral that good, it's ShoWTime that bad.
@@helenagustafsson3653 And here is another comment from Serral fan who's having hard time to realize a simple thing that my comment has nothing to do with Serral at all... Try a little bit harder. But I really think that Serral doesn't really need your sevrice in defending him in YT comments on every occasion.
@@sheeftz i mean... It s true.. best games some times are not fun cause they are too perfect and exhausting But this game had it all good and bad decision making, good and bad reads from the opponent intentions/state of the game I know why some would consider it the best game (maybe most fun) but i aldo understand why some would say it s miles away from a game where 2 players are at their peak
Watching showtimes decisionmaking once he had almost destroyed serrals economy was painful. For roughly 10 minutes he did nothing but take the gold base, move his army to the top of the map, do nothing there, let serral destroy his gold base, move army down, take gold base, move army to the top, do nothing, etc etc etc. Totally agree it was his game to lose.
This is truly, " Fight until the last man"
The game is even more impressive when you realize the background...
* This was the upper bracket final, Bo7 and Serral was already up 3-0. He ended up winning 4-0 even though by all accounts he could have just let this one go, still be 3-1 and get the one needed win later.
* ShoWTimE was having a great run; in the qualifiers final he beat Reynor to qualify, then at the tourny itself he beat Elazer, maru (sending him to the lower bracket!), Neeb and Lambo through the upper bracket until hitting his head against the iron wall that was Serral in the upper finals.
* Serral qualified by beating 3 guys 2-0 and then Kelazhur 3-0 in the finals. In the tournament he beat Solar (2-1), Clem (2-0), GuMiho (2-0) and Reynor (3-2) to reach the upper finals where he faced ShoWTimE. During the entire tournament he lost not one game in the qualifier, and he only lost a single game to Solar, a single game to maru and 2 to Reynor, still winning all the matches for a total of: 10-0 in matches, 26-4 in games (in reality 25-4, as that one point advantage in the Grand Finals was a bonus for the upper bracket winner, but still impressive).
* Maru tore through the lower bracket and in the lower finals rematched ShoWTimE, already deflated after being 4-0'd by Serral and defeated him 4-2. That put him in the Grand Finals against Serral for all the marbles. And then Serral beat him 4-1 to take the tournament.🏆
Game of the year? It gets my vote!
yeeeeeeeaaaaa definitely!!
Serral is out of this world, what an amazing mach 👍💯👏
I watched this live and its really worthy of the mention of GotY. I was Drooling for a PiG cast on this one!
Serral: Destroys gold base ten times
ShowtimE: Leaves gold base open ten times accomplishing nothing, eventually totally abandoning all of his probes to be killed, spending his last minerals on Zealots to defend that never move.
What a why to throw a game.
It was für Game of the year. The Finish, wow.
Holly shit. This was awesome. I gave you the thumbs up but sincerely that like was mostly for the players :)
ok, I wasn't convinced the game was that amazing, it felt like a pretty standard long macro ZVP. But that end was incredible. I knew serral had won when he killed the oracle, more so than the tempest the oracle was what kept the army together by providing detection
It reminded me something like Scarlett vs Bomber. Great micro, great decision making. Showtime should never stick with Carriers on a low mineral map btw!
Thanks for casting that insane game
That smile on serral at the end, he really enjoys SC2 and particularly that game
Awesome game! Thanks for the great cast too!
That has to be a heartbreaking loss for showtime
i love how excited pig gets in these casts! excellent game and excellent narration! way to go, as always fantastic casting pig!!
When Showtime remade the gold base nexus for the 37th time cuz he consistently failed to protect it, I already knew he was gonna lose.
this is why we love starcraft!
Goty for sure... Unbelievable what serral can do
15:51 what the hell happened to the zergling?
what a game! pd, love the new hud with the loses info
Carriers vs Broodlords. Cool Air battle!
the interaction by the end lmao
WOW this game blew my mind!
I imagine Serral going "heh, too easy" after this
"ez"
That was really amazing!
