Historic trends remained in unbroken on day one of the GSL Code S playoffs, as Dark won his seventh consecutive series versus Bunny while Rogue suffered his eighth straight Code S quarterfinal defeat in a match against Classic.
Though Dark said that he had worried about Bunny and his strong TvZ, such fears could only seem frivolous as he won in a 3-0 sweep. Games one and two saw Dark safely snowball leads gained through early roach-ravager attacks, while game three was won with patient and precise dismantling of Bunny's mech.
In the other quarterfinal match of the day, Classic eked out a narrow 3-2 victory that saw him bring a different build in every single game. The results were mixed—a cannon-rush into proxy-robo went exactly as planned, but an immortal-archon drop with proxied shield batteries failed miserably. Classic's creativity prevailed in the end, with his game five psionic storm drop catching Rogue completely off-guard. Heavy drone damage took the force out of Rogue's roach-ravager attack, allowing Classic to easily defend and close-out the series.
The RO8 will resume on Saturday, Mar 30 4:00am GMT (GMT+00:00) with Maru vs Dear and Trap vs TY.
Awesome performance by Classic, especially with starting the game with a cheese that caught Rogue off-guard as well as the superb storm drops that prevented Rogue from going to hydra tech. I think he has a chance to win against Dark since he did lose to Classic at some point.
Got completely rolled on this one. Dark looking beautifully dangerous versus Terran. Classic looking really good also. His adept and oracle control was looking amazing. And storm drops turned me into a serious fan. It's going to be really interesting to see what Dark pulls out against him.
Couldn't be more happy with the results. Probably Rogue fans are mad and I understand that. Even I'm not a Rogue fan, in general he is still a macro beast, but what Classic did yesterday was legendary. And that was not some cheep cheese on the table. Actually the way Rogue lost I experience this negative routine with Dark and TY who statistically are the greatest late game beasts and they always fail before the end and grab the trophy. After some top 1 matches against Maru back in 2015 in Proleague and Starleague, this is definitely my next favorite match in Classic's career and for sure the best game in this Code S season.
did anyone notice that rogue and classic seemed to be beefing pretty hard yesterday?
before the match rogue said that classic should just go to the military already, and that he'd end his career early. when classic won he didnt shake rogue's hand
Rogue was dead as soon as Dark won his series against Bunny and Artosis said "Dark advances to Ro4 to play Rogue because let me tell you, there isn't even a chance that Rogue loses to Classic".
Some curses are stronger than others, the Artosis one definitely stands at the top.
The forces of the universe could not be mended enough for Rogue to break his ro8 curse and for Classic and Dark not to meet in the semifinals.
Excited for the semis, maybe it's finally time for Dark to win a championship! So far this year has been all but a giant redemption arc for all the ex-SKT members
The transition of Rogue is mind boggling to me... He was known to be a trickster, a Jinair clown pulling out gimmicky builds left and right. But if the gimmicks werent successful, he always lost in serious games. And now he is the one that the players need to pull out gimmicky cheese and weird play, because he would completely destroy them in a standard macro game.
I like how he evolved as a player and it brought him a lot of success, he is considered to be one of the best players in the world. But sometimes he should just try to go back to being the trickster. From the first map it was obvious what Classic game plan will be. Rogue should have adjusted his play and just went for proxy hatch, nexus blocks, or nydus play. That would have shaken Classic. Instead he just waited and gave the opponent all the initiative.
I am sad but he needs to learn from this and stop losing to worse players like this...
EPT
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