Squirtle vs. Heart

First set was on Whirlwind

Second set was on Antiga Shipyard

Squirtle vs. Heart = 2-0

Hero vs. Leenock

First set was on daybreak

second set was on Cloud Kingdom

third and deciding set was on Antiga Shipyard

Leenock vs. Hero = 2-1

Squirtle vs. Leenock

First set was on Ohana

second set was on Cloud Kingdom

Leenock vs. Squirtle = 2-0

Hero vs. Heart

first set was on Ohana

second set was on Antiga Shipyard

Hero vs. Heart = 2-0

Squirtle vs. Hero

First set was on Cloud Kingdom

second set was on Entombed Valley

Hero vs. Squirtle = 2-0

So today's GSL Round of 16 group, was group B which consisted ofandEven though our average win rate prediction (see post below) suggested thatandwould advance from today's group, we have to admit that we ourselves were probably rooting more for the other three players.withspawning in the top right andin the bottom left.did a greedy quick 3-base macro build andeventually went up to 3 bases as well, but was behind in economy throughout most of the game.tried to breakthird base many times with his lead in army supply, butwon all the engagements while also doing very effective Zealot harass atthird.Whenfinally did a big counter push he crushedarmy and took the set.within the top right andin the bottom left.This time they both went up to two bases both of them going for double upgrades.was a bit slower with his colossus tech than in set 1 andtried hard to put on heavy aggression with his 2-base bioforce and he managed to do a very effective 4 medivac drop taking outmain nexus.on the other hand won a big engagement in the center a short while later and from there they both went up to three bases.Around the 16-minute markdid a massive push that took outthird just before Storm had finished.though in the meanwhile harassedthird and took out all his SCV's.So in the end neither was practically mining and it came down to a final engagement wherestormed allvikings and afterwards meltedremaining forces with Colossi and storms winning the Protoss the series.did a Forge-Fast expand and then tried a cannon rush at the third ofended up investing heavily in it building 4 cannons and 2 pylons, butmanaged to safe his third so at this pointhad wasted quite a lot of minerals.then went up to 7 gateways and tried a timing attack atthird wherealso had his macro hatch.took out the macro hatch, butonce again managed to save the original third.Nowwas far ahead in economy andquite late tried to take this third to catch up.Butproduced a massive amount of roaches along with a few infestors and he just started sending waves towards the natural and third ofeventually outlasting him and with thattook the set.Thewent for some 3-base mutalisk play, but hero did a warp prism zealot drop that took outspire so his mutalisk count stayed at his initial 12.But his mutalisk still gave him map control and he was able to take a fourth and fifth base while keepinghome on the defense.eventually pushed out and took outfourth but in the meantimewas going up to a infestor/broodlord composition.Whenhad around 12 broodlordsmanaged to do another successful warp prism harass that took outgreater spire, and at the same time he pushed and took outfifth base.then went for a big broodlord/infestor push atfourth, butjust barely managed to defend it.went up to five bases while denying Leenock's attempt to take a fifth. He also did a fantastic storm drop on the drones atfourth andeconomy was completely destroyed.decided to go for a final big infestor/broodlord push atfourth and managed to take it out withretreating.Eventually thoughreinforced and went back for an attack onarmy andmanaged to sandwich it and with good storms and blink-micro take out all ofarmy.So at this pointhad no army or economy left and was forced to GG.Thewent up to two bases andup to three bases without either getting bothered.Whentried to take his third,pushed with a big bunch of roaches to deny it, butcontrolled too well and managed to defend it.on the other hand pulled of a very successful warp prism zealot warp in at the main ofand it killed a lot of drones.tried different roach attacks, butwas on top of everything andjust kept losing units.tried to take his fourth in the top butdenied it with a warp prism. Insteadtook the center base instead, but hero denied this as well while Hhimself expanded in the bottom left.then double expanded in the top right while going up to broodlords, butonce again took out both oftwo new bases so he was still only on three bases, whiletook his fifth.once again tried to take a fourth base, butdenied it again while taking his own sixth base.At this pointhad no mining, but a giant broodlord/infestor/queen army so he pushed towardsbase, knowing that he had to win the game with that army.In the center he managed to neuralmothership and throw down a perfect vortix on all ofColossi and then take them out when they spawned.He then went towardsmain and with perfect army control he took outoriginal main, natural and third base forcingto retreat.still denied any attempts fromto expand sowas still mining on three bases withnot mining at all.Butjust continued his push towards the new bases ofand in the endnever found an answer forbig army, andwas forced to GG in a cool game that he had dominated completely untilfinal push.within the top andin the bottom.went