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[GSL] Season One Finals - Recap

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[GSL] Season One Finals - Recap

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March 3rd, 2012 11:57 GMT
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DongRaeGu Victorious


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The games were not the prettiest, nor the most well-played. Even so, MvP.DongRaeGu and MvP.Genius never failed to entertain as they took the GSL finals to six games, where DongRaeGu clinched the title by a score of 4 - 2. It would be DongRaeGu's first GSL championship in his career, coming almost three months after a painful game seven defeat in the Blizzard Cup finals.

The two players seemed to be in good spirits throughout the series, and DongRaeGu imitated some of Genius' celebration from the regular season by charging into his opponent's booth for some gloating. After winning the final game, DongRaeGu presented Genius with pieces of military apparel, jokingly suggesting Genius should consider fulfilling his mandatory military service.

The gathered live audience seemed to be one of the biggest ever for an in-Korea GSL event, and their loud cheers dotted the night's broadcast. However, it was groans that came from the mouths of many international fans watching from home, as the GomTV website toppled under the stress of the throng of viewers tuning in for the finals, making the stream inaccessible for most of game one. The problem was mostly resolved while GomTV played a long video package between game one and game two, but it was a sour point during an an otherwise successful event from GomTV.


Game One – Daybreak

Genius opened with a macro friendly strategy on a macro friendly map, going for a quick third base off just a stargate and four gateways. DongRaeGu had much success with heavy aggression against fast three base Protosses at the recent MLG Winter Arena, and looked to go on the offensive once more.

However, Genius played a great defensive game with his limited troops, keeping both his natural and third base safe and securing a strong economy. Genius then showed the patient, deliberate play that had been his hallmark throughout the tournament, and attacked once he had a death-ball DongRaeGu could not challenge. DongRaeGu attempted a backdoor attack to buy time, but Genius sniffed it out and thwarted it easily before moving on.

That left DongRaeGue stuck with just roaches and infestors as Genius advanced with colossi and blink-stalkers, and Genius cut a bloody path through the Zerg troops and expansions, collecting the GG.


Game Two – Antiga Shipyard

Genius brought a well prepared cheese in game two, going for a forge FE into a hidden, double proxy-stargate build. He waited for three void rays and three phoenixes to attack, and walked into a spore and two queens defending DongRaeGu's third base. Though it seemed like a completely winnable battle, Genius became skittish at that second, and backed off to look for a different location to hit.

It was a moment of fatal indecision, as it allowed DongRaeGu to complete even more spore crawlers and queens, rendering the attack useless. There was only one possible ending after Genius' failed attack left him with a weak army against DongRaeGu's powerhouse three-base economy. DongRaeGu sent waves of troops to finish Genius off, not wasting any time to move onto game three.


Game Three – ESV Cloud Kingdom

Unfazed by his failed cheese in game two, Genius reached into his bag of tricks for yet another. This time it was a low-sentry blink stalker all-in with +1 attack, and it turned out to be just the right thing against DongRaeGu's fast three base defended with primarily speedlings. Even though Genius didn't have force fields to use against the melee attackers, it only took an additional round of zealot warp-ins to remedy the speedling situation and crush through DongRaeGu's defenses.


Game Four – Entombed Valley

For the third straight game, Genius decided to throw a curveball DRG's way. After opening with two stargates after a fast expansion, he went for a fleet beacon and carriers. This turned out to be tantamount to suicide, as it left him almost nothing to defend against against the hydralisk and roach drops that came. The drops crippled Genius' economy, and allowed DongRaeGu to easily take his fourth base while switching to a corruptor-zerglings composition. Corruptors cut through the carriers with tremendous ease, and sealed the game for DongRaeGu.


Game Five – Metropolis

The fifth game ended up resembling the first, with both DongRaeGu and Genius getting three quick bases. Once more, DongRaeGu decided to try for an attack before Genius' economy kicked in, bringing queens, roaches, and zerglings on the warpath. At first, it looked like Genius would hold the fort without any trouble, but a few micro mistakes caused him to lose more troops than necessary on defense. More crucially, he was unable to keep a gap plugged at his natural while his third base was being attacked, allowing speedlings to pour in and tear down his main nexus.

