Sorry for the inconvenience of the final game getting cut off at the end and being split into two parts. Version that was pieced together was not processing correctly, preferred to release the VODs asap rather than wait further for the edited version.
Ralph Zimmermann Nothing..much can be done about that. Blizzard doesn't seperate it's announcers, nor does it privately rent out the arena for just it's event.
This series was so epic! especially game 5! so much back and forth i had no idea who was going to win until the very end and this is what exports is all about!
This is why I like TvZ matches: the game can swing wildly in an instant with good widow mine shots and then swing back the other way with good baneling hits.
To put it short; zerg makes low cost efficient armies made from larva, if you kill drones it delays the zerg by alot. It doesn't matter that they rebuild them all within minutes or possibly seconds, that's not the point, the point is to delay the zerg's army and tech while building up your own.
life such Starting in 2015, all WCS players must be legal residents of the region they choose to play in. Maru and Life probably are not residents of Europe, US / Canada, China, Latin America, Oceanic / South East Asia and Taiwan / HK / Macau and thus they don't have the right to play for WCS Season 1
manuk51a why is that even a thing? that seems so stupid, I guess I won't be watching WCS very often anymore as pretty much everyone here except forGG and Polt would of never even came close to making it to WCS as they are all pretty bad players compared to those of a higher standard
Cray watch GSL or SSL for the other (purely) korean matches. probably they changed WCS rules so that non Koreans can finally make it to Blizzcon. Snute was 17th in 2014.
I'm no SC2 expert, but why does the zerg player keep on doing clashes when he knows (or not?) that there are widow mines there? Surely that would tip the advantage to the terran players' favor given the forces he has during that time...
with over 20ish banelings it's extremely hard(or the odds of misclick) is too high, so polt didn't bring every marine into the chessboard. he lift 15 or so marines just behinf the front line and after all banelings detonated and most of his bio got wrecked, marines push up and fuck mutas up
Widow mines won Polt game 5. They are insanely OP. Units that require no micro should not be able to completely change the momentum of a game. I'm not saying Polt didn't play well, but Hydra deserved to win.
Will Scharnagl can ppl for the love of god stop complaining about widow mines. do you watch closely? 50% of the time they don;t hit where they are suppose to do and deal splash dmg. Only on occasion do widow mines get that big hit. Pros get this play and bait well with single lings or do good minesweeping with mutas. If widow mines were as op as you say, zerg would never take a game off terran
Eric Lee Why did Swarmhosts get nerfed then. If They were as OP as people said they were Protoss would never beat Zerg but Protoss won almost every tournament
Will Scharnagl That is a separate issue. Mines really haven't been touched for a couple years and the wins between zerg and terran is about the same. If widow mines were insanely op as you purport, zerg could never win. But life did fine, and even in this game Hydra was doing well. He didn't lose because of widow mines. He lost for many other reasons considering he lost 3 in a row.
***** What're you talking about lol. Did you even bother watching this series? If you did you'd see that Zerg needs considerable micro to not die to things like Thors and Widowmines, as well as be cost effective vs Marines, Hellbats, and Marauders. Saying "Zerg Amove" is as retarded as saying "Toss amove." Realize this, whereas Terran must split vs banelings, build more production facilities, and have generally the slowest individual worker build speed (Yes, it takes 17 seconds, just like every other race, but Zerg can get multiple at once, Toss can Chrono.) While Terran must make a good composition, Zerg must: Zerg must play a balancing act of not having units that are as cost effective 1-1, managing larvae and constantly going back to inject, keeping mutalisks and banelings alive mutalisks being insanely fucking flimsy, although having great damage) Widowmines, to me, are a bullshit unit. They should've just buffed siegetanks rather then making an entirely new unit that can utterly fuck players over if they don't see them. Why do I think widowmines are bullshit? Because if you don't see them, they can literally and utterly fuck you over. They automatically fire and are -insanely- cheap for the amount of damage they can get done.
Eric Lee Widowmines have insane damage capability for their cost, they can be tough to see just as burrowed banelings can be tough to see, and 6 of them can wipe out upwards of 40 muta if they're all clumped like they usually are. They're 600/125 can wipe out 4000/4000, and all because you didn't happen to see where he burrowed his widowmines, or you missed the little hole. Besides that, look at what widowmines did for Terran and what the meta would have been if they weren't there. Widowmines provide a fallback position for Terran in which the Zerg enters and dies. If widowmines didn't exist this void would have to be filled by a unit like the Siege Tank, which costs extra gas and would help to keep the upgrades closer. So many of these games end because the Zerg gets stuck on 2/2 and cant be cost effective vs 3/3. While yes, it can be said that burrowed banelings do the same thing, burrowed banelings don't do 120 damage nomatter what. Burrowed banelings do 35 damage and are basically useless vs units like the Marauder, and you don't even have the possibility to use your baneling again. Basically. Fuck widowmines, fuck swarmhosts. Neither unit ever should've been invented. I say this as a Zerg myself.
