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The Results So Far

Battle Reports

Dial D for Death

Writer Predictions for Group D
By ]343[, flamewheel, nbaker and conTAgi0n

When somebody first told me that MBC was going to go through the entirety of the Round of 32 in one week, I was indignant. How dare they! To me, the Survivor-style games with the limitless possibilities provide much entertainment, and let's not even get started on how hard it is to rush writing. It's almost as if the MSL didn't contact Teamliquid before they made this rash decision!

...Bad jokes aside, this is going to be a fairly short piece. With the first six groups of the Round of 32 already completed, our writers (conTAgi0n is to be working for OSL starting soon, but he'll be working with us till then) have scoured the ends of the Earththirty games already played for entertaining ones to write about. After that, there's a short hype piece for Group D. I apologize, Group H! My interest lies not with you tonight, though I'm sure you will produce some marvelous games.

The Results so Far

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Group A: (4/14 17:00 KST)
(Z)Hydra 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16
(T)Light 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16
(Z)ggaemo 1-2 Eliminated
(P)Tyson 1-2 Eliminated

[VOD] (Z)Hydra < Monte Cristo > (T)Light
[VOD] (P)Tyson < Circuit Breaker > (Z)ggaemo
[VOD] (Z)Hydra < Dante's Peak SE > (Z)ggaemo
[VOD] (T)Light < Dante's Peak SE > (P)Tyson
[VOD] (Z)ggaemo < La Mancha > (T)Light

Group B: (4/16 13:00 KST)
(T)Leta 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16
(Z)Hyuk 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16
(Z)great 1-2 Eliminated
(T)Classic 0-2 Eliminated

[VOD] (Z)great < Circuit Breaker > (T)Classic
[VOD] (T)Leta < Dante's Peak SE > (Z)Hyuk
[VOD] (Z)great < La Mancha > (T)Leta
[VOD] (T)Classic < La Mancha > (Z)Hyuk
[VOD] (Z)great < Monte Cristo > (Z)Hyuk

Group C: (4/19 18:00 KST)
(Z)ZerO 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16
(P)Horang2 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16
(T)RuBy 1-2 Eliminated
(Z)HyuN 0-2 Eliminated

[VOD] (Z)ZerO < Dante's Peak SE > (Z)HyuN
[VOD] (P)Horang2 < La Mancha > (T)RuBy
[VOD] (Z)ZerO < Monte Cristo > (T)RuBy
[VOD] (Z)HyuN < Monte Cristo > (P)Horang2
[VOD] (T)RuBy < Circuit Breaker > (P)Horang2

Group E: (4/14 19:30 KST)
(T)Mind 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16
(P)Stork 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16
(T)firebathero 1-2 Eliminated
(P)free 0-2 Eliminated

[VOD] (P)Stork < Monte Cristo > (T)firebathero
[VOD] (T)Mind < Circuit Breaker > (P)free
[VOD] (T)Mind < Dante's Peak SE > (P)Stork
[VOD] (T)firebathero < Dante's Peak SE > (P)free
[VOD] (P)Stork < La Mancha > (T)firebathero

Group F: (4/18 18:00 KST)
(Z)Calm 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16
(Z)Neo.G_Soulkey 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16
(T)Fantasy 1-2 Eliminated
(Z)RorO 0-2 Eliminated

[VOD] (Z)Calm < Circuit Breaker > (Z)RorO
[VOD] (T)Fantasy < Dante's Peak SE > (Z)Neo.G_Soulkey
[VOD] (Z)Calm < La Mancha > (Z)Neo.G_Soulkey
[VOD] (Z)RorO < La Mancha > (T)Fantasy
[VOD] (T)Fantasy < Monte Cristo > (Z)Neo.G_Soulkey

Group G: (4/16 15:30 KST)
(P)Grape 2-0 ► Advances to Round of 16
(Z)hero 2-1 ► Advances to Round of 16
(P)Snow 1-2 Eliminated
(P)Dear 0-2 Eliminated

With six groups already played, there's quite a few games for you to watch if you haven't already seen them. At this time, I haven't been able to link the VODs, but they'll be up soon. Check out the ABCMart R&S thread to stay up-to-date on this fast-paced Starleague.


30 games, but only four Battle Reports? If you just asked yourself that, PM me and I'll E-slap you. Check out the best (or at least, entertaining and interesting) games from the first six groups of the MSL Round of 32, brought to you by ]343[, nbaker, and conTAgi0n.

Battle Reports
By ]343[, nbaker, and conTAgi0n

Group B Set 1: (Z)great < Circuit Breaker > (T)Classic
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By nbaker

Great and Classic play the first game of Group B on Circuit Breaker. Great spawns in the 11 o’clock position and Classic spawns at 7. Great 12 hatches and then gasses before spawning pool, opting to cut his economy a bit in order to get mutalisks out very quickly. The vertical positions are ideal for Great’s build, allowing him to send his mutalisks straight towards Classic’s natural cliff and harass the mineral line. Classic scouts Great’s build, but feels comfortable playing standard and puts up a command center after his first barracks while watching to make sure Great doesn’t go for a of speedling all in. Great makes 8 zerglings, which he uses to chase out Classic’s SCV before it can see the spire (not that Classic, having seen the lair, doesn’t know what’s coming) and take map control while putting up a third at the 1 o’clock main. Great’s first mutalisks finishes and he immediately sends them to Classic’s natural, but Classic, with excellent timing, finishes his turret defenses just as the mutas arrive and Great is forced to back off with only two worker kills.

