GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open Round of 32 Day 3 - Live report

15:35 - Loner pushing out with his army, annihilating the zerg army, getting the true upper hand.



But deciding to take it slow, he expands and builds up a bigger army.

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Now he attacks, and no chance for Terious to turn this around. GG, 2-1 to the Chinese Terran player!

15:28 - Loner going for a little reaper scout in the third game, now going for a three-barracks strategy.

Sadly for Loner, the two zerglings were able to run inside the base clearly spotting the three barracks without any tech lab.

Baneling nest coming up for the zerg, if he gets them out in time it will be impossible for Loner's marine timing attack. Smart as he is, he falls back.

15:21 - Terious counter-attacking while seeing Loner in the middle of the map on the way to the Zerg expansion. Fended off with banelings, Loner falls back. Going back and forth around the map, Loner is having hard time to recover.

The zerglings inside the main of Loner is doing a lot of damage. With more units, with banelings and mutalisks coming in, Terious hits the last nail in the coffin to take the second game.

15:18 - Terious, having opted for mutalisks, has it tough against Loner's marine/viking army. Loner takes out Terious's third expansion, landing on an even two-base keel.

Loner and Terious on even supply.

15:10 - Loner with the same Hellion -> Stargate -> Command Center as last game. Manages to kill two scouting zerglings out in the open.

Terious with his two first roaches out.

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Loner builds a viking for taking out overlords and getting further map control, leaving Terious totally in the dark.

15:10 - Xel'Naga Caverns, Loner walling in like we saw in the previous game, at top right. Terious bottom left, going for his natural expansion.

15:07 - Loner, with sublime macro, gets another force up and moves out, only to have to fall back and defend a counter-attack from Terious.

Loner moving out again, he kills the gold expansion from Terious. He then moves up to the Zerg's front and just kills all the units. GG from Terious!

15:03 - Zergling runby by Terious, killing almost all of the SCVs in the natural expansion of Loner.

Loner pays no attention to it and goes for the push with his marine, marauder, medivac attack that gets shattered by the roaches and queens.

Tough for Loner, but is acutally not that far behind as Terious's drone count is very small. "Zerg has to really get it back together," says Tasteless.

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Another sizable army moving out from Loner, but burrowed banelings manages to kill off 20 or so marines, turning the game around completely.

Terious now roams the match with a set of mutalisks, having pushed back the Terran. He also ulitlizes his gold expansion.

14:51 - First map on Scrap Station, Loner at 12 o'clock, Terious at 12 o'clock. Loner walling in with a quick Factory and a Command Center, and Terious getting Roach Warren after laying down a very quick expansion.

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A hellion doing some scouting in the zerg base, and manages to kill one drone.

A zergling roach bust might be what Terious is opting for.

Loner has a banshee coming up.

14:51 - Last match series of today, Loner versus Terious.

14:40 - Too many banelings and brood lords for from TheWinD. Maka says GG, the Round of 8 finisher in GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open Season 1 is eliminated.

TheWinD is in Round of 16.

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Last match of today, China's Loner against Terious, coming up soon.

14:38 - Big attack from TheWinD, with Brood Lords, Zerglings and Infestors. Though the many vikings of Maka helps the Terran to stay alive in the game.

14:35 - Tons of banelings attacking the clumped up marine force, who had sniped off some mutalisks earlier.

Fungal growth on some of the dropping medivacs at TheWinD's expansion.

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Brood Lords on the way. Both players have their gold expansions, but TheWinD has the upper advantage with way more workers.

14:30 - TheWinD goes for a lot of speedlings and roaches to try to break Maka's base. Being forced lift off his expansion to the main base, Maka is behind, albeit a banshee out.

Banshee pounding at TheWinD's third expansion, but Queens come in time to defend it.

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Speedlings and roaches going at it again in at the expansion. Maka a bit more well prepared, add to that TheWinD's bad formation of units, hence he fends off the attack.

Counter-attack for MakaPrime, but the many zerglings picks off the marine, marauder attack for Maka.

14:21 - Game 2 on Xel'Naga Caverns, MakaPrime in the blue in the top right, TheWinD bottom left.

