• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 22:59
CEST 04:59
KST 11:59
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners7Code S Season 2 (2026): RO4 and Finals Preview12TL.net Map Contest #22 - Voting & Ladder Map Selection7Code S Season 2 (2026) - RO8 Preview7[ASL21] Finals Preview: Two Legacies21
Community News
Weekly Cups (June 8-14): Clem and Solar double, PTR tested0RSL: S6 Finals played at BlizzCon 202611Douyu Cup 2026: $20,000 Legends Event (June 26-28)10[BSL22] Non-Korean Championship from 13 to 28 June4Weekly Cups (May 25-31): Clem doubles, 2v2 circuit heads toward finale0
StarCraft 2
General
TL Poll: How do you feel about the 5.0.16 PTR balance changes? Code S Season 2 (2026) - RO8 Preview Updates to The Core/Core Lite for v5.0.16? RSL: S6 Finals played at BlizzCon 2026 Weekly Cups (June 8-14): Clem and Solar double, PTR tested
Tourneys
GSL CK #4 20-21th June Douyu Cup 2026: $20,000 Legends Event (June 26-28) Maestros of The Game 2 announcement and schedule ! Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond)
Strategy
[G] Having the right mentality to improve
Custom Maps
Work In Progress Melee Maps [D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3
External Content
Mutation # 530 One For All The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 529 Opportunities Unleashed Mutation # 528 Infection Detected
Brood War
General
vespene.gg — BW replays in browser BW General Discussion Where is EffOrt? BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Quality of life changes in BW that you will like ?
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL21] Grand Finals [BSL22] Grand Finals - Sunday 21:00 CEST Escore Tournament StarCraft Season 2
Strategy
Relatively freeroll strategies Creating a full chart of Zerg builds Why doesn't anyone use restoration? Any training maps people recommend?
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Beyond All Reason ZeroSpace Megathread Total War: Warhammer 40K Path of Exile
Dota 2
Looking for a Dota Mentor Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
Russo-Ukrainian War Thread US Politics Mega-thread UK Politics Mega-thread [H]Internet/Gaming Cafe Tips and Tricks Trading/Investing Thread
Fan Clubs
The HerO Fan Club! The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Movie Discussion! [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books [TV/BOOK] *SPOILERS* Game of Thrones Discussion [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 Formula 1 Discussion Cricket [SPORT] NBA General Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread Facing Challenges in Mobile App Development
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Does Workplace Frustration D…
TrAiDoS
An Exploration of th…
waywardstrategy
I'm an arrogant trash talke…
FlaShFTW
Gauntlet SC2: A Retrospectiv…
Ctone23
Why RTS gamers make better f…
gosubay
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 7059 users

Awesome Game Done Quick: Maru's SC2 Speedruns - Page 3

Forum Index > SC2 General
63 CommentsPost a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
gophersnake
Profile Joined July 2018
48 Posts
April 11 2019 20:30 GMT
#41
Maru is an absolute unit, great article
CutietosS
Profile Joined December 2008
United States13 Posts
April 11 2019 20:33 GMT
#42
If I were to plan out a S. Korea vacation to watch a GSL Finals, I don't think I would pick a Maru one.
Danglars
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States12133 Posts
April 11 2019 20:39 GMT
#43
Good writeup. Maru is fast and deadly.
Great armies come from happy zealots, and happy zealots come from California!
TL+ Member
Akio
Profile Blog Joined January 2019
Finland1838 Posts
April 11 2019 21:17 GMT
#44
I did not even realize that all of these were indeed very, verh quick series.

