Zest's all-kill gives KT 4-0 win over rivals SK Telecom
by Waxangel
The highly anticipated telecom derby for the Proleague Round 1 title gave way to a surprising result. KT_Zest came into the playoffs with disappointing 2-4 record in round one, but stepped up his game in a huge way for the playoffs. He left SK Telecom's collection of all stars with the sour taste of defeat in their mouths, scoring a demoralizing, 4-0 sweep.
Zest wasted little time in taking his first win of the night against Rain, with an accelerated 3-gate rush making short work of his opponent. Zest then faced his toughest challenge of the night against Soulkey, who very nearly overpowered him with swarmhosts and corruptors. However, Zest's continued harassment combined with a couple of ill-advised engagements from Soulkey allowed the KT Protoss to pull off an unexpected comeback.
SKT ordered soO to halt Zest's momentum, but his defenses failed to hold against Zest's 3-base blink stalker timing attack. Finally, PartinG was sent out in hopes of conjuring a miracle, but he ended up being Zest's fourth and final victim. After being outplayed in a macro game, PartinG tried to turn things around with a base trade. Zest was not shaken by PartinG's desperate ploy, and finished his opponent off to bring the series to an end.
With Zest's all-kill, KT clinched the round 1 playoff title on top of the round 1 regular season title, taking a commanding lead in the Proleague point rankings with three rounds left to play. Round two will begin on February 23rd.
Points are awarded based on regular season and playoff finishes. The top four teams qualify for the season end playoffs.
Soulkey threw that game so hard. Even with SKT falling apart, there are plenty of points that were earned by the deep run and plenty of points left to gain. It's still heavily up in the air on who the final four will be. I've got a strong feeling round two will be Prime's round. ^_^
On February 12 2014 01:28 BLinD-RawR wrote: uhh how are those points calculated?
I hope its not bullshit like the kespa monthly elo.
They are based on the ERS (Evil Ranking System). Which ever teams earn the most points gained them for being evil/corrupt/or using bs strategies. Notice the 3 bottom teams, CJ/MVP/Prime all models of excellence and clean behavior. They are doing it wrong.
On February 12 2014 01:28 BLinD-RawR wrote: uhh how are those points calculated?
I hope its not bullshit like the kespa monthly elo.
you can pretty much reverse engineer it. 65-60-55-50-45-40-35-30 points for finish in the regular season. 1 point for r1 playoff loss, 11 points for r2 playoff loss, 16 points for losing in the final, 56 points for finals win? something along those lines anyway.
On February 12 2014 01:28 BLinD-RawR wrote: uhh how are those points calculated?
I hope its not bullshit like the kespa monthly elo.
81, 71, 61, 51, 45, 40, 35, 30 for 1-8th places in the round-robin stage and 40 and 10 for top 2 in playoffs. E.g. KT has 81 + 40 points.
What is the point of those 81 71s tho? I mean why now make them 80 or 70. Is it to say that finishing high in the round robin stage is more important should a tie occur?
Might be off topic, but I'm a little confused on the spoiler hiding in the website.... seems to work fine for the homepage headlines, but shouldn't it also hide topic titles like this from the sidebar?
On February 11 2014 10:40 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: While newcomers to Proleague might look at Zest's 2-4 record and scoff, SKT fans are looking at him and already wondering what kind of b***shit he's going to pull off in this match before going on to suck in round 2 (they're getting angry right now, imagining this in their heads).
On February 11 2014 10:40 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote: While newcomers to Proleague might look at Zest's 2-4 record and scoff, SKT fans are looking at him and already wondering what kind of b***shit he's going to pull off in this match before going on to suck in round 2 (they're getting angry right now, imagining this in their heads).
Didn't even get to see Flash play, what a huge disappointment! Was hoping to see Soulkey vs Flash Poor SK throwing the game against Zest, I bet he is really disappointed as well!
It was a super entertaining match. I wouldn't say Parting was outplayed. It was his decision to go Tempests which was rather bizarre. If he had a couple more minutes perhaps he would have enough tempests to pick at the colossus and win a base trade, but Zest smelled blood in the water and ended it quick. You wouldn't expect a colossus timing attack on a map with such an open third. Either way, when Artosis said "I don't know about this" I couldn't agree more. Parting gambled big with everything on the line.
I mean, I would have liked to see Flash and TY win some in the finals too, but with this performance Zest can officially be forgiven for losing the ace match against Jin Air that meant KT's one and only loss of the round.
I must admit I was very worried that SKT would win it, but that only makes this result all the more enjoyable.
On February 12 2014 03:24 TRaFFiC wrote: It was a super entertaining match. I wouldn't say Parting was outplayed. It was his decision to go Tempests which was rather bizarre. If he had a couple more minutes perhaps he would have enough tempests to pick at the colossus and win a base trade, but Zest smelled blood in the water and ended it quick. You wouldn't expect a colossus timing attack on a map with such an open third. Either way, when Artosis said "I don't know about this" I couldn't agree more. Parting gambled big with everything on the line.
The Korean comentators were ahead of this - they were expecting a Colossus timing, and then when Parting went tempests they weren't surprised at all - actually complimenting him. He was so far behind in so many facets that it would have been very hard to just play catch-up. Even Zest later came out in the postmatch interview saying that he thought his hardest match was against Parting because he came up with a strategy that could win from such a very difficult deficit... this was before he was reminded of his own tough spot against Soulkey!
