IEM GRAND FINALS - Part Three

[T0n1xITA]

Idra would have kicked his ass

[kukie14]

Wow cheesy first game on vid

[rawbadelf]

Damn. Even though I'm a zerg player, I was rooting for AcE just because he did so impressively in this tournament and was really fun to watch. The only disappointment was him going pretty much the exact same build 4/5 games. Oh well, still a good game.

[snowblind1985]

GG... really enjoyed it! thanks

[paulkim172]

ace loves 2 go fast forge doesnt he.

[Paralyt1c]

Great casting, great series, they really gave everything in this last game, 2 phenomenal players, and thanks to intel for making it possible!

[jimsterok1]

i lOVE THAT SONG AT THE END!!

[japphan]

@jimsterok1

Starcraft 1 terran main theme. :)

Terran music is OP!

[TheMike545]

Really good game from Ace, he managed to ignore the damage to his economy, win a crucial battle, and then take out several bases before the zerg got enough forces to force him back. Wp.

[Ultrablushi]

dayum not the outcome i was looking for =( Good series though

[lew13lair505]

yes protoss won it i was scared at first but of toss is op vs zerg gahaha

[Deadenfull]

Fuck ACE, when he wins with zerg vs protoss then i will give him congrats!!!

[iamscythe]

congrats ace - well deserved - great play both players. thanks ahnaris - great job!

[DyeTyme]

wow great game

[VojtaVydra]

That was perfect!!!

[shizwizlouiz]

ahnaris youre the bomb

[44chappo]

I knew moon would go for hydras at the 3:32 minute mark. Yet again another game where ahnaris spoils what happens later on in the game. why use spoiler alerts in all your vids if you are going to spoil what is going to happen in the game through your commentating.

[DarkNj1]

@44chappo

i knew moon would go for hydras against gateway units as soon as i saw alot of gateway units, not because of what ahnaris said, but because hydras are basically the hard counter to gateway units so why would it be surprising that a player of moon's calibre got hydras...?

also, how many mid-late macro zerg games have you seen where the zerg Didnt get hydras?

[44chappo]

@DarkNj1 yeah but at the 3:32 minute mark he didnt have abundant amounts of gateway units. he could have still been teching to higher tier units. but with ahnaris saying that i knew from that moment on he would go for a predominately hydra based army.

[just0ten]

awsome games !

[dodelol]

OH GOD, miss that music to damn much, really wanna go play sc1 again

[m4a17878]

0:01

[latinos986]

5 persons doesn't deserve to breath

[AGigglingStoner]

Fuck you Eric.

[CleverNameHere81]

Fuckin' love the song at the end lol

[schnepple]

ACE!!!! What a boss... doin it for the protoss

[Dacoopah]

I'm one of those weird guys who loves to watch the casts, but has never played SC - and probably never will. :) I'm too old to keep up with the multi-tasking that's required by this game, but I find it to be extremely entertaining to watch! Thanks for the entertaining game play pros, and the commentary/casting Ahnaris.

[AbsoloutlyZimtstern]

@Dacoopah haha thats how it started for me, now im playing sc too and its great fun, but watching casts is great too, seeing these guys testing their skills is just awesome^^

[Karmoon7]

Well cast, Ahnaris. Good job. I'm proud of you like you were my own human son.

[mrmauthe]

Congrats to the winner!!!!!

[Cascademenace]

This was a high quality shoutcast. Thanks Ahnaris and thanks to Intel for sponsoring the Extreme Masters tournament.

[megasr123]

Wow... very Epic indeed... can't believe Ace actually one this one... I really though Ace would have lost since his economy was shutdowned many time...

[HatsMkcGeezzer]

The music at the end was the most epic part.

[wolfmanjacksaid]

congratulations to protoss! the most powerful race with the most powerful units in the game! yeehaw!

[BrunoMorisetti]

@wolfmanjacksaid ass hole

[ClovisMcPaul]

i like it when i get 3 peanuts in one shell

[kiwiteepee]

man protoss is OP. they just steamroll anything their ball goes up against and they have the best defensive spell in the game. cool

[emdeck80]

@kiwiteepee

actually terrans r quite OP, and toss besides ball of death r the weakest :P

seriously its a matter of strategy/buid/decision/luck/mi­cro :)

[kiwiteepee]

@emdeck80 So what you're saying is, besides the thing that EVERY PROTOSS PLAYER DOES (death ball)... they are the weakest race? How does that make sense?

[emdeck80]

@kiwiteepee well its simple i dont know what is to understand- death ball very powerfull- to get death ball a lot of economy, to get a lot of economy means fighting hard to survive till deah ball or 4 gate

[CiceroProductionsIII]

yay 4 brotoss

[gg2000gg2000]

great use of immortal

[coolstory92]

hate when players go for a base race when they know there out.

[Hyunkle]

should of had more banelings to bust that ton of stalkers :O

[jlee479]

@Hyunkle not a really good idea since stalkers don't take the extra damage from blings

[4alliknow]

im subscribed to ahnaris, HD and husky and in the last week iv seen the SC2 of both outstanding quality and quantity. as well as amazing variety of play. drops, fast expands and full use of all tec trees. this has shown me the SC is defiantly a sport and is worthy of a place in as a main stream sport an equal to soccer or tennis.

[xtrive93]

Nostalgia at 20:50

[UberMonsterDude]

what was ace's score?

[fatlardXVIV]

Ace is a good protoss player

[t0m1337n]

epic game ahnaris! gratz to ace, some great play throughout!

[biggametizo]

great game! Ace finally did the right thing and got mass blink Stalker! I cant beleive it took him that long to figure it out! yes he did use them in the first game but it was too soon.

[Nthuhman]

that little one guy sure shows up a lot in these games...

[quixilver1342]

Disco terran at 21:10!! Oh yeah!!

[WoWconsumesmylife]

I now know day9's smurf account name

[3GreteL3]

omg awesome game ended by super awesome old school terran music.

[the1onlynoob]

imo zerg need a better counter to clossi, say... scourge..



[TheNendroid]

That was super intense. Awesome last game in the series.

[77polser]

Good job Ahnaris! Great cast. You're getting better every week.

[FenixFera]

SPOILER !!!!

Ace win's :P

[stoniestraccoon02]

observer coming down doing its thing sayin, whats up guys! i'm here to observe. rofl

[KruemelStreuer]

The Game you mentioned as the first game was the last game. I watched that one live. I'm not sure about the other games.

[ultimatehaydn]

WHY o WHy didn't Moon take the high yield. so much easier to reinforce. AND CREEP! Jeez this game was frustrating to watch. Ace sure does know how to go for the late game win.

[Pulsar718]

I wonder why so many zerg players refuse to get any infestors against this mass blink stalker colollus play it seems to be the only thing that mite help

[leksious]

@Pulsar718 Teching up one infestor with gland upgrade costs 350 mins+400 gas, one is not enough for anything and you still need hydras to deal damage...and you still need those corruptors against colossus. After colossus toss can go to third base and keep zerg forces spread thin trying to defend exps. It takes more than 3 bases for zerg to tech and keep up producing enough forces and thats really hard against good toss.

[S0VlET]

View of the winner as the game end. pretty epic! youtube.com/watch?v=IqerIwL0VI­M

[EyEsEnBeRg]

dam i was rootin for moon but hey ace deserves the grand prize and moon walked away with 6,500...better than notin :D

[Cr4zYjOhN123]

@EyEsEnBeRg Thanks for ruining it for everyone you fucking retard ; )

[pearsondk]

@Cr4zYjOhN123 Don't read the comments before you watch the video.. I never do...

[mushy2626]

@EyEsEnBeRg fuck you, thanks for spoiling my game,

[pearsondk]

@mushy2626 Don't read the comments before you watch the video.. I never do...

[sammy522200]

wow epic game

[ooxxooxx21]

the music was epic

[HaraldJoe69]

I'd penetrate your base with my nydus tech.

[gallumhrasha]

sc2 korean games are on a whole nother level, goose bumps. what epic games.

[MoustachioToad]

+1 for funny corrupter image on the thing on he bottom.

[endre1989]

this was better than a fucking movie!and the terran song at the end....DAMN THIS WAS GREAT!!!

[yes777vt]

love the music at the end reminds me of the good old days in SC1

[BabyChucker72]

Don't even play Starcraft but find these games fun to watch. Protoss seems easy-mode?

[Potts132]

@BabyChucker72 Terran is the easiest to play as. Toss has really cost effective units and Zerg can make so many units so fast. The races are all very balanced. Terran is a little strong right now though

[JONSKATEVIDS]

@BabyChucker72 not really. out of all the races terran is probably the easiest to play. MMM is crazy powerful.

[oilcitymo]

that game was epic.

[oilcitymo]

that game was epic.

[BluDrgn426]

Whoooooo!!!!! Awesome final match!!!

[gloopbop]

woot!!!!!!!!! nice video!!!!

[iurhviusdfavhi]

God I hate Protoss....

[derrock08]

@iurhviusdfavhi jealous of how awesome they are?

[pipkick]

an Arcon Toilet would have been nice

[PlasticDoosh]

gayest song evar at the end

[vlnplyr5]

Awesome ending - "That's it, I'm out". Tired much Ahnaris?? :D Great series, thanks for casting!

[hamster4sale]

Im always a zerg fan, but having watched a bunch of Ace's games throughout this tourney on husky and other's channels it was cool to see him win it if it was gonna be protoss. And big props to Moon for trying some risky strategies in the previous games. Thanks for casting this series, Ahnaris!

[smokelakes]

@hamster4sale exact same for me too

[louhanski]

ace should take all the money, he deserves it!!!

[louhanski]

@louhanski

yes i agree

[bored132435]

i think he shouldve got storm at one point, but, hey no point in fixing something that isnt broken i guess. Probably just me wanting to see a big clump of hydras turned into a sticky electric mess.

[Anonie324]

@bored132435 Hear Hear!

[trikky1234]

Very WP by AcE, I think he lost just 2 games the ENTIRE tournament. Pretty epic.

[Mercenary9051]

Who else thought the most epic part of the game was seeing TLO leave the game as a spectator? :D

[pearsondk]

@Mercenary9051 TLO and Shawn (Day9) were commentators at IEM..

[anifal9]

@pearsondk Shawn wasn't Day9, his name is spelled Sean. That was one of the other language stream commentators.

[anifal9]

@Mercenary9051 But he was shout-casting the game with Day9 at IEM? How is that epic?

[oliverlewisdunn]

@Mercenary9051 TLO was casting with Day9

[CassiusXs]

@Mercenary9051 If you watched this on ESL Tv. You'd know that TLO wasn't just a spectator, he was casting the games live with Day9 and RotterdaM

[yoshomg]

@Mercenary9051 The guy was casting the games you silly.

[stifler2x69]

Since i saw his amazing epic gameplay against whitera and idra on husky's channel.....i was cheering ace on the whole way through this. Well done to both players, very well played!!!

[Tyfyh]

At some point in the middle of the game I was like "Why are we watching the base when there's an army attacking something?!"

[MrRaunchyrhino23]

I sure do hate being penetrated by a nydus worm to

[Tyfyh]

With your rambling you missed the cannon at 3:00. This is very smart positioning! It's the first time I see it.

[Yony42]

Anharis, recently I've realized that I prefer you over husky and all the other casters I know! (well day9 is awesome too, we all know he's a boss). Quality casting man, you point out important things and have a professional yet friendly tone that is comfortable to listen to, keep it up!

[SonyWilliam]

Anyone knows, this "moon", is that who used to play warcraft 3?

or is he a different guy

[10Klaw]

@SonyWilliam Yes he is. They mentioned that on the live coverage.

[Finnajin]

@SonyWilliam its the same guy

[PRESTonSTOVE]

anyone else nostalgiagasm at the terran music from sc1?

[phendrome]

Great series, thank you.

[WatchMySpec]

You are such a enthusiastic commentator I love how you actually enjoy casting the games as much as we enjoy you casting them. Keep going. Absolutely brilliant gameplay from both.

[080TIGER080]

Enjoyed it <3

[DariusSkipp]

TLO was analising Ace every game O.o

[canadiananim8r]

@DariusSkipp i think you mean he was spectating, you ahve no idea if he was analyzing the games lol

[Bravehart10000]

@DariusSkipp I'd take notes too from such a good Protoss player... That race is really TLO's weakest.

[Startrance666]

Colossus can step over high cliffs but he cant walk over a photon cannon :o

[riceyasian86]

I love how everyone is bitching about balancing issues with zerg in zvp. zvp is one of the most balanced fights between different races. stfu and quit whining. if you want to talk about imbalanced play - terran.

[Alicklol]

@riceyasian86 Everyone complaining about a certain match-up, usually means something is wrong. A lot of high level Zergs are having trouble with Protoss in the late game and I'm much more inclined to trust them than you. Your trash talking doesn't do any good to legitimize your points.

[riceyasian86]

@Alicklol The point is there was no point. Everyone complaining about a certain match-up is because "everyone" is zerg that has complained thus far. I don't see how you have to get a certain unit to fight a certain unit. There's no standard build order you need to go. Has it occurred to you guys that maybe you should get something the protoss has to counter instead of waiting for them to build their tech and thus having to counter their build? Fucking noobs.

[NRSStudios]

@riceyasian86 Zerg is reactionary. 

[CmoreLaX]

4:23 i got really excited...then i realized those were zerglings and not banelings :(

[terriblewillen]

Good game and good cast=)

[TheBrouwer1234]

first matches i seen of AcE was this tournament, must say he lives up to his name.

beating players like Idra and moon, GG keep it up;)

[pajeroviolador]

Really like the new thing where you put more then one game in each video and the nice texts inbetween! Looks really good. Now wake up and do moar casts. moooaaar!

[idontplayrs111]

AcE beat, huk, moon, idra, and whitera...HOLY SHIT

[chr1stens3n]

@idontplayrs111 thanks for spoiling!

