After an entertaining first day of TvT’s, Classic, Stats, soO and Rogue gathered to show off the other races and earn themselves a spot in the semifinals.
Stats' attempt to punish Classic's nexus first fell flat on its face in game 1, which meant Classic entered the mid game with an economic advantage. Stats went for disruptors and glaives, but Classic easily countered him with immortal/phoenix and a mothership.
Classic opened game 2 with a pylon rush and adept attack that killed six probes. His follow up phoenixes shut down an oracle before killing another ten. Stats went for a dark shrine, but didn't kill a single worker. Classic killed Stats' third to go up a base before taking a fight up nearly 50 supply, collecting his 2-0 lead.
Game 3 went all the way to skytoss, with both players getting carrier and disruptor based armies. Classic landed a massive disruptor shot, but Stats' decision to add tempests to his composition proved game-winning as he reset Classic's carrier count to take the game and prolong the series.
After a fairly passive start that saw both players reach three bases, Classic went for carriers and adepts while Stats kept a high stalker count and moved into tempests. Stats killed Classic's fourth, but was unable to offer resistance as Classic killed Stats’ third and fourth. Classic pulled back to build up his army, eventually winning two fights to take the fourth game and the match 3-1.
Rogue tried a nydus worm in game 1 of the second set, but soO scouted it and remained safe on three bases to two. Rogue teched into mutalisks, but soO had hydralisks before they even reached his base. Down in army supply, Rogue could do nothing to prevent soO from crossing the map and taking a 1-0 lead.
Rogue opened triple hatchery before pool on his map choice, Newkirk Precinct. He used the extra larvae to fuel a ling flood with banelings. soO held the first wave, but Rogue's follow-up evened the series.
soO's early pool couldn't find damage against Rogue's unconventional 15 hatchery. Down on workers and bases, soO went for mutas before switching into a lurker den. Meanwhile Rogue built an infestation pit, but actually went for mutalisks of his own. When 20 of them flew into soO's exposed third, soO promptly left the game.
soO looked doomed when Rogue's 13 gas/12 pool attack went unscouted, but a miracle hold with ling/bane that spanned the better part of five minutes put soO ahead on workers, tech and bases. Rogue tried to hold his natural with spine crawlers and greedily tech to mutalisks, but soO charged in with +1 speed roaches, killing 24 workers as well as Rogue's natural, sending the match to a fifth game.
Both players played conservative openers in game five, with Rogue favoring +1 carapace and a faster third base to soO's roach speed and +1 attack. Rogue's mutalisks were meant to set up his own roaches, but when he finally attacked with roaches and baneling speed, soO had superior upgrades and hydralisks. He held and attacked into Rogue's fourth. The base died and so did Rogue's army, making soO the fourth player to advance to the semifinals where he will play Classic in a rematch of the 2014 Season 2 Finals.
The real question is if the Rogue curse comes true once again. Rogue made the Round of 8 five times in 2015 and lost every time. All five times, the person who beat him lost in the semifinals. I pray things have changed now that we're over a year removed from the last incident.
On June 09 2017 05:04 mizenhauer wrote: The real question is if the Rogue curse comes true once again. Rogue made the Round of 8 five times in 2015 and lost every time. All five times, the person who beat him lost in the semifinals. I pray things have changed now that we're over a year removed from the last incident.
Hopefully artosis curses soo's next opponent in the ro4. but then it could work against soo, because if soo makes it to finals again, artosis might pick soo to win, thus damning soo to another silver
Maru will crush gumibear so lets talk about the other 2. I really dont know what I want more, soO embarassing himself in yet another finals and becoming the eternal loser + a freewin for Maru OR Classic denying soO and finally an epic finals worth the GSL code S !
On June 09 2017 03:38 DieuCure wrote: Maru wins, and then soO win blizzcon, everyone would be happy right ?
The meme would still be alive, but with a happy soO
My heart would be in jeopardy while this was happening. I would have ridiculous stress, I couldnt imagine what soO's stress would be like in this scenario.
I'm sorry for TY, but still Classic, another my top favorite is on fire! After the results, actually any kind of combination will be fun to watch for the final. But in case soO beats Classic, soO is really obliged to win the Code S! He must!
EPT
Classic, 
soO and 
