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Code S - Stats and Soulkey advance to Ro16

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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
August 14 2014 05:50 GMT
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The SPL Finalists continued their strong form as two of their players advanced ahead of their Jin Air and CJ counterparts. It was a close set of games and the 3 players looked good value to advance, but the evening closed with (P)Stats and (Z)Soulkey moving on to the Ro16. Bbyong fascinated and frustrated in equal measure as his hype train derailed for yet another season.

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(Z)Soulkey and (P)Terminator kicked off the first game of the day on Foxtrot Labs. Soulkey opted for a hatch first followed by a quick pool and gas, while Terminator's choice was a gateway expand. Seeking to abuse the architecture of the map Soulkey researched a quick zergling speed and started massing up. He sent his initial 8 lings into the base of Terminator, disrupting mining time and keeping him busy just as his speed was finishing and the rest of his army was flooding in. Terminator was unable to finish his wall in time and he was overwhelmed by endless tides of zerglings, forcing him to tap out. On Deadwing, both players opened with the same builds as game 1. This time however, Terminator was able to sniff it out and completed his wall in time. The game dragged on late, but Soulkey was able to defend with swarmhosts and roach hydra viper. Terminator did manage to take out the zerg fourth, but he had to sacrifice his entire army and his 3rd and 4th bases. With no economy and no units left, he had no choice but to send (Z)Soulkey to the winners' match.

There he would face the winner of (P)Stats vs (T)Bbyong, and after his collapse in the SPL finals, he must have wished for it to be the latter. Unfortunately for the SKT T1 zerg, Stats prevailed 2-1 in a close series. The most intriguing game of their face off was game 1 on Nimbus, where Bbyong debuted a peculiar bio-thor-ghost late game composition. He sacrificed early bio upgrades in order to get 2 armories for both attack and armor upgrades for his mech as a response to Stats' decision to use phoenix colossus. With well upgraded vikings and the new air-priority thor, Bbyong was able to take engagements that would have looked dire without the new thors. It was a brilliant adjustment by the CJ terran, and it pushed him into the lead. Unfortunately for him, he'd fail in the next two games as he resorted to SCV pulls. (P)Stats' force fields and patience in engaging the boys allowed him to get crucial warp ins and canons to defend, and he smashed the peasant revolt twice to reach the winners' match.

Eager to exact his vengeance on (P)Stats, (Z)Soulkey roared out of the gates swinging with a 6 pool on Merry go Round where he even pulled drones, but excellent micro from Stats allowed him to hold and take a easy first game. His calculated risk falling short, Soulkey chose Catallena as the next map. Though an early pool was off the table, Soulkey was still feeling aggressive. After reaching 3 comfortable bases, he attempted an assault on Stats' third with roaches, hydras and a few vipers. With well placed forcefields, Stats was able to fend off the attack without suffering key losses, but Soulkey was already transitioning behind this. His first choice was swarm hosts, but he was once again unable to break the protoss. While upgrading to greater spire, Soulkey began to amass corruptors in hopes of reducing the colossus count, but Stats noticed his opponent's lack of mobility. With warp prisms and proxy pylons, Stats began systematically eliminating Soulkey's expansion, even taking down the hive. A desperate muta switch was Soulkey's last gamble, but despite camping the stargates for a few seconds, he was unable to stop the protoss from building an unbeatable force. Soulkey had no choice but to base trade, but (P)Stats was already prepared with over 15 cannons and some archons, and the match was his. Soulkey's hoodoo against Stats continued, but his night was not over yet.

His opponent for the final match was determined with little trouble as Bbyong thoroughly dismantled the hapless Jin Air protoss. The CJ terran opened each map with aggressive attacks; his marine hellion elevator drop on Merry Go Round managed to kill a whopping 18 probes. Though Terminator would survive the early game, Bbyong only ramped up the pressure from there with drops, runbys, and clever posturing tearing the protoss to pieces. (T)Bbyong attacked from every direction and Terminator could only look on as his defenses crumbled. The winner looked like a different player compared to his series against Stats, but a TvZ awaited him in the final match of the evening.

Soulkey had shown a tendency to attack early in his series against the two protoss, and Bbyong should have been weary to the possibility of all ins. That's exactly what happened on Deadwing where Soulkey chose to break the terran with roaches and banelings. Bbyong was slow to react and began building bunkers too late. Despite having four marauders, he was unable to hold and had to surrender as the river of lings streamed into his base. His back against the wall, Bbyong struck back on Nimbus to tie the series one apiece. This time, there were no early game hijinks and both players entered the mid game in a comfortable position. Things came to a head when Soulkey sent his first 8 mutas to Bbyong's base just as the CJ terran had sent a drop and hellions for a runby. It looked grim for Soulkey as he lost a large number of drones along with his natural, but he slowly clawed his way back with excellent engagements in the middle of the map. His steam would run out as Bbyong continued to hack away at his economy with drops, and Bbyong's back was never broken by Soulkey's main forces. When (T)Bbyong's 3/3 kicked in, engagements began swinging harder in his favor, and Soulkey was forced to gg following the elimination of his last army.

Just as he had opened the day, Bbyong decided to go mech with his life on the line. Soulkey had chosen Overgrowth as the scene of his survival, and it would take all of his skill to survive an early marine hellion banshee attack. Bbyong was able to do a lot of damage, but he was unable to land the killing blow. Despite killing a good amount of drones, the two players entered the mid game with caution. Noticing that Bbyong was transitioning into a mech composition, Soulkey hit an excellent attack with roaches hydras and vipers before the terran had a critical mass of tanks. Soulkey traded his entire army for Bbyong's, resetting the mech clock back to zero. Soulkey then spent the next couple of minutes consuming the map with expansions and systematically picking apart Bbyong with a flurry of attacks and tech switches. Bbyong held on valiantly and even managed to secure his gold base, but he slowly crumbled under the endless waves of (Z)Soulkey's locusts and mutalisks finally conceding after falling bellow 50 supply.

