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Dark beats Dear 4-2 to advance to the SSL Premier Semifinal

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
September 05 2017 08:08 GMT
#1
After a grueling nine match regular season that saw (P)Dear finish in third place at 6-3, the only Zerg remaining in the tournament, (Z)Dark, fourth place after the Round Robin, faced off against the first of three Protoss standing between him and a second SSL championship.

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Dear's first oracle only killed three drones to start the series, but he added another stargate and killed 17 more with five additional oracles and a void ray. Dark tried to answer with hydralisks and infestors, but Dear's chargelots trampled over him despite some sublime fungals.

Dear went for the same build in game two, killing 11 drones and five queens this time. He stayed a base ahead of Dark, sitting on five with 83 workers, before dealing the final blow with blink stalkers.

Dear went for triple stargate on Ascension to Aiur, but Dark defended with almost no losses before crashing into Dear's fourth with hydra/ling/bane. Dear held the first wave, but the second killed the base and 30 workers, and the third gave Dark his first win of the series.



Dark's lack of spores meant he lost eight workers to Dear's proxy oracles, but he managed to scout Dear's charge/archon timing after killing Dear's cybernetics core with lings and breaking into Dear’s main. He made roaches in time, easily held the push and evened the match.



Dear opted for a dark templar opening on Whirlwind, but Dark nipped it in the bud with a roach/ling attack that depowered Dear’s gates and killed every worker in his natural before flooding into Dear’s main to go up 3-2.



Dark opened game six with a lair before his third for roaches and swarmhosts. Dear replied with disruptors, but was pinned back with locusts as Dark sniped his natural, fourth and third. Barely mining, Dear tapped out, setting up a meeting between Dark and (P)Classic in the semifinal.
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DieuCure
Profile Joined January 2017
France3713 Posts
September 05 2017 08:32 GMT
#2
Dark is much better, but oracle abuse made me a little scared.

It reminds me rush ultra early lotv , only some terrans managed to counter it , and it wasn't really glorious.
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CheeseCakez0
Profile Joined August 2015
22 Posts
September 05 2017 08:40 GMT
#3
I liked coming here but since I mainly watch VODs, these blatant spoiler titles make me avoid this website these days...
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Where dat snitch at?37058 Posts
September 05 2017 08:50 GMT
#4
On September 05 2017 17:40 CheeseCakez0 wrote:
I liked coming here but since I mainly watch VODs, these blatant spoiler titles make me avoid this website these days...

Please make sure you have the no spoiler option checked.
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MoonyD
Profile Joined December 2013
Australia191 Posts
September 05 2017 10:04 GMT
#5
Dark is just on fire right now. Was hoping for a Dear victory, but Dark just seemed to be in complete control.
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0mg_t1red
Profile Joined March 2013
Russian Federation104 Posts
September 05 2017 11:37 GMT
#6
Man, why did Dear continued to build disruptors agains swarmhosts? like wtf? you have robo bay just add 2nd robo and go for colossus. I was really shocked by this decision, what's the point?
Fej
Profile Joined July 2011
Hungary26 Posts
September 05 2017 15:50 GMT
#7
Whats happend with Darks face?
Edpayasugo
Profile Joined April 2013
United Kingdom2217 Posts
September 05 2017 16:53 GMT
#8
Can someone explain why the strat worked so well in games one and two, and then stopped working please?
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Zest_is_best
Profile Joined October 2016
France15 Posts
September 05 2017 17:16 GMT
#9
On September 06 2017 01:53 Edpayasugo wrote:
Can someone explain why the strat worked so well in games one and two, and then stopped working please?


Dark made adjustement, adding way more queen for example I think.
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Jimmon
Profile Joined May 2011
United States112 Posts
September 05 2017 20:27 GMT
#10
Calling in right now.

Classic VS Dark - Dark - 4 - 1

Dark vs Stats - Stats - 4 - 1

The Jimmon has spoken.
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Profile Joined July 2015
United States580 Posts
September 05 2017 21:59 GMT
#11
On September 05 2017 17:32 DieuCure wrote:
Dark is much better, but oracle abuse made me a little scared.

It reminds me rush ultra early lotv , only some terrans managed to counter it , and it wasn't really glorious.


+1 to this, I know Revelation is going to be nerfed later on in the year but the dev team could probably stand to lower the damage a bit on them in their current incarnation, it's very powerful on ladder as well.
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Malgo
Profile Joined March 2015
Germany76 Posts
September 05 2017 22:11 GMT
#12
On September 06 2017 05:27 Jimmon wrote:
Calling in right now.

Classic VS Dark - Dark - 4 - 1

Dark vs Stats - Stats - 4 - 1

The Jimmon has spoken.



i agree with dark vs classic 4:1 but i guess the stats dark series will be more closer, 3:3 into bullshit cheese in game 7
Twinkle Toes
Profile Joined May 2012
United States3605 Posts
September 06 2017 05:18 GMT
#13
Dark is a genius!

Matches 4-6 are part aggression, part trickery. Watching him, Rogue, and Inno is always a treat. Too bad there are no protoss in LOTV thats up in their level (yet).
Bisu - INnoVation - Dark - Rogue - Stats
Freeborn
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany421 Posts
September 06 2017 21:07 GMT
#14
If you can't make the no spoiler option work, I'll just not visit the page anymore...

How hard can this be..?

If irt's too fricking hard for you then mb just keep the results out of the title.?
valas991
Profile Joined September 2014
Hungary181 Posts
September 06 2017 22:14 GMT
#15
On September 07 2017 06:07 Freeborn wrote:
If you can't make the no spoiler option work, I'll just not visit the page anymore...

How hard can this be..?

If irt's too fricking hard for you then mb just keep the results out of the title.?


It worked for me ...now
But gotta admit, sometimes it doesnt.
No idea how it works exactly
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Synchrx
Profile Joined September 2017
United Kingdom29 Posts
September 07 2017 15:36 GMT
#16
I'm looking for Dark to be the first ever reigning GSL/SSL/WCS Champ. It would stamp his mark on Starcraft legacy. Lets go Dark!
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