Reynor vs Oliveira is my new favorite StarCraft 2 series! 

The Oliveira story is like an anime come to life.

Oliveria got through the group stage by 1 map… not game, map… The ultimate underdog story!

Only a fool doesn’t fear a Normal Man. Olivera was a lesson in humility to everyone who thought highly of themselves this year. Perhaps it was simply…. His Time.

Oliveira's run this entire tournament was amazing to watch. So many absolutely insane games with nail biting finishes.

Maru: The ghosts Byun: the frantic last minute bio splits Clem: The mines Olivera: the defence-in-depth-tank positioning 4 different flavors of Terran... all beautiful.

Game 2 deserves to be turned into an action film.

You know a Terran is feeling supremely confident when sees a mass of banelings rolling at him, and he stands his ground to target them down instead of splitting to minimize the damage.

I have a feeling even Oliveira is looking over the replays of this entire tournament over and over again and appreciating his work of what he did. Every day he would be doing this with a great smile on his face. He played so beautiful and was the most beautiful tactical genius displays from a Terran player I have ever seen throughout a tournament.

A guy who was ranked 21st in the world, whoes best record and dream was top 8 before, whoes country does not even have SC2 server now, who had no team helping him among the matches, and whoes last tounament was 0-6 such that he even retired the name TIME, has now take down the worlds' all top 4 players and the every 1st ranked player of Z, P, and T in the tournament. Literally no one can doubt the genuine of this champ title.

That last game though, absolute terran perfection. The tank lines, the marine reinforce non-stop, the splits.

1:01:45 was definitely amazing. Almost a cinematic advance from Oliveira

this years ESL was insane from start to finish and Oliveira put a golden crown on top of it

Oliveira was an absolutely madman. Historical by all words

Hey Winter, I just want to say your casting videos have been absolutely on point this year! You've mentioned that the channel is doing better, or that you're feeling better, or maybe some of both, but it absolutely shows! Your enthusiasm, humor, and edutainment style has made SC2 a joy to watch. Thank you!!!

God damn... this is exactly how i envisioned terran in my head if i was ever able to play that well. Absolutely beautiful. almost like its exactly how terran is supposed to be played.

Thanks for narrating SC2 games all these years, I love watching your videos and being glued to the screen because of the excitement of the game and the way you describe it

Time actually repairing his air units, absolute madness. Even if you say smashing the like button isn't as relevant, I will still do my duty

I really liked that Oliviera never back down from a fight. Always pushing and rarely retreating. Well done!

01:09:51 Winter sounding downright emotional there

Its funny how humble Winter is. Yes ur Commentary has improved alot but like ever are u the best SC2 Commentator i will always only watch. Keep it up!

love that your loving casting so much brother bc we'r here for it!

I have a theory that Oliveira (Time) is actually employing techniques from various games here such as Age of Empires and other strategy games. I've used that funneling technique on AofE instead of a wall off and works really well. Especially with the fact that Reynor is under a high amount of stress while under attack.

When you say, "... Against the Former champion", I déjà vu almost instantly at WWF and the early WWE days 20 years ago, excitedly reciting, "Against the Former World Heavyweight Champion... Brrrrrrrrrockkkkkkk Lesssssnaaaaaaaarrrrrrr!

Thanks for the great content. Been my weekly meditation through college and now i graduated. I can support you. Keep up the great work🙏

I just cannot get over how skilled these players are. I was so caught up in the series but this one marine split made me notice how much other stuff they're doing so quickly. Just one example at 1:14:53, Oliveira: Queues up 2 marines Retreats some forces Scrolls his camera to his reinforcements Sieges his tank Splits his marines into 3 small groups Queues up 3 more marines Selects his army and A-moves Unsieges the tank Queues up 1 more marine in the span of about four seconds. What the fuck. What a series.

Massive respect to Reynor as well this game. With all the pressure of him being the previous world champion and Olivera being seen as not on the same level at all as Reynor I feel Reynor took the loss very well. A lot of players could get upset or annoyed going 2-0 up, looking like a blow out just to get ground down in the next 3 games, but Reynor gave him the Well played at the end of the series and it certain was well played. Definitely deserved, big respect to both players

It's good you enjoy casting SC2 because we enjoy watching the games with you! The commentary makes it much more fun and informative :)

Also I always had an eye on Time after watching that one video of yours where he was going up against Serral and was slugging it out. He had incredible Bane targeting then too.

