Clem vs. Bly - ESL SC2 Masters: Spring 2024 Europe Regionals - Playoffs

You're watching the ESL SC2 Masters: Spring 2024 Regionals, broadcasted from April 10th to May 5th
After an epic conclusion of the Winter season in Atlanta with the French Terran Clem winning his first ever major offline title, the circuit continues with the Spring season and 64 best players from around the world playing in three global regions - Europe, Americas and Asia - with a $150,000 combined prize pool. 16 winners of these Regionals will earn the slots in the offline finals to be held in Dallas on May 31st - June 2nd to fight for $100,000 and the Esports World Cup qualification.
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[@siechamontillado]

Bly building queens at minute 30 in game 3 seems to sum up this series: just nuts.

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[@MrWickedsouls]

Looking at starcraft matches i think terran has an upperhand in late game. How is it possible to counter ghosts when they just keep sniping your army from big range just using energy. If you want to push in you have to face sieged tanks and liberators. You always have games where terran goes from 40w/60a vs 70w/90a zerg and wins, when if you have opposite worker and army count, zerg Never wins the game.

[@arn_ice]

Cool gradually build bunker-by-bunker (sorta, in a metaphory way) your way out from there by Clem and then gain the momentum. Cool turtle-stepping your way back into the fight. But aslo, 34:35 that tank, nice position! Nicely placed tanks really can make a difference even if they don't necessarily directly kill much, but they really can soften things up.

[@serral1632]

29:26 Terran op

[@wowscortcher]

Terran is disgustingly op. Ghosts are out of this world. There is no decision making with Ghosts. You just do them and they win games. They are like the perfect caster and army at the same time. Ridiculous

[@jameslog3431]

get rid of banlings first, they are op, should cost more supply

[@Peiksum]

If I already wasn't a Clem-fan.Seeing this makes me think why aren't you? xD

[@tomhe286]

Second game was true zerg art ❤

[@AlexTya]

Госты опять имба в руках профи

[@bwzarchive708]

Blyd be a beast if he could use larvae injects lol

[@wowscortcher]

The only nerf needed to Ghosts is to remove their normal attack. They are too strong and there is no disadvantage in making 10-15-20. Imagine having 20 Infestors or 20 high templars, but also having the super strong auto attack. Ghosts must be nerfed

[@N1rOx]

ghosts are also tanky in comparison.

[@joshuashaw8752]

Seems like the casters found that hard to watch

[@zconut]

I think they are just confused about the state of the game, casting these kind of games is honestly hard lol

[@johnv4487]

@@zconut bly's been proxy hatching since before 2020 bro

[@MrActiBif]

​@@johnv4487sure but its still not as 95% of games they cast

[@johnv4487]

that one caster sounds like a bly hater ngl

[@judjudersawn2596]

His name is demuslim and I completely agree he was unprofessional

[@TheCherryUrban]

​@@judjudersawn2596 he's great, love the variety

[@judjudersawn2596]

@@TheCherryUrban Variety is nice, not constantly sh1tting on the players

[@TheCherryUrban]

@judjudersawn2596 you have a caster with insights, just don't complain to a fellow man about his work, he's under contract.

[@judjudersawn2596]

@@TheCherryUrban he’s not doing his job, his job is to give insights not constantly crap on the players. Hes sh1t talking like a child

[@Braincho]

lol Ghosts are so OP... literally no counter from zerg... snipes, EMPs are all outrange

[@wowscortcher]

I hate Ghosts from all my zerg heart. I don't get how blizzard came up with this unit concept and thought it's a great idea: let's make a unit that can counter casters (emp), kill late game units (snipe), go invisible, launch nukes, but also have great white damage dps, great range, moves quite fast, builds off barracks, can be healed, and tanks 10 banelings.

