SC2 - Reynor vs. Zest - IEM Katowice 2021 - Finals

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[@psa4026]

On a side note, kudos to Maynarde 💪🏻 for standing up to the occasion despite technical difficulties and losing his co caster on the final game of the final series, not an easy or comfortable situation to be in

[@Luvzilla4rilla]

Yeah, I was gonna post this if nobody else did. Dude turned into a literal machine for 5 mins straight when he had to solo. Thought his head might explode.

[@michaelcahill1450]

Dude is a beast

[@keizan5132]

And he took it away while maintaining the flow of the cast, that is world class.

[@Ragnarok6664]

A top bloke and supreme observer and commentator 👌🏻🙌🏻

[@10074a]

korean player was outplayed huh

[@zzasdfwas]

If aliens attack Earth, I'm throwing my support to drafting Reynor to be a real life Ender Wiggin.

[@teamredshirt]

I’m thinking it’s a group selection, Stats to build the wall, Reynor to run the army and Inno to head the production lines.

[@miasma529]

If the Zerg attack Earth, only the Protoss would save us, with the Golden Armada that is.. and probably the Spear of Adun too

[@AlleyCatGhost]

Enders game is a corny shit ass movie

[@DerChilluminate]

Hahahhahab just the problem the world army is not like the space marines

[@JoshuaBarksyOfficial]

YES THIS

[@TSQDreamscape]

Seeing how happy the champ gets at the end, and him being at home able to really show emotions was actually really satisfying

[@robbevanooteghem7429]

Great comment keeping spoilers in mind, good job

[@Ole_Rasmussen]

@@robbevanooteghem7429 The problem is that only one of the players tends to show emotions. From this comment, I can tell who won lol

[@jonkeeney4044]

All we miss is the trophy celebration

[@danieloyarzun000]

anyone will be happy wining with that imba race, not gonna say wich one is to not spoil, but you know what is the most broken race in SC2

[@Valhalla05]

@@danieloyarzun000 Every race has its strengths and weaknesses. But here, it was just a case of strategy. Zest kept hesitating to attack, and Reynor read that like a book, allowing him to strategize how he would approach the fight. Also, Zest made several crucial errors like investing too much into Gateway units and not building Immortals quick enough. Finally, non-Korean players are like the antithesis of the meta. Seriously, name one other person that can use Contaminate and Transfusion to win a big tournament like IEM. Name one other person who can push Queen/Lurker and win. Reynor outsmarted Zest the whole way through, and that's why he won, not because Zerg is IMBA.

[@dominiquefrechette8336]

PiG and Maynard are such an amazing casters duo. Great games by Zest and Reynor! Congrats Reynor on that big tournament win! :)

[@doktorbundy7279]

yes, I like them too, especially Pigs, who is not using actually, really and so on often.

[@AtrociousNightmare]

So unbelievably happy for Reynor

[@carlosdelfino3589]

if anything, this video shows how important the commentators are in this E-Sports events... me personally would be reallly clue-less about the thought process and decition-making in this matches. You both did a great job.

[@joepetey]

Amazing tournament and performance by Reynor. Shame about pigs technical difficulties. Hope he doesn’t beat himself up too much. I would freak out when my connection sucked for remote learning let alone a grand final.

[@zdenekmatula550]

Awesome tourney, thx everyone who was playing. :)

[@Sontilios]

What an amazing mach. Very intense plays on both sides. God tier players for sure, so much respect! Very good casting too, Thank you ESL

[@yadday5153]

"Raynor is picking up what Zest is putting down." Nice one Maynard!

[@somato2688]

great casters. so professional

[@andiblau95]

SPOILER ALERT! ! ! ! ! reynor defeating stats, dark, maru AND zest in one fucking tournament is incredible

[@666pitmaster]

agreed. sometimes you can say "well they had an easy bracket" or some garbage like that during tournaments, but he beat all the big names (except Serral, I would love to have seen him battle Serral...)

[@chrismason1877]

Bro your forgot he beat TRAP too, absolutely insane

[@alltat]

@@666pitmaster We've seen plenty of Serral vs Reynor before, and while it can go either way, I don't think anyone can seriously say that Reynor isn't good enough to beat Serral.

[@mongolian242]

@Dole Pole huh. Zest threw all the cheese at reynor, but stylistically, zerg should win a lot if both play perfectly

[@danieloyarzun000]

Thats just shows how Broken ZERG still is... what a joke

[@WiseSam95]

Just watched Reynor's push through the ro12, quarters, semis, and grand final again... absolutely inspiring and amazing. Reynor absolutely SLAYED this tournament.

[@affemitwaffe9057]

PiG: on fire. The internet: Nope.

