EPT.02
Feast and Famine For Foreigners
On a day when some of the biggest names in Starcraft II outside of Korea faltered and fell, it was two of Europe's unheralded players who carried on, raising the banner of foreigner hope.
Millenium's Feast already had a knack for surprising viewers, making it out of tough groups to finish in the Ro8 at the two previous IEM Global Challenge events. However, few would have expected his upset of upset performance on the second day of the World Championship. Feast topped his group and earned a Ro8 seed with a record of 4 – 1 (9 – 3 in maps), taking down oGs ace SuperNoVa, TypeReaL, EG.IdrA, and Empire|Kas – although that last victory came amidst controversy.
In fact, the only player who made Feast taste defeat was aTn.DarkFoRcE, who was the only other foreigner to make it out of the group stages on the day. DarkFoRcE's advancement to the next round with a record of 3 – 2 (7 – 6 on maps) was a smaller brand of surprise than Feast's unexpected break-out performance. Though not as well-known on a global scale (one interviewer was uncertain of his nationality), DarkFoRcE had been well-known in Europe as a skilled Zerg player, capable of meticulous play in the late game.
Disappointment for the foreign elite
Having lifted trophies on the IEM stage earlier this season, top foreigners mouz.MaNa, mTw.DIMAGA, Kas, and IdrA all turned in disappointing performances at the World Championship. DIMAGA and MaNa's troubles were more understandable, as they had the misfortune of being placed into a group with three Koreans (possibly four, depending on one's assessment of SeleCT). On the other hand, Kas and IdrA were considered favorites going into their group, with only SuperNoVa presenting a real threat on paper. In the end, they were unable to swim through Europe's formidable depth, and were washed away to early exits.
Re-game controversy in Kas vs. Feast
Feast's computer crashed and disconnected him during the second game of Kas vs Feast, and the decision was made for the two players to replay the game from the beginning. However, the decision was contentious, as Kas held a significant lead with a superior army and economy at the time of the disconnect. To some, it seemed that the threshold for a re-game had been surpassed, and that the game should have been awarded to Kas. One would not be surprised if Kas were aggrieved, as he lost in the re-game and then the series – the potential difference between his 2 – 3 exit from the tournament and a 3 – 2 advancement to the next round.
Koreans, as usual
In a repeat from day one, all four Korean players who were playing out of Korea qualified for the next round. International tournament juggernaut PuMa took the #1 spot in group C and won a Ro8 seed, while coL.Killer, Liquid`Zenio, and SuperNova also qualified. Combined with SlayerS_MMA, Empire|viOLet, EG.JYP, and SK_MC, eight of twelve players in the bracket stage are ones with Korean training and nationality.
Live Update Log
+ Show Spoiler [Past Updates] +
16:37 GMT (+00:00): Whoops, mistake on the record. If Puma loses 0 - 2 to SeleCT, Killer could still go through as first place. In any case, Puma, Killer, and Zenio are all through to the next round. Anyway, the deciding SeleCT vs PuMa series seems to be off the air.
16:35 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 1 MaNa. Both make early stargates, but Killer's is far earlier and he has the higher phoenix count when they first meet. MaNa runs across the map and tries to break Killer's front after this, but is stopped by the phoenixes and the game is over.
16:33 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 2 - 0 DIMAGA. DIMAGA went for a hatch first build, and Zenio just killed it with a one base ling-bane build.
16:25 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 0 DIMAGA. The players traded blows in the mid-game, with Zenio's roach attack killing DIMAGA's third before Dima's mutalisks were out. In return, DIMAGA killed Zenio's third with his mutas before there were infestors to defend. The game was decided after Zenio sent burrowed infestors to destroy one of DIMAGA's bases with infested Terrans, and DIMAGA decided to give chase with mutalisks and an overseer. DIMAGA chased just a little too far, and ended up having his mutalisks chain-fungaled and killed. Zenio then attacked with roaches, hydralisks, and infestors to win the game.
16:22 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 0 MaNa. MaNa opens DTs while Killer starts with a quick robo. MaNa taps out when Killer kills his cloaked units just outside the ramp.
16:09 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs DIMAGA setting up on ESL Main and ESL France.
16:04 GMT (+00:00): PuMa clinches first place in his group, while Killer takes 2nd place at least. MaNa is confirmed to be eliminated, while Zenio, DIMAGA, and SeleCT still have a chance.
15:59 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 0 DIMAGA. Killer opens with phoenixes after expanding, and kills a host of overlords and drones. DIMAGA responds by attempting a baneling bust, but is unable to break through due to forcefields. Killer makes an army and wins.
15:53 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 2 - 1 SeleCT. Once again, the game was a tight affair until Zenio reached hive tech. SeleCT couldn't find a way to deal with either brood lords or ultralisks, and was forced to GG out.
15:46 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 0 DIMAGA. Long split map ZvP on Metropolis. Killer gains advantage through constant harass and storm drops, and wins the big fights often enough to take it.
15:27 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 1 SeleCT. It seemed like Zenio was on the backfoot as SeleCT pushed with strong macro off three bases, but once Zenio got brood lords out with appropriate accompaniment, the tide turned back. SeleCT couldn't find an effective way to deal with Zenio's hive army, and GG'd out.
15:22 GMT (+00:00): Killer vs DIMAGA came on ESL Mainstream, GoodGameRU and Gamesports.
15:10 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 2 PuMa. PuMa opens with a hellion drop, looking towards 1-1-1. Catching MaNa while his first stalkers were at PuMa's front, he kills something like 26 workers while holding his own main, and goes on to kill MaNa by dropping more marines and hellions.
15:10 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 1 - 0 Zenio. Zenio attempted an ill-fated muta-bane-ling bust as SeleCT went up to three bases, which gave SeleCT a solid lead. Minutes later, SeleCT was able to push out with a marine-medivac-tank force Zenio was unable to handle.
14:59 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 1 PuMa. Their armies max out, and after much posturing engage. PuMa gets the better of the fight and presses his advantage to kill MaNa.
14:58 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs SeleCT started on GLHF.tv and ESL France.
14:54 GMT (+00:00): And that's it for group D! Feast goes through in first, while SuperNova and DarkForce take 2nd and 3rd respectively.
14:51 GMT (+00:00): Kas 2 - 1 DarkForce. Both players allowed each other to macro-up and max-out, which led to Kas slowly by surely pushing forward, erasing DarkForce's bases and taking more for himself.
14:46 GMT (+00:00): Idra 2 - 1 SuperNova. Idra uses a ling-infestor build on Antiga, and when SuperNova is unable to damage with his drops Idra repeatedly crushes his pushes. Eventually he wins via attrition.
14:40 GMT (+00:00): Mana vs Puma on ESL Poland and ESL main.
