Zest Fan Club - Page 169

His group was fairly easy (Billowy/Zest/Armani/TRUE) but he 6-0ed it pretty convincingly.
Armani vs Zest

Game 1 : classic opener 4 dts drop into archon drop, he just did a TON of damage with the initial dt drop and the follow up archon harrassment. Armani basicaly gged in an anti climatic fashion realizing he was too far behind.
Game 2 : same build, dts can't find much damage but archon harrassment is pretty effective. Armani pushed out on the map with ravager/roaches/lings but Zest had too much (3 archons/ 2-3 imo/ chargelots /+1 attack and the prism) and took a convincing fight. Armani typed out right after this fight.

Billowy vs Zest

Game 1 : They basically had the same opening (robo + twilight going into blink +imo). Zest took a quick third while billowy went for faster upgrades and tried to push Zest's third base. Zest managed to gain time to warp more unit and to finish his own +1 attack with a nice army control (good forcefields, picking sentries without losing units etc..). He then took a fight that looked pretty bad : his imos were stuck by forcefields and couldn't shoot; he blinked on Billowy's imos and lost a ton of stalkers then had to pull his probes but he ended up winning the fight when his imos joined.

Game 2 : Proxyma station so they both went for phenixes (pretty common in PvP on this map). I think Zest realized his stargate was late compared to Billowy and decided to transition out of the phenixes war asap. He did a good job making sure Billowy actually was massing phenix. It was not an exciting game but you could see Zest knew what he was doing and looked a step ahead strategically. He took the faster 3rd defended pretty well the phenix harrassment ( had a cool counter harrass with his own phenixes when he realized Billowy's ones were on the other side on the map) while transitionning into archon/storm. He denied Billowy's forth with chargelots and took a very good fight at Billowy's third (blink on the mineral line to have a great concave feedback on the phenix etc..) against mass phenix /2-3 voidrays /4-5 imos and stalkers composition from Billowy.

TRUE vs Zest

Game 1 : Same build (dts into archon) found some damage with the dts then with the archons (he almost killed TRUE's third) then hit a strong timing with chargelots/imos/archons and a few sentries against TRUE lings and hydras. He killed the third and TRUE typed out.

Game 2 : He just proxied 4 gates right in TRUE's face and won.

Overall against Z his harrassment was on point and he did a good job transtionning out of it either hitting a strong timing or going macro.
Against P his control looked good even though he took a really bad looking fight (that he ended up winning anyway) and game 2 showcased his understanding of the match-up.

He will face KeeN in the Ro8 and will then face the winner of herO vs INnoVation!

Hope you enjoyed the reading and sorry for my poor English)

Nice that he made it easily here. I think that online cup will be a good way to see where he is atm. Might catch the next rounds just for that purpose