EPTDay Three Recap: King of Columbus
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- Day One Recap
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MarineKingPrime defeated coL.MvPDongRaeGu 5 – 2 at the MLG Winter Championship Grand Finals, finally departing from a club of ill-fated silver surfers. Having taken second place in three GSL finals, MKP had been solidly entrenched in the so-called 'Kong line' – a jinx originating in Korean Brood War that evolved from a joke into a true psychological obstacle for chronically second place players. Though he had won the preceding Winter Arena, the spectator-less tournament's status as a "major" win had been questioned. By winning in Columbus, MarineKingPrime was able rid himself of the curse – at least in the eyes of an adoring international audience. As of now, it is unknown if a GSL focused Korean audience will be as convinced.
Much like he did in New York, MarineKing dominated the competition in Columbus. Placed into a formidable group with GanZi, SK_MC, iS.CrazymoviNG, Quantic.SaSe, and mouz.ThorZaIN, MarineKing lost only a single game as he topped the group with a 5 – 0 match score.
Though he is more well-known for his TvZ skill, victories against opponents like MC, and one of the best PvT players in the world in ST_Parting, showed that MarineKing needed no further tests against Protoss. Of course, his lopsided 5 – 2 triumph over consensus best-ZvT-in-the-world DongRaeGu reaffirmed his incredible TvZ ability.
Up until the finals, DongRaeGu had looked just as strong as MarineKing, also finishing his group with a perfect record and making short work of his semi-final opponent in coL.Heart. However, the finals were a one sided affair.
At Winter Arena in New York, MKP had used cheesy two-barracks builds and specifically avoiding standard hellion openings to get into DongRaeGu's head. At the Winter Championship, MarineKing won in several drawn out macro games, showing that he could defeat the GSL champion in any way he wanted. Not only did MarineKing's micro live up to the billing, but his macro was nearly flawless as well. By using a variety of openings and army compositions in his victories, MarineKing showed he was well-rounded as well as very mechanically talented.
Show of Heart
The other big story of the night was Heart, who made an improbable run from an unseeded position in the open bracket to a third place finish. While he attracted criticism for favoring all-ins and risky build orders during group play, Heart proved that he could hang with the best using orthodox play in the championship bracket. He took out Code S veteran GanZi with aggressive TvT play, and then defeated HuK again in an extended series.
Unfortunately for Heart, he was not on the level of GSL champion and best ZvT player in the world, DongRaeGu. Heart was matched up against DongRaeGu twice, who defeated him both times to end the fairy tale. Even in defeat, Heart was able to put in some strong performances, proving that there was a significant amount of skill to back up his luck.
Tried and True
On the non-Korean side of things, HuK showed that he was the only foreigner to succeed Code S or win an MLG in the post-Korean era for good reason. While others buckled and cracked, HuK came through and delivered under pressure.
HuK finished in fourth place, a second consecutive top finish after placing third at the Winter Arena. Also like Winter Arena, HuK benefited from being a mirror match-up monster, a giant turnaround after being dogged by PvP in the later months of 2011. Already having bested Minigun, Oz, and Socke at Winter Arena, HuK had more Protoss opponents thrown before him, and added NaNiwa and PartinG to his notable 2012 take-downs.
The second best foreigner was Quantic.NaNiwa who tied for eight place. Ahead of his Code S debut, NaNiwa showed once again that he is very capable of beating Korean players by taking down EG.JYP and SK_MC, but whether or not he can do so with the consistency required in Code S was left to be seen.
The best foreigner experience, however, may belong to T-12th place aTn.Socke. After disappointing in the group stages by going 1 – 4 (2 – 9 in maps), Socke came back with a vengeance in the Championship Bracket and toppled EG.PuMa, EG.DeMusliM, iS.CrazymoviNG, and oGs.TheStC in order. His progress was only stopped by HuK, who won an extended series that included a nail-biting DT vs DT elimination race. By improving his position by more than a dozen spots in a few hours, Socke pocketed a cool $1,500.
Live Update Log
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00:20 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 5 – 2 DongRaeGu. MKP went for quick 3 orbital and DRG got mutas after lings and banes. MKP engaged poorly several times early game and lost his first forces, but after he took a third and held it his marine marauder ball was unstoppable, he rolled over DRG with constant big pressure at the Zerg third and fourth.
23:44 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 4 – 2 DongRaeGu. Tal'Darim cross. MKP used an interesting timing with 2 reactors to pump out marines, marauders, and blue flame hellions before DRG's third base got running for infestor/ling. DRG almost holds initial push but died when reinforcements came.
23:31 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 3 – 2 DongRaeGu. Antiga. MarineKing opened with banshees, then did a timing with marauders and tanks. DRG attacked too soon before he had baneling speed and MKP mopped him up.
23:12 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 2 – 2 DongRaeGu. Shakuras. MKP made 3 quick command centers and DRG broke him with a ling baneling roach bust.
22:42 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 4 – 1 Heart. Antiga. DRG baneling busted, but didn't do enough damage to kill Heart and the game played on normally. DRG was behind all game in upgrades, and as Heart moved out to take the center of the map DRG took him on with infestors and brood lords. Heart was pushed back into his natural, but killed all of DRG's bases with drops, DRG survived with his last several broodlords and killed Heart by baiting a crucial stim and ending it when Heart had no way to kill the last broodlords.
22:18 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 3 – 1 Heart. Dual Sight. Heart tried a cute early third build with a planetary, but it let DRG build up uninhibited and Heart couldn't stop any Zerg expansions. DRG got to infestors and ultras and crushed Heart's army.
21:57 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 2 – 1 Heart. Entombed Valley cross. Heart got to 3-3 on his marines and ground down DRG, pushing with a few thors and marines similar to the game with MKP.
21:28 GMT (+00:00): Heart 4 – 2 HuK. Shakuras. HuK went for a gateway timing again but Heart held, and won when he moved out and sniped colossus in HuK's natural.
