StarCraft 2 - INnoVation vs. Life (TvZ) - IEM Katowice 2015 - Ro16 

1:55 "Life is life! Na-Na-Na-Na-Na!" That was hilarious :D

although the result wasn't what I rooted for, those games were still EPIC ! 1st : 12:34 2nd : 23:57 3rd : 44:22 4th : 1:07:50 5th : 1:27:45

1:01:30 "I need the bathroom man" "Yeah..."

wow these guys are so fucking good. insane.

Thanks Innovation, now I'm Hellbat pushed in every ZvT

That last game was some God level control by Life to push back the 1st big push at the 4th. Definitely a game to rewatch as Zergs to study how to control your army. It really showed how tough it is to win from behind in ZvT. I would have liked to see some burrow baneling play from Life like Leenock uses in proleague. He clearly has the apm to pull it off.

Life deals with multiple widow mine drops while taking engagements on the Map and all Protoss has to do is Deal with Mine Drops while Turtling till A-move Timing and Can't even do that right. SMH

Those games were all awesome! Good played both players.

25:18 I know what you see on the map, I see it too c:

love how the music starts playing before gg was called in the last match.

Sad that Life loses...

Isn't life the loser that participated in match fixed games? If so, he's the reason why the scene took a blow it would never recover from.

The Thor pickups in game 3 at the end won INnovation the game !

All respect lost for innovation with those manner mules smh.

so much bs widow mines and hellbats so fucking op takes no skill to play terran widow mine cost the same as fucking roach ugtbfkm

How did the seeding work that arguably 2 of the best players in the world played eachother in the first round?

Holy SHIT, Starcraft 2 gets a full scale production for their tournaments. The best we get at EVO is some guys in a hot hotel conference room on a crappy Twitch stream!! Ok maybe I am exaggerating a little, but still EVO is NOTHING like this!!

That was the closest best of 5 I've ever seen.

life is the jaedong of sc2

While I do agree that widow mines are bad for overall game balance. They are not 0 APM units, you need to spread them just like marines and burrow/unborrow and spread again and again each time you stutterstep forward with your bio. Banelings are way more braindead untis then widow mines. And Mutalisks with their ultrafast hp regen out of combat are pretty broken aswell, they can easy absorb some thor or turret shots and survive with 10% hp only to be full hp again a couple of seconds later, where as in WoL, thor shots or templar storm was more devastating. Not even to start about their stupidly fast movement speed. The little micro a zerg requires is to not have their banelings explode on a single marauder or thor and they will always trade cost efficient.

i just started playing starcraft and this is incredible :o i know its im possible to get on this level of skill but i want to get as close as possible, these matches were the best video ive seen for a long time.

Why do all these pro SC2 nerds also have to look like nerds? Can't there just be one game where one of these cats like breakdances in with a forty and a jacket with neon lights on it and karate chops somebody in the throat? Now THAT would be bad ass. And I'm pretty sure all asians know how to breakdance.

So I just found out a great severe issue and hope to get a response from Battle.net soon because I have a 2560x1440pres screen and they have that option to play the game in. But my mouse wont even move at all and it wasn't due to mouse settings but the so called representative who replied to my ticket said to change my dpi settings? Has anyone ever seen the changes made to text and font size on a 2560x1440p res screen at 27inches on a monitor? yeah I have to fucking squint. He even asks me to log out or restart to apply the settings? I don't understand how an idiot as a representative is giving me this a resolution and doesn't realize perhaps users or even me needed or want to use font and text at 150 or 200 percent, personally i think 150 is good enough. So I thought why not now set the setting back to 150 text font size while game is launched, nope... game will run but mouse wont move and also therefore game is no t playable unless i revert or change to 100percent or you know lower my setting at 1080 just to run this game or stay at 2560x1440p and suffer smaller text and all menus and windows really small on my res screen just so i can play this game? I'm sorry but if you ask me this is false advertisement and the game doesn't run on full specs according to a proper advertised list of right and regulations. It;s the year 2015, this is pathetic to be called a fix. P.S I don't mean or am ranting about the game and I hope to still play it but i'm not going to suffer the consequences of always having to log out/restart to apply text font smaller setting just to play this game, if anyone out there has a solution, it would much be appreciated as I don't think Battle.Net has any good advice to offer.

InControl really knows what he's talking about, you got professional gamer Snute backing up and reiterating every point he makes.

I'm not sure how to feel about all the QQ in the comments. On the one hand it's discouraging how little people understand race balance (hint: the matchups are at a good balance state now). On the other, the lack of knowledge means more people than just the most hardcore are still watching SC2 vods.

So epic, wow. I thought it was going to go the other way until the last 1 minute. I think Life expected that he could ease off after he took that CC with his mutas.

Life is still a better player

Rip life

DAM i thought life is going to win the last one even his banes got pretty decent hits initially the rest cannot even connect to a bunch of marines :( really marines have insanely high dps, although they need some skill to spread but when they spread they are god, they move rapidly and most importantly they dont have any delay between attacks and kill everything that really makes me feel bad

Oh boy I wonder who wins

ZvT match so tiring and fatigue, it's a like a marathon except you must sprint it through. stupid widow mine..

