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Profile Blog Joined September 2004
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Last Edited: 2007-07-22 15:02:27
July 21 2007 16:10 GMT
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Daum OSL Grand Final - Iris (T) vs GGPlay (Z)




Do not read ahead if you don't want to know the results of these games

Note: I have no experience doing battle reports whatsoever, so enjoy, if you can...


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A large crowd, guess what's happening




The first OSL of the 2007 season comes to a close as two, unexpected players make the finals in Iris and GGPlay. Iris, being known for making it so far, but not beating the bump, while GGPlay, who has been dubbed "Round of 16 Zerg" for his failure to get past that sweet round of 16 in OSL's. So, can Iris defeat his hump and become a true champion? Or can GGPlay remove his mediocrity from his name once and for all and become the third Zerg OSL champion?



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It begins right here, right now.




Game 1 - Python
Iris (Terran, Purple, 8 o'clock), GGPlay (Zerg, Blue, 2 o'clock)


+ Show Spoiler [Game 1 on YouTube] +


As both players spawn at their positions, GGPlay opens up with a 9 pool opening with fast gas for speedlings. Iris opens up with a 2 barracks build.

Iris does not find out about this fast pool until a group of zerglings come to him. It looks bad for Iris as his ramp is broken through, as GGPlay desperately tries to salvage free SCV and Marine kills. At GGPlay's base though, he is unaware that Iris' SCV has killed 3 drones of his. GGPlay eventually fends off the situation by killing the SCV with his drones, but the damage has been done.

As GGPlay builds a hatchery at his expansion a while into his harassment, Iris reacts with his own Command Center. A while later, both players have sizable forces. GGPlay does some minor mutalisk harassment to annoy Iris, but it does not do enough damage. After a few skirmishes around the map, Iris decides it's time to move out and destroy GGPlay.

When Iris reaches GGPlay's choke with his mnm/Tank/Vessel army, GGPlay valiantly waits for his defiler technology to develop, but gets impatient and decides to flank the containment with a lurker/zergling/mutalisk force, to no avail. With no units left, GGPlay has no choice but to type out.

Iris > GGPlay (1-0)

GGPlay could not really take advantage of his 9 pool, and him losing 3 drones early on really counted for Iris. That and he wasn't really prepared for the later game stages lost him the game.




Game 2 - Fantasy
Iris (Terran, Purple, 1 o'clock), GGPlay (Zerg, Teal, 5 o'clock)


+ Show Spoiler [Game 2 on YouTube] +


Both players opt for a fast expansion build of sorts, as GGPlay does a standard 12 hatchery, while Iris with a 1 barrack-Command Center build.

As both players start with their economy, Iris oddly gets a machine shop early. It is eventually found out that he is pumping out vultures for some harassment. As a group of vultures pop, GGPlay barely notices it, but it is too late as the vultures wreck some damage to GGPlay.

GGPlay, after settling the situation, expands to the 8 o'clock expansion. Iris meanwhile adds a few more barracks' to his production line.

The game eventually gets to the end-game, and it is very close. Iris sets up a containment with most of his force at the 8 o'clock expansion, but GGPlay manages to break it. This continually happens for a while.

As Iris expands to both the main and natural expansions of the 11 o'clock base, GGPlay currently has most of the bottom under his control. Iris uses dropship play to harass GGPlay and his expansions. It is successful and GGPlay is set back a bit.

As Purple and Teal blobs of balls run around on the mini-map, GGPlay is eventually sacked down by the huge force that Iris has. With over, literally, 15 vessels, GGPlay tries to save the game with Swarm, Ultralisks and Lurkers, but is eventually overran by the money-driven army of Iris.

Iris > GGPlay (2-0)

Iris played extremely well this game. From his vulture harassment at the start to his massive dropship play at the end, it looked good for Iris from start to finish. Iris also managed to keep GGPlay at his heels, and didn't let him get out of his base at all, except for the rare occasion.




Game 3 - Hitchhiker
Iris (Terran, Blue, 11 o'clock), GGPlay (Zerg, Purple, 5 o'clock)


+ Show Spoiler [Game 3 on YouTube] +


Iris opens up with an odd 2 barrack build at his gas natural choke, while GGPlay goes for the standard fast expansion at his gas natural.

GGPlay, seeing the odd 2 barrack build position, uses drones to fend off the initial marine/SCV harassment brought on by Iris.
As GGPlay masses up sunkens to shoo Iris away, Iris goes for a quick Tank/mnm Push.

It is all well for Iris, but GGPlay has a card up his sleeve. As Iris slowly chews away the sunkens, GGPlay manages to amass Mutalisks, and wreck havoc on Iris' forces. As Iris tries to take a gamble and bring all of his army in, they are literally wiped out by mutalisks and sunkens.

As the mutalisks of GGPlay fly over to Iris' main, with no units, Iris' decides to surrender.