[@bucherregaldomi9084]

*Pigshit

[@dupaacct5956]

Man hes such a great kid, I couldn't of been happier for anyone other then serral. Such personality and spirit.

[@Aiphiae]

He's an arrogant little twat. Have you not heard him?

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

@@Aiphiae It's not arrogance if you can deliver, envious little communist.

[@psywalker7973]

Love it, a player who gears up and backs his army in a punch for punch fight and takes out games quick, love that style especially with Zerg which I normally despise.

[@erik7271]

This commentary is a lot better then the one in later clips i seen recently

[@josephwong2832]

I hate it when you can tell who wins based on how much time is left in the video congrats reynor too bad he couldn't hoist a trophy

[@doktorbundy7279]

me too, that is something ESL can do better.

[@doktorbundy7279]

@Håvard Rekdal you can upload every game as one video for example.

[@homerp.hendelbergenheinzel6649]

Just watch life.

[@StrategicGamesEtc]

I'd prefer extra dead time at the end of videos, not I know that messes with the algo.

[@dubbyplays]

Reynor anche se non avessi vinto saresti rimasto comunque una gioia per tutti noi, sono fiero di te

[@meurtri9312]

i feel bad for pig but they were both very professional about it.

[@thoeme6]

very entertaining duo indeed!

[@mobilemarshall]

Yeah they handled it perfectly.

[@fantasysportsnow2878]

I think the announcers pushed through this great! Well done guys as usual. Very fun finals but really its the announcers that hype it.

[@kyleschindler4239]

Love watching these guys. The first game was beautiful. Zest played a nearly perfect game until he showed his warp in. That was intense.

[@leolegendary3275]

Great games. Even better casters! Blizzard do not deserve your professionalism!

[@iQuitGirls99]

That’s the good stuff. Was actually routing for Maru but Reynor is on fire. Good show, GG, congrats to him!

[@fijiwater3151]

Reynor had such a sick run this ESL

[@RandolphTheWhite1]

PiG's thoughts on what was happening was so incredible even the audio processor couldn't make it legible

[@abadok23]

Maynarde carrying this cast

[@just-some-menace6138]

Pig and Maynarde were great here. Probably one of Raynor's best tournaments, I honestly thought the Maru game would have drained him but he has energy for days.

[@hithere8753]

That was a great tournament. Congrats to Reynor.

[@francescorogo9314]

Grande Reynor! sei tutti noi! :D

[@genuinejoe2103]

Awesome set castes by awesome commentators!

[@addalittlebam]

I love Pigs commentary, sucks he missed part of it.

[@nomad8473]

How does he do.it without cursing?

[@jacobmccammon4078]

It must of felt so good to have Maynard say that you need a pay raise casting the FINALS game.

[@KnorpelDelux]

must of....lol

[@stowgood]

it all went wrong from there.

[@karlfranz8345]

CAMPIONI DEL MONDO!

[@gianfranco1035]

Non sento questa sensazione di essere campione dle mondo dal 2006

[@MHAAAAANZ]

Porcoddiooo

[@andreastrozzieri4199]

@@gianfranco1035 2013*

[@ref-i7w]

Alla fine ce l'ha fatta

[@gianluca281]

andiamo a Berliiiinnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[@louel9272]

That game 5 is one of the few protoss wins I've seen with Carriers

[@thomaschung5623]

damm... the kid did it. congrats buddy. You deserve it if you can run over maru in the semi finals

[@benjaminjoeBF3]

holy sheat Reynor like a boss! Congrats world champ!

[@gusionproplay6412]

First comment and it spils the whole series for me. Im so dumb

[@benjaminjoeBF3]

Never over estimate yourself!

[@ClassicalRenaissance]

@45:36 Best commentary line of the final: "Not enough room in the Prism for everybody!" Lol

[@crimsonlanceman7882]

too much light

[@ruidasilvamartins]

Pig is soo cool and I realy enjoy to listen to him, I can understand very well what he says and that's realy cool for a non first or second language learning for english

[@SnowkillsGamer]

Grande Reynorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Sei veramente in migliore!!! 💪💪💪💪💪💪💪

[@fiercehan6791]

Wow, is that really? Thank you!!!

[@milesmurphree2364]

Great games and great casting. Shame pigs internet crapped out but they both Maynard was a champ

[@e7venjedi]

What a road for Reynor, love that kid, love his playstyle [lurkers seem a little too strong right now but w/e], extremely well deserved.

[@Filmaniacs]

Bravissimo Reynor!!!! :-) Il terzo game fantastico!

