0:00-4:00min
CC first on the low ground for Maru
Hatch first for Symbol

Pool and Gas for Symbol
Rax and Gas for Maru

2 Lings and 2 Queens in production for Symbol

4:00-6:00min
Ling-Speed started for Symbol, pulls 2 of the Drones out of the Extractor
Factory and Reactor on the way for Maru

defensive Bunker at the natural for Maru
+2 Rax and additonal Refinery

Symbol takes his third base and builds a Roach Warren
Overlord Speed on the way as well

6:00-8:00min
Maru moves out with his first 2 Hellions, scouts the third and starts Stim
Marauder in production for Maru, Reactors at the Raxes, third Refinery and Starport

Ferrarilords scouts everything Maru does
Symbol builds a bunch of Roaches and pushes the Hellions away

8:00-10:00min
single E-Bay for Maru, double Evo for Symbol
Baneling Nest and Lair started for Symbol

Maru pushes out with 6 Hellions, a few Marauders, a bunch of Marines and 2 Medivacs
Symbol builds defensive Lings and Banes

10:00-12:00min
Symbol attacks Maru's army with his Lings and Banes, Maru immediately picks up and runs away
Maru once again tries to push in to clear some creep but has to lift off again

More Roaches, Roach-Speed and Bane-Speed on the way
third CC, Armory, 2nd E-Bay and Mines on the way for Maru

12:00-16:00min

120

121
Maru tries to harass the main and clear creep at the same time but Symbol is in position to defend
Maru reinforces offensively and tries to push some more but Symbol is only producing units now

Symbol pushes Maru back and goes for an attack on Maru's natural
Lots of Banelings in production, Maru only has a few defensive Mines and his Bio units

Symbol busts the natural wall and attacks with Banes and Roaches and mass Ling reinforcements
Maru is able to barely push Symbol back for now

2-2 finishes for Symbol, more Lings and Banes and Pathogen Glands in production

16:00-18:00min

148

136
Symbol stays on 3 bases and adds Infestors and Roaches to his army
Maru is finally able to take his third base and builds lots of Marine-Marauder

Maru pushes towards Symbol and Symbol engages him in the middle of the map. Fungals hit a lot of Medivacs but Maru is able to pull back to his Mines and Symbol loses a big chunk of his Banelings to some Mine hit

18:00-20:00min
Symbol finally takes his 4th base, Maru has his 4th CC finishing as well
Symbol goes for another big push on Maru but Maru is split up and defends easily against the Roach-Bane-Infestor army

20:00-22:00min

130

123
Maru tries to counter-push again
Symbol reinforces with Lings and was able to keep his Infestors alive in the previous engagement

Ling-Infestor is able to push Maru back once more and Symbol pushes again

22:00-24:00min

152

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Symbol pushes towards Maru's 4th and hits some great fungals but Symbol has no Banelings and not enough Lings so mass Medivacs heal through all of the fungal damage

Symbol goes for Ultralisks transition and sets up baneling landmines
Maru drops the main and attacks at the front

24:00-26:00min

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huge engagement in front of Symbols bases
Fungals hit and Ultralisks close the distance and Symbol is able to push Maru back

Baneling landmines kill a chunk of the army as well
Symbol counter-pushes once again with a small supply lead

26:00-28:00min

150

90
that was a huge overcommitment by Symbol, Ultralisks and Infestors get caught by a massive amount of Marine-Marauder-Medivac off creep
Symbol tries to back off but stimmed Bio is on his heels and Maru keeps pushing forward

Symbol loses more and more units and is pushed back all the way to his natural
Maru reinforces and pushes forward and Symbol has to give up

Maru takes the game and the series with 3-1!

Cokefreak

Finland8095 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#846

Extremely entertaining series

Grovbolle

Denmark3813 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#847

/Cursed

FrostedMiniWheats

United States30730 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#848

Artosis curse does it again D;

Fionn

United States23455 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#849

On July 23 2013 19:36 Ragnarork wrote:

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Let's not get crazy.

Yeah, Maru can actually make the semifinals of a Starleague in SC2.

ZenithM

France15952 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#850

On July 23 2013 19:36 HaruRH wrote:
My body is ready for a TvT finals

At last. :D

BeaTeR

Kazakhstan4130 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#851

looking at that kid and can't resist the wish for him to win the whole thing

Kitaen

Austria466 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#852

maru played very well, absolutely deserved

Conut

Canada1026 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#853

i feel like symbol started playing good after getting warmed up, i wonder what those games would have looked like if symbol played his best from the start. They were starting to get really close near the end.

SoFrOsTy

United States525 Posts

July 23 2013 10:37 GMT

#854

On July 23 2013 19:35 bo1b wrote:

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Sounds like a pretty retarded choice.

In this case, I don't think it was a choice he wanted to make. Sometimes at end game when you are under pressure constantly, you feel like you need that 200/200 for units. Sometimes it is true, sometimes not. It def would have helped him. But Symbol definitely kept getting lazy vs widow mines in the late game.