[@jameslog3431]

no Serral, and Rogue would have won those games easily, get rid of banlings and also spore tricks is bullshit no other race could do that

[@Braincho]

@@wowscortcher ​ @jameslog3431 I'm not a zerg player, but ghosts are obviously OP. Even if Serral, Rouge or some other zergs can overal outplay terran with or without ghosts - doesn't mean the unit itself isn't OP. Not many casters got damage and move so fast. They got small collision models and don't block each other if you need more casts(like infestors do). Same range for fungles and EMP, but one projectile slow, the other is insta cast, and also if you 5v5 units you cast 1 fungle and 1 EMP - who wins ater?( no more mana on all infestors and no attack damage; Ghosts a bit damaged all with full mana, damage and ready to go) Etc....

[@daniiarmoldokulov3652]

i am a terran player and ghosts are absolutely not op

[@DmytroBogdan]

Wtf was that in game 1? Its like he thought he was playing vs some Diamond rank terran

[@javierestevez9680]

i dont get it if u nerf banelings hp and damage because its hard for protos probes survive runby u need a similar nerf at all the units a bane can hit. Banes are useless RN die super fast and do terrible damage

[@studytransformation2520]

watching those games it is disgustingly obvious how OP ZERG is 🙂‍↔️ looking at the enormous skill gap between those players, yet clem needs to waste 1 hour of his valuable time to finish bly off.. if clem plays ZERG vs bly‘s TERRAN, clem would OBLITERATE bly in less than 10 minutes/game I 💯% GUARANTEE YOU THAT & i would love to see a Bo5 Clem Z vs Bly T how clem fungales blys ghosts before slicing them up with ultras as this is the proper way to counter ghosts. it‘s not that hard it‘s just like some pro terrans can‘t build ravens for some reason. watch serrals latest tournaments for reference i‘m a Protoss player btw

[@2raharhar]

Look at all this whine in comments! It's totally understandable. Just because you cheese every game and float 3000 + minerals from minute 5 to the end of the game doesn't mean you cannot beat Clem. It's unfair that you have to spend your money as Zerg and possess basic mid to late game skills to compete with top terrans.

[@wowscortcher]

It's not called floating if you're already maxxed. It's called a bank. We weren't saying that Bly outplayed Clem. But did you watch the engagements? In what world is fair to lose 120 supply of ultra, ling bane to kill 10 supply of terran? We are only talking about the ghosts. Why do you think the ghost is balanced? What's its weakness? How do you deal with them? You want to sound so smart. Tell us

[@AxelTT555]

@@wowscortcher you just need to be Serral ) Unfortunately. There's always +1 infestor hiding to throw a fungal in a perfect time. I really almost hate this guy. He's single handedly responsible for pitiful zerg state today. Literally no lategame whatsoever. It's not that Bly could not spend his money. It's you have no viable compositions to invest into. As many people said, ghosts bank up enegry like crazy and terran can just mindlessly spam it up and there's no way to punish it without trading 10 to 1. Get youself back in time Id say 5 years ago. Would Clem had any change to survive against old brrodlord infestor? I think answer is obvious. Zerg cannot mass infestors. Toss cannot mass HT. Why terran can mass support casters. Ridiculous.

[@wowscortcher]

@@AxelTT555 Right. I think Zerg needs something to break terran's siege, because when they get a good position on the highground and a choke, zerg can't do anything. Swarm hosts could play a role there. But in the late game, terran doesn't even care about the SH. The locusts die even with 0 apm from terran. I suggest adding the option to spawn locusts that hit air to air. This would at least force a reaction from terran to unsiege their liberators and zerg could make a move. Idk, hard to say what changes to make w/o breaking stuff. But SH are mostly useless in their current design.

[@youlexander]

Sc2 imbalance after 14 years is just imbarassing: game 2 is another proof. Zerg is way ahead in every single stat but terrans are so hard to kill even when they are wounded and u have 200+ top armies. Terrans have too much defence too many efficient units too many tools too many mules, scans, too many units with super long range, energy...and maps are made for them to empower all their strength. I mean what da hell do you wanna do more than bly did in game 2 ? I repeat terrans are too hard to finish, sometimes they look immortal, with few units they can burn an entire zerg army. Nice job blizzard!