14:30 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 1 Kas. DarkForce manages to tie up the series.
14:30 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 Real. Feast took a faster expand than ReaL and managed to defend it, which resulted in a later victory.
14:29 GMT (+00:00): Idra 1 - 1 SuperNova. SuperNova spend the early game annoying Idra with elevator drops into his main, but Idra repels them without taking too much damage. Delaying until hive, Idra wins with broodlord infestor as SuperNova doesn't have enough vikings to deal with the air.
14:18 GMT (+00:00): Kas 1 - 0 DarkForce. Standard Kas, with his excellent macro allowing him to send endless waves to wear DarkForce down until he was forced to quit.
14:06 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 0 ReaL.
14:05 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 1 - 0 Idra. SuperNova sieges up outside Idra's natural with cloaked banshees, bunkers and turrets, Idra unable to break it tries to counterattack but it doesn't manage to break through the marines SuperNova left at home.
13:45 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 2- 1 Kas. SuperNova looked to be behind due to reaper expanding versus Kas's rax expand, but a hugely damaging blue-flame hellion drop gave him a gigantic advantage. After that, SuperNova just had to turtle up, mass a mech army, and move out to win.
13:30 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 1 - 1 Kas. SuperNova opened with a hellion-reaper attack against Kas's fast expansion, and did enough damage to give himself an advantage as he followed with a slightly later expand of his own. Later, SuperNova crushed Kas' front while Kas tried to get back into the game with an MM drop, also holding off the drop with ease to win the game.
13:20 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 0 - 2 PuMa. Zenio opens with mutas which don't do the damage they need to. PuMa continues with drops and pushing several parts of the map at once, and after several favorable engagements comes out with the victory.
13:16 GMT (+00:00): Kas 1 - 0 SuperNova. After some early game shenanigans on both sides, the game stabilized into a half-map war on Shakuras. With both players going marine-tank, Kas's positioning and choice of engagements were better, winning him the game.
13:12 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 SuperNova, SuperNova 2 - 1 ReaL. Looks like they were played off-stream.
13:02 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 0 - 1 PuMa. PuMa drops while pushing across the map, and splits Zenio's forces enough to kill the Zerg fourth. He then pushes into Zenio's natural and wins after a last ditch attempt to break the tank line.
13:00 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Supernova starting on ESL Main and ESL France.
12:56 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 2 - 1 IdrA. DarkForce and IdrA took turns going at each other with ling-baneling, and DarkForce came out ahead by ten-oddish supply. IdrA scouted out the fact that DarkForce had taken a faster third base with this advantage, and GG'd out.
12:47 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs Puma starting on GLHF.tv
12:43 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 2 - 1 MaNa. DIMAGA swept through Mana's army with an interesting composition of lings, baneling drops, and corruptors.
12:42 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 1 IdrA. Both players allowed each other to macro up on there bases, with DarkForce going roach-hydra and IdrA going roach-infestor. DarkForce's composition and positioning were better during the max-out engagement, allowing him to win the game.
12:32 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 2 ReaL. After starting reasonably normally, ReaL made DTs after his third base was secured and they stormed through Kas' base destroying things. His later push with storm and gateway units cleaned up.
12:30 GMT (+00:00): IdrA 1 - 0 DarkForce. Curiously enough, both players went for muta-ling, making SC2 ZvZ look an awful lot like Brood War. DarkForce looked to be ahead after a big baneling hit allowed his zerglings to nearly kill IdrA's third base, but DarkForce refused to focus fire down a hatchery that was down to double digit hit points. IdrA was able to recover and win the air-battle, taking the game.
12:27 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 1 MaNa. DIMAGA easily deflected some of MaNa's stargate harassment, while also picking off sentries with speedlings due to MaNa's inattentiveness. All this allowed DIMAGA to pump straight Hydra out of three bases and overrun MaNa with ease.
12:18 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs DarkForce under way on imba.tv and ESL France.
12:14 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 1 ReaL. Long back and forth macro game, Real is able to deny expansions while taking his own long enough to win with storms and colossus.
12:10 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 1 - 0 DIMAGA. MaNa looked like he was far behind after a ling+baneling drop attack hurt him while he tried to go up to three bases. However, DIMAGA overestimated his advantage and attacked wastefully many times, allowing MaNa to slowly rebuild his economy and army. He was able to finally put together a mothership assisted deathball, that allowed him to defeat DIMAGA's brood lords and ultralisks and take the game.
11:57 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 2 DarkForce. DarkForce kills Feast with roaches, broodlords, and infestors after Feast's 2 base 6 gate and blink attack fails to do enough damage.
11:54 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Real started on ESL Main and GameSports
11:46 GMT (+00:00): MaNa vs DIMAGA starting on ESL Poland and GLHF.
11:41 GMT (+00:00): Idra 0 - 2 Kas. When Idra was unable to stop Kas' first drop before it did a lot of damage, Kas pushed out and killed him with his first army.
11:37 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 1 DarkForce. Feast spends a long time attacking DarkForce's third with his own 2 bases, and when he is unable to take it down DakrForce counters and kills him with maxed hydra-roach.
11:30 GMT (+00:00): Idra 0 - 1 Kas. They play a long back and forth battle over the center of the map with maxed out armies, Kas pulls ahead with drop play and Idra's brood lords are unable to bring him back.
11:29 GMT (+00:00): Puma 2 - 1 Killer. It was a strange game where PuMa started off by doing a good amount of damage to Killer with a marauder-hellion rush, but was then counter-attacked and took some damage himself. It put both players in an awkward 1 base vs 1 base situation for a while, but PuMa came out of it ahead by focusing on infantry and getting a second orbital up, while Killer stayed on one base and went for phoenixes which proved to be very ineffective. PuMa rolled over Killer with MMM soon after.
11:21 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 0 DarkForce. Feast attacks with a 6 gateway blink stalker attack, and slowly whittles down DarkForce's burrowed roach army.
11:18 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 2 - 1 DIMAGA. SeleCT won a decisive victory during his first big push to raze DIMAGA's fourth, and from there it just snowballed into an easy victory.
11:08 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 1 PuMa. Killer managed to keep a hidden, fourth base running during a macro war, and it ended up being the difference as he was able to overpower PuMa with superior production.
11:08 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce vs Feast coming up on ESL France.
11:04 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs Kas coming up on ESL Main stream,
11:00 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 1 Idra. Feast puts pressure on Idra's third with 4 gates after expanding, and when it fails to do damage he opts for heavy 2 base blink stalker play which Idra is unable to stop.
10:53 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 1 - 1 DIMAGA. SeleCT secured three bases and went into constantly-rallied-terran-army mode, and it was on DIMAGA to hold off the attacks. DIMAGA managed to defend well for a period, but eventually he was worn down and defeated.
