Thread 723145269

STARCRAFT: BROOD WAR
ASL SEASON 20
SEMIFINALS TIME, /v/!!!!
It's BarrackS (T) vs SnOw (P); will SnOw pulverise BarrackS into oblivion as expected by many, or will the impossible happen? Come join us and find out!


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This is literally tougher for BarrackS than even the match against Soulkey. SnOw is ***BY FAR*** the best PvTer on the planet, so I'd say there's a good 90% chance he takes this.
But a 10% chance of a BarrackS victory is still a CHANCE.

>>723145269 (OP)
Thank you. I was about to check if there was a game today. The sacred and the propane.

>>723145291
I'm just hoping he can take a single game off. This is like The Blue Jays beating the Yanks then either facing off against the next round.

>>723145291

Terrannies are favored over Tossers on all but ONE map. Unsurprising, since Terrannies are overpowered.

>>723145269 (OP)
Reminder that Beautiful Angel Lee Hyun Kyung is off for maternity leave. Our gal is having a baby.

SOON

>Currents game 1
holy based

He only has a chance if Calm, Flash, and others gave him good builds. It doesn't matter who you are, if you have a build that hard counters something.

>>723145269 (OP)
Fuck yeah. I love Starcart!

Snow vs Soma?

>>723145291
snow could always just pick terrible strategies and misread situations. Snow tends to lose his games more than his opponent wins them. I've watched too many games where he makes a terrible strategies and then plays behind for 20-30 minutes only surviving due to insane reaver play but it never being enough to actually win.

SHOULDER STATUS: FULLY COVERED

>>723145786
Weird rat with puffy eyes.
#WeWantHKLee

>>723145737
Been looking at some current Soma games this week. I don't have much hope he'll even get through Bisu. Either way Snow will wreck either of them

>covered up shoulders
poor stargirl doesnt want to give snow his victory fuck, covers up her shoulders in protest

Poor Barracks, it's gonna be such a massacre. I hope he gets one game at least

>>723145846
from what I've seen in proleague it's about 50/50 between Snow and Soma

nothing against soma personally, I'm just tired of zerg winning
barracks vs bisu would be cool but I'm pretty sure snow is the only one that has a good chance against soma

For thsoe unaware, Namu wiki is a korean celeb wiki for notable people. You can look up most of the Korean personalities at Soop.

https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%9D%B4%EC%9D%80%EB%B9%88(%EC%95%84%EB%82%98%EC%9A%B4%EC%84%9C)

>>723145928
>MBTI

>>723145928
Is this the current substitute Stargirl?

shit I don't know who to root for, It would be kino for Barracks to win with Flash's builds but at this point Snow DESERVES an ASL win

>>723145881
>stargirl

Her name is Lee Eun-bin, and no one's been called "Stargirl" for over 15 years! It was a title used for OSL gals. In this thread we learn the host's proper names!

>one of the pros predicted a barracks 4-0
We got this Barracks-bros

>>723145928
They list everyone's height, so you can see who's a manlet and who's a giant.

>>723145928
>media celeb / show host
>INFP
this is like "shy" girls who do porn, right
introverted women don't exist

>>723145928
>those lips
why did they photograph her after she's just been stung by a bee? Why did they pick a picture where she doesn't have her best assets out?

>>723146020
Homegirl, I don't even know the players' real names

>>723146043
Flash trained him with special anti-snow strategies. Heater status: turned on. Snow status: starting to melt

>>723146020
>In this thread we learn the host's proper names!
Maybe ill learn her name if she shows off her shoulders

>>723145928
wtf is this photo

>>723146092
My favourite 12 foot gaming warlord mogs literally everyone

>>723146197
>Heater status: turned on. Snow status: starting to melt

Terranbros!

>>723146294
READY TO ROCK AND ROLL

>>723146092
>light is 6 foot 1

Holy shit.

>>723146149
She doesn't have a user name or call sign. Just her name. So for players remember their player names, and for the hosts remember their real names. It's pretty straight forward.

