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[Code S] Life prevails over PartinG in Season 1 Finals

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[Code S] Life prevails over PartinG in Season 1 Finals

Text byTL.net ESPORTS
Graphics byshiroiusagi
March 25th, 2015 04:03 GMT
2015 GSL Season 1

GSL Season One
Code S



One Life Left
Life wins Code S Season 1

Brackets and standings on Liquipedia

One Life Left


by munch and CosmicSpiral

If any series could swing from an knife edge contest to a flaccid blowout, it was this one. The stage had been set for an epic clash: Life and PartinG were at the apex of their powers and harried by past failures to deliver here. Yet a fog of vague trepidation still overshadowed the proceedings. The last time these two players faced each other, PartinG could not handle Life in a straight-up macro game. Instead he resorted to bizarre hooks, trying to confuse his enemy with shenanigans a cannon rush walled off by gateways. On paper it would be one of the closest GSL finals in history. Behind screens around the world, viewers silently prayed that PartinG would play up to that standard.

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(Z)Life

(Z)Life <Merry Go Round> (P)PartinG
(Z)Life <Deadwing> (P)PartinG
(Z)Life <Catallena> (P)PartinG
(Z)Life <King Sejong Station> (P)PartinG
(Z)Life <KTV Foxtrot Labs> (P)PartinG
(Z)Life <Overgrowth> (P)PartinG
(Z)Life <Iron Fortress> (P)PartinG
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(P)PartinG



Happily, the result trended towards the statistics. It was not an exemplary series by any means. The games were not always clean, both parties committed a lot of errors and boneheaded decisions, and straightforward macro play was not at a premium. No one could deny that it wasn't exciting though. Going down to the last game, Life and PartinG engaged in a depraved battle of wits that was an utter treat for the viewers. Despite not getting a 50 minute split-map scenario, we saw almost everything else on the sun. Proxy builds of all sorts, 2 base nydus, void ray hit squads, the series was defined by an embrace of madness.

Game 1 - Merry Go Round


Game 1 on Merry Go Round was one of the quickest and dirtiest starts to a GSL Finals. PartinG made a calculated gamble intended to shake Life's confidence, setting up a proxy 2 gate inside the Zerg's base. However, it was immediately scouted by a drone. A valiant attempt at zealot micro was completely shut down by a spine crawler and once the second queen finished, PartinG conceded.

Game 2 - Deadwing


Never one to back down, PartinG ramped up the insanity on Deadwing. Channeling the shenanigans of his former teammate Classic, PartinG set up an endless cannon train covering three attempted expansions. Life countered with a proxy hatchery inside the Protoss main, but PartinG dealt with it effectively. However, the KT Zerg knew that all that money spent on cannons and pylons meant his opponent had no tech at home. Taking his 5th base, Life opted for a nydus worm and set up a barricade outside Parting’s natural. Life demolished the outer wall with his roach force, crucially killing the cybernetics core mere seconds before warpgate finished. PartinG was left with no answer to a swarm host followup. PartinG's panicked rush to colossus was too slow to prevent Life from grinding his natural expansion to dust.

Game 3 - Catallena


A quick roach push with speedlings looked like an easy knockout blow, catching out PartinG’s attempt to rush out immortals. Under pressure PartinG’s sentry micro proved immaculate, saving his natural expansion at the cost of 20 probes. Life’s commitment left him severely lacking in drones and with both players on two bases, he realized that he was greatly behind. He tried to outfox the Protoss with a proxy spire, helping to force a base trade in his favor. PartinG’s multitasking was more than sufficient to avoid this plan, crushing through Life’s defense while cushioning the counterattack with stalkers.

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Game 4 - King Sejong Station


After such frantic games it was certain that things would calm down, and both sides settled for standard openings on King Sejong Station. Even with two oracles, PartinG late stargate was shut down by blind spore crawlers. They did, however, scout Life’s rush to hive tech. PartinG cancelled his colossus transition in expectation of a viper rush, diverting his focus into the templar archives instead. Sadly he sabotaged his own efforts by overcommitting to a stalker/sentry push before high templars were ready. Blinding clouds left PartinG's army without punch and the subsequent counterattack ended the game, as the sheer weight roach/hydra could not be stopped.

Game 5 - Foxtrot Labs


With 2 games to burn, Life tried to end things early on Foxtrot Labs. Fast burrow was initially a good decision as Life forced several cancels on PartinG's third with roaches. However the stargate transition offered PartinG plenty of opportunities to scout, and he wisely responded with an immortal-based composition. As Life threw wave after wave of attacks at him, PartinG gradually secured a dominating lead. Eventually, the Protoss ambushed Life's final push in the middle of the map.