10:47 GMT (+00:00): Puma 1 - 0 Killer. In a long macro game that had both players expanding freely, Killer's inability to protect his colossi from Puma's +3 vikings cost him the game.
10:45 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 1 Idra. Feast goes for a 7 gate plus immortal/warp prism attack off two bases and kills Idra's third immediately, Idra taps out.
10:35 GMT (+00:00): Feast 0 - 1 Idra. They each get to 3 bases without much happening, Idra makes a ton of mutalisks and his muta ball is unable to be stopped by the stalkers and phoenixes of Feast.
10:25 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 0 SeleCT. DIMAGA was allowed to build ups his economy too much, as SeleCT's drops weren't enough to keep him at bay. DIMAGA eventually just powered through with muta-ling-bane, dealing huge damage to SeleCT, and finished him off with ultralisks.
10:24 GMT (+00:00): Puma vs Killer started on GLHF.tv
10:18 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs Feast soon on ESL main and ESL France.
10:12 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 2 Zenio. MaNa goes for a quick third while pressuring with a warp prism, which Zenio stops while taking down the third. Zenio takes control of the map with mutas and wears MaNa down until there are no more Protoss forces.
10:11 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 Kas. Feast won the regame, doing a 2/2 Zealot-Archon push that dealt a lot of damage to Kas as he went up to three bases.
10:02 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT vs DIMAGA starting up at IMBA.tv and GameSports.
09:55 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Feast game 2 to be a regame. Kas seems not pleased, game is slow to start.
09:50 GMT (+00:00) MaNa 0 - 1 Zenio. MaNa makes the critical mistake of trying to base trade a Zerg, as Protoss, and loses the fight to Zenio's mutas.
09:49 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 2 - 0 ReaL. DarkForce hit with a relentless wave of roaches and hydralisks as ReaL tried to secure three base for himself. ReaL's defenses weren't up to the task, and he GG'd out.
09:36 GMT (+00:00): Mana vs Zenio starting on ESL Poland and GLHF.tv
09:35 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 0 ReaL. ReaL tried to go Phoenix heavy play with some DTs again, but DarkForce swatted it aside with a well timed corruptor/roach push into ReaL's third base that did a ton of damage. ReaL never really covered from that damage, and though he managed to play a longer game after, he was never had a chance.
09:33 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 1 Feast. During game 2 Kas is ahead by quite a margin, but Feast's pc freezes. Not sure what is happening here yet.
09:27 GMT (+00:00): PuMa 2 - 1 DIMAGA. DIMAGA managed to hold off PuMa's continuous pressure until he got to hive and brood lords, but wasn't able to protect them adequately once they were out. Once the brood lords were dead, he had a worse army and a worse economy, which naturally led to a loss.
09:23 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 1 Zenio. Off-stream. @Teamliquidlive: "Aww @LiquidZenio falls to a similar build by Killer. Nexus first into +1 Zealots with 1 Void Ray and 3 Phoenix. Zenio 1-2 Killer."
09:17 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce vs Real starting on Imba.tv & Moricup
09:13 GMT (+00:00) SeleCT 1 - 2 MaNa. They each get to 3 bases without much difficulty, SeleCT's drops are ineffective due to good cannon placement and MaNa rolls him over.
09:12 GMT (+00:00) Kas 0 - 1 Feast. Feast goes for 3 gate pressure after 1 gate FE and Kas doesn't hold.
09:10 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 1 Zenio. Off stream, but according to @teamliquidlive: "Judging by the scorescreen, @LiquidZenio took too much damage to the harass of Killer. 144 drones made in total, never got a big enough army"
09:07 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 1 PuMa. PuMa pestered DIMAGA with drops all game, but couldn't stop him from taking his base, droning up, and getting all the tech he needed. DIMAGA crippled PuMa with a massive muta, ling, bane attack, and then finished him off later with mass ultralisks and infestors.
09:06 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Feast started on ESL SC2.
08:58 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 0 Killer. Zenio wins in unstreamed game.
08:58 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 2 - 0 DarkForce. SuperNova opens reactor hellion, which kill a few drones, and then moves into cloaked banshees which kill a lot more. He builds up an army and crushes DarkForce with the economic advantage.
08:57 GMT (+00:00) SeleCT 1 - 1 MaNa. Typical Tal'Darim PvT slugfest, back and forth with drops and huge armies battling each other. SeleCT has an unscouted base in the corner for much of the game that ends up being the difference, when MaNa finds it and kills it his army is trapped in the corner and dies to end the game.
08:56 GMT (+00:00): ReaL 2 - 0 IdrA. ReaL made phoenix/DT work as a strategy, continuing his string of stylish wins over more famous opponents.
08:47 GMT (+00:00): SuperNoVa 1 - 0 DarkForce.
08:45 GMT (+00:00): Puma 1 - 0 DIMAGA. PuMa applied strong pressure through-out a relatively long game, and managed to take DIMAGA down before he could get any useful hive units.
08:41 GMT (+00:00): ReaL 1 - 0 IdrA. Real went for a quick three bases on Daybreak, and while IdrA applied pressure, he couldn't do too much damage. IdrA took expansions on his side of the map and continued to be aggressive, but couldn't really make a dent. ReaL eventually maxed up and moved out, and defeated IdrA's still lair-stage army for the victory/
08:28 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA vs PuMa being set up onGoodGameRU and ESLFrance.
08:30 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 0 - 1 MaNa. SeleCT opened 2 rax vs 1 gate expo and forced a cancel on the nexus. MaNa bought enough time to make gateways, and warped in at a forward pylon to charge through SeleCT's defense and kill him.
08:26 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs ReaL starts on IMBA.tv
08:24 GMT (+00:00): ReaL vs IdrA was going to be streamed, but MoMan got the boot
08:22 GMT (+00:00): MaNa vs SeleCT starts on ZeddSC and GLHF.tv
08:11 GMT (+00:00): @RotterdaM08: 'We'll start in 10 Min or so with Intel Extreme Masters day 2 ;D Can't wait! Idra,kas,Mana,killer,puma and so much moaaaaar!'
08:00 GMT (+00:00): DarKFoRcE vs SuperNoVa will be up first at 08:10 GMT (+00:00) on the ESL SC2 stream, if the b.net scheduled maintenance ends in time.
07:46 GMT (+00:00): Just chillin'
16:35 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 1 MaNa. Both make early stargates, but Killer's is far earlier and he has the higher phoenix count when they first meet. MaNa runs across the map and tries to break Killer's front after this, but is stopped by the phoenixes and the game is over.
