PROXY NEXUS IN ENEMY BASE!

[@zachdugan7320]

"Sos has basically done every protoss strat imagineable" *immediately proxies nexus in enemy base*

[@Kleavers]

This casting duo is still the best. So glad they're still at it after all these years.

[@Blablarrr]

love how you can hear them make fun of bUNNy's name right at the start. these guys are the best when casting. its like talking with your best buddy about whats happening.

[@kadiea8664]

this comment didnt age well :

[@cugamer8862]

Watched GSL live for the first time last night and couldn't have picked a better one. This was just unthinkable, what an amazing game. "Every kind of strat conceivable, and some that are inconceivable." And then he warps a nexus into his enemies main and the legend grows.

[@zes7215]

wrg

[@ArdZolox]

I checked GSL on Twitch, always watched it there, but the latest broadcast is from 2019. Where do you watch it now?

[@Qrzychu92]

this is what we call Florencio strat - and it is already out of fashion :P He now has better strats

[@cugamer8862]

@@ArdZolox I've noticed that also. I'm not sure where replays are available currently, my guess is that they want to wait for the tournament to be finished before they upload them. I'd expect they'll be on Twitch sooner or later, but I'm new to GSL so I don't know when.

[@scardy92]

@@cugamer8862 Its no longer on Twitch, now the stream is on KZbin on the AfreecaTv channel!

[@THEGAM3RBO1]

after 10 years the game still hasn’t ran out of crazy strategies

[@michaelseanchang]

Game updates/patches actually enable different strategies to shine

[@nostalgicah]

for many of the strategies, we have sOs to thank

[@ivankoh3779]

HAS'nt

[@南島民國超級大桶領]

SC2 AIs r still inspiring

[@ZC.Andrew]

Quite the opposite: there are more crazy strats now than ever.

[@gabrielnext]

You can hear Florencio laughing as he splashes his tail on a sewer somewhere

[@patches_sc]

Gabriel Vieira :)

[@selwrynn6702]

It's nice to see that our mermaid's strats have hit the big time

[@chadsummers7745]

hahahaha

[@carlthegamer9215]

hahahaha!

[@MARZOSIRUS]

I can't believe someone pulled this off

[@Tomoyo0827]

MARZOSIRUS dts would have won that game without the nexus...so he’s just crazy

[@JuNkyMuNky60]

T Y I disagree. If he didn’t do the nexus thing, bunny probably would’ve found out or would’ve put pressure on him to not allow dts.

[@danielc.freteval5685]

u havn't see Florencio Files vids xd

[@keyw0rd]

@@Tomoyo0827 That nexus delayed Terran's natural and forced him to train bunch of marines and tanks. Thats why it worked.

[@aelix56]

@@danielc.freteval5685 Florencio is turbowood league though.

[@Leave-me-alone]

Build a nexus just for a probe and win with that strategy Wow

[@krap101]

The nexus let him deny the natural

[@lolmanmagee2785]

also recalls

[@TheBarbahaba]

@@lolmanmagee2785 not before using the first probe to injure some scvs so that the 2 recalled adepts will be able to one shot those scvs... he truly maximized that attack to its fullest potential making bunny think he denied it

[@chimaloo]

I love how he drops the nexus as tasteless is talking about how he is the master of crazy strategies

[@CityState_of_Valletta]

As someone who almost exclusively watches Bronze League Heroes and Florencio I thought this was a common build.

[@Psijax]

sOs announced his retirement today and I immediately came back to this video. this is the most legendary thing ive ever seen in the GSL

[@Drumpro31]

I was on a drunk sOs spree and now i remember and im sad

[@showmicr]

Who else but SOS? Sometimes I feel that he just wants to throw games but is so good that he still wins.

[@whateverppl1229]

sos must be a fan of flo

[@selwrynn6702]

The proxy nexus was pioneered years ago by the greatest sewer mermaid of all, Florencio

[@showmicr]

@@selwrynn6702 but to pull that off at a stage like this is just incredible...

[@ZC.Andrew]

Selwrynn it's one thing to pioneer crazy stuff like this in diamond/masters. It's quite another to actually pull it off in the pro scene like this.

