Alpha Pro Series Premier Build Up!
Number: 73
Players: Zest vs Gumiho
Match Up: Protoss vs Terran
Date: 14 April
Time: 1PM CEST, 8PM KST, 7AM EDT
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Alpha Pro Series is a series of showmatches run by AlphaX and afreecatv. These matches attract some of the best players the StarCraft scene has to offer. From up and commers, Season Veterans and even the best players in the world.
Zest vs Gumiho
Ahh the much talked about PvT match up. Despite all that talk this is going to be a really good series. Gumiho the only Terran that qualified through the qualifcation bracket for the GSL Super Tournament is definitely going to have something to prove going into this one. Zest also managed to qualify as well. Both players will not be playing the PvT match up in their first games in the Super Tournament so the need to hide builds will not be desperate. I am expecting for this one Gumiho to bring out mech once in a while. If there is one Terran who can make Mech work against Protoss it is the Towel Terran himself. On the side of Zest I am expecting a vast array of builds mainly centering around blink stalker openings, a unit he loves very much. Either this is going to be an explosive series
Match History
These two have actually played each other three times this year all in online competitions. Zest bested Gumiho 4-2 in the BaseTradeTV TING Open Season 5. This was in the RO4 of the competition. They also played in the Group Stage of BaseTradeTV TING Open Season 5 in Group Stage 2. Guminho took that series 3--2 They also met in the IEM Katowice 2019 Korean qualifiers with Zest managing to take the close series 2-1. The last time they played in an offline series was way back in 2017 where Zest managed to take a Group stage match of a GSL Super Tournament 2-0. If Match History is anything to go by Zest does have an edge but in a Bo9 series it could really go anyway.
Prediction.
I expect Gumiho to actually take this. 5-4 or 5-3. But it is really close to call.
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