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With sOs already having earned a spot in the finals,  Dark and  INnoVation took the stage in the more anticipated semifinal. Sporting the best ZvT and TvZ in the world, the former teammates faced off to see who would enter the finals as the prohibitive favorite.
INnoVation opened game one with a two-port speed banshee build that Dark pushed back with minimal losses. Dark moved into roach/hydra as INnoVation's siege tank count grew. He tried to take a position mid-map, but Dark’s blinding clouds and well spread army put him up 1-0.
Having split Ascension to Aiur, Dark’s brood lord/viper/hydra fought to an impasse against INnoVation’s mech. Despite losing almost 30 SCV’s to burrowed roaches, INnoVation reloaded and set up a siege between two of Dark's mining bases that broke the Zerg.
INnoVation’s proxy 1/1/1 killed Dark's third and main, but Dark built a nydus worm and evacuated his drones. Having swapped mains, INnoVation sieged Dark's third with marines, tanks and liberators, but was overwhelmed by ravagers, zergling, speedless banes and queens to concede the lead.
In the next game, Dark just barely held INnoVation's bunker rush off two proxied barracks. While he managed to take a third, INnoVation's follow up hellbat/banshee push was more than enough to tie the series 2-2.
Dark decided to counter INnoVation's mech with ling/bane/hydra on Whirlwind, but was unable to inflict any economic damage and prevent INnoVation from rolling across the map with hellions and siege tanks. The Machine killed Dark's fourth before taking his first lead in the series 3-2.
With a spot in the finals on the line, INnoVation dared to bunker rush a second time. His rush succeeded in killing Dark's natural, but Dark turtled on one base and sprouted a nydus worm in INnoVation's main. INnoVation tried to defend with tanks and banshees, but corrosive biles and transfuses gave Dark the lasting power he needed to take the series into the final map.
The series would be decided on Abyssal Reef. Dark was able to reach a hydra/brood lord/viper composition that looked likely to close out the series, but INnoVation split his mech army, constantly killing workers, leveraging his superior economy while starving Dark out. A final push with a thor heavy force sealed the deal, sending INnoVation to the finals.
He will now face sOs in the Code S Finals with history on his side. INnoVation is a two time GSL champion (three if you count GSL vs the World), winning in season 3 of 2014 and 2015. He has also defeated sOs once in a final, during the WCS Season 1 Finals in 2013.
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Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
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Awesome series, gutted for Dark, I think Innovation just seized the opportunity when Dark was out of position in the last game, that along with the mad management of the harassment meant he lost the game.
Game 3 was absolutely wild and definitely the game of the year, hoping for a good finals between sOs and Inno, and also hoping Dark can do well in SSL and Blizzcon!
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Man, this style may not be 100% new but Dark's responses to the banshee -> mech just weren't great. Will probably take some time to figure out, I'm proud of my boy for doing so well against an unexpected style
That being said, this is a cool era for mech. Wonder if any of these openings (2 port banshee, thor drop, etc.) will ever become like the FanTaSy TvZ mech build from BW that single handedly revitalizes the style. This 2 port banshee seems promising
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And the double championship drought continues. It's just too damn hard to maintain winning form in two simultaneous Starleagues, I suppose.
Dark played like a god, and gave Inno one hell of a fight. But the Machine could not be denied.
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On September 10 2017 02:25 pvsnp wrote:
And the double championship drought continues. It's just too damn hard to maintain winning form in two simultaneous Starleagues, I suppose.
The odds of winning one are so slim. Two is just ridiculous.
And if you want a chance of winning any individual league, you pretty much have to devote all your practice hours to it anyway
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This recap gets the technical details of what happened correct, but misses how thrilling the games really were. Game 3, in particular, was amazing.
I think Artosis even said at the end that this was the best series of the year, and I heartily agree.
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On September 10 2017 00:24 DomeGetta wrote:
Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
More interesting to most people than exploring the finer details of timing attacks...
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On September 10 2017 00:24 DomeGetta wrote:
Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
It actually isn't. Not at all similar. Late-HotS mech revolved around turtling and defending into a sky transition. To contrast, current mech is completely ground-based (except Vikings for AA) and ends the game with maxed pushes.
Aggressive mech is waaay more fun to watch then a dozen BCs huddling behind a wall of PDDs.
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btw isn't this another 2 year run zerg hasn't won a GSL again.............. Blizzard. Balance team. Hello, think Mcfly think!
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On September 10 2017 04:22 NomaKasd wrote:
btw isn't this another 2 year run zerg hasn't won a GSL again.............. Blizzard. Balance team. Hello, think Mcfly think!
It's really not Blizzard's fault that soO can't win a GSL to save his life.
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Germany15880 Posts
On September 10 2017 00:24 DomeGetta wrote:
Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
there was a split map game?
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Just watched the VOD, great series!!
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What an awesome series. Sad for Dark
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On September 10 2017 04:48 Charoisaur wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2017 00:24 DomeGetta wrote:
Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
there was a split map game?
Mech merely existing gives people flashbacks to the 2 hour games of 2015
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People complaining without watching games are so ridiculous.. both player played really well, exciting games, gratz to Bogus.
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Russian Federation40186 Posts
On September 10 2017 07:29 Fango wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2017 04:48 Charoisaur wrote:On September 10 2017 00:24 DomeGetta wrote:
Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
there was a split map game? Mech merely existing gives people flashbacks to the 2 hour games of 2015
2 hour games of 2015?
The only 2 hour mech v z game i recall was 2014's Soulkey vs Reality slugfest and that was with old swarm hosts.
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On September 10 2017 08:25 lolfail9001 wrote:Show nested quote +On September 10 2017 07:29 Fango wrote:On September 10 2017 04:48 Charoisaur wrote:On September 10 2017 00:24 DomeGetta wrote:
Welp - welcome back end of Hots.
Super excited for a blizzcon full of split map max remax remax remax mech vs hive tech games.
there was a split map game? Mech merely existing gives people flashbacks to the 2 hour games of 2015 2 hour games of 2015? The only 2 hour mech v z game i recall was 2014's Soulkey vs Reality slugfest and that was with old swarm hosts.
HoTS time was faster than LoTV's I guess. 2 hours might be exaggerating, but there were a couple that got disgustingly long
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Seems like it was an amazing series. Excited for the sOs vs. Innovation grand finals!
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Great series. Now please stop buffing mech in the new patch.
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2017 Global StarCraft II League Season 3/Code S
