{"id":781,"date":"2013-04-30T22:43:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T04:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2019-07-27T20:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T02:10:13","slug":"epic-forty-minute-starcraft-ii-hots-grandmaster-league-match-rootrootsage-vs-paranoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/epic-forty-minute-starcraft-ii-hots-grandmaster-league-match-rootrootsage-vs-paranoid\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Forty Minute StarCraft II: HotS Grandmaster League Match &#8211; [ROOT]ROOTSage vs. ParanOid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the most epic (and longest) StarCraft II: HotS GM-level matches I have ever seen: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"704\" height=\"396\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kth_i2drf_U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><br \/>It&#8217;s a forty minute match between [ROOT]ROOTSage (playing as Protoss) and ParanOid (playing as Zerg); it&#8217;s rare to see such a lengthy game at the GM level, as most battles at that skill level are resolved far more quickly. However,\u00a0 ROOTSage and ParanOid seem to be equally matched, resulting in a battle that stretches all across the Newkirk City map. Throughout the battle, it&#8217;s pretty much touch and go between the two, but ROOTSage manages to win in the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HuskyStarcraft?feature=watch\">Husky StarCraft<\/a> provides an exciting commentary for this match video and should be a familiar name for those that follow StarCraft II league matches on YouTube. He is also the main commenter for the entertaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HuskyStarcraft\/videos?query=Bronze+League+Heroes\">Bronze League Heroes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/HuskyStarcraft\/videos?query=Ladder+Anxiety\">Ladder Anxiety<\/a> StarCraft II match video series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has to be one of the most epic (and longest) StarCraft II: HotS GM-level matches I have ever seen: It&#8217;s a forty minute match between [ROOT]ROOTSage (playing as Protoss) and ParanOid (playing as Zerg); it&#8217;s rare to see such a lengthy game at the GM level, as most battles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[202,201,39,199,205,204,200,203,197,198,38,196],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-grandmaster","tag-grandmaster-league","tag-heart-of-the-swarm","tag-hots","tag-multiplayer","tag-paranoid","tag-pro-match","tag-rootsage","tag-sc2","tag-scii","tag-starcraft-ii","tag-starcraft-ii-heart-of-the-swarm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yoonhuh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}