21:09 GMT (+00:00): Heart 3 – 2 HuK. Tal'Darim. Heart went 3rax, and HuK won with 1 gate expand because he got an early robo and had an immortal for the initial push.
20:57 GMT (+00:00): Heart 3 – 1 HuK. Daybreak. HuK went for a lot of gateways and a 1-1 timing attack, but Heart also had 1-1 and ground him down until there were no forcefields left. Heart cleaned up once HuK was out of energy.
20:32 GMT (+00:00): HuK vs Heart starting! Heart up 2-1 due to extended series.
20:32 GMT (+00:00): Heart 2 - 1 GanZi. Heart opened with a marine-hellion elevator which killed a large number of SCVs, more than negating GanZi's CC first build. Ganzi tried to utilize his faster siege tank tech to mount a counter attack, but Heart was able to fend it off and retain the lead. Heart then used his economic advantage to outproduce GanZi and won the series.
20:28 GMT (+00:00): HuK 2 – 1 PartinG. Entombed cross. PartinG expanded off 2 gates and a robo, HuK responded by making a dark shrine and attacking with archons. PartinG's immortals aren't enough to hold and HuK runs him over.
20:15 GMT (+00:00): PartinG 1 - 1 HuK. Antiga. PartinG 2 gate expanded, HuK made a dark shrine. PartinG held his nexus with good micro, and got his own dark shrine to kill HuK's second attack while countering his main as well.
20:13 GMT (+00:00): Heart 1 - 1 Ganzi. After expansions on both sides, Heart rushed to stim and medivacs while Ganzi tried to get a little bit of everything. Heart managed to hit a timing where his stimmed, healed marines were able to plow through Ganzi's regular marines with easy, taking out his expansion. GanZi tried to counter attack once he had stim, but Heart had already pulled too far ahead on two bases, and GanZi GG'd out after the attack failed.
20:01 GMT (+00:00): HuK 1 - 0 PartinG. Tal'Darim non-cross. They each opened with 3 gates, PartinG followed it up with a robo while HuK got blink. HuK pressured PartinG with DT/archon/chargelots and kept his expansion long enough to win.
19:58 GMT (+00:00): Ganzi 1 - 0 Heart. After build-ups of marines and tanks on both sides, Ganzi won the first and final engagement by a significant margin to take the game.
19:47 GMT (+00:00): HuK vs PartinG Starting! Ganzi vs Heart too!
19:24 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 2 - 1 DongRaeGu. Entombed non-cross. MarineKing did a bio-mech build that involved a lot of 3-3 marines and 2-2 thors. DRG couldn't make an army big enough to stop constant onslaught of upgraded units.
19:12 GMT (+00:00): GanZi 2 - 1 viOLet. Shakuras. GanZi pressured viOLet from a sieged position in the center of the map, and viOLet could never quite breathe enough to get broodlords or infestors. Held on for a long time but couldn't break through with pure ling/baneling.
19:06 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 1 - 1 MarineKing. Daybreak. MKP moved out to kill DRG's fourth, and DRG countered at his third and natural with roaches. DRG did enough damage to buy time for broodlords and won with them.
19:03 GMT (+00:00): HuK 2 - 0 NaNiwa. HuK went for double proxy gate zealots and damaged NaNiwa's economy, but NaNiwa managed to get out a few stalkers and went for a complete counter attack. While NaNiwa could theoretically have won with perfect micro against the melee-only HuK, he was unable to take the game.
18:52 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 1 - 1 GanZi. Metal cross. GanZi dropped third and main simultaneously and viOLet couldn't come back with infestor roach after losing his third hatch.
18:51 GMT (+00:00): HuK 1 - 0 NaNiwa. HuK's blink stalker rush blew through NaNiwa's robotics build.
18:43 GMT (+00:00): HuK vs NaNiwa begins!
18:40 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 1 - 0 DongRaeGu. Dual Sight. MarineKing opened double reactor hellions, and meched. DRG tried an ultra switch but it wasn't strong enough as MKP was able to limit Zerg expos.
18:36 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 1 - 0 GanZi. Daybreak. The game started with GanZi bunkering viOLet's nat, so he baneling busted him. It went into a normal midgame but viOLet had enough of an advantage to keep the initiative.
18:10 GMT (+00:00): Ganzi 2 - 0 JYP. Unstreamed game.
18:04 GMT (+00:00): HuK 4 - 1 Socke (extended series). 3-gate vs 4-gate broke down into an elimination fight on Tal'Darim Altar, but this time HuK got the better of his opponent.
18:02 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 2 - 1 PartinG. Entombed non-cross. MarineKing did a lot of damage with a 2rax against 1 gate robo, and PartinG tried to counter with 1 base colossus. His attack was easily stopped and MKP won.
18:00 GMT (+00:00): NaNiwa 2 - 1 MC. Antiga cross. Both went for the same blink stalker with observer build, but MC made a nexus and NaNiwa made colossus. Back and forth fight but NaNiwa's colossus pulled it out.
17:51 GMT (+00:00): Ganzi 1 - 0 JYP. Being played off the air.
17:49 GMT (+00:00): Socke 1 - 3 HuK (extended series). After both players went for DT rushes, Socke ended up winning an elimination that came down the last building by about 300 hit points.
17:48 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 1 - 1 PartinG. Tal'Darim non-cross. Long macro game, PartinG held a fourth and fifth long enough to win war of attrition after MKP ate a lot of storms.
17:45 GMT (+00:00): NaNiwa 1 - 1 MC. Entombed Cross. MC went 1 gate robo into immortal drop, and killed NaNiwa's first colossus at home as well as killed a lot of probes. NaNiwa's counter couldn't break through MC's ramp.
17:36 GMT (+00:00): HuK 3 - 0 Socke (extended series). Socke couldn't hurt HuK's fast expansion with his blink stalkers and lost to HuK's better economy.
17:35 GMT (+00:00): NaNiwa 1 - 0 MC. Metalopolis cross. NaNiwa went for 1 base colossus against 3 gate robo expand, and won with his first 1 colossus attack.