[@bornouttarespect3656]

This is why you don’t pause in the middle of 1st BIG fight in 1st Game of Finals. Tilted, God Mode on. Game over. 😎

[@ahareally]

Congratulations!

[@2hourgameplay2minutereview52]

Congrats to the winner!

[@Meschi-]

there are pheonixes in this game

[@mathewwillner1]

I love watching this.

[@cloudjin893]

good to see a finals thats not a zvz

[@tylerromero255]

Reynor in every clutch! gj kiddo!

[@tommasoguiducci1091]

Grande ragazzo!!!

[@coheedmonstar33]

always a sad sight to see a protoss lose, amazing showdown though.

[@danielchan4699]

great solo casting. as impressive as the players themselves.

[@nicknic28292490]

Hat's off! That was big.

[@purestuffgamespurestuffgam9582]

The kid is the main export product of Italia now. Beating Ferrari and Lamborgini. GZ!

[@Devilfish6666]

Extraordinary tournament and matches by Reynor, what a player

[@ICEMAN-fp9zn]

*holds up his bring back corsairs and arbiters sign* 😇

[@laurielutchman8101]

Rip InControl. Your jokes are missed

[@alexbecks9215]

The Feed Raynor Foundation gets a good donation from Zest.... 😂🤣

[@maspring415]

Great series.

[@chopstikz127]

Wow the casting was so good, sucks the technical issues happened

[@RandomTheories]

beep boob - best commentary duo, wp Reynor, GG 👌😎

[@feorh1919]

Reynor, the Italian stallion, man Stallone is spinning in his grave.

[@elmalandrin7219]

ORGOGLIO ITALIANO! VAI COSì BELLO MIO

[@lanthiandokenhennes1805]

The third game clearly shows why you should do a regular insight into the enemy base and that buildings alone will not provide you with defense against the enemy army. You create buildings, army, upgrades and security at the same time, or you die trying to leave any of these things for later.

[@residencialitalince8154]

Zerg always won first position.... I hope this race is really OP....

[@Hejeheihihi]

Noo, zerg weakest

[@baietiisandu5887]

amazing game thanks

[@yurihung9244]

reynor and serral r the best sc2 players in the world

[@Ole_Rasmussen]

Reynor and who? Some rando who couldn't even make RO4?

[@InfinityReptar]

@@Ole_Rasmussen nice bait

[@lemonnexus]

serral seems to have lost his mojo recently, seems like the energy is different now. It's sad to see serral like this :'( but it's also nice to see up and coming talents shine, hopefully Clem can be a force in the future too

[@tigera6]

And Clem beat BOTH of them in the EU tournament, he should really be the best in the world then.

[@juanmisanchez4316]

campeonato para Europa, sí señor!!!

[@lupusprobitas]

Great match and great casting, just a shame the overall production values aren't quite what they used to be in this tournament as a whole.

[@Smelly13]

I mean, Blizzard barely deserves being represented by their logo by now....

[@Ole_Rasmussen]

Yeah, I mean the entire game they're playing isn't even made by Blizzard.

[@mihaih3344]

@@Ole_Rasmussen but by who

[@azsolus7845]

MihaiH the people who’ve made SC2 have all left Blizzard and the company has given up on the game

[@spacebrain1944]

@@azsolus7845 Blizzard is Activision now truly

[@mihaih3344]

@@azsolus7845 that is really sad

[@bmjhayward]

well earned Mr Reynor. Epic games

[@davefardgaming5248]

wow that was so wonderful..congrats to the young kid reynor..

[@arestalon4730]

OUR PROUD 🇮🇹

[@aidanmorgan4630]

I think Reynor deserved that after what happened with Dark in 2019

[@azsolus7845]

What happened

[@tigera6]

@@azsolus7845 Reynor beat Serral to get to the Blizzcon Finals, only to get smashed by Dark.

[@danieloyarzun000]

2021 and zerg still so broken , gj keep killing SC2

[@drewseman9389]

Zergs are lowest representation in the tournament. Lowest representation in the group stage. 1/3 of the final 12, 1/4 of the semis, and people still find time to balance whine.

[@danieloyarzun000]

@@drewseman9389 Lol they been saying that for years still zerg keep wining everything, raynor is just a KID he doesnt have the experiene of others pro player yet still raped all of them thanks to that stupid broken race, just ask serral

[@petey309]

Maynard and Pig commentating like bosses

[@R0binah00d]

I called him becoming World Champion when I first saw him at Nation Wars 5. Super exited to see I had my Smarty Pants on that day : )

[@Digibullet32]

ive been just randomly clicking these for a week now ....is there any non zerg matches lol

[@AlejandroGonzalez-ks5ln]

Seems like zerg always win. Its annoyimg they need to get nerfed.