48:53 "Very heavily" the korean in him came out LOL

I wish a Zerg player could be a Champ!! :D

Life deserved the win f innovation :) Life 4 Life xDD

mmm yea... tasty barbecue! Ripperino Zerg

SPOILER: Zerg butthurts in the comments.... What a happy picture :)

does anyone miss SC1? if it got updated graphics it would be unbeatable RTS

Song at 22:30?

I honestly have a serious personal hatred for Widow Mines (WM) but, I have to say I think Dark's Corruptor/Baneling/Zergling build against this blind WM production do ease the pain of large encounters like the ones life lost at the end of this game. Anyway, amazing series, Innovation is a great player and Life, I believe, lost because he did not prevent the second Hellbat push by Innovation in the third game. GG, Inno.

The Terrnan player INnoVation, huh?

cen-TRIF-u-gal hooks.

Love how innovation actually get the WM upgrade every match because they are so useful but I really dont like how he controlled his widow mines.....really those mines killed more friendly units than zergs...

Innovation vs. Life :D This is Poland ad :D

Very good games and very close.

ppl complaining about op. not really. if u say tvz imba, zvp. even taeja says so. totally depends on race mu and timeframe in the game. each race balances against one of the other 3 overall, but loses advantage at a certain time in the game.

innovation very smart - he knew the mutalisk hovering given position and army balance didn't make sense and was just a diversion. then stormed out mass marine ftw

when are you guys gonna start uploading 1080p videos

Inno losing game 2 is just proves how insane Life was. No zerg should even win in those spawn positions. Like that is nuts. And inno even played good! It's not like he threw

that was a great series

ajajajajajajaj buenosi k la batlla estuvo emocionante pero hayta llorar si hay varios campeonatos ps life

2020?

The first 2 minutes of multiplayer sc2 should be taken out and the players just given them. Honestly, they are kind of a waste of time, considering all that practice time some Koreans probably wasted building that same monotonous first barracks and supply depot.

Terrnan player InnoVation takes on Zerg player Life. ESL. I'm dissapointed.

71 is a relatively low drone count?

_Meanwhile in the description..._ >Terrnan Whoever works on these videos much be tired.

The soundtrack at 42:30 min break is very fitting the climax! wander what is its name :p!

why only asian expecially korean playing this game? is this really world champion? or just local tour.

Whats up with all players having that bowl justin bieber cut...the pimples?

I really don't feel respect for Innovation. He only won because of blind mass production of Widow Mines. Life made some crazy micro tricks against zero (0) APM cheapo unit like WM, but in the end it's very difficult to win all engagements. And if a PRO player can't stabilize some kind of area control, how a regular player can? David Kim should get - at last - fired for this shit. If Toss players whine for SH, Zerg players should had demolished Blizzard's buildings by now for that stupid balance.

no goliaths no tanks no flying locust ........ so sad

teran game stayle is much harder so many buildings add ons, scv control.. macro and units are so difrent

Every game was decided by whether Innovation could or could not take advantage of Life's early greed.

the left commentator looks like a gayer boromir

Apologize for playing that race..

if life pp then he would have more advance to win

lol we could solve California's drought with all these Zerg Tears.

I just love Life an INnoVation!They have most beautiful style of playing this game.Just love it!

rip for the swarm host commander haha

Widow mines are so ridiculous

stop panning out the camera to the players

Innovation mule drops >.> but I thought he was a machine.

This is just stupid. Life is probably best zerg in world, and even he can only try to defend against terran. Balance itself is still not so bad after all, but I dont personally like the idea how zerg can only try to defend and survive somehow.

Who is the oldest starcraft progamer?

Epic series, found myself rooting for life which is weird since I usually root for the Terran

this truely was the finals in all honesty, more intense and closer than any other series, and almost double the views of all other seires

Widow mines need to be nerfed... :-/ this was actually upsetting to watch life lose these matches... he hasthe best micro in the game, and the best macro in the game... and yet he loses to one or two widow mine hits... shame.. :-/

lol dam that bansee and merlin

so much hate in these comments :(

who map they playing on?

1:42:42 Fixed game. Why pull back?

i have no idea what this is XD

Bio/mine is stupidly OP.

All videos I watched of Starcraft II tourneys, no one uses Protoss. Why is that?

is it just me or does the audio keep cutting out?

Terran gud race.

Terrnan? Really description?

building hatch ftk is not necessarily taunting. vs the strongest opponents, you do that to lock them in just in case they survive, then pressure in with towers and respawning or nydus reinforcements right there

Haha dem widow mines tho, get beasted son

that was confusing i thought life was the zerg and innovation was the terran because of their shirt colors

First time seeing manner hatcheries.

What's a katowice?

Oh my god, that asian analyst in the end, he talks sooo american-commentator like :)

background siffling noise

Why terran has played no tanks, they are so dammit good against zerlings

Happy ling...... sad ling..... xD

yoloooo

this series is far better than the finals!! xD

vlf

vlf

This game was hot as hell. I enjoyed this epic!