[MSL] Group A: Gotterdammerung

Despite hardware issues, Jaedong presented a dominant exposition in the debut game for Arena MSL, leading from start to finish. His early zerglings forced Bisu to think defensively, his hydralisks fended off the feared dark templar, and the mutalisks came just in time to block Kim’s dragoon/high templar assault.

From then on, the push against Bisu’s third followed by the one-two combination against main and natural ended the brutal, one-sided farce of a match. Many audience members may have expected a longer, closer match akin to their previous Blue Storm meeting, but instead saw a vicious rape.

FrOzean likes his cheese; Hwasin, knowing this, made a slightly early barracks. That sums up the entire progression of the game, as FrOzean was never able to catch up and Hwasin dispatched him at leisure. Aside from some cute wraith moves by FrOzean, this was a rather dull and uninspired game.

I am glad, though, that Hwasin prevailed.

What could have been a great set was spoiled by Jaedong’s incredibly horrid mouse. You could tell his control was off all game, as his mutalisks failed to demonstrate their usual vigor and his lurkers were no problem, being above the land.

All in all a stupid game. Jaedong should have switched mice. Hwasin played standard – nothing spectacular – but Jaedong’s absolutely atrocious control would probably have let FrOzean win as well.

Lacklustre performance by Bisu meets even worse by Frozean. Bisu’s PvT showed none of its GOM-2 form, but Frozean’s dawdling allowed Bisu to win a painfully drawn-out match.

Another ridiculous stompfest, as Jaedong’s zerg proves way too much for Bisu to handle. The scout lings, the muta-scourge control, the hydra sniping, everything was just perfectly done with Jaedong’s new Logitech Optical Mini. The only thing missing was a successful shuttle kill; if one more hit impacted then that would have been quite amazing.

As it is, Bisu is once again eliminated from his first group, and the defending MSL champ moves on to the ro16.