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[GSL 2025] Code S Season 1 - RO4 and Grand Finals
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
 Aight, the series was lost, but I'm happy with that one mech win. | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17676 Posts
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Elentos
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ProbLus
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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bela.mervado
Hungary388 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
Also, this Terran theme remix is pretty nifty | ||
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Die4Ever
United States17676 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
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Die4Ever
United States17676 Posts
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Elentos
55550 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
*When an Artosis Pylon refuses to die... | ||
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
EDIT: herO never looked ready for that. No splash damage against a boy pull is pretty oof. | ||
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
On May 16 2025 22:05 Waxangel wrote: Kinda surprised herO lost to this, since Cure has used some variation of this 3-1 all-in twice already this GSL (herO himself beat it!). I'd have to rewatch all the games to be sure, but I don't think Cure mixed things up too much besides his attack timing. I think that going for the fast Forge ate into the unit count that herO was able to produce. | ||
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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Antithesis
Germany1185 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
Nail biting! | ||
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Antithesis
Germany1185 Posts
Edit: Yeah, herO! gg. Happy he got this ultimately. | ||
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
HERO!  | ||
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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ProbLus
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Our first protoss champion since... herO! | ||
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Garnet
Vietnam9021 Posts
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Elentos
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
On May 16 2025 22:45 ProbLus wrote: herO! Our first protoss champion since... herO! In 2022. EDIT: The last non-herO Protoss to win an S-tier tournament was Zest, for those who are wondering. | ||
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
On May 16 2025 22:55 Waxangel wrote: Also, congrats fam, we beat the GSL finals curse again I was worried after the first two games. Cure really stepped up after that. | ||
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Blitzball04
191 Posts
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starkiller123
United States4030 Posts
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Gescom
Canada3397 Posts
On May 17 2025 03:21 starkiller123 wrote: any great games I should go back and watch? Game2 was brilliant, amazing. Short and sweet. OTHERWISE; f*ck this series. Big league Terran vibes throughout. MMM ... get ahead? Pull the boys. Fall behind? Pull the boys. Pulling the boys causing a stalemate? Pull the boys again. Thanks, I hate it. Would have raged if herO lost in the end. I haven't watched Brood War in a while, but I think I'm watching the ASL finals next weekend in protest. Maybe the SKT1 Toss can end Soulkey's reign of terror... | ||
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QOGQOG
834 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25283 Posts
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Blitzball04
191 Posts
On May 17 2025 04:11 Gescom wrote: Game2 was brilliant, amazing. Short and sweet. OTHERWISE; f*ck this series. Big league Terran vibes throughout. MMM ... get ahead? Pull the boys. Fall behind? Pull the boys. Pulling the boys causing a stalemate? Pull the boys again. Thanks, I hate it. Would have raged if herO lost in the end. I haven't watched Brood War in a while, but I think I'm watching the ASL finals next weekend in protest. Maybe the SKT1 Toss can end Soulkey's reign of terror... I agree with that. It was frustrating to watch since all cure did was pulling the boys over and over. Amazing herO was able to keep composed in game 7. It wasn’t looking at the beginning of the push But seriously pull the boys? Fuck that | ||
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RandomPlayer
Russian Federation392 Posts
