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2015 StarCraft II StarLeague Season 1/ChallengeDay 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.![[image loading]](/staff/Zealously/SSL1day3.jpg)
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 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.
