GSL Season 2 - Round of 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October the 29th - Ro16 - Day 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  NesTea | 2-0 | oGsTheWind | ||||||||||||||||||||||
 BoxeR | 2-0 |  TSL_BabyByeBye | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| oGsInCa | 1-2 | NEXGenius | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| SlayerS_BoxeR | 2-0 |  Loner | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14:23 - In the quarter finals we have SlayerS_BoxeR vs NaDa!
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14:22 - SlayerS_BoxeR interview:
Q: Broken the curse of losing to Chinese players, how does it feel?
Q: When you first decided to go all-in and become a StarCraft 2 pro-gamer, did you have a backup plan?
Q: As such an experienced pro-gamer, what has helped you when you've been nervous?
Q: You play an old rival in NaDa in the next match, what do you feel about that?
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Q: Broken the curse of losing to Chinese players, how does it feel?
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I've been feeling nervous, because I felt this was a bad day for me, but I'm happy to win despite that, and I've been weak against Chinese players since 2004, so I'm very happy”Q: When you first decided to go all-in and become a StarCraft 2 pro-gamer, did you have a backup plan?
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When I first encountered StarCraft 2 I thought to myself, since I enjoy the game, why shouldn't I make money out of it?”Q: As such an experienced pro-gamer, what has helped you when you've been nervous?
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I still feel nervous, my hands get shaky playing GSL, and it's been 1,5 years since I played as a pro-gamer, so I still get nervous”Q: You play an old rival in NaDa in the next match, what do you feel about that?
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Now that I have reached the code S I don't feel much pressure. But this is the first match we have in StarCraft 2, so I want to make a lot of history from it”
14:13 - Boxer sieges up outside Loner's expansion, and Loner ggs, there are only Koreans left in the tournament as Loner, the final non-Korean is out of the tournament losing to the Emperor 2-0 in the round of 16.
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14:12 - Boxer is sniping a few marines with siege tanks. Now Loner is engaging Boxer's sieged up army, Boxer is getting the best from this battle, now chasing Loner back to his base, only one tank left for Loner, is Boxer going for an early kill? Marauders coming to help out, and he's bringing his SCVs to hold it off. Boxer backs off.
14:11 - Boxer managed to kill the medivak with his vikings, both players are making a command center now. Boxer has stacked up his vikings and set them on patrol to not reveal how many vikings he got if Loner would scout him.
14:09 - Both players got their tanks, Boxer is going for vikings, Loner is supply blocked for a short period, but is now pushing out with seven marines, two tanks and a medivak. Boxer has one tank, more marines and two vikings.
14:08 - Loner made Boxer back off, but Boxer forced Loner to make that extra marine. Now it's Loner attacking, one hellion and five marines incoming, Boxer on his ramp with three SCVs and four marines, he snipes off the hellion and kills a couple of marines. It's again Boxer pressuring, but backs off after chasing the marines to the middle of the map.
14:07 - Nothing out of the ordinary from either of the players, a barracks is up for both and the orbital has finished.
Boxer is however pushing out with three marines and an SCV now.
Boxer is however pushing out with three marines and an SCV now.
14:04 - The second game is on Steppes of War, we have the Emperor as the red terran in the top right position, and the last non-Korean left in the tournament, Loner in the bottom right as the blue terran.
14:03 - It is GG from China and 1-0 for the Emperor.
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14:01 - Loner brought in SCVs and everything else he had, but Boxer still managed to survive and is still containing Loner, this is probably going to be a gg any second now.
14:00 - Boxer is now going for a push with tanks sieging up next to Loner's base supported with vikings and marines, Loner tries to engage, loses a tank from it, Boxer is in a huge lead right now and there's not much Loner can do with this attack.
13:59 - Loner with a drop in Boxer's main, but Boxer gets the best off it and kills everything as he got his vikings out. Now Loner is expanding as well. Boxer is landing vikings behind Loner's mineral line, a single siege tank is there to defend, it gets taken out, but another one is out.
13:58 - Boxer is now putting down a command center at his natural, Loner scouts it with a marine though. Loner is getting stim now, Boxer is focusing on tanks in siege mode. Boxer makes a few vikings.
13:56 - Loner is pushing out with marines and a hellion, Boxer takes out the hellion, and holds off the attack. Boxer has made a tech lab to his factory while a medivac is out for Loner.
13:55 - Loner tries to catch Boxer's scouting SCV with a marine, but Boxer gets away. Instead Boxer gets to kill the SCV of Loner.
13:53 - The first game on Metalopolis has started. We have SlayerS_BoxeR in the bottom middle position as the red Terran, and Loner as the blue Terran on the left side position at 9'O Clock.
13:52 - Fan-made SlayerS_BoxeR as Jim Raynor!
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13:50 - The match of the day will start any second, it's a terran mirror match, the emperor himself vs the best player of China, I am so excited, and I'm sure everyone else watching or reading this are as well!
The maps; Metalopolis, Steppes of War, Xel'Naga Caverns
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The maps; Metalopolis, Steppes of War, Xel'Naga Caverns
13:49 - NEXGenius after the game actually pointed at the trophy, then at himself to alert everyone that he's going to win it.