Despite the loss of a Nexus, the situation ended up looking alright for Genius, as he had killed off a significant portion of DongRaeGu's army, leaving the two players at similar supply. Genius simply retook his main and decided to wait and play a longer game. In the meanwhile, DongRaeGu began to secure more bases while going for mutalisks, the key to his backdoor tactics to come.

As DongRaeGu poked at Genius' defenses, he managed to draw enough of the Protoss forces away from the third base for a force of roaches to focus-fire the nexus down. DongRaeGu lost a significant amount of roaches in the process, and it opened a window for a deadly counter-attack from Genius. DongRaeGu knew the only response was to go for a base trade, and sent his mutalisks and speedlings on their way.

With his powerful army, Genius seemed like he had a chance to win the base race. However, he was indecisive and ended up dawdling, with his army walking back and forth without a purpose. Each second bought DongRaeGu more time to collect resources and build more troops, while he destroyed Genius' income and infrastructure at the same time. Genius went for the all-out base trade eventually, but he had waited too long. By the time he destroyed DongRaeGu's main and natural his own income was entirely gone while DongRaeGu had two more mining bases elsewhere. Once DongRaeGu had enough mutalisks to fight Genius' main stalker force head on, the game was over.


Game Six – Crossfire

On the most cheese friendly map of the night, both players opted to play normally yet again. Genius patiently built a large force of colossi and stalkers from his two bases, while DongRaeGu went for roaches, hydralisks, and infestors on his end. There were large periods where the game was just a stand-off, but the situation rapidly broke down once Genius decided to start attacking.

DongRaeGu attempted to backdoor with a handful of his forces, and there was a great deal of indecision on Genius' side once more. Eventually he was able to bring his forces to bear on both DongRaeGu's splinter army and main force, and crush both with well positioned stalkers and good use of force fields.

With his ground army crushed, DongRaeGu immediately switched his plan to harassment and backstabbing at all costs, and put down an obscene amount of spine crawlers at his natural while he switched to mutalisks. He was forced to sacrifice his third base, however, and this put the two players in a strange two base vs two base situation. Inexplicably, a single burrowed zergling blocking his third base seemed to convince Genius that he had to finish the game at this two base vs two base phase, and he continued to mass more and more stalkers. On the other hand, DongRaeGu looked desperately for ways to secure his own third, using his mutalisks to harass while trying to sneak in the extra base.

There was a great deal of posturing, troop movement, and hastily initiated and quickly abandoned attacks on both sides, but eventually DongRaeGu managed to find a window to complete a hatchery at his third base, slowly crawl some spine crawlers over, and secure mining at that location. As for Genius, his natural mined out, and he was forced to go all-in with the stalkers he had remaining. The attack did much damage and thinned DongRaeGu's mutalisk flock considerably, but anything but a complete annihilation of the Zerg army meant a loss for the penniless Genius. After losing his force, he conceded defeat.


With the series won, DongRaeGu thanked his teammates, his family, and a hitherto unheard of girlfriend, which enticed some "Ooh"s from the crowd. Despite his earlier cheeriness, Genius seemed to be more somber in defeat, admitting the difficulty of reaching a final again. DongRaeGu didn't forget to include his customary Zerg pessimism during his interview, mentioning the hardships that had to be overcome as a Zerg player. With the ceremonies over, and an oversize check for 50,000,000 won received, DongRaeGu fulfilled his final obligation and gave his fans what they had waited on for a very long time: a shot of him kissing the GSL championship trophy.

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NymN
Profile Joined July 2010
Sweden33 Posts
March 03 2012 12:02 GMT
#2
Yes! My man! For the zerg <3
ZERGZERGZERG
Tidus Mino
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom1105 Posts
March 03 2012 12:04 GMT
#3
3 Zerg winners, 3 Terran winners, 1 Protoss winner next season is ours!
Head of Production at FACEITTV, ex-WW & Mouz SC2 manager
majorcole
Profile Joined February 2012
Australia1 Post
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 12:04:41
March 03 2012 12:04 GMT
#4
In more important news, DRG has a girlfriend
See.Blue
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States2411 Posts
March 03 2012 12:05 GMT
#5
Woo! DRG :D
dextrin303
Profile Joined May 2011
Sweden317 Posts
March 03 2012 12:06 GMT
#6
Great write up as always! Really cool final especially the last game was really close.
htn2481
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Vietnam117 Posts
March 03 2012 12:09 GMT
#7
Congratz to DRG!! For the swarm! Quick and great writeup.. Goodbye professor tea, hello DRG
Daogin
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada2287 Posts
March 03 2012 12:11 GMT
#8
i didnt wake up to watch it but thanks for the awesome recap ! so happy he won!
Leenoctopus <3, master of foreign events.
JohnnyYen
Profile Joined September 2010
United States313 Posts
March 03 2012 12:12 GMT
#9
The crowd did seem distressed by the girlfriend comment, along with the rest of DRG's antics. Even Genius was laughing at the military clothes though, that was too funny.
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa5205 Posts
March 03 2012 12:12 GMT
#10
That finals had to be one of the best yet (Probably because there was no Terran involved lol). So glad for DRG, although I actually rooted for Genius. The GSL is only becoming better and better as time moves on.
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
ThatGuyDoMo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia514 Posts
March 03 2012 12:20 GMT
#11
<3 DRG

