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Having reached the halfway point of the first round of GSL vs The World, eight more players entered the FreecUP studio to complete the quarterfinals. Featuring a full four Korean vs foreigner matchups, the day very well could be the one that most encapsulated the spirit of the event.
Game one started in  sOs' favor but, having given Neeb the time to tech to carriers, things stalled. Circumventing Neeb's dominant army, sOs initiated a base trade. Despite having no bases, Neeb's astronomical archon count saw him come out on top.
sOs' dark templar and Neeb’s adepts each killed nine workers, but the game was never close from there. Stasis wards, forcefields and a superior army composition allowed Neeb to win every engagement and ultimately, the game.
sOs was first to reach three bases on Abyssal Reef, albeit on a lower worker count, while opting for a fast mothership. sOs sniped Neeb's fourth which prompted a counterattack from the North American Protoss that sOs ably held to get on the scoreboard.
Neeb struck back in game four to become the first foreigner to advance into the Round of 8. After early oracles fought to an impasse. Neeb’s move to pair a decisive blink into sOs' main with sentries in a prism allowed him to lock sOs out of his main and log a 3-1 victory.
 TY killed twelve workers early in game one before moving into mech.  Scarlett countered with hydra/bane and then swarmhosts, but was never able get an offense going. TY kept pushing with tanks, hellions and banshees, chipping away at Scarlett to go up 1-0.
Having lost 25 drones to a widow mine drop and hellions, Scarlett moved into roaches and swarm hosts against TY's bio/tank. The composition bought her time to get up to five bases, but TY's eventual push left her with only two hatcheries. Outnumbered and with no economy, she tapped out soon after.
TY continued his dominance in the third game. He macroed up into bio, constantly dropping and harassing with a raven while adding tanks and mines to counter Scarlett's hydra/ling/bane. Scarlett defended valiantly, but finally succumbed to drop the series without winning a game.
Dark jumped out to a quick lead as his early zerglings surrounded Nerchio's queens, allowing zerglings and banelings to walk into Nerchio's main unopposed. Up two hatcheries to one, but facing a stream of zerglings, Nerchio conceded.
Game two was much of the same. Nerchio opened with early zerglings of his own, but, opting for a hatchery follow up, his economy was gutted by a ling/bane run by while losing his army to banelings across the map.
Nerchio staved off elimination with a solid macro game on Acolyte. Displaying great understanding of late game ZvZ, Nerchio outmaneuvered Dark while teching in all the right directions. Ahead on supply, Nerchio locked up the win with a nydus into Dark's main.
After a frenetic early game, Dark pulled ahead with baneling runbys. Nerchio built a larger roach army, but Dark stalled until spire. Mutalisks triggered an attack from Nerchio which Dark cleaned up before lunging into Nerchio's main with enough units to close out the match.
soO's decision to tech into mutalisks proved costly as ShoWTimE hit with a zealot archon timing before soO's banelings had hatched. His zerglings died to zealots and a follow up stalker warp in dealt with the mutalisks as ShoWTimE marched to a game one victory.
After an initial flood of zerglings was stopped by ShoWTimE's natural wall, soO found himself at a disadvantage. He ramped up to hit a ling/bane/hydra timing off three bases, but a warp prism pulled him back, giving ShoWTimE time to assemble a high templar/immortal army soO could not trump.
ShoWTimE's dark templar killed ten workers, but archons failed to add to that total. soO powered into roaches and hydralisks and, after finding ShoWTimE's warp prism mid map, attacked into ShoWTimE's fourth. soO overran the stormless army on the way to his first win.
After ShoWTimE halted soO's hydra timing, the players resigned themselves for the late game. ShoWTimE went for carriers and archons, while soO macro built him a corrupter/brood lord based army. ShoWTimE took a horrendous fight as he got too aggressive, and that was enough for soO to counter and even the series.
ShoWTimE's 3 gate glaive timing killed eleven workers. From there he moved into blink/colossus. soO added corruptors to his ling/bane/hydra just in time, finding a great engagement that reset ShoWTimE's army. It was elementary from there as soO completed the reverse all kill to advance.
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It was a shame.
- Neeb vs. sOs - well done, good series, Neeb played excellent games and sOs was behind.
- TY vs. Scarlett - disappointment, after Scarlett was destroying Inno. in GSL, TY somehow took her seriously, did not make any mistakes and slowly built his lead in each game. So sad about that 3-0.