Iris < GGPlay (2-1)

The 2 barrack/tank push was a risky maneuver from Iris, as it used most of Iris' resources. He could not react quick enough to GGPlay's mutalisks. Thus, this time, it lost a game for him, as GGPlay showed some superb mutalisk management to come back and win the game.




Game 4 - Monty Hall
Iris (Terran, Brown, 5 o'clock), GGPlay (Zerg, Orange, 11 o'clock)


+ Show Spoiler [Game 4 on YouTube] +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyAmFhcvZ2g


As the game starts, GGPlay pushes a drone through the middle lane, while Iris goes for a fast expansion on the top/right lane of the map.
GGPlay eventually shows that he has been studying Silver's ZvT games on Monty Hall very hard, as he builds a hatchery in the middle lane on Iris' side. He then follows up with another hatchery, on his side of the middle lane.

Soon as the command center finishes, Iris then scouts the hatchery, but he couldn't do anything about it. As GGPlay starts to go up the tech tree, Iris starts building up his forces.

With some mutalisk harassment, GGPlay manages to stall enough time to get to Hive Tech, and thus Guardians. Iris, knowing this, starts to build up a wraith force to kill these guardians, so GGPlay gets his Hydralisk Den up just in case.

GGPlay then expands to the bottom/left lane on his side, with 4 gas nodes running, it looks very good for GGPlay compared to Iris' 2 gas nodes. As guardians now morph for GGPlay, hydralisk swarms eventually come to the middle lane to support GGPlay's Guardian Army.

With some harassment, GGPlay manages to contain Iris inside of his base. To be safe, GGPlay eventually gets defiler tech and lurkers, and then after some time, Iris gets slaughtered right inside of his base with Guardians/Hydralisks/Lurker/Defilers.

Iris < GGPlay (2-2)

It was simply perfect execution from GGPlay. Iris could not really do anything after he scouted the hatchery in the middle lane.




Game 5 - Python
Iris (Terran, White, 5 o'clock), GGPlay (Zerg, Brown, 2 o'clock)


+ Show Spoiler [Game 5 on YouTube] +


As the final game approaches, Iris opens with a standard 1 barrack Command Center build, while GGPlay goes for the typical 3 hatchery build.
Both players apply some sort of pressure to each other (marines/zerglings). Soon after, GGPlay expands to the 12 o'clock main. As the initial Mutalisk harass does little damage, GGPlay gets lurkers.

As Iris attempts to move out and apply heat onto GGPlay, some nicely placed stop lurkers decimate half of Iris' marines. Iris is hasty and retreats, but lots of damage has been done to him. Iris then moves out and tries to kill the 12 o'clock expansion, but a group of mutaling saves it.

Both players tech up as usual, and many battles ensure, with "lots of green, orange and red" (Irradiate, Dark Swarm and Plague).

Base for base, it is a close match. Iris moves his army around in a circle to avoid any flanking or damage. As Iris plants mines everywhere, ultralisks pop out for GGPlay. It looks bad for Iris as a spell war erupts everywhere.

Eventually, GGPlay manages to raze Iris' expansions. With lots and lots of Ultralisks and Zerglings, GGPlay just runs over Iris' main force. As the mineral-only expansion of Iris goes down. He surrenders.

Iris < GGPlay (2-3)

Woah! GGPlay comes back from 2 games down to win his first ever major title! Just unbelievable! His execution in this game was just more than fantastic.




So there you have it, GGPlay comes back out of nowhere and wins the Daum OSL 3-2!

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An emotional roller coaster, but one happy man here.
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Cpt Obvious
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Germany3073 Posts
July 21 2007 16:47 GMT
#2
Nice brief summary of the games, though it is of course nothing compared to having seen them live

I highly suggest watching games 2 and 5 if you can, those were really superb.
I like how your reports are short yet don´t leave out too much of what happened, GJ :O
Nobody ever reads signatures of people like me, do they?
snarl
Profile Joined July 2004
Canada812 Posts
July 21 2007 17:55 GMT
#3
that last picture is...yeah...
joeki
Profile Joined June 2004
Sweden292 Posts
July 21 2007 18:06 GMT
#4
Nice read

Too bad the last picture will steal all the attention though
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
July 21 2007 18:52 GMT
#5
On July 22 2007 02:55 snarl wrote:
that last picture is...yeah...


LMAO ASS PAT there lol didnt see that

mm GREAT SERIES THOUGH
fuck

nice write
Graphicssavior[gm] : What is a “yawn” rape ;; Masumune - It was the year of the pig for those fucking defilers. Chill - A clinic you say? okum: SC without Korean yelling is like porn without sex. konamix: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY!
InfectedMind
Profile Joined December 2005
Bulgaria78 Posts
July 21 2007 19:14 GMT
#6
Why Iris is tuching GGPlay's ass?
•_°
Psychobabas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
2531 Posts
July 21 2007 20:38 GMT
#7
huge bruise on GGplays arm. Beat up by his coach during training?
abandonallhope
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Sweden563 Posts
July 21 2007 21:21 GMT
#8
On July 22 2007 04:14 InfectedMind wrote:
Why Iris is tuching GGPlay's ass?


