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The third map is shattered. Elfi spawning at the 12 and finding DieStar late at the 3, close air. Elfi adds second gas early, then adds a robo quick. He skipped the zealot and has just one stalker at the ramp, he's finally getting a second one out. Must be quick tech.
Elfi adds 3 more gates, he's going to go warpprism play, but PERFECT scan by DieStar as the warpprism pops out and he sees everything. Elfi tries to be aggresive regardless, dropping the stalkers and warping in zealots on DieStar's high ground but DieStar easily cleans it up. He's now warping in units at DieStar's natural, running them up the ramp doing minor damage to DieStar's army. Naama believes it's GG soon and Elfi is clearly very far behind.
Clutch play by Elfi, warping in units at the top of DieStar's base and running them into the mineral line. DieStar's army is no where to be found and Elfi is doing some damage. Meanwhile DieStar has moved his army across the map and is running his marines up the ramp leaving the tanks at the bottom. Elfi takes advantage of that and immortal drops the tanks. He's able to kill 2 tanks before the marines come back and keeps the warpprism/immortal alive. Another tank comes in and Elfi simply lacks the gateway support units to deal with the marines. Again he takes out the tank with his immortal but the marines are killing off Elfi's zealots way too quick. Marines now get to the mineral line. Elfi desperately tries to counter by warping in units at DieStar's mineral line, but even though damage is done, DieStar is beating on the production and eco of Elfi. Elfi gg's out and DieStar moves on in the winners bracket 2-1.
MoMaN goes to congratule Adel it looks like, I'm guessing Adel won that match.
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SarenS knocks out Tarson and Tarson instantly looks up zotac-cup..
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The Millenium guys are posing for pictures for their manager. Except for DieStar who's watching a CS stream, looks like 1.6 but too far away to tell and Tarson. Tarson doesn't pose for pictures, Tarson plays SC2. And when he gets knocked out, he plays some more SC2.
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DieStar is told that he's not getting paid if he doesn't get let them take some pictures, rawrawr. They settle the issue by putting a decently cute girl next to him so everyone is happy.
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Caught up with Naama at the catering, he easily 2-0'd his last match and has MoMaN coming up next. He says he's not worried as TvZ is his best matchup.
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Trying to encourage shinigami who ended up in the winner bracket finals of the amatuer level after his tough loss in the 5 man group. Against everyone's expectations, MoMaN got knocked out by AureS, so AureS and Naama are setting up.
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MoMaN has some girl resting on his shoulder. Score one for the frenchie
I guess charlie would say that even when he loses he's still WINNING
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Adel vs LaLush is being seriously ruined by the commentators. I can't tell whether they're casting or beatboxing. Regardless, they're lying back in their chairs and every so often one of them leans back to yell "aaaalalalalalaa", "aiaiaiaiaiaii" or "eeeleeleleleleee". I've never seen two people seem so uninterested in what they're doing. Maybe if I could understand more of what they were saying it wouldn't be so bad.
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Xel Shattered Metal are the maps for naama vs freman in their loser bracket match. Winner plays the winner of stephano vs adel I believe
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Have the best seat in the house, next to Naama for his loserbracket game vs aAa's Freman. Xelnaga's the first map loading up and after a quick crash/remake, we're off with map 1. 7T vs 2P with Naama opening with a standard 12 rax, but at the top of his main far away from his ramp and CC. The scouting probe sees the scv go back to the mineral line so no panic from Freman, but no harass either (it is Xel though).
Naama follows up with an FE while getting a reactor on his rax. His army is going to be out quite late. Now he follows up with a factory so his army is going to be even later. He compensates with a bunker at his ramp. He's clearly gambling on a longer game.
Naama techs up to banshees and finally scouts Freman again. Freman went FE as well and has a lot of probes out. Naama tries to run the scv up but Freman burns a forcefield at his ramp to stop him. Meanwhile the banshee is now done.
Naama takes his nat finally after using his FE as a glorified mule/scv factory for a while. He places 2 bunkers, because, well, those can be free and he needs to be ready for a 2 base P deathball. The banshee meanwhile picks off a sentry with full energy but not much else. A raven comes out second and a second starport for naama who is getting pure tank marine as his main army. The second starport takes a tech lab as well and now the banshees are rapidly making their way onto the map. Naama's also upgrading his bio and gets cloak.
Cloak is clutch seeming Freman blundered without much of any detection at his bases. Huge damage is being done and a chronoboost goes off on the robo to get that observer quicker. Thankfully for Freman he seems to have plenty probes to spare, definitely looks oversaturated. Naama takes this chance to clear the rocks and secure his gold as his 3rd. Still pure marine tank banshee with that single raven for support, no medivacs or vikings at all.
Freman decides his deathball is plenty molded and added in some immortals next to the collo/stalker for spicing (against marine/banshee, not something he did happily I'm sure). And he tries to secure his gold as well. He clears the rock and expands but Naama aims to shut it down. He uses his banshees to harass the main and natural and forces Freman to pull his army back. Tank/marine then moves in to force a cancel on the 3rd. Naama even placing turrets at the third just to delay it more and keep the collo's away.
Freman decides to counter attack instead and moves in behind Naama's gold. Seeming somewhere in the conversion from bw high ground advantage got lost, it's quite a clever attack. He kills off several scv's without having to close in on the PF but Naama sieges up and forces him away. Freman moves his army back all the way around and tries to push to the left Xel tower instead. Naama's marine control is sickeningly good, but without medivacs every stim hurts him so much. Regardless, Naama manages to set up a forward contain at the third and towards the natural with Freman still stuck on 2 base. Freman does try to move in some but his army stands no chance as it has been picked at by Naama until little was left and he calls GG, 1-0 Naama
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Shattered Temple is up 2nd with Naama spawning at the 3. He opens 12 rax again then gets gas. He finds Freman in cross position at the 9. 1 gas, gate and chrono is all he can see before he decides to run his scv back out hiding it near the natural. Naama is going for a quick concussive build and looking at his second gas timing banshees.
Starport goes down as Naama applies pressure with a very small number of marine marauder which mostly just stalls until the banshee is out. Naama actually goes cloak first and delays his banshee. He didn't stop Freman's FE, but he forced some more army. Banshee is now done with cloak following very quickly after. Naama with a bunker at his natural choke which seems like a fake and one at the top of his ramp.
Banshee makes its way to the natural and goes to town, going up to 12 kills with cloak. Second banshee easily defends the counter attack without detection. Easy win for Naama there who smirks and says "I aimed for a quick win cause mcdonalds was here" as he gets handed his fries.
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Stephano just beat Naama 2-0 in a big wtf moment 0_o I was watching from behind Stephano and he was up to 2k minerals on 2 base with a second hatch at the natural. He just remacrod so quick with masslings after the army trade which was in favor of Naama and kept throwing ling wave after ling wave at him.
So next time you're up 2k+ resources, just think "don't worry, that's how the pro's do it".
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Maxlan grand final :
![[image loading]](http://www.millenium.org/images/contenu/actus/sc2/Maxlan_2011/sc2_maxlan_jour2_10.jpg)
Stephano vs Lalush.
(picture : Millenium).
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Ok well, you can follow the remaining matches on stream. People are filtering out seeming the finals are so late and well, the casting is awful (or so I'm told by some of the people that can understand more French than me, I speak enough French to make out some of it but they're just screaming noises half the time).
Thanks for reading through all this. Sorry there wasn't better coverage of the event anndd follow me on twitter; http://twitter.com/martijnmumbles
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