My love for KT keeps growing and growing, after seeing Flash being in a huge slump on individual tournaments, my faith on Flash and KT was decreasing. But seeing TY with his flawless streak on Proleague and Zest All-killing SKTooMuchPower, brings back all my faith on them.
I started as a Flash Fanboy, now its not only my heart that follows him but also my mind,
On February 12 2014 04:06 ArTiFaKs wrote: Round 2 is CJ Entus glory round! They will step it up and show who is the true champions and contenders to KT right now!
Time to pick an all CJ team for FPL, they're probably worth nothing at this point xD
On February 12 2014 04:06 ArTiFaKs wrote: Round 2 is CJ Entus glory round! They will step it up and show who is the true champions and contenders to KT right now!
Time to pick an all CJ team for FPL, they're probably worth nothing at this point xD
JOKES ON YOU
most of them were worth nothing in round 1 also :x
Man, that last PvP was so entertaining. I'm really enjoying this season of Proleague more than I thought I would despite the many turtley games and lack of Terran. Some fucking excellent play taking place, these dudes are playing at a ridiculous level.
On February 12 2014 01:51 ffadicted wrote: Might be off topic, but I'm a little confused on the spoiler hiding in the website.... seems to work fine for the homepage headlines, but shouldn't it also hide topic titles like this from the sidebar?
I was about to post the same thing, I find it odd that I have a bunch of Spoiler Hiddens in my sidebar, but this title right there.
On February 12 2014 19:03 JoFeSboyAT wrote: nice so Round 2 is also only allkill?
Round 2 will be the same as Round 1. Round-robin between all the teams in Bo5 Proleague format, then an End-of-Round Playoff in all-kill format.
Which is still bs imo. I wouldn't mind if a Round was All-Kill, but combining these two formats in such a way is not good if only for matters of consistency.
On February 12 2014 19:03 JoFeSboyAT wrote: nice so Round 2 is also only allkill?
Round 2 will be the same as Round 1. Round-robin between all the teams in Bo5 Proleague format, then an End-of-Round Playoff in all-kill format.
Which is still bs imo. I wouldn't mind if a Round was All-Kill, but combining these two formats in such a way is not good if only for matters of consistency.
Well, you could argue that it's consistent in that every round in the regular season is run the same way, while still retaining both teamleague formats. I don't personally have an opinion on whether it's good or not, or what's best.
On February 12 2014 01:39 murd3r3r wrote: the amount of terran is too damn low :'((((((
We have Terrans. Good ones. But we don't need to field them.
On February 12 2014 05:34 mantline wrote: My love for KT keeps growing and growing, after seeing Flash being in a huge slump on individual tournaments, my faith on Flash and KT was decreasing. But seeing TY with his flawless streak on Proleague and Zest All-killing SKTooMuchPower, brings back all my faith on them.
I started as a Flash Fanboy, now its not only my heart that follows him but also my mind,
GO GO KT!
Flash slumps is : Going 3-2 in a lot of Code S matches so that's not bad :p But you know that God himself have Archangels right ?
On February 12 2014 05:34 mantline wrote: My love for KT keeps growing and growing, after seeing Flash being in a huge slump on individual tournaments, my faith on Flash and KT was decreasing. But seeing TY with his flawless streak on Proleague and Zest All-killing SKTooMuchPower, brings back all my faith on them.
I started as a Flash Fanboy, now its not only my heart that follows him but also my mind,
GO GO KT!
Flash slumps is : Going 3-2 in a lot of Code S matches so that's not bad :p But you know that God himself have Archangels right ?
Zestius, Statsael, Actionael and so on.
Also they have a new born son in the family TY the Messiah
On February 12 2014 01:28 BLinD-RawR wrote: uhh how are those points calculated?
I hope its not bullshit like the kespa monthly elo.
81, 71, 61, 51, 45, 40, 35, 30 for 1-8th places in the round-robin stage and 40 and 10 for top 2 in playoffs. E.g. KT has 81 + 40 points.
What is the point of those 81 71s tho? I mean why now make them 80 or 70. Is it to say that finishing high in the round robin stage is more important should a tie occur?
Not sure if someone has answered but I believe it is used as a semi-tie breaker system. So, teams that are consistently in the top 4 get that extra "bit" (1 point) and teams who just HAPPEN to place first once but usually get bottom 4 will be down a couple points since they are missing out on the +1 bonuses. In other words, it rewards the more consistent teams. Not positive on this, though.
The PL system before used wins and losses to determine the points each team had at the end of the season.
On February 13 2014 01:51 FFW_Rude wrote: Flash slumps is : Going 3-2 in a lot of Code S matches so that's not bad :p But you know that God himself have Archangels right ?
Zestius, Statsael, Actionael and so on.
IDK why, but this really made me laugh man.. rofl,
On February 12 2014 04:06 ArTiFaKs wrote: Round 2 is CJ Entus glory round! They will step it up and show who is the true champions and contenders to KT right now!
Time to pick an all CJ team for FPL, they're probably worth nothing at this point xD
JOKES ON YOU
most of them were worth nothing in round 1 also :x
EPT
KT_Zest came into the playoffs with disappointing 2-4 record in round one, but stepped up his game in a huge way for the playoffs. He left SK Telecom's collection of all stars with the sour taste of defeat in their mouths, scoring a demoralizing, 4-0 sweep. ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Waxangel/proleague/2014/r1playoff3.png)
Soulkey![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Waxangel/proleague/2014/bigpointr1.png)
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Poor SK throwing the game against Zest, I bet he is really disappointed as well!
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