This week's Game of the Week features a player never seen before in GotWs prior. Well, you might say, that's not too rare of an occurence, after all there've only been eight GotWs before this. Indeed, that is true, but this player has also only seen two proleague games and a total of five televised games. Intrigued already? He is none other than Turn, Samsung KHAN's new Terran weapon with the slumping of their former Terran extraordinaire, FireBatHero. His opponent is Bisu, ever the bonjwa candidate, and they clash on Fighting Spirit.

Spawning in the top left corner, Turn immediately took things out for a spin, proxying his rax at his nat against Bisu's 12 nexus. Upon scouting Bisu's quick expansion, things heated up quickly, with Turn starting a bunker within range of the nexus and pulling SCVs for an aggressive early game. Bisu was unable to stop the bunker's completion, and he was forced to retreat his probes, while a goon hunted down rallied marines, preventing the arrival of reinforcements.

The timer was slowly ticking though, and Bisu's nexus' health was slowly getting depleted. With its life in the red, Bisu finally executed a break with 4 goons, a zealot, and probes. Turn's mines completed just a second too late, and Bisu was able to break through, although his losses too were substantial, barely surviving with 1 goon.



Turn, in the meantime, had started his expansion, and things slowed down a little, Bisu teching to robotics for observers against Turn's mines, and Turn adding more factories for a total of 3, correctly choosing to pay little heed to the need for detection or anti air. Aiming to pile the pressure on, Turn then moved out with a small force of 3 tanks supported with some rallied vultures. Some intricate microwars began, Bisu trying to mine drag into Turn's tanks, and Turn averting the crisis multiple times, doing lots of damage with his small force.



Things looked pretty poor for the Protoss player, the 3 tanks racking up a huge amount of dragoon kills. In a moment of folly, Bisu overcommitted in his attempt at trying to take out one of the tanks and lost the majority of his goons. Turn needed no invitation to capitalise on this mistake, pushing his remaining 2 tanks into Bisu's nat. They were lost, but Bisu was reduced to 2 goons, and Turn's vultures simply sped past them into Bisu's main, and began firing upon the probes mining there, after laying a bunch of mines.

Turn's assault was relentless. With Bisu's goons in his main taking out the errant vultures, another force found its way into Bisu's nat, easily taking out the 2 defending goons, and feeding on more helpless probes. Bisu, displaying some uncharacteristically poor micro, continuously lost goons to Turn's mines, and Turn took a huge lead after the vulture shennanigans ended.



Knowing that he'd need more time to build up an army to stop Turn's incoming 5 fac push (especially with Bisu having taken a fast third base), Bisu flew his empty shuttle over to Turn's main. This deception worked for mere seconds before Turn picked up on it and pushed his army out. The game looked over - it seemed as though Turn had almost as many tanks as Bisu had goons.

Some sleek shuttle play, however, picked off a couple of tanks before turrets could go up, Turn perhaps a little too eager to end the game. Speedless zealots and goons then engaged the push as it neared his choke, and after the smoke and dust cleared, Bisu stood victorious in that battle with just a couple of zealots and goons remaining.



Undeterred, Turn waited for a couple of production rounds and pushed out again, this time with 4 tanks and roughly a group of vults. Bisu chose to fight in the centre of the map, where his units would not clump together and get raped by tank splash. Perhaps not the greatest of decisions, as he quickly found himself on the losing end of the battle, Retreating temporarily to lick his wounds, he put his shuttle to good use once again, dragging a mine into a couple of Turn's tanks, putting them in the red. Bisu followed this up with a fierce attack charging his zealots and dragoons straight into the terran push. With such small armies, the damage done with the zealot bombing to Turn's tanks turned the tide of the battle around, and Turn found his army being pounded to the ground under the might of Protoss steel.



Unwilling to give up on his aggressive play, Turn continued to push out with his forces. Poor decision, as they crumpled easily under the strength of the larger Protoss army, and Turn was forced to type in the GG.

Unfortunately, despite a great early game from the beginner, Turn was unable to finish up, being just slightly too aggressive for his own good. While the aggression paid off in the early game, it did not help in the mid game. His economic lead meant that he had lots of time to establish a slow push in the centre of the map, and eventually use that position to take out Bisu's third and win the game from there, but Turn opted for the other, more impatient, route. Although he lost here, he made a great game for the audience, and is definitely one to watch out for in the future.