- Dark vs. Nerchio - if I was a foreigner playing against Dark or Life, I would be sure, they want to make fun of me and would expect pool first. But acknowledgements to Nerchio that he did not break down after 2-0 and won a very good macro game. Unfortunately, Dark was also able to win the next macrogame. But this was a good series.
- ShowTime vs. soO - disappointment, nobody expected anything from ShowTime and he surprised. But a full foreigner at the end it was.
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Now we can call Ro8 - GSL vs. Neeb 
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Really sad of Scarlett perfomance, she really needs to grow in big stages
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A lot of people hyping over soO vs ShoWTimE but I don't think it was the best showing from either of them. ShowtimE played perfect on the first 2 maps but soO made so many stupid mistakes. Then the latter 3 games were ShoWTimE going full foriegner and soO playing like we expected him to.
Still an improvement for ShoWTimE though, if he can maintain the form he showed at the start of the series he can have a good shot in Montreal
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On August 05 2017 00:19 Diabolique wrote:
It was a shame.
- Neeb vs. sOs - well done, good series, Neeb played excellent games and sOs was behind.
- TY vs. Scarlett - disappointment, after Scarlett was destroying Inno. in GSL, TY somehow took her seriously, did not make any mistakes and slowly built his lead in each game. So sad about that 3-0.
- Dark vs. Nerchio - if I was a foreigner playing against Dark or Life, I would be sure, they want to make fun of me and would expect pool first. But acknowledgements to Nerchio that he did not break down after 2-0 and won a very good macro game. Unfortunately, Dark was also able to win the next macrogame. But this was a good series.
- ShowTime vs. soO - disappointment, nobody expected anything from ShowTime and he surprised. But a full foreigner at the end it was.
Inno is so good that losing 1-2 to him can also be sonsidered destroying him.
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neeb justifying his spot in the power rank trashing a top 5 protoss like it was nbd
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Haven't really followed the foreigner scene for a while, is Neeb still considered the consensus #1 foreigner?
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On August 05 2017 02:52 iamho wrote:
Haven't really followed the foreigner scene for a while, is Neeb still considered the consensus #1 foreigner?
Pretty much if you ignore the deluded EU fans...
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On August 05 2017 02:52 iamho wrote:
Haven't really followed the foreigner scene for a while, is Neeb still considered the consensus #1 foreigner?
He has more competition than last year, but yeah pretty much.
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On August 05 2017 01:16 KappaKingPrime wrote:Now we can call Ro8 - GSL vs. Neeb
You forgot about Special.
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On August 05 2017 02:24 ParksonVN wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2017 00:19 Diabolique wrote:
It was a shame.
- Neeb vs. sOs - well done, good series, Neeb played excellent games and sOs was behind.
- TY vs. Scarlett - disappointment, after Scarlett was destroying Inno. in GSL, TY somehow took her seriously, did not make any mistakes and slowly built his lead in each game. So sad about that 3-0.
- Dark vs. Nerchio - if I was a foreigner playing against Dark or Life, I would be sure, they want to make fun of me and would expect pool first. But acknowledgements to Nerchio that he did not break down after 2-0 and won a very good macro game. Unfortunately, Dark was also able to win the next macrogame. But this was a good series.
- ShowTime vs. soO - disappointment, nobody expected anything from ShowTime and he surprised. But a full foreigner at the end it was. Inno is so good that losing 1-2 to him can also be sonsidered destroying him.
Inno played horribly against Scarlett but for some reason (delusion) some people think that he was at peak form. Peak Inno doesn't throw away four full medivacs for free, nor does he completely fail to scout the opponent, nor does he lose to just about any Zerg, ever (possibly Life). Peak Inno can be seen in 2013 WCS Season 2 OSL Ro8 against Soulkey, or several other games from the early-HotS era. Inno in the recent GSL Season 3 wasn't even at his 2017 peak, if you want to see that watch Inno vs Dark at IEM Katowice or Inno vs ByuL in GSL Season 1.
TY simply took Scarlett seriously and played safe. He demonstrated what happens when a top KR Terran gets serious against Scarlett.
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On August 05 2017 04:01 Meeii wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2017 01:16 KappaKingPrime wrote:Now we can call Ro8 - GSL vs. Neeb You forgot about Special.
technically he's GSL too
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I don't have all statistics in my head but isn't Elazer better than Nerchio or is it a close call between them?
Nerchio is good but I'm a bit surprised not to see Elazer there.
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On August 05 2017 04:56 muppet70 wrote:
I don't have all statistics in my head but isn't Elazer better than Nerchio or is it a close call between them?
