Drama in SWE-POL

As most of you probably know now, the main highlight of yesterday in the Starcraft community was the nation war between

Sweden and

Poland. An extraordinarily close nation war including a huge fan support of both teams - over 7020 people visited GosuGamers yesterday to get the latest updates about the match.

The first game was suprisingly won by the new Swedish recruit

Kimthan versus Poland's most feared player,

Blackman, at Lost Temple. This slight advantage for Sweden switched fast and Blackman turned the game into a 2-1 win for Poland. Next up to report loss was

Dealer who lost to

tomsOn, 0 games to 2. Tomson had before the match promised to eat up his mouse if Poland lost - and at this point it didn't look like it, at all. Especially when

Raven happily announced he had beaten

WhiZ 2-0. It did not look good for Sweden, and just another loss would finish the match.

But from there on it turned.

KaaZ reported a win after three intense games of fighting against

Draco, 2-1. In the last game on

Dahlia of Jungle, Draco had to use arbiters with recall in order to get out of KaaZ's containment outside his bridges. But when the money in both his main and two expansions were all gathered and his main filled with lurkers, he surrendered.

Poland in lead with 3 games to 1, and game one between

Daaman and

Spawn was just finished, apparantely a 60 minutes long battle cruiser fight, ended up in favor to Daaman. Thereafter a win by Spawn but Daaman once again turned it back in Sweden's favor and ended it with a strong 2-1.

The 2on2s started and Sweden needed to win both of these in order to win the match. First out was

Minister(GN) with his team mate

Scorpion(GN) versus

KaaZ and

Dealer. The first game at Lost temple was a 4 x Zerg match - which we tend to see a lot these days (especially in the playoffs of » WGTour 2on2 season 7). Dealer died early but KaaZ managed to beat both the two Polish players alone. The outcome of that 2on2 match, however, was 2-0 in favour to Sweden, a very strong comeback.

Just like in the nation wars » Sweden vs China, the outcome of the whole nation war was in the hands of Daaman and Saft and the final 2on2 match. This time versus

1410)Twins and

1410)Floe. These two were perhaps Sweden's strongest card and while the rest of us waited anxiously in the channels, the first game begun at Lost Temple.

Battle reports follow by [HoT]TexaS:Match deciding games
Daaman and Saft versus Twins and Floe

Game 1 - Lost Temple

Twins and

Floe , starting at 6o'clock and 9o'clock, opened the game with a dual 9 pool rush on

SaFT at 12o'clock, who started with 12 pool, followed by second hatch.

Daaman used dual barracks, but was quite helpless, when he saw that SaFT was attacked by 14 lings and 3 drones morphing into creep-kolonies on SaFT's creep. So he decided to attack Twins, who built sunken colonies in his main to protect himself against the incoming marines and scv's.

The main of SaFT after the rush

Daaman managed to build a bunker in Twins main, preventing him from getting out. He raised his army with firebats ,marines and medics and was able to kill the expansion of Floe and he attacked the main of Twins, who was forced to spend many drones to block the terran forces against the 4 sunkens. He lost many units against the lurkers and hydralisks of the zerg players in some battles in the middle of the map, afterwards he did an expansion and he did tank drops onto the cliff of the zerg expansions, while he got dropped by lurkers in his main and his expansion attacked by hydralisks and lurkers. He lost almost all units and conceded the game.

Result : 0 - 1

Game 2 - New No Way Out

The second 2on2 game between

SaFT,

Daaman on the swedish team and

1410)Floe-xTr,

1410)Twins-xTr on the polish team, was played on the map New No Way Out. SaFT, starting at upper right corner, opened the game with 2 hatch, followed by spire and mutalisks and Daaman, starting at lower right corner, opened the game with dual starport and cloaked wraiths, while Floe did a fast marine drop, supported by Twins' mutalisks, on SaFT's main, able to kill his spire.

SaFT loosing his spire due the fast attack

After rebuilding the spire, expansions by SaFT and Daaman, they were able to gain map-control with harassing mutalisks and wraiths, supported by tanks in dropships. Both teams start raising their armies, SaFT and Daaman kept on expanding and destroying the polish expansions, until it comes to the final fight between mutalisks/wraiths vs mutalisks/valkyries, which SaFT and Daaman can win quite easily.

The final battle

Result : 1 - 1

Game 3 - Lost Temple

SaFT , 12 o'clock, and

Daaman, 3 o'clock, vs

Floe-xTr , 9 o'clock, and

Twins-xTr , 6 o'clock. Floe starts with 9 pool, followed by gas and early lair and Twins starts with second hatchery at his expansion,pool and third expansion above his expansion, while SaFT goes for 2 gate zealots and Daaman goes for 2 barraks marines. Floe is trying with his fast lurkers to achieve some first succesful attacks, but is helpless against SaFT's cannons. Twins, protected by the lurkers of Floe, is able to get a strong economy and makes first attack and first paraspace grade for his linge, followed by many mutalisks. Having 5 lurkers and many mutalisks and lings, the polish team starts attacking SaFT with success.

The attack facilitating the Polish team to win the game.

He is helpless against the zerg units and Daaman isn't able to help him fast enough. Sweden loses the game and the result is 1-2 to Poland.

Result : 1 - 2

Good game Poland, see you in the playoffs!

Final lineups looked like:

KaaZ	vs.	Draco	2-1
Dealer	vs.	tomsOn	0-2
KimThan	vs.	Blackman	1-2
WhiZ	vs.	Raven	0-2
Daaman	vs.	Spawn	2-1

Dealer KaaZ	vs.	Minister(GN) Scorpion(GN)	2-0
Daaman SaFT	<	1410)Twins 1410)Floe	1-2