14:19 - Five-army ultralisks, banelings and zerglings going at Maka's front defense. Manages to kill off most of Maka's armies. Another tech-switch from TheWinD, now moving in with Brood Lords at Maka's second expansion.

GG from Maka.

14:16 - Maka attempts a drop in the main, but felt the need to back away as TheWinD moving down his masses of units to the main.

TheWinD attacks the natural expansion with Brood Lords without Maka having any air to defend with.

Allthewhile, Maka tried to marine drop one of TheWinD's expansions to no use.

"Now it's a 1a2a3a move now," says Tasteless about the Zerg's upcoming moves.

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Ultralisks on the way. Three so far. TheWinD is maxed out.

14:12 - Big battle now at the outside of TheWind. Fungal growth and tons of mutalisks and banelings against siege tanks and marines make almost an even army trade.

More banelings and mutalisks reinforces the defensive line for TheWinD, while Maka has a set of thors in his medivacs.

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Greater spire coming up. Brood Lords on the way.

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Maka going for a drop in the top left expansion, with marines, thorsand medivacs. But scanning, seeing banelings, he moves away.

14:07 - Lots of Zergligns out for TheWinD, picking off Maka's marine, marauder troop out in the open.

TheWinD now attacking the natural expansion, killing off the bunker with his banelings, but zerglings are stopped by SCVs and some marines.

Maka now heavily pushed back, with no army to attack, which gives TheWinD time to set up his third base. At the same time he gets his mutalisks up.

14:05 - Three barracks down for MakaPrime, with an Orbital Command ready to take the natural expansion.

TheWinD has speedlings done, and the baneling nest coming up.

Maka opting for a little push with his small marine, marauder troop.

13:59Third match of today. MakaPrime against oGsTheWinD.



TheWinD on the bottom left as red Zerg, MakaPrine top right as teal Terran. TheWinD taking his fast expansion.

13:47 - Zerglings and mutalisks going in now to MC's expansion. Mutalisks doing a lot of damage to the probes. Stalkers doing their best to defend, but without blink they have trouble catching the mutas that fly from natural expansion to main base to harass the probe line.

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GG from oGsMC after too many mutalisks in the Protoss base.

13:44 - Warp Prism out for the Protoss, doing a stalker drop at the natural expansion cliff of the Zerg.

Frontal attack coming now, NesTea looking solid but we see some nie force fields being laid down. More and more roaches and spine crawlers fends off the attack.

Protoss expands.

13:41 - Three gateway and a Robotics Facility being warped in for MC.

NesTea with with Roach Warren being popped in very soon.

13:37 - At the 13:37 time, we have a cross location match-up on Lost Temple now. NesTea in the bottom, MC in the top.

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NesTea goign for spawning pool and extractor again before the fast expansion, while oGsMC is going for basically the same build order as last game. Not likely to go dark templars again, so perhaps we'll see a Void Ray/Stalker build with blink?

13:35 - NesTea has destroyed the rocks to open up MC's base, and can overwhelm the Protoss base who had too little troops to defend with.



Failed dark templar timing attack from MC. "Unexpected game," said Tasteless. "Solid and safe play," says Artosis.

13:33 Twilight Council getting warped in for MC, allthewhile with having a total of four gateways.

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Dark Shrine laid down. MC moves out with some early stalkers, zealots to buy time for the dark templars to go out.

Some nice set of force fields laid down, taking out the roaches. Dark templars move forward, but can be seen by NesTea thanks to the Overseer.

NesTea holds it off. Overseer and roaches countering the dark templar/stalker attac pretty well.

13:28 - MC as Protoss in the top of Scrap Station, NesTea as Zerg at the right.

NesTea going for spawning pool and extractor before hatchery. MC laying down a cybernetics core right next to his gateway to block the choke.

13:23 - We're gonna get Scrap Station as a first match between these guys. Protoss player oGsMC versus Zerg player NesTea.

13:17 - Zenio advances to Round of 16, and will play IdrA in a tough Zerg mirror match-up.

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In the post-game interview Zenio says that he opted for the many drops on Lost Temple because the air distance was so close. He also wanted to make another expansion so he wanted to drop his opponent.