So wait a second. Hydra wasn't good enough to win in the Korean scene so he comes to the premier league where the competition isn't as strong. And the casters are talking about how awesome he is for doing this? Really?
GnaReffotsirk Zerg has a great advantage on creep, therefore they push with creep. Mutas are good for harass. In order to prevent that from happening and to contain creep, Terran has to keep attacking, thus putting zerg on a defense position.
sorokonojkaboris Spoiler! Always format spoilers like this where you force the reader to click read more so that they dont accidentally read your spoiler.
They require good micro and some skill to be played efficiently since they have little hp. In good hands they are easily op, but in bad hands they are just easy pickings.
You know why Polt won ? Because he was way more hungry and not read not give up. Look at game 6 for example, do you think Polt would have given up here ?
You gotta be kidding, the comments are there top discuss the game, a spoiler alert is automatically implied !!! I mean, what else would we talk about here ???
mia wick Well notice many sc2 videos doesn't have that many spoilers ... You can talk about anything in the match or whatever but simply writing who won as the first thing is kinda a dick move :)
mia wick It is a spoiler. People are aware that people pull dick moves in the comment section - Still, you could show some discretion, I've seen many people hide it so it's not the 1st thing in their comment, aka the dick move
i would of kept going. i refuse to Surrender to a damn Zerg. ive mine dropped. marine rushed, Banshee rushed and.. da da da.. Nuked them on several Occasions.
This video was done extremely poorly, switching to their faces right in the middle of battle, excessive time spent on their fingers hearing click click click for a 2-3 minutes on end. Who was in charge of putting this together? they should be fired. Excellent games by the two players though, but very poor execution by the production team.
Troy Fowler Problem The terran didnt give the extra time to mass them correctly, he jump 2 fast into that when he lost all other support army as shield until all was ready (the combo ultra+infestor).
Sorry for the inconvenience of the final game getting cut off at the end and being split into two parts. Version that was pieced together was not processing correctly, preferred to release the VODs asap rather than wait further for the edited version.
ESL Do you still plan on uploading the edited version?
Jeremiah Donley It's up now :)
Ralph Zimmermann Nothing..much can be done about that. Blizzard doesn't seperate it's announcers, nor does it privately rent out the arena for just it's event.
+Ralph Zimmermann ABSOLUTELY RALPH THAT BACKGROUND NOSE IS VERY ANNOYING.
one of the best finals i've seen
This series was so epic! especially game 5! so much back and forth i had no idea who was going to win until the very end and this is what exports is all about!
this is way better than watching football!
Baby Spine My thoughts exactly! hahaha
lol
Baby Spine Or baseball and golf? lol
Baby Spine certainly
Can't believe it's already been 3 years
the battle of the hairstyles.
Enoch Ching hydra's hair looks more chill xD
This match is amazing. Very nice to watch and instructive. Many things to learn by watching these amazing players play ...
I love nathanias' in depth analysis and collarus is a good general commentator.
+George Scott Exactly, these 2 are really a perfect team together! =)
+George Scott Exactly, these 2 are really a perfect team together! =)
collarus ? you mean Kaelaris
Awesome play from both! Really enjoyed watching this
Loving the observers tricks in the introduction of the players.
Just beatiful play for Polt ! I like this guy play , he is a Starcraft genius .
This is why I like TvZ matches: the game can swing wildly in an instant with good widow mine shots and then swing back the other way with good baneling hits.
This is one of the best games I've ever seen in SC2, and it could have been won by Hydra. T.T
the way these pros tap the key boards dang, that is wicked!!
I just realized that this is a case of Captain America vs. Hydra. the Marvel Comics references are starting to flow now.
i like it how polt let Hydra get a grasp a hope and than just destroyses him gg Polt you deserved it like always :)
Love seeing great Zerg players. Not incredible clutch player like Stephano or others, but just consistently good.
Greatest comeback in the history of starcraft. I swear polt is impossible to beat.
Hydra incredible baneling hits on the SCV lines! Damn! The look on Polt's face when they first hit! "What?!!" haha loved that look
Hydra had his chance on the fifth game but wow, those Widow Mines saved Polt's life.
+Yukari MAiG i think so
Polt OP, please nerf
Zerg is so broken. Like he killed 34 workers and then 12 minutes in the game zerg has a big worker advantage. filthy
Connor aqi but xDDDD
To put it short; zerg makes low cost efficient armies made from larva, if you kill drones it delays the zerg by alot. It doesn't matter that they rebuild them all within minutes or possibly seconds, that's not the point, the point is to delay the zerg's army and tech while building up your own.
