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ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-26 00:01:22
January 25 2007 15:57 GMT
#1
The second half of the Round of 16 players took the stage today to show why the OSL truly starts after the 24 man tournament is over. The games were intense and entertaining with some unexpected turns.

Game 1 – Much vs. GoRush
Hitchhiker

Much (5) opened with a proxy robo south of his opponent’s main, while GoRush (11) started with a hatch first at his mineral only above the low ground of his natural. GoRush soon took his nat after seeing Much’s passive lot/goon block at the Protoss ramp.

Much then threw up another 2 gates and began to pump lots as his reaver tech was readying. He broke out with a force of lots, a goon, and a shuttle with a reaver. GoRush was completely unprepared for the attack and had nothing but a single sunk and a handful of lings to defend with. He was run over easily but remained in the game until only his spire remained.

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That’s what you get for being such a greedy overlord. Smarten up GoRush!


Much > GoRush

Nice build from Much, poor play from GoRush. He wouldn’t have been able to stop any 3 gate build playing so greedy. I hate taking credit away from Tosses when they pull out a PvZ win, but GoRush certainly didn’t make it hard on Much at all.

Game 2 – Midas vs. Savior
Reverse Temple

Midas (6) opened with a quick rax but didn’t advance on Savior (2) due to the Zerg’s pool first build. Savior quickly transitioned into his standard 3 hatch build while Midas expanded to his natural.

Savior built both den and spire tech to keep his opponent guessing, but pursued a ling/lurk army and midas build up a standard 2 fact tank build. Savior got drop tech going quickly and threatened his Terran opponent with doom drops to his main as he took the upper left island.

Ignoring the threat of Savior’s drops, midas moved out with almost everything. Savior responded with his prepared doom drop and also laid 2 lurks below midas’ natural mineral line. As midas fought to wipe out the Zerg main his own base laid in ruin.

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These tanks would go on to be killed easily by this one lurker and a few stray lings, leading one to wonder when midas will pull the chicken bone from his throat for once.


Throwing away his tanks, midas lacked the power to flatten the Zerg main. Savior had also begun to produce drones at his now untouchable island base. Midas gave it a go, but it was inevitable at this point.

Savior > midas

Savior played a great strategy, maximizing the damage done with each unit with strategic dropping. Midas, though he probably was losing the elimination race anyway due to the island base, threw his chances away by losing those tanks for nothing. It was a frustrating mistake from everyone’s favourite choke artist. Even I’m starting to feel sorry for the poor emo Terran.

Game 3 – Oov vs. Yellow[name]
Arkanoid

Oov (5) went with the standard CC first, while Yellow (11) went with a 2 hatch Muta build. The monkey Terran transitioned into 2 port valk to combat the Zerg air force, but neglected ground defences for too long. Though his valk force was impressive, Yellow had no problem running through one of his naturals with hydras. From there it was a down hill run for the cheater, who as always, took another ten minutes to die.

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You can imagine how these plagued Valks did against Mutas... to put it lightly... not well.


Yellow > Oov

Yellow responded well to an odd build from Oov. Not sure what kind of success he had with it in practice games, but even in an air to air fight it seemed Oov was out gunned. A less than inspiring performance from the less than inspiring iloveoov who has failed to show his old form as of late.

Game 4 – Casy vs. July
Hitch Hiker

Casy (11) opened the game in an interesting way by blocking July’s (5) nat with an e-bay before even building his first rax. His blockage successfully stopped July from laying his third hatch at his natural until the four and a half minute mark and he continued his relentless early harassment as he stole July’s gas.

After July settled things at his main, he sunked up his natural and pursued a muta build. Casy was on top of him again quite quickly with a fast tank and rine squad camping out front and firing on his sunken line.

Casy succeeded in taking out July’s entire natural including both hatcheries but incredibly, as he pushed forward into July’s main, the Zerg was able to perfectly coordinate a counter mutaling attack just as a new sunk finished and destroyed the entire Terran force.

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July doesn’t go down without a fight.


Mere moments after I was about to announce the game over, July had cleared his main and was laying down a hatchery at the bottom left gas expo. Casy built his forces up and attacked July again, but was once again deflected by some sunks and new hydras that were awaiting lurker research at the ramp to the Zerg main.

It seemed as though July was making a game of it, but with equal expos and upgrades in his favour, it didn’t take long for Casy to smarten up. He broke through the neutral buildings at the bottom of his main and levelled the Zerg expansion after the one and only bad flank we would see from July in this entire game.

Casy > July

Casy played a really nice, aggressive game but got over confident and July made him pay for it. The damage had been done though. Props to July in making such a solid comeback in this one. Rarely do you see a Zerg play so smoothly while he’s clearly losing.

VOD of the Game Day:
Casy vs. July
Watch this game to get a tutorial in how to maximize the power of mutaling and use terrain perfectly. It’s too bad the natural is still so vulnerable or July might have been able to play this differently. Nice battles in this game that even make you question your common sense. July had me convinced that he could comeback and win at many points.