16:33 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 2 - 0 DIMAGA. DIMAGA went for a hatch first build, and Zenio just killed it with a one base ling-bane build.
16:25 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 0 DIMAGA. The players traded blows in the mid-game, with Zenio's roach attack killing DIMAGA's third before Dima's mutalisks were out. In return, DIMAGA killed Zenio's third with his mutas before there were infestors to defend. The game was decided after Zenio sent burrowed infestors to destroy one of DIMAGA's bases with infested Terrans, and DIMAGA decided to give chase with mutalisks and an overseer. DIMAGA chased just a little too far, and ended up having his mutalisks chain-fungaled and killed. Zenio then attacked with roaches, hydralisks, and infestors to win the game.
16:22 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 0 MaNa. MaNa opens DTs while Killer starts with a quick robo. MaNa taps out when Killer kills his cloaked units just outside the ramp.
16:09 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs DIMAGA setting up on ESL Main and ESL France.
16:04 GMT (+00:00): PuMa clinches first place in his group, while Killer takes 2nd place at least. MaNa is confirmed to be eliminated, while Zenio, DIMAGA, and SeleCT still have a chance.
15:59 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 0 DIMAGA. Killer opens with phoenixes after expanding, and kills a host of overlords and drones. DIMAGA responds by attempting a baneling bust, but is unable to break through due to forcefields. Killer makes an army and wins.
15:53 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 2 - 1 SeleCT. Once again, the game was a tight affair until Zenio reached hive tech. SeleCT couldn't find a way to deal with either brood lords or ultralisks, and was forced to GG out.
15:46 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 0 DIMAGA. Long split map ZvP on Metropolis. Killer gains advantage through constant harass and storm drops, and wins the big fights often enough to take it.
15:27 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 1 SeleCT. It seemed like Zenio was on the backfoot as SeleCT pushed with strong macro off three bases, but once Zenio got brood lords out with appropriate accompaniment, the tide turned back. SeleCT couldn't find an effective way to deal with Zenio's hive army, and GG'd out.
15:22 GMT (+00:00): Killer vs DIMAGA came on ESL Mainstream, GoodGameRU and Gamesports.
15:10 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 2 PuMa. PuMa opens with a hellion drop, looking towards 1-1-1. Catching MaNa while his first stalkers were at PuMa's front, he kills something like 26 workers while holding his own main, and goes on to kill MaNa by dropping more marines and hellions.
15:10 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 1 - 0 Zenio. Zenio attempted an ill-fated muta-bane-ling bust as SeleCT went up to three bases, which gave SeleCT a solid lead. Minutes later, SeleCT was able to push out with a marine-medivac-tank force Zenio was unable to handle.
14:59 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 1 PuMa. Their armies max out, and after much posturing engage. PuMa gets the better of the fight and presses his advantage to kill MaNa.
14:58 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs SeleCT started on GLHF.tv and ESL France.
14:54 GMT (+00:00): And that's it for group D! Feast goes through in first, while SuperNova and DarkForce take 2nd and 3rd respectively.
14:51 GMT (+00:00): Kas 2 - 1 DarkForce. Both players allowed each other to macro-up and max-out, which led to Kas slowly by surely pushing forward, erasing DarkForce's bases and taking more for himself.
14:46 GMT (+00:00): Idra 2 - 1 SuperNova. Idra uses a ling-infestor build on Antiga, and when SuperNova is unable to damage with his drops Idra repeatedly crushes his pushes. Eventually he wins via attrition.
14:40 GMT (+00:00): Mana vs Puma on ESL Poland and ESL main.
14:30 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 1 Kas. DarkForce manages to tie up the series.
14:30 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 Real. Feast took a faster expand than ReaL and managed to defend it, which resulted in a later victory.
14:29 GMT (+00:00): Idra 1 - 1 SuperNova. SuperNova spend the early game annoying Idra with elevator drops into his main, but Idra repels them without taking too much damage. Delaying until hive, Idra wins with broodlord infestor as SuperNova doesn't have enough vikings to deal with the air.
14:18 GMT (+00:00): Kas 1 - 0 DarkForce. Standard Kas, with his excellent macro allowing him to send endless waves to wear DarkForce down until he was forced to quit.
14:06 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 0 ReaL.
14:05 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 1 - 0 Idra. SuperNova sieges up outside Idra's natural with cloaked banshees, bunkers and turrets, Idra unable to break it tries to counterattack but it doesn't manage to break through the marines SuperNova left at home.
13:45 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 2- 1 Kas. SuperNova looked to be behind due to reaper expanding versus Kas's rax expand, but a hugely damaging blue-flame hellion drop gave him a gigantic advantage. After that, SuperNova just had to turtle up, mass a mech army, and move out to win.
13:30 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 1 - 1 Kas. SuperNova opened with a hellion-reaper attack against Kas's fast expansion, and did enough damage to give himself an advantage as he followed with a slightly later expand of his own. Later, SuperNova crushed Kas' front while Kas tried to get back into the game with an MM drop, also holding off the drop with ease to win the game.
13:20 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 0 - 2 PuMa. Zenio opens with mutas which don't do the damage they need to. PuMa continues with drops and pushing several parts of the map at once, and after several favorable engagements comes out with the victory.
13:16 GMT (+00:00): Kas 1 - 0 SuperNova. After some early game shenanigans on both sides, the game stabilized into a half-map war on Shakuras. With both players going marine-tank, Kas's positioning and choice of engagements were better, winning him the game.
13:12 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 SuperNova, SuperNova 2 - 1 ReaL. Looks like they were played off-stream.
13:02 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 0 - 1 PuMa. PuMa drops while pushing across the map, and splits Zenio's forces enough to kill the Zerg fourth. He then pushes into Zenio's natural and wins after a last ditch attempt to break the tank line.
13:00 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Supernova starting on ESL Main and ESL France.
12:56 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 2 - 1 IdrA. DarkForce and IdrA took turns going at each other with ling-baneling, and DarkForce came out ahead by ten-oddish supply. IdrA scouted out the fact that DarkForce had taken a faster third base with this advantage, and GG'd out.
12:47 GMT (+00:00): Zenio vs Puma starting on GLHF.tv
12:43 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 2 - 1 MaNa. DIMAGA swept through Mana's army with an interesting composition of lings, baneling drops, and corruptors.
12:42 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 1 IdrA. Both players allowed each other to macro up on there bases, with DarkForce going roach-hydra and IdrA going roach-infestor. DarkForce's composition and positioning were better during the max-out engagement, allowing him to win the game.
12:32 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 2 ReaL. After starting reasonably normally, ReaL made DTs after his third base was secured and they stormed through Kas' base destroying things. His later push with storm and gateway units cleaned up.
