SearchIEM: We Have a Winner
Posted by Lasse "Enron" Engen 1 year ago
How do you spell 'the best player in the world'? MorroW. Stefan "MorroW" Andersson amazingly won the grand final of the Intel Extreme Masters at Gamescom 3-1 over IdrA.
It took them four games, and the young, Swedish Terran player came out on the top after amazingly taking down IdrA 3-1 in the grand final for Intel Extreme Masters at Gamescom.
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I thought that if I went for reapers all the first games I could fake a reaper rush in the final game” - Morrow
That was what MorroW said after the games, and it worked out very well. With brilliant reaper micro, especially in the first game, and going for reapers all of the first three matches he tricked IdrA into believing he was going for reapers also in the final game at Steppes of War, making a Tech Lab to his barracks and hiding a factory in the back of his main. Greg "IdrA" Fields sacrificed an overlord to find out what was going on, but MorroW hid his marauders and hellions well, and could eventually celebrate a well performed, and timed push which made him the winner of IEM Global Challenge.
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| Nice to see a swedish winner ;)! Gratz Morrow, nice played. |
| LOL Razer,i literally fell off my chair GJ morrow won fourth game like a boss, utilizin mind tricks n all impressive O_O |
| are the girls included in the prize? if so .... have fun morrow :P |
haha he played mindgames with Idra. Everyone thought Idra would win this and then MorroW comes as a stand-in and takes the title, what a story.  |
| Amazing! |
| amazing imba wh\er is the pach people loss money zerg need to op is fucking weak |
| Great play by MorroW! : ) |
| zzzzzzzzzzzz at TerranCraft 2. |
| so, in sc2 u can reaper every tvz and have a high chance to win if you are good... thats not too cool, i liked sc1 more 8(. |
Gratz morrow. You really deserved this win! And again thx for minerals  |
| MORROW!!!!!! F*CK YEA! |
| @6 agreed but still im glad to see some top t players have accepted the imbalance You have to relay on your opponents mistakes in t v z which is not even fair Also as can be seen in the last game if dont have luck u cant scout properly and its gg Never liked idra so much cuz of hismanner but he deserved more than this i think i feel sad about TLO also |
| Morrow obviously deserved to win. GJ! |
gz, great to see a terran win a tournament for once!  |
| lol yea he mind fucked him :D and im glad he lost all he ever does is cry lol it was b-day too yesterday i guess he didn't wish for the right thing :D |
| zerato...grow up dude |
| How can people seriously say that he does not deserve to win, when he obviously won because he is amazingly good and knows how to play well under pressure. In the end, a win is a win, regardless of how you play and what race you were playing. Excuses are just silly and immature. You do what you have to do to win, and MorroW did that, and can now happily be proud of his achievement and the $5,000. Congratulations MorroW! |
| we need balance patch so badly!!! Anyways.....GG`s MorroW superb play ultra good mikro nice nice nice Pwning TLO, DIMAGA and Idra also HuK loosing just to Tarson in all tour u deseved it 100% |
| Great stuff, glad morrow won, viking fighting! |
| What MorroW did in the last game wasnt exactly difficult. Wall in, put marines at the edges, and tech for something else. Zerg can do fuck all. Congratulations to him however. |
| wOw and he wudnt have been there is not for the visa issues gj morrow... |
| Reapers are not imba. Just look at the micro he used to utilize them! His micro makes them good. SO DESERVED !! Morrow is a Brood War legend. And now he gets the full respect and attention he deserves. So happy for you man !! SWEDEN FIGHTING <<<33333 SO MUCH LOVE |
| rofl definetly not the best player in the world, just knows how to abuse imbalance for which i dont blame him idra is still the better player, though morrow is 2nd |
| morrow is imba |
| Terran 3 -1 idra. |
| GG cu idra, run back to korea ! |
| ahhh, all those winers joining Idra's "terran is imba" rant... imo zerg is overpowered - broodlords are crying to be nerfed, banelings also. guess we'll have to wait for the Koreans to take on SC2 properly until we'll see how ridiculously imba SC2 still is and how it can be exploited. |
| so much crying over balance lol I'd like to see you use reapers that well.. gj Morrow, wp and well deserved win |
| I'm glad Idra lost. But still, terran's reaper opening is OP. |
| Spamming reapers out of 5 racks isn't exactly the image of impressive.. just my opinion. I never got why move + h was impressive micro with reapers who run twice as fast as the zerg units.. in any case this was about money and maximum abuse is to be expected, obviously ~~ |
| Thank God its not a TVT final or else there would be "IMBA" all over the place Gj morrow!!! |
| the gils got the 2nd and 3rd place :-D |
| #33 its op if zerg fast expand, dont fast expand then if u know u will face reapers, then just FACEROLL THE REAPERS WITH something imba i dont know. gg bye |
| cry cry mutas mid game not good at all? |
| Zerg is so OP. Need nerf :( |
| It's freaking $5000!! people would do much more crazy shit for it. |
| So where was the call for Blizzard to balance BW when Boxer bunker rushed Yellow 3 times in a row? Settle down folks. Edit: Also it was a score of 3-1, so I'm guessing one of his reaper builds did fail? |
| I guess being 5x times better wasn't enough to beat a terran. I guess you really have to be 10x better. |
| How much did idra/dimaga get? |
| One Terran win again again again again.............. No one protoss on 1/8 ème final... What an amazing game -_- Btw gj morrow, but you are not the only one wich can win this. Terran favored.. |
| #41 is right |
| rofl what are those girls? lol |
| haha zerg proves no to be op after all. 2 out of the 4 last ones were zergs and there were only 2 zergs in the first 16. ahahahhahahahahahah |
| #34 +1 |
| #32 LOL . MORROW HIMSELF , told in one of the interviev , that mASS RIPERS IN eARLY GAME ARE IMBA in TVZ , so please stop write things like that #34 +1 |
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