Star Blog #37

U wanna get Combat Cannoned?

ROFL First of all here is some back story for anyone who doesn't know who these players are.

EG HuK might be the best Protoss player in the world. He is definetly one of the top foreigners on the scene and just won his second MLG.

CombatEX is a stream sniper. He's an ok player but wins more by distracting his opponent with trash talk and by watching his stream (a lot of pro players stream their ladder games live for the fans - they make revenue on the ads etc.)

So they played a couple of times yesterday. HuK beat CombatEx in game 1. It was a draw in game 2 and CombatEX wanted the 3rd game so HuK palyed him. Now normally HuK wouldn't play with the dub-step cranked lol but he was just laddering and practiciing so he would have normally heard CombatEX setting up shop in his base.

Ok that's the back drop. When I watched this live yesterday as soon as I saw Combat's setup I was like "well at least the pro's die to cheese to" but then HuK just went all pro on his ass. No way HuK should win in this situation - CombatEX is mining unharrased building up his economy and cranking out units from 2 gates in his opponents main. HuK's probes aren't mining a lot of the time as he micro's around trying to beat the 2 gates and units down with his probes and 1 gate. HuK just displayed some godlike micro skills, mineral walking, surrounding, holding etc. just awesome stuff. CombatEx isn't a horrible player - he can play so it's not like HuK was microing against a total scrub....but CombatEx just got out classed and about 6000 people were watching it live. Such a chump.