EPTI decided to translate this because many people were being suspicious of a match-fixing between Fruitseller and oGsTop. (this may be more so in Korean communities).
Hopefully this wil settle any disputes regarding that game.
Enjoy!
Original post:
http://esports.gomtv.com/gsl/community/view.gom?m=community&msgid=896&c=all&p=1
(Korean website)
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There are numerous debates regarding yesterday's match between Fruitseller and oGsTop.
First people are talking about the ultralisk bug. Even though Fruitseller used ultralisk to win game 1 and 3, anyone who has been with the starcraft scene for a while would know that Fruitseller could not lose with that many ultralisks, regardless of the bug. Even though there were a lot of thors, 250mm cannon cannot stun ultralisks and were much smaller in number.
Another argument is that the match was fixed by the 2 progamers. As someone who has been with Esports for 10 years and watched it grow, it pains me to see people watch an epic come-back game and immediately theorize that the match must have been fixed. If you saw Fruitseller being ecstatic with joy after the match or oGsTop coming out of his booth covered with sweat, one could not argue that it was a fixed match.
Now I'll go over game 3 piece by piece. I realized that I had overlooked many finer points when I watched replay of the game. We'll see how the game seemed to have turned around all-of-a-sudden.
Simply put, Zerg turned the game around much earlier than what we think.
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This is when 2 helions are coming out of a factory with reactor add on. It's 4:53 according to the in-game clock just above minimap.
At this point, Fruitseller had his roach warren 80% complete.
More importantly, he did gas rush against terran.
(I'll explain further in bottom, but this was the key move of the game)
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This shows oGsTop constructing a command center after killing 7 drones with 4 helions.
Fruitseller's gas rush is still there. In other words, Terran's playing on 1 gas.
The textbook playstyle would have had oGsTop make 2 starports making cloacked banshee following 4 helion push to finish the game. This is a strat that has very high win ratio in kulas ravine.
Zerg has no choice but to stop 4 helion rush with roach, and the zerg who spent more than 100 gas on roach is gonna be late getting laire upgrade. With late laire upgrade, there is no way to stop the cloaked banshee when it comes.
However with the gas rush oGsTop could not build 2 starports and while he has no gas, he has a surplus of 400 minerals.
At this point, he has to choose between the two:
1. Construct a command center and prepare for a management game
2. Construct 2-3 barracks and do a timed push
oGsTop decides to go for management game and builds a command center.
In my opinion, this was his mistake.
(One could argue why he has to wait 400 minerals before building barracks instead of making 'em one at a time. However if you take a look at the game, Terran cannot build more barracks if he has no assurance that 4 helion push is going to deliver a big hit to Zerg. As an example, many would've seen situations where zerg makes drones instead of reinforcements when he got into your base with zergling rush. This is because the zerg was not sure of the rush's effectiveness. If terran knew that 4 helion rush was gonna do big damage, building barrack is the correct choice. However most players tend to assess the situation before deciding their next move. At that point, oGsTop already had more than 400 minerals.)
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Now Fruitseller is pushing with 4 roaches following the helion rush.
Even though oGsTop did a successful harassment, he doesn't have enough gas and has next to no units as he is making a command center.
He only has helions and 1 marine to fend off roaches. That of course isn't enough units to stop roaches. The roaches were already turning the corner at that point.
(it seems that oGsTop lost a few practice games to oGsZenio who did a roach all-in push at this point of game)
At this point, Zerg has 19 drones. Even though he took a hit, he is already recovering. Also, he's done building roaches which take up gas, all 19 drones are mining minerals. In other words, mineral income is about the same for Terran and Zerg at this point.
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1st banshee is coming out. Comes out around 7th minute mark. Top's original plan would've been to do worker harass with the first banshee, and build 1-2 mauraders to stop the roach rush. However if you take a look at the minimap, zerg's gas rush is still in Terran's main base. As oGsTop is lacking gas, he cannot build mauraders following tech addon nor can he do cloaking upgrade.
oGsTop's banshee does not goto zerg's base but gets used to stop 4 roach push.
(From oGsTop's position he could be thinking that there could be more roaches coming on top of the 4 that are already on their way. The reason for that is oGsZenith....)
If you are to take a look at the income tab, their mineral income is about equal. Even though Terran's harvesting more gas, zerg does not require any gas at this point. (ain't producing any units that need gas) Therefore the actual income rate is the same.
At this point the only advantage oGsTop has is that he has higher tech.
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In-game clock shows 8:40.
Banshee gets 5 drones at Fruitseller's base, and comes back to stop the roach push.
Even though oGsTop took down zerg's gas extractor he is still short of gas.
He puts all his gases to produce a thor and mech attack +1 upgrade.
Since he still has a surplus of minerals left over, he makes another command center.
(oGsTop felt that he is still on top, so he would've been confident that he couldn't lose in a management game. Any Terran would feel that way)
But is Terran really out on top at this point?
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Take another look at income tab.
Now oGsTop is confident that he could not lose with his economic and tech advantage in a late-game.
This is 9 seconds after him beginning to build his 2nd additional command center.
8:49 - Zerg is getting 1080 mineral income and Terran is getting 780 mineral income.
Zerg now begins to harvest gas as well.
Zerg has higher worker count at 30 : 28.
oGsTop anticipated roach reinforcements, but Fruitseller was putting all his larvaes to drones.
He did a defensive all-in instead of doing an offensive one and it worked out splendidly.
oGsTop was in an advantageous point up to 7:01, but just in 1 minute and 49 seconds of game time, Fruitseller got ahead economically.
His mind-game worked to his advantage.
I only realized this after 1 minute has passed in the live game.
I apologize for that.
However Zerg is still behind in production capabilities and tech.
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Game time at 10:24 mark.
Now Zerg is not behind anymore.
He has Lair tech up as well as having roach warren, and is getting armor upgrade.
Terran still only has 1 Thor and is about to get 2nd Thor come out.
His production capability is relatively weak.
He has 1 factory + tech addon, 1 starport with reactor addon and 1 barrack.
At this point, Zerg is ahead in both economy and production capability.
This is a complete come-back by Zerg.
After this everything works out as Fruitseller plans.
He gets to Hive without any problem and beings producing Ultralisks.
He was the most vulnerable when during his hive timing, but he bought time with burrowed baneling trap and baneling drop.
Because he played the game with the minimal amount of units, he was able to get a large number of ultralisks following Hive upgrade.
oGsTop was behind in population and unit mix at this point. (it is not due to the ultralisk bug).
Once again I'd like to thank Fruitseller and oGsTop who showed a great come-back game.
Also I'd like to wish that everyone would enjoy GSL without any misunderstanding.
Thank you!
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