24 mins against Nice? Sure whatever. 27 against INno though? That was a legendary OSL semis match
Mine gas, build tanks.
Duckman
Profile Joined August 2009
United States158 Posts
April 11 2019 21:29 GMT
#45
The Maru vs Innovation game was when I first started watching SC2! I used to watch a bit of Broodwar back in the Flash v Jaedong days when I was procrastinating on writing papers late night in the library in undergrad and had totally forgotten about competitive Starcraft for years. One fateful night I randomly remembered watching professionals and googled "Starcraft live matches now" or something like that, ended up tuning in for semifinals and finals of that tournament, watching a 16 year old kid bop people--needless to say, I was hooked and Maru is still one of my favorite players.
ggrrg
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Bulgaria2716 Posts
April 11 2019 21:42 GMT
#46
That's some interesting trivia. Given this article I feel like it would be appropriate if Classic pulled a sub 30 min win over Maru.
Incognoto
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
France10239 Posts
April 11 2019 22:41 GMT
#47
I don't want a close finals. I want a BEAT DOWN and a maru win
maru lover forever
Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8990 Posts
April 11 2019 23:15 GMT
#48
On April 12 2019 05:33 CutietosS wrote:
If I were to plan out a S. Korea vacation to watch a GSL Finals, I don't think I would pick a Maru one.


If those exist
Writerhttp://i.imgur.com/9p6ufcB.jpg
TheDougler
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada8309 Posts
April 12 2019 00:26 GMT
#49
On April 11 2019 19:52 Geo.Rion wrote:
just the other way in the LR thread there was a discussion and uncertainty about the shortest series (premier events, best of 7)
Indeed a gap filling article!

Only question that i have left, what s the quickest, NON-Maru best of 7 ever played in a premier event?


Nestea vs Inca didn't last long...
I root for Euro Zergs, NA Protoss* and Korean Terrans. (Any North American who has beat a Korean Pro as Protoss counts as NA Toss)
KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
April 12 2019 00:33 GMT
#50
On April 11 2019 22:30 argonautdice wrote:
That WCS 2013 Season 2 was amazing. It was funny because Innovation had just 3-0'd Soulkey in the Ro8 in revenge for choking and getting reverse swept in the season 1 GSL final, and then when everyone thought no one could stop Inno he gets 4-0'd by Maru with proxies XD. It was also the season of Bomber-God, start of Scarlett-Bomber rivalry, early HotS muta/bling v MMMM meta, Jim randomly showing up and destroying everyone.

dont forget Rain being a god
Rain | herO | sOs | Dear | Neeb | ByuN | INnoVation | Dream | ForGG | Maru | ByuL | Golden | Solar | Soulkey | Scarlett!!!
Kitai
Profile Joined June 2012
United States881 Posts
April 12 2019 00:51 GMT
#51
I'm also surprised his thrashing of Zest wasn't #1. This list doesn't give me high hopes for Classic X_X. I hope he takes a dump on a zerg later this year to round it out.
"You know, I don't care if soO got 100 second places in a row. Anyone who doesn't think that he's going to win blizzcon watching this series is a fool" - Artosis, Blizzcon 2014 soO vs TaeJa
Solar424
Profile Blog Joined June 2013
United States4001 Posts
April 12 2019 02:13 GMT
#52
Nothing can beat Polt beating Naniwa in a Bo5 in 3 minutes.
Azzur
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia6267 Posts
April 12 2019 02:48 GMT
#53
HAHAHAHAHA

Loved this article
GreenHorizons
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States24033 Posts
April 12 2019 03:44 GMT
#54
This is a great article but I'm now terribly curious about the actual speedruns of SCII (and BroodWar for that matter) campaigns lol
"People like to look at history and think 'If that was me back then, I would have...' We're living through history, and the truth is, whatever you are doing now is probably what you would have done then" "Scratch a Liberal..."
DSK
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
England1110 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-04-12 06:58:14
April 12 2019 06:57 GMT
#55
I do love me some Maru. Top lad that oft times produces top keks.

Great article, Wax.
**@ YT: SC2POVs at https://www.youtube.com/c/SC2POVsTV | https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/SC2POVs @**
CloudCat
Profile Joined May 2011
Singapore160 Posts
April 12 2019 07:30 GMT
#56
Loved the article. We don't need another Maru vs Challenger finals preview. This did the job way better and way more effectively.