It is not Iris, it is GGPlays coach/teammate.
jjun212
Profile Joined December 2004
Canada2208 Posts
July 21 2007 21:23 GMT
#9
still.. lol

wow... an osl going to GGPlay, he deserves it
but i wouldn't have thought he would win it of all people..

and he looks realllyyy small and puny compared to iris
InfectedMind
Profile Joined December 2005
Bulgaria78 Posts
July 21 2007 21:32 GMT
#10
Ops, sorry...
•_°
istealhotelsoap
Profile Joined February 2007
United States514 Posts
July 21 2007 21:42 GMT
#11
i'm glad ggplay won this one
HaXxorIzed
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
Australia8434 Posts
July 21 2007 22:24 GMT
#12
I still cannot believe GGplay pulled this off. Amazing victory.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/HaXxorIzed
zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
July 21 2007 22:48 GMT
#13
GGPlay was amazing in game 5 but, Iris must be a bit sullen after coming so close in game 3 (he probably could have had this if he guarded his tanks a bit better). Felt like in game 2 the only reason GGPlay came up short was he didn't kill the scivessels quickly enough after plauging them. He made damn sure that didn't happen in game 5.
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
July 21 2007 23:01 GMT
#14
Game 3 was actually reminiscent of July vs Goodfriend game 5 OSL finals.
Very good series altogether.
CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
July 22 2007 00:24 GMT
#15
asspats for everyone!
By the way, my name is Funk. I am not of your world
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
July 22 2007 00:44 GMT
#16
Awesome report GTR! Who says the day of the battle report is dead? Not I!

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BrutalMenace
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States1237 Posts
July 22 2007 01:03 GMT
#17
that must suck for iris. Up 3 nothing then cant quite seal the deal. I'd be killing myself if that ahppened to me.
L!MP
Profile Joined March 2003
Australia2067 Posts
July 22 2007 04:28 GMT
#18
On July 22 2007 07:48 zer0das wrote:
GGPlay was amazing in game 5 but, Iris must be a bit sullen after coming so close in game 3 (he probably could have had this if he guarded his tanks a bit better). Felt like in game 2 the only reason GGPlay came up short was he didn't kill the scivessels quickly enough after plauging them. He made damn sure that didn't happen in game 5.

i don't think at any point in game 3 was iris in a winning position. it was an allin strategy and that being said it definitely was counterable with some clever muta harass; very reminiscent of july v gf, as already mentioned. it comes to a point where mutas will simply be stronger against a fast mnm tank push. tanks are only used to take out the sunkens, obviously they can't touch mutas. and only 2 sunkens remained at the end so it's not like the tanks could have done much more. the deciding factor was the muta micro, not the loss of tanks.

ggplay just had to weaken the main army while cutting off reinforcements as much as possible until he had enough to overrun iris' force. you will notice that at the end his medics couldn't even heal his marines anymore as they ran out of mana. awesome stuff from ggplay. i noticed that his face was so calm and cool the entire series, whereas iris definitely had a nerve wrecked face at many points in the series. composure under finals pressure is the sure sign of a great player imo.
Ilikestarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Korea (South)17730 Posts
July 22 2007 14:52 GMT
#19
Game 2 on fantasy wasnt Iris's game from start to finish actually. He was really behind cause his vulture harass didnt do much damage to Ggplay's economy. And he got muta harassed hard espcially at the bridge. And Iris tried to kill ggplay's 3rd gas and failed. By then iris knew he had only one chance and went two fact for a last han bang which Ggplay could have beaten cause he had defilers out. Than Iris decided to hold the center with mines allowing him to get two gases for vessels and he won cause of that.
"Nana is a goddess. Or at very least, Nana is my goddess." - KazeHydra
pheer
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
5391 Posts
July 22 2007 15:18 GMT
#20
uhhhhhhh what the fack?

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Frits
Profile Joined March 2003
11782 Posts
July 23 2007 01:01 GMT
#21
Wow, I was soooo impressed by ggplay that 4th and last game, really really really well played.
toopham
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States551 Posts
July 23 2007 01:38 GMT
#22
Dare i say it..
i now Declare GGplay as the new King of the Swarm!
GGplay is a swarm abuser. the guy basically filled the screen with swarms haha
DIE!!!
ZergZoul
Profile Joined April 2007
Mexico408 Posts
July 23 2007 23:37 GMT
#23
I had never seen so many swarms and plagues in a single game :S (game5)
CustomXSpunjah
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1093 Posts
July 24 2007 17:34 GMT
#24
that last battle is one of the most intense tvz's i've seen in a long long time
beware, the rise of the Protoss is upon us!
Louder
Profile Blog Joined September 2002
United States2276 Posts
July 24 2007 22:35 GMT
#25
In the Monty Hall game section the VOD from the Hitchhiker game is the one that shows up.
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