It was a disappointing day for the CJ terran who continues to struggle in Code S. Though he has become a staple of the league, he has yet to even reach the knockout rounds of the competition. He had looked like the player with the most momentum heading into last night, but it wasn't enough to overcome the ever-reliable Stats or the consistency of Soulkey. For the two advancing players, a budding rivalry is beginning to be brewed, but Soulkey will have to do better for it not to become a one sided affair. Stats leads 4-0, but Soulkey will be content with a place in the Ro16.


Players in the Ro16 (8/16):
(P)sOs, (P)Stats
(Z)EffOrt, (Z)Soulkey
(T)Cure, (T)INnoVation, (T)Maru, (T)Reality

Next: Code S Group E
(P)Zest vs (P)Hurricane
(Z)Rogue vs (P)Rain
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Yorkie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States12612 Posts
August 14 2014 05:57 GMT
#2
Bbyong :/ All these guys are good enough that I could have seen them going far. Glad Soulkey got through
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Arvendilin
Profile Joined February 2013
Germany1878 Posts
August 14 2014 05:57 GMT
#3
Great recap :D

There were some really awesome games in this group I have to say.

Im really happy Stats made it out first place, always liked that guy, he represents something like a new era for me :D
My heroes: Jangbi, Bisu, Stork and BeSt for BW, Rain, Zest and Stats for SC2! Need a better Signature tbh...
Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
August 14 2014 06:00 GMT
#4
wow did you use a semicolon? that's some classy writing
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cookiz
Profile Joined March 2013
Burma181 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-14 06:10:15
August 14 2014 06:02 GMT
#5
Soulkey said he's gonna “make” a Death group in Ro.16 and he will defeat the best players in GSL to prove himself...
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H.R.Giger
Profile Joined December 2011
China27 Posts
August 14 2014 06:11 GMT
#6
Sad for Bbyong though, somehow he played his average game.
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Daswollvieh
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
5553 Posts
August 14 2014 06:22 GMT
#7
On August 14 2014 15:02 cookiz wrote:
Soulkey said he's gonna “make” a Death group in Ro.16 and he will defeat the best players in GSL to prove himself...


Taking a page out of Parting´s book. Well, somehow Flash has to drop out early, again.
sc2chronic
Profile Joined May 2012
United States777 Posts
August 14 2014 06:57 GMT
#8
On August 14 2014 15:00 Shellshock wrote:
wow did you use a semicolon? that's some classy writing




that game 3 soulkey vs bbyong tho. soulkey is a zerg god
terrible, terrible, damage
cookiz
Profile Joined March 2013
Burma181 Posts
August 14 2014 07:06 GMT
#9
On August 14 2014 15:22 Daswollvieh wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2014 15:02 cookiz wrote:
Soulkey said he's gonna “make” a Death group in Ro.16 and he will defeat the best players in GSL to prove himself...


Taking a page out of Parting´s book. Well, somehow Flash has to drop out early, again.


Maybe he will choose Innovation...
well according to their wcs point so far
Zest (at least he need to advance first)
sOs, soO and Maru will choose first..
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Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
August 14 2014 08:06 GMT
#10
Soulkey didn't seem as solid as he used to be. Stats seems underrated almost.
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REyeM
Profile Joined August 2014
2674 Posts
August 14 2014 08:49 GMT
#11
Happy for Soulkey , sad for Bbyong
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Cluster__
Profile Joined September 2013
United States328 Posts
August 14 2014 13:19 GMT
#12
surprised Bbyong didn't make it. Stats clearly been on fire lately though. <3 soulkey
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vult
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States9400 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-14 15:13:41
August 14 2014 15:11 GMT
#13
Nooo Bbyong

Grats to Soulkey though. Need more Protoss and Zerg in Ro16 to balance it out! More Zergs, rather, after + Show Spoiler +
Zest and Rain got through -_-
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Yorkie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States12612 Posts
August 14 2014 15:34 GMT
#14
On August 14 2014 15:02 cookiz wrote:
Soulkey said he's gonna “make” a Death group in Ro.16 and he will defeat the best players in GSL to prove himself...

Mr Chae will not allow it
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Genome852
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States979 Posts
August 14 2014 18:46 GMT
#15
Bbyong sooo close.
pure.Wasted
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada4701 Posts
August 15 2014 03:17 GMT
#16
On August 14 2014 15:02 cookiz wrote:
Soulkey said he's gonna “make” a Death group in Ro.16 and he will defeat the best players in GSL to prove himself...


Uh... didn't RO16 group choosing get removed a few seasons ago? Specifically because of the Life and Flash situation?

I'm confused.
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Jer99
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada8157 Posts
August 15 2014 03:17 GMT
#17
Lichter you have so much passion
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cookiz
Profile Joined March 2013
Burma181 Posts
Last Edited: 2014-08-15 06:33:23
August 15 2014 06:32 GMT
#18
On August 15 2014 12:17 pure.Wasted wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 14 2014 15:02 cookiz wrote:
Soulkey said he's gonna “make” a Death group in Ro.16 and he will defeat the best players in GSL to prove himself...


Uh... didn't RO16 group choosing get removed a few seasons ago? Specifically because of the Life and Flash situation?

I'm confused.

It come back this season..and Rain said he don't want another death group.. :>
oh god I love death group, don't make me dissapoint Soulkey >
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