Lee Kyung Hyung = Old host
Lee Eun-bin = new Host

BARRACKS FIGHTING

Bisu is a better ZvPer than Snow, if Soma gets through him he has a good chance against Snow. If Bisu wins vs Soma he'll get bulldozed by Snow the way Barracks will.
But hey at least Protoss fans will stop bitching

>>723146398
Very kissable, ngl with you fampai
No homo

TERRANBROS, GIVE barracks YOUR ENERGY


AHHHHHHH

>>723146528
BARRACKS TAKE MY ENERGY

I want Barracks to get ravaged so he quits StarCraft from the trauma and pivots into onlyfans

CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE
PLEASE CHEESE

>>723146528
BARRACKS
let's gooooooo

Fukken love this map

>>723146528
I was watching WC2 gameplay and how primative it is. If we had SC source code, we could just remkae Warcarft 1-2 in the SC:BW engine, and revamp the game. ie "Forrest" = minerals, and they mine the same way. Start with the "command center" isntead of having to build it. Paladins auto-heal, and Ogres auto berserk with a key command.

I just realized that ogre Bloodlust is the origin of Marine's "Stim". Pretty much everything in SC:BW comes from Warcraft, but refined with the needless removed. Footmen turned into Zealots for instance.

I liked Screaming Sea, it had some interesting games

>>723146386
>he'll get bulldozed by Snow
the last time snow vs'd Bisu was brutal. They picked an identical build but snow just destroyed him via micro.

>>723146697
SC is radically different how every faction is completely different. While in WC2 both factions are mirrors except for casters and a few unit upgrades. That's the revolution that makes SC eternal.

>>723146737
map is fucking huge, no way to really punish it

Did KESPA have a height requirement or something? Everyone seems pretty tall for Asian standards. Or are Koreans not as short as Chinese or Japanese?

that's a very ambitious third

Snow will just roll over him because of this 3rd

i respect the 3rd. You can't give snow an economic advantage. Time to take a risk.

>stargate
it's over

>>723146817
Only gigachads play scbw

it's over

what a disaster

grim

Barracks status: glowing and hard at wrok

I hate carriers so much it is unreal

uhhh

Unless?

How the fuck did he kill all those tanks with a gorillion goliaths around

MAEK GOLIATH

I love carriers
I recommend making shield batteries for your carriers when using them defensively

>>723147220
with carriers

>>723147269
Is this the secret to becoming an S rank tosser?

he's running out of interceptors

>>723146898
This game is over but it might go on for 20 minutes longer. Terrans can last a long time in an unwinnable situation.

it's time to get zealot speed snow

barracks status: in red health and slowly burning down.

gg
well played by SnOw, he really abused the terrain to its utmost

GREEDY MOFO BTFO

Should've made valkyries instead

>>723147486
valks deal 0 (zero) damage to carriers

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Hope status: gone

Only Soma can rid us if the Snow menace

>>723147521
This. I wish every race had fair and balanced units like siege tanks and vultures.

i'd grab her melons

Snow is easy to tilt. Barracks needs to steal a couple games through cheese

Damn, what a cutie.

>>723147567
The extremely long rush distance island map is out of the way. From here on out Barracks can actually push him with tanks. Trust the plan, I'm sure Calm thought of something for the other maps.

He should have built drop ships and dropped the island bases with vultures to kill all the probes.

great idea by Snow to choose that as the first map and play like an absolute bastard to get Barracks tilted right from the get go

ONE RACE TERRAN RACE

Terran cheese in 3...2...1...

I wanna slide my pole into barracks star if you catch my drift

the fuck are all these foreigner idiots always a muttosis dicksucker
>#patreon

Honkies spotted

>>723147785
>that time that FlaSh called his build the final solution

I fucking love the enthusiasm of these Korean casters

Wait what happened last time I remember snow was shitter. And what happened to Queen and Soulkey zergs used to dominate everything.