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Even with the favorable spawn positions, Classic’s good timing prevents him from
taking economic damage from the mutas. If Great does nothing with them, he will be behind.

Great continues to make mutalisks while starting his fourth hatchery in his main. He waits until Classic moves out to attack his third and then starts chipping away at the medic marine force with some nice terrain positioning, eventually cleaning up the attack with a mutaling flank.

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This critical win in the center allows Great to drone and tech without worrying
about army units or static defenses.

At this point, Great feels comfortable to continue droning at all his bases and starting lurker tech, making up for the initial hit his economy took from his fast tech build. Classic is forced to overproduce turrets after losing his army and has to keep any newly produced marines in his base for defense. Still producing drones and researching upgrades, Great uses his existing mutas to pull the marines away from their turrets and picks off several more, further delaying any attack Classic was hoping to effect.

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Great cannot attack the scvs, which are guarded by marines and turrets, so
he lures the marines out by attacking depots and shaves down their numbers.

Eventually, Classic is able to defend long enough to amass a sizable medic marine force supported by a vessel and two tanks. He circumvents the lurkers Great left positioned at Classic’s double bridges and moves around them. Rather than engage, Great moves in to counter, but finds three bunkers at the natural choke and is forced to stand down. Classic ignores the lurkers outside his natural and moves in to kill off Great’s natural while most of the zerg’s army is out of position. Great burrows 4 lurkers, too many for Classic to micro his marines around, so the terran player is forced to siege his tanks and chip them down. This, however, buys Great the critical time he needs to get his main force back into position and pull off a beautiful flank between the double bridges, dominating Classic’s entire army.

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With his fourth base and defiler mound finished and his army largely
unscathed, Great is hugely ahead at this point.

Classic changes tactics, starting his third at his min only and mixing vultures into his army composition, but Great’s lurkers continue to delay any kind of aggression, while allowing him to take a fifth base at 12 o’clock. Classic kills off the fifth, but Great simply re-expands to 3 o’clock while continuing to macro from all his hatcheries. Classic takes his fourth at 12 and starts to enjoy a little more military success in the center, allowing him to kill off 3 o’clock and land a rather ineffectual drop in Great’s main. Great makes the questionable decision to go lurkers and ultras against a Terran with tons of vultures and science vessels, but is able to expand twice for every base Classic can kill and eventually pulls so far ahead economically that there is no need to have a cost effective army.

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When you can produce more ultras than your opponent can vultures, it
doesn’t matter how cost effective they are.

He overruns Classic’s fourth and keeps going, into Classic’s third and natural. Classic, with two bases to Great’s eleven and no army to speak of, leaves the game.

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GG.

Group C Winners' Set: (Z)ZerO < Monte Cristo > (T)RuBy
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By nbaker

Zero spawns at 11 o’clock and Ruby spawns at 5. Zero does some clever metagaming and, knowing that Terran is 0-2 vs Zerg on the map and have gone 14 cc in both games, decides to send a 9 drone scout. The drone would see any proxy barracks and arrive at Ruby’s main base in time to allow him to put a 3rd hatchery up before his spawning pool. Ruby chooses the standard approach, building a barracks before his command center, which is equally safe for 3 hatch before pool on Monte Cristo, so Zero is able to win a slight economic edge in the early game. Ruby builds an engineering bay after his second barracks to research an early +1 attack. Zero’s extra drones from his early hatchery allow him to expand to his third at 7 o’clock without delaying his mutalisks, which he sends to Ruby’s natural. Ruby’s +1 marines do well against Zero’s mutas, but he pulls them out to far and Zero is able to run a few zerglings plus his mutas into Ruby’s natural and kill off several reinforcing marines and carve a path into Ruby’s main mineral line.

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Ruby was counting on his marines at his natural to block the mutas
from getting into his main, where his scvs are largely unprotected.

In modern TvZ fashion, Ruby positioned his turrets around his main rather than tightly at his minerals, leaving Zero wide open to kill off scvs until Ruby can get his main army back, at which point Zero simply exits without sustaining casualties to his air force. Meanwhile, Zero has been droning up and teching to lurkers and, with Ruby’s army pinned back, can safely transfer a bunch of drones to his third. Zero burrows five lurkers with mutalisk and zergling support between Ruby and his third, while sending more lurkers and zerglings to the other side of Ruby’s natural in hopes of landing a big flank that will protect his fourth base. Ruby, however, does not take the bait, choosing not to chase Zero’s army as it falls back. Zero tries to backstab with his flanking force anyways, but Ruby is in position and forces it back with tanks and vessels, killing off many of the lurkers in the process.

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Zero barely killed anything with this attack, but he kept most of his units alive
and delayed Ruby’s push.

Zero is not afforded the luxury of killing off Ruby’s army, but his strategy works nonetheless; Ruby is delayed from attacking long enough for Zero to start his fourth and get his defilers out. Ruby pushes through the upper lane, but backs off when Zero casts dark swarm over burrowed lurkers. He tries attacking via the lower lane, and finds defilers and lurkers in position there as well.

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Monte Cristo has very few attacking lanes and Zero has both of
them locked down with dark swarm and lurkers.

