69,2 % vs. P

68,8 % vs. Z

68,2 % vs. T

68,6 %

61,5 % vs. P

73,9 % vs. Z

27,3 % vs. T

53,4 %

55 % vs. P

75 % vs Z

64 % vs. T

63,2 %

69,7 % vs. P

68,4 % vs. Z

45 % vs. T

60,7 %





69,2 % vs. P

27,3 % vs. T

68,4 % vs. Z

64 % vs. T

Mvp vs. JYP

First set

Second set

Third set

Mvp vs. JYP = 2-1

Curious vs. MarineKing

First set

second set

MarineKing vs. Curious = 2-0

Mvp vs. MarineKing

First set

econd set

Mvp vs. MarineKing = 2-0

JYP vs. Curious

First set

second set

JYP vs. Curious = 2-0

MarineKing vs. JYP

First set

2nd set

MarineKing vs. JYP = 2-0

Best game of the day: Game 2 of Mvp vs. MarineKing

Today's GSL code S round of 16 group, consisted of a bunch of experienced GSL nerds in the form ofandBefore deciding who the favorites were for the group we had a look at each player's win rate throughout their entire GSL career.- average win rate of(omg! his win rates are almost exactly the same in every matchup)- average win rate of- average win rate of- average win rate ofFirst match of the day wasvs.and based solely on their respective win rates it should be no difficulty forto take the series with his, opposed tomereSecond match of the day wasvs.and based on their win rates, this should be a closer series, withthough taking the series with his, andbarely trailing with hisFollowing the same strict win rate logic,would then beatin the winner's match, andwould defeatin the loser's match.In the last serieswould then take out, meaning theandwould advance.BUT statistics is one thing, and reality another and whereasandcertainly are the two players in the group with the best GSL history,and especiallyhas looked really strong recently.For instance:beatin the RO 32, so we doubt he cares about win rates.Anyway, now for the Recap!was on Abyssal City withspawning in the left andin the right.went for a somewhat fast, but also safe sentry into expansion build whilequickly built two extra command centers in his main.then flew his command centers out to his natural and shortly afterwards third location.went for a 2 base push with 6 gates and a single Colossus, but he just poked a bit and then went home and took his third instead.tried some minor Zealot harass atthird, but it didn't too massive damage and from theretried to set up to take his own third.But at that pointhad had a good 3-base economy for while and he was ready to go for a big three base push.saw it coming and did all he could to try and finish storm, but he did not get it done in time and whenarrived at his base he simply had too many vikings that just torecollossi apart andtook the set.was on Daybreak.took early gas whichscouted, but afterleft the basecancelled it and went for an early command center instead.At the same time he built a ebay innatural to block and delayexpansion.This causedto throw down two gateways first while taking the ebay out before he could eventually expand.Perhaps because of the quick three gates,then went for a push around the 7-minute mark with 3 sentries, 5 stalkers and a few zealots, and with this force he managed to catch a bunch ofmarines that were out on the map scouting.He then headed towards the natural ofbutquickly got a couple of bunkers up and a lot of SCVs ready to repair andtherefore retreated.But thenrather sneakily went back to poke again and this time the SCVs weren't there somanaged to take out a bunker and good bunch of units by throwing down nice forcefields.went up to around 7 gates while getting zealots speed and gearing up for templar tech and at this point he was way in the lead with 52 probes to 38 SCVs.At the 13-minutealready had his third sowent for a big 4 medivac drop inmain to try and get back in the game.did some damage, but whenreturned to the main he threw down killer storms and took out all offorces.then went for a push at the third, while doing a new small drop in the main.took out both ofattacking forces, but not without losing a lot of probes.At this point they were even in supply butwas down a base and behind in economy sodecided to go for a big push atthird again while dropping in the natural ofmanaged to sneak some high templars up onarmy from behind, but the storms he ended up throwing down were pretty bad and the engagement really favoredwho could finally take his third.went to push again at the third and once againsneaked up high templars from behind and this time they threw down some really effective storms.At the same timedid some Zealot harass atnatural and at this point they had both killed almost 30 workers in the game.then went for a big push at the third ofwhich was in the left center, andarmy had gone up to his natural to clean up the Zealots.This meant thateasily could take outthird and whenarmy arrived to defend,threw down perfect storms to really win him the engagement, and apart from a few cloaked ghostshad nothing left and shortly afterwards he GG'd.was on Entombed valley.went for a gate and cybernetics in his main, and then a proxy gate outsidenatural.had taking his natural rather quickly, but also built a bunker in front of his natural.scouted the proxy gate so he got all his