The GSL toss quintet (from left to right): Creator, Seed, Squirtle, Parting and HerO
The best eight in Korea were determined after today's losers matches, with the two factions that have been competing for the last three weeks being almost equally represented.
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What better way to start the day than to exact some cold vengeance (I've heard some people read the newspaper or drink orange juice but this is eSports and we spit upon such conformities). In the first match of the day, Rain reconvened with Curious to get back at him for a loss on day one of WCS Korea. The Rain today had nothing in common with the Rain from a few weeks back: he was solid, almost unbreakable but also careful, losing just one game to a double nydus play but finishing it up with an old as the game itself blink stalker timing.
The last terran in the tournament Polt could not have a worse day against Liquid`HerO. It would begin with the loss of four full medivacs and would end under a blanket of psi-storms - a quick and bitter loss for the TSL player.
The day resumed with the KeSPA player who had the deepest run in the winners bracket against the SlayerS' up-and-comer entangled in a zerg mirror. Being responsible for the losses of horror, Hack and Alive, Miya was looking strong against KHAN's RorO... only not in the first game. A one-base ling/baneling opening caught Miya's hatch first by surprise and the SlayerS' zerg tapped out after failing to find a way to mine without a single drone. He did find strength in himself to come back after a criminally long ZvZ on Antiga, though, but that was pretty much it: Miya had to pack his bags for the consolation bracket after his mutalisk tech did him more bad than good against the roaches of RorO.
Puzzle vs hero[join] was the third KeSPA victory for the day as the SlayerS protoss decided to open a PvP with a nexus first. As with every other nexus first in this mirror, that one failed too as a zealot by herO took five probes and prism drops brought even more distress before the CJ player took the victory. The series was quickly closed on Entombed Valley and Puzzle was sent to the consolation bracket to fight for the top 10 placement while herO painted the last strokes of yet another flawless playday for KeSPA.
| WCS Korea losers round 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
  Rain | 2-1 |  Curious | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| HerO | 2-0 |  Polt | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| RorO | 2-1 | Miya | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| hero[join] | 2-0 | Puzzle | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Together with the winner bracket semi finalists, the winners of today will represent Korea in WCS Asia, meaning that the line-up of StarCraft's strongest country currently is as follows:
Seed Parting Creator Squirtle HerO hero[join] Rain RorOTwo more players will come from the consolation matches which are Polt vs Curious and Puzzle vs Miya. The protoss presence in the line-up is already overwhelmingly strong and with Puzzle's 61% PvZ win rate it's likely to reach unheard-of levels. This is also Polt's last chance to make it to the final ten and be the only Korean terran representative at the Asia continentals.