With no science vessel present, Zero postures to be aggressive in the lower lane, putting up a dark swarm just outside of Ruby’s natural, but mines from Ruby prevent him from getting his lurkers under it. The mines backfire somewhat, as Zero detonates them on some marines, using individual zerglings under the swarms, but ultimately Ruby’s defenses hold. Ruby, meanwhile, uses this temporary stalemate to expand to 3 o’clock. Zero starts his ultralisk mound and takes his fifth base to the left of the center, securing it with lurkers and swarms while also taking advantage of clearing out the center by starting to chip down the destructible temples, which will free up another lane for him to flank and defend his fifth. Ruby puts a halt to this with his science vessels and expands to 1 o’clock, while actively using his vessel to irradiate all the gas units he can find. Zero gets his first control group of ultras out and tries to break Ruby, attacking down from his side of the map into Ruby’s natural. He manages to kill off a lot of units, but doesn’t hurt Ruby’s infrastructure as his ultras quickly succumb to irradiates and tanks. Zero manages to plague a squad of medic marines, but Ruby nicely micros his medics to block the marines and keeps most of them alive.

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Zero was hoping to break into Ruby’s main or pick off his third, but
Ruby’s brilliant micro held off Zero’s scary attack.

Zero follows up the attack by dropping drones at both 12 o’clock and 6 o’clock, looking to pull far ahead economically by going up 7 bases to 4. Figuring he should make further use out of his investment in drop tech, Zero loads up several overlords full of ultras and zerglings and defilers and attempts a drop in Ruby’s main. Ruby predicts Zero’s play and builds a turret wall facing 12 o’clock, but Zero still manages to get some units down. They are cleaned up without dealing too much damage, but Ruby does lose several neglected supply depots, which sets back his production until he can rebuild them.

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Zero’s drop was not the coup de gras he was looking for, but it succeeded
in keeping Ruby on the back foot while he continues to farm an economic lead.

Zero stays aggressive, attacking from the upper lane into Ruby’s 3 o’clock base, killing off most of the barracks units there with great defiler usage before his attack his halted by tanks. Zero, who is up 3 bases on Ruby, doesn’t need to kill off the Terran’s bases. By picking off the infantry units, Zero is preventing Ruby from doing anything but defend at a time when he needs to be attacking to keep up in the game.

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Ruby needs to be picking off expansions at this point in the
game, but he keeps losing all his mobile units.

Ruby’s solution to this problem is to build another command center and a nuclear silo, hoping that by nuking Zero’s expansions he can reduce the Zerg player’s economic edge without map control. He sends his first nuke to Zero’s 12 o’clock base, but Zero predicts it and sends his drones through the nidas canal before the nuke hits and loses virtually nothing from the attack.

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Ruby comes up with a creative solution to his predicament, but ultimately it’s not very effective.

Zero also plays very cleverly in the middle of the map, once more burrowing his lurkers near the destructible temples. Ruby takes the bait and moves his science vessels to irradiate them, but Zero has a flock of scourge positioned nearby and takes out several vessels for free, severely limiting Ruby’s ability to get back in the game by irradiating his gas units.

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Science vessels are the best way for a terran to get back in a game, so losing
most of his cloud to Zero’s trap is a huge blow to Ruby.

Ruby re-nukes 12 o’clock, but Zero once more is able to transfer is drones before the nuke hits. The hatchery is killed, but Zero’s drones are able to mine happily at his fifth while he re-expands to 12. Ruby manages to land another nuke and kill off Zero’s nidas canal before he can re-transfer is drones, but Ruby loses almost his whole army once more as Zero attacks into the space between Ruby’s natural and third, killing off most of the Terran’s tanks and marines. Ruby is starved for minerals and is forced to distance mine from his fifth while he waits for his command center to finish building. Zero mounts another attack between Ruby’s natural and third and once more takes down the spine of Ruby’s army, leaving only defensively positioned tanks.

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Zero’s economy is too big to be stopped at this point.

At this point, Zero smells blood in the water and starts mass producing ultras and zerglings from all his hatcheries, streaming them into Ruby’s third and natural without worrying about positioning or defilers. Ruby manages to kill off wave after wave, but Zero’s production is infinitely more than he can handle and eventually all his defenses fall, leaving the Terran no choice but to GG.

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Lings and ultras everywhere!

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GG.

Group E Final Set: (P)Stork < La Mancha > (T)firebathero
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By conTAgi0n

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After having lost to him in the first game of the night, firebathero faces off against his old teammate Stork once again in the final match of Group E. The map is La Mancha and the two players spawn in cross-positions, FBH in the upper left as the blue terran and Stork in the bottom right as the purple protoss.

firebathero goes for a rax FE build while Stork opens 12 nexus. Both scout the upper right location first, probe and SCV entering the natural choke at the same time. FBH’s SCV turns around to head straight for Stork’s base as soon as he sees the probe, putting his scouting a good 20 seconds ahead of Stork’s, whose probe takes the time to check the upper right location before sending his probe in the correct direction.

The SCV enters Stork’s base to see the 12 nexus and core timing, but misses the very fast forge Stork places in his natural to get an early start on plus one attack. Stork’s probe sees only the barracks and natural cc before taking a wrong turn and getting gunned down by FBH’s first two marines.

Stork gets his robotics facility before dragoon range for fast observers. firebathero puts down two factories with machine shops to research both vulture upgrades simultaneously. When they complete he boldly tries running two vultures straight past Stork’s forces guarding his choke while two of the five dragoons are out of position chasing a scouting SCV. One of the vultures makes it through, snagging a couple probe kills and laying down mines in Stork’s main. Getting a little bit sloppy, Stork loses a dragoon and zealot to mines while cleaning up the vulture.