[@MrLimemusic]

Commentator coming back half naked after the 4th match!

[@MHAAAAANZ]

Grande Reynor un bacione

[@ralphwarom2514]

Not certain if results of an online tournament are indicative of who is DA BOSS. But loved the games.

[@Nickyy64]

Rip PiG

[@hikerieger6319]

I have almost no knowledge of this game but now I know some terrifying swarm tatics lol

[@dmitryb4765]

Zerg can smell Protoss' fear .

[@nickmatthewsmusicstudio]

Congrats Reynor! Shout out to the observer! Three years in a row, Zerg takes the top spot at the global championships. And SC2 just went into maintenance mode XD

[@alinmeleandra3175]

Not the Zerg, but Serral and Raynor... These two guys are nuuuts....

[@therandomheretek5403]

@@alinmeleandra3175 Didn't Rogue win the previous Iem?

[@nickmatthewsmusicstudio]

@@therandomheretek5403 And Dark won WCS last year

[@mercurial4854]

And Soo won IEM Katowice 2019

[@tomleszczynski2862]

best race: it's overcompensation. Logically nwbtoss would be the best, and some critters would be just fun to shoot. A handgun would wreck the entire swarm. So they make flappy wings faster than jet propulsion. If zerg were EVER worse, it would collapse because then the whole game would be real and logical. So expect it to be the dominate race forever.

[@sikkouvol.1996]

Is this the biggest event of the year?

[@NerdLantern]

When I do tournaments nobody plays like this everyone sits in their homebase

[@MomoZaik]

For the swarm!

[@axamesvc]

See now why literally a tons of SC2 fans are giving up of this game. They're keep coming back and play SC1. And I did the same thing. You have no this huge gap in developing a base and producing units in SC1 which is way better balanced. In SC2, most of online players are saying that Zergs are almost unstopable because of much faster unit production, and that many of Zerg players are taking this advantage to quickly produce as much as possible units for offence, and that you need to have a lot of lucky to be able to somehow manage the victory against Zergs. And even Terran fans are talking more or less the same thing on lot of forums across the net about this game issue. They're usualy saying that their best diffence and contra attack against Zerg are in a quick produce of battleships and as much as possible marines followed by medics. Protoss are pretty much strong but they need some time to develop the required buildings to be able to form a units for offence. Terrans also have more or less the same problem, but only Zergs are able to procude units for attack in just a 3-4 minutes of play. In the begining of playing SC2 I wasn't ready to accept this fact because I was amazed by graphics of my favourite SF strategy game and I really enjoyed in playing online, but after some time I start realising the truth more and more, so I do a lot of chats with SC fans from all around the world on many sites and forums, and most of them told me that their strategy against Zerg players are in choosing Terrans and pushing hard to quicky produce as much as they can more battleships and a lot of marines with medic team to be able to defend themselves from waves of Zerg units and do some contra attack. So, in this tournament, how could possibly Protoss be able to win a savage playing style of Zergs? Maybe by wasting time and resources of producing Archons? I'm not so sure. I would try to play like Terran fans play and produce a lot of ground units with Zaelots, get a Stargate building and all rest of resources spend to produce Carriers. I see no other options how to be in a position to defent your base in just 3-5 min's of game because Zerg waves is already on a way to your base.

[@karlhans6678]

Not surprised Reynor won, zerg are op. This is why i love Brood War cause its balanced.

[@silviucherloaba8798]

Omg what a match

[@TricoliciSerghei]

Well deserved Reynor!! Congrats!!

[@viosavvy]

00:11 Just look at that Zest for life 😒

[@advancedmonkey7702]

Reynor must be using a huge monitor, look his head go, that can't be good for his neck in the long run.

[@coheedmonstar33]

two monitors, one micro, other macro

[@crossbowcarrol4408]

@@coheedmonstar33 rly? u can do that?

[@coheedmonstar33]

@@crossbowcarrol4408 haha tbh I dont know, I wonder if it would be beneficial or if it would hinder you. If it is an advantage its most likely against the rules. Also youve already trained your muscle memory to use a single monitor by switching between control groups so if you were in a situation where you normally used two and you had to play with one like in a tournament, then you would be super at a disadvantage. So i dont think its a thing.

[@crossbowcarrol4408]

@@coheedmonstar33 so ur full of shit

[@sergeantwhiskeyjack4580]

I just can't figure out how they win it looks like the Victory screen just pops up

[@Nazz-b7p]

In the first game, just would've used the voids to clear the overload farm a bit. can't make lings xD

[@nadadenada319]

Maru vs reunir was the real final

[@andrewjohn970]

Nice to see Finals.. PvZ or TvZ..