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Shinhan OSL2 - Sweet 16 - Week 5.1

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ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
May 21 2006 14:29 GMT
#1
[Indent]The sweet 16 have been decided! With the 24 man tournament behind us we look forward to the round of 16. The first day’s matches include a clash of ZvZ masters and a hard fought sibling battle. Due to the new OSL format, each match-up in the round of 16 is a best of 3 series. We begin with the brothers from Kor…

Cloud vs Casy

Game 1 – Peaks of Baekdu

[Indent]Cloud (1) built his barracks near the middle of the map while his younger brother Casy (7) kept everything in his base. Both players built 2 marines and a very typical rine/SCV micro battle ensued. They both lost a pair of marines and an SCV, so in the end neither player came out on top.

[Indent]Both players opened with a 2 fact vulture build, but Casy added a third factory while Cloud built a starport instead. Cloud began to add goliaths to his army and Casy continued to produce vultures. It paid off big time during the first few battles for Casy. He was able to kill a number of goliaths with mines as the two players battled for control of the high ground above Cloud’s mineral line. After covering it with mines, Casy planted a siege tank and began to fire upon his opponents SCVs. Cloud eventually killed the tank with his retreating wraith, but Casy had already done decent damage and had easily deflected the wraith earlier from damaging his SCVs with some goliaths.

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Casy surrounds enemy goliaths with well placed mines.


[Indent]Casy continued to lay on the pressure by sneaking some vultures into Cloud’s main to kill SCVs and shortly after he sieged another tank above the main mineral line. Cloud shifted his SCVs to a freshly built CC at his natural and decided to attack Casy’s nat with everything, ignoring the firing tank on the cliff. He had no success, losing everything in his attack and was forced to quit.

Casy > Cloud

[Indent]Casy had some incredible vulture control and mine placement that made vultures look like a direct counter to goliaths. His play was tight and his strategy of controlling the cliff was well executed.

Game 2 – Cultivation Period

[Indent]Cloud (3) opened with a 2 fact build and this time it was Casy (12) that used a starport build. Casy did a little damage with his first cloaked wraith before he was fought back.

[Indent]The first large battle took place in front of Casy’s main entrance. Both players showed off impressive micro and their units danced to maximize damage. Casy used a lone wraith to hit and run Cloud’s army and pick off 2 tanks, but Cloud was able to kill the wraith with goliaths and noticing that one of Casy’s tanks had only 10 hp left, he brought in a vulture to deliver the final blow before it fell to tank fire.

[Indent]Casy took advantage of Cloud’s lack of mobility and took the upper right hand expansion quite quickly. He was now producing dropships and was increasing his factory count while Cloud expanded to his natural. Cloud brought up SCVs to mine the mineral patch at the top of his base in order to open the path and attack Casy’s expansion at the upper right hand corner while Casy harassed his natural with tanks. Opening the path turned out to be a poor decision though, as Casy walked in a group of units aided by dropship reinforcements. By the time Cloud had fought the assault off, he had lost many SCVs and buildings. He knew he needed to retaliate, so he sent all of his tanks to attack the upper right. Casy attempted to defend with SCVs and a few tanks in dropships, but Cloud had too many units and held his position, firing upon the expansion. Casy lost the upper right, but had already expanded to the upper left, so the expansion count was still equal and Cloud had far fewer SCVs. With Cloud’s units out of position, Casy was also able to siege up behind his opponents natural and forced Cloud to lift his CC.

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Casy takes advantage of the door his brother opened for him.


[Indent]Casy was now producing wraiths from 2 ports and had a decent sized goliath/tank army as well. He attacked Cloud’s main and overwhelmed his brother. With nothing but a fresh expansion at 9 o’clock, Cloud was forced to type out yet again.

Casy > Cloud

[Indent]Casy is just a better TvT player than Cloud, it’s as simple as that. His attacks are well timed and his unit choice was always effective. No wonder this kid did so well last OSL against Oov.

Casy wins 2:0 and moves on!