The real winner here was us. 👍 Straight to the poolroom.
There's only one way this war end.
Last man standing.
Damn that last game was intense. Happy serral won 🙏
I play toss and ShoWTimE is a player I look up to, but this is not GotY.
Past min 29 gametime Serral is in a chokehold, he's got no mining and no hope of breaking the gold. Tempests can pick at creep and spores all day long. Showtime should have just gotten another oracle, parked the mothership on the gold base and used his air force to pressure the bottom right base, not go sharking around the middle.
I think there is no doubt.
GAME OF THE YEAR.
I thought "game of the year" was clickbait, but damn this was good!
Hey PiG, just want to say that you are likely the best caster SC2's ever had. Frankly, I think casting SC2 and not a more popular game is holding back your channel, if you care about that.
That was the craziest no quit by serral. how tf did he know.
I know that Serral wins this series 4-0. I'm honestly questioning the whole game like, "how does he turn this around, there must be a mistake...?"
too many no cost hacks for zerg! read my post.
Definitly NOT a click bate.
This was indeed game of the year! Seriously, any other player, the game would have been very different!
I don't think I've seen a game like that since WoL
ShoWTimE is like a Diego Sanchez of SC2: never was the champ, probably never will be, yet always is a fan favourite giving us those awesome wars and sometimes pushing the very best to their absolute limit!
Does he have a fraudster boyfriend that’s blackmailing him and taking all his money?
serral is such a monster!!
This is truly some legend shit.
actually nuts..
One of the worst feelings, having a fleet of carriers with no interceptors vs 3 Queens.
What happens if it’s a small map and the drones attack the opponent right away? Who would win
This usually doesn't work and ends in a loss for the attacker. Even if it goes unscouted you're usually at a numbers disadvantage since you have to travel the map and the defender will be making more workers while you travel over there. This means you usually get there and have less workers than them to fight with. The closest thing we usually see from pros is pulling workers WITH an army to commit to an early all in, but even that rarely works from what I've seen.
If that game didn't reinvigorate Serral's interest in this game, then nothing will.
Lowko just casted this! BRUH
Showtime not defending that gold base and having to rebuild nexus so many times *smh*
wow. great game. just went on and on and on and on until it didn't...
That was insane
What did I just watch. Did that really happen
It's obvious that Serral is human but, I swear, sometimes he really seems like he's not.
holy shit! what a game
Just WOW!!
😂😂😂 every time i see 'oh im told this is an amazing game' the protoss ALWAYS loses. Lets see if its the same again
protoss ALWAYS loses, period
@@laureloneiros1500 i mean. Fair point
Guess i gonna watch this again even after Lowko :)
Best game so far.
This was Protoss’ game to lose.
O.M.G. Holy cow
what a game
Showtime deserved the win in this game. Serral has it all. Probably three timer to be. Great game.
serral = goat sc2 player of all time.
what a gameeeeeeeeeee
What a game broo
Game of the year? To me it looks the very same story of every year
when z has to work this hard to win, the continual nerfs seems harsh :P
Holy shit
GG! SERRAL!
omggggg
and the zerg wins again
GREAT GAME
free units are OP
great game!!!
hype
wow
SO FUCKING SICKKKK 9000 IQ
Damn
I don't understand how pros make dodging storms/fighting through them look so easy when there's carriers, zealots and Archons fighting too. I'm only plat 1 but, once I see that my opponent has storm I immediately feel like I no longer have a chance to do any eco damage and, straight up fights either force me to back off and go back in several times and making seemingly even trades or even favorable ones but, when it's all said and done I always end up eventually getting overwhelmed by prism warp ins...I know from watching so many pro games that at that level storm doesn't seem like an issue but, I feel like in the lower leagues it's not necessarily imba but, I do think it could use a slight nerf...one thing I thought of as a decent idea is, instead of having storm cost only energy, maybe have it also cost a small amount of gas similar to an interceptor. They could also maybe just raise the energy cost just enough so there's maybe one less storm possible on a fully charged templar....