[@mancamiatipoola]

2:00 The crazy nexus recall broke even poor Artosis: "It takes 3 shots to...one shot, right?" XD

[@ZC.Andrew]

Despite the fact that what he said was true, SoS was clearly one-shotting those SCVs anyway, so he was confused. Clearly SoS had tapped those SCVs with a probe or something earlier. SoS is amazing!

[@transparent91]

Artosis and Tasteless are just gold to behold lol

[@probablynotabigtoe9407]

3:13 "I think the players were better in WOL" LMFAO

[@ericmars9354]

LMFAO

[@nightbonus]

so, sOs got inspired by Florencio's proxy nexus recall. Florencio, Starcraft 2's one and only SewerMermaid

[@patches_sc]

nightbonus Ye

[@Me-wx5ik]

I watched the VOD on AfreecaTV for this earlier this morning and immediately knew it would be up on here! Thanks for the uploads and for making the best bits of Starcraft easier to find!

[@VictorF0326]

Finally, the Florencio Files amirite boys. sOs is learning from the Florencio school of science and the stench of the sewer mermaid reeks from this thumbnail.

[@patches_sc]

Victor0326 indeed

[@zes7215]

no such thing as firsx or not

[@rain9058]

$o$ has been doing this for a loooong time. He won 2 WCS Global Finals by playing like this. If anything, Florencio was probably inspired by players like sOs and PartinG.

[@MrFlytoskyyy2]

Can we please have a honorable mention of Has

[@MrRavellon]

@@rain9058 considering Florencio actually crafts his own strats, has developed this strat more than 2 years before this game and has been playing this way since brood war? I highly doubt he got inspired by any pro-player at all. It is also not at all inconceivable that SoS either saw Florencio doing it or had someone try it against him and thought: "Huh, that's neat. I think I can make this work, actually." Because SC2 pros watch funny SC2 videos too.

[@Qladstone]

Really happy that I watched this live. We miss you sOs and hope to see you back after military. Maybe they'll shake things up a little with the map pool to draw your creative mind back into SC2.

[@decksteroussnail]

s0s: Do I look like a guy with a plan?

[@Rekindled_Ninja]

Ay SCHL thanks for doing these. I remember always watching huskysc every day and since he went into a different career path I love seeing you still upload to this day. I hope starcraft never dies, cheers mate

[@ex6tenCe]

watched it live, it was so exciting

[@boreduser12]

"This might be the craziest thing we've ever seen" Lagtv: "Seems pretty normal"

[@TheVyciok]

Florencio school of science bois! Holy shit he must be so proud! Sewer mermaid at its best

[@KeeperCharlie]

And this is why SC is still somewhat popular to many after all these years.

[@d-rangatang5294]

Keanu Reeves: I am the one Florencio: hold my pylon

[@Matej_Sojka]

"...craziest thing we've ever seen..." Don't these guys know Florencio, the Sewer Mermaid?

[@SIyMarbo]

N Flo has been KR GM not exactly casual

[@SWAT6809]

@@SIyMarbo and this is gsl not low gm

[@nialv22]

@@GoblinUrNuts Lol just objectively incorrect

[@noahnee2309]

This may have been the greatest thing ive ever watched live

[@Qladstone]

Same here, really hope sOs comes back after his military.

[@saturnv2419]

SOS is at a level when even the observer had no idea what he is going to do.

[@IMatchoNation]

Holy moly these were AMAZING highlights, wow!

[@Necroneer]

Never thought I'd see this in a tournament and work. Lots of Florencio's strat actually seem good, just need to back it up with good macro.

[@B.Scruby]

@Zach Neeb: Am i a guac to u?

[@raikouzenkoujitsu3294]

3:48 "if you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."

[@lewisvargrson]

Moment they asked what the Nexus was for, I remembered a cast a while back someone doing this very same strategy minus the probe mind game. I was confused why he warped the Nexus in so obviously close, but when that probe came out it all made sense. Build just far enough away so they can't see the probe being built but not so far that they go looking around. Nice.

[@tigera6]

And the recall to make it like that was the end of the failed cheese was masterful as well.

[@vorval96]

That all in was so well played!

[@bjornjoseph]

My wife: wth are you laughing at? I don't get it Me: he made a nexus.... Wife: forget it dont have to lie Me: hahahahaha dt 's

[@apolloskyyy8262]

This single handedly has inspired me to actually train to be better on Starcraft 2! Like wow!

