Seeing how neither of Nerchio, Scarlett, Vortix, DongRaeGu and Curious were any kind stick in the wheels for Creator, the fact that he was completely and utterly outplayed was to some degree shocking. One could justify that with his heavy tournament schedule that included a Code S quarter final after playing for the World Championship trophy within two days of each other but a more plausible explanation might be that Hyun finally downloaded his terror in online cups and applied it to a LAN event.In the game of who’s the bigger boss, Hyun was the one to make the first move as he opened with a roach drop and poured death all over Creator’s precious sentries and immortals to rocket him back to the stone age. Constant bashing at the toothless defense of Creator brought Hyun the opening victory.
The same fashion of unopposed prevalence persisted through the rest of the series with the small exception of game two where a phoenix opening into a colossus timing attack caught Hyun with all sorts of stuff just not fighting units. From there till the end of the match, however, one questionable decision after another would spell the end of the BWC runner-up.
First came the weird call of going carrier/void ray in a late-game PvZ, this particular one enjoying a phalanx of infestors so big that it covered the whole of Daybreak. As it is the custom, the game ended with a perma-neuraled mothership and chain fungals onto protoss’ fliers who stood in the sky impotently awaiting their death by corrosion. A long game, though not one with unclear outcome.
Holding to the last thin straw, Creator entered the fourth game determined to do the famed Parting immortal push. What would otherwise be a good idea tasted an anticlimactic demise as Hyun’s early pool scouted and delayed the timing just enough to allow an absurd amount of units to be spawned by the zerg. Creator moved across the map only to trigger a full surround that wiped him clean.
| Hyun 3-1 Creator | |||
  Hyun | > |  Creator | @ Abyssal City |
| Hyun | < | Creator | @ Belshir Vestige |
| Hyun | > | Creator | @ Daybreak |
| Hyun | > | Creator | @ Antiga Shipyard |
Next up on stage were MarineKing and Ryung who met in a mirror that from the very start promised to be some quality entertainment. The ever emotional MKP came with the hope that he can get one step closer to a GSL final, a position that completely eluded him this year after three consecutive Ro16's and a top eight in the last season. Ryung, on the other hand, was representing a new home, encumbered with the pressure of being the first of his teammates to make it so far in a tournament of such scale. Both players being extremely skilled TvT only elevated the excitement.
Game one was counter-indicative and cooled off the passions to some extent. A quicker siege tech by MKP allowed him to get an excellent position on the map which snowballed into victory ten minutes later after Ryung realized there is not much fighting he can do.
Fortunately, there were more games to come and the tempo picked up on Abyssal City and 25 minutes into the game, MarineKing and Ryung were knee deep into a base trade, a scenario which historically MKP is known to win. CCs were floated and landed, SCVs were evacuated or killed and for a moment it looked like the game might devolve to a no-mining state. As minutes went by, however, one thing became more and more clear: MKP’s chances for a win were fading away, and quickly. Ryung had secured an extra mining base, had more marines and hence more mobility, and had even began rebuilding his infrastructure. Catching the entire tank squad of MKP also helped a lot and after long minutes of scrappy play, the score was tied.
Game three tried very hard to live up to its predecessor but only had a partial success. A tank division by MKP forced Ryung’s third to reposition itself and a no man’s land was promptly established but that did not scare Axiom’s recruit even one bit. Issuing a succession of raids and drops, Ryung in turn denied MKP’s third times and times again, building into a supply lead that eventually won him the game.
That last game was pretty much it for tonight’s entertainment as similarly to the Creator/Hyun series, this one, too, ended quickly, brutally and anticlimactically, carried by Ryung’s double drops that put a 3-1 stamp on the series.
| Ryung 3-1 MarineKing | |||
 Ryung | < | MarineKing | @ Whirlwind |
| Ryung | > | MarineKing | @ Abyssal City |
| Ryung | > | MarineKing | @ Cloud Kingdom |
| Ryung | > | MarineKing | @ Antiga Shipyard |
Writing the closing stanzas of the quarter finals will be Bogus and Soulkey followed by Leenock and Sniper.