Nerchio is good but I'm a bit surprised not to see Elazer there.
Sadly Elazer was not top 4 in WCS points and did not win the zerg vote either (Scarlett did).
Hard to say who is better, overall Nerchio with his long career, right now probably Elazer.
Definitely close though!
Elazer had great success in ZvZ when he went to Korea, he had an 80% win ratio and was 6-0 vs 7k+ players like Rogue. Sadly he only got to play ZvT in the GSL, would've loved to see him in this event again.
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On August 05 2017 04:26 pvsnp wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2017 02:24 ParksonVN wrote:On August 05 2017 00:19 Diabolique wrote:
It was a shame.
- Neeb vs. sOs - well done, good series, Neeb played excellent games and sOs was behind.
- TY vs. Scarlett - disappointment, after Scarlett was destroying Inno. in GSL, TY somehow took her seriously, did not make any mistakes and slowly built his lead in each game. So sad about that 3-0.
- Dark vs. Nerchio - if I was a foreigner playing against Dark or Life, I would be sure, they want to make fun of me and would expect pool first. But acknowledgements to Nerchio that he did not break down after 2-0 and won a very good macro game. Unfortunately, Dark was also able to win the next macrogame. But this was a good series.
- ShowTime vs. soO - disappointment, nobody expected anything from ShowTime and he surprised. But a full foreigner at the end it was. Inno is so good that losing 1-2 to him can also be sonsidered destroying him. Inno played horribly against Scarlett but for some reason (delusion) some people think that he was at peak form. Peak Inno doesn't throw away four full medivacs for free, nor does he completely fail to scout the opponent, nor does he lose to just about any Zerg, ever (possibly Life). Peak Inno can be seen in 2013 WCS Season 2 OSL Ro8 against Soulkey, or several other games from the early-HotS era. Inno in the recent GSL Season 3 wasn't even at his 2017 peak, if you want to see that watch Inno vs Dark at IEM Katowice or Inno vs ByuL in GSL Season 1. TY simply took Scarlett seriously and played safe. He demonstrated what happens when a top KR Terran gets serious against Scarlett.
here we go again with the innovation circlejerking.
because any time innovation doesn't do something perfect he "just wasn't taking it serious"
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On August 05 2017 05:09 youngjiddle wrote:Show nested quote +On August 05 2017 04:26 pvsnp wrote:On August 05 2017 02:24 ParksonVN wrote:On August 05 2017 00:19 Diabolique wrote:
It was a shame.
- Neeb vs. sOs - well done, good series, Neeb played excellent games and sOs was behind.
- TY vs. Scarlett - disappointment, after Scarlett was destroying Inno. in GSL, TY somehow took her seriously, did not make any mistakes and slowly built his lead in each game. So sad about that 3-0.
- Dark vs. Nerchio - if I was a foreigner playing against Dark or Life, I would be sure, they want to make fun of me and would expect pool first. But acknowledgements to Nerchio that he did not break down after 2-0 and won a very good macro game. Unfortunately, Dark was also able to win the next macrogame. But this was a good series.
- ShowTime vs. soO - disappointment, nobody expected anything from ShowTime and he surprised. But a full foreigner at the end it was. Inno is so good that losing 1-2 to him can also be sonsidered destroying him. Inno played horribly against Scarlett but for some reason (delusion) some people think that he was at peak form. Peak Inno doesn't throw away four full medivacs for free, nor does he completely fail to scout the opponent, nor does he lose to just about any Zerg, ever (possibly Life). Peak Inno can be seen in 2013 WCS Season 2 OSL Ro8 against Soulkey, or several other games from the early-HotS era. Inno in the recent GSL Season 3 wasn't even at his 2017 peak, if you want to see that watch Inno vs Dark at IEM Katowice or Inno vs ByuL in GSL Season 1. TY simply took Scarlett seriously and played safe. He demonstrated what happens when a top KR Terran gets serious against Scarlett. here we go again with the innovation circlejerking. because any time innovation doesn't do something perfect he "just wasn't taking it serious"
If you actually think a guy regularly called the best player in the world normally makes the mistakes he did against Scarlett, you are blind or ignorant or both. And clearly haven't made the slightest effort to actually watch any of his games.
Come back once you have some semblance of a clue about the context.
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On August 05 2017 04:56 muppet70 wrote:
I don't have all statistics in my head but isn't Elazer better than Nerchio or is it a close call between them?
Nerchio is good but I'm a bit surprised not to see Elazer there.
Ask Nerchio, who is better.
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