Game 6 - Overgrowth


Life remained fully confident in his strategy and opened with heavy roach pressure again on Overgrowth. Once more it yielded dividends: cleaning up all of PartinG’s sentries at the third as well as a last second nexus kill. PartinG fought fire with fire, counterattacking with his air units. Void rays sniped the Zerg's third base in seconds, and a quick recall meant he took no damage in return. Now up a base, his follow-up push with blink stalkers proved far too powerful for Life.

Game 7 - Iron Fortress


With everything on the line, Life went back to his roots for the most important game of the year. He went blind 9 pool on a huge 4 player map...and it paid off. PartinG confidently assumed the rubber game would be a macro game, and he chose nexus first. While PartinG’s probe micro in the natural was absolutely stellar, he was forced to sit in his main while speedlings lured outside. Time after time PartinG attempted to retake his natural, only to be stopped by Life's fast reactions. By the time he had secured his natural and third, Life had amassed a huge swarm of roach/hydra. Life rolled in with wave after wave of units, and while PartinG valiantly held back the tide, he was forced to throw away almost all his probes as meat shields in the bargain. Eventually the laws of economics kicked in and PartinG was whittled to nothing.

Over the past fortnight, Life has fought disappointment after disappointment. Previously slated to win 3 tournaments in the span of a week, he endured close defeats at the hands of INnoVation and Dream. With one life left, it looked like he would drop 3-4 in a heartbreaking loss. All was forgiven that night, as he received his third GSL trophy and tenth premier title in Starcraft 2.

Writers: munch.
Editors: CosmicSpiral.
Graphics: shiroiusagi.
Photo: GOMeXP, silverfire.
Stats: Aligulac
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Random_0
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1163 Posts
March 25 2015 05:01 GMT
#2
One aspect of Game 7 that should be noted is that Parting didn't go nexus first in any of the first 6 games. He'd played defensively because of Life's reputation for aggression. And Life didn't go early pool in any other game, putting himself ahead economically.

Then, in Game 7, Parting thought he'd get an economic lead in response to Life using nexus first on a huge, 4 player map... and Life guessed correctly by cheesing him.

Just amazing mind games by Life.
iMrising
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States1099 Posts
March 25 2015 05:01 GMT
#3
Strangely enough parting might've won if he didn't go for strange strategies. Very impressed with his macro
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Yorkie
Profile Blog Joined December 2012
United States12612 Posts
March 25 2015 05:06 GMT
#4
What a sick series. Hugely disappointed that the KT guys didn't come to the stage and throw him up in the air afterward though
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NovemberstOrm
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada16217 Posts
March 25 2015 05:08 GMT
#5
lifeeeee! also 10 premier titles is crazy
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AKAvg
Profile Joined April 2014
Brazil298 Posts
March 25 2015 05:10 GMT
#6
*sigh*...
aside from proleague, nothing went well in sc2 this week
Deathstar
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
9150 Posts
March 25 2015 05:21 GMT
#7
On March 25 2015 14:01 Random_0 wrote:
One aspect of Game 7 that should be noted is that Parting didn't go nexus first in any of the first 6 games. He'd played defensively because of Life's reputation for aggression. And Life didn't go early pool in any other game, putting himself ahead economically.

Then, in Game 7, Parting thought he'd get an economic lead in response to Life using nexus first on a huge, 4 player map... and Life guessed correctly by cheesing him.

Just amazing mind games by Life.


What mind games? Life just went YOLO and cheesed parting. He even says so in his interview
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Caihead
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada8550 Posts
March 25 2015 05:29 GMT
#8
On March 25 2015 14:06 Yorkie wrote:
What a sick series. Hugely disappointed that the KT guys didn't come to the stage and throw him up in the air afterward though


Wait they didn't?
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stuchiu
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Fiddler's Green42661 Posts
March 25 2015 05:30 GMT
#9
On March 25 2015 14:29 Caihead wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2015 14:06 Yorkie wrote:
What a sick series. Hugely disappointed that the KT guys didn't come to the stage and throw him up in the air afterward though


Wait they didn't?


they were practicing for PL. I think only Action and Sleep showed up.
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Redrot
Profile Blog Joined September 2012
United States446 Posts
March 25 2015 05:49 GMT
#10
It was not an exemplary series by any means.


