Stephano Streaming

http://www.twitch.tv/egstephano

Tod vs Stephano

Tod vs Stephano cast by Pomf et Thud (French cast).

Stephano Streaming

http://www.twitch.tv/mstephano

Finally, haven't seen Stephano stream in some time.

Stephano Replay Pack from Redbull

http://www.mediafire.com/?otf7hl2bpplz3w9

For previous Stephano replay pack on my SC2 Blog http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2012/03/stephano-replay-pack-march-5-2012.html


For more click replays Label, more Labels can be found in the Label Cloud at left side of Blog, or at bottom left of every post.

I am also adding playlist from Stephano, TLO, Catz,  Drewbie, etc as I find them, please feel free to post links to replays or playlists in the comments.

Or requests for players you can't find here yet.

GL HF,

Cliff

Stephano is streaming

http://www.twitch.tv/mstephano

Hero vs Stephano

Epic series Stephano vs Hero.

Part 2  (has rest of of Game 1 as well as rest of the Bo3)

Gratz to Stephano! Code S invite!

Info at millenium.org

Here is a google translate of above link.

Way to go Stephano!

WhiteRa & Stephano streaming!

Glad I have two screens so I don't have to make a heartbreaking decision

WhiteRa http://www.twitch.tv/whitera

Stephano http://www.twitch.tv/mstephano

Stephano vs Thorzain Bo3

From EG MCSL Season 7 Millenium vs. Mousesports, Stephano vs Thorzain, a Bo3, cast by Incontrol.

A Battle between Ballers ^_^

Stephano vs Sheth

Liquid Sheth vs Mill Stephano cast by Ipp, from RageQuitTV

Stephano Streaming

Thought he tweeted that he wouldn't stream for long this time :(

Stream:  http://www.twitch.tv/mstephano

WhiteRa vs Stephano Showmatch VOD

Stephano vs WhiteRa VOD's cast by Crota. 

I believe this is the SXSW Bo9 Showmatch between Stephano & WhiteRa.

I am not sure if Crota has these in correct order, he had some confusion about it., Game 1 is embedded below, and I have the links for the other games in the order Crota has his casts labeled.

Game 2  ||  Game 3  ||  Game 4  ||  Game 5 (he says Game 4 at beginning but is labeled as G5)  ||  Game 6

Lone Star Clash: Gratz to Stephano

Stephano beat Polt in a Bo3, but could still face Polt in the Grand Finals.

See Brackets for details.


Brackets:

• http://cyber-sports.net/brackets/21471
• http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Lone_Star_Clash#Bracket

For more information, Lone Star Clash: Gauntlet of Champions.

An Interesting Stephano vs Roxkis T1TAN game

Mill Stephano vs Roxkis T1TAN cast by Ipp, from RageQuitTV. 

Replay of this game, that Ipp always provides for the VOD's he casts.

This isn't the typical type of game that you see from Stephano.  To see more games by T1TAN, click Titan, for more on Stephano click Stephano, both of those links can be found in Label Cloud at left side of Blog.

Mill Stephano vs iSPyre

Stephano vs iSPyre cast by Ipp, from RageQuitTV

Ipp always includes Replay  http://drop.sc/134663

WhiteRa & Stephano on same team, well allies now, in 2v2 live stream from both!

 Now I am not conflicted about who to cheer for ^_^

http://www.twitch.tv/whitera

http://www.twitch.tv/mstephano

WhiteRa vs Stephano streaming live practice games!

Looks like they are playing custom practice games vs each other, they are both streaming so you can see what both players are doing!!!

Which is the best way to watch pros play IMO.

<333 WhiteRa & Stephano

http://www.twitch.tv/mstephano

http://www.twitch.tv/whitera

Starcraft 2 Thoughts: Broodlord Support Units Part 2

I watched the SXSW Showmatch Stephano vs WhiteRa yesterday, and thought several of the games from that illustrated some of my thoughts about support units for Broodlords, especially the last game of the Showmatch.

So fair notice, there will be spoilers if you didn't see those games yet, I haven't seen VOD's go up for them yet, but I am sure they will.

In Starcraft 2 Thoughts: Broodlords Support units Part 1, I mentioned using Spines and Spores to support Broodlords, though that post was more focused on ZvT, and strictly speaking Spines & Spores are structures or buildings not units ^_^

In the SXSW Showmatch Stephano frequently used Spines and/or Spores as a key component, and not just for supporting Broodlords, he is clearly using Spines as speed bumps, to buy time, as a standard component of his game play.

He is utilizing a Defense in Depth, which provides several advantages, as well as some disadvantages, but the key advantage IMO is that it uses TIME & SPACE as resources to fight the enemy.

But back to Broodlord Support, in the last game of the SXSW Showmatch, Stephano was pushing with Spines, Broodlords, Infestors, and a few Queens.

I think with more Spores, you could skip most if not all of the Infestors, this would let you have more Queens, and Transfuse works very well on Spines & Spores in addition to the Broodlords and other Queens.

WhiteRa made several Motherships, not to mention lots of Voidrays, and Stephano was countering with ridiculous numbers of Corrupters.

He had more than 24 Corrupters a few times in that game, I think that was big part of the reason he made so many Spines, he wanted to be able to kill the Mothership quickly, and still have plenty of Corrupters left to morph into Broodlords, so out side of drones almost all his food was in Corrupters & Infestors, plus a few Queens.

He had to make Spines because so much food was in Corrupters.

I realized during this game, that having Spines + Spores supporting your Broodlords helps defend you vs Mothership.

Vortex only affect Units!  Not Structures, so the Vortex isn't going to have any real impact on the Spine & Spore support.

This also means Zerg can try making two groups of Broodlords, a forward one that is attacking, that might get vortexed, and a 2nd supporting group just behind the front lines, that can move forward as soon as a Vortex goes off.

You might even want 3 groups of Broodlords, because a Mothership can have enough energy for 2 Vortexes if maxed on energy.

If your using Spines and Spores for supporting the Broodlords, instead of the normal Zerglings, you will have more food supply to work with, and Broodlords only take 4 Supply.

With 3 Groups you could have 2 groups both fighting, but spread out enough that it would take 2 Vortexes to get them.

Something worth testing IMO.

GL HF,

Cliff

See also:
Starcraft 2 Thoughts: Forward Defense when using a Slow Immobile Army
Starcraft 2 Thoughts: Corps d'armée: FXOBratOK vs Mill.Stephano

Stephano Replay Pack March 5, 2012

Stephano just release another replay pack a few days ago, here is the link for the replay pack http://www.mediafire.com/?6p9vnsacje7dy19

<333 Stephano

To see other Stephano replays I have linked http://cliffsesportcorner.blogspot.com/2012/01/stephano-replay-packs.html

To see other replays on my Starcraft 2 Blog click replays, you can also find that link and others in the Label Cloud at left side of Blog. 

You may also be interested in the playlist I have on my Blog from various pro players.

Stephano vs Origine

Stephano vs Origine on Shattered temple, cast by Ipp from RageQuitTV. 


Replay at http://drop.sc/127841


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