[@notrequired602]

"Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected ." Sun Tzu, The Art of -War- Cheese

[@Tilin2461]

The genius part of this that he made all this proxy nexus to just hide one probe

[@wherethetatosat]

Sometimes you need a reminder that SC2 is a real time _strategy_ game.

[@mmanch01]

Terran soldier: There is a nexus in our base sir!

[@joeblow2069]

I could see doing this back in the day when the Nexus had photon overcharge and the mothership core. This was crazy!

[@StarboyXL9]

That first one was some Bronze League Heros shit. Shoutout to our boi SOS for representing! XD

[@video_head]

That first game strategy was just unbelievebally well executed. Bravo

[@lmeza1983]

Is not hard to imagine this, the really awesome part is that it worked LOL

[@MrAlkylation]

just lucky

[@tigera6]

@@MrAlkylation Yes, but so there is all the cheses in the game. There is luck involving whether the opponent RANDOMLY scout out the build.

[@bt9387]

Florencio is laugh at his corruption in SC2. Lol

[@eistee1812]

Hey @SC2HL I love you content. I am a huge Starcraft 2 fan since the very beginning. The 10 Year Anniversary is coming up and I think it would be really cool if there would come like a "The best moments of 10 years of Starcraft 2" or something like that with the most insane clips and moments of the whole sc2 histroy. Would get nerd chills watching all the epic moments from the old days and the ones from nowadays. There are already some "best starcraft 2 moments of all time" videos up but they all are pretty old. ANd there used to be a video ath the end of of eahc year "The best moments of Starcraft in 201X" would like that. Thanks!

[@minimalgrammar1276]

I've said it before, and I'll say it again, sOs is my spirit animal.

[@TearsOfCyan]

Soooooooo dope lol! Never thought that tactics would really work!!!!

[@sincord1]

GO watch Florencio files. Guy invented this.

[@bkkuah]

The next thing the pros need to incorporate is probe stacking strategy..

[@flyingzipper]

I always knew s0s graduate from the Florencio science school

[@JohnnyMcMenamin]

Brilliance will not be stopped.

[@Shadowboost]

This is some Florencio files shit. LMFAO

[@kai45654]

The best sc2 game of all time

[@Blablarrr]

400 Mineral Nexus - cheap disguise for Probius to bring the whole terran base down.

[@tempkjahdbkdkwjbxk]

I like how even the casters had no idea what was going on lmfao

[@rayman2704]

This was AWESOME!!!

[@iamLI3]

thanks for uploading this legendary moment

[@jaflolara]

1:31 If the commentators watch Florencio, their pants would be constantly getting stained

[@judicatorhurayth1927]

3:01 never leave the enemy behind (when there is a Nexus

[@DakingofAP]

This is the definition of crazy - LOVE IT

[@BlueRazor69]

That nexus, probe, pylon warp in stately was so dirty lol😊

[@joastark]

LOL! i wrote this in the chat @afreecatv live "so s0s have been watching Pig and Winter casting Florencio replays ;D"

[@GuidoSmeets385]

This guy just perfected Florencio's build. :D

[@rozmarinideas5340]

Hey! That's Florencio's build! What a thief!

[@ToastyKen]

What's the orange stuff at 10:11?

[@Valhalla05]

Anti-Armor Missile. All the units that are orange have their armor reduced by 3

[@eiryukun]

Legit the most crazy thing i ever saw someone pull of

[@oldfrend]

still the ballsiest, most badass head fake i've ever seen.

[@Garviel_Loken.]

Wow... That games are really sick...

[@Vazalemma]

As amazing as this build was, I am the saddest guy alive because I won't get to see more sOs in Ro16. Someone please make an exception for him just for this build alone, this build deserves a medal

[@Wright1331]

awesome strats, both great games!!

[@jasongg7327]

Holy god that is incredible.

[@Kuddochan]

We've finally reached the apex of starcraft

[@potsticker4446]

Saw SoS build that Nexus right when I tuned in lol.

