Bisu opens one gate expand, and Iris opens 2-fac, disguising it as FD by only showing his first tank. Bisu micros very well with his initial goons and seems to be in a good position, but it all comes crashing down when Iris hits Bisu's natural. Three tanks and six vultures face off against six dragoons. Iris comes out on top with two tanks left over. Bisu's dragoons were a split second late in reacting, allowing Iris to trap them with mines while the tanks and newly rallied vultures finished the job.

Bisu shows 1-gate range (cancels it) to Iris' scouting SCV, and proxies a citadel, archives, and second gate behind Iris' back natural minerals. Iris opens 2-fac again, and doesn't get mines in time to stop the probe-pushed backdoor DT. Iris attacks, but obviously can't break Bisu without a scanner or turrets. Fast, brutal, efficient win from Bisu, exactly like Game 1 but in reverse.

Bisu opens 14-nex while Iris opens 1-fac expand, opting for early mines and speed. Iris then techs to dropship as Bisu takes his third. Bisu is completely ready for the drop, losing only four probes. Iris takes his third in the meantime. Bisu is ahead, as the openings favored him and Iris' harass has done virtually no damage so far. Bisu has arbiters already making and a fourth base warped in, and then inexplicably recalls an army into Iris' factories. But Iris hadn't moved out yet, so Bisu's recall gets immediately EMP-wiped, and Iris only loses a few turrets and supply. Bisu then inexplicably hits the front, and Iris' well spread group of tanks enthusiastically hold.

Bisu's fifth is up and running now, but his army is nonexistent. Iris takes his fourth. A mini-recall and vulture raid trade marginal damage, and Bisu fails at another stasis-backed attack. Iris finally unsieges and moves out, and Bisu's EMP'd arbiters and weakened army cannot deal with Iris' push. Bisu made some horrible decisions this game, attacking into several well-fortified Terran armies and recalling way too early.

Bisu proxies a single gateway halfway to Iris' choke, and due to the threat of offensive gas, forces Iris to gas before rax. Then Bisu blocks Iris wall with a pylon, granting his zealots access into Iris' main. Bisu's first zealot arrives before Iris' rax is even done. The first two zealots trade for one marine and five SCVs, while the third and fourth zealots don't score any kills before being chased away by a vulture. Meanwhile Bisu has gotten a second gate and dragoon, and trades two zealots for four marines before Iris' first tank pops out. Both players expand, Iris behind mines while Bisu continues to pump ranged goons. Bisu tries to minesweep but takes a few hits and backs off.

Bisu goes fast arbiter, getting his stargate and archives as he takes his third. Iris takes his third as well while Bisu takes his fourth. Bisu then masses and attacks, this time dodging EMPs and breaking cleanly through Iris' defense, thanks to a stasis on Iris' vultures. Bisu's zealot harass negated Iris' chances to be aggressive early game, and Bisu was in control for the rest of the way.

Bisu opens 2-gate range, proxying a robo in the center of the map. Iris makes a bunker and goes for 1-fac siege expand, but screws up and loses the bunker and suddenly has to face four ranged goons with a single tank. Remarkably, Bisu isn't decisive enough, and gives Iris enough time to pull SCVs and get siege. Iris builds a starport, but his wraith is too late to prevent Bisu's reaver and two zealots from killing all three of his tanks. The wraith takes out the reaver before it can get any more kills, but Bisu attacks Iris front again, almost breaking through before Iris barely holds with a bunker and tank. While Iris' wraith is out scouting, Bisu reverse-elevates his dragoons into Iris' main. Iris again holds, but not after losing several SCVs and buildings.

Bisu has meanwhile expanded twice and in solid control of the game. He reaver drops again, killing a few more SCVs but losing the shuttle to a wraith. Iris counter-drops with a tank and two vultures, but it only gets a few dragoons and probes. Both players take another base, Iris his second natural mineral only and Bisu his fourth (another main). Iris attempts a fantasy-style two DS (tanks) with ground vulture attack, which does excellent probe damage at two of Bisu's bases.

