[WCS] Global Finals 2014 Day 2

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6:00
San warping in more zealots.
Spine crawler for Life.
San warps in a stalker.
16 zerglings on the way for Life.
Life gets supply blocked as he loses an overlord.
San proxies a stargate.

7:00 (Z)

Life 66 vs (P)

San 65
San goes for an attack but Life kites with 4 queens.
Life sacrificing an overlord in the main of San.

8:00 (Z)

Life 78 vs (P)

San 73
Life only sees the 4 gateways.
Oracle for San.
3 spore crawlers on the way for Life.
Two evolution chambers for Life.
San pushing into Life's third.

9:00 (Z)

Life 78 vs (P)

San 90
San kills lots of zerglings but Life holds with 7 queens.
Oracle gets 3 kills due to the blind spore crawlers.
Both players are on about 45 workers.
San takes a third base.
+1/1 ranged for Life.
Life moving out with a bunch of zerglings.
Life forces FFs from sentries at San's third base.
Forge for San.
San rebuilding his MSC.

11:00

Life 91 vs (P)

San 84
San loses 3 zealots and the proxy pylon.
Twilight council for San.
Life finishing a lair.
Roaches for Life.
+1 attack for San.

12:00 (Z)

Life 108 vs (P)

San 93
Life getting a macro hatchery.
Infestation pit for Life.
Oracle helping San clear crveep.

13:00 (Z)

Life 130 vs (P)

San 99
Life getting a zergling into the third but a cannon kills it.
Life's still on three bases against San's three.
San takes the center.
Enduring locusts for Life.
Life starting to add on swarm hosts.
Literally Life vs Zest game 3 on Nimbus

14:00 (Z)

Life 153 vs (P)

San 121
Robotics bay and second robotics facility for San.
San clearing a bunch of creep.
Life sending a bunch of roaches and zerglings to the third, and kills the robotics facility.
A counterattack by San has the opportunity to attack the fourth, but doesn't.

15:00 (Z)

Life 184 vs (P)

San 136
San dropping a bunch of zealots in the natural but lots of defensive spines are already there.
Swarm hosts kill 3 sentries.
Charge and double colossus for San.
+2 finishes for San.
Life getting a hive and adding infestors.

17:00

Life 193 vs (P)

San 148
Oracle and observer helping clear creep but the oracle dies.
Life taking a forwards 5th base.
Life sacrificing a few roaches at the fourth of San as it's taken.
San going for the fourth base of Life.

18:00 (Z)

Life 187 vs (P)

San 153
San moves in and snipes the 4th before recalling.
Life's 5th was denied at some point.
San is finishing his 4th base.

19:00 (Z)

Life 179 vs (P)

San 153
San warping in high templars.
Zealot harass is deflected by spines and locusts.
San pushing down the center of the map but the last sentry dies to locusts.

20:00 (Z)

Life 189 vs (P)

San 162
Life still hasn't found the proxy stargate.
Zealots kill a queen and a bunch of zerglings.
Both players are still deflecting each other away from the center.
San dropping archons and zealots in the natural of Life.

21:00

Life 189 vs (P)

San 187
San kills the natural expansion of Life and stilll has a few units there.
San taking a fifth.
Life taking his own 5th base.
Zealots get into the fourth base and sees a double spire by Life.
Life finally finds the proxy stargate and attacks it with a zergling.
Void rays for San.

23:00 (Z)

Life 191 vs (P)

San 193
San harasses with a few zealots.
Mass void rays for San.
+2/2 air for Life.
Zealots kill two swarm hosts of Life.
San taking a 6th base.
Life is still killing the proxy stargate.
Life is still on 5 bases.

25:00 (Z)

Life 199 (818/746) vs (P)

San 199 (1120/875)
San pushing through the center, clearing creep with an archon and a few stalkers.
Life fungals a lot of San's units and kills them with locusts.
+3/3 air for Life.
More void rays for San.
Two more stargates for San.
Fleet beacon for San.
San morphing more archons.
Life taking a 6th base in the bottom right main.
San pushing through the center.

27:00

Life 200 (658/1842) vs (P)

San 193 (2255/1420)
San pushes through the center again, killing some queens an clearing creep.
Life has a lot of static defense blocking the two main entrances into his 6 bases (7 counting the protected one he hasn't taken)
San warps in more zealots at Life's natural.
San attacking while Life is out of position.
San pushing into the static defense.
Life abducts a few colossi and a void ray and kills a bunch of void rays and a colossus.
San morphing lots of archons in the center.
Zealots are still in Life's natural.

30:00

Life (938/2810) vs (P)

San 187 (2700/999)
San adding more void rays and colossi.
Zealots going for the 5th base of Life but they do nothing.
More spores for Life.
San picks off some static defense for free before backing off.
+2 air weapons for San.
Sentry being warped in.
San getting a mothership.
Both players taking a 7th base.

