Day 3 Live Coverage

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• Round of Six
• Semifinals
• Grand Finals

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00:04 GMT (+00:00): DRG 4 - 3 MKP on Tal'Darim non-cross. DRG opened the game with a ling baneling bust and killed a lot of SCVs but not enough to end the game. MKP brought the aggression in the midgame but engaged on creep several times and DRG took out his army, one last-ditch all-in with the SCVs were how MKP made his last stand but it wasn't enough.

23:46 GMT (+00:00): DRG 3 – 3 MKP on Metropolis cross. DRG did the roach baneling bust once against only this time MKP didn't scout at all and his army was across the map when it hit. DRG punished greedy play and won.

23:36 GMT (+00:00): MKP 3 – 2 DRG on Entombed cross. MKP got a third orbital after a normal 1 rax cc into 3 rax and ebay, then moved out with his first pair of medivacs and simply attacked and beat DRG's roach army.

23:24 GMT (+00:00): MKP 2 – 2 DRG on Cloud Kingdom. DRG started the game with a roach baneling bust, which killed a few SCVs but never made it up the ramp to the main. He pulled back and MKP started harassing with blue-flame hellions and marines while DRG tried to control the map with mutas. One bad fight mid map with mutas against upgraded marines lowered their numbers enough for MKP to kill the third and win the game.

23:04 GMT (+00:00): DRG 2 – 1 MKP on Antiga. This time MKP played a more typical double ebay marine style, but did very few drops and DRG kept him in his base with mutas upgraded with double spire. DRG stayed on lair the entire game and crushed MKP's one push, then kept control with mutas and finally won with a few infestors.

22:44 GMT (+00:00): DRG 1 – 1 MKP on Metropolis cross. MKP opened with 2fac after expanding, getting double armory after his third. DRG killed the initial small tank force well and took initiative from there, keeping MKP in his base with drops and harassing the Terran third with roaches. MKP could never come out ahead under the pressure and died a slow, harassment based death.

22:30 GMT (+00:00): MKP 1 – 0 DRG on Shakuras cross. MKP took an early third and went into the same biomech build he has been using against DRG this year. Taking a fourth during his first push, they traded armies several times before DRG finally began to wear down. As he tried to tech to brood lords, MKP overpowered him thanks to several favorable battles where banelings were trapped behind roaches, and MKP won before the late-game units could be morphed.

22:08 GMT (+00:00): Small break while everyone watches Thorzain win DreamHack, now the finals are starting! Game 1 is on Shakuras.

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Round of Six

viOLet vs Heart

• Game One: Metropolis - In one of the most interesting base trades ever seen, viOLet came back from what looked like a sure loss to take a one game lead on Heart. During the phase of the game where the two players were still playing standard, viOLet opted to use his roaches to base trade with Heart instead of challenging his mech army head on. PartinG ran for the isles, while viOLet sneakily took new bases on the opposite corner of the map. viOLet's burrow roaches and good creep spread made Heart too afraid unsiege and move his army, So he opted to use his island income to go for cloaked banshees to take out viOLet's new bases instead. While the banshees did work wonders, Heart was not prepared for viOLet's ace card in drop/speed upgrades for his overlords. viOLet loaded up his dozens of roaches into his overlords, and dropped them straight on top of Heart's army to seal the game.
  
  
• Game Two: Entombed Valley - Heart channeled the spirit of the dead BitByBit and went for a 4-rax, marine-SCV all-in off one base. However, viOLet sniffed the attack out and stopped it with queens and drones. However, viOLet was overconfident after stopping the attack, and did not prepare sufficiently for a second, even deadlier marine - SCV all-in.
  
  
• Game Three: Tal'Darim Altar - Heart went for a marine heavy build on TDA, using his cheaper fighters to constantly pressure viOLet. While viOLet had lings and banes, he went without lair tech for too long, and was picked apart by Heart's constant aggression and harassment.
  
  
• Game Four: Antiga - After fending off Heart's hellion-banshee open, viOLet decided to go for a massive muta-line-bane bust off of three bases. However, with some good kiting and evasion, Heart was able to stop the attack without much trouble and emerge with a big lead. Heart only had to pick up the pieces after that, clinching the series.
  
  
• viOLet 1 - 3 Heart

MC vs DongRaeGu

• Game One: Metropolis cross. MC opened with a 3 void ray build and put on heavy pressure on 2 bases, but wasn't able to kill DRG's main and it went to a long midgame. DRG got to brood lords and MC wasn't ahead enough to deal with them.
  
