KeSPA Cup resumed today with every Quarterfinal series. It turned out to be a highly entertaining set of games over three extremely close series and one that was as one-sided as the score suggests.
The day began with Stats edging out Maru 3-2 after multiple holds against marine/tank/liberator pushes.
Maru held on as long as he could in a macro game on Frost by taking a number of advantageous fights, but never quite got ahead from them. Stats eventually finished the job with a storm/colossus lategame army. He fell victim to the ever present 1-1-1 all in on Dasan Station, however, and let a large advantage slip away on New Gettysburg by taking an abysmal fight in the open and losing his entire army close to his bases. Two holds against committed 1-1-1 attacks with blink/colossus play still secured the series for the KT Protoss.
Foreign hope Neeb advanced to the semifinals as well, but was almost caught out by Pet's adaptation in the series. After being easily beaten in two standard games, Pet turned the cheese switch. An early pool with speedling follow-up against Neeb's Nexus first put a win on the board for him, and a zergling drop supported by more speedlings attacking the front on Galactic Process broke Neeb's wall for an easy second. With the series tied 2-2, Pet attempted a baneling all-in on Dasan Station but was found out at the last second. Although he was able to break the front wall-in, Neeb bought enough time for resonating glaives to finish and stabilize. Although Pet tried his hardest to get back into the game, it seemed only a matter of time until Neeb's higher tech army was able to march across the map and finish him off. When Pet had his lurker caught out, the game was over immediately and Neeb emerged victorious.
TY and Zest played a much shorter series than any of the others. Two games in a row, TY got away with extremely greedy builds against Zest's safe robotics openings, and had next to no trouble closing his games out from there. a DT drop with gateway attack follow-up caused more concern on Frost, but TY was able to hold on well enough while killing Zest's third base himself. After a last ditch effort, Zest typed out of a mostly underwhelming series.
What was arguably the least exciting series on paper quickly made people think twice, as Patience and Trap put on a real show for viewers.
Trap and Patience played the best game of the night.
Two standard games opened up the series 1-1, but New Gettysburg was where they really began their slugfest. One huge disruptor hit after another appeared to swing the tides i either player's favor. At times it looked as though Patience could easily close out the game, but Trap kept finding key pick-offs and good enough disruptor hits to push him back. DTs saved him from another attack, and he somehow found time and space to build up a larger army than Patience, supported by a fourth base. Despite trying his hardest to run around with blink stalkers, which Patience did an excellent job of, Trap was always going to close the game out. With his back against the wall, Patience delivered what may be the best game of the year.
In a basetrade scenario, Trap sniped Patience's observer. With DTs on the map and an army left, albeit smaller than that of Patience, Trap looked to have the game won. But Patience fought for every unit and eventually killed Trap's army, sustaining big losses himself. He did, however, keep his warp prism alive. That proved to be the game winning factor, as Patience continuously micro'd his units in and out of the prism against Trap's single defending DT. His army had higher damage output than the DT destroying his buildings on the other side of the map and a single blink stalker eventually destroyed the last of Trap's buildings.
The nature of PvP is cruel, though. And somehow fittingly, Patience lost the fifth game to a DT rush. Despite opening with an early expand into robotics build, Patience was caught off guard by a single DT completely. Having just warped in two sentries and an immortal first, Patience found himself staring at his robotics facility in disbelief, left with too little gas to build an observer, while the DT did irreparable damage. A desperate counterattack was never strong enough to worry Trap, who closed out the game with blink stalkers.
KeSPA Cup resumes tomorrow with the semifinals Between Neeb and Stats, as well as TY and Trap. The grand finals are held immediately afterwards.
Congrats to Neeb! This is the first time since Jinro that a foreigner has advanced to the Ro4 in a Korean tournament. I stayed up late to watch it. Felt like old times.
I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
I was so nervous during that fifth set with Neeb vs Pet, was also devastated by having Maru knocked out. Hoping for TY vs Neeb finals would be awesome.
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
you usually do nothing important in the first few days, you can be tired as fuck and be alright
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
you usually do nothing important in the first few days, you can be tired as fuck and be alright
well....unfortunately the class starts at the exact same time as the broadcast(10:00 am for me) so...
now the true test begins for NEEB if he gets past stats and prolly TY he is a true GOD. oh and something about Adepts you know OP or something like that.
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
It's the channel of eSportsTV. The titles of the videos are like "[KeSPA Cup] Maru vs Patience RO.16 Group D match1 set1" So you only see how many matches have been played but not who won, so it's relatively spoiler free.
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
you usually do nothing important in the first few days, you can be tired as fuck and be alright
well....unfortunately the class starts at the exact same time as the broadcast(10:00 am for me) so...