Hmph. I thought it was great.
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Kommatiazo
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States579 Posts
March 25 2015 06:16 GMT
#11
On March 25 2015 14:49 Redrot wrote:
Show nested quote +
It was not an exemplary series by any means.


Hmph. I thought it was great.


I'm with you man. Maybe not the most studyable, text book, "new to ZvP? check this out!"-series. But for fans of this game and these two players... I don't think we could have gotten much better. I've rarely been so emotionally invested in a game 7. It's a fantastic feeling.

Getting to see series like this is why I watch StarCraft and don't just play it.
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MoosyDoosy
Profile Joined November 2014
United States4519 Posts
March 25 2015 06:25 GMT
#12
On March 25 2015 14:30 stuchiu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2015 14:29 Caihead wrote:
On March 25 2015 14:06 Yorkie wrote:
What a sick series. Hugely disappointed that the KT guys didn't come to the stage and throw him up in the air afterward though


Wait they didn't?


they were practicing for PL. I think only Action and Sleep showed up.

Flash was definitely in the audience. I doubt Life wanted it in any case and he might have told them not to do it. It's kind of his attitude.
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TelecoM
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States10671 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-03-25 07:49:18
March 25 2015 07:48 GMT
#13
Life is so unbelievably good, it is a real feat to be an anomaly in StarCraft, but I think he is for sure is one. Go Life ! Your Zerg is amazing

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FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10151 Posts
March 25 2015 07:53 GMT
#14
while people say his 9 pool was yolo, still some idea of strategy on that giant 4 player map. big map, lots of expos, one would think you would go macro there right? thats what parting though and did it. thats what life thought, and countered it.

well played to both players.
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Shuffleblade
Profile Joined February 2012
Sweden1903 Posts
March 25 2015 08:07 GMT
#15
On March 25 2015 14:21 Deathstar wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2015 14:01 Random_0 wrote:
One aspect of Game 7 that should be noted is that Parting didn't go nexus first in any of the first 6 games. He'd played defensively because of Life's reputation for aggression. And Life didn't go early pool in any other game, putting himself ahead economically.

Then, in Game 7, Parting thought he'd get an economic lead in response to Life using nexus first on a huge, 4 player map... and Life guessed correctly by cheesing him.

Just amazing mind games by Life.


What mind games? Life just went YOLO and cheesed parting. He even says so in his interview

No matter what he says it can't be true, the way Life uses build orders to his advantage and varied builds can't be of the YOLO variety. There's no way a player like that would keep getting consistent results, its not random risk taking its calculated risks.
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Gwavajuice
Profile Joined June 2014
France1810 Posts
March 25 2015 08:15 GMT
#16
On March 25 2015 15:16 Kommatiazo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 25 2015 14:49 Redrot wrote:
It was not an exemplary series by any means.


Hmph. I thought it was great.


I'm with you man. Maybe not the most studyable, text book, "new to ZvP? check this out!"-series. But for fans of this game and these two players... I don't think we could have gotten much better. I've rarely been so emotionally invested in a game 7. It's a fantastic feeling.

Getting to see series like this is why I watch StarCraft and don't just play it.



Agree, and on top of that, each time top players clash, there are always people to say "uh they made mistakes" but they don't realize that the only reason why the viewer actually notice these mistakes is because the game is so tense and so close and both players are able to use any small mistake from their opponents and get huge advantage from them.

Moreover it's inherent to close game to lead to mistakes because the games are hard, when it's easy players obviously do less mistakes.
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Heyoka
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Katowice25012 Posts
March 25 2015 08:58 GMT
#17
Fun series to watch
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iloveav
Profile Joined November 2008
Poland1478 Posts
March 25 2015 09:27 GMT
#18
Is It just me or this GSL thing is getting less and less interesting to watch every time?
I enjoyed more watching the 2v2 tournament by nathanias than this finals...
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SorrowShine
Profile Joined October 2011
698 Posts
March 25 2015 09:30 GMT
#19
As Life fan Í am getting used to that all his series goes to the final game.
Last week was insane: Dear, Innovation, Hero, Parting.
One of the best finals for sure. Probably right after Squirtle vs MVP.
Thats why we love sc2
Avaek
Profile Joined June 2011
New Zealand49 Posts
March 25 2015 09:43 GMT
#20
On March 25 2015 13:03 TeamLiquid ESPORTS wrote:
Going down to the last game, Life and PartinG engaged in a depraved battle of wits that was an utter treat for the viewers. Despite not getting a 50 minute split-map scenario, we saw almost everything else on the sun.


"everything else under the sun" is the actual expression i believe ur trying to use there
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