Terran is broken, they have the capability to raid all the time, their attacks cause so much mass damage, Marines are too overpowered
Out of this world!
Holy fucking shit dude 72 zerglings in production at once. Goddamn
loved Hydra's GamePlay He Played real nice it really ashamed me that he lost
wargodz1 troll i mean he won meant 2 post this on the hydra vs polt season 1 finals soz :(
super series wow
"Polt is playing with fire here"
Reapers do indeed have fire coming out of their backs.
I do not understand why Polt did not build marauders or hellbats in game 2. How can you tank banelings without such units?
Terran vs Zerg was so much more entertaining in HoTS then it is in LoTV
just now HD updated~
has anyone notice that bored af guy at 1:23:30?
LMAO
Ahmad Saqqa ahahah xD
I wish I could sleep as hard as he does.
why there is no battle between mvp and polt ?
Okay, I rarely play RTS games. But damn, I enjoyed watching this match. And fuckin' hell, these players have some seriously fast fingers.
Spoiler:
I think the thing that turned around the match was in the 5th game and that great widow mine hit
I can normally ignore it but those other casters screaming in the background is so fucking distracting
28:18: Nathanias laughs as the observers' mouse moves over the minimap penis created by Hydras 2 hatcheries and scouting overlord. LOL
+George Scott lol
explain plz,,why there is no maru and life???
life such go troll somewhere else. # LOOK AT THE BRACKETS internet noob
life such Starting in 2015, all WCS players must be legal residents of the region they choose to play in. Maru and Life probably are not residents of Europe, US / Canada, China, Latin America, Oceanic / South East Asia and Taiwan / HK / Macau and thus they don't have the right to play for WCS Season 1
manuk51a why is that even a thing? that seems so stupid, I guess I won't be watching WCS very often anymore as pretty much everyone here except forGG and Polt would of never even came close to making it to WCS as they are all pretty bad players compared to those of a higher standard
Cray watch GSL or SSL for the other (purely) korean matches. probably they changed WCS rules so that non Koreans can finally make it to Blizzcon. Snute was 17th in 2014.
24:04 THAT ONE HURT!
Nasty mines
there is no hd ?
skywallke and spoon
skywallke soon bitches!
THAT BACKGROUND NOSE IS VERY VERY VERY VERY ANNOYING. SO BAD :-(
+RONNY FEN its the french commentator..
+RONNY FEN its the french commentator..
I'm no SC2 expert, but why does the zerg player keep on doing clashes when he knows (or not?) that there are widow mines there? Surely that would tip the advantage to the terran players' favor given the forces he has during that time...
Is Rotterdam still casting?
yes
with over 20ish banelings it's extremely hard(or the odds of misclick) is too high, so polt didn't bring every marine into the chessboard. he lift 15 or so marines just behinf the front line and after all banelings detonated and most of his bio got wrecked, marines push up and fuck mutas up
Polt reminds me of Jet Lii, something about his eyes I think.
That game 6!!!
Widow mines won Polt game 5. They are insanely OP. Units that require no micro should not be able to completely change the momentum of a game. I'm not saying Polt didn't play well, but Hydra deserved to win.
Will Scharnagl can ppl for the love of god stop complaining about widow mines. do you watch closely? 50% of the time they don;t hit where they are suppose to do and deal splash dmg. Only on occasion do widow mines get that big hit. Pros get this play and bait well with single lings or do good minesweeping with mutas. If widow mines were as op as you say, zerg would never take a game off terran
Eric Lee
Why did Swarmhosts get nerfed then. If They were as OP as people said they were Protoss would never beat Zerg but Protoss won almost every tournament
Will Scharnagl That is a separate issue. Mines really haven't been touched for a couple years and the wins between zerg and terran is about the same. If widow mines were insanely op as you purport, zerg could never win. But life did fine, and even in this game Hydra was doing well. He didn't lose because of widow mines. He lost for many other reasons considering he lost 3 in a row.
***** What're you talking about lol. Did you even bother watching this series? If you did you'd see that Zerg needs considerable micro to not die to things like Thors and Widowmines, as well as be cost effective vs Marines, Hellbats, and Marauders. Saying "Zerg Amove" is as retarded as saying "Toss amove."