12:30 GMT (+00:00): IdrA 1 - 0 DarkForce. Curiously enough, both players went for muta-ling, making SC2 ZvZ look an awful lot like Brood War. DarkForce looked to be ahead after a big baneling hit allowed his zerglings to nearly kill IdrA's third base, but DarkForce refused to focus fire down a hatchery that was down to double digit hit points. IdrA was able to recover and win the air-battle, taking the game.
12:27 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 1 MaNa. DIMAGA easily deflected some of MaNa's stargate harassment, while also picking off sentries with speedlings due to MaNa's inattentiveness. All this allowed DIMAGA to pump straight Hydra out of three bases and overrun MaNa with ease.
12:18 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs DarkForce under way on imba.tv and ESL France.
12:14 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 1 ReaL. Long back and forth macro game, Real is able to deny expansions while taking his own long enough to win with storms and colossus.
12:10 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 1 - 0 DIMAGA. MaNa looked like he was far behind after a ling+baneling drop attack hurt him while he tried to go up to three bases. However, DIMAGA overestimated his advantage and attacked wastefully many times, allowing MaNa to slowly rebuild his economy and army. He was able to finally put together a mothership assisted deathball, that allowed him to defeat DIMAGA's brood lords and ultralisks and take the game.
11:57 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 2 DarkForce. DarkForce kills Feast with roaches, broodlords, and infestors after Feast's 2 base 6 gate and blink attack fails to do enough damage.
11:54 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Real started on ESL Main and GameSports
11:46 GMT (+00:00): MaNa vs DIMAGA starting on ESL Poland and GLHF.
11:41 GMT (+00:00): Idra 0 - 2 Kas. When Idra was unable to stop Kas' first drop before it did a lot of damage, Kas pushed out and killed him with his first army.
11:37 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 1 DarkForce. Feast spends a long time attacking DarkForce's third with his own 2 bases, and when he is unable to take it down DakrForce counters and kills him with maxed hydra-roach.
11:30 GMT (+00:00): Idra 0 - 1 Kas. They play a long back and forth battle over the center of the map with maxed out armies, Kas pulls ahead with drop play and Idra's brood lords are unable to bring him back.
11:29 GMT (+00:00): Puma 2 - 1 Killer. It was a strange game where PuMa started off by doing a good amount of damage to Killer with a marauder-hellion rush, but was then counter-attacked and took some damage himself. It put both players in an awkward 1 base vs 1 base situation for a while, but PuMa came out of it ahead by focusing on infantry and getting a second orbital up, while Killer stayed on one base and went for phoenixes which proved to be very ineffective. PuMa rolled over Killer with MMM soon after.
11:21 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 0 DarkForce. Feast attacks with a 6 gateway blink stalker attack, and slowly whittles down DarkForce's burrowed roach army.
11:18 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 2 - 1 DIMAGA. SeleCT won a decisive victory during his first big push to raze DIMAGA's fourth, and from there it just snowballed into an easy victory.
11:08 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 1 PuMa. Killer managed to keep a hidden, fourth base running during a macro war, and it ended up being the difference as he was able to overpower PuMa with superior production.
11:08 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce vs Feast coming up on ESL France.
11:04 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs Kas coming up on ESL Main stream,
11:00 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 1 Idra. Feast puts pressure on Idra's third with 4 gates after expanding, and when it fails to do damage he opts for heavy 2 base blink stalker play which Idra is unable to stop.
10:53 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 1 - 1 DIMAGA. SeleCT secured three bases and went into constantly-rallied-terran-army mode, and it was on DIMAGA to hold off the attacks. DIMAGA managed to defend well for a period, but eventually he was worn down and defeated.
10:47 GMT (+00:00): Puma 1 - 0 Killer. In a long macro game that had both players expanding freely, Killer's inability to protect his colossi from Puma's +3 vikings cost him the game.
10:45 GMT (+00:00): Feast 1 - 1 Idra. Feast goes for a 7 gate plus immortal/warp prism attack off two bases and kills Idra's third immediately, Idra taps out.
10:35 GMT (+00:00): Feast 0 - 1 Idra. They each get to 3 bases without much happening, Idra makes a ton of mutalisks and his muta ball is unable to be stopped by the stalkers and phoenixes of Feast.
10:25 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 0 SeleCT. DIMAGA was allowed to build ups his economy too much, as SeleCT's drops weren't enough to keep him at bay. DIMAGA eventually just powered through with muta-ling-bane, dealing huge damage to SeleCT, and finished him off with ultralisks.
10:24 GMT (+00:00): Puma vs Killer started on GLHF.tv
10:18 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs Feast soon on ESL main and ESL France.
10:12 GMT (+00:00): MaNa 0 - 2 Zenio. MaNa goes for a quick third while pressuring with a warp prism, which Zenio stops while taking down the third. Zenio takes control of the map with mutas and wears MaNa down until there are no more Protoss forces.
10:11 GMT (+00:00): Feast 2 - 0 Kas. Feast won the regame, doing a 2/2 Zealot-Archon push that dealt a lot of damage to Kas as he went up to three bases.
10:02 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT vs DIMAGA starting up at IMBA.tv and GameSports.
09:55 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Feast game 2 to be a regame. Kas seems not pleased, game is slow to start.
09:50 GMT (+00:00) MaNa 0 - 1 Zenio. MaNa makes the critical mistake of trying to base trade a Zerg, as Protoss, and loses the fight to Zenio's mutas.
09:49 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 2 - 0 ReaL. DarkForce hit with a relentless wave of roaches and hydralisks as ReaL tried to secure three base for himself. ReaL's defenses weren't up to the task, and he GG'd out.
09:36 GMT (+00:00): Mana vs Zenio starting on ESL Poland and GLHF.tv
09:35 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce 1 - 0 ReaL. ReaL tried to go Phoenix heavy play with some DTs again, but DarkForce swatted it aside with a well timed corruptor/roach push into ReaL's third base that did a ton of damage. ReaL never really covered from that damage, and though he managed to play a longer game after, he was never had a chance.
09:33 GMT (+00:00): Kas 0 - 1 Feast. During game 2 Kas is ahead by quite a margin, but Feast's pc freezes. Not sure what is happening here yet.
09:27 GMT (+00:00): PuMa 2 - 1 DIMAGA. DIMAGA managed to hold off PuMa's continuous pressure until he got to hive and brood lords, but wasn't able to protect them adequately once they were out. Once the brood lords were dead, he had a worse army and a worse economy, which naturally led to a loss.
09:23 GMT (+00:00): Killer 2 - 1 Zenio. Off-stream. @Teamliquidlive: "Aww @LiquidZenio falls to a similar build by Killer. Nexus first into +1 Zealots with 1 Void Ray and 3 Phoenix. Zenio 1-2 Killer."
