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With the Round of 32 all but complete,  Maru,  herO,  RagnaroK and KeeN convened to decide who would lock up the final two spots in the 2018 GSL Season 1 Round of 16.
Initial Match 1: herO 2 - 0 Ragnarok
- Game 1: The first wave of herO's two base zealot timing was thwarted by queens, but the second overran Ragnarok's roaches.
- Game 2: herO's two base charge/archon effort was swatted back, but a follow-up attack off a probeless third base brought an end to the series.
Initial Match 2: Keen 2 - 0 Maru
- Game 1: Game one saw heated skirmishes between a melange of Terran units, but KeeN was able to amass a 40 worker lead before Maru tapped out.
- Game 2: KeeN and Maru both went into mech on Blackpink, but KeeN was able to parlay an economic lead into air superiority and a 2-0 victory.
Winners’ Match: herO 2 - 0 Keen
- Game 1: herO’s phoenix harassment and a timely stasis ward meant that when KeeN moved out, zealots easily cleaned up, taking the game.
- Game 2: herO's dark templars gave him the space to expand at will and build up a massive gateway army with superior upgrades that sent him to the Round of 16.
Losers’ Match: Maru 2 - 0 Ragnarok
- Game 1: Having traded favorably against Ragnarok's zerglings with hellions, Maru staged attack after attack, killing Ragnarok's fourth three times before the TitanEX1 Zerg admitted defeat.
- Game 2: This time it was hellions killing drones which gave Maru a lead, allowing him to end to the game with a bio/tank push that took out Ragnarok's third.
Final Match: Maru 2 - 0 Keen
- Game 1: Maru’s two rax reaper proxy single-handedly ended the game, giving him a 1-0 lead.
- Game 2: Maru went for the same reaper proxy and, while he didn’t kill KeeN outright, he brought him down to seven workers which earned the concession and a spot in the Round of 16 for Maru.
herO and Maru advanced to the round of 16.
Code S resumes on Saturday, Feb 10 4:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) with round of 16 matches.
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Maru 2 raxing, guess hes back :D
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lol maru you cheesy bastard. He always seems to cheese when there is the most on the line, and it usually works.
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Good on Maru for advancing, but I'm surprised that he needed to cheese and against Keen of all people.
His TvT used to be excellent, but maybe mech doesn't agree with him?
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Good macro during intense micro is something Maru has been great at for as long as I've seen him play. Using his strenght when playing the final match is the wise choice. There was a time when Maru's standard TvZ was proxy 2 rax into win or macro game.
Does anyone know if Maru has been picked earlier than final 4 players in GSL ro16 group selections? I can only remember him being among the last ones left.
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On February 01 2018 00:58 Hadronsbecrazy wrote:
Maru 2 raxing, guess hes back :D
He has been 2 raxing in TvT for a while.
Fortunate for him Keen is terrible at defending it.
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I don't know why Keen opened so greedy in those last two games, he should have felt pretty comfortable vs Maru in late game so he should have opened safer
That being said, I am more of a Maru fan so not complaining
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On February 01 2018 05:59 Drfilip wrote:
Good macro during intense micro is something Maru has been great at for as long as I've seen him play. Using his strenght when playing the final match is the wise choice. There was a time when Maru's standard TvZ was proxy 2 rax into win or macro game.
Does anyone know if Maru has been picked earlier than final 4 players in GSL ro16 group selections? I can only remember him being among the last ones left.
He was the second to last to be picked, the last was sOs
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I think Maru didn't actually prepare for a TvT vs KeeN, and that's why he went 2 raxing both times
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On February 01 2018 16:51 EEk1TwEEk wrote:
I think Maru didn't actually prepare for a TvT vs KeeN, and that's why he went 2 raxing both times
Maru's TvT is not on point recently. But I love the huge balls this kid has.
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Why do people say keen showed he had a better late game then maru?
In none of the games the late game was decisive. In both games, it was in the early game that keen got ahead to win them.
Keen outplayed maru with better strategy for the early game, which seemed more maru's fault then keen being amazing, and with good moves (that 4 cyclone hidden ambush in the first game, and the air switch in the second)
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On February 01 2018 16:51 EEk1TwEEk wrote:
I think Maru didn't actually prepare for a TvT vs KeeN, and that's why he went 2 raxing both times
Not preparing for the only opponent you're guaranteed to play at least once seems like a sound plan to me.
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