Zergman vs GoRush

Game 1 – 815

[Indent]GoRush spawned at 5, Zergman at 1, and both players used the exact same build order for the first 5 minutes. Gas first, followed by a pool at 11/12, lair, hatch, and spire. They don’t call it a mirror match up for nothing!

[Indent]GoRush was able to stop Zergman’s early attempt at taking a new main with some zerglings, but his air army was somehow smaller than Zergman’s. They had about even muta numbers, but Zergman had scourge support and was able to kill off nearly all of GoRush’s original set of mutas after chasing them around the map for a while. Zergman then proceeded to harass GoRush’s economy and he racked up a number of drone kills before being pushed away by new mutas.

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Dude! Where are your units? (Easy pickin's for Zergman)


[Indent]GoRush was forced to lay down some spore colonies at his main to make up for his apparent lack of air defenses which gave his opponent the opportunity to expand to his natural (As if it mattered, 815 has no gas at the nat!) and eventually a new main. But before the expansion at the 11 o’clock main was productive, GoRush destroyed it with a well executed zergling raid. Due to the threat of a counter attack, Zergman was forced to keep his mutas at home and could not defend it.

[Indent]An inevitable muta/scourge battle followed and despite being outgunned, GoRush won by a very narrow margin, mostly due to poor scourge targeting on Zergman’s part. Zergman, however, had reestablished himself at the 11 o’clock main in the meantime and had the necessary defenses to kill off GoRush’s small attack force.

[Indent]Seeing that his opponent was comfortably mining from his main, nat, and a new expansion across the map, GoRush made it easy on himself and gave up.

Zergman > GoRush

[Indent]Zergman took the lead early on with his decisive win in the first muta/scourge battle. For some reason GoRush had less units, even after following the same BO. It was Zergman’s superior spending choices, GoRush’s poor economic management, or more likely a combination of the two that caused the outcome.

Game 2 – Rush Hour

[Indent]Once again, both players chose the same build order but GoRush (7 o’clock) decided to place his 12 hatch at his natural while Zergman kept it in his main at 3 o’clock. They also both built up large zergling armies, which essentially cancelled each other out…

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It’s a blood bath for both sides!


…but more important than the first large clash was the couple of zerglings that Zergman was able to sneak into his opponent’s main. GoRush lost a number of drones and was caught on camera sighing in disappointment.

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*Expletive Deleted*


[Indent]Despite his low drone numbers, GoRush was able to win the next couple of zergling encounters and even harassed Zergman’s drones with a few zergling survivors of the battles. His economic disadvantage became apparent when the game progressed to spire tech though, as he was only able to afford some scourge to try and defend against his opponent’s mutalisks. GoRush was in bad shape and matters were getting worse as he carelessly allowed a pair of scourge to kill his opponent’s scouting overlord, making his air defense efforts even more difficult.

[Indent]As GoRush lost drones to a lone muta, he attempted to break Zergman’s ramp with zerglings, but it was no use. Zergman’s economic advantage was clearly kicking in now and he overran GoRush with zerglings.

Zergman > GoRush

[Indent]Zergman is really showing his ZvZ chops. He seems to have a real knack for timing and unit choice in this matchup. I’m not a real fan of ZvZ in general, but even I can appreciate this guy’s skill.

Zergman wins 2:0 and moves on!

[Indent]That’s all for the first day of the 16 man tournament. Some great match-ups are lined up for the coming weeks and you can check them all out here in Honest Tea’s scheduling post.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
EvilTeletubby
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
Baltimore, USA22253 Posts
May 21 2006 15:05 GMT
#2


And btw, Gorush vs Zergman game 2, I think it was actually just a single solitary ling that GoRush didn't notice who killed a bunch of his drones... I'd sigh too. T_T
Moderatorhttp://carbonleaf.yuku.com/topic/408/t/So-I-proposed-at-a-Carbon-Leaf-concert.html ***** RIP Geoff
TserHossHiBreed
Profile Joined May 2005
Algeria87 Posts
May 21 2006 15:30 GMT
#3
please marry me !

can't wait til the next one.
EndRoll
Profile Joined April 2006
Japan116 Posts
May 21 2006 17:19 GMT
#4
Nice work!!! Thanks ManaBlue
Eye-
Profile Joined May 2006
United States2 Posts
May 21 2006 17:41 GMT
#5
Awsome news! thx
.....
pyrogenetix
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
China5094 Posts
May 21 2006 18:36 GMT
#6
awesome news yo =D
Yea that looks just like Kang Min... amazing game sense... and uses mind games well, but has the micro of a washed up progamer.
Schiller
Profile Joined March 2006
Germany308 Posts
May 21 2006 19:08 GMT
#7
very nice news but some kind of late...