>>723148071
>queen
lost to a selection match shitter, mindbroken ever since
>soulkey
won ASL 4 times back to back, didnt get him the audience he craved, stopped practicing

>>723148071
Queen (zero) has struggled for a few seasons. Soul Key is top tier, but fumbled this year and got knocked out by Barracks.

mmmm ribber

get fucked

>>723147980
>that time when sAviOr played on his alt account wHiTe_sAviOr and spelled out 1488 with all his overlords

>>723147862
Because starcraft is a niche game outside of korea whereas eceleb worship is mainstream

barracks status: heating up and making snow start to drip

hoyl shit

fuck protoss

Oh nonono

>>723148285
UPDATE: barracks status critical, 5 HP and burning down, no SCV in sight

HOLY FUCK TOTAL ANNIHILATION

>>723148285
counterargurement: RIIBERYYYY

>crushed terran army on both sides
Those reaver shos man

mmmmmm sgarabbs

rip observer

What is it with terrans not using their free map hack??

Snow is just going to walk into his base and kill him

>>723148654
dishonorable. a t*ss wouldnt understand

Total SCV death

Fuck Snow is so good. his reavers are next level. The Protoss meta is that they're an early to mid game harassment unit. Snow makes them all game.

barracks gonna be so mad when he sees that bottom left exp on the replay

>>723148813
Yep. He would have broken him otherwise.

Perfect storms
Every time
Get rekt Terran

Hard to watch. My boy doesn't deserve this

>>723148898
reminds me of the guy from American Samurai

Snow status: uniquely shaped and frozen solid

>>723148938
He's really good, and provne himself and gotten a seed for next season, but Snow is the next tier above him.

>>723148875
I don't watch baseball, please explain

>>723148943
OwO, what's thank, tank-kun? Have you just shot your load? UwU

>>723148994
Jays came out of nowhere this season to be a top team, and just crushed the Yankees who were the favourite. They just played game 1 against their next proponent in the post-season and lost game 1.

Crazy that Barracks is years older than Snow.

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>>723148943
He was too busy at home and iddn't target select the reavers.

holy shit Barracks just won Google Play

Does barracks even know how to transition into a macro game?

Like half of his games is him needlessly putting himself into an all-in position because he refuses to expand or upgrade or some shit.

>>723149220
>Does barracks even know how to transition

He was so proud of his win against Mini I can't bare to watch him get 4 - 0d. Please win a game please win a game :(

>>723149312
barracksbros deserved better.

what happened in game 1?

>>723149406
2 base carrier

>>723149406
Rax got Carrier'd

saar please redeem

>>723149406
carrier has arrived.

>>723149487
>redeemumamorimigaaaaa

>>723149487
KUUKURU PREYRLRLRL

Snow is really good on this map. It's over for Barracks.

this reaver just doesn't fucking die

barracksbros, how we feeling about thisgame

Snow is becoming water.

good engagements for Barracks

>>723150332
Barracks if mining from one base

>>723150225
lifted up and soaring

>>723150590
not for long

JESAS

BarrackSbros...

Barracks status: eyes wide open, lips pressed tight

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

This fucking map

Oh my god Snow actually lost just because he didn't send up his idle probes, he'd have so much more economy if they actually mined. That wasn't a multitasking issue, just classic Snow throwing the game for no reason

Man

Holy fucking SHIT. Snow "lost" the game once Barracks pushed his natural, but like a rabid dog he kept fighting and fighting and wounded Barracks so many times. Those reavers got 28 kills and brought him back into the game, and kept killing SCVs. He brought out DTs, he threw everything to stay alive.

If a single victory is THIS hard, how can Barracks hope to win again? It took him everything to actually win for like 15 minutes.

kino game

we are back

Is this "woaah let's go" song a real song or jsut AI tripe?