Fantastic series, one of the most dramatic I've seen in a long long time. A victory well won Oliveira.

I want to say what I think about this match in Spanish: Ha sido una gloriosa batalla. Esto resume lo que es StarCraft II

Just looking at these comments. Yeah we all loved the winner's performance. So fun to watch it happen live!

"I'm 1/3 terran myself" this has to go into the Winter audio pak

Was literally cheering during video. Oliveiras playing was great to see and love underdog coming through.

bro you are crushing the commentary! Every one of these match ups gets my so amped up

Thank you for the cast! I don't know about other people but I enjoy your coverage.

Happy you loving this year mate, because we loving watching you!

Great cast Winter! Thanks!

Your regular uploads are always appreciated, ty.

Wow, awesome series. Great cast, Winter!

the problem with fighting late game zerg with, well, anything really in sc1 was plague: instant-cast ability from the defiler that deals approximately 500 health damage over a massive area (bypasses shields), it couldn't technically kill anything but it took almost any unit and even half the structures in the game down to the point where mutalisk bounces finished them off, defiler abilities were so powerful that they would be borderline game breaking even without their consume ability and since a defiler could just eat two zerglings and cast another plague or dark swarm adding it to a unit comp just straight up hard countered literally any unit in the game as long as you could input 2 commands for each of your opponent's 30 or so depending on their comp (including zerg ones so in theory they hated them too but usually ZvZ was a quick and brutal fight balancing trying to kill them at the 3 minute mark with lings vs having 1 more mutalisk than your opponent when they could first pop). what you were describing wasn't so much a _good_ composition for terran to use against zerg as it was the _only_ composition terran could even pretend to use against late-game zerg, it was just quite literally the only thing that you could try to do since you can spread tanks out really far and their splash still deals some damage against units inside a dark swarm, next best option for terran lategame against zerg would be to make half your army science vessels and spend the game trying to cast irradiate a couple times a second...and try to keep them alive with 1 hitpoint and no ground army...yeahno. all that said the game really did mostly come down to who could control things better and who was better at prioritizing where to put their valuable attention, what made defilers and to a lesser degree storm so stupidly overpowered wasn't the outright power of the abilities it was how much attention and how many actions were required to respond to them: that "2 actions vs 30 or so" is not an exaggeration, it's an understatement since it doesn't mention that those 30 commands take place over a large and varried span of time and a situation dependent plan of action vs literally just hitting a key and clicking your mouse. it'd actually be a lot more than ~30 but you don't have good odds of anything hit by plague living to a point where it can start recovering.

Usually I think BO5s are too long but these games were all so epic I don't mind.

don't even play sc2, but love your content - u give a lot of context, and it feels like I already know the players and meta due to your great commentary, keep it up! cheers from brazil

Cialdini's principle of commitment - love it! Smash that like button. Awesome cast. Thank you, Winter. I watch them all to the end. You are doing a great job.

24:26: One game from elimination Goes on to win the tournament 😭 he was so inspiring this tournament

Great cast as usual Winter and an excellent choice of series to cast too!

Great series!! Love the commentary.

Awesome series 👍! Even though I haven't played SC2 in a few years now (bronze league hero here lol) I still love watching your casts, SC2 is definitely the most enjoyable E-sport to watch imo. Keep up the great work

"Score the basket in the endzone" a fellow sports aficionado I see

“A normal man” Possibly my favorite card

I only caught the last 2 games live. But man, some of Raynor's reactions are heart breaking. I think you are doing yourself a disservice by not adding a reaction to the player's cam in the end of the video. Some of Maru's at the final are classics too

This was a badass watch!!! Winter's game call from basically 59:00 on was top notch!

Those siege lines are stuff nightmares are made out of.

Those blue flame Hellchads came in clutch. Underestimated & Underrated, much like Oliveira!

Winter: "does queen taste like chicken?" UK viewer: "hmmmm... where is the tomb again?"

I always laugh and smile when the FUSSSSIOOOON CORE!! song comes on and declaration is made.

LOVE YOU WINTER. THE ABSOLUTE GOAT OF SC2 CASTING

That was fantastic. Best seris I have seen in ages too

You're honestly the best there is. Besides the Arty and Tasty combo of course.

i freaking luved this tournament it was just simply amazing, sc2 still slaps!!!

The quality of the games this past few months have just been insane. What an impressive come back!

My favorite round of the tournament, the cota-finals.

One man beats down all the top dog: HeroMarine, Reynor, HerO, Maru !!! What a TIME to be alive ;))

LUV ur commentary!