for an early 10-pool attack and with that he managed to force a cancel onnatural, but apart from that he couldn't do any damage asgot a cannon down in his main.So the game transitioned into normal game withgoing up to three bases andonce again up to two.took his fourth andtook his third (really delayed though because of a burrowed zergling).Eventuallypushed out with a max'd zergling/infestor/roach army and for a long while he just kept pushing at the natural and third constantly sending new units and he very effeciently managed to take out all the important units ofWhen he followed up a couple of minutes later with broodlord/infestorsonly had stalkers to defend and was therefore crushed.Thewithspawning in the bottom left andin the top right.did a three base push with a good bunch of sentries that took outfourth.then retreated andretook his fourth and also a fifth while going up to hive.took his fourth and geared up for a big timing before any ofdear broodlords could get out.had a lot of spines at his fourth, buttiming was perfect and his attack landed right before broodslords were done and he was able to take out the fourth and third of. He then retreated as the broodlords came out and a short while later even managed to take out the original fifth ofexploiting the slow speed of the broodlords.took his fifth whileretook his fourth and once againfound himself down in bases and economy but in this game as well he still had a big infestor/broodlord army.got a fifth base, butdenied his attempt to take a sixth, and a few minutes later also took out the fifth ofwith Archons.So at this pointhad 6000 minerals and 3000 gas and a really scary max'd out army.took his sixth, but whenpushed out with his broodlord/infestor army he managed to take out the fourth base ofIn the end it came down to a final big engagement and once againBroodlord/Infestor/Queen couldn't be stopped. Bothand(and every other protoss in the world) should be scratching their heads right now wondering how on earth that composition ofcan be stopped.Thewithin the bottom andin the top.expanded pretty quickly whereaswent for a somewhat fast 1-base marine/banshee/tank push (1-1-1 build).managed to catch a few ofstalkers out on the map withdidn't have nowhere near enough to stopfrom taking out his natural.At this pointhadcontained in the main and I think he considered leapfrogging in with the tanks, but he accidentally miss-clicked and killed one of his own tanks so instead he retreated.He stayed on one base though and a couple of minutes later he went for a final all-in attack.had also stayed on 1 base though, and at this point he had a bunch of immortals and phoenixes out.got a good siege up in reach ofbuildings, butmanaged to engage perfectly with his immortals and phoenixes and he took outarmy and with that won the set.Thewithin the top left andin the bottom right.once again expanded relatively fast, whereaswent for a four hellion medivac drop.scouted the drop though and defended perfectly in his main. At the same timetried to get a bunker up bynatural, but this was deflected as well.Soaggression didn't do anything at all, but he had built another CC in the meantime so the game seemed to transition into a longer game.A few minutes later thoughgot his first Colossus out and he decided to go for a poke attack, that was in no way all-in as he was building twilight, and double forge behind it.didn't have stim and no real way of defending against the single Colossus andjust force fielded the ramp and he could easily take out the natural andGG'd.won the one-sided game and series in very dominating fashion.within the bottom andin the top and actually turned out to be a pretty cool and weird game.did a 3 stalker into expand build whereaswent for a 1-base 3 gates and stargate play.pushed at the natural ofwhen he had about 4 Phoenixes and for almost 10 minutes it was just an insane macro game with the small engagements constantly going back and forth.upgraded +1 attack which must have been a mistake, especially since he only had two phoenixes left, but in the the micro ofwas slightly better and eventually he was able to take outlast units and with that the game.Thewithin the top left andin the bottom left.went for a phoenix build andfor a Blink stalker with observer build.went to pressure with the blink stalkers and with perfect micro he managed to take out quite a lot ofunits. After the while he decided to force field the ramp and trapin his main, whilehimself could safely expand.got his expansion up, but at the same time managed to blink into the main ofand take out important units like immortals.Eventuallygot a Colossus out, butonce again blinked in and took it out. So Squirtle had no real army and was on 1 base so that was GG with Hero definitely having chosen the best build in the match.So the player's that advanced from today's group wereand, meaning that the average match rate statistics this time proved absolutely useless.Congratulations toandon moving into the RO 8 which as you can see below looks absolutely horrible this season. Auch... you could cut yourself to death on that RO8.Anyway, today we saw a lot of pretty one-sided games with 4 of the 5 series ending 2-0, but also a few pretty cool games.If we had to recommend one series it would be the one betweenand(especially set 2 and 3).