WCS Season 2 has been rife with upsets in Europe and America, and on Wednesday night it was Korea's turn to see some very unexpected results. In a round of sixteen group containing (Z)

ST_Life and (P)

SKT_Rain, it was Samsung_Solar and SKT_ParalyzE who grabbed the tickets to the quarterfinals.

Solar took first place spot in the group with a clean 4-0 record, putting on a ZvP clinic to defeat both Rain and Paralyze. Solar showed strength at every stage of the game, whether it was defeating Rain's Protoss deathball with his own ultimate army (sans Swarm Hosts), or forcing out a quick GG with hydralisks and lings.

Meanwhile, Paralyze came through in second place with two series wins over Life. Life simply did not have an answer for Paralyze in the late game, looking lost against Protoss' end game army and helpless to defend against Paralyze's dogged warp prism harassment. Though Life tried to find a solution with his trademark zerglings, Paralyze made sure that Life did not find a way.

Next Group -
Group D: (Z)

Soulkey,

Shine,

Zest,

INnoVation

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Zenbrez

Canada5973 Posts

June 04 2014 16:11 GMT

WHY RAIN WHY

ShowTheLights

Korea (South)1706 Posts

June 04 2014 16:14 GMT

holy hell innovation better get 1st tomorrow so he can get all tvz to the finals

bottom half of the bottom is fucking boring, classic paralyze isnt any more interesting

scotch4789

United States42 Posts

June 04 2014 16:15 GMT

All mirror Ro8?

KingofdaHipHop

United States25602 Posts

June 04 2014 16:15 GMT

YAY SOLAR BUT WHY RAIN WHY!!!

Blargh

United States2103 Posts

June 04 2014 16:15 GMT

So, Innovation takes second place in his current group, Shine takes 1st, and we have 5 mirror match-ups (4 in Ro8, 1 in Ro4) and then a PvT in Ro4, and a really wicked TvZ in the finals.

Honestly though, I'd love for Innovation to take first in his group, ezmode TRUE, then have a great 3-2 victory over Solar/soO, to go against Maru for the epic TvT GSL finals we have been waiting for since 2011.

AWalker9

United Kingdom7229 Posts

June 04 2014 16:17 GMT

Semi-finals should be: Classic vs. Maru and soOjwa vs INnoVation

Which would be sick

Well played by Solar and Paralyze today though

LeLfe

France3160 Posts

June 04 2014 16:20 GMT

still in shock with the results

caznitch

Canada645 Posts

June 04 2014 16:25 GMT

Didn't really enjoy the games today. Maybe it was the upsets but I thought there was generally underwhelming play from both Rain and Life.

Jer99

Canada8159 Posts

June 04 2014 16:26 GMT

#10

I'll be looking forward to more of those cheesy one-liners

TRaFFiC

Canada1448 Posts

June 04 2014 16:28 GMT

#11

Solar played amazingly in the first Series vs Rain. The commentators were counting him dead for most of the first game. I wasn't giving him much chances either. But he stuck with his ultra, infestor, queen unit comp through losing his 4th over and over and over again and eventually pulled it out. In a time when a lot of Zerg players just don't know what to do vs late game Protoss, he beats the ultimate protoss army without swarm hosts!

Life seemed off his game. He beat Rain, but who didn't.

oo_Wonderful_oo

The land of freedom23126 Posts

June 04 2014 16:33 GMT

#12

On June 05 2014 01:15 Blargh wrote:
So, Innovation takes second place in his current group, Shine takes 1st, and we have 5 mirror match-ups (4 in Ro8, 1 in Ro4) and then a PvT in Ro4, and a really wicked TvZ in the finals.

Honestly though, I'd love for Innovation to take first in his group, ezmode TRUE, then have a great 3-2 victory over Solar/soO, to go against Maru for the epic TvT GSL finals we have been waiting for since 2011.

Semifinals are bo7.

Also, it was Ro16 and not Ro1 :D

Happy for Paralyze, a bit sad for Rain, but it's ok.
SKT T1 can let new faces to come into Ro8 and finally make dream real - all 9 guys from the roster will be in Code S.

3 SKT T1, 2 JinAir GreenWings, 1 Samsung KHAN so far.
Might be 4-2-2 or Zest/INnoVation can throw someone off.