Zenio also said he has not practiced Zerg mirror that much since the matchup has changed a lot lately. Looking towards facing IdrA in the Round of 16, he says he has to practice more.

Next match coming up soon!

13:11 - Stream having some difficulties, switching to the SQ stream.

A big blunder for Zenio now, a terrible drop in the main, getting swiped out by the many marines of mvp.

mvp seems to have turned the game around now. Now throwing outa big push with marauders, marines and siege tanks going at Zenio's baneling, roach, mutalisk troop.

mvp slowly gaining ground in the middle, doing the impressive spread of marines. Tasteless says the thinks mvp should fall back. "The timing's gone."

mvp going for an all-in attack, but Zenio crushes the army with his baneling/roach combo. Nwo Zenio holds the bottom of the map, with a 15-ish mutalisks up in the air.

mvp struggling now.

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Last attempt for mvp now, but gets caught up by the many mutalisks of Zenio in the middle. GG! 2-1 to Zenio, and the former Woonjing Stars StarCraft 1 progamer is eliminated!

13:05 - Twice as much supply for Zenio now, around 100 against mvp's 50.

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Zenio loses almost all of his overlords, clearly not paying attention to his overlords in the base of mvp!

mvp back in the game now, with a counter-drop with the support of two banshees.

13:00 - Lots of roaches out now for Zenio, opting for a big roach drop. Zenio doing a lot of damage with his roaches, but mvp holds on.

Another drop, with some zerglings as well.

mvp counter-drops at the natural expansion of Zenio, keeping the Zerg busy.

Roaches still roaming around, now hindering mvp to use his natural expansion.

12:56 - mvp with a hellion to do a little bit of front harass but is fended off by the two Queens while waiting for the spine crawler to pop up.

Overlord inside mvp's base, sees the full story of the Terran base.



Roach Warren for Zenio. Transferred SCVs for mvp who now has his expansion up and running.

12:54 - Lost Temple now. MVP at the top, Zenio at the right. Zenio sending his overlord in the right direction.

Another greedy 14-pop fast expand from Zenio. Lays down a spawning pool as well.

mvp getting his first factory up, while scouting the base of Zenio.

12:48 - Ultralisks dying like flies to mvp's planteray fortress and marauders, marines. mvp keeping up with the fight, but Zenio is just throwing more and more units to the Terran.

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mvp on the offense again, with his bio force backed by medivacs.

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Fungal growth on medivacs!

mvp is so behind, but is unwilling to give up.

Nope, nope, GG now. 1-1! We're going into a third game on Lost Temple!

12:45 Infestors and Brood Lords up for Zenio. Brood Lords going at mvp's gold expansion now. Can mvp stop it?

One Thor out for mvp, not being able to hold off the Brood Lord attack.

A Zergling drop in the main of mvp from Zenio. Picks off a set buildings, crippling Zenio a little.

Finding the best defense is offense, mvp goes for a little bio drop, but without much luck against the well-defending Zenio.

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Ultralisks now out for mvp. Infestors, roaches and ultralisks preparing an attack. "A nice big attack". Zenio throws in his units, but mvp manages to barely hold off the attack.

Tough for mvp now, should be GG at any point now. Zenio with complete mpa control, mvp just defending now while re-building his troops.

12:39 Marauder, marine drop int the main for Zenio, at the same time as a push in the front. Zenio's big army of mutalisks, banelings and roaches fends it off.



mvp gets his second expansion in the middle.

Hive up for Zenio, set to counter the tank play that mvp is opting for.

12:35 Banshee harassing the natural expansion of Zenio.

Baneling speed and roach speed getting researched a lot faster from Zenio, having learned since last game.

Lots and lots of roaches and banelings on the way out for Zenio, which mvp sees and falls back with his marine/marauder troop.

Starport done for mvp, going for banshees most likely while expanding at his natural. Defended by a bunker of course.

Double Queen for Zenio, who also has added a second expansion in the top left.

Bashee out for mvp, scouting the map a bit.

12:31 mvp going for the same build order, Zenio the same. Both players have sent out a scout to see each other.

Zenio steals the gas with an extractors, but cancels it only to lose the drone to the lone marine.