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Oops.

Stork narrows off his choke with pylons to help prevent any further vulture shenanigans and moves out with his first observer and the bulk of his dragoon force to apply some pressure, leaving four back at home to block any more vultures from getting in.

firebathero, however, is not about to give up on vulture run bys just yet. Sneaking four vultures into position above Stork’s natural, he waits for Stork to pull two more goons from his choke to clear some mines and goes for it once they stray just a little too far.

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Red rover, red rover…

Mines kill one of the defending goons and force the other out of position, and the two surviving vultures pick off another seven or eight probes before Stork’s dragoons show up. At the same time he manages to snipe Stork’s probe at the 6 o’clock before it can lay down Stork’s third.

FBH builds a command center in his main to float out to his third behind his vulture aggression and Stork starts his third while teching to arbiters. Stork’s third is up and running just a hair behind firebathero’s. FBH sacs a pack of vultures to kill another batch of probes at Stork’s new third.

Perhaps feeling a little to sure of himself after such a comfortable start to the game, FBH pushes out to set up an aggressive position on the southwest center ridge. Stork waits just long enough to gather his forces in the open space south of the southeastern ridge and attacks while FBH is still sieging up. The cards are all stacked against FBH: he has no detection on the ridge but scans to deal with Stork’s first arbiter, he’s lost a lot of vultures harassing while Stork has conserved almost every military unit he’s made so far, and Stork has a slight upgrade advantage at 1-1 to 1-0 for FBH.

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firebathero bites off more than he can chew.

The predictable result is a clean route for Stork of an army that would have been perfectly adequate for defending the advantage that FBH had managed to accrue in the early game. Stork sets up a fourth at the bottom left main, blocking some more attempted vulture harass with a tighter wall-in on the ramp.

After replenishing some of his tank count, FBH pushes out again to establish a more modest position on the northwest center ridge closer to his corner of the map and starts a ninja expo at the upper right main.

Stork gathers together his army after marching around the map clearing mines south of FBH’s tank line. He stasises a clump of vultures and a vessel to the south of the tank line at the cost of an arbiter and marches his army counterclockwise around the center of the map to attack from a better angle.

With his plus 2 attack finished, Stork’s superior army crashes against a still modest tank line that is completely undefended, all FBH’s vultures either still frozen or simply out of position. With good storms and another stasis, Stork kills all the tanks there and then easily handles FBH’s scrambled reinforcements. FBH’s late science vessels cost him again in this battle, as he had no EMPs ready to support his army with.

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A crushing blow.

Stork expands to the 3 o’clock and then finds the hidden expo in the upper right. He shuts it down with an archon and a few zealots and takes another expansion at the bottom left natural. FBH’s expo at the upper right main had been running for long enough to be mildly profitable and he already has a new command center floating down to the more easily defendable 9 o’clock.

FBH again sets up on the northwest ridge and Stork picks another fight, this time engaging from the south. FBH is better prepared for this fight, his tanks sieged up on the high ground and his supporting units up in front, but Stork wins again easily with some more nice stasis and storm usage.

Stork follows up with an attack on the 9 o’clock. After three major engagements however, Stork’s main army is looking a little frayed and the attack fails to do much damage to FBH’s entrenched position besides catching a few SCVs with storms.

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firebathero keeps himself in the game.

The action dies down for a bit as FBH contents himself with defending the open space outside his natural while macroing up a new army. Stork’s remaining army makes another sweep around the middle of the map clearing mines.

Despite the blows he has taken, firebathero has the economy to rebuild, and now at 3-3 upgrades is looking formidable again. After bringing his army back around the center over the northeastern ridge, Stork wisely backs off without engaging as soon as FBH to sieges up.

Stork expands to the upper right main and brings his army back down to the southwestern ridge to clear some newly placed mines. FBH takes this opportunity to push to the northeastern ridge. As he does Stork’s army comes back around to engage.

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A stasis can change the world.

Stork lands a couple good stasises but firebathero also catches a lot of dragoons with EMP. This time FBH comes out with the upper hand after trading armies, barely finishing the last of Stork’s army with reinforcements while a small army waits to come out of stasis. He maynards SCVs to the upper right natural expansion and lays siege to Stork’s 3 o’clock from outside the wider entrance to the base with his tanks.

I can only imagine that FBH was still in the dark about Stork’s much more vulnerable base in the upper right main at this point. Stork had no way to defend there while FBH held the natural. Shutting down that base would have left Stork at three mining bases while FBH sat on two in a good position to take a third.

Instead though firebathero once again pays the price for being unnecessarily aggressive. Stork’s zealot-heavy wave of reinforcements reaches the tanks before vultures arrive. Protoss units are at an advantage in these smaller encounters and there are no vessels around to help against Stork’s arbiter. When stork sieges his next set of tanks outside his own expansion at the upper right natural, Stork easily sweeps them with his rapidly expanding army and kills FBH’s base there.

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This is actually the first expansion to be shut down the whole game.

firebathero has no army left and has only one base still mining against Stork’s four. Once the hopelessness of his situation sinks in, FBH ggs without dragging it out any longer.