TILT TILT TILT TILT TILT

>>723151062
AI slop

>>723151014
Barracks will get ghosts and lockdown the reaver shuttles

>>723151014
>>If a single victory is THIS hard, how can Barracks hope to win again? It took him everything to actually win for like 15 minutes.
No, you often see this. A weaker player gets a hardfought win and then just deflates.

Barracksgods we are so back

The pivotal moment where Snow almost came back was he had two reavers on high ground versus a strong Terran army. One reaver died, and the other was wounded, but survived and Barracks backed off. Then the reavers countered and almost brought Snow back into the game. The game hung in the balance for like 5 minutes during that slug fest.

>>723151014
>>723151168
Snow gets shaken pretty easily. There's a reason he never won a single Asl. This might have been enough to choke him

>>723151014
If Snow had all those idle probes mining he'd have way more units and barracks would have lost easily, so far he's got nothing

I've wondered about a "four player" series, but with a twist. Two players control one "player", affectively doubling APM.

>>723151272
thats archon mode in SC2. could be neat if they backported it

DISHONEST TERRAN

>>723151303
it's called Team Meele in SC1

gulp t. barracks

GET FUCKED, SCAMMER

>>723151014
Ah, you think the late game is your ally.
But you merely adopted the late game. I was born in it, molded by it.

I didn’t see a timing attack until I was already maxed; by then, it was nothing to me but inefficient!

The fog of war betrays you, because the map belongs to me.

I will show you where I have made my turrets while preparing to bring tanks.

Then I will break you.

its joever

Did Barracks make a profit on the 3rd base? Lost the CC, but didn't lose any actual SCVs.

EMBARASSING

It's never been so over

carriers AND arbiters?

that stasis

cloaked reaver is 200 IQ play

>>723151703
and now barracks blew all of his scans on that cloaked reaver
he won't have any free scans to scan the carriers
i think he intentionally depleted the scans

>>723151748
barracks is way ahead of you

Terrans need to train Ghosts and Lockdown carriers. I'm telling ya, it's the next meta. Screencap this post.

>>723151549
>Then I will break you
Snow just ripped his mask off

Damn, that was a mis-read. If he had known about the carriers he should have rushed the natural and pumped Golliaths.

F

>>723151910
what's the range on lockdown like? from my vague memory of the campaign is ludicrously long, but I'm not sure if spending all that gas to get two ghosts would be feasible

>>723151934
He scanned the carriers when Snow only had one. Barracks had all the tools in his hand to win.
Sending 10 tanks and 3 goliaths to bottom left was a massive blunder.

Well, at least it was 4-0

>>723151931
That would be extremely painful...

Tou have one (1) Science Vessel and see four (4) Carriers stacked over eachother.
Do you:
A) EMP the carriers
B) D-Matrix one Goliath

>>723151997
No way, he had to have missed that.

>>723152032
Wasn't*

>>723152054
EMP carriers to do hull damage with goliaths, surely they do too much dps for d matrix to be worthwhile

>>723152120
This poster is not Barracks

>>723152080
He absolutely scanned the fleet beacon. It was just after Snow was baiting scans with the arbiter+reaver.

>>723152054
>>723152149
EMP costs 200 gas to research, he probably didn't have it. He must have built the vessel just to counter the arbiter's cloak (and later EMP).

>>723151910
>>723151992
It's 7 IIRC. Ghosts dont work because they're expensive as fuck in gas, gas you need to get tanks so dragoons wont overrun you. They're incredibly frail, they require barracks, they require multiple expensive techs to be functional, and then you have to wait for them to get enough energy. If you try to use cloak to make them safer, you have to spend even more gas and wait even longer before you can deploy them. the protoss just pulls back his carriers and picks off the ghosts running forward over and over until the ghosts are dead. Or, if you keep building ghosts, slowly drain the tanks which costs too much gas to maintain.

Tomorrow is the real finals. If Soma gets through Bisu he will also be able to chew Snow, if Soma loses Snow curbstomps Bisu.

terranbros...