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
you usually do nothing important in the first few days, you can be tired as fuck and be alright
well....unfortunately the class starts at the exact same time as the broadcast(10:00 am for me) so...
I switched it off and went to bed after TY v Zest. Now I find Trap/Patience was actually a cracker of a set >< Anyway, TY looks so good at the moment. Can't see anyone stopping him but lets go Neeb!
On October 03 2016 04:03 Jeremy Reimer wrote: Congrats to Neeb! This is the first time since Jinro that a foreigner has advanced to the Ro4 in a Korean tournament. I stayed up late to watch it. Felt like old times.
That's misleading. Current Kespa cup is still a weekend tournament, while Jinro reached ro4 of early GSLs. However, I believe Neeb's run is already better than Sen's win in Taiwan open and Lilbow's WCS runs (by quality of competition) and then Snute's IEM Shenzhen run (by reaching ro4). So it is the best foreigner result of at least 2 years. I'm to lazy to check before that but it is significant by itself.
On October 03 2016 04:03 Jeremy Reimer wrote: Congrats to Neeb! This is the first time since Jinro that a foreigner has advanced to the Ro4 in a Korean tournament. I stayed up late to watch it. Felt like old times.
That's misleading. Current Kespa cup is still a weekend tournament, while Jinro reached ro4 of early GSLs. However, I believe Neeb's run is already better than Sen's win in Taiwan open and Lilbow's WCS runs (by quality of competition) and then Snute's IEM Shenzhen run (by reaching ro4). So it is the best foreigner result of at least 2 years. I'm to lazy to check before that but it is significant by itself.
Also, as already stated in another thread, in that run, Jinro beat MC, who was a heavy favourite, with mech.
Also, as a caveat, Jinro played Terran at that time, and they were by definitely the best race at that time.
Here, Neeb isn't beating Terran, who have had trouble against P. (Though he did face Pet and Rogue...)
On October 03 2016 04:03 Jeremy Reimer wrote: Congrats to Neeb! This is the first time since Jinro that a foreigner has advanced to the Ro4 in a Korean tournament. I stayed up late to watch it. Felt like old times.
And that PvP basetrade was crazy!
Worth noting is that Kespa Cup started of at a Ro16, while GSL (Jinro's Run(s)) started of at Ro32. Thus Jinro's Ro4 is more impressive since it is one step deeper.
man. i was watching worlds and the foreigners are beating koreans. is it the magical time in esports that everyone else is catching up with the koreans???
On October 03 2016 14:48 orllyfools wrote: man. i was watching worlds and the foreigners are beating koreans. is it the magical time in esports that everyone else is catching up with the koreans???
No? Did you see Nerchio and MarineLord advance? 1 out of 3 isn't everyone.
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
you usually do nothing important in the first few days, you can be tired as fuck and be alright
well....unfortunately the class starts at the exact same time as the broadcast(10:00 am for me) so...
laptop
I like your thinking, gonna try this in case there are enough people so I can hide in the crowd
On October 03 2016 04:32 deus.machinarum wrote: I won't be able to watch live tomorrow as uni classes finally start (yay ^^) so I'm wondering if there is a way to watch the VODs spoilerfree. The sites mentioned and linked on the liquipedia page seem to be stuck on the group stages and sc2links.com is apparently blocking AdBlock users so maybe I'm not getting all the content there, not entirely sure.
Would really appreciate any kind soul willing to point me in the right direction
It's the channel of eSportsTV. The titles of the videos are like "[KeSPA Cup] Maru vs Patience RO.16 Group D match1 set1" So you only see how many matches have been played but not who won, so it's relatively spoiler free.
Yeah! that's what I was looking for: spoiler-free but in order, thank you They do spoil how many games were played in a series, but nothing's perfect, eh
It's been a great and enteraining tournament so far - that Patience-Trap game was hilarious. Can't believe it's still possile to see new endings like that!
EPT
Stats edging out 
Maru 3-2 after multiple holds against marine/tank/liberator pushes. 
Pet's adaptation in the series. After being easily beaten in two standard games, Pet turned the cheese switch. An early pool with speedling follow-up against Neeb's Nexus first put a win on the board for him, and a zergling drop supported by more speedlings attacking the front on Galactic Process broke Neeb's wall for an easy second. With the series tied 2-2, Pet attempted a baneling all-in on Dasan Station but was found out at the last second. Although he was able to break the front wall-in, Neeb bought enough time for resonating glaives to finish and stabilize. Although Pet tried his hardest to get back into the game, it seemed only a matter of time until Neeb's higher tech army was able to march across the map and finish him off. When Pet had his lurker caught out, the game was over immediately and Neeb emerged victorious. ![[image loading]](http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/Olli/Trapsemis.jpg)