17:31 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 2 - 0 aLive. While aLive tried to go for some low-ground marine-tank tactics on Shakuras, viOlet simply crashed through the front door with roach-baneling bust that devstated aLive.
17:28 GMT (+00:00): Socke vs HuK and NaNiwa vs MC begin!
17:22 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 1 - 0 aLive. aLive lost to a big two base ling-baneling bust.
17:21 GMT (+00:00): Socke 2 - 1 TheStC. The run continues!
17:20 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 1 - 0 PartinG. MarineKing got an extremely fast 2-2 with double reactor marines and tanks, pushed into PartinG's natural before storm was done and thinned down the colossus number enough to win in a prolongue battle.
17:14 GMT (+00:00): MKP vs PartinG and aLive vs viOLet underway.
17:10 GMT (+00:00): Socke and TheStC tied 1 - 1. Quit holding us up
17:05 GMT (+00:00): Ret 1 - 2 JYP. Dual Sight. JYP did pressure with 4 gates and a stargate after expanding, got several warpins to Ret's main with a hidden pylon and Ret couldn't hold it off before losing too much. JYP killed him with a gateway followup.
16:51 GMT (+00:00): MC 2 - 1 Polt. MC used probes and zealots to pressure Polt's CC first build to begin. Polt decided to follow up with a risky, no-gas 8 rax marine all-in, but it was perfectly countered by MC's choice to go heavy sentries and six gates. After mauling the un-upgraded marines with sentries, MC counter-attacked to advance to the next round.
16:50 GMT (+00:00): Ret 1 - 1 JYP. Ret tried a 2 base roach bust but JYP held with cannons, and Ret GG'ed when he saw the void ray.
16:42 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 2 - 0 SaSe. SaSe tried to do some light warp prism harass into a two base push, but got caught horribly out of position by viOLet and missed his timing entirely. It was trivial for viOLet to throw waves of troops at SaSe off his three bases and finish him off.
16:39 GMT (+00:00): DRG 2 - 0 Heart. Shakuras. Heart went for fast 3 orbital and double upgrades, DRG did a huge muta, baneling, ling bust on 2 bases and killed Heart.
16:38 GMT (+00:00): MC 1 - 1 Polt. MC hit with a 6-gate timing, attacking just before Polt's stim upgrade to take the game.
16:36 GMT (+00:00): Ret 1 - 0 JYP. Daybreak. JYP got a third off 4 gates and some light zealot harass, but Ret pressured it constantly with roaches and overcame the stalker army.
16:28 GMT (+00:00): viOlet 1 - 0 SaSe. SaSe allowed two lings past his wall as he forge FE'd, which ended up influencing the game hugely. viOlet had sight of everything SaSe was doing for a significant period, allowing him to drone up with impunity. SaSe went for desperation DT drops instead of trying to play the game out normally from a disadvantage, but once the drop failed, he was as good as dead.
16:26 GMT (+00:00): Polt 1 - 0 MC. After fast expansion starts on both sides, Polt used split armies effectively when MC went up to three bases. His main army picked at MC's main army with good kiting, while drops harassed MC in his main. Polt ended up gaining an army advantage on both fronts, and used it to simply barrel through MC's third while taking his own. Polt kept up the pressure to finish off MC.
16:24 GMT (+00:00): DRG 1 - 0 Heart. Metalopolis, 12 vs 3. Heart held his own through the midgame but once DRG started harassing with mutas he took over the game and overpowered him.
16:14 GMT (+00:00): MC vs Polt begins as well! Oh, and viOLet vs SaSe!
16:10 GMT (+00:00): DRG vs Heart begins!
16:02 GMT (+00:00): Socke 2 - 1 CrazymovING. Socke opened with multiple cannon rushes after his forge FE, forcing many zerglings from CrazymovING but ultimately leaving himself behind. However, Socke managed to follow into a blink stalker timing, and eventually added templars to kill off CM's third base after several heated battles. Left on 2 base vs 2 base against stalker-templar, CrazymovING opted to try and base trade with his roach-hydra mix, but had his forces cleaned up by Socke for the GG.
15:52 GMT (+00:00): Polt 2 - 1 Oz. Oz went for another fast double expand build, but Polt was able to use his stim & medivac timing to hit Oz at multiple locations and cause heavy damage at each spot. Polt then combined his forces together to steamroll through Oz's front.
15:44 GMT (+00:00): Socke 1 - 1 Crazymoving. The stream cut in and out many times, but Socke seemed to open with a warp prism + mass gates attack that did fairly well, and then used stargate units to harass Crazymoving and negate his mutas.
15:42 GMT (+00:00): Ret 2 - 1 Golden. Played off-stream.
15:39 GMT (+00:00): Oz 1 - 1 Polt. Oz opened with a double expand into 6-gate pressure, but Polt fended it off without much trouble. Polt then went for his own aggression with drops, but Oz in turn didn't take too much damage. The game was decided by clashes in the field where Polt couldn't deal with Oz's storms effectively enough, taking big losses and giving Oz the lead. Oz was able to raze Polt's third base a couple of times and eventually took the game.
15:36 GMT (+00:00): SaSe 2 - 0 HayprO. Antiga Shipyards. SaSe went double robo and started with sentry drop, made a lot of colossus and immortals and HayprO couldn't muster enough to stop it.
15:21 GMT (+00:00): SaSe 1 - 0 HayprO. Daybreak. SaSe took a quick third and both players maxed out. Then the stream died and apparently SaSe won, presumably winning the engagement before HayprO had enough infestors or broodlords.
15:17 GMT (+00:00): Crazymoving 1 - 0 Socke. Socke was getting creamed by mutas before the stream went down, so no surprise.
15:15 GMT (+00:00): Polt 1 - 0 Oz. Both players signed an early-mid game non-aggression treaty and allowed each other to build up the armies they wanted. When they finally clashed, Polt flattened Oz with alarming ease, taking game one.
15:13 GMT (+00:00): Golden defeats Rain 2 - 0.
