What makes Neeb great is TvT

It was merely 12 hours ago when Neeb and Rogue blessed us with an insane group stage series and an especially great, almost hour-long game 3 at Blizzcon. ->You can find the VOD of the series here<-

Both players showed us how amazing late game PvZ can be. With Mech Depot destined to deliver a long final game of the series, it was clear early on that things would go towards the Golden Armada. A long phase of Rogue harassing mineral lines with insane apm and Neeb defending most of it started to show the usual army positioning game in late PvZ, where you zone with your main army as a threat and have to be aware of every single counter move of your opponent so noone is caught offguard. Both players showed insane understanding and patience in this phase of the game, but none of them took a significant advantage. It pretty much lasted until the 20min mark when Neeb made the decision to put pressure on the newer bases of Rogue towards the top left.

And this is where I think him being a former Terran player up until 2015 comes to shine. It took some time for him to develop into the Protoss champion he is today, but that time of Terran still has its impacts.

Sometimes TvT with the Siege Tank wars is described as the ultimate chess game, where positioning and army movement decisions decide over victory or defeat. This is for example the case because of the Siege Tank itself: Being a core unit of the matchup since the very beginning, movements and decisions in the matchup are getting crisper and cleaner as time goes on. Because the unit takes a whole 6 seconds to siege and unsiege, it is the most immobile unit in the game in terms of repositioning and adapting to your opponents movements (except when tankivacs were around). This puts extreme importance on the decision making behind where you move your army, where you decide to finally engage and how you can adapt to your opponents reaction, knowing what move forces what countermove to stop it. This paves the way for the insane late game decision making we saw Neeb use vs Rogue in game 3.

One moves his army and knows how the opponent has to react to it. So with Neeb being mainly in the drivers seat in this phase, he anticipated the movements of Rogue and tried to think as many steps ahead as possible, with Rogue holding up until we see the insane 199 army supply with only one lonely Probe left of Neeb which ultimately swings the game in his favor and ends the game after 53 minutes in a clutch finale.

A treat for everyone to watch, I can only recommend game 3 and just to watch the minimap in the later stages, it's Starcraft porn basically.