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Dark advances to face Trap in Code S finals

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TL.net ESPORTS
Profile Joined July 2011
4 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-15 15:33:42
June 15 2019 15:32 GMT
#1
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2019 Global StarCraft II League - Code S Season 2

After competing in the GSL for over six years, Dark reached his first Code S grand final with a 4-1 victory over Hurricane in the second semifinal match of the playoffs.

Dark showed that the best defense is often a good offense, striking early and sealing off the creative build orders that played a crucial role in Hurricane's underdog run to the semifinals. Pool-first builds, offensive Hatcheries at the Protoss natural, or a throwback Speedling drop—all these moves served to disrupt Hurricane's game plan and allow Dark to enter the mid-game on his own terms. Without the threat of a Protoss all-in, Dark was able to crush Hurricane at his leisure, be it with burrowed Roaches or mass Lurkers (only when Dark fully committed to a 1-base all-in was Hurricane able to salvage a map and avoid a sweep).

Dark moves on to face Trap, a fellow first-time Code S finalist, in the grand finals on Saturday, Jun 22 8:00am GMT (GMT+00:00).


For Korean fans, the day was just as notable for (Wiki)JYP's official departure from the casting desk. Due to an abrupt summons to fulfill his military service, the four-year GSL analyst was forced to make the semifinals his last match, and will be unable to bring his Protoss expertise to the finals broadcast.

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sneakyfox
Profile Joined January 2017
8216 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-15 16:42:05
June 15 2019 15:34 GMT
#2
In LotV, Dark is 9–8 (52.94%) in games and 3–3 (50.00%) in matches against Trap.

Really sucks that JYP has to go. Reunification when
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Durnuu
Profile Joined September 2013
13320 Posts
June 15 2019 15:57 GMT
#3
JYP
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55510 Posts
June 15 2019 16:01 GMT
#4
JYP
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KingofdaHipHop
Profile Blog Joined October 2013
United States25602 Posts
June 15 2019 16:14 GMT
#5
Really happy for Dark! JYP tho
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Nakajin
Profile Blog Joined September 2014
Canada8989 Posts
June 15 2019 16:30 GMT
#6
Ah damn, at least the army will have someone to sing the national anthem now.
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Veluvian
Profile Joined December 2011
Bulgaria256 Posts
June 15 2019 16:34 GMT
#7
I remember back in WoL when JYP had a huge PvZ while streaming as a progamer. Although that did not worked well in that terrain domination era in offline tournaments. Great guy really.
And of course I'm happy for Dark. He was right on the interview, he did some tiny mistakes but in general he was enormously good and Hurricane did everything wrong. Still this is very good tournament for the protoss guy, he deserves more respect rather it was clear he is not ready for a final yet.
What a paradox is the memory itself I'm thinking. Tastosis still can't remember that Life was the last Code S Z champion, but probably the reasons are clear why he is so easily forgotten today.
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stilt
Profile Joined October 2012
France2749 Posts
June 15 2019 16:44 GMT
#8
On June 16 2019 01:34 Veluvian wrote:
I remember back in WoL when JYP had a huge PvZ while streaming as a progamer. Although that did not worked well in that terrain domination era in offline tournaments. Great guy really.
And of course I'm happy for Dark. He was right on the interview, he did some tiny mistakes but in general he was enormously good and Hurricane did everything wrong. Still this is very good tournament for the protoss guy, he deserves more respect rather it was clear he is not ready for a final yet.
What a paradox is the memory itself I'm thinking. Tastosis still can't remember that Life was the last Code S Z champion, but probably the reasons are clear why he is so easily forgotten today.


This oversight is really cringy imo, I love Tasteless but not telling his nick is prudish.
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55510 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-15 16:47:30
June 15 2019 16:45 GMT
#9
On June 16 2019 01:44 stilt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2019 01:34 Veluvian wrote:
I remember back in WoL when JYP had a huge PvZ while streaming as a progamer. Although that did not worked well in that terrain domination era in offline tournaments. Great guy really.
And of course I'm happy for Dark. He was right on the interview, he did some tiny mistakes but in general he was enormously good and Hurricane did everything wrong. Still this is very good tournament for the protoss guy, he deserves more respect rather it was clear he is not ready for a final yet.
What a paradox is the memory itself I'm thinking. Tastosis still can't remember that Life was the last Code S Z champion, but probably the reasons are clear why he is so easily forgotten today.


This oversight is really cringy imo, I love Tasteless but not telling his nick is prudish.

They're probably just straight up not supposed to talk about Life.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
brickrd
Profile Blog Joined March 2014
United States4894 Posts
June 15 2019 16:55 GMT
#10
On June 16 2019 01:44 stilt wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2019 01:34 Veluvian wrote:
I remember back in WoL when JYP had a huge PvZ while streaming as a progamer. Although that did not worked well in that terrain domination era in offline tournaments. Great guy really.
And of course I'm happy for Dark. He was right on the interview, he did some tiny mistakes but in general he was enormously good and Hurricane did everything wrong. Still this is very good tournament for the protoss guy, he deserves more respect rather it was clear he is not ready for a final yet.
What a paradox is the memory itself I'm thinking. Tastosis still can't remember that Life was the last Code S Z champion, but probably the reasons are clear why he is so easily forgotten today.