13:46 - BOXER VS LONER COMING UP!
according to Artosis this is the game that will crash the internet, now let's hope that's not going to happen because this is going to be epic!
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according to Artosis this is the game that will crash the internet, now let's hope that's not going to happen because this is going to be epic!
13:45 - Genius interview:
They actually picked my question;
Q: What made you decide to go for the blink rush against InCa when WhiteRa was so close to come out on top when you did it against him at BlizzCon?
Q: How does it feel being the only protoss left in the tournament, is protoss too weak?
They actually picked my question;
Q: What made you decide to go for the blink rush against InCa when WhiteRa was so close to come out on top when you did it against him at BlizzCon?
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Blink stalker is the best option in PvP, even if the opponent manages to hold it off it gives you the advantage in the long run”Q: How does it feel being the only protoss left in the tournament, is protoss too weak?
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Protoss is the strongest race of all three, as FruitDealer brought some fame to the swarm, Genius wants to do the same for protoss”13:38 - Genius picks off a dark templar, one dark templar left in the base of Genius is all he got left, stalkers kill the nexus and InCa ggs, 2-1 for Genius who now moves on to the round of eight.
13:37 - The dark templars are chasing probes and stalkers, while Genius is getting a robotics up hidden in the top left corner waiting for an observer. It seems like Genius is going to take this win.
13:35 - InCa loses stalkers in a battle in the middle as Genius stopped his probe production to get some extra stalkers, InCa is however getting the dark shrine for dark templars, tries to wall his ramp, but Genius has the blink ability so it didn't matter. The stalkers do tons of damage, a dark templar is inside genius' base now, a very intesive game.
13:33 - Both players have put down a twilight council. Genius has three gateways, and it looks like a blink build, and the same thing for InCa.
13:32 - Both players play identical at the moment, getting their cybernetics from one-gate, and another gas has been made.
13:30 - The third and final game is on Xel'Naga Caverns with InCa in the top position, and Genius at the bottom.
13:27 - The stalkers do a ton of damage, and this is going to be an equalizer. 1-1 a InCa ggs.
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InCa after losing the second game
InCa after losing the second game
13:26 - InCa is now putting down an expansion, this could be bad against the blinking stalkers. But he cancels the nexus when the stalkers engage, the attack is coming up, and blinked up the ramp.
13:24 - Both players have their cybernetics finished, InCa, as in the first game, made another gateway before the cybernetics core in case his opponent would make a proxy.
InCa is making a robotics now. Genius is now upgrading blink, and we will probably see a similar game to the one Genius played against WhiteRa at BlizzCon, and it worked out very well.
InCa is making a robotics now. Genius is now upgrading blink, and we will probably see a similar game to the one Genius played against WhiteRa at BlizzCon, and it worked out very well.
13:21 - Game two has started on Metalopolis, positions far away from each other with InCa in the bottom middle position, and Genius in the top middle position.
13:19 - InCa is moving out, engaging Genius, he has two colossus , Genius going only for stalkers but got two robotics making colossus. One of the colossus is out, pushing InCa back, but InCa warps in more stalkers and keeps on pushing Genius' expansion, he almost killed the robotics, but the colossus got out in time. However, it was too much for Genius and he GG'd. 1-0 for InCa.
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Genius upset after game one
Genius upset after game one13:17 - Both players are just sitting on two-base right now macroing up.
13:15 - An expansion is going up for both InCa and Genius.
13:13 - Visit this forum if you want BoxeR to change his name to Foxer. Let him know!
13:11 - The first game has started on Lost Temple. InCa as the red protoss on the right side position, and Genius on the left side position as the blue protoss.
13:10 - Some of the organizers showed up:
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13:07 - A monitor has crashed which might delay the next game a little. The next game is between InCa vs the BlizzCon champ Genius. InCa being a PvP monster in GSL season 1, making this a very exciting mirror match between the two protoss players.
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13:05 - BoxeR interview:
Q: You want to change your ID, what will you change it to? The foreign community recommends, FoxeR.. ?
Q: You haven't played against a terran yet, among the remaining terrans, who do you want to play?
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Q: You want to change your ID, what will you change it to? The foreign community recommends, FoxeR.. ?
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I don't have anything on my mind, but if the foreigners want me to be FoxeR, I'll be FoxeR”Q: You haven't played against a terran yet, among the remaining terrans, who do you want to play?
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I don't want to play against Loner, he has beat me a lot in practice, and I want to play HopeTorture to avenge CheckPrime”
12:57 - SangHo GGs, BoxeR makes barracks all over the map for fun and moves on to the round of eight.
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BoxeR: "Peace out, SangHo"
BoxeR: "Peace out, SangHo"
12:55 - BoxeR has destroyed the rocks at his golden expansion, got his vikings and medivaks, and is looking very good. SangHo has three colossus, and is upgrading the charge ability for his zealots. BoxeR is looking to attack.
12:54 - The colossus is out, but there is not a lot of gateway units out to support it, BoxeR has backed up.
12:53 - BoxeR Jr. is going for a timing attack now that the Nexus has just finished, beautiful force fields are put down, probes now trying to help out.