Group F Set 2: (T)Fantasy < Dante's Peak SE > (Z)Neo.G_Soulkey
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By ]343[

Fantasy's command center lands in yellow at 11, while Soulkey spawns in red at 8 on Dante's Peak SE. These two have had quite some history--last time they met in the group stage of the PDPop MSL, Soulkey thoroughly outplayed the Crown Prince; Soulkey even consumed some ultralisks in response to Fantasy's notoriously bad GG timing.

Dante's Peak was originally a Zerg heaven, but the balance of the revised map is still up in the air. Fantasy might've still thought there was the Zerg slant though as he forward 8raxed about 1/3 of the way down the map. Soulkey presciently opened with an overpool expand, and his first overlord doesn't see a barracks in Fantasy's main or an expansion. His lings head out, and Fantasy ends up being the one defending despite his early barracks.

After Fantasy takes his gas and floats his barracks home, he plops down two factories. Soulkey is unaware, but begins a 3rd hatchery in main and a sunken at the nat before morphing lair. Fantasy's scout sees it all, and notices a morphing hydra den to simcity. Fantasy upgrades speed while pumping vultures, hoping to do some economic damage; Soulkey sees the vultures and uses his spire and evo chamber to simcity as well. Fantasy, with map control, expands and build two scanners and an engineering bay.

Soulkey's muta micro manages to snipe quite a few SCVs at the natural before being driven off by four goliaths, and he takes a 3rd. Overlords move into position to spot mines. The mutas delve into the main for a tour, but get no shots off as a number of charon-boostered goliaths drive them off. Fantasy's mines and vultures are rendered remarkably ineffective as hydras block the ramps to Soulkey's 3rd and mutas roam around sniping vultures. Fantasy contents himself with a 3rd, and later 4th and 5th factories and science facility while defending from mutalisks. Soulkey expands again.

Fantasy goes about mining up the map, while Soulkey's hydras and mutas chase afterward to defuse them. Soulkey has 3 evolution chambers and takes a 5th, and takes some minor (miner! get it?... -.- damage to his hydra count as he defends from vultures. Fantasy pushes out enough to secure his 3rd base, but suddenly a herd of overlords is spotted moving into Fantasy's main!

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Backdooring!

The doom drop is held off, but it's really a feint! Soulkey attacks with muta/hydra into Fantasy's defensive line at his 3rd, doing some decent damage, but then all the hydras die to mines.

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Ggaemo goes :O

Both sides are content to nurse their wounds and macro up, continuing to play the endless I mine up / you kill mines game. But as Fantasy starts floating to his 4th, the observer finds...

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QUEENS QUEENS QUEENS

Queens! Fantasy moves his tank line east, but Soulkey attacks at the west end with his hydras, forcing Fantasy to return to defend his 3rd. After some more hydra-vulture tango and macroing, Soulkey denies Fantasy's 5th with zerglings and attacks into the tank line at Fantasy's 3rd again, losing all his hydralisks.

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Ouch.

Fantasy takes this opportunity to push; Soulkey tries to distract Fantasy by sniping his 4th, but Fantasy pushes anyway and destroys all the tech in Soulkey's natural and main. Soulkey chips away at the tank force with broodlings and hydras, but doesn't manage to do much damage.

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Look over here!
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Maybe broodlings will stop him...
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Usually this screenshot would have a "gg."

At this point, Soulkey looks dead; despite having 4 bases, Fantasy's army is far larger, and SK has to rebuild his tech.

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Comparing army sizes.

But a group of lings and an ultralisk stop mining at one of Fantasy's two mining bases at 1 and denies the expansion at 2 yet again; Fantasy takes 12 in response and pushes toward Soulkey's remaining bases. Soulkey's defilers get sniped, Fantasy takes out Soulkey's 4th mining base, and Fantasy moves into position with a huge tank force...

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Attacking into all those scary tanks...

Soulkey attacks with queens, a defiler, ultralisk drops, and zerglings. Suddenly two-thirds of the tanks disappear!

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Wait what happened??

Fantasy is not worried, however--his 4th mining base is up. He is content to just sit and macro up another metal death ball. Soulkey pokes into 1 with some hydra/ling but is repelled; but he's not so far behind anymore as he takes three bases simultaneously, taking advantage of Fantasy's passiveness.

Soulkey continues to threaten Fantasy's tanks with spawn broodling and hydras; Fantasy tries to EMP the queens with limited success. Fantasy finally does something after a few minutes, using his signature vulture harass to do a bit of economic damage,but Soulkey deftly defends. Fantasy moves a few tanks forward to siege what should be his next base at 9, but Soulkey holds him off; Fantasy takes inner 1.5 instead, desperate for another mining base.

Fantasy's next push toward Soulkey's base at 3 is obliterated by broodlings and ultralisk drops, while all his vessels are scourged. Soulkey has control of the game now.

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One-hit kills... imbalanced??

Fantasy continues to attack 9, but Soulkey's swarms, hydras, and ultras defend. Soulkey suddenly counter-attacks with a large number of ultralisks, having thinned the tank numbers with queens, and infests the CC at inner 1.5! Fantasy retaliates by finally destroying the hatchery at 9.

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A sad day for terran.

He moves to re-secure inner 1.5 with a freshly produced horde of mechanical units, but Soulkey attacks again with ultralisk drops and swarms to push the tank line back. But Fantasy manages to hold inner 1.5 and take control of 9 again, sieging part of the mineral line at 8.

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Look! Fantasy's actually killing something for once for the first time in 15 minutes!