>>723152306
>Snow curbstomps Bisu.

excited to see if either player has a Litmus only three gas tactic ready

4-1 is about what we can expect. Barracks can get a seed, and spend the time learning to improve.

I've found this protoss music sounding a lot like Alchemly lab from Sotn

>wasting scarab money on a single turret instead of letting the goons deal with it for free
This will cost Snow the game 45 minutes from now

It's probably over. At least Barracks got 1 game off Snow.

>>723152708
he's getting a lot of Snow's seed in his ass right now

>>723152231
>>723151910
if protoss is going 2base carriers and you scan the fleet beacon asap you can go ghosts + m&m
unfortunately protoss just needs to switch to something else and then you're stuck with bio against toss, aka you're screwed
protoss can cancel his carriers and go for dweb corsairs instead. this is a real thing trust me pls

This is to be expected, honestly. I like BarrackS but SnOw is just too good.
>inb4 SnOw loses in the grand finals YET AGAIN and is denied another ASL

>>723152856
Snow reavers are just evil. how does he do it? They're like a totally different unit for him in PvT.

>>723152847
>m&m
against snow? He will rape 200 supply of marines with a single reaver

gg

INVISIBLE MEN

These fucking reavers.

>>723153076
Cute.
>>723153081
Too good. No one does it like SnOw.

TOTAL TERRANNY DEATH!

the dream is over

>>723153016
CLOSE YOUR FUCKING MOUTH, HARLOT

>>723153016
>>723153076

man I love those korean dolls

>>723152901
his fingers are too fucking fast, that's why his wife loves him

>>723153170
cant after the surgeon tightened her face too much

Snow's son giving him extra reaver powers, his ASL to win

thoughts?

why is the cutie not on stage interviewing Snow, are they afraid she'd get pregnant?

Does BarrackS even have a gf? He's in his mid 30s, no wife or anything what's up with that

>>723153397
Soma 4-2

>>723153397
Rooting for Soma just so we can avoid PvP but Snow will win the finals either way

>>723153397
I think bisu will win but I hope soma beats him so we get an actual great finals, same race finals are so boring

>>723153397
I really, really want another protoss champion. Hope soma loses so it's guaranteed, even at the cost of a PvP finals.

>>723153170
>not being too distracted by falling in love with the reluctant one on the left
gay

>Bisu wins
>Snow rapes him 4-0 with no mercy
>soma wins
>we get a great 7-games match, with Snow coming out on top

>>723153528
Third from the left with the brown hair is the cutest.

>>723153397
I want bisu to win
but I would bet money on soma

>>723153432
https://namu.wiki/w/%ED%99%A9%EB%B3%91%EC%98%81

Dating section is completely blank, but it says his family is well off.

>>723153572
Yeah exactly. I feel if Bisu wins there's no way he can win against Snow, if Soma is in the finals we can see some of the greatest games ever

>>723153397
Sadly Bisu will win 4 - 3

I don't think I have the stomach to watch a PvP final

>>723153528
I was distracted by the drawing of reaver.

Do you think Bisu will tell about taking a huge shit once again tomorrow?

>>723153930
Qrd?

>>723154072
https://youtu.be/A-EM7-G44fA?t=359
6:00 - 6:10

>>723154213
>Bisu... that's too much information.

It pisses me off how much Soma has been playing ZvT online these past days. Like dude you knew there was zero chance of Barracks winning while Snow has to prepare vs T and Z and P you should have been 100% ballsdeep training ZvP

>>723154343
he's probably keeping his zvp builds secret and not streaming his practice

>>723154213
It's funnier if you think the thumbnail was Tastosis reaction to what he said

>>723154458
Still wasting time

>>723155176
he's just enjoying kino marine vs mutalisk games

I feel like snow and effort were consistently the best players this tournament kinda gay they got matched early

Soma will avenge Barracks

>>723155437
overall it makes sense that players that finish first in their group face players that finish second
but yeah snow was unlucky to get matched against effort