This oversight is really cringy imo, I love Tasteless but not telling his nick is prudish.

someone who's disgraced the game doesn't need to be mentioned and given further promotion/fame/etc for a crime. what's cringy is what life did. i forgive him personally, but he had an incredible privilege and chose to throw it away. it's his own fault, so he can be forgotten for all i care
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19229 Posts
June 15 2019 17:02 GMT
#11
Congrats to dark. Only having to prepare for one matchup has huge advantages. It was great to see ling drops brought back. It's a perfect counter to the timing attacks. I'm sad that we dont get to see back and forth PvZs but at least the strategies are really interesting for Z and show how zerg can push back against the era of immortal+wp.
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Cricketer12
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States13973 Posts
June 15 2019 17:05 GMT
#12
JYP
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Fango
Profile Joined July 2016
United Kingdom8987 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-15 17:35:47
June 15 2019 17:33 GMT
#13
Sad for JYP, right before the finals as well

On June 16 2019 01:45 Elentos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 16 2019 01:44 stilt wrote:
On June 16 2019 01:34 Veluvian wrote:
I remember back in WoL when JYP had a huge PvZ while streaming as a progamer. Although that did not worked well in that terrain domination era in offline tournaments. Great guy really.
And of course I'm happy for Dark. He was right on the interview, he did some tiny mistakes but in general he was enormously good and Hurricane did everything wrong. Still this is very good tournament for the protoss guy, he deserves more respect rather it was clear he is not ready for a final yet.
What a paradox is the memory itself I'm thinking. Tastosis still can't remember that Life was the last Code S Z champion, but probably the reasons are clear why he is so easily forgotten today.


This oversight is really cringy imo, I love Tasteless but not telling his nick is prudish.

They're probably just straight up not supposed to talk about Life.

I don't think it's an official rule for them not to talk about Life, but I remember Artosis saying on stream that the casters had decided amongst themselves not to bring him up. The only one I saw talk about him after the scandel was Wolf
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Need
Profile Joined March 2019
566 Posts
June 15 2019 18:00 GMT
#14
Hurricane looked like he had an Imposter Syndrome flare-up
Pursuit_
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States1330 Posts
June 15 2019 18:04 GMT
#15
On June 16 2019 02:33 Fango wrote:
Sad for JYP, right before the finals as well

Show nested quote +
On June 16 2019 01:45 Elentos wrote:
On June 16 2019 01:44 stilt wrote:
On June 16 2019 01:34 Veluvian wrote:
I remember back in WoL when JYP had a huge PvZ while streaming as a progamer. Although that did not worked well in that terrain domination era in offline tournaments. Great guy really.
And of course I'm happy for Dark. He was right on the interview, he did some tiny mistakes but in general he was enormously good and Hurricane did everything wrong. Still this is very good tournament for the protoss guy, he deserves more respect rather it was clear he is not ready for a final yet.
What a paradox is the memory itself I'm thinking. Tastosis still can't remember that Life was the last Code S Z champion, but probably the reasons are clear why he is so easily forgotten today.


This oversight is really cringy imo, I love Tasteless but not telling his nick is prudish.

They're probably just straight up not supposed to talk about Life.

I don't think it's an official rule for them not to talk about Life, but I remember Artosis saying on stream that the casters had decided amongst themselves not to bring him up. The only one I saw talk about him after the scandel was Wolf

I've heard it said by several casters that they are specifically told by Blizzard not to talk about Life in official events. If you watch community events like the Pylon Show they will talk about Life.
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Pandain
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States12989 Posts
June 15 2019 18:12 GMT
#16
JYP
General_Winter
Profile Joined February 2011
United States719 Posts
June 15 2019 18:24 GMT
#17
Interesting development. Toss feels that late late game is super Z favored so Toss develops a ton of mid game timings to never need to play the late game, or to only go into late game in a serious advantage having done damage. After years in the lab, Toss gets the mid game timings so strong that Zerg decides midgame is super Toss favored and so then Dark develops a ton of early game all ins so he doesn’t have to play the mid game, or at minimum only goes to the midgame after having done damage.

I’m going to assume the next step is that Toss decides the early game is Z favored and so develops a bunch of probe rushes to avoid having to play the early game
Freeborn
Profile Joined July 2010
Germany421 Posts
June 15 2019 19:07 GMT
#18
On June 16 2019 03:24 General_Winter wrote:
Interesting development. Toss feels that late late game is super Z favored so Toss develops a ton of mid game timings to never need to play the late game, or to only go into late game in a serious advantage having done damage. After years in the lab, Toss gets the mid game timings so strong that Zerg decides midgame is super Toss favored and so then Dark develops a ton of early game all ins so he doesn’t have to play the mid game, or at minimum only goes to the midgame after having done damage.

I’m going to assume the next step is that Toss decides the early game is Z favored and so develops a bunch of probe rushes to avoid having to play the early game


:D
Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55510 Posts
June 15 2019 20:12 GMT
#19
On June 16 2019 03:24 General_Winter wrote:
Interesting development. Toss feels that late late game is super Z favored so Toss develops a ton of mid game timings to never need to play the late game, or to only go into late game in a serious advantage having done damage. After years in the lab, Toss gets the mid game timings so strong that Zerg decides midgame is super Toss favored and so then Dark develops a ton of early game all ins so he doesn’t have to play the mid game, or at minimum only goes to the midgame after having done damage.

I’m going to assume the next step is that Toss decides the early game is Z favored and so develops a bunch of probe rushes to avoid having to play the early game

The fanciest cannon rushes the world has ever seen.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
washikie
Profile Joined February 2011
United States752 Posts
June 15 2019 20:56 GMT
#20
jyp = (
"when life gives Hero lemons he makes carriers" -Artosis
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