15:01 GMT (+00:00): Oz vs Polt, HayprO vs SaSe and Crazymoving vs Socke begin
14:55 GMT (+00:00): SaSe vs HayprO coming up on Gameplay 2, while @robpsimpson says Polt vs Oz will be up on Gameplay 1.
14:35 GMT (+00:00): Socke 2 - 0 DeMusliM. After some early marine kills allowed him to secure his tech and third base safely, Socke annihilated DeMusliM in the open field with a maxed out army.
14:30 GMT (+00:00): Polt defeats KawaiiRice 2 - 0 off-stream (streams still off, neat!).
14:23 GMT (+00:00): SaSe defeates SeleCT 2 - 0 off-stream (Off-stream? How???)
14:18 GMT (+00:00): Socke 1 - 0 DeMusliM. After expanding, Socke went for a cute sentry drop harass into fast colossus build. DeMusliM tried to apply pressure before colossus range was done, but didn't do enough damage or buy enough time. Socke broke through DeMusliM's front with his gateway unit + colossi force to take the game.
14:07 GMT (+00:00): DeMusliM vs Socke begins.
13:30 GMT (+00:00): Just chillin'
23:44 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 4 – 2 DongRaeGu. Tal'Darim cross. MKP used an interesting timing with 2 reactors to pump out marines, marauders, and blue flame hellions before DRG's third base got running for infestor/ling. DRG almost holds initial push but died when reinforcements came.
23:31 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 3 – 2 DongRaeGu. Antiga. MarineKing opened with banshees, then did a timing with marauders and tanks. DRG attacked too soon before he had baneling speed and MKP mopped him up.
23:12 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 2 – 2 DongRaeGu. Shakuras. MKP made 3 quick command centers and DRG broke him with a ling baneling roach bust.
22:42 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 4 – 1 Heart. Antiga. DRG baneling busted, but didn't do enough damage to kill Heart and the game played on normally. DRG was behind all game in upgrades, and as Heart moved out to take the center of the map DRG took him on with infestors and brood lords. Heart was pushed back into his natural, but killed all of DRG's bases with drops, DRG survived with his last several broodlords and killed Heart by baiting a crucial stim and ending it when Heart had no way to kill the last broodlords.
22:18 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 3 – 1 Heart. Dual Sight. Heart tried a cute early third build with a planetary, but it let DRG build up uninhibited and Heart couldn't stop any Zerg expansions. DRG got to infestors and ultras and crushed Heart's army.
21:57 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 2 – 1 Heart. Entombed Valley cross. Heart got to 3-3 on his marines and ground down DRG, pushing with a few thors and marines similar to the game with MKP.
21:28 GMT (+00:00): Heart 4 – 2 HuK. Shakuras. HuK went for a gateway timing again but Heart held, and won when he moved out and sniped colossus in HuK's natural.
21:09 GMT (+00:00): Heart 3 – 2 HuK. Tal'Darim. Heart went 3rax, and HuK won with 1 gate expand because he got an early robo and had an immortal for the initial push.
20:57 GMT (+00:00): Heart 3 – 1 HuK. Daybreak. HuK went for a lot of gateways and a 1-1 timing attack, but Heart also had 1-1 and ground him down until there were no forcefields left. Heart cleaned up once HuK was out of energy.
20:32 GMT (+00:00): HuK vs Heart starting! Heart up 2-1 due to extended series.
20:32 GMT (+00:00): Heart 2 - 1 GanZi. Heart opened with a marine-hellion elevator which killed a large number of SCVs, more than negating GanZi's CC first build. Ganzi tried to utilize his faster siege tank tech to mount a counter attack, but Heart was able to fend it off and retain the lead. Heart then used his economic advantage to outproduce GanZi and won the series.
20:28 GMT (+00:00): HuK 2 – 1 PartinG. Entombed cross. PartinG expanded off 2 gates and a robo, HuK responded by making a dark shrine and attacking with archons. PartinG's immortals aren't enough to hold and HuK runs him over.
20:15 GMT (+00:00): PartinG 1 - 1 HuK. Antiga. PartinG 2 gate expanded, HuK made a dark shrine. PartinG held his nexus with good micro, and got his own dark shrine to kill HuK's second attack while countering his main as well.
20:13 GMT (+00:00): Heart 1 - 1 Ganzi. After expansions on both sides, Heart rushed to stim and medivacs while Ganzi tried to get a little bit of everything. Heart managed to hit a timing where his stimmed, healed marines were able to plow through Ganzi's regular marines with easy, taking out his expansion. GanZi tried to counter attack once he had stim, but Heart had already pulled too far ahead on two bases, and GanZi GG'd out after the attack failed.
20:01 GMT (+00:00): HuK 1 - 0 PartinG. Tal'Darim non-cross. They each opened with 3 gates, PartinG followed it up with a robo while HuK got blink. HuK pressured PartinG with DT/archon/chargelots and kept his expansion long enough to win.
19:58 GMT (+00:00): Ganzi 1 - 0 Heart. After build-ups of marines and tanks on both sides, Ganzi won the first and final engagement by a significant margin to take the game.
19:47 GMT (+00:00): HuK vs PartinG Starting! Ganzi vs Heart too!
19:24 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 2 - 1 DongRaeGu. Entombed non-cross. MarineKing did a bio-mech build that involved a lot of 3-3 marines and 2-2 thors. DRG couldn't make an army big enough to stop constant onslaught of upgraded units.
19:12 GMT (+00:00): GanZi 2 - 1 viOLet. Shakuras. GanZi pressured viOLet from a sieged position in the center of the map, and viOLet could never quite breathe enough to get broodlords or infestors. Held on for a long time but couldn't break through with pure ling/baneling.
19:06 GMT (+00:00): DongRaeGu 1 - 1 MarineKing. Daybreak. MKP moved out to kill DRG's fourth, and DRG countered at his third and natural with roaches. DRG did enough damage to buy time for broodlords and won with them.