I cant wait for the reports about boxer's games... poor boxer
BrutalMenace
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States1237 Posts
May 21 2006 21:56 GMT
#8
mana what would we do without you. Nice job it was a good read
red.venom
Profile Joined October 2002
United States4651 Posts
May 21 2006 22:50 GMT
#9
GoRush's strat in the game on 815 was for quick +1 armor. Which is why he had slightly smaller numbers(Really he was just trying to feint agressiveness with all muta vs muta/scourge and payed for it, 1 extra muta wouldnt have mattered much) and won the battle later on.

Just wanted to add that.
Broom
8882
Profile Blog Joined December 2003
2718 Posts
May 21 2006 23:48 GMT
#10


thanks for the reports!!



so many mirror matchups recently
I have returned
sundance
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Slovakia3201 Posts
May 22 2006 01:53 GMT
#11
awesome work
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
HonestTea *
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
5007 Posts
May 22 2006 02:07 GMT
#12
YAY
returns upon momentous occasions.
jkillashark
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States5262 Posts
May 22 2006 02:55 GMT
#13
Hahaha, I guess when I called it Sweet 16, the name just stuck.
Do your best, God will do the rest.
Drowsy
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
United States4876 Posts
May 22 2006 05:04 GMT
#14
Holy crap, I never would have known casy and cloud were brothers... Speaking of which, what happened to Jinsu and Jinnam?
Our Protoss, Who art in Aiur HongUn be Thy name; Thy stalker come, Thy will be blunk, on ladder as it is in Micro Tourny. Give us this win in our daily ladder, and forgive us our cheeses, As we forgive those who play zerg against us.
tKd_
Profile Joined February 2005
United States2916 Posts
Last Edited: 2006-05-22 05:33:41
May 22 2006 05:33 GMT
#15
zergman vs. gorush gorush actually made a difference in one of the muta battles by overlord soaking. it was nice indeed, won the battle with les muta (also had an upgrade) - but he still lost overall.
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
May 22 2006 05:48 GMT
#16
Ah, well thanks for the info about that GoRush/Zergman game guys. I didn't notice the +1 armor...I'm so newb.

And yes, I realize these reports are late. I've had a busy week. I'll try to get them up sooner for the rest of the tournament.

Not that these games weren't exciting, but next week has some nice ones. I'm looking forward to it.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
ManaBlue
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
Canada10458 Posts
May 22 2006 05:51 GMT
#17
On May 22 2006 11:55 jkillashark wrote:
Hahaha, I guess when I called it Sweet 16, the name just stuck.


Haha, yeah, I liked it better than "Round of 16" and since your topic is my Shinhan OSL2 bible it's no surprise it influences me.
ModeratorTL VOD legends: Live2Win, hasuprotoss, Cadical, rinizim, Mani, thedeadhaji, Kennigit, SonuvBob, yakii, fw, pheer, CDRdude, pholon, Uraeus, zatic, baezzi. The contributors make this site what it is. *Props to FakeSteve for respecting the guitar gods*
iNsaNe-
Profile Joined January 2005
Finland5201 Posts
May 22 2006 07:15 GMT
#18
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It takes a fool to remain sane.
IntoTheWow
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
is awesome32274 Posts
May 22 2006 12:52 GMT
#19
Great!
Moderator<:3-/-<
GuYuTe-
Profile Joined February 2005
United States550 Posts
May 22 2006 17:00 GMT
#20
This is probably a dumb question, but are Casy and Cloud really brothers?
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