An ode to a beautiful win

CLOPSEY 9 SEMI-FINAL SPOILER ALERT


@Belladar pulled a beautiful Holkins snipe that, to my knowledge, was never seen before in a ranked 1v1. You can check the game out (Game #295503) or wait for the casted game by @wpmarshall and @Yaegz (I will link as soon as it is available). In the meantime here are some nice screenshots of the most epic win I have seen in PA (the game was technically mine: I had 90% of map control and he was sitting in a corner with just 5 mex and then, out of nowhere, a big surprise came from the sky )

GG WP indeed

I really want to see this one. Unfortunately the replay is failing to load for me. Same for everyone else?

Works for me, also it took like three shots for the OP to realize that there was a holkins

Btw, the pastats website should really add a search bar. Would have made finding the game much easier

You need better internet Sir.

The record is available on twitch : http://www.twitch.tv/yaegz/b/630983976

@Zaphys Queue all the 'holkins op, plz nerd' comments

@Nosebreaker As the champion of all things balance care to comment?

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Thanks man, it was great playing with you . And I'm glad my stupid tactics worked with you, they didn't against xankar

just watched it on twitch - nice snipe

Dude, spoiler alert!!

Oops, sorry you are right. I forgot there are people, like myself, who watch the PA tournament videos days after they are livecasted. Adding a "Spoiler Alert! banner. Thanks.

Dude, I think he could have prevented it, if he simply walked his commander behind his t2 factory and pumped ALLTHEECO onto it to keep it alive as a shield against the shells. He walked away and that opened a shot.

I manually targeted the commander, that wouldn't have worked

Also: splash damage

the match showed shells hitting the factory because the arc passed through to hit the ground near the commander. If the commander walked farther behind the factory, to hit anywhere on that side of the factory must first hit the factory. Then again, the arc is rather high, maybe it can come from higher up down onto it.

Another game showing the importance of scouting

Literally doing anything would have saved zaphys in this situation. Manual dodging. Pelican evacuation. Having won the game ten minutes earlier as he clearly should have done...

It was a beautiful moment though, one of those reasons why these events are best viewed live.

The holkins is extremely inaccurate. =3