  
• Game Two: Antiga. DRG got double roach warren for quick upgrades while MC went for DT immediately after fast expanding and took a really early third. DRG took down the third with roaches easily and stopped the DTs, then burrowed through forcefields to win.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. MC began by cannoning DRG's third and then went for an attack with a void ray, phoenixes, and zealots. He then went to chargelot-archon before taking a third, and combined with the phoenixes shut down DRG's attempts to take his expansion. DRG tapped out when MC went on the offensive with storm.
  
  
• Game Four: Daybreak. MC made a void ray after expanding again, but DRG killed a lot with a backstab. MC's attempts at being aggressive through the midgame weren't able to do enough damage, and DRG made it to broodlords with a strong lead and MC couldn't deal with it.
  
  
• DRG 3 - 1 MC

Semi Finals

GanZi vs DongRaeGu

• Game One: on Entombed cross. Ganzi tried taking a hidden command center, but DRG scouted it rather quickly so it turned into a pretty normal 3 orbital build. From there DRG made it to infestors and Ganzi couldn't touch him when the first big battle happened.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis cross. Ganzi opened with a proxy factory and floated it into DRG's main to make hellions, killing a handful of drones in the process. As it moved to a normal midgame he tried drops but DRG repelled them with ease, and the game ended as both players were maxed and Ganzi moved his entire army to DRG's fourth only to find out he didn't have siege and DRG backstabbed him to kill the entire Terran force.
  
  
• Game Three: Antiga. DRG annoyed Ganzi with mutas while Ganzi sat on 3 bases and teched up. DRG went to 5 bases and did a huge midgame bust with lings, mutas, and banelings, and broke straight through Ganzi's defense to take the game and match.
  
  
• DRG 3 - 0 Ganzi

Heart vs MarineKingPrime

• Game One: Entombed cross. Heart opened with 1 rax expand while MKP went for some pressure with his first 2 marines, hellions, and a banshee, netting around 10 SCVs total while he took his own natural. MKP got another handful of marines and overpowered Heart as he started to recover.
  
  
• Game Two: Antiga. Heart proxied a factory and attacked with 2 tanks with siege early, MKP nearly held but miscontrolled his first banshee and lost it to marines.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. This time MKP proxied a factory and starport and dropped hellions into Heart's main, not doing much damage but forcing the SCVs to run. MKP followed it up with a cloaked banshee and tanks and assaulted the front and back at the same time, to kill Heart.
  
  
• Game Four: Shakuras non-cross. Heart opened with a banshee and killed a few marines while MKP tried to break his front, but when MKP dropped hellions he clumped up all his workers on accident and lost 20 of them to a single volley. Heart tried a last ditch attack but wasn't able to clean up and MKP took the series.
  
  
• MKP 3 - 1 Heart

Grand Final

DongRaeGu vs MarineKing

• Game One: Shakuras cross. MKP took an early third and went into the same biomech build he has been using against DRG this year. Taking a fourth during his first push, they traded armies several times before DRG finally began to wear down. As he tried to tech to brood lords, MKP overpowered him thanks to several favorable battles where banelings were trapped behind roaches, and MKP won before the late-game units could be morphed.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis cross. MKP opened with 2fac after expanding, getting double armory after his third. DRG killed the initial small tank force well and took initiative from there, keeping MKP in his base with drops and harassing the Terran third with roaches. MKP could never come out ahead under the pressure and died a slow, harassment based death.
  
  
• Game Three: Antiga. This time MKP played a more typical double ebay marine style, but did very few drops and DRG kept him in his base with mutas upgraded with double spire. DRG stayed on lair the entire game and crushed MKP's one push while backstabbing and killing the natural, then kept control with mutas and finally won with a few infestors.
  
  
• Game Four: Cloud Kingdom. DRG started the game with a roach baneling bust, which killed a few SCVs but never made it up the ramp to the main. He pulled back and MKP started harassing with blue-flame hellions and marines while DRG tried to control the map with mutas. One bad fight mid map with mutas against upgraded marines lowered their numbers enough for MKP to kill the third and win the game.
  
  
• Game Five: Entombed cross. MKP got a third orbital after a normal 1 rax cc into 3 rax and ebay, then moved out with his first pair of medivacs and simply attacked and beat DRG's roach army.
  
  
• Game Six: Metropolis cross. DRG did the roach baneling bust once against only this time MKP didn't scout at all and his army was across the map when it hit. DRG punished greedy play and won.
  
  
• Game Seven: Tal'Darim non-cross. DRG opened the game with a ling baneling bust and killed a lot of SCVs but not enough to end the game. MKP brought the aggression in the midgame but engaged on creep several times and DRG took out his army, one last-ditch all-in with the SCVs were how MKP made his last stand but it wasn't enough.
  
  
• DRG 4 - 3 MKP