Set 1 - Cloud Kingdom - Life in bottom left and Mvp in top right

Mvp vs. Life = 0 - 1

Set 2 - Entombed Valley - Life in bottom left and Mvp in top right

Mvp vs. Life = 0 - 2

Set 3 - Antiga Shipyard - Mvp to the right and Life to the left

Mvp vs. Life = 1 - 2

Set 4 - Whirlwind - Mvp in bottom left and Life in top left

Mvp vs. Life = 2 - 2

Set 5 - Abyssal City - Mvp to the left and Life to the right

Mvp vs. Life = 3 - 2

Life doesn't have the Infestor energy needed to stop Mvp's army

Set 6 - Ohana - Mvp in the bottom and Life in the top

Mvp vs. Life = 3 - 3

Mvp cannot stop the Infestor/Roach/Broodlord composition of Life

Set 7 - Daybreak - Life to the bottom left and Mvp to the top right

Mvp slaughtering a bunch of Life's poor drones

Mvp saved his Planetary for a long time, but eventually could no longer





Mvp vs. Life = 3 - 4

A big crowd of nerds cheers for Life, or Blizzard? Probably not the latter...

The young star gets to kiss the trophy. It's almost as good as the 50 k dollars.





Set 1, 5 and 7!





went for double factory hellion production andwent for his usual aggressive zergling-focused style.did very successful hellion harass at the natural and main oftaking out more than 20 drones.though went for roaches and Infestors from there and was able to control the map enough to stay ahead on bases.Eventually the game went into lategame andgot the currently much despised composition of Infestor/Broodlord with corrupters as well to deal with the vikings.threw down loads of good fungals and in the end almost at the 30-minute mark,could no longer defend againstforce and was forced to GG.Not much happened in the early game withgoing safely for a mech composition andgearing up for Infestors.was planning to invest a lot in banshees, butscouted the starport and the tech lab researching cloak sostopped the banshee investment.Throughout this gamewas once again really successful with his zergling run-bys and he was able to take out SCVs left and right and force cancels onattempts to take more bases.This game though got into the lategame as well withonce again getting broodlords. This timewas a bit better prepared for them and was able to take them all out by having the far superior air force which consisted of vikings and ravens.however switched into Ultralisks andhad no real answer for them and the Infestors and was forced to GG in the end, in a set that also almost reached the 30-minute mark.built a lot of zerglings early on that didn't really do that much damage.went for a lot of blue flamed hellions eventually going up to 10 of them.on the other hand was going for Mutas and he had no real defense against all the hellions and they managed to kill almost 30 drones!tried to counterattack with his mutas, buthad already prepared with turrets andwas too far behind and was forced to GG.went for some 10-pool aggression, butscouted the incoming zerglings with an SCV and he cancelled his CC building at the natural and started building it in his main instead and took no damage from10-pool.Once againwent for blue flamed hellions, and although he didn't get quite as many of them as in the last gamestill weren't properly prepared for them. And in this game as wellmanaged to kill around 30 drones with his hellion harass.tried some zergling run-bys, but they were pretty much all denied byand the failed 10-pool and especially the hellion harass had givedsuch an economic lead that when he finally moved out his mech army was far too powerful forto stop andtied up the series.once again went for mech andonce again went for his usual aggressive zergling style. Throughout the entire early game he didn't really do any damage with the speedlings though asonce again used his hellions perfectly.also did some harass with the hellions which was somewhat successful although not as devastating as in the last game.Eventuallywent up to Infestors whilekept playing insanely safe and doing all he could to avoid zergling run-bys while also baiting out fungals with banshees.This meant that whenfinally pushed out with his truly scary mech armydidn't have that much Infestor energy left.was able to delay the push with one really good zergling run-by, but it still did not give him enough time to come up with any force that could matcharmy. He tried his best with all his Infestors, but they didn't really have any support sotook the game and the lead for the first time in the series.Before the gamelooked incredibly stressed out and it really felt likewas going to take this set and the championship.hadn't lost faith in his style though and he once again played his usual agressive ling style. This time though he was more careful with his lings anddidn't do any real damage with his hellions which he had once again gone for.was able to force cancels on numerous CCs while getting a perfect economy and going for Infestors and eventually Broodlords. Once againtried to forceto spend his infestor energy on banshees, but this time Life had a lot of other stuff to support his infestors and when he pushed out with his max Roach/Infestor/Broodlord/Corrupter armyhad no answer andtook the set.At this pointalmost looked as relieved and happy as if he had won the entire championship.This was pretty understandable though as he had forced a final and deciding set againstand suddenly proven to himself and the world thatstill hadn't completely figured him out yet.once again went for a 10-pool and he managed to getquick natural expansion cancelled, but besides that he didn't get anything done and economically he was therefore behind.went for his double factory heavy reactor'd hellion style and it looked likewas ready for it, as he started a roach warren, but then he didn't build any roaches anyway and went for a spire instead.Sodid a lot of damage with the hellions and killed a ton of drones at the natural of Life, and Life practically did no damage with his counter attack with mutas.At this point the game almost looked over aswas still not even mining on his third.From therewent for a lot of factorys and a Thor focused composition whereaswent for Infestors and Roaches.took his fourth in the center andtook his fourth and fifth andwent for a big thor push onfifth.took out the base, butmanaged to fungal and surround all the Thors and therefore take them all out.At the same timedid a counter attack atfourth, but it was a planetary andbarely saved it, but lost a lot of SCVs.Suddenlywas back in the game and he could safely go into broodlord tech. At the same time he had a lot of Infestors that he could allow tanking up energy ashad no way of moving out.Eventuallypushed out with Infestors/Broodlords and for a whilewas able to defend against them, buthad secured a great economy and he could just keep sending units and as he preventedfrom mining anywhere he was able to eventually outlast him.Sotook the game which was certainly among the best sets of a GSL final and he took the championship in a GSL tournament that has no doubt been the hardest and most competitive so far of all the GSLs.We can't really believemanaged to win that last game against. What a fantastic comeback byand what an amazing game! (Go buy a season's pass or whatever and watch it atOur favorite sets of the day: