Fantasy vs Luxury @ OSL Ro8 Set 1

[Chrijz]

Thanks. Nice game.

[syphondu]

starts at 8:35 :)

[NeonKnight88]

That booth girl would distract me really bad.

[kakao777]

=,D GG.. when some1 who decides to comme up with a cute play and exploit imbalanced units in a strat.... its so beutyful to see someones tactics just shred em to pieces by a few fast decided moves.. love it.. well played again luxury.. who was the hughly favord terran player he beat on destination a while ago? that was a superp show by lux aswell

[z00tGRUNT]

Man, great play by Luxury! I love seeing mass Mutalisks! I've got to say, I'm surprised at how ineffective those Valkyries were - I was constantly expecting to see Luxury's clouds of mutas explode in a puff of red blood, but he suffered suprisingly few casualties, despite all those area-of-effect hits the Valks kept getting off.

GG and thanks for the commentary, guys :).

[soulhunger1]

Wow, great game. 21:30 is so awesome, where Luxury lures in the Valkyries with his Mutas and does the perfect Scourge ambush.

[z00tGRUNT]

Agreed - brilliant play! :)

[KiNPiN1835]

fantasy for life

[RaiKageRyu]

I don't think I've ever seen more Mutalisks produced than this game.

[RonjaRT]

The two of you are my fav. commentators. Very well done.

[mrsmi1ey]

freakin awesome. i love the mass muta. pretty dang epic... and i mean that in a stronger sense that most people do. ;)

[chisaku]

HELLO!? HELLO ARE YOU THERE?!

[Nadlice]

No u

[richardsjobergmjaoo]

plz cant you just start when the game starts

[ycfeatbn]

game starts at 08:25

[jgordon707]

wtf. fail on that 8 minute intro..

god damn.

[Cannuck12]

booth girl? huh?

why is there a booth girl?

[darthrevan6]

Ladies and gentlemen, another level of cheesyness in the korean intro world has just been reached.

[triplestartriple]

how the fuck could he lose after that :_:

[tomlovizar]

map disadvantage, the cliff and high ground decrease Marines mobiliy to attack muta. Also, the large flanking area in the middle stop terran from pushing out.

[Ardbug]

Luxury is playing with the brain of Nal Ra and the balls of July, no wonder his game is looking so confident :)

[CrazyCrackahMelakle]

damn! wanted to see that build win...

[RealmEternal]

gg.

[inuyashathepker]

wow, i think savior ment to say his famous speach about him not losing and owning all his competitors for luxury instead, not for himself. GG grats for round 1.

[charlesyak12392]

anyone have a link to the forum post they mentioned about the booth girls on team liquid?

[banzaijoe76]

ball-gag ftw

[CrazedOrient]

booth girls<33

[utubeaddict12334]

awesome game, great commentary!

[TastedDuckling]

oh my god, i love you luxury

[izapz]

anyone has a link to that awesome match they mentioned?

[Herms123]

i think he lost because the point of a fast vulture build is to either do a run by or prevent the zerg from taking a 3rd gas too early, but lurxury was able to sneak a drone out and plant a hatchery at 9 o clock

[PolygonreVue]

Such a sweet sight, I love the smell of Zerg ownage in the morning

[KaizokuSencho]

Mass shrimps ftw!

[skylockSC]

the problem i noticed was fantasy never kept building valkeries if he would have kept building them i think he would be better off

[furrer08]

very interesting strategy, on another map it would work I think.

[vanillacrem3]

Neither Cholera nor Rise mentioned this, but Luxury made a critical decision to get +1 air carapace very early that allowed him to walk all over the valkyries and the rines with late upgrades.

[Schmidt54]

why do the booth girls stand in a posture that looks like they have stomach ache? :-/

[bummer2000]

i thought it was menstration pain? their trying to ward the players off of them.

[Tillysouth]

Wow!!! Insane play from Luxury. I want him to win either the msl or osl. He deserves it. Those 2 early lurkers are very crucial and he lost them. After that we d all expect a push from fantasy but that never came because of luxurys insane muta harass. GG for sure

[marager]

whats with the booth girls holding their hands like they do, espicaly that hawt booth-girl, shes like a statue :D

[mognite]

Actually: The more skilled the players, the more the map advantage/disadvantage plays a role. When you have 2 of the best in the world, there is relatively little skill-wise that separates them; therefore other factors are highly influential in determining the outcome of a game. Certain map artifacts or features that favour one race over the other lend themselves especially well to highly skilled players who are most knowledgeable in exploiting this advantage.