Bisu then hits the front, breaking most of Iris' tanks while keeping his dragoon backbone intact. Iris barely holds and takes his fourth while Bisu takes his fifth. Iris tank drops again, taking out most of the probes at one of Bisu's bases, but Bisu now has arbiter and attacks, wiping out Iris' fourth and all the SCVs at Iris' third. Bisu takes a sixth base, and Iris pushes out with his remaining army toward two of Bisu's bases (4th+5th). The armies meet, and Bisu holds with a nice recall right on top of the tank line.

At this point Iris is on two running bases while Bisu is on four, and Bisu has a larger army. Bisu then executes a ridiculously pimp hallucinated zealot mine-clear, splitting Iris' line and and blowing right into Iris' main. Iris looks very dead, but he has successfully taken out Bisu's probes at his sixth base with a vulture drop. Base count is still heavily in favor of Bisu despite the lost probes.

Bisu's army is much, much larger. I would estimate almost twice the supply, and concentrated in zealots and archons. Iris does a vulture/tank+DS drop on Bisu's two remaining mining bases, and ridiculously, Bisu decides to attack instead of defend, and losing every single mining probe at those two bases. Bisu's attack is again spearheaded by hallucinations, but only kills a CC that was already at a mined out base. The attack gets to Iris' main factories, but stalls out. Bisu lost his army advantage, but storm raided Iris' remaining base, so both players are now no longer mining.

Iris transfers his remaining SCVs and resumes mining, while Bisu continues to lose probes to several vulture drops. Finally, Iris moves out, crushing what was left of Bisu's units with EMP and a tank-heavy army. Bisu GG's out, and Iris wins a ridiculous comeback game. Bisu could have and probably should have won this game at several points with smarter decision making, but credit to Iris for never giving up, holding several large attacks, and continuing to harass Bisu's economy despite losing base after base.

Both players open 12-pool gas, adding a second hatch at their naturals. Zero opts for earlier speed, and his first few speedlings arrive and take some health off Kwanro's hatch, but get chased off by defending lings. There's a zergling fight at Zero's natural, and it comes out very even. Kwanro rallies more lings but Zero defends again. Both players mass mutas off two gas. Kwanro seems to have a bigger flock, but Zero equalizes nicely with excellent scourge control. Unfortunately, Zero lost most of his drones to Kwanro's lings as the muta fight was going on.

Zero then decisively wins a second muta fight at Kwanro's main, but loses all his remaining drones to a backstab from Kwanro's lings. Kwanro desperately tries to put up spores while Zero's mutas are distracted by scourges. Two spores complete at Kwanro's natural, and Zero can't harass anymore, having only three mutas and no drones left. Very close and exciting end game, but it felt very like Kwanro should have never let it get to that point.

Zero opens 9-pool while Kwanro opens 12-pool, and Kwanro successfully defends his natural hatch with drones and lings. Zero micros badly, not only scoring nearly no kills, but losing several lings unnecessarily. At this point Kwanro gets a hand cramp and curses out loud while the camera is on him, but he still is able to run into Zero's main with his larger ling force. Kwanro snipes several drones while they drill around a sunken. Zero gets his spire up, but he has lost far too many workers, and his mutas cannot do much damage due to Kwanro's spores. Zero manages a final mutaling attack that is somewhat successful, but loses all his drones to a Kwanro muta backstab. Again we are left in a situation where Zero has more air units but no surviving workers, and Kwanro eventually masses enough mutas to win.

Both players open 9-pool gas, and the ling fight happens in Kwanro's main, where Zero tries to split his zergling group to harass Kwanro's drones. Unfortunately, Zero is horrible at zergling micro and not only fails to kill any drones but loses all of his zerglings. Absurdly, Kwanro has 8+ lings left over, and this forces a sunken from Zero. When both players ecos are equally hungry from 9-pool openings, an extra sunken is ridiculously expensive -- 50 + 75 + 50 + lost mining time. Right before Zero's mutas hatch, Kwanro kills all of Zeros lings and scores a few drone kills. Zero has six drones while Kwanro has ten. This forces Zero to make more scourges, which predictably get sniped easily by Kwanro's larger muta flock. Kwanro kills a few overlords and expands, putting himself even further ahead, and when the muta fight finally happens, Zero loses badly.

Player / Matchup / Last 10 / Last 3 Months / Head-to-Head
Jaedong / ZvZ / 5-5 / 10-6 / 1-0
Calm / ZvZ / 8-2 / 8-2 / 0-1