IEM Finals IdrA vs MorroW [spoiler review]

Well in a classic TvZ match, IdrA came in, probably favored to win with his new anti-terran style.

Game 1: Morrow comes out with a largely Reaper Micro strat, keeping IdrA on the early defense, IdrA defense is exposed to have a few holes, and is exposed by the reaper harass. Game goes down to MorroW.

Game 2: Morrow again comes out with reaper harass, only this time IdrA defends it very well, maintaining his army and counter pushing with banelings/roaches/speedlings. Morrow's wall is busted and has to succumb to IdrA's will. IdrA takes game 2.

Game 3: Morrow again coming out with early reaper harass, the defense of IdrA again holds, then it becomes a macro game, which is playing into IdrA's strength, BUT Morrow somehow comes up with the perfect composition of harassing medivac drops and a ground army that would not be denied and takes game 3 by force.

Game 4: Series now at 2-1 favoring Morrow, IdrA needing to pull this off in a big way to send it to the final game. Morrow shows an early rax+tech and 2 gas, favoring Reaper again, only this time hiding an early factory in the back of his base, adding on a reactor, and pumping out early marauders, IdrA sees 1 Hellion, but still decides to go into Banelings, much to his dismay, he is outplayed, and Morrow.....Wins the IEM finals.....

What a tournament, what a series. Kudos to all the great players, new and old.

did idra rage at the end?

No, in fact he seemed pretty calm. The announcer did make it well known there would be no "imbalance" argument though lol.

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Originally Posted by Briggs

No, in fact he seemed pretty calm. The announcer did make it well known there would be no "imbalance" argument though lol.

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Actually, he was pretty pissed :p. At least, that was the impression I had when he gave such a clipped reply to the interviewer's question of whether or not Zerg players will develop a new style to counter the current Terran style :p.

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Originally Posted by Briggs

The announcer did make it well known there would be no "imbalance" argument though lol.

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Then that effectively denies IdrA of any comments :D

To be fair Idra’s defence in the second game was solid- that reaper play can be damn hard to deal with, especially with that many rax’s.

I think Morrow took advantage of the fact that the likes of Hydra FE. Reaper construction would be much less effective against Zerg-one basis.

haha, idra didnt get the girls at the end. ha ha ha . that dark haired one was imba.

and dimaga is such a great dude, he was honestly happy to win 3rd place, and idra was clearly pissed and was 5 mins away from bursting out imo.

Wait, girls as prizes? Whoa!

Didn't you know? The best gamer ALWAYS gets the girl.

Briggs, I'll be honest, thanks for keeping us up to par on the scene, I enjoy these posts.

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Originally Posted by Gifted

Briggs, I'll be honest, thanks for keeping us up to par on the scene, I enjoy these posts.

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I second that, I don't have enought time to watch all the matches and this reviews help me save time. I only watch good games lately and your posts helped me find those that are the best among the tournaments.

lots of awesome games in this tournament.


the setup to the finals was funny; razer branded girls with scarce clothing arm in arm with the players as they got presented. it looked quite awkward. i was watching it with my GF and we were like WTF ROFL LOL.

but yeah... great games.

also, Sweden is #1

Lol thanks guys, I don't really pride myself in doing this, I was simply interested in learning more about how pro's play, seen that a lot of the SC:L community didn't watch as fast as I did, so I decided to post what I could describe.

Again thanks. I'll try and keep up with the tournaments and maintain the reviews.