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Full results on Liquipedia: 2015 StarCraft II StarLeague Season 1/Challenge Day 3 was a test of whether or not half the players there could balance playing both the Proleague and the S2SL. Dear, Stats, and INnoVation all had to practice for both this day and their Proleague showings a day (or two days, in Dear's case) before. There were a few surprises, but no series could be labeled uninteresting given how they played out.
The 1st match would set the tone for the entire day; it confirmed that the day would be nothing less than exciting. sKyHigh showed very strongly at the Hot6ix Cup, making a run to the Ro4 as the tournament's Dark Knight Elephant Horse. GuMiho recently won the SEA OSC Championship against Solar in the finals. They didn't disappoint. sKyHigh showed some great micro, which carried him in the first game in response to GuMiho's proxy Reaper opening. sKyHigh then tried some Banshee harass in game 2, to which GuMiho responded with an excellent Hellion counterattack. With sKyHigh unable to secure a 3rd base, he desperately attacked into GuMiho's defenses for the loss. Game 3's slow tank push by sKyHigh once again highlighted the CJ Entus Terran's incredible micro for what seemed to be the beginning of the end for GuMiho, but the latter rallied once he realized the counter to sKyHigh was securing his own economic advantages and playing for the late game, which he did twice to close out the series.
2nd match of the day between Stats and INnoVation was probably the most anticipated one, given INnoVation's fame and prestige. At first, all seemed to go in the Terran player's favor with a well played SCV pull in game 1, and his Protoss opponent's botched blink all in for game 2. For most things, one should keep using the same, winning formula if it continuously succeeds. Unfortunately for INnoVation, Starcraft is not like most things. By his seemingly over-stubborn want to use and commit to well-timed SCV pulls, he ceded the momentum of the series to Stats by sending all his units into Colossus/Psionic Storms in game 3. A brief interlude in game 4's double proxy shenanigans yielded Stats' proxy Oracle doing more damage than INnoVation's Widow Mine drop, setting the latter behind so far that he couldn't keep up. Another stubborn SCV pull into Psy Storms/Colossus in the final game would end a rather Bogus run for a player of INnoVation's caliber in the S2SL, finishing the series 3-2 in yet another upset against a well known Terran player.
The last, but certainly not least, of the matches was an action packed PvP between Patience and Dear. Game 1 began with little more than Patience's...well, patient play, until Dear Storm-dropped the former's main. This forced Patience to gather his forces and with a well positioned attack that took him the game while he was behind. Game 2 would begin with a nail-biting moment, with both players hiding Dark Shrines. Dear's DTs made it in but did limited damage, while Patience's DTs would get blocked at the ramp by desperate Forcefields. Patience would then take his 3rd base late and attempt to tech to Tempests while Dear pushed, resulting in an easily forseen loss. In game 3, Dear would effectively pressure Patience's early 3 Sentries with a Zealot and a few Stalkers resulting in a dead natural expansion for the latter. This put Patience behind so much that Dear could effectively build up a significant Blink Stalker force that simply obliterated what was left of Patience's forces. The last game of the series would show Patience again use a high risk opening that yielded little return, which allowed Dear to roll over him to take the series 3-1.
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Somehow I knew that no Zerg would advance...
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I see we've made the switch to S2SL haha.
All these great Terran players keep getting reverse swept by Protoss
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Innovation ... Bogus .... the Machine.... T_T
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On December 25 2014 10:04 GregoryBoonsTV wrote: Somehow I knew that no Zerg would advance... Well, there were no zergs today
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On December 25 2014 10:04 GregoryBoonsTV wrote: Somehow I knew that no Zerg would advance...
Not believing in Dark, Byul or Leenock
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On December 25 2014 10:23 The_Templar wrote:Show nested quote +On December 25 2014 10:04 GregoryBoonsTV wrote: Somehow I knew that no Zerg would advance... Well, there were no zergs today
Templar, I'm sorry to inform you; but, the joke was out of your reach.
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On December 25 2014 11:33 Advantageous wrote:Show nested quote +On December 25 2014 10:23 The_Templar wrote:On December 25 2014 10:04 GregoryBoonsTV wrote: Somehow I knew that no Zerg would advance... Well, there were no zergs today Templar, I'm sorry to inform you; but, the joke was out of your reach.
Reach?
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On December 25 2014 10:07 LockeTazeline wrote: I see we've made the switch to S2SL haha.
All these great Terran players keep getting reverse swept by Protoss
Watching the games, the results were probably fair. Classic beating Cure was not a surprise, Classic is very underrated, in the game, he did show to be more solid that Cure, definitely the better player than Cure.
For the Taeja game, yes. Taeja was by far the better player. It was quite obvious, but terminator's very well practiced build caught Taeja off. We should see Taeja beat Terminator convincingly in code S.
For stats and innovation yesterday. Stats is not a bad player. He blotched up his build in game 1 when he forgot about his prism. Game 2 was a base race. Game 3 is where he showed his good play by going super greedy.
In fact, I think the best game was game 4. Simply amazing game by innovation. Protoss had 2 base mining, 3 or 4 gates running at home. Innovation was on 1 base. Lost bunker. Lost stim. Lost tech lab. Everytime a medivac came out. Stats made sure to kill it. And some how innovation managed to hold a 2 base all-in when he was one base for so long and not just holding but pushing the push back and reclaim his natural. Simply unbelievable skill. Don't think there is any Zerg or Protoss player who could have done what innovation did.
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Fear the Dear!
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Watching Dear dance his collossus up the ramp to Patience's main gave me chills. As a Dear fan who has felt his abscence acutely in 2014 this has been a long time coming.
DEARRRR!
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Very happy about both Stats and Gumiho advancing. I admit I didn't believe in their chances, so I was pleasantly surprised.
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2015 is the year of the Dear!
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Glad to see GuMiho / Invasion doing well And Dear!
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