09:17 GMT (+00:00): DarkForce vs Real starting on Imba.tv & Moricup
09:13 GMT (+00:00) SeleCT 1 - 2 MaNa. They each get to 3 bases without much difficulty, SeleCT's drops are ineffective due to good cannon placement and MaNa rolls him over.
09:12 GMT (+00:00) Kas 0 - 1 Feast. Feast goes for 3 gate pressure after 1 gate FE and Kas doesn't hold.
09:10 GMT (+00:00): Killer 1 - 1 Zenio. Off stream, but according to @teamliquidlive: "Judging by the scorescreen, @LiquidZenio took too much damage to the harass of Killer. 144 drones made in total, never got a big enough army"
09:07 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA 1 - 1 PuMa. PuMa pestered DIMAGA with drops all game, but couldn't stop him from taking his base, droning up, and getting all the tech he needed. DIMAGA crippled PuMa with a massive muta, ling, bane attack, and then finished him off later with mass ultralisks and infestors.
09:06 GMT (+00:00): Kas vs Feast started on ESL SC2.
08:58 GMT (+00:00): Zenio 1 - 0 Killer. Zenio wins in unstreamed game.
08:58 GMT (+00:00): SuperNova 2 - 0 DarkForce. SuperNova opens reactor hellion, which kill a few drones, and then moves into cloaked banshees which kill a lot more. He builds up an army and crushes DarkForce with the economic advantage.
08:57 GMT (+00:00) SeleCT 1 - 1 MaNa. Typical Tal'Darim PvT slugfest, back and forth with drops and huge armies battling each other. SeleCT has an unscouted base in the corner for much of the game that ends up being the difference, when MaNa finds it and kills it his army is trapped in the corner and dies to end the game.
08:56 GMT (+00:00): ReaL 2 - 0 IdrA. ReaL made phoenix/DT work as a strategy, continuing his string of stylish wins over more famous opponents.
08:47 GMT (+00:00): SuperNoVa 1 - 0 DarkForce.
08:45 GMT (+00:00): Puma 1 - 0 DIMAGA. PuMa applied strong pressure through-out a relatively long game, and managed to take DIMAGA down before he could get any useful hive units.
08:41 GMT (+00:00): ReaL 1 - 0 IdrA. Real went for a quick three bases on Daybreak, and while IdrA applied pressure, he couldn't do too much damage. IdrA took expansions on his side of the map and continued to be aggressive, but couldn't really make a dent. ReaL eventually maxed up and moved out, and defeated IdrA's still lair-stage army for the victory/
08:28 GMT (+00:00): DIMAGA vs PuMa being set up on
08:30 GMT (+00:00): SeleCT 0 - 1 MaNa. SeleCT opened 2 rax vs 1 gate expo and forced a cancel on the nexus. MaNa bought enough time to make gateways, and warped in at a forward pylon to charge through SeleCT's defense and kill him.
08:26 GMT (+00:00): IdrA vs ReaL starts on IMBA.tv
08:24 GMT (+00:00): ReaL vs IdrA was going to be streamed, but MoMan got the boot
08:22 GMT (+00:00): MaNa vs SeleCT starts on ZeddSC and GLHF.tv
08:11 GMT (+00:00): @RotterdaM08: 'We'll start in 10 Min or so with Intel Extreme Masters day 2 ;D Can't wait! Idra,kas,Mana,killer,puma and so much moaaaaar!'
08:00 GMT (+00:00): DarKFoRcE vs SuperNoVa will be up first at 08:10 GMT (+00:00) on the ESL SC2 stream, if the b.net scheduled maintenance ends in time.
07:46 GMT (+00:00): Just chillin'
.C
Group C
Results:
| PuMa | 5 - 0 | 10 - 2 |
| Killer | 4 - 1 | 9 - 5 |
| Zenio | 3 - 2 | 7 - 5 |
| 1 - 4 | 5 - 9 | |
| 1 - 4 | 4 - 9 | |
| 1 - 4 | 3 - 9 |
EG.PuMa, 
mTw.DIMAGA, ![[image loading]](http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/images2/b/b9/Pl.png)
mouz.MaNa coL.Killer, Liquid`Zenio, dignitas.SeleCT+ Show Spoiler [Match Details] +
MaNa vs SeleCT - GLHF.tv // ZeddSC
DIMAGA vs PuMa - ESL France
Mana vs Zenio - ESL Poland // GLHF.tv
SeleCT vs DIMAGA - Imba.tv
Killer vs Puma - GLHF.tv
MaNa vs DIMAGA - ZeddSC // GLHF.tv
Zenio vs Puma - GLHF.tv
MaNa vs PuMa
Zenio vs SeleCT
Killer vs DIMAGA
Killer vs MaNa
Zenio vs DIMAGA
Off-Stream Games
Zenio (1 - 2) Killer
Puma (2 - 0) SeleCT
- Game One: SeleCT opened 2 rax vs 1 gate expo and forced a cancel on the nexus. MaNa bought enough time to make gateways, and warped in at a forward pylon to charge through SeleCT's defense and kill him.
- Game Two: Typical Tal'Darim PvT slugfest, back and forth with drops and huge armies battling each other. SeleCT has an unscouted base in the corner for much of the game that ends up being the difference, when MaNa finds it and kills it his army is trapped in the corner and dies to end the game.
- Game Three: They each get to 3 bases without much difficulty, SeleCT's drops are ineffective due to good cannon placement and MaNa rolls him over.
- MaNa 2 - 1 SeleCT
DIMAGA vs PuMa - ESL France
- Game One: PuMa applied strong pressure through-out a relatively long game, and managed to take DIMAGA down before he could get any useful hive units.
- Game Two: PuMa pestered DIMAGA with drops all game, but couldn't stop him from taking his base, droning up, and getting all the tech he needed. DIMAGA crippled PuMa with a massive muta, ling, bane attack, and then finished him off later with mass ultralisks and infestors.
- Game Three: DIMAGA managed to hold off PuMa's continuous pressure until he got to hive and brood lords, but wasn't able to protect them adequately once they were out. Once the brood lords were dead, he had a worse army and a worse economy, which naturally led to a loss.
- DIMAGA 1 - 2 PuMa
Mana vs Zenio - ESL Poland // GLHF.tv
- Game One: MaNa makes the critical mistake of trying to base trade a Zerg, as Protoss, and loses the fight to Zenio's mutas.
- Game Two: MaNa goes for a quick third while pressuring with a warp prism, which Zenio stops while taking down the third. Zenio takes control of the map with mutas and wears MaNa down until there are no more Protoss forces.