Best commentary in the west, probs the middle section of earth too

Bruh I'm loving Oliveira gameplay! So entertaining. Amazing gameplay! GG

"I'm getting better. It's Time to take a Latin nickname!"

I've watched Oliveira's games already but have to come back to the best SC2 caster - Blizzard needs to put Winter on the pay roll.

God it was so good from start to finish!!

Great commentary for the great games

The most epic come back ever! Crazy!

We all support you, and your work, and we all are impressed by your work and how you manage to work so well despite Jimmys neverending failures.

This series, is more than epic

Reynor, o especialista em perder de virada kkkkkk. Mais emocionante que esse jogo. Só aquele que Maru venceu de Reynor por 4x3, sendo que Reynor começou com um mapa de vantagem, venceu 2, e perdeu 4 seguidos na final do campeonato. Top demais Winter

人皇登基的转折之战. always great commentary from winter.

im 39 years old and i loved starcraft broodwars... love your content, dont like you telling me i'm old.... though i'm not young... but nice content sc ftw

The basket in the endzone baby

UN FN REAL. WHAT A SERIES.

Winter, I would LOVE to see one broodwar game casted by you. Maybe not as a regular thing but like a one time even that would be awesome-

Awsome! Olivera! This video:Its about damb "Time"

What a series and comments ❤

Epic run!

There's a new sheriff in town!

WHAT A SERIES

that black bomber jacket and gold rim glasses clearly gave him the bravado needed to pull a legendary championship run.

Beautiful games.

Winter dude please tell me what music plays when you announce the fusssion coree

Holy shit what a Game, the real underdog story

It is impressive that Raynor managed to get to 2 - 0 against the best player in the world.

1:02:10 Libs killing broodlords!! Honestly winter underestimates lib AA damage. It's not fast, but it's not really slow either. It's slow to *kill* units, and as a result it's poor at dedicated AA since it's expensive and doesn't actually reduce the threat from the enemy (since you're doing steady damage across the board not killing individual units), so as a result libs don't really live long enough for their attack to measure up. But if you have several libs, or just a few with an upgrade advantage; I mean it's 10 damage a shot, very few air units have that much health. Overlords are an exception, really

Wow what a reverse sweep

Crazy game

amazing games

More proof that Terran will always win against Zerg without cheese, glad to see it. Hope more people switch races and leave the bugs in the dirt.

every terran been coping on the widowmines vs zerg but TIME showed that siege tanks has always been the king

Thx winter

game2 on the ramp: Oliveria pressed 2 stim shots instead of 1. the difference between life and death.

Have you seen what happens in those Hatcheries? There is a whole lotta egg lov'in rub'in more so than a genie's lamp, and thats, (egg opens) Kazam!, another brood.

This whole tournament could be made into a Disney movie.

The issue with the ultra buffs is that they've been buffing ultras in all the ways that ultras didn't NEED any buffs. Sure, they're pretty nice buffs, but if the ultras aren't killing anything, you're still spending too much. Look, ultralisks require 450 worker-seconds of resources, give or take. An *entire* 60 drone economy takes up to 7 full seconds to fund a single ultralisk. Zerg usually needs to make like 10 ultralisks, so thats 70 FULL SECONDS of economy that basically stops existing, all for a group of units that doesn't kill anything and then dies in a quarter of that time. Ultras are too expensive to do nothing but soak damage, they *need* to acquire their value by killing enemy units, but they just can't atm, because stim marauders exist and ultras stop moving to attack, so the units ultras are supposed to counter just *don't* get countered by it. That's why ultralisks are such throw units, because if they don't get their value back in damages, that's well over a minute of endgame economic blackout. At the pro level, over a minute of basically doing nothing is an instant loss. Ultralisks thusly are basically an instant loss, unless you're essentially a whole minute ahead of your opponent and have the metaphorical time to spare. The buffs to speed were nice. The size reduction is *very* nice and what I consider to be the first step in the right direction, as that indirectly buffs the ultras ability to tank autoattack damage. But ultimately, ultralisks still *don't do anything* because their expenses just simply demand too much compared to what they're capable of. Make them able to attack while moving and that would solve this problem without needing to give them a dumb ability like burrow charge. Alternatively drop 50/50 cost off of them if we are *really* committed on ultras not being allowed to kill things.

I like how the seasoned players add a "wp" when they lose to the underdog. Maybe it's not that, but to me it shows a little recognition from their side.