19:03 GMT (+00:00): HuK 2 - 0 NaNiwa. HuK went for double proxy gate zealots and damaged NaNiwa's economy, but NaNiwa managed to get out a few stalkers and went for a complete counter attack. While NaNiwa could theoretically have won with perfect micro against the melee-only HuK, he was unable to take the game.
18:52 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 1 - 1 GanZi. Metal cross. GanZi dropped third and main simultaneously and viOLet couldn't come back with infestor roach after losing his third hatch.
18:51 GMT (+00:00): HuK 1 - 0 NaNiwa. HuK's blink stalker rush blew through NaNiwa's robotics build.
18:43 GMT (+00:00): HuK vs NaNiwa begins!
18:40 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 1 - 0 DongRaeGu. Dual Sight. MarineKing opened double reactor hellions, and meched. DRG tried an ultra switch but it wasn't strong enough as MKP was able to limit Zerg expos.
18:36 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 1 - 0 GanZi. Daybreak. The game started with GanZi bunkering viOLet's nat, so he baneling busted him. It went into a normal midgame but viOLet had enough of an advantage to keep the initiative.
18:10 GMT (+00:00): Ganzi 2 - 0 JYP. Unstreamed game.
18:04 GMT (+00:00): HuK 4 - 1 Socke (extended series). 3-gate vs 4-gate broke down into an elimination fight on Tal'Darim Altar, but this time HuK got the better of his opponent.
18:02 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 2 - 1 PartinG. Entombed non-cross. MarineKing did a lot of damage with a 2rax against 1 gate robo, and PartinG tried to counter with 1 base colossus. His attack was easily stopped and MKP won.
18:00 GMT (+00:00): NaNiwa 2 - 1 MC. Antiga cross. Both went for the same blink stalker with observer build, but MC made a nexus and NaNiwa made colossus. Back and forth fight but NaNiwa's colossus pulled it out.
17:51 GMT (+00:00): Ganzi 1 - 0 JYP. Being played off the air.
17:49 GMT (+00:00): Socke 1 - 3 HuK (extended series). After both players went for DT rushes, Socke ended up winning an elimination that came down the last building by about 300 hit points.
17:48 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 1 - 1 PartinG. Tal'Darim non-cross. Long macro game, PartinG held a fourth and fifth long enough to win war of attrition after MKP ate a lot of storms.
17:45 GMT (+00:00): NaNiwa 1 - 1 MC. Entombed Cross. MC went 1 gate robo into immortal drop, and killed NaNiwa's first colossus at home as well as killed a lot of probes. NaNiwa's counter couldn't break through MC's ramp.
17:36 GMT (+00:00): HuK 3 - 0 Socke (extended series). Socke couldn't hurt HuK's fast expansion with his blink stalkers and lost to HuK's better economy.
17:35 GMT (+00:00): NaNiwa 1 - 0 MC. Metalopolis cross. NaNiwa went for 1 base colossus against 3 gate robo expand, and won with his first 1 colossus attack.
17:31 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 2 - 0 aLive. While aLive tried to go for some low-ground marine-tank tactics on Shakuras, viOlet simply crashed through the front door with roach-baneling bust that devstated aLive.
17:28 GMT (+00:00): Socke vs HuK and NaNiwa vs MC begin!
17:22 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 1 - 0 aLive. aLive lost to a big two base ling-baneling bust.
17:21 GMT (+00:00): Socke 2 - 1 TheStC. The run continues!
17:20 GMT (+00:00): MarineKing 1 - 0 PartinG. MarineKing got an extremely fast 2-2 with double reactor marines and tanks, pushed into PartinG's natural before storm was done and thinned down the colossus number enough to win in a prolongue battle.
17:14 GMT (+00:00): MKP vs PartinG and aLive vs viOLet underway.
17:10 GMT (+00:00): Socke and TheStC tied 1 - 1. Quit holding us up
17:05 GMT (+00:00): Ret 1 - 2 JYP. Dual Sight. JYP did pressure with 4 gates and a stargate after expanding, got several warpins to Ret's main with a hidden pylon and Ret couldn't hold it off before losing too much. JYP killed him with a gateway followup.
16:51 GMT (+00:00): MC 2 - 1 Polt. MC used probes and zealots to pressure Polt's CC first build to begin. Polt decided to follow up with a risky, no-gas 8 rax marine all-in, but it was perfectly countered by MC's choice to go heavy sentries and six gates. After mauling the un-upgraded marines with sentries, MC counter-attacked to advance to the next round.
16:50 GMT (+00:00): Ret 1 - 1 JYP. Ret tried a 2 base roach bust but JYP held with cannons, and Ret GG'ed when he saw the void ray.
16:42 GMT (+00:00): viOLet 2 - 0 SaSe. SaSe tried to do some light warp prism harass into a two base push, but got caught horribly out of position by viOLet and missed his timing entirely. It was trivial for viOLet to throw waves of troops at SaSe off his three bases and finish him off.
16:39 GMT (+00:00): DRG 2 - 0 Heart. Shakuras. Heart went for fast 3 orbital and double upgrades, DRG did a huge muta, baneling, ling bust on 2 bases and killed Heart.
16:38 GMT (+00:00): MC 1 - 1 Polt. MC hit with a 6-gate timing, attacking just before Polt's stim upgrade to take the game.
16:36 GMT (+00:00): Ret 1 - 0 JYP. Daybreak. JYP got a third off 4 gates and some light zealot harass, but Ret pressured it constantly with roaches and overcame the stalker army.
16:28 GMT (+00:00): viOlet 1 - 0 SaSe. SaSe allowed two lings past his wall as he forge FE'd, which ended up influencing the game hugely. viOlet had sight of everything SaSe was doing for a significant period, allowing him to drone up with impunity. SaSe went for desperation DT drops instead of trying to play the game out normally from a disadvantage, but once the drop failed, he was as good as dead.
16:26 GMT (+00:00): Polt 1 - 0 MC. After fast expansion starts on both sides, Polt used split armies effectively when MC went up to three bases. His main army picked at MC's main army with good kiting, while drops harassed MC in his main. Polt ended up gaining an army advantage on both fronts, and used it to simply barrel through MC's third while taking his own. Polt kept up the pressure to finish off MC.
