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wie ich gerade sehe, steht das auch genau so auf der pimpest plays seite (von der dyo ja 1:1 seine texte kopiert hat). wichtige stellen hab ich mal hervorgehoben.
Korhal Cannon Rush: TiQ.DanY. Protoss vs ToT)Strafe( Protoss
Out of all the games that were played in WCG 2004, this one received the most buzz. It was the first round of the entire WCG Starcraft finals, and would prove to be DanY's only win in the entire tournament, but what he did shocked many and as a result generated a lot of attention. It was a PvP on Korhal of Ceres with DanY at 5 and Strafe at 11. At 9/9, DanY sends a Probe to Strafe's main while warping in a Forge in his own base. It is clear that he already has a strategy planned out and is going for it. His Probe runs behind the mineral line in Strafe's base and immediately summons two Pylons blocking himself in, and as soon as the Forge finishes he builds a Cannon right inbetween the Pylons. Strafe's Probes work furiously to destroy the bottom Pylon and a Zealot even arrives in time to get in two swings, but DanY is ready and able to plop down a replacement Pylon the split second after it is destroyed. At this point, the single Cannon rush is complete and the game ends in 3 minutes flat.
How could something so simple and so effective be such a late discovery? The answer is that it wasn't. To be honest, this technique - although relatively unknown - had in fact been used before with a few people who should deserve credit. HnR)Pride explains:
The history behind the cannon rush on korhal: It's been butchered a fair bit...so I will clarify it a bit. Sometimes ingenuity is to be found not with the gosus but rather with the plebes of WGTour. As far as I know my friend was the first one to have this cannon rush done to him on korhal. The first victim of the cannon rush on korhal was 88)cod, formerly SuperCod. I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't heard of him. He placed #32 in TLT and now usually ranks between c3~c5 on WGT due to rust and lack of caring.
Anyways... like I said some c5 WGT person (not c5 and rising but rather just c5) whose name I can definitely not remember did this to him. He showed me the rep a few days later and I took great interest. It, at first glance, is the be all and end all of PvP on korhal. It is faster to make the cannon then the zealot and you can remake pylons that are killed quickly. I refinded this build in about June-July of this summer. In August I was on vacation in the USA and JianG[tC] asked for a game (August 7th, 2004). Considering that I wasn't on my home mouse / keyboard I decided to play on a map where I could cheese, korhal. I used this build against him. He took notice of it and used it 2-3 times at the Alberta WCG qualifier in Canada. I later used it in the WCG Canada finals against Veg. Veg stopped it with a bunker.
This is the origin of this cheese as far as I know. Whether or not DanY came up with it independently or saw a rep of JianG doing it at the Alberta qualifier I do not know. Refined it is a very good strat, although nothing really impressive it is insanely original. The remaking of the Pylon after the other one dies is incredibly easy to do as well. As soon as you see that the Pylon is almost dead, just have one ready to be built and keep clicking over where the Pylon is dying. As soon as it dies, the new one makes. It looks impressive and they don't really have time to stop you from doing it. Actually I would be more impressed if u were able to get a worker in to stop the pylon from being built. Also I do not think it should be a Pimpest Play without giving credit where credit is due: some random WGT newbie, this one is yours.
So who should get credit for thinking up this play? According to Pride, some random newbie from WGT was the first to use it. ToT)Tomson( has also mentioned the fact that he had thought of something like this but never actually used it. And apparently three other people have used it before DanY, even a few times at a Canadian WCG preliminary. However, all of these people would agree that DanY was the one who made it huge if not only for the fact that it was used in such a high profile international tournament. Whoever the inventor was, this strategy has definitely earned a spot in the Pimpest Plays of 2004.