<3 Genius

The funniest GSL finals yet.

I hope Genius doesn't take DRGs taunting toooo seriously, I don't think he would but still :D
Sylfyre
Profile Joined January 2012
Australia222 Posts
March 03 2012 12:26 GMT
#12
They were great games =D =D Genius's indecision was pretty bad but =/
Yaki
Profile Joined April 2011
France4232 Posts
March 03 2012 12:30 GMT
#13
On March 03 2012 21:20 ThatGuyDoMo wrote:
<3 DRG

<3 Genius

The funniest GSL finals yet.

I hope Genius doesn't take DRGs taunting toooo seriously, I don't think he would but still :D

they've known each other for years i'm sure he doesn't mind
MC ■ MarineKing ■ LosirA ■ To someone who has lost after trying his best, no words from the winner can console him.
horsebanger
Profile Joined January 2012
132 Posts
March 03 2012 12:35 GMT
#14
congrats to him
Ascention
Profile Joined October 2010
Belgium15 Posts
March 03 2012 12:42 GMT
#15
It is pretty annoying to login on TL and find out who won the GSL, TL spoiled it all by putting it on the damn front page..

They shouldnt do that
LimitSEA
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia8276 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 12:47:55
March 03 2012 12:46 GMT
#16
Congrats to DRG! So glad to see him win, he really deserved it. That said, sad to see Genius lose because he's played a ridiculously good tournament. Both of them played really well. Awesome series. <3


On March 03 2012 21:42 Ascention wrote:
It is pretty annoying to login on TL and find out who won the GSL, TL spoiled it all by putting it on the damn front page..

They shouldnt do that

If you go to the bottom of the main page you can click "hide spoilers" and it won't get spoiled for you.
Long live the King of Wings
NeThZOR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
South Africa5205 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 12:51:09
March 03 2012 12:48 GMT
#17
On March 03 2012 21:42 Ascention wrote:
It is pretty annoying to login on TL and find out who won the GSL, TL spoiled it all by putting it on the damn front page..

They shouldnt do that

Are you trolling, or what? Because of course if should be on the front page, even in your face if possible. It was the finals, an epic event none would want to miss. And it is headline news in the eSports wordl, per se. So yes, it can be on the front page for it is one of the biggest highlights at the moment.

Edit: The poster above, LimitSEA, probably gave a better response to your post. Now I also know about the hide spoiler function, something I did not previously notice.
SuperNova - 2015 | SKT1 fan for years | Dear, FlaSh, PartinG, Soulkey, Naniwa
neoghaleon55
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States7430 Posts
March 03 2012 12:51 GMT
#18
YAY for DRG!!!!!!

My god it was painful 3 months ago when DRG lost that game 7 at the Blizzard Cup.
I died inside for several days.
It's so cathartic to have him finally win.
I feel...lighter somehow...I'm finally free....


so happy
thank you DRG.
thank you.
moo...for DRG
sixfour
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
England11031 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-03 12:52:45
March 03 2012 12:51 GMT
#19
Congrats to DRG, have been somewhat of a critic but he's finally got the job done. Congrats to Genius as well, going carriers on the biggest stage of all shows his true baller status and he'll always have a place in our hearts
p: stats, horang2, free, jangbi z: soulkey, zero, shine, hydra t: leta, hiya, sea
weiliem
Profile Joined January 2008
1414 Posts
March 03 2012 12:53 GMT
#20
<3 DRG!!!!!
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