12:51 - The terran now has three barracks, and SangHo has three warp gates and a robotics, now making his expansion, but BoxeR's expansion has been up for a while already. Now an observer spots the expansion of BoxeR. SangHo is going for colossus.
12:49 - BoxeR has not yet made his gas, while SangHo is doing a standard build with cybernetics core now up. BoxeR has made an expansion, committing to the marines right now. SangHo did not manage to get inside BoxeR's base, so he does not know about this.
12:46 - We have SangHo in the top right corner of Xel'Naga Caverns as the blue protoss, and BoxeR as the red terran in the bottom left.
12:45 - SangHo (BabyByeBye) GGs, and BoxeR is up 1-0, looking quite happy afterwards.
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12:44 - BoxeR takes down the gateway, probes surronded some units, but it looks bad for the protoss. One immortal and a stalker goes down, he does not have anything but probes right now.
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12:42 - Sentries, robotics and another gateway is being made from BabyByeBye. Force field blocks the ramp, preventing BoxeR from entering the base. Four sentries are out along with one zealot. A blunder by BabyByeBye let Boxer's army inside his base, a bunker is going up.
12:41 - We have a Makarax from BoxeR, another BoxeR outside his main aiming for a rush, if it fails he can just lift off the barracks and float it to his base.
12:39 - We have BabyByeBye in the bottom right corner as the blue protoss, and BoxeR top left as the red Zerg, we're on Delta Quadrant.
12:35 - The next match is between BoxeR Jr. and BabyByeBye, the only match today not being a mirror, but a Terran vs Protoss.
This is not SlayerS_BoxeR, but it is the BoxeR who kicked FruitDealer out of GSL.
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This is not SlayerS_BoxeR, but it is the BoxeR who kicked FruitDealer out of GSL.
12:29 - NesTea interview:
Q: What sort of similarities and differences do you find between SC1 and SC2?
Q: How much tea do you drink on a day-to-day basis?
Q: What about the ZergBong ID?
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Q: What sort of similarities and differences do you find between SC1 and SC2?
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The similarities are that both StarCraft 1 and StarCraft 2 is build-based, in SC2 you have roaches which can turn the game”Q: How much tea do you drink on a day-to-day basis?
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(laughs) When I made my ID I just used it because I had a NesTea on my desk next to me when I made the ID”Q: What about the ZergBong ID?
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It doesn't have much meaning, it was ZergBoy from the beginning, but my friends did some typos and the name changed”
12:25 - NesTea takes the second game as well and wins the set 2-0.
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NesTea moves on to the round of eight and the S-code.
NesTea moves on to the round of eight and the S-code.
12:24 - NesTea now has 10 roaches, while TheWind sticked to the zerglings for a while, NesTea is attacking, two spine crawlers are being made, but is it enough?
12:23 - Both players have switched to a roach warren. Two banelings died to the crawler and the queen of NesTea without dealing any damage.
12:22 - NesTea is making a spine crawler while TheWind is making his baneling nest, NesTea knows about it. NesTea is currently upgrading the zerglings speed.
12:21 - TheWind again goes for the early pool with gas, while NesTea got the pool down a bit later, but had his geyser done earlier.
12:19 - TheWind spawning in the bottom left corner of Delta Quadrant as the yellow zerg, with his opponent, NesTea as the red zerg in the bottom right corner. Overlords spot each other.
12:18 - NesTea takes the first game as TheWind GGs, a nicely timed attack from NesTea and an exciting opening of today.
12:17 - NesTea is counter attacking, the same number of roaches for the players, a close battle, and it actually looks like NesTea might be able to complete this mission and take the first game.
12:16 - TheWind with his fast zerglings runs around keeping NesTea very busy, while TheWind is making a roach warren of his own, and his expansino has finished.
12:15 - When NesTea sent his roaches to kill the zerglings attacking the rocks, the metabolic boost ability finished making the zerglings easily run by the roaches, tried to get inside the main, but NesTea blocked his ramp perfectly. Rocks are now down. TheWind is expanding while he's harassing, surrounds the roaches on the ramp with zerglings, but the roaches survived. Some zerglings are inside the main, while some are in the expansion of NesTea, constant harassing, more banelings coming up.
12:12 - TheWind keeps on trying to do damage, but NesTea has his roaches. TheWind is now attacking the rocks in NesTea's main. TheWind has the higher drone count, but NesTea got the roaches and the expansion.
12:11 - Six zerglings are on the way towards NesTea's base, TheWind is now morphing them into banelings on the middle of the map, now engaging, heading for the main.
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12:10 - TheWind makes a pretty early spawning pool and an extractor aiming for some early banelings, while NesTea is expanding..
12:08 - NesTea spawned in the top right corner of Blistering Sands as the red Zerg, while TheWind in the bottom left as the yellow Zerg.
12:06 - The first match is between NesTea and TheWind, a mirror rmatch on Blistering Sands, the second game on Delta Quadrant and if it goes to a third game it will be on Metalopolis.
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12:00 - The stream is live, if you want to watch, head over to GOMTV.net.
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11:50 - The second day of the round of 16 is about to start, 10 minutes to go!
