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The first match of the Round of 4 pitted heavyweights and crowd favorites  soO and  sOs against each other.
The series kicked off on Echo. soO was pulled left and right by sOs’ constant adept harass, but he managed to weather the storm and tech into hydra/ling/bane. His army grew and grew until it was so large that sOs’ storm wielding resistance could not stop it. With soO closing in on his undefended third base, sOs tapped out.
For the second game in a row sOs opted for a stargate and adept pressure, albeit this time without a prism. This time his attack gained traction, putting him ahead on workers. sOs capitalized on a lull in the game to take an expansion in the far left corner of the map while soO droned. soO scouted the hidden base before sOs could saturate it, but he suffered heavy losses when sOs countered as he split his army to kill it. Unable to find any economic damage sOs switched into carriers. soO traded well against them initially, but sOs’ economy and production won out in the end.
sOs led off with a double pylon block on Proxima Station. With soO’s expansions delayed, sOs poked with adepts while warping dark templar into the main. soO lost a few drones, but managed to hold and build a strong economy. sOs followed up with a dual pronged attack, but again soO stood firm. After pushing sOs back with mutalisks, soO continued building his roach/ravager army, eventually mixing in banelings. After battering away at sOs’ army a few times, sheer numbers overran the archon/immortal/charge composition, giving soO at 2-1 lead.
sOs attempted to even the series with a strong timing on soO’s third in game four. After killing the base and consolidating his army, he continued to harass while soO teched into lurkers and ramped up to four bases. The game evolved into a 27 minute affair in which soO assembled a brood lord army. Unable to fight soO’s monstrous force, sOs danced around the map, sniping bases wherever he could. soO did the same, cutting off sOs’ economy almost completely. With resources and army dwindling and storms depleted, sOs was forced to tap out as soO’s dominating force closed in.
Needing to spark a comeback, sOs opened with a double warp prism dark templar attack. The investment paid off as sOs killed a number of drones and sniped soO’s lair while safely taking a third. That advantage proved to be insurmountable as sOs simply massed up an archon/immortal/zealot army that plowed through soO’s meager defenses.
Game 6 got off to a strange start as sOs pylon blocked soO’s natural before attempting an overcharge/zealot and adept attack on soO’s expansion. soO defended, though, before pushing back sOs’ oracle. sOs’ follow up adept push without glaives was also thwarted, putting soO a base ahead with a small worker lead. sOs tried to close the gap with more aggression, but soO was impenetrable. By the time sOs had established a third base and finished storm, soO was 30 supply ahead. sOs would posture while taking a fourth, but his force simply could not stand before soO’s hydra/bane/ling army. As soO closed in from all sides and into sOs’ third sOs was forced to concede the game and the series, making soO a GSL finalist for the fifth time.
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Finland965 Posts
I'd like to congratulate soO for his silver medal.
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grats to soO!
no possibility to watch the VOD before the youtubes?
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Congratz to Soo, now i'm happy because either Soo or Stats will win the first big title of their careers, but i'm also sad that one of them will continue the Kong line  .
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Great report ! Can't wait to catch up on the games I missed.
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Great recap! soO is a legendary competitor 
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Looking forward to a 5th 2nd.
Weren't Twitch clips supposed to embed now?
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On March 15 2017 22:03 hexhaven wrote:
I'd like to congratulate soO for his silver medal.
Savage.
Congrats, soO!
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On March 15 2017 22:03 hexhaven wrote:
I'd like to congratulate soO for his silver medal.
I'd like to thank hexhaven for guaranteeing soO a gold medal.
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United States1960 Posts
On March 15 2017 22:38 Ansibled wrote:
Looking forward to a 5th 2nd.
Weren't Twitch clips supposed to embed now?
They did the last time I did a recap. Something I noticed today is that last time the name of the channel was in the twitch clips url, but it isn't now. When I added "gsl" to these new clips i got a still image that said something about not being able to find the clip instead of just a link. So I think it has to do with that change.
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soO really managed to pull himself up to another GSL final. Incredible.
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Was looking forward to watching this without knowing who won. Next time you do this, can you not include a spoiler in the title?
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Always the same "I know i'm going to get spoiled if I go to Teamliquid but I still do just so that I can complain" over and over and over again...
When you know there was GSL matches, just go to the GSL channel on twitch "https://www.twitch.tv/gsl/videos/all". The vods are available literally within 24 hours after the match and you don't even have to sub to watch them.
Anyway, Congrats to soO for his 5th final. Although i'm even more afraid of Stats now than i was about Classic / Dear / Zest / Innovation back in the days... Hope he can still win, he really deserves it.
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Canada8991 Posts
He did it again!
Now please, please for the love of god don't lose again.
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On March 15 2017 23:57 G5 wrote:
Was looking forward to watching this without knowing who won. Next time you do this, can you not include a spoiler in the title?
http://www.teamliquid.net/nospoiler
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On March 15 2017 23:57 G5 wrote:
Was looking forward to watching this without knowing who won. Next time you do this, can you not include a spoiler in the title?
Uhhm, there's been a spoiler filter on TL for quite some time now. Tick the checkbox "Hide Spoilers" on the home page. If you have already, and still click on a title saying [Spoiler Hidden], right after the GSL matches, then what can you really expect?
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hey guys i'm super looking forward to watching VODs without knowing who won, but let me just check this website that is known for posting news articles about the outcomes of recent matches just hours after the matches end. nothing could go wrong, right guys???
i mean, if you care so much about not being spoiled, going to a website that you know will have the outcome up is a reckless disregard of the risk of being spoiled, which is your own fault. you really couldn't keep yourself from going to the website before you watched the VODs????
anyway, great match...let's go soO!
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That look on his face when the series concluded priceless!!
GL in the finals Soo!
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On March 15 2017 22:08 slit wrote:
grats to soO!
no possibility to watch the VOD before the youtubes?
http://afreeca.tv/36840697/v/62933
Here you go mate. I can't find them on twitch for whatever reason but this one works fine (Game 1 @ 46:30)
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EPT