12:29 Zenio as blue Zerg to the bottom left on Metalopolis, top right we have mvp as red Terran.

I think we could actually see a game three, the game was tighter than mvp made it look, said Artosis. Remains to be seen, as we're getting into the second game now.

12:26 mvp is performing very impressively, he plays very StarCraft 1-ish, and has made some very nice decisions in the game.

mvp getting his second expansion now, in the top middle.

Marines, medivacs and tanks feels the top right expansion if Zenio shouldn't exist, and moves out on it. Zenio tries to defend it with a bunch of banelings, but mvp micros well enough to hold it off. Marine spread deluxe!

GG from Zenio.

12:23 Zenio moving out again, taking on MVP's expansion. MVP at the same time going all-in on Zenio's base. Base-trade incoming.

Banelings defending the attack though, but the Marauders are fast in eliminating the threat.

Zenio falls back with the mutalisks, trying to save his main base. More reinforcements coming in from MVP, keeping the pressure up.

12:21 Two-base versus Two-base now. Terran regroups with his Marine/Marauder army supported by aa tank and three medivacs.

Zenio still roams the map with his ten mutalisks and zerglings. Feeling the map advantage, he double expands.

12:18 Zenio researching burrow. Commentator Artosis predicts Zenio using burrowed banelings.

A set of roaches destroyed the destructible rocks at the back of the Terran's expansion.



Mutalisks up now for Zenio, against MVP's Terran bio army.

12:15 MVP has expanded, and has thrown down a handful of barracks, opting for a bio mix.

Reaper still in the main of Zenio, but hasn't done a lot of damage but is there mostly for scouting.

Three roaches out for Zenio, as well as eightish Zerglings roaming the map.

12:14 Double Queen on the way for Zenio, then getting his Roach Warren up.

MVP's Reaper inside Zenio's base doing some harass.

12:12 On Jungle Basin we have MVP spawning at top left, Zenio at bottom right.

MVP laying down his first supply at the choke, then goes out to scout. Zenio goes for a fast expansion at 14, which gets spotted by MVP's scouting SCV.

12:10: Players getting ready! MVP to the left and Zenio with the red hair to the right.

Maps for the Round of 32 are Jungle Basin, Metalopolis and Lost Temple.

In case you totally missed out on our awesome coverage yesterday, here are the results from yesterday.

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And here's today's matchups:

12:00 The show has started! Tasteless and Dan are greeting us welcome now. Not much jet lag on the guys, which is great.



Matches will probably go live on about 10-15 minutes. Progamers are very picky on their settings, everything from chair/table ratio, gamma settings, temperature and more.

11:52 It's nice to see how our beloved commentators Dan and Nick are preparing for the upcoming cast of today.

"just got my hair done at the GOM studio, almost time for the GSL! MVP vs Zenio will be really fun, can't wait to see how good MVP is!"
- @Artosis

"Sitting in a PC cafe in Seoul. It smells heavily of cigarettes and ramen. Alas... i miss that smell of pot and B.O from #Blizzcon"
- @CallMeTasteless

11:40: Remember this guy? oGsZenio? He annihilated nerve wreck Jjakji in the Round of 64, and is one of the more interesting Zerg players in the tournament.

He won the very first Blizzard sanctioned beta tournament for StarCraft 2, the PlayXP Invitational, eliminating WarCraft 3 virtuoso WhO who played as Protoss.

He's opening up today's round going up against IMmvp, former Woonjing Stars player MVP, now playing for Incredible Miracle. He played Terran in StarCraft 1, and is doing the same in SC2. Will for sure be an interesting game.

11:05 Welcome to another day of the live blogging reGOMTV StarCraft 2 Open. Today's games feature two players we saw at BlizzCon last weekend. Chinese Terran Loner, who came in second at BlizzCon, will go head to head with Zerg player Terious. We also have MakaPrime go up against oGsTheWind.

(T) IMmvp vs. oGsZenio (Z)
(Z) NesTea vs. oGsMC (P)
(Z) oGsTheWinD vs. MakaPrime (T)
(T) Loner vs. Terious (Z)



Artosis here with Loner after his win in the Round of 64.

Matches starting in less than an hour (12:00 CET)! Don't miss!