Two epic legends on an EPIC map. Can't wait to watch, and happy weekend Falcon and all, and Fall. Blustery day in my area, haha. This one is going to be awesome, no question, thanks again for the new matches on the near daily!

Light's observing APM faster than my playing APM.

That 13:20 engagement was terrific protoss play.

I cannot deny my absolute love of this defence protoss play by snow. Almost like he was playing Terran. This is a definite game of the year contender.

24:48 "This guy's having a bit of an anxiety attack;" that was awesome! X^D And what an off the scale game! Thank you Falcon!

"Man, you can't beat Snow" - Artosis in a sad voice.

34:15 - Luckily Snow finds out guardians cocoons, storms them and archons them, forcing cancel and killing 7 out of 12 mutalisks.

0:29 The snow was painted red with zerg blood.

So I'm not sure if I've really seen this before but I'm trying to make some maths here on the fly. So I think the idea is that you get your hatch up a bit faster. It's not economically ideal but normally if you go for 9 pool you have 3 larva and that makes for 6 lings but with that fast 2nd base there's double the amount of larva to be used and that means way more lings. Now against a gate opener like this you might actually be able to just kill the protoss with that if they make even a tinyest mistake. And if you can't instantly just kill them you aren't completely all in I guess because you have that extra larva you can use to drone up behind this pressure. This may actually be really strong move.

what a nonstop game, some part like tower defence but towers archons

that was an epic asswhooping scrapfest... good shit rjb

snow's matches are really growing on me

41:31 in the end it doesn't even matter 😉 GG

Bong time, Falcon 🎉🔥

that was a very poor use of guardians

I've been actually thinking about trying arbiter recalls against zergs. It's so tough to try to take down bases especially high ground bases with nyduses. Seems impossible to get up the ramp with all those reinforcements flooding through the nydus. But zergs aren't very used to encountering arbiters so there aren't usually much air defense on those bases and if you recall your army straight on to the high ground and target the nydus straight away you might be able to take down the base. It's quite impossible to win a zerg if you can't prevent them from getting all those bases. Of course the problem would be that after the 1st base goes down to a recall the whole map will be full of scourge.

I played once on Polypoid! Interesting map! 🙂

Great game. This is why I love watching this game.

Great!

calm destruction is good before bed

Tough defensive strategy 💪

I was going to laugh out loud because I thought you were quoting LINKIN PARK! If you had said, in the end, it doesn’t even matter. I would’ve cried.

woohoo! great game!

Pretty sick defensive game... Archons, reavers and HT don't care about dark swarm... Soma needed to kill those later protoss bases.

There was everything in this game: early game cheesing, drops, guardins, ultras... Nothing helped. That's second game where Snow just defends against zerg, showing how helpless zerg could possibly be. And all this is done way below 300 apm

I'm glad to see some new Toss's strategies work on Zerg.

you should only micro your units in combat: 1. at the beginning of the game where base expansion is important 2. towards the end of the game where you have must have situations (bases, final engagements, etc.) 3. during drops where you need to inflict maximum economic damage

shield batteries would be so good if they could autocast like the moon wells in wc3

29:49😅😅😅

So the Conclave win with absolute.

Just easy example of "just dont let Zerg outmacro you "your 4-5 bases vs 8-9 Zerg bases" and they will not be able to do anything, if you just have same macro and will play from defence" Sadly 95% of Protoss players just trying to "end game while on 4-5 bases" (or even 2-3 bases), and after they failing - Zerg just outmacroing and swarming from 8-9 bases, 95% of PvZ) Also - "Reavers power" in nutshell, same for 95% P player - why just ignoring usage of "ultimate antizerg late-game unit")) Perfectly executed, just pleasure to watch)

Snow win like a coward, Soma lose like a hero! 😁😁😁

is there a problem with using queens endgame here? just taking notes

gg

31:42 at this point protoss can just turtle and hold the top base for the win

Protoss players are slowly figuring out how to defeat zerg more consistently. It's about the race for the final few bases. Zerg will lose the game if protoss secures a fresh corner of the map and resources dry up on both sides, because protoss is much more resource efficient. The difficult part is surviving while holding on to the final bases. Zerg can put pressure on many protoss bases at once, so it's difficult to expand while protecting every active base. Alternatively protoss can attempt a multi-pronged offensive in the middle game, but that hinges on having an advantage out of the early game or zerg being caught by surprise. It's a risky strategy that puts a lot of pressure on zerg, but if it fails the game is essentially over and zerg wins.

Another great game, Falcon, thanks. Well, every time I see this kind of plays, I always think that the storm spell should be nerfed as the ability of Protoss to turtle is practically absolute.

snow vs soma during the height of college football season??? top 10 match up alert HollA!!! these guys know they are as good or better than CFB and UFC, they also know rushing is hotsauce and lings are wild beasts that can wreck all ur SCV!!!

Not one mind control?! No drone mind control? No ultralisk or defiler mind control?! Nothing?!

For the algorithm

Soma can counter with BroodQueens.

Snow absolutely earned that hard-fought victory. Soma played quite well. Snow had some important connections at clutch moments and his storms were totally on-point.

I thought Snow was Korean, not white.

what a fun Protoss vs Zerg to watch. Dark archons are definetely underrated and not used unit by Protoss players. This seemed such a great multiplayer game but also gives me the sense of a very hard Campaign map. Defending in 2nd new base from top left definetely brought a sense of difficulty to protoss player

NICE!

no one make queens..3 with so many archons,,,ensure two or three snares at once instead of dark swarm

Да... Глядя на игру этих нубов, вспоминаю себя, когда не знал даже приблизительно на что какие юниты способны. Гениальные генералы, воители, посылающие армию куда-то туда, чтобы там хрен знает что... P.S. В этой партии зерг - вообще ебанько, играющий на стороне противника и помогающий ему своими действиями. Так кидать дарксвормы может только тот, кто искренне желает победы противнику...

@RJBTV has been wrong a lot. In phantom xD

Soma атакует хуже компьютера

snows got a weakness in macro - he stops building units to replenish the ones he will lose because his micro is so good so if he takes a bad engagement and loses most of his army, it takes more time to rush units back to the front i would take someone like larva who just keeps his build queues full (or in his case, his idle larvae at a minimum because everything is hatching into something always) and does minimal micro vs someone who wins battles first hand with good micro but loses the war

omg..another game where Z was far more better..but P won due to overpowered storms...What must happen that Blizzard will do something?!

ese zerg es una BESTIA JUGANDO

Of course overpowered Protoss wins again. Storm should cost as much mana as Spawn Broodling so you can only cast it once then it wouldn't be as overpowered

Ridiculous how bad guardians are. Why did they never got buffed?

@28 minutes comment. art of war by sun tzu dictates, attack where the enemy is not. attacking into reavers and archons where cannons give sight is foolish. attack elsewhere. load the damn lords and take out bases.