MMA vs OptimusGame 1 @ Dual Sight. Optimus was quick to find suffering caused by his 1-rax into cloak banshees opening. The first banshee was sniped before cloak even finished and the second fell to a scan and vikings. Thus, Optimus geared up for a marine/tank follow-up attack and pulled a miracle rabbit out of his hat, or rather was handed one by MMA himself. MMA's blue flame hellions - his best defense against the marine force - were caught out of position and died immediately. The advantage for Optimus continued to escalate as MMA lost both his counter-attack banshees and a GG followed up soon.
Game 2 @ Xel'Naga Fortress. The first deviation in the match came when, after minutes of banshee mirror harass, MMA's mech army were caught too far away from his base and got slaughtered by Optimus' marine/marauder. Optimus pushed ahead to deal some economy damage and get a 20 supply lead but instead of expanding right away, he followed that up with a second attack. The latter failed badly and, not without the help of multiple preigniter drops at the same time, MMA turned the tides hugely in his favor. He continued to turtle and hunt Optimus' SCV with hellions until a worker count of 8 pushed Optimus into an all-in attack. As it got stopped by MMA's tanks, the score was equal.
Game 3 @ Tal'Darim Altar. A complete build order loss befell MMA in the third game. His double reactor marines were met with deadly blue fire on their way to Optimus' base and a counter-push from the Prime terran basically determined the end of the game. It took MMA a few more minutes to swallow the necessity of the GG and when he did he was out of the tournament.
Bomber vs KeenGame 1 @ Metalopolis. Keen brought some innovation to the table, opening with a second Starport after his initial one and used his air superiority to secure the success of his preigniter drops. Even though Bomber succeeded into doing a slight Banshee harass, another hellion drop pushed him into attacking with his small tank army. As a banshee popped out for Keen, however, and started killing down the tank count, Bomber had to type out.
Game 2 @ Daybreak. Keen entered the set with a similar build, starting with a blue flame hellion pressure and transitioning into mass starports. To impose an even bigger wow-effect, Keen added a fusion core and started building up battlecruisers. However, he was obliged to show his hand as Bomber moved in to kill his third and it was then that Keen started pushing ahead. But Bomber was quick to swallow the surprise and his immediate response was in the form of mass reactor barracks. An overextending engagement lost Keen two precious BCs - an advantage Bomber would not easily miss. The whole map was soon in red bases and covered in marines. Keen had to gg.
Game 3 @ Dual Sight. Bomber opened with a ninja gold expansion while at the same time going for a 5-rax rush. Unfortunately for him, Keen scouted the build and was quick to react, falling back from his natural up his ramp. Bomber proceeded to put a soft contain but Keen used medivacs to go around Bomber's lines and strike the gold base, killing every SCV and the CC itself. Bomber was down to just one mining base while Keen had refloated his natural to the gold. It was not long before the final push from Keen came and the MVP terran walked out with a victory.
TOP vs 
ZenioGame 1 @ Crossfire. TOP opened with double 11-rax but as he moved out he witnessed a strange vista - the natural of Zenio was empty and TOP got extremely confused as to what the zerg was doing. Zenio's strat itself was a hidden expo at the top left and as soon as TOP realized that, he started bunkering up Zenio's ramp and sent some marine to deal with the second hatchery. However, the expo stayed alive long enough to spit out just the lings that Zenio needed for his plan - the Zerg already had a baneling nest ready and TOP's naked base was soon blown to bits and a GG followed.
Game 2 @ Tal'Darim Altar. Zenio got a quick third and fourth queen with the intention to aggressively spread creep, but TOP's hellions denied every creep tumor that was put down. TOP followed this up with a marine/tank push but overstayed his welcome and as he got surrounded by zerg units, the game entered a mid-game stalemate.
Both players traded rmies during the better part of the game. Zenio held the terran forces back for a long time but, ultimately, the stream of marines and tanks was just too much for the zerg to handle. As his bases started falling so did Zenio.
Game 3 @ Terminus. It all started like your everyday Terminus TvZ. TOP took a quick third while Zenio was spreading all over the map, both players setting up for the big macro stage. TOP was the first to push and there a big blunder came from Zenio. He sacrificed every ling of his to kill a couple of tanks and ended with his army divided - the banelings (scarce as they were) were nowhere near the infestors and the mutalisks were flying around clueless. There were some corruptors on the field but TOP sniped the greater spire in the making to put an end to Zenio in the most anti-climactic game of the day.
Genius vs VirusGame 1 @ Dual Sight. Virus opened with the very popular 1-base marine/tank all-in but although Genius scouted that, he was unable to react appropriately to it. A few misplaced force fields spelled the end for the protoss.
Game 2 @ Xel'Naga Fortress. Genius answered with a 1-base play of his own, proxying a Void Rays east of Virus' natural. With no engineering bay and insufficient marine count, the terran had to type a GG when Genius climbed the ramp and started frying his bio army.
Game 3 @ Metalopolis. The third set was almost a complete copy, though this time Virus went for marauder expand instead of a tech build. He surrendered just the same when Geniuss proxied void rays flew in.
| Code S August Ro16 Day 1 | |||
| MMA 1:2 Optimus | |||
| MMA | < | Optimus | @ Dual Sight |
| MMA | > | Optimus | @ Xel'Naga Fortress |
| MMA | < | Optimus | @ Tal'Darim Altar |
| Keen 2:1 Bomber | |||
| Keen | > | Bomber | @ Metalopolis |
| Keen | < | Bomber | @ Daybreak |
| Keen | > | Bomber | @ Dual Sight |
| Zenio 1:2 TOP | |||
| Zenio | > | TOP | @ Crossfire |
| Zenio | < | TOP | @ Tal'Darim Altar |
| Zenio | < | TOP | @ Terminus |
| Genius 2:1 Virus | |||
| Genius | < | Virus | @ Dual Sight |
| Genius | > | Vrius | @ Xel'Naga Fortress |
| Genius | > | Virus | @ Metalopolis |
