Both players opted for a macro game; 12 hatch with Jaedong opting for the recent economy heavy variation, 13 pool while Last like a true machine opted for a 13 CC putting himself in the best position he could be. Now, you have to understand that by Last doing 13 CC, he is able to play aggressive and tech up at the same time without any risk. His economical choice is like a mineral hack. Jaedong was tested early on with an early timing push of 10 marines 2 medics 2 firebats. At the time the force hit, there were only 2 sunkens ready and 2 more morphing. Last was able to kill one and forced Jaedong, who was already on the edge of the game, to make more lings and pull some drones to defend. One of the sunkens completed morphing so Last retreated. Now here is the thing, Jaedong defended this attack. He killed some marines, but... Lets talk about timings.

Jaedong was forced to pull out drones (gas included) and was forced to make lings. This means that Jaedong is not able to produce the usual 9 mutalisks, aka there is not a single way to punish the economy of the terran after that commitment. Behind this, Last is on an untouched economy, playing 3 barracks with fast tech factory starport with a particular variation to his gameplay. To put this into perspective, Last's factory was done when Jaedong's den hasn't even started yet. This is going well so Last since he hit the right timing and it paid off for him. Meanwhile, Jaedong tried to find some holes in Last's defense and killed 1 scv, some marines and 1 medic in the terran main. Behind this, Jaedong made a hydra den and a queens nest and took a third. Everything was very standard, but with delayed timings.

Now this is the part of Last's play that took me totally off guard. Instead of the classic 3-4 siege tank push 1 vessel play, he opted for factory mine/speed vultures. Jaedong at the same time rushed for defiler tech with no upgrades and a not so healthy economy. He was able to keep sniping more marines at Last's front. Last wasn't specially interested in making a strong timing push attack. His biggest plan was to gain map control with vultures and bio presence with vessels to deny mutalisks, lings or lurks around the map in order to establish the human mass expansion. Jaedong took his third almost without trouble. He just lost 2 drones in a transfer to 2 vultures. This meant that Jaedong's third (a very delayed one) wasn't full saturated and his future fourth was full of mines.

Also, Last somehow found a hole to drop 4 vultures in Jaedong's main that killed 5 drones. Meanwhile, Jaedong was on point with defilers to hold any possible siege tank pressure that never did come. He was able to clean up the mines from his fourth base and started it while Last was already mining on 4 bases. Jaedong kept alive the mutalisks for most of the game and they were very helpful cleaning mines and sniping some vultures. Last started his fifth base. For a moment, it looked like Last will push Jaedong's fourth, but he just irradiated 5 lurkers. Now, this is one of those moments where Jaedong shines the most. The multitasking; he dropped Last's natural and mineral expansion at the same time with 1 defiler 1 lurker; he plagued scvs and cast dark swarm. In the mineral only, he killed 5 scvs, while in the natural, well, the lurker attacked one turret:


Behind this, Jaedong tried to clean mines with some lings and he sniped 2 siege tanks with mutalisks. Last attempted to attack Jaedong's fourth with 4 tanks and some vultures, but Jaedong cleaned it up so fast that you probably missed it. Now, with Jaedong gaining momentum for the first time, he also cleaned the rest of the bio and recovered map control somehow. He made a brilliant move to attack the mineral only expansion of Last and brought 4 scourges along. At least, that was what I thought. It was everything going according to the plan. Last lifted the CC to avoid the lings, but then the scourges ran away.



Jaedong took a fifth base and also tried to take a mineral only expansion, but was unable to due to a lone spider mine. Jaedong started to push out with 4-2 upgrades vs 1-2 terran and he cleaned up a big siege tank line in the center. After losing most of his ultralisks, with a less expensive drop containing 1 lurk 1 defiler 1 ultra and the rest of his army, he took down the rest of the tanks that were defending Last's second main base. Last was able to defend though and with the lack of zerg forces, he re-established the bases again. Jaedong then tried a new attempt to drop Last's mineral only in the top right while Last pushed Jaedong's forth. Magically, Jaedong anticipated this move and made a swarm of mutalisks to defend. Sadly, Last's vultures killed most of Jaedong's drones at his fourth base after cleaning the tanks and vultures.


Jaedong took the mutalisks, which were only 0-1 carapace upgrade, and tried to take down Last's secondary main. While Jaedong tried to kill the siege tanks, all the mutalisks were killed in the process by 2-2-3 goliaths and turrets. For a moment, it looked like there was hope, but the zerg just didn't have enough resources to keep sending units non-stop to clean that base once and for all. Vultures and mines started to become stronger than ever in every explosion by then. Jaedong's attempt to hurt Last's economy didn't pay off and the terran with one final push ended the game on the cliff of anger.