On April 12 2019 07:41 Incognoto wrote:
I don't want a close finals. I want a BEAT DOWN and a maru win


Totally feel this way after this article. I want to see utter decimation a new fastest record time!
insitelol
Profile Joined August 2012
845 Posts
April 12 2019 09:35 GMT
#57
Speedrun SoS please.
Less is more.
Destructicon
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
4713 Posts
April 12 2019 11:55 GMT
#58
On April 11 2019 19:41 FrostedMiniWheats wrote:
haha, great list. Hard to believe Maru vs Zest in the GSL finals isn't #1.

Also, that OSL series has got to be one of the most satisfying moments ever. The Kespa fanboyism was so rampant around that time and then Maru just came out of nowhere and ate the soul of Bogus.


A more accurate description would be that, Maru ate the soul of INnoVation and showed him to be Bogus.
WriterNever give up, never surrender! https://www.youtube.com/user/DestructiconSC
deacon.frost
Profile Joined February 2013
Czech Republic12129 Posts
April 12 2019 12:11 GMT
#59
On April 12 2019 11:13 Solar424 wrote:
Nothing can beat Polt beating Naniwa in a Bo5 in 3 minutes.

Polt didn't, it was sound proofing issues and Polish crowds screaming way too loudly.
I imagine France should be able to take this unless Lilbow is busy practicing for Starcraft III. | KadaverBB is my fairy ban mother.
NinjaNight
Profile Joined January 2018
428 Posts
April 12 2019 18:19 GMT
#60
On April 11 2019 19:12 Pandemona wrote:
Haha wow, Maru is something else! It is not even that unthinkable that Maru could do something similar to Classic again on Sunday. I hope he just wins somehow though as a 4th GSL title in a row would be nuts!! GO MARU!


Right when people start saying stuff like this is when the world turns upside down and Classic readily defeats Maru in this final.
Prev 1 2 3 4 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
PiGosaur Cup
00:00
#86 (PTR Edition)
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
PiGStarcraft411
RuFF_SC2 43
StarCraft: Brood War
Rain 3259
GuemChi 2926
Sea 2176
Artosis 549
Mind 100
Sexy 35
Bale 14
Terrorterran 12
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox1327
AZ_Axe225
Other Games
summit1g7313
Day[9].tv2031
C9.Mang0524
WinterStarcraft322
ViBE159
Maynarde85
Trikslyr64
CosmosSc2 15
PiLiPiLi6
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick1248
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 14 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH243
• Hupsaiya 91
• davetesta12
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Other Games
• Day9tv2031
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
6h 1m
The PondCast
1d 7h
OSC
1d 21h
CranKy Ducklings
2 days
GSL
3 days
Maru vs ShoWTimE
Classic vs Reynor
herO vs Lambo
Solar vs Clem
BSL22 NKC (BSL vs China)
3 days
XuanXuan vs Jaystar
Mihu vs Messiah
eOnzErG vs Dewalt
Bonyth vs Jaystar
TerrOr vs Messiah
XuanXuan vs Mihu
eOnzErG vs Jaystar
Replay Cast
3 days
GSL
4 days
Patches Events
4 days
BSL22 NKC (BSL vs China)
4 days
Dewalt vs Messiah
Bonyth vs Mihu
TerrOr vs XuanXuan
eOnzErG vs Messiah
Jaystar vs Mihu
Dewalt vs XuanXuan
Bonyth vs TerrOr
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
4 days
WardiTV Weekly
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-06-16
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Heroes Pulsing #1

Ongoing

IPSL Spring 2026
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 2
Acropolis #4
CSCL: Masked Kings S4
YSL S3
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
SCTL 2026 Spring
Maestros of the Game 2
WardiTV Spring 2026
Murky Cup 2026
Heroes Pulsing #2
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1

Upcoming

CSL 2026 Summer (S21)
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Revival: Season 6
CranK Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League
HSC XXIX
Douyu Cup 2026
BCC 2026
Heroes Pulsing #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.