Game 2
Game 3
Game 4
Game 5
Current Results:
+ Show Spoiler +
GumBa The_Templar
GumBa The_Templar
GumBa The_Templar
GumBa The_Templar
GumBa The_Templar
GumBa The_Templar
GumBa <> The_Templar
3-2
GumBa
GumBa
GumBa
GumBa
GumBa
GumBa <> The_Templar
3-2
All of the games so far have told a story. Game one showed The_Templar's persistence when going for absurdly one-dimensional games, as well as GumBa's tendency to just take bases and make upgraded units. Game two displayed the weirder side of The_Templar's builds as well as GumBa's tendency to think intelligently but in a very standard way. Game three told the story of battlecruisers. Game four was a straight-up macro humiliation, showing the fragility of The_Templar's builds. Game five spun a tale about how The_Templar would not lose when too far behind; he would find a way no matter how improbable or ridiculous it seemed.
This is the perfect time for the games to be razor-thin, with completely unorthodox strategies from both sides. The_Templar, as far as this series has gone, would have an edge in that scenario. GumBa aimed to stop momentum before it could happen, to win games in the most normal way possible.
And he therefore chose the most standard map in existence: Daybreak.
+ Show Spoiler +
Both players confess to the 8 viewers that they are completely freaking out due to a passion overload.
GumBa is so passionate that he opens with a PvP build by mistake.
Meanwhile, The_Templar gets a fast third base, since he is playing the correct matchup.
GumBa suddenly realizes it's a PvZ and gets a nexus and forge.
GumBa gives a friendly warning that he's seen the third base.
Since he sees the third base, he goes full greed by not even getting a zealot before two more gateways.
He also instructs a player who is probably better at protoss than him on how to play protoss better than both of them combined.
I want to know how to play like the 2013 Season 1 WCS AM champion too!
The_Templar is playing fairly standard PvZ right now, and he is- ROACH!
Er… sorry about that. Anyway, he's roaching pretty standard this game, starting to get a few units while researching zergling speed.
GumBa prepares a very late +1 timing.
The first zealots get into the third and start slicing the queen.
About 5 seconds later, The_Templar gets the first notification that he is, in fact, under attack.
GumBa starts doing work before the Roaches get there, while researching blink at home.
"Your drones are under attack!"
The roaches roach the zealots.
Roach isn't a verb...
GumBa takes a third while The_Templar roaches +1 attack and carapace for his roaches.
Then, the roach warren researches roach speed.
Roach time.
Roach.
The zerglings are not roaches so they can't roach roach stalkers.
By the way this game has roaches in it.
The_Templar roach attacks roach stalkers.
Blink stalkers roach roached by roaches.
A roach nest roach roaches roach roach.
This is where roaches mangle the english language.
Suddenly, The_Roachplar roach roach roach! Blink stalkers are roach position but roaches roach into the stalker roach!
"Roach" describes this roach game fairly roach.
Roaches roach superior to gateways.
Roaches run roach roach main base roach GumBa.
Roach the roach line that roach roaches made.
Roaches roach the roachbotics bay! Roach roach roach roach.
Roaches begin roaching roach probes.
Roaches don't roach about the templar archives.
Stalkers roach up most of the roaches, so I can finally stop substituting 'roach' for most of the words.
Just in time, as roach totally stopped seeming like a real word.
Roaches poke at the third base.
However, in a stunning turn of events, The_Templar uses units besides roaches.
Roaches roach the stalkers at the front…
While mutalisks flying roach into the main.
Image of roaches.
The_Templar's mysterious ability to micro mutalisks like people in grandmasters (while not actually doing anything else) is not happening here because he is roaching.
Mutalisks head to the main and start doing work.
Meanwhile, roach roach roach roach at roach center.
At this point, roaches.
Wait a second! Those roaches have 2-2… someone make sure it's The_Templar playing.
In this game, The_Templar demonstrated his uncanny ability to make roaches and attack. Despite GumBa's best efforts, he just could not outdo the roaches from The_Templar. Roaches were a vital component of this game. Victory was due mostly to The_Templar's roaches. Roach.
Yeah, this game was really one-dimensional.
Game seven is looming now, and hopefully it won't just be roaches. Which player will manage to pull it off?
+ Show Spoiler +
It's the same matchup as games 2 and 6…
Replay: http://www.ggtracker.com/matches/5427988
Game 7…...