Rainbow opens the same build he did against Check -- fast hellions into expansion and mech. Cool responds by taking his natural and both unoccupied mains, making the bare minimum defensive units. Rainbow attempts to harass with a dropship, but Cool sacrifices 3 mutalisks to kill it. Cool maintains a speedling-baneling-infestor army, teching fast to hive and ultralisks. Rainbow sends out two more dropships to do harass at Cool's two far expansions, but Cool easily defends with fungal growth.

Rainbow moves out with his tank-marine army, setting up his tanks at the watch tower at the center o the map while sending his marines to kill one of Cool's expansions. Cool meanwhile drop harasses with several ultras, and defends the marines with fungals and banelings. Rainbow splits his army, sending half to Cool's natural and half to Cool's other main expansion. This decision proves fatal, as Cool easily crushes both armies with fungal growth and ultralisks.



Rainbow's last offensive threat is extinguished, and Cool with five secured bases, it's only a matter of time before a large ultralisk army marches into Rainbow's main.

Cool < 1-0 > Rainbow
- A well played game that shows the difference between Cool and Check, as Rainbow used almost the exact same strategy against both players. Cool had overlord eyes everywhere, and his multitasking abilities allowed him to defend all drops and attacks while simultaneously countering Rainbow's expansions.

Rainbow opens tank drop while Cool expands, morphing his lair at his expansion. It looks very bad for Cool as his lair is not even completed when the tank drop arrives at his cliff, but Cool uses three queens, multiple spine crawlers, and transfusion to delay the single tank until he can get spire. Cool takes a third base while Rainbow takes his natural.


Rainbow attempts to harass but loses two more medivacs to mutalisks. Comfortably ahead, Cool to take his fourth and tech to banelings and roaches. When Rainbow finally moves out, Cool drops Rainbow's main with roach-ling, and intercepts a third dropship with mutas. Rainbow moves part of his army back home to take care of the drop, and Cool immediately flanks Rainbow's tank army in the center of the map with roaches and mutas, killing it. Rainbow finally successfully drops Cool's main with two medivacs, but it's too little too late as Cool rolls through Rainbow's natural and main with a huge army.


Cool < 2-0 > Rainbow
- Cool clearly knew the timing on Rainbow's tank drop. Perhaps it could have been different if Rainbow brought two tanks instead of a tank and SCVs, but we'll never know. Against a lesser Zerg, Rainbow may have been able to claw his way back with dropships, but Cool deflected every harass attempt easily.

Cool opens by expanding to the gold, while Rainbow goes for tank drop on the tiny gold base cliff. Cool delays with roaches and spine crawlers, but a viking arrives to kill the overlord, denying Cool vision of the cliff. However, while Rainbow micros the medivac and viking, he completely misses Cool's nydus worm, which sends waves of zerglings into Rainbow's undefended main base. Rainbow floats to the high ground, but with all his tech and production structures gone, Cool easily breaks down the rocks and ends the game.


Cool < 3-0 > Rainbow
- This game showed Cool's ability to take calculated strategic risks. The nydus play was especially risky, as it cannot be cancelled and was made right under Rainbow's nose. In a way, Cool was relying on Rainbow making a mistake, but he did create the situation by forcing Rainbow into a high-attention micro battle. Kulas Ravine was supposed to be a Zerg graveyard, and Cool finished a spotless 5-0 on it.

Cool opens expand into banelings, while Rainbow opens expand into mass marines. When Rainbow moves out, his marine force is quickly killed on creep by banelings and speedlings. Rainbow adds two factories with tech labs while Cool takes a third base (gold) and gets infestors. Rainbow's next attack is a two medivac drop, which eventually is stopped by infestors but deals a good amount of damage. Rainbow meanwhile has moved out with marines, tanks, and a thor. As Cool masses ling-baneling to deal with the attack, Rainbow drops Cool's main again, this time escaping when the lings return.

Cool takes a fourth base, and Rainbow's army is looking pitifully small. Rainbow drops Cool's natural while Cool drops Rainbow's main with zerglings, forcing workers at both bases to run. Rainbow's main army attacks, and crushes through Cool's gold, since most of Cool's lings were used in the drop. Rainbow rebuilds at his own gold, while Cool takes the island. Cool attempts to drop banelings directly on top of tanks, but Rainbow's tanks and thors are too much, eventually busting through Cool's natural and main.


At this point Cool is on two bases (one island) but his army consists only of a few hydralisks, while Rainbow is mining from one gold and is leading in supply count by a huge margin. Cool attempts to break the middle one last time with hydras and fails.

Cool < 3-1 > Rainbow
- The game opened very poorly for Rainbow, but he persistently wore down Cool with drops. Cool's drop in Rainbow's main was a success, but it cost him his gold base as he could have beaten the push with those lings. He simply could not deal with Rainbow's tank heavy army composition without ultralisks.

Rainbow opens proxy reaper, and Cool plays right into his hands by going hatch first. Rainbow's first few reapers get some drone kills, but slowlings chase them away. Cool runs ten lings toward Rainbow's base just as Rainbow's nitro packs finish, and Rainbow sends his reapers to chase, but Cool brilliantly turns around and uses the smoke to kill two reapers. Rainbow floats a CC to take the island. Cool attacks with several roaches, and Rainbow repairs late, allowing one of his barracks to be destroyed and losing several SCVs before clearing the threat with marauders. Rainbow takes his natural.


Meanwhile, Cool takes his third and fourth (gold) and techs to mutas and banelings. Cool then uses mutas and drop to take out Rainbow's island, and when Rainbow uses his dropships to clear out the threat, Cool traps part of Rainbow's MMM on the island with mutas. This allows him to trade his roach-ling army for Rainbow's tanks. Rainbow drops a large army in Cool's main, but Cool annihilates it with a huge group of infestors, banelings, and mutalisks. Cool's next attack at Rainbow's main ramp ends it.



Cool < 4-1 > Rainbow
- Cool's early use of the vision-denying smoke set the tone for the game. Rainbow was never comfortable, even falling apart at times. Cool was never challenged and this game seemed more of a coronation than a competition.