Mvp vs. Rain

Set 1 - Whirlwind - Mvp in top left and Rain in bottom left

Mvp vs. Rain = 0 - 1

After killing Mvp's tanks Rain could easily feast on Mvp's poor troops

Set 2 - Abyssal City - Mvp to the left and Rain to the right

Mvp vs. Rain = 1 - 1

Mvp used his ghosts effectively and no forcefields could save Rain

Set 3 - Entombed Valley - Rain in the top left and Mvp in bottom right

Mvp vs. Rain = 1 - 2

In the final engagement Rain knew Mvp was all-in so he threw

down some cannons and defended the all-in beautifully

Set 4 - Antiga Shipyard - Mvp in the top left and Rain in the bottom right

Mvp vs. Rain = 2 - 2

For a brief moment it looked like Rain could come back,

but Mvp simply had the economy to outproduce Rain

Set 5 - Cloud Kingdom - Rain in the top right and Mvp in the bottom left

Mvp vs. Rain = 3 - 2

Vikings are pretty good against Colossi it seems

Life vs. TaeJa

Set 1 - Abyssal City - TaeJa to the left and Life to the right

Life vs. TaeJa = 1 - 0

Life does what he does best and baneling busts TaeJa's main

Set 2 - Whirlwind - TaeJa in bottom right and Life in top right

Life vs. TaeJa = 2 - 0

TaeJa tries to get up a good defense outside his natural and third,

but Life does not mind attacking into sieged tanks

Set 3 - Entombed Valley - TaeJa in the bottom left and Life in the top right

Life vs. TaeJa = 3 - 0

One of TaeJa's almost desperate attempts to break Life

Set 4 of Mvp vs. Rain

Set 3 of TaeJa vs. Life





went for relatively quick expand.went for reactor'd hellions and medivac.defended pretty well against the, but still lost 9 probes.expanded from here while sending a banshee to harass. The banshee did pretty well, but whencounter-pushed with a big 2-base sentry/immortal based army,was forced to lift up his orbital at the natural and retreat to his main.This gavea big lead in economy, but their army supply was somewhat similar.also got pretty ahead in tech and when they finally engagedalso caughttanks slightly unsieged and his colossi torearmy apart winning him the first set.Both players played pretty safe and they each got up to three bases without taking any damage.focused on ghosts anticipating thatwould go for high templars which he did.tried some warp prism/templar harass inmain, buthad placed two vikings in probable drop locations and he managed to take the warp prism out whilewas spawning units from it.did however manage to storm and take out almost all ofworkers in the main.At the same time though,pushed with his massive bio/medivac + ghost army and he landed some very good EMP's and even thoughthrew down a few good storms and forcefields, they weren't enough to save him androlled him over and took the set.They both got up to 2 bases unharassed.From therewent for a pretty quick 2-base medivac/marine push, butdeflected it with an immortal/sentry based army andretreated.A short while latertook his third and this causedto pull most of his SCVs and go for a big 2-base push that was aimed to hit just before the first colossus was out.reacted perfectly though and cancelled his third and walled of with force fields and was able to delay the attack until his colossus got out andwas forced to retreat again.Rain took his third again while getting some colussi out and also getting high templars.stayed on 2 bases and finally went for an all-in push with all his SCVs and a bunch of vikings.however had too much and was able to defend with good storms andwas forced to GG.took his natural and built a third CC in his main quickly whereasstayed a bit longer on 2 bases while going up to colossus tech.He trickedinto thinking he was focusing heavily on collosi andoverproduced vikings a bit before realisinghas switched to templar tech.took his third andwent for a big push.had an upgrade advantage, buthad a more army supply and he was able to do lots of damage with the push, withbeing forced to use probes to defend.So from herewas ahead in economy and he built to extra bases and started dropping different places to keepin his base. The drops weren't that damaging, but they did keepin his base and when they finally engagedwas ahead in army supply once again and he also managed to catch half of Rain's army that had been split up andsimply crushed him and took the set.went rax>CC (natural)>CC (main) while also delayingnatural with an ebay block.on the other hand did his already infamous quick DT into expand built that went something like this:gateway>gas>Cybernetics>gas>twilight>Nexus>dark shrine.built two DTs, buthad a bunker in front of his natural and was building a turret sopulled them back and for a long while he instead used the DTs with drops in the main and to delaythird and so forth. All in alldid built quite a lot of DTs all of which he of course lost so he spent quite a lot of money on them.They both got a decent 3-base economy, but it felt likewas a step ahead of, perhaps becausehad invested too much in DTs.had begun focusing on colossi, buthad gone up the two starports relatively early so he had a lot of vikings.Eventuallypulled a lot of SCVs and went for a big push that was practically all-in.had started templar achieves, but it wasn't done so he tried building defensive cannons once again.But whenarrived his vikings quickly took care ofcolossi and from therehad no way of defending sotook the set and the series, and with that moved on to another GSL finalwent for his classic heavy bio composition with double ebay.went for some pretty quick 2-base muta aggression. He only built 6 mutas though and from there took his third. He harassed a bit in TaeJa's main with his mutas and then went for a big baneling bust up the ramp tomain.He killed a ton of SCVs and did a lot of damage with zergings and banelings in general. At the same timecounterattacked and managed to take outnatural.was ahead in supply though and unfortunatelyaccidentally sent a lot of SCVs towardsmain and lost them all to banelings in the middle of map.From herehad the economy to restart muta production and built a lot of banelings and eventually he just overranand claimed the first set.went command center first which he built in his main, andwent 10-pool and a bunch of very quick zerglings.however used his CC to wall of and therefore it looked likeearly aggression wouldn't do anything, but suddenlyaccidentally lowered his depot and ended up losing 3-4 SCVs and a lot of mining time.From here the game transitioned with both players taking three bases andfocusing a bit on reactor'd hellions.But omgis fucking crazy and in this gamereally got to show his very own style of zerg to perfection. For the rest of the game there was just constant aggression from him.He stayed so long on lair tech and with his baneling/zerglings/mutalisk force he just kept forcingto stay at home and defend.Althoughagain and again threw away a lot of army supply, with every attack he also managed to take out so many SCVs.At some point he was also able to take outthird base and had at this point killed more than 60 SCVs in the game.Eventuallysafely got up to infestors as well with his economy at this point being far superior totried a final push, but was crushed by fungals and banelings.A long and close macro game in whichwent up to three bases a bit quicker andwent for his double ebay bio style again.In this gamewas generally able to put on a bit more aggression, but once againshowed that he just uses zerglings better than anyone in the world.He constantly does run-bys and tries to take out workers or small parts of army.Around the 11-minute markdid a very successful baneling attack atthird killing almost 20 SCVs and at the same time he focused heavily on infestor production at home.The game went back and forth for a while with a lot of fighting in the middle of the map while Life got some broodlords out and TaeJa got a bunch of vikings out.There were some engagements that went either way, and in one of them TaeJa took out Life's broodlords, but lost his army while doing so and from there Life transitioned to Ultralisks again.In the end though Life's constant agression was just too much for TaeJa. Especially when Life started sending burrowed infestors to all the bases of TaeJa and the infested terrans just tore TaeJa's economy apart.With that Life took the series in impressive fashion and moved on the final in his first GSL ever.Recommended games of the day:and