The first game of each series is over now. We’ve seen some nerves and poor play from the SKT1 players, while the Zergs that many of us had counted out from the start have shown determination. Everything is up in the air as we look forward to the next set of matches.
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KizZBG
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
u gotta skate8152 Posts
January 25 2007 16:05 GMT
#2
1st! :

<3 you ManaBlue
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oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-25 16:06:14
January 25 2007 16:05 GMT
#3
I dont know why oov didn't defend the neutral buildings properly. The air superiority strat might have worked(better) had he kept the map a semi island map, like that game on desert fox.
We have fed the heart on fantasies, the heart's grown brutal from the fare, more substance in our enmities than in our love
useLess
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4781 Posts
January 25 2007 16:06 GMT
#4
I was a little perplexed with the Oov/Yellow[name] screenshot, thinking those yellow things were interceptors in a TvZ game.
Moonlight Shadow
PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15446 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-25 16:12:48
January 25 2007 16:12 GMT
#5
Great reports. :>

I agree with your analysis of all the games btw.

Gorush had a terrible build which is however kinda frequent these days, while Much's build was awesome.

Midas screwed it up by probably being overconfident (just like he screwed up in both his lost semifinals for the same reason).

Oov looked uninspired, slow and sloppy. Yellow[Arnc] lived up to his fake name by playing like a storm zerg.

And Casy has the best TvZ by far these days. I want a Casy vs Savior in the next SuperFight. Please.
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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27149 Posts
January 25 2007 16:38 GMT
#6
Really awesome reports! I also agree with your analysis very much. Hopefully Midas can win the next one and set up an unholy final match.
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Cpt Obvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany3073 Posts
January 25 2007 19:21 GMT
#7
teh oh noes, there goes my liquibet streak.

but good games as it seems and awesome reports. thanks ManaBlue.
Nobody ever reads signatures of people like me, do they?
Seku
Profile Joined December 2006
United States313 Posts
January 25 2007 19:42 GMT
#8
Great reports, awesome games.
Vin{MBL}
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
5185 Posts
January 25 2007 19:48 GMT
#9
gj mana
Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
January 25 2007 19:50 GMT
#10
Brilliant reports Mana.

Not very surprising to see the SKT1 unprepared and unmotivated after last Saturday.
On a purely personal note, I'd like to show Yellow the beauty of infinitely repeating Starcraft 2 bunkers. -Boxer
Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
January 25 2007 19:52 GMT
#11
On January 26 2007 01:12 PoP wrote:
And Casy has the best TvZ by far these days. I want a Casy vs Savior in the next SuperFight. Please.


I'm not sure I agree with that. Casy's game looks a lot better on maps like Hitchhiker, not because it's imbalanced, but because it's the kind of map he excels at. I prefer his TvT over his TvZ actually.
On a purely personal note, I'd like to show Yellow the beauty of infinitely repeating Starcraft 2 bunkers. -Boxer
ATeddyBear
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Canada2843 Posts
January 25 2007 20:34 GMT
#12
OH CMON OOV
Professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world’s first analrapist.
GeneralCash
Profile Joined December 2005
Croatia346 Posts
January 25 2007 20:42 GMT
#13
dude, huge green typo near the end of report
SCNewb
Profile Joined June 2006
Canada2210 Posts
January 25 2007 21:27 GMT
#14
thanks manablue

aw man Oov........come back and win the next 2 please
Huge iloveOov fan
NoName
Profile Joined October 2002
United States1558 Posts
January 25 2007 21:32 GMT
#15
come on July. Get the golden mouse
Wam-bam-ba-boom! Bada-bing!
Not_Computer
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada2277 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-01-25 22:43:27
January 25 2007 22:43 GMT
#16
oh wow, the zerg practically owned this one.
edit: except for gorush =T
"Jaedong hyung better be ready. I'm going to order the most expensive dinner in Korea."
Beamo
Profile Joined March 2003
France1279 Posts
January 25 2007 23:06 GMT
#17
On January 26 2007 06:32 NoName wrote:
come on July. Get the golden mouse


You've been away a while no ?
Nada already won that golden mouse you are talking about
Mutalisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
288 Posts
January 25 2007 23:41 GMT
#18
If july wins 3 osl he wouldn't get the golden mouse ?
PoP
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
France15446 Posts
January 25 2007 23:47 GMT
#19
On January 26 2007 04:52 Orome wrote:
I'm not sure I agree with that. Casy's game looks a lot better on maps like Hitchhiker, not because it's imbalanced, but because it's the kind of map he excels at. I prefer his TvT over his TvZ actually.


Well we've only seen him play on HH and Longinus lately, that's for sure. But even in those so-called imbalanced maps, you can just feel he's playing with great confidence. His micro is as good as it can be and his builds and timings are just perfect.

His TvT has never convinced me as much as his TvZ, personally.
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ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
January 26 2007 00:00 GMT
#20
On January 26 2007 05:42 GeneralCash wrote:
dude, huge green typo near the end of report


Not a typo. I decided to call it "VOD of the 'Game Day'" rather than of the week as I have in the past because Mani and I both write each week and both usually pick a game, so that title was poorly concieved.

I agree with your feelings on Casy Pop. He's clearly solid TvT and TvZ, but he's proven his TvZ over and over and he's currently playing tenaciously. That game was one of the most aggressive TvZs I've seen in a long while. Great game.

Vin, nice name change there bud. I can't believe you guys are bringing that over here. Much love.
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