16:24 GMT (+00:00): DRG 1 - 0 Heart. Metalopolis, 12 vs 3. Heart held his own through the midgame but once DRG started harassing with mutas he took over the game and overpowered him.
16:14 GMT (+00:00): MC vs Polt begins as well! Oh, and viOLet vs SaSe!
16:10 GMT (+00:00): DRG vs Heart begins!
16:02 GMT (+00:00): Socke 2 - 1 CrazymovING. Socke opened with multiple cannon rushes after his forge FE, forcing many zerglings from CrazymovING but ultimately leaving himself behind. However, Socke managed to follow into a blink stalker timing, and eventually added templars to kill off CM's third base after several heated battles. Left on 2 base vs 2 base against stalker-templar, CrazymovING opted to try and base trade with his roach-hydra mix, but had his forces cleaned up by Socke for the GG.
15:52 GMT (+00:00): Polt 2 - 1 Oz. Oz went for another fast double expand build, but Polt was able to use his stim & medivac timing to hit Oz at multiple locations and cause heavy damage at each spot. Polt then combined his forces together to steamroll through Oz's front.
15:44 GMT (+00:00): Socke 1 - 1 Crazymoving. The stream cut in and out many times, but Socke seemed to open with a warp prism + mass gates attack that did fairly well, and then used stargate units to harass Crazymoving and negate his mutas.
15:42 GMT (+00:00): Ret 2 - 1 Golden. Played off-stream.
15:39 GMT (+00:00): Oz 1 - 1 Polt. Oz opened with a double expand into 6-gate pressure, but Polt fended it off without much trouble. Polt then went for his own aggression with drops, but Oz in turn didn't take too much damage. The game was decided by clashes in the field where Polt couldn't deal with Oz's storms effectively enough, taking big losses and giving Oz the lead. Oz was able to raze Polt's third base a couple of times and eventually took the game.
15:36 GMT (+00:00): SaSe 2 - 0 HayprO. Antiga Shipyards. SaSe went double robo and started with sentry drop, made a lot of colossus and immortals and HayprO couldn't muster enough to stop it.
15:21 GMT (+00:00): SaSe 1 - 0 HayprO. Daybreak. SaSe took a quick third and both players maxed out. Then the stream died and apparently SaSe won, presumably winning the engagement before HayprO had enough infestors or broodlords.
15:17 GMT (+00:00): Crazymoving 1 - 0 Socke. Socke was getting creamed by mutas before the stream went down, so no surprise.
15:15 GMT (+00:00): Polt 1 - 0 Oz. Both players signed an early-mid game non-aggression treaty and allowed each other to build up the armies they wanted. When they finally clashed, Polt flattened Oz with alarming ease, taking game one.
15:13 GMT (+00:00): Golden defeats Rain 2 - 0.
15:01 GMT (+00:00): Oz vs Polt, HayprO vs SaSe and Crazymoving vs Socke begin
14:55 GMT (+00:00): SaSe vs HayprO coming up on Gameplay 2, while @robpsimpson says Polt vs Oz will be up on Gameplay 1.
14:35 GMT (+00:00): Socke 2 - 0 DeMusliM. After some early marine kills allowed him to secure his tech and third base safely, Socke annihilated DeMusliM in the open field with a maxed out army.
14:30 GMT (+00:00): Polt defeats KawaiiRice 2 - 0 off-stream (streams still off, neat!).
14:23 GMT (+00:00): SaSe defeates SeleCT 2 - 0 off-stream (Off-stream? How???)
14:18 GMT (+00:00): Socke 1 - 0 DeMusliM. After expanding, Socke went for a cute sentry drop harass into fast colossus build. DeMusliM tried to apply pressure before colossus range was done, but didn't do enough damage or buy enough time. Socke broke through DeMusliM's front with his gateway unit + colossi force to take the game.
14:07 GMT (+00:00): DeMusliM vs Socke begins.
13:30 GMT (+00:00): Just chillin'
Championship: Final Bracket
Grand Final: MarineKing vs DongRaeGu
- Game Four: Shakuras. MKP made 3 quick command centers and DRG broke him with a ling baneling roach bust.
- Game Five: Antiga. MarineKing opened with banshees, then did a timing with marauders and tanks. DRG attacked too soon before he had baneling speed and MKP mopped him up.
- Game Six: Tal'Darim cross. MKP used an interesting timing with 2 reactors to pump out marines, marauders, and blue flame hellions before DRG's third base got running for infestor/ling. DRG almost holds initial push but died when reinforcements came.
- Game Seven: Metalopolis 12 vs 3. MKP went for quick 3 orbital and DRG got mutas after lings and banes. MKP engaged poorly several times early game and lost his first forces, but after he took a third and held it his marine marauder ball was unstoppable, he rolled over DRG with constant big pressure at the Zerg third and fourth.
- MarineKing 5 - 2 DongRaeGu
Winners Final: MarineKing vs DongRaeGu
- Game One: Dual Sight. MarineKing opened double reactor hellions, and meched. DRG tried an ultra switch but it wasn't strong enough as MKP was able to limit Zerg expos.
- Game Two: Daybreak. MKP moved out to kill DRG's fourth, and DRG countered at his third and natural with roaches. DRG did enough damage to buy time for broodlords and won with them.
- Game Three: Entombed non-cross. MarineKing did a bio-mech build that involved a lot of 3-3 marines and 2-2 thors. DRG couldn't make an army big enough to stop constant onslaught of upgraded units.
- MarineKing 2 - 1 DongRaegu
Semi-Finals
DongRaeGu vs Heart
- Game One: Metalopolis, 12 vs 3. Heart held his own through the midgame but once DRG started harassing with mutas he took over the game and overpowered him.
- Game Two: Shakuras. Heart went for fast 3 orbital and double upgrades, DRG did a huge muta, baneling, ling bust on 2 bases and killed Heart.
