Maru is just always ahead macro wise. He stopped producing much around 170 supplies and added a lot of CC/starports, started building some cyclones to secure even more bases and took them way before SpeCial.
Then, while mining a little bit more he started pressuring SpeCial new bases, building raven / Vikings to counter the BCs from SpeCial :x.
It’s impressive how easy he makes it look like

Vindicare605

United States16129 Posts

May 24 2021 11:50 GMT

#107

Not as valiant as i was hoping. But definitely an expected outcome.

Noa Greenini

265 Posts

May 24 2021 11:51 GMT

#108

On May 24 2021 19:50 Charoisaur wrote:

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1 Scan doesn't really save you if you don't even have an ebay started

It goes a long way to at least frighten the Protoss

Also, WP by Maru xD No one is surprised!

coverpunch

United States2093 Posts

May 24 2021 11:52 GMT

#109

JinAir dominating again.

Vindicare605

United States16129 Posts

May 24 2021 11:52 GMT

#110

On May 24 2021 20:52 coverpunch wrote:
JinAir dominating again.

Insert "always has been" meme.

EzioAs

235 Posts

May 24 2021 11:55 GMT

#111

3/4 isn't so bad. Too bad Trap had to "ruin" everything.

Terra1

Philippines312 Posts

May 24 2021 12:00 GMT

#112

3/4. Not bad. Zoun put up a fight to break my bets.

Still. I think Tosses do too well on STs usually, only for majority of the Tosses to die before reaching the semis or the quarterfinals of a GSL.

Obamarauder

697 Posts

May 24 2021 13:10 GMT

#113

Dont think zoun can beat maru, trap needs to win for zoun to have a chance

DarkPlasmaBall

United States46669 Posts

May 24 2021 13:17 GMT

#114

Props to Zoun for the upset! The rest of the results weren't surprising imo.

royalroadweed

United States8301 Posts

May 24 2021 13:23 GMT

#115

Zoun denied the full Jin Air semis.

Xain0n

Italy3963 Posts

May 24 2021 14:47 GMT

#116

Go Zoun, well done!

neutralrobot

Australia1025 Posts

May 24 2021 15:19 GMT

#117

Man, sOs actually has a chance at this tournament on the back of PvP. He also sometimes has Maru's number... I never thought I'd see the day. Him or Zoun winning it all would be great.

Anc13nt

1557 Posts

May 24 2021 18:08 GMT

#118

Zoun has a very interesting style

Waxangel

United States33713 Posts

May 25 2021 00:53 GMT

#119

On May 25 2021 00:19 neutralrobot wrote:
Man, sOs actually has a chance at this tournament on the back of PvP. He also sometimes has Maru's number... I never thought I'd see the day. Him or Zoun winning it all would be great.

The problem is PvP is probably his weakest match-up. And current PvP isn't quite the meme-PvP of old, where anything can happen—it's become relatively stable in terms of good players generally winning. It seems highly unlikely that Trap could drop a BO7 to anyone, barring some non-game related mental collapse.

tigera6

3516 Posts

May 25 2021 04:05 GMT

#120

Zoun PvP is not consistently strong neither, he lost 0-2 to Patience in WTL last week, so I would give sOs a good chance against him. As for Trap, not sure if losing that way to Maru in the code S still affect his psyche, and while he did 3-0 Bunny, it wasnt a straight up dominance, and I think Maru is a much better TvP than Bunny.