Realize this, whereas Terran must split vs banelings, build more production facilities, and have generally the slowest individual worker build speed (Yes, it takes 17 seconds, just like every other race, but Zerg can get multiple at once, Toss can Chrono.) While Terran must make a good composition, Zerg must:
Zerg must play a balancing act of not having units that are as cost effective 1-1, managing larvae and constantly going back to inject, keeping mutalisks and banelings alive mutalisks being insanely fucking flimsy, although having great damage)
Widowmines, to me, are a bullshit unit. They should've just buffed siegetanks rather then making an entirely new unit that can utterly fuck players over if they don't see them. Why do I think widowmines are bullshit? Because if you don't see them, they can literally and utterly fuck you over. They automatically fire and are -insanely- cheap for the amount of damage they can get done.
Eric Lee Widowmines have insane damage capability for their cost, they can be tough to see just as burrowed banelings can be tough to see, and 6 of them can wipe out upwards of 40 muta if they're all clumped like they usually are. They're 600/125 can wipe out 4000/4000, and all because you didn't happen to see where he burrowed his widowmines, or you missed the little hole. Besides that, look at what widowmines did for Terran and what the meta would have been if they weren't there. Widowmines provide a fallback position for Terran in which the Zerg enters and dies. If widowmines didn't exist this void would have to be filled by a unit like the Siege Tank, which costs extra gas and would help to keep the upgrades closer. So many of these games end because the Zerg gets stuck on 2/2 and cant be cost effective vs 3/3.
While yes, it can be said that burrowed banelings do the same thing, burrowed banelings don't do 120 damage nomatter what. Burrowed banelings do 35 damage and are basically useless vs units like the Marauder, and you don't even have the possibility to use your baneling again.
Basically. Fuck widowmines, fuck swarmhosts. Neither unit ever should've been invented. I say this as a Zerg myself.
So wait a second. Hydra wasn't good enough to win in the Korean scene so he comes to the premier league where the competition isn't as strong. And the casters are talking about how awesome he is for doing this? Really?
HAIL HYDRA!
Terrans have too much initiative. Zerg is always defending.
GnaReffotsirk lolwut
GnaReffotsirk Zerg has a great advantage on creep, therefore they push with creep. Mutas are good for harass. In order to prevent that from happening and to contain creep, Terran has to keep attacking, thus putting zerg on a defense position.
Spoiler!
I felt like Hydra got very frustrated after second loss . He had advantage every game but he kept engaging off creep .
sorokonojkaboris Spoiler!
Always format spoilers like this where you force the reader to click read more so that they dont accidentally read your spoiler.
Hydra was extremely arrogsant throughout the whole tournament, thinking he could beat anyone.
35:36 dat ling drop kick. xD
I don't understand how banelings/zerg are not overpowered.
They require good micro and some skill to be played efficiently since they have little hp. In good hands they are easily op, but in bad hands they are just easy pickings.
You know why Polt won ? Because he was way more hungry and not read not give up. Look at game 6 for example, do you think Polt would have given up here ?
+mia wick *SPOILER ALERT*
You gotta be kidding, the comments are there top discuss the game, a spoiler alert is automatically implied !!! I mean, what else would we talk about here ???
mia wick Well notice many sc2 videos doesn't have that many spoilers ... You can talk about anything in the match or whatever but simply writing who won as the first thing is kinda a dick move :)
Fosphor
No, it is not, since you have to be aware that there are a ton of spoilers in the comments.
mia wick It is a spoiler. People are aware that people pull dick moves in the comment section - Still, you could show some discretion, I've seen many people hide it so it's not the 1st thing in their comment, aka the dick move
Fungal growth!
Life lost vs Inno
i would of kept going. i refuse to Surrender to a damn Zerg. ive mine dropped. marine rushed, Banshee rushed and.. da da da.. Nuked them on several Occasions.
NExGenGaming pffft
all hail hydra, cut off one head and-..nvm
They shud nerf polt
P Kreygasm L T PogChamp
Let me guess, Terran wins
polt polt polt polt!
hail polt
Major tilt sour hydra
This video was done extremely poorly, switching to their faces right in the middle of battle, excessive time spent on their fingers hearing click click click for a 2-3 minutes on end. Who was in charge of putting this together? they should be fired. Excellent games by the two players though, but very poor execution by the production team.
MainstreetMyrnn exaggerating too much
What do you even do in your life beside staying at your mom's home
Background noise is very annoying...
Why don't the more knowledgable players commentate the games?
hansol busy practicing
Gamers like them doesn't have time to slack off
so many mouse clicks
widow mine crap over and over again and again and agai....
scamaz
how come i cant find a girl that likes watching this with me :( ?
Spam widow mines. Lel trash
Do you expect him to win with bad units?
P.S Hydra spammed banelings
***** exactly
Seeing the ultralisks in game 5 makes me sad. Lol. I mean. Ultra infestor is great but ultras alone are just awful.
Troy Fowler Problem The terran didnt give the extra time to mass them correctly, he jump 2 fast into that when he lost all other support army as shield until all was ready (the combo ultra+infestor).