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I used to sometimes watch tournaments a long time ago ( Back when TLO, Huk were even a thing ). What are some of the best games from the tournaments over the last couple of years? I do read liquipedia every once in a while so I do know who is winning what but I never watched any of the games.
Any fav games that also have a decent backdrop to it?
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I still really enjoy watching old GSLs with tasteless and artosis. Do you have a favorite player?
Parting always had some crazy builds.
There was a season or two where Maru would do proxy barracks almost every map and still win.
A lot of Korean players have been swapping in and out due to their military requirement.
Dark has some crazy queen rushing builds if you like zerg or Dark.
ESL is going on right now and getting closer to the finals if you want to catch some current games.
I remember Partings hold against life like it was just yesterday. Used to like him. I also caught Rogues games in the last few years and liked how he steamrolled his opponents in knockout rounds.
My favorite tourney recently was the WTL team league. Clem basically won against every top player in a row to try to win for his team.
It was a great tourney.
2-0 Serral
3-0 MaxPax
2-0 herO
2-0 Dark
2-0 Maru
2-2 ByuN
3-1 Reynor
Clem is insanely talented. Probably one of the few players who could stream every game they played and be studied and still be successful. He is just so solid in all of the ways that matter, and he is incredibly patient.
Life vs s0s 2015 WCS
This is the craziest game I think I've ever seen. Artosis and Tasteless are awesome casting as well.
https://youtu.be/w7hsngVNwlk?si=SqhUR3uuJbwN-6v2
I made a post some time ago listing some of the greatest games from LotV era (2016 to present), it includes 3-5 games from each match up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1bfflkn/my_personal_list_of_the_greatest_sc2_games_in/
That should be enough for you to chew on for a while.
Homestory Cup X Finals, Game 7 - Flash vs Parting GSL Finals, Game 5 - MVP vs Squirtle
Honestly the whole series of MVP v Squirtle is worth it, especially because of the story it tells
Clem vs Serral. Dreamhack Atlanta. And master coliseum
This. There's a 40 minute game between them where the action never stops. It's absolutely deranged.
Game 3 is wild.
Also dark/Serral is some wild zvz. The way Serral blocked the gold on equilibrium
I came to this thread to recommend that series. The only thing is that I would specify that game three of their match in Atlanta might be one of the best games of all time.
Yea game 3 was nuts lol.
It thought it was masters coliseum 7. It was not. Clem went out in the group stage. It was the 2023 ESL winter finals between Clem and Serral. They just have exciting matches whenever they play. Clem is soooooo fuckin good at sniping banes. He just shoots them all before they can even get close to touch the marines. Shoots all of them. All the time. They never connect lol. Fungals are good ways to end the game tho.
They just play sc the way zvt should be played.
2018 gsl va the world finals
Serral vs Stats
Banger
QXC reverse all kill was so fucking hype. I’m sure the VOD is up some where. This was in an era of almost total isolation of foreigners and Koreans,
https://starcraftdrama.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/qxc-all-kills-incredible-miracle-in-the-gstl/
Also incredible miracle was considered the strongest clan at that time by a good margin.
I remember this dreamhack finale between Jaedong and Stardust was batshit crazy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DVChrbDKshs&pp=ygUXU3RhcmR1c3QgamFlZG9uZyBmaWJhbGU%3D
Masa vs scarlett casted by incontrol and nathanias, that shit is funny as fuck.
Oliveira vs Reynor, almost any Clem vs serral or reynor series, 2016 Byun was also a pleasure to watch.
This game only really "works" if you were a SC2 fan in the early days. But I always love it when an old school player pulls out an obsolete strategy from the old days and defeats a newer player with it, largely because the newer player has never seen it before and doesn't understand what's happening. So I really appreciated Game 1 of Byun v. Firefly in this year's Katowice even if the game itself wasn't that critical.
And going way back, there's always the classic nestea v. anypro, where nestea pulls out a strategy that nobody else thought of. The complete confusion of Tastosis makes this one even better: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17DDFVNXbkI
I loved most of the fruitdealer games, perhaps cuz game was new and pretty much something unexpected happened every game. Also parting & first soul train game
Strange vs Polt Best draw Ever. Have to watch.
Maru vs TY, GSL finals.
There are two of them and both are great.
U realize
Most of that army
Was halluc
Solar getting nuked
Maru nuking himself
Best basetrade ever: Patience vs Trap
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vMjXfc2cNY
Honestly the Oliveira Katowice was the biggest upset almost ever.
Serral winning Blizzcon 2018.
Fist of Neeb game: Neeb vs Rogue, I think it's in 2017.
HSC 20 was the best event in SC2 history IMO.
IEM Toronto was a magnificent tournament with a lot of great storylines.
WCS EU was probably the best SC2 show there was. The Duckdeok win, the Grubby wins, all amazing moments. Even the Grubby loss perhaps, mb it was S3? PiG beating Happy.
ForGG winning ECCHHH! moment.
SoO's storyline 2nd place in every tournament ending in a 1st place at Blizzcon.
Scarlett versus Bomber at Redbull Battlegrounds. Game 3 on Habitation Station
If you have preference about which race you want to watch, you can provide it so people can recommend games for your favorite race.
For me, Clem vs Serral in the ESL Winter 2023 is the skill peak of StarCraft II in the past 14 years.
Although they faced each other again in the IEM Katowice 2024 (and many tournaments in the past), but they performed best in the ESL Winter 2023 imo.
Yea that series. And Atlanta game 3. The way zvt is supposed to be viewed