GSL S2 Discussion Thread *SPOILERS*

[TheRabidDeer]

After that series, I think SlayersBoxer should be required to change his name. Jk of course, but seriously that was possibly the craziest series I've seen in both SC1 and SC2 competition.

Yea, after that game I was just thinking, "this is like watching the real boxer..."

Extremely impressive play.

[evillesh]

Can some of you guys tell me what IdrA said in the games vs Zenio? Tried to find it on TL and internetz, but no luck, and GOMtv isn't working for me.

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Wanna see Boxer vs Nada.

[JackhammerIV]

As far as i know he didn't say anything at the start of the games so i just skipped to the end. At the end of first and second game he said gg. Nothing in the interview as well.

[TheRabidDeer]

Can some of you guys tell me what IdrA said in the games vs Zenio? Tried to find it on TL and internetz, but no luck, and GOMtv isn't working for me.

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Wanna see Boxer vs Nada.

Havent seen anything, but wasnt it zenio that BM'd idra after the games or something (because idra was talking smack about oGs?)

[JackhammerIV]

First game of SlayersBoxer vs Nada....

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Crazy. Complete base trade. Felt like boxer was behind though a lot of time. Nada just kept having more and more and more stuff.

Second game

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Nice banshee micro from boxer. It just wouldn't die.:P LOL. Then nice move by boxer moving round to hit nada's expo.

Third game

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Wow. Thought the blue flame hellions would completely rape boxer. But boxer comes back. Kills Nada's thor rush while boxer's banshee just kills so many of Nada's SCVs.

Fourth game

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WOW. Thought boxer was screwed with the ghosts sniping like crazy and nukes from Nada. Containing Boxer then sudden contain break from boxer and pushed right into Nada's base. Boxer contained Nada then just ran in and broke Nada.

[evillesh]

ah, ok, thanks guys, just saw that funny gif on TL thread 'bout Zenio and IdrA, and saw that there was some text, thought Idra trash talked him again

And here's a funny pic about FoxeR and the zerg guy (don't remember his nick)

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So Jackhammer, who won?? You can tell me in under spoiler :P

[JackhammerIV]

Ok Lesh. Spoilers about how they won and roughly which games they won though.

Foxer vs KyrixZenith

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Foxer won. The zerg player was KyrixZenith. The first and last games where Foxer won were amazing. The middle part was alright but lackluster compared to the first and last games. So stressful just watching Foxer micro his marines to avoid banelings. Kyrix got two wins off Foxer because Foxer was not able to stop banelings and lings from breaking his wall in. Foxer also managed a win besides the first and last game but I don't remember exactly how but it wasn't as amazing as the first and last game. Timing attack if i remember right.

First game was the most amazing. Foxer started with marines, siege tanks and medivacs. Then his tanks got killed so he just made more barracks and transitioned to marines and medivacs. Then mutalisks kill all his medivacs. Then he just goes all marines. Full ups. He even forgot to get combat shield upgrade. He just kept running in. Kept expecting just one bad baneling explosion to kill all of his marines and end the game but....it just never happened. Foxer just kept on pushing and won the first game.

For the life of me I can't remember the details of the last game. I know it was amazing.:P

For today's SlayersBoxer vs Nada

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Boxer won. Nada won the first game with a base trade. Then Boxer won 3 games in a row against 3 different strategies from Nada as well as Nada's crazy macro skills. Boxer just kept getting the most out of each unit he had. Superb micro. Best example is in 2nd game they both banshee rushed. Nada got 1 kill. Boxer got around 10 including some marines.

Second game Boxer basically attacked Nada's natural from the back door shrubs on XelNaga and forced Nada to come back then Boxer's reinforcements hit Nada's army from behind.

Third game on Shakuras Boxer banshee rush and nada did blue flame hellion drop. Hellions killed tons of probes but Boxer took advantage of Nada's missile turret placement to kill every SCV he could reach and kept his banshee alive. Nada transitioned into a Thor rush with hellions. When the thors moved out Boxer just moved in his banshee and started killing SCVs and depots. When Nada arrived at Boxer's base marines and tanks waiting for him. Killed off Nada's army. At this time the banshee had tons of kills. Less than 10SCVs left mining.

Fourth game on Delta Quadrant Boxer did his early 2 marine 1 SCV rush. But he backed off cos he saw a tech lab on rax with 1 marine out. Expecting a reaper. But instead it was ghosts. Boxer did banshee rush and ghosts almost managed to kill it. Nada then pushed with marauders, marines and ghosts. Ghosts just sniped so many marines. Then Nada brought in tanks and vikings and had a contain on Boxer. Boxer slowly massed some tanks, rauders, marines and vikings. Nada nuked the ground between them twice to force Boxer back into his main but it didn't work. Then Boxer just ran in with unsieged tanks and stimmed marauders. Killed all Nada's tanks on the contain. Then boxer did his own contain. Massed up marauders again. Then unsiege and rush straight in. Killed everything.

The whole series it always felt like Boxer was behind and Nada was slowly moving in and pressuring and containing Boxer. The only exception was the Shakuras game when Nada did an all in Thor hellion rush that just didn't work out.

[Jabber Wookie]

ah, ok, thanks guys, just saw that funny gif on TL thread 'bout Zenio and IdrA, and saw that there was some text, thought Idra trash talked him again

And here's a funny pic about FoxeR and the zerg guy (don't remember his nick)

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So Jackhammer, who won?? You can tell me in under spoiler :P

Lol that fake comic strip is hillarious. Foxer knows how to build some marines. Although, he said in an interview that he kind of did it arrogantly to prove that banelings were useless at high level play (my words of course but along those lines, although more of a playful arrogance, brash maybe?)

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I'm glad Zenio lost to Nestea, there's now two teamless players in the final four. Plus, while I hardly like Idra, I didn't appreciate Zenio's arrogance after his win either (speaking of his stupid little korate chop). I'm actually looking forward to seeing Nestea play SlayerBoxer. He seems to have his build times down to a tee.

[JackhammerIV]

Damn.......totally different way that Foxer does TvT. No tanks at all.

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Foxer won 4-1 over Hopetorture. Mass marines. Some marauders mixed in when Hopetorture had tanks. Later matches Foxer just went 1 rax, expo, mass rax. Fifth game foxer just suddenly did some teching. Got tanks and broke the back rocks on blistering. Hopetorture didn't give up but it just wasn't enough. Wasn't really even at all. Foxer just sort of ran over Hopetorture. Hopetorture kept using the same banshee build for every single game.

[Jabber Wookie]

Damn.......totally different way that Foxer does TvT. No tanks at all.

Yeah... if SlayersBoxer studies these matches and Foxer's style, he should see that if he scouts the typical marine build he should just pump reactor helions and maybe some marines to counter any potential banshees. Helions would destroy Foxer's build if he tries that all marine push. SlayersBoxer seems like the kind of innovative player that would say screw standard builds and try something like that. I think it would work really well. (Of course, it won't matter if NesTea wins, and he's been looking really solid this season)