But a beautifully executed attack by Soulkey from the center demolishes Fantasy's neat mass of tanks, breaking into Fantasy's last mining base at 2 and stopping mining. Fantasy takes 9 in an effort to stay in the game, but Soulkey's 7-kill queen and mass of ultralisks and hydralisks breaks down the tanks at 2.

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So shiny, and so dead.

Soulkey's coup de grace begins, fittingly, with queens, and ends with Fantasy's last base covered with swarms and ultralisks.

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GG.


And now for a bit of badly-written hype, brought to you by the brain-dead flamewheel. I'll be honest here, I really just wanted to reuse the shops from my first news piece. Check the Live Report thread for some more hype, and get ready to enjoy the games.

Once again, my apologies to Group H.

Dial D for Death
By flamewheel

You've got to give Hydra and great effort for trying. However though, TaekBangLeeSsang just wasn't quite possible. And TaekJungLeeSsang would have been a teamkill. And nobody likes those.

So somehow, when the dust cleared we found ourselves with TaekYumLeeSsang. While this portmanteau of names doesn't have the same bang (seriously, no pun was intended in the writing of this piece) as TBLS, it is still in every way a toss-up. Be you a fan of a specific player (or players) or not, admit that you had trouble filling out your liquibet. Did it come down to just choosing who you liked more? Did you weep, like the MBC executives did, after seeing this group? Or did you rejoice?

Move over, Avalon (Fantasy, Jaedong, Leta, and Movie) and Lost Saga (Hwasin, Flash, Jaedong, and firebathero). ABCMart's got you beat by a mile. There's no question about it: this is the scariest group in all the MSL's history. It's been a while since even two of three of Jaedong, Bisu, and Flash have been in the same group, though this has never happened. And if you're the fourth player, start praying, even if you're the indomitable Sea.

Sea: I'm more nervous than when I'm negotiating my contract!

Did I say indomitable? That's obviously not quite true. But seriously, who besides Sea would you expect to have a chance in this group? I can't name another player off the top of my head who I think wouldn't immediately roll over and die. I'll say it again: Sea has a chance in this group of death.

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Because everybody loves my MSPaint.

Sea just wants to survive this Round of 32. He's the odd man out, the fourth wheel of a tricycle. However, Sea doesn't care. He knows that stable cars are built on four wheels. He knows that that last analogy sucked majorly. Most importantly, he knows deep down that he belongs to this group, that he can take down the current triumvirate of ESPORTS.

SCREW IT, I'll JUST PLAY IT. I'LL JUST PLAY IT! Just one condition, at least don't bring Flash over, NOT FLASH.

...Well, maybe. Here's to you, Sea. In a group where your first mistake may well be your last, the Ace player of MBCGame HERO will try to make his mark. He'll need every ounce of luck, skill, and determination that he can muster, and mayhaps a bit more.

The Sea is never still.
It pounds on the shore
Restless as a young heart,
Hunting.

But let's be honest: you are not truly here to watch Sea. You are here to witness the top of the races go against each other. You are here to watch Flash, Bisu, and/or Jaedong. There's no clear winner amongst the remaining three. Statistically, it goes Flash > Bisu > Jaedong. But this is Starcraft, not Mathcraft, so possibilities exist that we can't fully capture. MBC made the best out of this, as this group is the last of the Round of 32, and in it we're guaranteed two, potentially three, games where two of these three kings play against one another. While you and I might wish to see series play more, remember that that's something that might not even occur. So let's make do with what we have.

These three players all have something to prove. For Flash, he fights to show that last season was but a fluke, to show that he is indeed the unquestionable best in the world. Jaedong, finally starting to break out of "mediocrity" (I say that in the sense that he finally started beating good opponents this season not long ago), looks to regain his demon edge. Bisu wants to prove that he's not just a Proleague-pony, and that he can return to the individual leagues. Records to be broken hang in the air: for Jaedong and Flash, this MSL represents the chance for one of them to obtain the Golden Badge, to tie with NaDa in terms of Starleagues won. For Bisu, to win this would make him the first person ever to win four MSLs.

Though this tournament is still many rounds away from the finals, this already feels like the climax.

Flash: For the first time in while, I feel really giddy inside. They're the players that I think are the best, but I'm really good at groups of death. I think I can play some fun games.

Jaedong: It's the winner's right, so I can't complain about it.

Bisu: I....would like to go to another group. I would be okay with this group if I didn't know these guys, but in this situation, I'm a bit sad... Please switch me out? I really wanna go to the next round this time. Just take me out of Group D.

Sea: Well, I can't do anything about it. I guess in the past it's seemed like I hadn't really focused that much on individual leagues, so maybe I can use this opportunity to prepare like I've never prepared before.

Four go in, only two can come out. If you haven't placed your bets yet, do so now. In a few hours, the fight starts. Marines will die, hydralisks will fall, and zealots will evaporate into fine, blue mist. Ultralisks will splatter, tanks will be imbalanced, and carriers will probably explode into a million pieces. Forget your random Proleague games: if you want to witness the pinnacle of Brood War, look no further than this group of death.

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Because everybody loves my MSPaint and amazing photoshops. Keit, where did you run off to?


Lastly, since I've taken it into my mind that these games in Group D will be tantamount to the Bo5 finals in the future, I thought it'd be appropriate to have some writer predictions, so here are nbakers', conTAgi0n's, and... Waxangel's. Wax shame on you for not writing more. Previous season's MSL liquibet champion, ]343[, has his predictions stated in last week's article, so be sure to check that out if you want some tips on who to last-minute bet.