- Zenio 2 - 0 MaNa
SeleCT vs DIMAGA - Imba.tv
- Game One: DIMAGA was allowed to build ups his economy too much, as SeleCT's drops weren't enough to keep him at bay. DIMAGA eventually just powered through with muta-ling-bane, dealing huge damage to SeleCT, and finished him off with ultralisks.
- Game Two: SeleCT secured three bases and went into constantly-rallied-terran-army mode, and it was on DIMAGA to hold off the attacks. DIMAGA managed to defend well for a period, but eventually he was worn down and defeated.
- Game Three: SeleCT won a decisive victory during his first big push and razed DIMAGA's fourth, crushing DIMAGA's ling-bane, and from there it just snowballed into an easy victory.
- SeleCT 2 - 1 DIMAGA
Killer vs Puma - GLHF.tv
- Game One: In a long macro game that had both players expanding freely, Killer's inability to protect his colossi from Puma's +3 vikings cost him the game.
- Game Two: Killer managed to keep a hidden, fourth base running during a macro war, and it ended up being the difference as he was able to overpower PuMa with superior production.
- Game Three: It was a strange game where PuMa started off by doing a good amount of damage to Killer with a marauder-hellion rush, but was then counter-attacked and took some damage himself. It put both players in an awkward 1 base vs 1 base situation for a while, but PuMa came out of it ahead by focusing on infantry and getting a second orbital up, while Killer stayed on one base and went for phoenixes which proved to be very ineffective. PuMa rolled over Killer with MMM soon after.
- Killer 1 - 2 Puma
MaNa vs DIMAGA - ZeddSC // GLHF.tv
- Game One: MaNa looked like he was far behind after a ling+baneling drop attack hurt him while he tried to go up to three bases. However, DIMAGA overestimated his advantage and attacked wastefully many times, allowing MaNa to slowly rebuild his economy and army. He was able to finally put together a mothership assisted deathball, that allowed him to defeat DIMAGA's brood lords and ultralisks and take the game.
- Game Two: DIMAGA easily deflected some of MaNa's stargate harassment, while also picking off sentries with speedlings due to MaNa's inattentiveness. All this allowed DIMAGA to pump straight Hydra out of three bases and overrun MaNa with ease.
- Game Three: DIMAGA swept through Mana's army with an interesting composition of lings, baneling drops, and corruptors.
- MaNa 1 - 2 DIMAGA
Zenio vs Puma - GLHF.tv
- Game One: PuMa drops while pushing across the map, and splits Zenio's forces enough to kill the Zerg fourth. He then pushes into Zenio's natural and wins after a last ditch attempt to break the tank line.
- Game Two: Zenio opens with mutas which don't do the damage they need to. PuMa continues with drops and pushing several parts of the map at once, and after several favorable engagements comes out with the victory.
- PuMa 2 - 0 Zenio
MaNa vs PuMa
- Game Three: Their armies max out, and after much posturing engage. PuMa gets the better of the fight and presses his advantage to kill MaNa.
- Game Two: PuMa opens with a hellion drop, looking towards 1-1-1. Catching MaNa while his first stalkers were at PuMa's front, he kills something like 26 workers while holding his own main, and goes on to kill MaNa by dropping more marines and hellions.
- MaNa 0 - 2 PuMa
Zenio vs SeleCT
- Game One: Zenio attempted an ill-fated muta-bane-ling bust as SeleCT went up to three bases, which gave SeleCT a solid lead. Minutes later, SeleCT was able to push out with a marine-medivac-tank force Zenio was unable to handle.
- Game Two: It seemed like Zenio was on the backfoot as SeleCT pushed with strong macro off three bases, but once Zenio got brood lords out with appropriate accompaniment, the tide turned back. SeleCT couldn't find an effective way to deal with Zenio's hive army, and GG'd out.
- Game Three: Once again, the game was a tight affair until Zenio reached hive tech. SeleCT couldn't find a way to deal with either brood lords or ultralisks, and was forced to GG out.
- Zenio 2 - 1 SeleCT
Killer vs DIMAGA
- Game One: Long split map ZvP on Metropolis. Killer gains advantage through constant harass and storm drops, and wins the big fights often enough to take it.
- Game Two: Killer opens with phoenixes after expanding, and kills a host of overlords and drones. DIMAGA responds by attempting a baneling bust, but is unable to break through due to forcefields. Killer makes an army and wins.
- Killer 2 - 0 DIMAGA
Killer vs MaNa
- Game One: MaNa opens DTs while Killer starts with a quick robo. MaNa taps out when Killer kills his cloaked units just outside the ramp.
- Game Two: MaNa proxies 2 gates in Killer's main. Killer sees it and builds a cannon, but it is too late and he GGs as MaNa is pillaging his mineral line.
- Game Three: Both make early stargates, but Killer's is far earlier and he has the higher phoenix count when they first meet. MaNa runs across the map and tries to break Killer's front after this, but is stopped by the phoenixes and the game is over.
- Killer 2 - 1 MaNa
Zenio vs DIMAGA
- Game One: The players traded blows in the mid-game, with Zenio's roach attack killing DIMAGA's third before Dima's mutalisks were out. In return, DIMAGA killed Zenio's third with his mutas before there were infestors to defend. The game was decided after Zenio sent burrowed infestors to destroy one of DIMAGA's bases with infested Terrans, and DIMAGA decided to give chase with mutalisks and an overseer. DIMAGA chased just a little too far, and ended up having his mutalisks chain-fungaled and killed. Zenio then attacked with roaches, hydralisks, and infestors to win the game.
- Game Two: DIMAGA went for a hatch first build, and Zenio just killed it with a one base ling-bane build.
- Zenio 2 - 0 DIMAGA
Off-Stream Games
Zenio (1 - 2) Killer
Puma (2 - 0) SeleCT
.D
Group D
Results:
| Feast | 4 - 1 | 9 - 3 |
| SuperNoVa | 3 - 2 | 7 - 6 |
| DarKFoRcE | 3 - 2 | 7 - 6 |
| 2 - 3 | 5 - 6 | |
| 2 - 3 | 5 - 7 | |
| 1 - 4 | 4 - 9 |
EG.IdrA, 
aTn.DarKFoRcE, oGs.SuperNoVa Empire|Kas, TypeReaL, 
Mill.Feast+ Show Spoiler [Match Details] +
IdrA vs ReaL - Imba.tv
DarkForce vs SuperNoVa - ESL SC2 Stream
Kas vs Feast - ESL SC2 Stream
DarkForce vs ReaL - Imba.tv
Idra vs Feast - ESL SC2 Stream
Feast vs DarkForce - ESL France
Kas vs IdrA - ESL Main
ReaL vs Kas
IdrA vs DarkForCe
Kas vs SuperNova
Feast vs Real
SuperNova vs IdrA
Kas vs DarkForce
Off-Stream Games
Feast (2 - 0) SuperNova
ReaL (1 - 2) SuperNova
- Game One: Real went for a quick three bases on Daybreak, and while IdrA applied pressure, he couldn't do too much damage. IdrA took expansions on his side of the map and continued to be aggressive, but couldn't really make a dent. ReaL eventually maxed up and moved out, and defeated IdrA's still lair-stage army for the victory/
- Game Two: ReaL made phoenix/DT work as a strategy, continuing his string of stylish wins over more famous opponents.
