Luxury opens standard 3-hatch, while Hwasin opens mech FE. Luxury stays on three bases the entire game, versus two and eventually three base Terran mech. There's some harass back and forth, with Luxury losing a drones to vultures and hydras to mines while doing some damage with muta harass, but nothing huge on either side. So the Terran should really be winning here with equal supply counts and equal bases, right? Wrong. Instead, Luxury drops Hwasin's main, kills a lot of factories and depots, and just crushes Hwasin's army with mass hydra muta afterward. The game totally didn't make sense, but at this point I've stopped trying to predict how Luxury games will turn out.

Effort sends his maphacking ninth drone out and immediately finds Hiya's proxy 8-rax, forcing a cancel, and then safely 12-hatches. Standard three hatch muta versus bio-FE ensues. Hiya tries a sunken runby that fails pretty badly, and after that is just outmatched by pure skill. Effort at all times had a larger army with faster tech, guided by superior game sense, executing several stylish hold lurkers and precise mass flanks. Swarm and lurkers arrive at Hiya's choke before Hiya could even attack past the center line of the map. Hiya just had no chance the entire game. Complete, utter domination by CJ's best Zerg. Remind you of anyone?

Effort opens 9-pool against Luxury's 12-pool, failing to do much damage. Luxury has the faster second gas, but is forced to go spore-scourge because of Effort's faster spire. Efforts mutas do a good deal of drone damage, and return to his main to barely save his natural hatch from dying. Effort pressures with his superior muta count, and displays some transcendent micro against scourge, repeatedly taking out Luxury's main gas. Lux secretly expands to his back natural, but Effort senses it immediately, and eventually prevails with a much larger mutalisk flock. Excellent play from Effort despite being at a build order disadvantage.

Bisu opens 4-gate goon all-in, and Jangbi plays right into his hands by going 1-gate expand. However, cross positions on a gigantic map force Bisu's freshly produced units to walk across all of Asia to reinforce the attack. Jangbi successfully defends, and is too far ahead for Bisu to mount a comeback. Universally stupid move by KTY to attempt this sort of thing cross positions, especially against a recently slumping Jangbi.

Both players open FE at their back natural, the common thing to do on Outsider. Both players make a lot of goons and reavers. Free takes his third (front natural) and Kal attacks just as Free is coming down his ramp, crushing most of Free's army. Kal then takes a third base and rides the macro advantage to the victory. Very standard game decided by one bad tactical decision by Free.

Kal goes DT. JangBi goes DT. Kal makes cannons, they warp in time. JangBi does not.

Game opens standard, with Stork going goon obs expo in some order, and Shine siege expanding. Shine proxies a starport near Stork's main, and ferries four vultures in. Stork is completely unprepared, and the drop does a ton of damage, mainly because Shine also pushed out at that exact moment. Shine fake pushes Stork's third while dropping Stork's main again with vultures, again getting a ton of probe kills. This allows Shine to turtle to 200 and +3 very quickly. While Stork still has a large army off three bases supported by arbiters, Shine has the rest of the map and multiple vessels to counter. Excellent play by Shine.

The popular ZvT build versus bio on this map is skipping lurker and going fast guards and ultras after mutas. Kwanro does this and deals marginal damage with his muta flock as he techs to hive off three gas. Piano does a good job of building a huge bio and tank army, and with wraiths as support, actually breaks eight sunkens and many guardians with his Terran ball right before ultras come out. Well timed and well executed attack by Piano.

Shine opens one fac expand, and Piano counters with fac-port. Piano attemts to bunker rush the CC, forcing a fight between his two vultures and five marines against Shine's two vultures, four marines, and two SCVs. Both players reinforce, and either due to good micro or pure luck, Piano comes out on top. I couldn't see because a floating rax was obscuring half the battle, but Shine was forced to pull workers. When Piano's wraiths arrived, Shine was nowhere near prepared, and tapped out soon after.

Skyhigh 8-rax bunker rushes while Zero 12-hatches, and gets seven drones for one bunker and a few marines, which puts him firmly ahead. Instead of retreating to his main, Skyhigh instead gets greedy and attacks with seven marines, probably thinking Zero skimped on lings. But Zero had an overlord over Skyhigh's cliff and knew his marine count exactly. The seven marine attack is crushed by slow lings, and they proceed to deal a ton of damage in Skyhigh's main. This cripples Skyhigh's two-port wraith build, and when the wraiths finally arrive, Zero has hydras and lair, and his mutas seal the game. Skyhigh had this game and threw it away. Happy birthday Zero!

Calm does this ingenious build where he fakes lurker all-in, and instead goes fast hive and defiler off two gas while proxying his third hatch near Sea's main. It's smart because there's no way Sea would waste scans against such a lurker fake, and thus was playing in the dark for most of the game. Sea had just produced his first wraith, clearly preparing for guardians, when Calm strolled into Sea's natural with lurkers and swarm. A very well thought out and well executed plan by Calm.

Calm opens 9-pool against Zero's 12-pool, but instead of running in with his first lings, hides them on the map before Zero's overlord arrives. He then runs out with freshly made lings. This successfully convinces Zero that Calm went 12-pool, and Zero expands to his natural, believing Calm's ling count to be much lower than it actually is. Calm links up with his hidden lings, attacks, and easily wins the battle and the game. Awesome fakeout.