PLU.CN Kaspersky Cup - Page 36

Sen decides to fast expand at the 12 o’clock expansion, before his pool. TLO scouts it, uses his Orbital Command right away to get an extra supply and builds a well placed bunker by Sen’s expansion. Sen saves his expansion with a last second health transfer and launches an attack with his queen and Zerglings on TLO’s bunker. TLO sees the low hp on the expansion and takes it out right before losing his bunker and marines. In the meantime, TLO builds Hellions and techs to air. Sen GGs right away (not sure if any Banshee was out or not).

TLO wins. TLO leads 1-0.

Again, Sen decides to fast expand at his natural before his pool. TLO already planned for this and built a Barrack by Sen’s 3rd expansion before his first supply depot. Upon completion, lifts it and sends his Scv to build a bunker. Sen cancels his expansion just before it’s about to finish. In the meantime, TLO techs to air with double Starport to Banshee harass. Sen, robust player he is, already has 4 Queens, 2 at each base. But TLO gets cloak and is able to do quite a nice harass. Kills Sen’s main hatchery (his lair is at his natural) and takes out quite a number of Queens. Even though TLO does none stop harassment, Sen is always in the lead in the drone count. TLO does a push with a few Thors, but Sen made a few Infestors and neural parasites 3 Thors. TLO’s army gets completely crushed and Sen pushes back. TLO says GG.

Sen wins. Series is tied 1-1. (Recommended watch)

I missed almost all the match and only saw the last 30 seconds, but it seems TLO went a semi Marines all-in against Sen’s fast expansion with a lot of SCVs for the attack. Sen made a lot of Zerglings and was able to finally pushing it back and was able to enter TLO’s base before he was able to block the ramp. Forced TLO to GG.

Sen wins. Sen leads 2-1.

Sen starts at the 9 o’clock base and TLO at the 12 o’clock base. Sen goes for his standard pool into hatch. Meanwhile, TLO goes for early Reapers, hoping to deny Sen’s FE, but Sen pulls out sick micro and denies the Reaper entering the bunker and destroys the bunker. TLO comes back with more reapers, killing a few Zerglings, but no harm done. Here, Sen’s macro skyrockets, bringing the worker difference by more than 10. TLO tries to push with a mixed army of Hellions, Marauders and Reapers but Sen’s fast Zerglings do a nice surround of the army and it goes down in seconds. TLO says GG.

Sen wins. Sen leads 3-1.

Sen starts bottom left, TLO top right. Sen seems to go for his standard opening, pool into hatch. Nice gas stealing by Sen, cancelling 3 times before it finally dies. TLO pushes out with 4 Marines, 1 Scv and 1 Hellion and puts pressure of Sen early on with amazing Hellion micro. He kills so many Zerglings on his first attack with well placed Hellion attacks. He then transits into Viking and abuses the high ground by Sen’s natural. He also uses his Vikings to kill so many overlords. Sen was brought back into red supplies twice by Viking harassment. Seeing how TLO has so many Viking, Sen goes for Hydras and is finally able to stop the constant harassment by TLO. Both players expand at their respective gold expansion relatively at the same time (I believe Sen was a quicker). Sen scouts TLO’s gold and I believe he saw an Orbital Command, but then TLO switches Command Center and puts down a Planetary Fortress. Sen going for the Hydra/Roach/Infestor combo and seeing how he can’t break the gold expand decides to drop in TLO’s base. Both players keeping expanding and Sen denies the bottom right expand of TLO. TLO saves the Command Center and brings it back to his natural, to which he finally expanded. TLO gets two CCs there and makes two Planetary Fortresses. TLO also goes BCs in the meantime. Sen sends endless waves of Zerg to TLO’s natural but those 2 Planetary Fortresses decimate his armies. One goes down, but it doesn’t seem enough. TLO finally gets his sweet spot of BCs and has a massive army of Tanks to back them up against Hydras. All of Sen’s expansions get denied and he has to GG.

TLO wins. Sen leads 3-2. (Recommended watch)

Sen seems to do his standard opening (pool into hatch) and does the usual gas stealing. TLO hides his Factory at the 9 o’clock gold expansion. His Hellion harass decimates Sen’s drone line, killing more than 10 drones, bringing a huge gap in the worker difference. But this is Sen he’s against. TLO goes with an all mech army and due to his initial harass has a lot more upgrades (quickly up to 3-2 upgrades early in the match). TLO also uses cloaked Ghosts to EMP Sen’s Infestors, which, in his final push, manages to get 2 out of the 3 Infestors and Sen is forced to GG.

TLO wins. Serie is tied 3-3. (Recommended watch)

Same build by Sen. TLO tries to push with 4 Marines and 1 Hellion, but Sen is well prepared. He tries to transition into Banshee play with 2 Starports, but Sen is again well prepared (see game 2 of this serie!). Clearly in the lead, Sen pushes and destroys TLO’s backdoor and TLO says GG even before the battle encounter.

Sen wins the series 4-3.