End rant. lol
P.S. PiG, you're hands down the best SC2 caster the amount of knowledge you possess and share is honestly extremely impressive. Thanks for making such great content dawg.
secret always have vision, HT is a slow unit you have time to see it incomming.
If there's only a few Templar, you can drain their energy by moving in and out like you describe. If there's a lot of Templar, you need Ultralisks. Ultras can ignore the storms and the carriers, and just a-move at the Templars to chase them away, so the rest of your army can fight safely. You just have to know in advance whether he has like 3 Templar or like 10. And a single Templar can already only cast 2 storms, so you can't really reduce that any further without making the spell terrible.
What if he has 10 Templar AND like 10 Immortals? That should be super uncommon, but if he does, that's 60 supply that can't attack air, and also isn't great vs lings. Muta-zergling handles that nicely.
Woo! Poop on the whistle!
Til end yeah Showtime 😄
huge
Loved it
He is just the best
This is why I hate carriers. Is there another unit that costs so much and can become absolutely useless? they atleast need a laser or something.
I have never been so annoyed by a player than with Showtime. I get it. You are good. but that was some shitty end gaming. you dumped probes, then didn't defend the remaining.
and threw away his last oracle for no reason! plus when he dumped those probes he was at 159 supply and never even got close to remaxing again. such a terrible and frustrating move
never give up hope XD
why spent the last minerals on zealots? whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
What a scrap!
what the fuck
I hate it when maxed out zergs are leaning back and let the opponent get half of the map. You are supposed to swarm!
太強了
Second hype
112'th comment :)
I can see why the horde of plat plebs that follow Pig wanted him to cover this game...
Give the other races the ability to take over enemy units like in the campaign! Neural is a hack for zerg! Ive seen top Protoss players lose like this before when WE All know, they should have won! Eliminate neural and see more gifted players win who are not zerg! Is a hack for Zerg. Serral knows it! It adds more army to the zerg supply that they should not have! Every building also has broodlings that kill your army and broodlings dont cost zerg any supply! Unlimited!!! Give Protoss unlimited flyers, see who wins! The dam* carriers are already slow and expensive! Tons of hacks that favor Zerg army supply. Makes watching championships where Zerg should lose, unfair and boring. And yes... I'm Protoss, so I know and see the zerg hacks. Charge for broodlings, eliminate neural and broodlings in buildings based on the workes pkaced in the buildings by the player! Not auto broodlings that shred enemy units. Allow the other races to research a neural block, give everyone that ability or eliminate it! Unless you want to see all zerg player champions. Too many hacks in favor of zerg! We ALL know it! so do you! I am only interested in championships now the have Terran and Protoss in them! Are there any? You know... not many can overcome the zerg hacks.
This game is aweful. It's light years away from the Best Game of the Year. It's shame of the year. Personally, I hate this game because it's not Serral that good, it's ShoWTime that bad.
lol and here's the protoss salt ladies and gents
ANd here is the protos commenter that only dose cheese or Skytoss.... Serral is consider best player in sc2 by most. Myself included.
@@helenagustafsson3653 And here is another comment from Serral fan who's having hard time to realize a simple thing that my comment has nothing to do with Serral at all... Try a little bit harder. But I really think that Serral doesn't really need your sevrice in defending him in YT comments on every occasion.
@@sheeftz i mean... It s true.. best games some times are not fun cause they are too perfect and exhausting
But this game had it all good and bad decision making, good and bad reads from the opponent intentions/state of the game
I know why some would consider it the best game (maybe most fun) but i aldo understand why some would say it s miles away from a game where 2 players are at their peak
Watching showtimes decisionmaking once he had almost destroyed serrals economy was painful. For roughly 10 minutes he did nothing but take the gold base, move his army to the top of the map, do nothing there, let serral destroy his gold base, move army down, take gold base, move army to the top, do nothing, etc etc etc. Totally agree it was his game to lose.