- DongRaeGu 2 – 0 Heart
PartinG vs MarineKing
- Game One: MarineKing got an extremely fast 2-2 with double reactor marines and tanks, pushed into PartinG's natural before storm was done and thinned down the colossus number enough to win in a prolongue battle.
- Game Two: Tal'Darim non-cross. Long macro game, PartinG held a fourth and fifth long enough to win war of attrition after MKP ate a lot of storms.
- Game Three: Entombed non-cross. MarineKing did a lot of damage with a 2rax against 1 gate robo, and PartinG tried to counter with 1 base colossus. His attack was easily stopped and MKP won.
- MarineKing 2 – 1 PartinG
Championship: Losers Bracket
Losers Final
Heart vs DongRaeGu (Started with DRG 2 - 0, extended series)
- Game Three: Entombed Valley cross. Heart got to 3-3 on his marines and ground down DRG, pushing with a few thors and marines similar to the game with MKP.
- Game Four: Dual Sight. Heart tried a cute early third build with a planetary, but it let DRG build up uninhibited and Heart couldn't stop any Zerg expansions. DRG got to infestors and ultras and crushed Heart's army.
- Game Five: Antiga. DRG baneling busted, but didn't do enough damage to kill Heart and the game played on normally. DRG was behind all game in upgrades, and as Heart moved out to take the center of the map DRG took him on with infestors and brood lords. Heart was pushed back into his natural, but killed all of DRG's bases with drops, DRG survived with his last several broodlords and killed Heart by baiting a crucial stim and ending it when Heart had no way to kill the last broodlords.
- DongRaeGu 4 - 1 Heart
Round 9
HuK vs Heart (Started at 2 - 1 for Heart, extended series)
- Game Four: Daybreak. HuK went for a lot of gateways and a 1-1 timing attack, but Heart also had 1-1 and ground him down until there were no forcefields left. Heart cleaned up once HuK was out of energy.
- Game Five: Tal'Darim. Heart went 3rax, and HuK won with 1 gate expand because he got an early robo and had an immortal for the initial push.
- Game Six: Shakuras. HuK went for a gateway timing again but Heart held, and won when he moved out and sniped colossus in HuK's natural.
- Heart 4 – 2 HuK
Round 8
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HuK vs PartinG
Heart vs Ganzi
- Game One: Tal'Darim non-cross. They each opened with 3 gates, PartinG followed it up with a robo while HuK got blink. HuK pressured PartinG with DT/archon/chargelots and kept his expansion long enough to win.
- Game Two: Antiga. PartinG 2 gate expanded, HuK made a dark shrine. PartinG held his nexus with good micro, and got his own dark shrine to kill HuK's second attack while countering his main as well.
- Game Three: Entombed cross. PartinG expanded off 2 gates and a robo, HuK responded by making a dark shrine and attacking with archons. PartinG's immortals aren't enough to hold and HuK runs him over.
- HuK 2 – 1 PartinG
Heart vs Ganzi
- Game One: Shakuras. After build-ups of marines and tanks on both sides, Ganzi won the first and final engagement by a significant margin to take the game.
- Game Two: Entombed Valley. After expansions on both sides, Heart rushed to stim and medivacs while Ganzi tried to get a little bit of everything. Heart managed to hit a timing where his stimmed, healed marines were able to plow through Ganzi's regular marines with easy, taking out his expansion. GanZi tried to counter attack once he had stim, but Heart had already pulled too far ahead on two bases, and GanZi GG'd out after the attack failed.
- Game Three: Dual Sight. Heart opened with a marine-hellion elevator which killed a large number of SCVs, more than negating GanZi's CC first build. Ganzi tried to utilize his faster siege tank tech to mount a counter attack, but Heart was able to fend it off and retain the lead. Heart then used his economic advantage to outproduce GanZi and won the series.
- Heart 2 – 1 Ganzi
Round 7
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viOLet vs Ganzi
NaNiwa vs HuK
- Game One: Daybreak. The game started with GanZi bunkering viOLet's nat, so he baneling busted him. It went into a normal midgame but viOLet had enough of an advantage to keep the initiative.
- Game Two: Metal cross. GanZi dropped third and main simultaneously and viOLet couldn't come back with infestor roach after losing his third hatch.
- Game Three: Shakuras. GanZi pressured viOLet from a sieged position in the center of the map, and viOLet could never quite breathe enough to get broodlords or infestors. Held on for a long time but couldn't break through with pure ling/baneling.
- viOLet 1 – 2 GanZi
NaNiwa vs HuK
- Game One: Dual Sight. HuK's blink stalker rush blew through NaNiwa's robotics build.
- Game Two: Antiga Shipyard. HuK went for double proxy gate zealots and crippled NaNiwa's economy, but NaNiwa managed to get out a few stalkers and went for an all or nothing counter attack. While NaNiwa could theoretically have won with perfect micro against the melee-only HuK, he was unable to take the game.
- NaNiwa 0 – 2 HuK
Round 6
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Ganzi vs JYP
aLive vs viOLet
HuK vs Socke
NaNiwa vs MC
- Not Streamed.
- Ganzi 2 – 0 JYP
aLive vs viOLet
- Game One: Tal'Darim Altar. aLive lost to a big two base ling-baneling bust.
- Game Two: Shakuras Plateau. While aLive tried to go for some low-ground marine-tank tactics on Shakuras, viOlet simply crashed through the front door with roach-baneling bust that devstated aLive.
- aLive 0 – 2 viOLet
HuK vs Socke
- Game One: Entombed Valley. Socke couldn't hurt HuK's fast expansion with his blink stalkers and lost to HuK's better economy.
- Game Two: Metalopolis. After both players went for DT rushes, Socke ended up winning an elimination that came down the last building by about 300 hit points.
- Game Three: Tal'Darim Altar. 3-gate vs 4-gate broke down into an elimination fight on Tal'Darim Altar, but this time HuK got the better of his opponent.
- HuK 4 – 1 Socke (HuK began with a 2 - 0 extended series advantage)
NaNiwa vs MC
- Game One: Metalopolis cross. NaNiwa went for 1 base colossus against 3 gate robo expand, and won with his first 1 colossus attack.
