The second day of competition at KeSPA Cup had a few surprises in store, as a big favorite fell, while an underdog fought his way into the spotlight, with Pet surprisingly advancing out of the group behind a dominating TY.
The KT Rolster Terran once more demonstrated his ability to use various styles of play, showing off a strong mech build on New Gettysburg, which he used to defeat both TRUE and Pet in different scenarios. TY did not get into a single critical spot in any of his four games, looking quite untouchable in TvZ.
In contrast to that, CJ’s herO has rarely looked more vulnerable in PvZ than he does right now, resulting in his shockingly easy elimination at the hands of Pet and TRUE, who mainly used mass speedling tactics to outplay him. Pet managed to outmacro herO in their series, TRUE put his well known, ever aggressive style to good use and overran the CJ protoss with a mixture of speedling-queen swarms and muta-switches.
In the deciding clash, TRUE and Pet delivered close and action packed ZvZ matches—and we finally got a taste of how Pet managed to qualify for KeSPA Cup over SSL runner-up Dark. Strong micro throughout the series and a nice nydus timing in the deciding game gave us a glimpse of a player well versed in ZvZ. It was a performance to prove that his qualifying run was not a fluke.
Despite Pet's surprising advancement, the award for most entertaining player of the group most certainly belongs to PSISTORM Gaming’s TRUE, whose endless aggression not only resulted in games bursting with action, the Zerg also showed cute micro tricks against both TY—saving his queen drop multiple times with clutch transfuses—and herO—a triple spore drone save against an adept attack. Huge surrounds, massive counter attacks and even an abduct & neural parasite-combination on a mothership to cloak his own units. TRUE may not have advanced into the next round, but he certainly won some sympathies with his performance. TY will face his team-mate Zest in the next round, while Pet has drawn foreign powerhouse Neeb as his next opponent.
So it's group a vs group b and group c vs group d in the ro8.
Pretty tough for Nerchio, since he will have to face Solar, Stats or Trap in the ro8 and he named all of them as the Koreans he has the most trouble against.
thx for this coverage. Terrans continue to prove that with enough APM the race is viable at every level of play. i hope this trial writer becomes a full fledged writer.
Actually, I think someone like Nerchio Need or Maru will win KeSpa cup. Because in SSL Ty looked just as untouchable but he still lost 3-1.. but then again that was too dark who's not in this tournament. Personally though I think Maru will come out 2nd in his group and Nerchio will come in 1st.
On September 29 2016 02:17 Ryu3600 wrote: Actually, I think someone like Nerchio Need or Maru will win KeSpa cup. Because in SSL Ty looked just as untouchable but he still lost 3-1.. but then again that was too dark who's not in this tournament. Personally though I think Maru will come out 2nd in his group and Nerchio will come in 1st.
EPT
Pet surprisingly advancing out of the group behind a dominating 
TY.
herO has rarely looked more vulnerable in PvZ than he does right now, resulting in his shockingly easy elimination at the hands of Pet and TRUE, who mainly used mass speedling tactics to outplay him. Pet managed to outmacro herO in their series, TRUE put his well known, ever aggressive style to good use and overran the CJ protoss with a mixture of speedling-queen swarms and muta-switches.![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Olli/pet.jpg)