marines back in his bunker which meant he was safe.Sowas behind economically and therefore decided to double expand to try and catch up.then took outproxy gate, withouteven trying to defend it andthrew down 5 gates at home instead.went for a big push anddidnt have a lot of units, but a bit of stuff and 4 sentries and he managed to trap some ofunits on the ramp and this meanthad to retreat.Insteadwent for a big counterattack atnatural, buthad a bunch of bunkers and defended perfectly making it a very bad engagement forSo now Mvp was far ahead in supply and when he went for the counterpushdidnt have enough forcefields to defend and the bio army oftore him apart.was on Ohana withspawning in the top andin the bottom.went double rax at 11 supply. He placed them both in the top of his main wanting to fly them down and go for some heavy agression.couldn't find any barracks so guessed that some sort of agression was coming.pulled 6 SCVs and along with the first bunch of marines he went to push at the natural ofand started building a bunker there.pulled all drones except for two to try and denyagression and he forced a cancel on the first bunker. Marineking started building another but now Curious had around 6 zerglings out.He trappedin the corner preventing the marines from entering the bunker, but at the same time MarineKing's marines had a perfect spot in the corner to take out so many of curious units.Eventually he got the bunker up and as some more marines arrived he took the game.Thewas on Whirlwind withspawning in the top left andin the top right.went for a expand into quick gas and pool aiming for fast zergling speed and eventually a baneling bust.Unfortunately for himhad gone quick gas into reactor'd hellions and banshees while staying on one base.This was practically a buildorder loss for Curious and it didn't help thatscouted the incoming attack and took out the 6 first zerglings oftried the baneling bust, but the hellions inmain dealt with the attack rather easily and at this point the supply was 44 to 28 infavor.Eventuallyattacked with 8 hellions andcould do nothing against them sotook the game and the series.was on Whirlwind withspawning in the top left andthe bottom right.MarineKing went for 2 gas quickly into banshees, but Mvp scouted the two gasses.went for reactor'd hellions whilealso went for cloak for his banshees while they both threw down another command center in their main.Asbanshee arrived atbase there was already a viking out.scanned and took out the banshee without it doing any damage at all.then sent another banshee and even a third and both of them were killed instantly which meant he had wasted so much money on nothing.then counter-attacked with his hellions at the natural of, who lost a ton of SCVs and at this pointdoubled the supply ofwho stayed in the game as he always does, but eventually was rolled over whenpushed out again.The swas on Daybreak and a pretty epic game.went for quick banshee this time (no cloak) and then expand whereasjust went for a quick expand.killed 6 SCVs with his single no-cloack banshee, which ironically was a lot more damage thandid with his three cloaked banshees in the previous set.built another command center while going for a marine/tank composition andon the other hand geared up for a big two base marine/medivac push at the 10 minute mark.In the meantime though,had sneaked his old banshee back into the main of MarineKing and it took out a lot of SCVs.went for a two medivac drop inmain, butdenied the drop with vikings.Sowas ahead, butthen did quick marine push atthird which he managed to take out.Meanwhiletook his own third sodecided it was time for some payback and so he went for drops both at the the main and third ofwas ready for it though and he denied both drops and suddenly he was ahead in supply.retook his third this time in the center while placing a big defensive siege tank line around it and from here the game was very back in forth.They attacked each other's third and both managed to kill a lot oftried to breakin the center a couple of times some times winning engagements, and other times losing them.They both took their fourth while constantly trying different attacks and drops.did some very big and effective drops in the main ofwhile also attacking the third.couldn't do anything about it so he decided to go for a MASSIVE DOOM drop atthird and in a matter of seconds he took out the third and the natural and moved into the main ofAt the same time though,was also taking out all ofbases and it was suddenly a basetrade with both of them only having their original fourth base left.managed to take outfourth while having a lot of siege tanks at his own fourth making it pretty safe.So Mvp was the only one mining and MarineKing knew he had to try and attack, but allhad to do was keep all his tanks sieged, and there was no was forof breaking it andwon the epic game and the series comfortably.was on Whirlwind within the top left andin the bottom right.went double expand before anything else, andhad gone for a forge fast expand and since he scouted the early third ofhe went for a cannon