[@wiskeeamazingdancer4964]

That was insane

[@skychaos87]

Terran all in with scv is very scary. That extra 5hp allow svc to tank an extra hit, and mules allow continual production of marines. sOs was so far ahead with gold base opening and stalkers killing svcs and a medivac full of units. Terran simply pulled the svcs and it automatically have a comeback opportunity, failed once pull the rest of the svcs again. I still remember in WOL or HOTS terran players would literally all in with svcs even when they are ahead, its a legit strat.

[@Yakyayayeyak]

Bunny didnt find out that one Easter egg.

[@Laf-Adventures]

That might have been the worst scan ever. It was like 1/3 off the ne edge allowing the DTs to both escape. I’m always surprised by how poorly pros handle weird situations.

[@DanielFenandes]

So sick

[@openlabtec]

War by proxy is the best. Quickly the enemy is gone.

[@cagdas_demir_albayrak]

What in The Hell ??? Lmao

[@elie464]

this is so nexus level

[@deathmire11]

10:37 10:37 10:37 10:37 10:37 10:37 Highlight

[@shadesofmist9214]

crazy matches.

[@Ezreal223]

Watched it love too. If he doesn’t built an army to fight, he probably will have better econ to continue the game. So the nexus was really pressuring him.

[@chrispham6599]

Somewhere, Has is looking at this video, nodding his head in approval.

[@arbiterprime2145]

omg, we need Has vs Florencio! the showdown for the ages!

[@krzysztofpaczkowski5019]

All hail Florencio!

[@tbatlas7243]

Nexus to probe to pylon to nexus to probe to pylon. It’s the circle of life

[@theomichel8405]

loved it incredible

[@erbgorre]

"i think the players were better in wings of liberty" *gnyaaaaeeehhhhhh*

[@danielsz3281]

I was more impressed by that comeback at the end, so good!

[@Kilorelv]

Did Florencio secretly take over? Is this the Sewer Mermaid!?

[@Cosmic0508_SC]

sOs just retired. Thanks for the great games over the years, good luck in the future!

[@blantant]

When you think you've seen it all...

[@Erhidian]

simply put.... SOS es un maestro.....

[@attention_shopping]

haha that dt

[@Nomen._]

Seeing this game live I was just so surprised

[@missbelled6700]

and all because he missed that the proxy nexus had the production animation during the probe production guess there's always something to do better

[@BaconSenpai]

All he had to do was lift the depots and trap them in the main and the ebay would have finished

[@CarlDeer]

sOs is my favorite Protoss

[@normalpsychology]

Can someone explain what I'm watching please? He built a strong thing near the enemy base and the enemy didn't notice or something?

[@Striker1246]

Don't feel bad- not even the casters fully got it as they were watching live. SOS built a nexus in the enemy base. This is already completely bizarre and unheard of. A nexus is a purely economic building- it can't make military units. It would be like if the US para-dropped construction workers into Nazi Germany to build a shopping mall. Then SOS pretends to micro his worker and let's it get killed, giving Bunny a false sense of security that the threat of more buildings being built is over. Then, to keep bunny distracted, SOS does two key things- he has a zealot attack bunny's front door while he uses the recall ability on the nexus to teleport two adepts to bunny's base. This distraction serves two purposes- it makes bunny think that the purpose of the nexus was to teleport in the two adepts, and, crucially, it keeps him from seeing that the nexus then produces a single worker, which SOS hides in the fog of war. Bunny, once he cleans all of this up, kills the nexus before it can get enough energy to do a second recall. He thinks he's won- his opponent has apparently done an all-in that has failed. What he doesn't realize is that everything he has just seen- the thousands of minerals SOS invested in building the nexus and the units, all that harass- was all done just so SOS could spawn a single worker in the enemy base and use it to build a pylon where the enemy isn't looking. Back at home, SOS has built a dark shrine (let's you build permanently invisible guys) and researched an ability that let's you create units at a friendly pylon- which he now has hidden in bunny's base. A casual viewer might assume that SOS just got lucky, that Bunny just happened to miss the build animation and didn't have energy for detection because of bad luck. What you have to understand is that these guys are professionals- bunny was caught flat-footed because he was certain he was safe from stealth units, a myth he bought into because SOS had just put on what is probably the greatest puppet-show of misdirection in the history of Starcraft.

[@neriaksoul]

next lvl mind games ^^

[@fresque]

So, SOS pulled a Florencio?