[Makkovar]

@chr1stens3n Yeah. ^^

[srikanth94]

this cast is worthy of an ACE !!!!

[bladecrusher01]

I have found one new hero. AcE kicks ass! He kicks Idra's ass, Moon's ass... I bet he owned HUK and WhiteRa too. Damn.. Awesome player.

[nguyenchiencong]

love the ending music. it reminds of old times broodwar

[leksious]

SPOILER - DO NOT READ.lol

ah damn z just runs out of gas against some basic toss play.. and there are still many things toss can do like storm, dt´s, chargelots, air units, mother ship while z t3 is pretty much useless. Late game is just huge advantage for toss on maps like this where expansions are easily found and destroyed.

[didy7178]

Good cast, but does anyone think its unfair how zerg HAS to get corruptors to take out collosus but if protoss does switch zerg has just wasted a load of minerals. Somethings a bit off with that

[MrZissors]

AcE <3

[MrZissors]

AcE <3

[tbmonkey1997]

TLO was watching :o

[kalmanbacsi]

it feels like ace just gave moon 2 games of the five...

[duck227]

The probe was sniffing the Sentry's ass, that's what probes do on their time off.

[jondreese]

fucking hate ace

[silverkiko]

i going to subcribe u for the ending song...

[julianlemke]

GREAT series and ahnaris you did REALLY good, dealing with the anti spoiler, by adding the extra time at the end of the game and splitting the the series in several parts.

Thank you very much!!

I love your casts !

[Waderoberthiggins]

hurray for ace

[nanquan491]

Jeff/Ahnaris, awesome series!!! Thanks for casting!! Another victory scored for Aiour!

[nanquan491]

AcE FTW!!!

[cramtoro]

mhhh Protos are imba, so many different techs..

[TheDoogleBoy]

+1 for the classic Terran theme at the end.

[I123456789II]

@TheDoogleBoy

indeed

broodwar players should know it and love ^-^

[quixilver1342]

@TheDoogleBoy yeah, Ahnaris should do something like a 30 second intro with that music!

[Startnumber5]

SPOILER SPOILER!!! MOON MAKES DRONES IN THIS GAME!

[CALIFORN1ASUPERSTAR]

LOVE PROTOSS...LIKE TERRAN...HATE ZERG... I LOVE IT!

[soric3lu]

Oh well, glad the protoss won and even gladder the finals were between zerg and toss cause now Idra can shut the hell up about zergs not ever getting in Tournament Finals

[BobVosh]

Ahnaris: We (mostly) literally just finished watching those previous videos. Please stop recapping, we know what happened. Talk about something else, like orange juice or the next concert coming to town. Anything else plz.

Other than that, love your stuff.

[gerry1888]

ahnaris, its 7:24 AM ... i didn't sleep of the night cause of ur videos <3

now i gonna be late i school, gonna get detention ... but it's worth it ^^

[MrGosty]

i rly want to see huck vs ace thumbs up if u want it to

[matsstrike]

Epic game!!!!

[Justin941CUFan]

Amazing game. Ace is definatly going to be a force to be reckoned with in upcoming tournaments. I think he will end up taking the spot as #1 protoss very soon if he isn't already. Such great play and control during games.

[Nenglm]

ACE: HOLY FUCKING SHIT I JUST WON 13,000 BY PLAYING VIDEO GAME

[gerry1888]

@Nenglm u stupid fucking spoiler noob -_-

[m4a17878]

30000 USD? price?

[MrAgnost]

Ace is seriously just going: "I don't care, I'm gonna win this with the same trick because I can" with his build isn't he?

[redeyeskev]

@MrAgnost dude starcraft is the same no matter how you look at it. Why dont you go a game without building a barracks, a gateway or a spawning pool and tell me if that works out for you

[Kaos1601]

@redeyeskev challenge accepted, ill cannon rush you

[Kaos1601]

@redeyeskev or planetary fortress as terran, the only one that i cant do is go without spawning pool, but then again, zarg have the widest range of strategies in my opinion

[MrAgnost]

@redeyeskev Well sorry you missed my point , and yes photon cheese and worker rushes can work. My point was simply that Ace going FE void ray builds pre-lair as soon as possible seemed to me as his "insurance" policy playing with a near MKP attitude going for the win at all costs. And that is probably everyone assumes by now a comment on bad manners. I can assure you it is not. It's just the way I like my tournaments. I was just wondering if anyone else noticed that

[synguyen1502a]

Ace has been playing very solid in this tournament

[gerry1888]

@synguyen1502a for 13k US .... I WOULD PLAY SOLID

[Macheathz]

Damn, were hoping for Motherships, toilets, infestors, effective baneling, War Prism play.

Well, atleast we got some Nydus worms.