rush forcing a cancel on the third ofalso went for some zealot harass at the natural and it actually killed some drones.took a new third in the top center and from here they both focused a bit on economy withgoing for phoenixes and a heavy 2 base attack.also managed to sneak a pylon intomain and warp in a lot of units that did a good amount of damage.Buthad taken his fourth and focused on drones so he was actually ahead in supply but behind in tech ashad pumped out Colossi while taking his third.At this pointhad a lot of corrupters out butstill did a lot of good phoenix harass where he really used their speed advantage over the corrupters.then took his fifth andtook his fourth which he could safely becauselair was really late.They had a big engagement in the middle of the map, buthad too many curropters and while he took outcolossi easily, the ground forces oftore his own ground army apart.then pushed at the fourth ofwho managed to defend with spines and infestors.From here they tried different kinds of harassment and small aggressions without doing too much damage to each other. In the meantimehad taking his fifth base in a sneaky place in the top right corner.When they were both at max supply they had a big engagement wherelanded a massive vortex on all the infestors, giving him the chance to take them out when they popped back out again.At this pointwas far ahead in economy and he also did some effective warp prism harassment in the main ofdecided to do a final big push with his big broodlord/infestor force, but he didn't know about the sneaky 5th and also 6th base ofin the top right corner.The game turned into an exciting basetrade with both player's easily taking all the other player's main bases out.Eventuallyrealized thathad two bases in the top corner so he knew he had to engage and so they engaged for won final time.threw down killer storms, but lost all high templars.Once again though he landed a big vortex on all the infestors and eventually he crushed' forces winning him a pretty thrilling set.Thewas on Daybreak within the top right andin the bottom left.went for another FFE while also placing a pylon to block the natural ofOnce again he also went for a cannon rush at the third ofand once again he forced a cancel and at this point we felt pretty sorry for poor, who was pretty far behind decided to go for some 2-base infestor play whilegeared up for a big 6-7 gateway push (with blink) and he started warping in at the pylon from his cannon rush.threw down a bunch of spines at his natural, and with his infestors he just barely managed to deny the first couple of attacks fromButjust keep warping in units eventually also morphing archons and when they arrived at the natural ofthey did massive damage.switched into roaches and managed to hold on for a bit more, butswitched to mass stalker and with good blink micro rolled overwas on Entombed Valley within the top left andin the bottom right.went for quick command center in his main andfor cybernetics into expand.went for a big 2-base Marine/Medivac with stim and plus 1 attack.on the other hand went for quick Colossus and actually managed to catch some ofarmy that had moved out on the map, and although he lost his first and only Colossus he also took out most ofarmy and denied the attack.Instead they both took their third andtried to push again, buthad as many Colossi as he had vikings so he could not attack.Sothen went up to two starports and eventually 12 vikings.then pushed out once again and when they finally engaged just before the 17 minute mark,positioned all his vikings perfectly and managed to crushin the engagement and take the set.Thewas on Daybreak.went for hellions and a quick starport, andfor a quick 3 gate with blink build.then went for a four hellion drop inmain, and he wasn't ready for it at all and he lost 13-14 probes.After thishad to try and do some damage with his blink stalker push, butknew the agression would be coming so he placed down a bunker and also got a tank out.blinked into the main and took out the tank and some SCVs, but MarineKing got a surround on him and took out all his stalkers.From hereexpanded safely withalso expanded but way later and he was also far behind in supply. This causedto desperately go for DTs to try and catch up.only warped in one DT and of course it didn't do any damage ashad turrets ready.On seeing this Tasteless started a hilarious joke about him having been sure that the single DT would be able to crushentire army and eventually take out the entire base ofThat didn't happen though and from heretook his third while doublingsupply.Eventuallyjust attacked with everything and he had so much more thanthat it was depressing to watch.tried to throw down forcefields, butpicked up all his army and dropped on top offorces and that ended the series and knockedout of code S for now.So all in all it was a day where most series were rather one-sided, but a few of the games were really epic.In the end it wasandwho moved on to the Round of 8 just as our initial average win rate logic had predicted.That just goes to show you that stats never lie...