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On May 17 2025 04:11 Gescom wrote: Game2 was brilliant, amazing. Short and sweet. OTHERWISE; f*ck this series. Big league Terran vibes throughout. MMM ... get ahead? Pull the boys. Fall behind? Pull the boys. Pulling the boys causing a stalemate? Pull the boys again. Thanks, I hate it. Would have raged if herO lost in the end. I haven't watched Brood War in a while, but I think I'm watching the ASL finals next weekend in protest. Maybe the SKT1 Toss can end Soulkey's reign of terror... Watching herO work his way through Cure's bullshit and finally solving his bio/tank all-in gives the series character and makes it memorable though. Imo Cure realized 1 game in he was not gonna cut it against herO in a straight-up game. This wasn't the SC2 everyone was hoping to see, but it was way more exciting than most GSL finals. On May 17 2025 03:21 starkiller123 wrote: any great games I should go back and watch? Game 3 from the first semifinal, game 1 from the second semifinal. | ||
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bulldozer06701
124 Posts
On May 17 2025 10:32 Blitzball04 wrote: I agree with that. It was frustrating to watch since all cure did was pulling the boys over and over. Amazing herO was able to keep composed in game 7. It wasn’t looking at the beginning of the push But seriously pull the boys? Fuck that Terran's late game sucks now in both tvz and tvp so nothing to do but pull the boys and try to do one big push. What else should Cure have done? Forfeit? Builld shitty thors or BCs or something? | ||
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darklycid
3510 Posts
On May 17 2025 18:01 bulldozer06701 wrote: Terran's late game sucks now in both tvz and tvp so nothing to do but pull the boys and try to do one big push. What else should Cure have done? Forfeit? Builld shitty thors or BCs or something? Idk If terrans lategame sucks but toss can get ahead a Lil too easy i think. | ||
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MJG
United Kingdom1053 Posts
On May 17 2025 10:03 WombaT wrote: HerO is so fucking good at this game HerO wasn't playing...  | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25283 Posts
Haha I usually studiously avoid this but I have lapsed this time! | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25283 Posts
On May 17 2025 10:32 Blitzball04 wrote: I agree with that. It was frustrating to watch since all cure did was pulling the boys over and over. Amazing herO was able to keep composed in game 7. It wasn’t looking at the beginning of the push But seriously pull the boys? Fuck that It’s a viable move, and Cure has some pretty fiendish pushes. I think it’s more his call than necessarily indicative of the overall state of the matchup. I mean Clem doesn’t employ it a lot, and he’s doing OK | ||
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Gescom
Canada3397 Posts
On May 17 2025 18:01 bulldozer06701 wrote: Terran's late game sucks now in both tvz and tvp so nothing to do but pull the boys and try to do one big push. What else should Cure have done? Forfeit? Builld shitty thors or BCs or something? And yet we were very close to having a TvT final. I'm going to assume Cure is simply practicing half as much as he was 2y ago and couldn't be taxed to manage multi-prong harass. I should go back and watch the Ro12 games that I skipped... | ||
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dysenterymd
1237 Posts
On May 17 2025 23:37 WombaT wrote: It’s a viable move, and Cure has some pretty fiendish pushes. I think it’s more his call than necessarily indicative of the overall state of the matchup. I mean Clem doesn’t employ it a lot, and he’s doing OK I'm not sure how much we should read into herO/Serral/Clem games for balance right now becuase they're so far ahead of their peers. Clem's insane multitasking lets him do things in TvP nobody else can, Serral's spell caster control lets him win ZvP lategame when nobody else can, and herO does herO things. If we think herO is a better player than Cure (I do), even under normal balance Cure might all-in a lot. The fact that Cure pulled the same builds against Classic so much, who I would consider more of Cure's peer, says a lot more. I do think Terran late-game issues are more down to Toss getting so far ahead in middle game than an inherent problem with Terran late game composition. I don't think we should go overboard with toss nerfs though, since this is the first time in ages that Protoss has looked strong, and I don't think PvZ or PvT are grossly imbalanced or anything. Something like reducing energy recharge to 75 instead of 100, or bumping up the cooldown slightly, might be enough. | ||
Poopi
France12875 Posts
On May 17 2025 17:35 RandomPlayer wrote: Sc2 has been evolving for 15 years to.. rushing with t1 units and scvs because you can't win otherwise.. TvP really needs a fix. I mean if you get pro terrans using protoss instead of just playing the mirror and actually beating other top terrans, yeah no wonder the match-up will be timing pushes and/or all-ins. | ||
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Topin
Peru10077 Posts
in the first semifinal i thought Gumi was "throwing" the game going mech i was really surprised it worked. herO vs Cure g2 was so exciting i coudnt believe what was happening. i dont blame Cure for trying to end some of the games pulling the boys and at the end of the day it made it exciting to watch his excution and herOs defence. | ||
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chrusher97