32:00 (Z)

Life (958/3334) vs (P)

San 196 (1860/1007)
San getting two more stargates and a second cybernetics core.
Mothership finishing up.
+3 shields for San.
Life sitting there.
San adding on tempests.
San going for the center again.
San has templar/colossus/archon/tempests.

34:00 (Z)

Life (2468/4306) vs (P)

San 200 (2975/2369)
+2/3 air upgrades for San.
+3 shields finishing for San.
San backs off.
Life spreading creep.
Fun fact, when you spread creep and plant creep tumors, those creep tumors show up as different types of buildings on the production tab.
One archon clearing creep.
Life adding drones.
San has 72 workers against the 45 of Life.

36:00

Life (3000/4750) vs (P)

San 200 (4000/3800)
San trying to take an 8th base on the far right but it's killed by locusts.
San rebuilds it.
+3 attack finishing for San's air.
+2 ground armor for San, which doesn't seem to be important...
San loses a high templar.
Life pressuring with his locusts.
Abduct on the archon.
San loses another nexus.
San building a very... interesting nexus on the left side.
Another nexus on the right side.
Both nexii are closer to San's base, meaning there will be long distance mining.
San is forced to cancel his nexus on the right.

38:00 (Z)

Life 200 (5200/5150) vs (P)

San 197 (5400/5700)
San getting +3 air armor.
More tempests for San.
Greater spire for Life.
Life getting +2 ground melee attacks.
Life's army is mostly corrupters.

40:00 (Z)

Life 200 (6900/5400) vs (P)

San 200 (5600/6300)
Life finds the sneaky left-hand side expansion from San and starts killing workers.
Life spreading creep to prevent a normal nexus.
Life sending his swarm hsots to the left side of the map, towards San's army.
Oracle is picked off.
San feedbacks some vipers and kills a few corrupters with tempests.

42:00

Life 192 (8600/6200) vs (P)

San 194 (7900/5950)
Life abducts and 1-shots the mothership.
San builds two oracles but they both die.
Locusts deny mining at San's 8th base again, but the nexus is still safe.
San long-distance mining from the far right side of the map.

44:00 (Z)

Life 200 (8800/6500) vs (P)

San 196 (8800/8500)
Life moving towards the right-hand side of the map.
San getting +3 armor for ground.
San has three oracles now.
I remember when this game was Life crushing San's pressure and riding it very carefully to a victory.
Life goes for San's army and abducts a bunch of corrupters.
Storms on the corrupters but 2 tempests die while most of the corrupters survive.
Two oracles are abducted and killed.
Ultralisk cavern for Life.

46:00

Life 200 (8800/6600) vs (P)

San 198 (10400/9000)
Life slowly killing San's 8th base.
I keep almost writing "Zest" instead of San.
San taking the 9th base on the far right.
A random colossus is out of position and is killed by corrupters..
San has to cancel the 9th base.
Locusts do nothing.

48:00 (Z)

Life 200 (9900/7100) vs (P)

San 197 (12000/9300)
San trying to take an 8th at the far right again.
Locusts going for the 8th base again.
San is on 52 probes against 28 drones.
San loses his mothership again but kills a few corrupters.
San sacrificing a few probes.
San loses his 8th.
Both players stabilize on 7 bases.

50:00 (Z)

Life 200 (10100/7000) vs (P)

San 197 (12500/8600)
Life getting another viper.
Life has a few infestors.
Tempests are abducted, 2 die.
San has 5 oracles. It seems that when he loses some oracles, he builds more next time.
Life kills an observer.
Locusts nearly kill a high templar.
Neither player can take the center bases.
Life's natural died a while ago.

52:00

Life 200 (10500/6900) vs (P)

San 184 (14000/8700)
San loses a few more tempests to corrupters.
San's 8th on the left is denied again.
San poking around with oracles.
You guys wanted a LR for Firecake vs Mana... well...
San trying to take the center left base again.
Life hasn't even mined gas from his 7th base.

54:00 (Z)

Life 199 (10750/7000) vs (P)

San 197 (15200/8300)
Life abducts and kills two oracles but they get revelation off.
Life abducts 3 tempests.
San has lost almost twice as much as Life.
Zealots are killing spore crawlers in the center.
Life goes in with corrupters again and they get stormed but they do survive and kill some tempests.

56:00

Life 197 (11000/6760) vs (P)

San 187 (14700/6300)
Life kills a mothership and a few more tempests.
San is still trying to defend his 8th but now he abandons it to the locusts.
San moving across the map horizontally.
San trying to mine on the right hand side of the map.

58:00 (Z)

Life 200 (11400/6500) vs (P)

San 200 (12900/4500)
San going for the static defense.
Life has enough and finally goes in for the attack.
Life kills all of the tempests and dances his corrupters.

1:00:00
San GG's!
Life wins 3-0!

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