MaNa vs. asd

first set

second set

third and deciding set

asd vs. MaNa = 2-1

NaNiWa vs. Mini





First set

second set

Mini vs. NaNiWa = 2-0

Flash vs. Killer

first set

Second set

third and deciding set

Flash vs. Killer = 2-1

Today there were some highly anticipated games in the GSL code A, round of 48.The only two foreigners in GSL at the moment,and, both had to play to try and keep their place in GSL.On top of that Broodwar legendhad to play his first regular GSL match, which had naturally also spawned a lot of high expectationswon theon Antiga Shipyard with a very effective 3-base push with perfect storms eventually winning him the game.In theon Entombed Valleymade some good drops early on and eventually a very deadly all-in push with Marines/Tanks/Banshees/SCVs that took outnatural and contained him in his main withbuilding bunkers at the natural.tried to break the contain but couldn't do it, sotook the first set.Thewas on Ohana and ended up looking a lot like the second set.Whenpretty much did the exact same all-in push he once again managed to take outnatural and contain him in his main.tried to break it with immortals and eventually colossi but was more careful than in game 1 this time realizing that he probably wouldn't be able to break it.scouted with his phoenixes thathad moved his mainorbital to his natural, and sincehimself was completely mined out he knew he had to do something quickly.Sodecided to sneak all of his army out of his main with a single warp prism and go for a basetrade.This might have worked better ifhadn't scouted it as quickly as he did, butsaw it and went intomain with all his army quickly taking it out.At the same timehad no difficulty either with taking outmainSo at this pointonly structure was an assimilator that he had placed down inoriginal main. The only structures remaining forwere a couple of buildings that were flying in different directions on the map.found the orbital and took it out eventually giving him vision ofremaining flying structures.In the endarmy was simply a lot bigger though andplayed carefully as he slowly moved towardssingle remaining building.tried to take outremaining structures with his phoenixes butcould simply land the buildings and aslost his last Colossi he could do nothing but GG and realise that his days in GSL were over for now.was on Ohana withspawning in the top andin the bottom.went: Gateway - assimilator - assimilator - cyberneticswent: Gateway - assimilator - cybernetics - assimilatorThis naturally meant thatcybernetics was quicker but thathad more gas.From there they went something like:: Gateway - Robotics - Expansion - Gateway - immortal - blink: Gateway - Twilight - Blink - Expansion - Gateway - Roboticsthen tried to do some blink harassment inmain, but he was ready for it andlost a few of the stalkers puttinga bit ahead in army supply.From therewent into Colossi tech but instead of adding his own robotics support baydecided to throw down 3 additional gateways and go for a big push to try and killbefore he got too many Colossi out.Initially the push fromdid well as he managed to catch one ofimmortals with good forcefields at the ramp to the natural.At this point thoughhad already gotten a few Colossi out andtried different approach-angles to see how he could best try and breakforces. Eventually it led to a rather close engagement whichmanaged to win with good Colossi control.tried to retreat with his remaining attack forces butchased after him and took out two ofimmortals. This gavequite a big lead in army supply andfrantically threw down another robotics facility to try and catch up in Colossi.Butknew he was ahead and he didn't wait long before he pushed and when he did his higher Colossi number won him the final engagement atnatural thus winningthe set.Thewas on Daybreak withspawning in the top right andin the bottom left.Both players pretty much went for the exact same "two gateways and two stalkers into robotics " build.They both got a few more stalkers out andthen managed to catch and take out one of MiNi's stalker out on the map.This causedto go for some pressure at the ramp tomain. Unfortunately forthough, he overextended a bit andcaught some ofstalkers on the ramp.This gavea supply lead as they both took their natural expansions.then went for some warp prism with double immortal drops and throughout the entire game he actually used his warp prism beautifully. First he dropped a few times in the main.Then he dropped atthird forcing a cancel on it, while he himself already had his own third finishing up.also managed to use the warp prism to get map control by dropping the immortals by the watch tower every timetried to claim it with a zealot.then dropped in the main again and then at the natural and then in main again every time only doing a of damage and escaping just in time, which must have been pretty damn annoying forBoth player's had gone up to double robotics but by constantly harassinghad gained a good lead in his Colossi number and overall army supply.This allowedto take his own fourth and at the same time go for a deadly push atthird. Withalso having Archons to tank damage it never really got close andtook the set and the series knockingout of code A.You can say what you want aboutand the somewhat strange behavior he has shown at some times, but you have to respect the fact that he risked everything and went to Korea this year to try and battle the best SC 2 players in the world at the center of the Starcraft scene.With this in mind it's quite understandable thatwas absolutely devastated after his loss.This guy has truly sacrificed a lot of foreign tournaments this year to try and prove himself it Korea and now he is out of the GSL and after losing this series he must be wondering what in the world he is supposed to do now.Thewas on whirlwind withspawning in the top left andin the bottom left.went for a big 2 base Colossi push and as he moved towards the natural base ofit did not look likewould be ready for it at all.However, in a matter of secondsstarting building additional bunkers while repairing the ones in the front beautifully with his SCVs.Eventually he was able to do an impressive hold until he got vikings out and with them he was able to denypush.had invested A LOT in the attack and whenwent for a big counter pushwas behind in army supply.When they engaged the vikings oftook care ofColossi while the stimmed bio army massacredground forces and with that set 1 went towas on Cloud Kingdom and the game quickly developed into a pretty weird game aswent for a proxy robotics facility andwent for a proxy starport.scoutedproxy robotics with the hellions he wanted to drop inmain, but he lost one of the hellions in the process.still dropped inmain though and actually managed to kill quite a lot of probes with his two hellions mainly becausewas supply blocked for a while and unable to warp in units to defend.At the same timehad been able to set up a good defense at home. So whentried to get something out of his proxy play, and push up the ramp to the main he had to way of doing damage asalready had sieged tanks on the high ground.From here the game stabilized a bit with both player's taking their natural, but with Flash being quite a bit ahead after their opening agression.though had sneakily placed down a dark shrine and with this managed to catchcompletely off guard by sending two DTs to the main and two DTs to the natural.had to bring his army all the way back from the middle of the map and while doing so took a devastating amount of damage.From this point onwas in too big of a lead and when they finally engagedtook the set easily withprobably thinking "DTs are for noobs!".Thewas on Entombed Valley withspawning in the bottom right andin the top right.They both went up to three bases relatively fast and without getting bothered.From here the game turned into a game of big engagements.There was never really anything sneaky going on and the game was just decided by who positioned and controlled their units the best in the engagements.Anddid so in their first engagement, mainly by doing great damage to the Colossi with his perfect number of very well positioned VikingsFrom this point onwas in a bit of a lead and as the game continued with a lot of big engagements they both seemed to control their armies really well and quite carefully.But after every engagementsimply managed to come out a bit on top and stay ahead in army supply. At the same timetook his own fourth safely while taking outfourth numerous times, and eventuallyjust got further and further ahead andwas rolled over in the final engagements.There were also some other series today that we unfortunately did not get to watch, but according to Wolf and Khaldor thegames were really nice as well.Anyway, all in all not a great day for foreigners in Korea, but a good day for all those people arguing that it's only a matter of time before Flash will be able to dominate the SC2 scene as he has done in Broodwar.