Writer Predictions for Group D

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The games will all be epic, macrofests that would make iloveoov proud. However, 20 minutes into each game...

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Flash and Bisu to get through

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And when I ask him to elaborate...

i don't know enough
these days
wouldn't be right

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Sea < Jaedong
La Mancha is imbalanced, but that will just make Jaedong practice harder. I wouldn't be surprised if Jaedong goes for some kind of speedling pressure, which Sea is traditionally weak against and ends things in the early game. Either way, Jaedong is too good to lose to Sea when it means going down a game in a group with Flash and Bisu.

Flash > Bisu
Say what you will about WL finals, Flash is better than Bisu. It's hard to say how Monte Cristo will work as PvT map, but the fact that there are only two big lanes to attack through and the abundance of terrain bodes well for Flash's conservative TvP style. Bisu's only hope is to pull off some very creative early game aggression, but Flash will be expecting this after WL and, while both players are excellent match preparers, should be able to hold anything off. Expect Flash to split the map and wait for Bisu to charge his dragoons into a tank line.

Flash > Jaedong
Jaedong's an amazing player, but Flash is better. He's proven this over and over again in the past year and he will prove it again in game 3. However, if there is a map that Jaedong can beat Flash on, it's Circuit Breakers. JD is 5-1 vs Terran on the map and 10-2 overall. The double bridges outside each natural and big map fit well with Jaedong's hive tech play. Moreover, Flash might be practicing more for TvT given the imbalance of La Mancha. In spite of all of this, Flash is going to win. He's going to 14 cc blindly, magically scan Jaedong's stopped lurkers, drop all over the map, and macro until he wins. We've seen Flash do it before, and he's going to do it again here.

Bisu > Sea
This one's tough to call. Circuit Breaker is a pretty good map TvP and Sea has always been solid in that match. Bisu, meanwhile, has not, but he has been doing well this season. Circuit Breakers is unquestionably an arbiter map, which Bisu is much stronger with than carriers. In the end, the fact is that Bisu is playing hotter than Sea right now and should be able to win if his multi-tasking is up to par by recalling everywhere and expanding all over the map.

Bisu < Jaedong
Jaedong has learned his lesson. He's not going to go mass mutalisks against Bisu's zealot corsair build again. Jaedong hates losing and he lost a humiliating game to Bisu which kept his team out of the WL finals. He's going to be playing his hardest and, with his skill and the fact that Dante's Peak SE is 18-8 ZvP, that should be more than enough to advance him to the ro16.

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(Z)Jaedong < (Wiki)La Mancha > (T)Sea
Sea’s TvZ is undeniably solid, especially his bio into mech play, but he’s clearly the underdog against Jaedong. Furthermore, Sea is less likely to pull an upset here than in proleague, as Jaedong seems to gain a lot more from pressure and preparation than he does. The map favors Sea, but T>Z maps seem to be par for the course for Jaedong.

(T)Flash < (Wiki)Monte Cristo > (P)Bisu
I can’t decide if it’s too easy to overestimate or underestimate Bisu in this match. Bisu sniped Flash in the SWL finals with a build tailored specifically to Flash on Aztec, not by showing himself capable of outplaying Flash’s TvP. At the same time, Bisu’s PvT is stronger than he gets credit for, and with his strong execution he is more than capable of taking a game off Flash with a well-crafted strategy. I think the largely untested Monte Cristo will help Bisu with this, so I will predict an upset in this match.

(Z)Jaedong < (Wiki)Circuit Breaker > (P)Bisu
I predict another upset and make no mistake, Jaedong > Bisu would be an upset. Jaedong on his A game can go toe-to-toe with Bisu, and after his resounding defeat in their last encounter, I expect Jaedong will have prepared himself thoroughly for the Revolutionist’s newest tricks. If Flash beats Bisu though, he’ll go 2-0 regardless of whom he faces in this match.

(T)Sea < (Wiki)Circuit Breaker > (T)Flash
By far the closest thing to a safe bet in this group. Ssak and Classic fluked wins against him last time, but Flash won’t make the mistake of underestimating his opponents in this group.

(T)Flash < (Wiki)Dante’s Peak > (P)Bisu
I think Bisu can upset Flash once, but I don’t think he can pull it off twice. Flash is the stronger player in this matchup and when it comes down to it, he’ll pull through. If Flash faces Jaedong in this match instead, the match will be closer but the outcome will be the same.

The quickest MSL post ever written up brought to you by the MSL team of flamewheel, ]343[, and nbaker, and some extras: conTAgi0n and Waxangel (even though Snorlax was lazy). disciple, the man behind the graphics, has promised me a new set of banners after the Round of 32 is over, so let's look forward to that!
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Xtal
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Haiti385 Posts
April 21 2011 05:44 GMT
#2
<3 flamewheel && disciple
Have you ever heard the story, about the Zergling and the Probe? The Probe didn't make it across the creep.
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
April 21 2011 05:45 GMT
#3
Great write up! time constraints ignored.
Love the 300 pictures ;p
Thank you writers and disciple.
GO GO BISU!
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
Neverhood
Profile Joined August 2009
United States5388 Posts
April 21 2011 05:47 GMT
#4
So pumped for group D and thanks for the write up! Came out just in time lol

I feel like this group is gonna be amazing but I think it will definitely hurt the quality of games later in the tournament especially if Sea advances and two of the TBLS are knocked out. (viewership is fucked either way ><)

Oh well lets hope these games will be super epic to make up for the lesser BOX matches we'll probably have

Jaedong :D
fireproofazn
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States231 Posts
April 21 2011 05:48 GMT
#5
first time giving one of the BW write ups a good read
and its totally awesome!
LOLOL the 300 pics.