- Game Two: Entombed Cross. MC went 1 gate robo into immortal drop, and killed NaNiwa's first colossus at home as well as killed a lot of probes. NaNiwa's counter couldn't break through MC's ramp.
- Game Three: Antiga cross. Both went for the same blink stalker with observer build, but MC made a nexus and NaNiwa made colossus. Back and forth fight but NaNiwa's colossus pulled it out.
- NaNiwa 2 – 1 MC
Round 5
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Ret vs JYP
viOlet vs SaSe
TheStC vs Socke
MC vs Polt
- Game One: Daybreak. JYP got a third off 4 gates and some light zealot harass, but Ret pressured it constantly with roaches and overcame the stalker army.
- Game Two: Ret tried a 2 base roach bust but JYP held with cannons, and Ret GG'ed when he saw the void ray.
- Game Three: Dual Sight. JYP did pressure with 4 gates and a stargate after expanding, got several warpins to Ret's main with a hidden pylon and Ret couldn't hold it off before losing too much. JYP killed him with a gateway followup.
- Ret 1 – 2 JYP
viOlet vs SaSe
- Game One: Daybreak. SaSe allowed two lings past his wall as he forge FE'd, which ended up influencing the game hugely. viOlet had sight of everything SaSe was doing for a significant period, allowing him to drone up with impunity. SaSe went for desperation DT drops instead of trying to play the game out normally from a disadvantage, but once the drop failed, he was as good as dead.
- Game Two: Shakuras Plateau. SaSe tried to do some light warp prism harass into a two base push, but got caught horribly out of position by viOLet and missed his timing entirely. It was trivial for viOLet to throw waves of troops at SaSe off his three bases and finish him off.
- viOlet 2 – 0 SaSe
TheStC vs Socke
- Not streamed.
- TheStC 1 – 2 Socke
MC vs Polt
- Game One: Antiga Shipyard. After fast expansion starts on both sides, Polt used split armies effectively when MC went up to three bases. His main army picked at MC's main army with good kiting, while drops harassed MC in his main. Polt ended up gaining an army advantage on both fronts, and used it to simply barrel through MC's third while taking his own. Polt kept up the pressure to finish off MC.
- Game Two: Daybreak. MC hit with a 6-gate timing, attacking just before Polt's stim upgrade to take the game.
- Game Three: Entombed Valley. MC used probes and zealots to pressure Polt's CC first build to begin. Polt decided to follow up with a risky, no-gas 8 rax marine all-in, but it was perfectly countered by MC's choice to go heavy sentries and six gates. After mauling the un-upgraded marines with sentries, MC counter-attacked to advance to the next round.
- MC 2 – 1 Polt
Round 4
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Ret vs Golden
HayprO vs SaSe
CrazymoviNG vs Socke
Oz vs Polt
- Not streamed.
- Ret 2 – 1 Golden
HayprO vs SaSe
- Game One: Daybreak. SaSe took a quick third and both players maxed out. Then the stream died and apparently SaSe won, presumably winning the engagement before HayprO had enough infestors or broodlords.
- Game Two: Antiga Shipyards. SaSe went double robo and started with sentry drop, made a lot of colossus and immortals and HayprO couldn't muster enough to stop it.
- SaSe 2 – 0 HayprO
CrazymoviNG vs Socke
- Game One: Daybreak. Crazymoving won the game while the stream was down. Socke was getting creamed by mutas before the stream went down, so no big surprise.
- Game Two: Shakuras Plateau. The stream cut in and out many times, but Socke seemed to open with a warp prism + mass gates attack that did fairly well, and then used stargate units to harass Crazymoving and negate his mutas.
- Game Three: Tal'Darim Altar. Socke opened with multiple cannon rushes after his forge FE, forcing many zerglings from CrazymovING but ultimately leaving himself behind. However, Socke managed to follow into a blink stalker timing, and eventually added templars to kill off CM's third base after several heated battles. Left on 2 base vs 2 base against stalker-templar, CrazymovING opted to try and base trade with his roach-hydra mix, but had his forces cleaned up by Socke for the GG.
- CrazymovING 1 – 2 Socke
Oz vs Polt
- Game One: Antiga Shipyard. Both players signed an early-mid game non-aggression treaty and allowed each other to build up the armies they wanted. When they finally clashed, Polt flattened Oz with alarming ease, taking game one.
- Game Two: Daybreak. Oz opened with a double expand into 6-gate pressure, but Polt fended it off without much trouble. Polt then went for his own aggression with drops, but Oz in turn didn't take too much damage. The game was decided by clashes in the field where Polt couldn't deal with Oz's storms effectively enough, taking big losses and giving Oz the lead. Oz was able to raze Polt's third base a couple of times and eventually took the game.
- Game Three: Shakuras Plateau. Oz went for another fast double expand build, but Polt was able to use his stim & medivac timing to hit Oz at multiple locations and cause heavy damage at each spot. Polt then combined his forces together to steamroll through Oz's front.
- Oz 1 – 2 Polt
Round 3
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Rain vs Golden
SaSe vs SeleCT
DeMusliM vs Socke
KawaiiRice vs Polt
- Not streamed.
- Rain 0 – 2 Golden
SaSe vs SeleCT
- Not streamed.
- SaSe 2 - 0 SeleCT
DeMusliM vs Socke
- Game One: Antiga Shipyard. After expanding, Socke went for a cute sentry drop harass into fast colossus build. DeMusliM tried to apply pressure before colossus range was done, but didn't do enough damage or buy enough time. Socke broke through DeMusliM's front with his gateway unit + colossi force to take the game.
- Game Two: Shakuras Platea. After some early marine kills allowed him to secure his tech and third base safely, Socke annihilated DeMusliM in the open field with a maxed out army.
- DeMusliM 0 – 2 Socke
KawaiiRice vs Polt
- Not streamed.
- KawaiiRice 0 – 2 Polt
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