Canada811 Posts
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Waxangel
United States33388 Posts
On May 17 2025 17:40 Elentos wrote: Watching herO work his way through Cure's bullshit and finally solving his bio/tank all-in gives the series character and makes it memorable though. Imo Cure realized 1 game in he was not gonna cut it against herO in a straight-up game. This wasn't the SC2 everyone was hoping to see, but it was way more exciting than most GSL finals. I think people don't really mentally separate finals with great individual games and finals with great tension/an overall story. Like, the 2014 Life vs sOs BlizzCon 7-gamer had maybe ONE solid back-and-forth game, but it's remembered as one of the most exciting ever because of the general flow of the series that led to game seven. It's really rare that you get a finals like Mvp vs Squirtle or MMA-DRG, where you have a handful of memorable games as high spots in a series that also have a great flow to it. | ||
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Gescom
Canada3397 Posts
On May 18 2025 13:20 chrusher97 wrote: Cure played perfect imo... TvP is impossible right now so all korean terrans are just doing some form of 2 base allin. What a lame narrative. Yikes. PvT was 15-14 through all the matches this GSL season. "So impossible" | ||
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RandomPlayer
Russian Federation392 Posts
On May 18 2025 16:11 Gescom wrote: What a lame narrative. Yikes. PvT was 15-14 through all the matches this GSL season. "So impossible" He meant that it's impossible to win tvp in a normal game, as the terran falls behind quickly. | ||
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WombaT
Northern Ireland25283 Posts
On May 18 2025 14:30 Waxangel wrote: I think people don't really mentally separate finals with great individual games and finals with great tension/an overall story. Like, the 2014 Life vs sOs BlizzCon 7-gamer had maybe ONE solid back-and-forth game, but it's remembered as one of the most exciting ever because of the general flow of the series that led to game seven. It's really rare that you get a finals like Mvp vs Squirtle or MMA-DRG, where you have a handful of memorable games as high spots in a series that also have a great flow to it. Yeah this is a great point | ||
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DarkGamer
Germany323 Posts
what i dont understand is, why toss gets so far ahead in the mid to lategame in income beside both players macro on the same level? the one macro game in the finals showed that very good and i think that is the problem in the balance. otherwise it seems fine. | ||
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Elentos
55550 Posts
On May 18 2025 14:30 Waxangel wrote: I think people don't really mentally separate finals with great individual games and finals with great tension/an overall story. Like, the 2014 Life vs sOs BlizzCon 7-gamer had maybe ONE solid back-and-forth game, but it's remembered as one of the most exciting ever because of the general flow of the series that led to game seven. It's really rare that you get a finals like Mvp vs Squirtle or MMA-DRG, where you have a handful of memorable games as high spots in a series that also have a great flow to it. Tell me about it. I've been rewatching tons of old finals recently out of curiosity, and most of them are just not good. A lot of them don't have an engaging flow and no fun games. | ||
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tigera6
3397 Posts
On May 19 2025 14:23 DarkGamer wrote: i liked the finals. what i dont understand is, why toss gets so far ahead in the mid to lategame in income beside both players macro on the same level? the one macro game in the finals showed that very good and i think that is the problem in the balance. otherwise it seems fine. Toss can throw their entire army to the frontline and expand like crazy thanks to Battery/Cannon and Warp Gate + Recall, Terran cant afford to over-expand without leaving hole for zealot run by, DT sneaking in and Warp Prism backstab. I think the issue also occur in the tech of Terran in TvP, all the nerfs on Ghost taking its tolls and they are not as effective as before. Sky Terran need to be built up the counts to be effective, but its impossible to do that with lower base count and continuously defending Protoss attack. The only way that Terran can win a standard macro game in current patch is either multi-prong attacks or somehow catch the entire Protoss army and then immediately attack. | ||
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SharkStarcraft
Austria2226 Posts
Toss BARELY wins 1 tournament in what feels like 100 years and everyone is calling for nerfs. Time for the Zerg Cabal to cook up some more nerfs - perhaps removing the cannon and the shield battery would be a great start to satisfy the broader public  As compensation I would suggest -5 seconds research time on ground armor level 2. | ||
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Heartland
Sweden24580 Posts
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