Can anyone please tell me the time Group D will be playing and where I can watch.
Terran<Protoss<Zerg
Kazeyonoma
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2912 Posts
April 21 2011 05:50 GMT
#6
FLASH/JD FIGHTING!!!!
I now have autographs of both BoxeR and NaDa. I can die happy. Lim Yo Hwan and Lee Yun Yeol FIGHTING forever!
rift
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
1819 Posts
April 21 2011 05:51 GMT
#7
Best group in the history of BW.
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
April 21 2011 05:51 GMT
#8
Is anyone else as HYPED as I am for this HOLYSHIT group of death?

:DDDDDDDDDD

I liquidbetted Jaedong and Bisu cuz I want them to win, but I feel like it'll come down to Jaedong + Flash.
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
April 21 2011 05:53 GMT
#9
On April 21 2011 14:48 fireproofazn wrote:
first time giving one of the BW write ups a good read
and its totally awesome!
LOLOL the 300 pics.

Can anyone please tell me the time Group D will be playing and where I can watch.


Starts in about two hours but goes after the other group.
So I'd say about 3 hours?
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
Beforrrr
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Belgium94 Posts
April 21 2011 05:54 GMT
#10
nice pics ^^
go pro
Neverhood
Profile Joined August 2009
United States5388 Posts
April 21 2011 05:54 GMT
#11
On April 21 2011 14:48 fireproofazn wrote:
first time giving one of the BW write ups a good read
and its totally awesome!
LOLOL the 300 pics.

Can anyone please tell me the time Group D will be playing and where I can watch.

Time is on the right side bar (approx 3hrs) and there will be streams once the match start and will also be located on the right side bar
Jaedong :D
aimaimaim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Philippines2167 Posts
April 21 2011 05:55 GMT
#12
MS paint > PS ..

Sea #1 .. Bisu/JD #2

but i LQbet'd Flash and Bisu .. But I would love to see Sea go to ro16!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannndd .. yeah

A bet! If Flash doesn't make this MSL, he won't make it next time :D
Religion is a dying idea .. || 'E-sport' outside Korea are nerds who wants to feel like rockstars. || I'm not gonna fuck with trolls on General Forum ever again .. FUCK!
fireproofazn
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States231 Posts
April 21 2011 05:56 GMT
#13
On April 21 2011 14:53 mizU wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2011 14:48 fireproofazn wrote:
first time giving one of the BW write ups a good read
and its totally awesome!
LOLOL the 300 pics.

Can anyone please tell me the time Group D will be playing and where I can watch.


Starts in about two hours but goes after the other group.
So I'd say about 3 hours?



Thanks for the heads up! looks like im going to watch BW and SC2 at the same time :D
Terran<Protoss<Zerg
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
April 21 2011 05:56 GMT
#14
Gogo Sea upset!

Nice write-up. I shall be looking forward to the group of death with great eagerness. Hopefully, there will be epic games as long as one player doesn't crash and burn.
ㅇㅅㅌㅅ
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
April 21 2011 05:57 GMT
#15
On April 21 2011 14:55 aimaimaim wrote:
MS paint > PS ..

Sea #1 .. Bisu/JD #2

but i LQbet'd Flash and Bisu .. But I would love to see Sea go to ro16!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannndd .. yeah

A bet! If Flash doesn't make this MSL, he won't make it next time :D


You mean as Flash didn't make it last time, he won't make it this time? :o
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
aimaimaim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Philippines2167 Posts
April 21 2011 05:59 GMT
#16
On April 21 2011 14:57 mizU wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 21 2011 14:55 aimaimaim wrote:
MS paint > PS ..

Sea #1 .. Bisu/JD #2

but i LQbet'd Flash and Bisu .. But I would love to see Sea go to ro16!!

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannndd .. yeah

A bet! If Flash doesn't make this MSL, he won't make it next time :D


You mean as Flash didn't make it last time, he won't make it this time? :o


Nope, I meant he wont make it this time and wont make it next ime :D
Religion is a dying idea .. || 'E-sport' outside Korea are nerds who wants to feel like rockstars. || I'm not gonna fuck with trolls on General Forum ever again .. FUCK!
BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19229 Posts
April 21 2011 06:01 GMT
#17
HELL, It's about time. Thanks for the right up!!!!! BEESUIT TIME!!!! Yes, BISU FIGHTING!
ModeratorFormer Afreeca Starleague Caster: http://afreeca.tv/ASL2ENG2
l10f *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3241 Posts
April 21 2011 06:02 GMT
#18
Jaedong got this group ezpz.
Writer
Release
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States4397 Posts
April 21 2011 06:05 GMT
#19
I'll say something Nuke once said.
You can't just bring your A game because Jaedong always brings his S game.
☺
prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4200 Posts
April 21 2011 06:07 GMT
#20
Wait for VODs or skip my exam and fail the course... decisions decisions

Awesome writeup on the group of death.
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