[EebstertheGreat]

It is interesting how the commentators talk about how every little thing makes a difference in games of such a high caliber, but at the same time say that the map statistics don't matter as much.

On the other hand, it is true that the statistics reflect balance at a somewhat different level of play for the most part, and the same features that are unbalancing at one level may or may not be at another. So I suppose there is something to that idea.

[randombutler]

Mutalisks look a lot like shrimp!

[ChAoS9779]

Giant flying shrimp with wings that shoot out worms/wurms at you killing you!

Dat dere is FO SHIZZLE shrimp laik.

[randombutler]

Real in the future...yet still delicious.

[ChAoS9779]

Yes..Well...You have me there.

[randombutler]

I've always wanted to get somebody...you've made me very, very....very happy.

[ChAoS9779]

I'm glad I could help!

[randombutler]

Are you hitting on me???

[ChAoS9779]

That depends...Are you liking it?

[randombutler]

These feelings are so new.

[ChAoS9779]

orly!@? <

[ltsmx]

e-flirt? ;D

[ChAoS9779]

You know it!

[pianomikey0]

Saw the time, was thinking "ooh, 24 minute game." With like 8:30 intro :/

[pianomikey0]

Actually, I gotta say though: you guys filled that 8 minutes pretty thoroughly and kept it interesting.

Good work! You two are my favorite duo!

[Robotman42]

Aside from aesthetics and escorting the player to his (or in the case of Tossgirl, her) booth, what are the booth girls supposed to do?

[uglymoose89]

get the players drinks or anything else they need. They act as liasons to the judges and refs for the players too.

[Robotman42]

Dam, Kasparov didn't even have some old fart to bring him half a a cheap coffee.  Chess tournaments need to start adding some of these people for the professionals :O

[pianomikey0]

Shoot, what else is there?

[EebstertheGreat]

By the way, I'm sure you both meant that Luxury lost two lurkers to TWO mines, since obviously one mine can't kill a lurker on its own. Just a minor detail.

[mognite]

Technically, because it is more likely that the mines were not located in exactly the same location, and consequently did not activate at the same time, it would actually be correct to say that one mine damaged the lurkers, and one mine killed the lurkers. Therefore it is correct and accurate to say that luxury did lose the two lurkers to a mine.

[EebstertheGreat]

. . . and therefore if you kill fifteen zerglings with a zealot before it goes down, you lost it to one zergling? What if the last unit in my army is a hydra that gets picked off by a marine. Does this mean I lost my army to a single marine? This is a pretty ridiculous way to interpret that statement. One unit always gets the last hit, but presumably the implication behind saying "He lost his units to a single mine" is not that a single mine got the last hit. That's just stupid.

[mognite]

Consider the correct way to describe the "lurker mine kill"as it relates to the context that the commentators encountered it. Consider that we: 1.Observed 2 vultures planting 4 mines in the middle of the map earlier on. 2.We did not see the number of mines that exploded on the lurkers. From that point of view, its probable that at least 2 mines went off,BUT more could have been involved. The number of mines is unknown and stating 2lurkers were lost to a mine keeps it clean/simple and correct.

[neveraphonewLamps]

you could have spared us the verbiage and said, "we don't know, therefore saying it was one is correct". saves us the time and makes it pretty clear that your point is unconvincing

[ianiorio]

GAMEPLAY STARTS AT 8:32, do yourself a favor a skip ahead

[Psyduc16]

you'll miss out on all the booth girls -_-"

[pxxner]

ya guys, mutas tried to snipe that mine but the lurkers ate it.

[collecolle]

i think there are horses in the crowd because fantasy looks like.. well.. a horse. so they are fantasy fans?

[Mikfly]

haha - Whats up with these Booth girls?Weird how they stand like status and hold their hands.

[heyyou7000]

Fantasy good luck with her =)

[MidsummerNightScream]

fantasy has no chance with that girl, she's thinking of bisu