- IdrA 0 - 2 ReaL
DarkForce vs SuperNoVa - ESL SC2 Stream
- Game One: SuperNoVa won.
- Game Two: SuperNova opens reactor hellion, which kill a few drones, and then moves into cloaked banshees which kill a lot more. He builds up an army and crushes DarkForce with the economic advantage.
- DarkForce 0 - 2 Supernova
Kas vs Feast - ESL SC2 Stream
- Game One: Feast goes for 3 gate pressure after 1 gate FE and Kas doesn't hold.
- Game Two - Regame: Feast's computer crashed, forcing a re-game. Kas was up 40+ supply at the point of the crash.
- Game Two: Feast won the regame, doing a 2/2 Zealot-Archon push that dealt a lot of damage to Kas as he went up to three bases.
- Kas 0 - 2 Feast
DarkForce vs ReaL - Imba.tv
- Game One: ReaL tried to go Phoenix heavy play with some DTs again, but DarkForce swatted it aside with a well timed corruptor/roach push into ReaL's third base that did a ton of damage. ReaL never really covered from that damage, and though he managed to play a longer game after, he was never had a chance.
- Game Two: DarkForce hit with a relentless wave of roaches and hydralisks as ReaL tried to secure three base for himself. ReaL's defenses weren't up to the task, and he GG'd out.
- DarkForce 2 - 0 ReaL
Idra vs Feast - ESL SC2 Stream
- Game One: They each get to 3 bases without much happening, Idra makes a ton of mutalisks and his muta ball is unable to be stopped by the stalkers and phoenixes of Feast.
- Game Two: Feast goes for a 7 gate plus immortal/warp prism attack off two bases and kills Idra's third immediately, Idra taps out.
- Game Three: Feast puts pressure on Idra's third with 3 gates after expanding, and when it fails to do damage he opts for heavy 2 base blink stalker play which Idra is unable to stop.
- Feast 2 - 1 Idra
Feast vs DarkForce - ESL France
- Game One: Feast attacks with a 6 gateway blink stalker attack, and slowly whittles down DarkForce's burrowed roach army.
- Game Two: Feast spends a long time attacking DarkForce's third with his own 2 bases, and when he is unable to take it down DakrForce counters and kills him with maxed hydra-roach.
- Game Three: DarkForce kills Feast with roaches, broodlords, and infestors after Feast's 2 base 6 gate and blink attack fails to do enough damage.
- Feast 1 - 2 DarkForce
Kas vs IdrA - ESL Main
- Game One: They play a long back and forth battle over the center of the map with maxed out armies, Kas pulls ahead with drop play and Idra's brood lords are unable to bring him back.
- Game Two: When Idra was unable to stop Kas' first drop before it did a lot of damage, Kas pushed out and killed him with his first army.
- Idra 0 - 2 Kas
ReaL vs Kas
- Game One: Long back and forth macro game, Real is able to deny expansions while taking his own long enough to win with storms and colossus.
- Game Two: After starting reasonably normally, ReaL made DTs after his third base was secured and they stormed through Kas' base destroying things. His later push with storm and gateway units cleaned up.
- ReaL 2 - 0 Kas
IdrA vs DarkForCe
- Game One: Curiously enough, both players went for muta-ling, making SC2 ZvZ look an awful lot like Brood War. DarkForce looked to be ahead after a big baneling hit allowed his zerglings to nearly kill IdrA's third base, but DarkForce refused to focus fire down a hatchery that was down to double digit hit points. IdrA was able to recover and win the air-battle, taking the game.
- Game Two: Both players allowed each other to macro up on there bases, with DarkForce going roach-hydra and IdrA going roach-infestor. DarkForce's composition and positioning were better during the max-out engagement, allowing him to win the game.
- Game Three: DarkForce and IdrA took turns going at each other with ling-baneling, and DarkForce came out ahead by ten-oddish supply. IdrA scouted out the fact that DarkForce had taken a faster third base with this advantage, and GG'd out.
- IdrA 1 - 2 DarkForce
Kas vs SuperNova
- Game One: After some early game shenanigans on both sides, the game stabilized into a half-map war on Shakuras. With both players going marine-tank, Kas's positioning and choice of engagements were better, winning him the game.
- Game Two: SuperNova opened with a hellion-reaper attack against Kas's fast expansion, and did enough damage to give himself an advantage as he followed with a slightly later expand of his own. Later, SuperNova crushed Kas' front while Kas tried to get back into the game with an MM drop, also holding off the drop with ease to win the game.
- Game Three: SuperNova looked to be behind due to reaper expanding versus Kas's rax expand, but a hugely damaging blue-flame hellion drop gave him a gigantic advantage. After that, SuperNova just had to turtle up, mass a mech army, and move out to win.
- Kas 1 - 2 SuperNova.
Feast vs Real
- Game One: Feast won.
- Game Two: Feast took a faster expand than ReaL and managed to defend it, which resulted in a later victory.
- Feast 2 - 0 ReaL
SuperNova vs IdrA
- Game One: SuperNova sieges up outside Idra's natural with cloaked banshees, bunkers and turrets, Idra unable to break it tries to counterattack but it doesn't manage to break through the marines SuperNova left at home.
- Game Two: SuperNova spend the early game annoying Idra with elevator drops into his main, but Idra repels them without taking too much damage. Delaying until hive, Idra wins with broodlord infestor as SuperNova doesn't have enough vikings to deal with the air.
- Game Three: Idra uses a ling-infestor build on Antiga, and when SuperNova is unable to damage with his drops Idra repeatedly crushes his pushes. Eventually he wins via attrition.
- SuperNova 1 - 2 IdrA
Kas vs DarkForce
- Game One: Standard Kas, with his excellent macro allowing him to send endless waves to wear DarkForce down until he was forced to quit.
- Game Two: ???
- Game Three: Both players allowed each other to macro-up and max-out, which led to Kas slowly by surely pushing forward, erasing DarkForce's bases and taking more for himself.
- Kas 2 - 1 DarkForce
Off-Stream Games
Feast (2 - 0) SuperNova
ReaL (1 - 2) SuperNova
