TheWind vs 
TailsXel'Naga Caverns: Tails went for a DT expand but managed to trick TheWind into thinking that there is a big warpgate timing attack incoming. As Tails moved out to bait zerg's forces, he sneaked the templars in and dealt huge economy damage because of the late overseer. Although his main army got crushed, Tails' ability to remacro his forces in time won him the game.
Terminus: Tails took the strange decision to go for 8-gate charge build after his FE/Stargate opening. The protoss marched towards TheWind's expansion with a large chargelot force but as the hydras melted them in seconds, TheWind counter-pushed to tie the score.
Metalopolis: TheWind opened the final set with a 6-pool and soon his lings were in Tails' base due to him skipping the early zealot. But the protoss managed to stay alive thanks to his good probe/zealot micro and despite the cheese the game somehow managed to reach a mid-game phase as TheWind droned up and took his natural. But Tails was already far ahead in economy and won with a massive stalker/sentry army.
BanBans vs SoccerCrevasse: Soccer opened with a very risky fast nexus build with cannons for defense, hoping that he could stay alive behind his wall long enough to get a decent economy up. But BanBans reacted smartly, proxying a robo, getting a warp prism and breaking Soccer from the inside.
Terminus: BanBans opened with a standard 4-gate and soon his stalkers was knocking at Soccer's front door. Soccer, though, held his ramp for longer than I would've guessed, throwing forcefield after forcefield and constantly denying any effort by BanBans to put down a proxy pylon. When he was almost out of energy, Soccer moved back to bait BanBans' units in and crushed them convincingly as the Zenex protoss had already wasted a lot of resources for proxy pylons.
Dual Sight: Despite scouting BanBans' DT opening with his observer, Soccer made the wrong choice to not cancel his colossus and let the templars in. As BanBans obliterated the probe line, he transitioned into blink stalkers and pushed in for the kill without worrying too much about Soccer's Colossus.
Sheth vs SanCrossfire: Constant maneuvering colored the mid-game with San's blink stalkers constantly on the hunt for Sheth's massive muta army. The actual action kicked off at around the 20-minute mark as Sheth decided to engage San's army but did it in a wrong way, mismicroing his overlorded banelings and putting his mutas in the front. Sheth tried to come back from this horrible engagement but San continued to warp in more and more stalkers and as archons joined the fray it was lights out for the American.
Crevasse: Sheth got a crucial early advantage by sniping two full-energy sentries, greatly reducing the potency of San's 2-base push. Despite the blink, the phoenixes and the void rays, San was not able to kill the constant stream of units from Sheth. A push later, the score was tied.
Metalopolis: Sheth took a quick third in response to San's forge/fast expand and spored up to defend against the void ray tech. The increased macro capability allowed the foreign zerg to repel both the 2-base gateway pressure and the follow-up mass blink all-in. By killing the last remaining stalkers, Sheth would knock the former Code S-er down to the preliminaries.
MMA vs PuzzleXel'Naga Fortress: Puzzle opened with a hidden DT tech and after his initial harass he transitioned into heavy macro play, getting a quick third and composing a deadly army of archons and chargelots. After he obliterated the majority of MMA's army, Puzzle just took a fourth, following Artosis' principle of getting more ahead, and few minutes later the game was his.
Terminus: Puzzle kept winning small battles with his gateway army and by keeping MMA's attention occupied, the protoss did a late DT tech switch, which caught the SlayerS terran completely off-guard. While MMA was dealing with the invisible threat, Puzzle took the time to add Colossi to his army and trample the terran ball in the next big engagement that occurred. The player who beat world's elite to win MLG Columbus was now out of Code A.
| Code A July, Day 2 | |||
| TheWind 1:2 Tails | |||
| TheWind | < | Tails | @ Xel'Naga Caverns |
| TheWind | > | Tails | @ Terminus |
| TheWind | < | Tails | @ Metalopolis |
| BanBans 2:1 Soccer | |||
| BanBans | > | Soccer | @ Crevasse |
| BanBans | < | Soccer | @ Terminus |
| BanBans | > | Soccer | @ Dual Sight |
| Sheth 2:1 San | |||
| Sheth | < | San | @ Crossfire |
| Sheth | > | San | @ Crevasse |
| Sheth | > | San | @ Metalopolis |
| MMA 0:2 Puzzle | |||
| MMA | < | Puzzle | @ Xel'Naga Fortress |
| MMA | < | Puzzle | @ Terminus |
