SEACL FINALS
Game 1 - TARossi(Terran) vs aLtJimDiddy(Zerg) on ESL The Shattered Temple
The SEACL Finals between TA and aLt kicked off with Rossi, a strong Terran player and JimDiddy, a top ranked Zerg GM!
Both players open standard, with JimDiddy going for a 15/15 hatch/pool, while Rossi did a reactor Hellion into a CC opening.
This attack killed 6 Drones, which I think could have been avoided with just an additional spine at the bottom right. Regardless, JimDiddy droned right back up and went ahead by 10 Drones within a minute or two. The power of Zerg!
Rossi transitioned into a marine/tank composition while JimDiddy got some Roaches/Lings out before going for Lair tech and a Baneling Nest.
Like all good Terran, Rossi moves out to attempt a Stim timing push!
As JimDiddy waits on his Baneling Speed, Rossi begins to clear creep, and sieges up at the choke of Jim's base.
Jim needs to break this, but his Baneling speed isn't up yet! The tanks begin shelling away and take down the 2 Spine crawlers at Jimdiddy's entrance, as the marines threatened to march forward to clear out Drones and reinforcing units.
Finally, after losing 2 Overlords and getting supplyblocked, Baneling Speed finished, so JimDiddy engaged with his Zerg forces!
Jimdiddy establishes his 3rd on the 'island' expo while Rossi directly takes his gold. Jimdiddy had a sizable Drone lead at this point and continued massing up on sling/bling/mutas while Rossi sticks to a Marine/Tank army. Jimdiddy is very active with his Mutas and forced a few extra turrets from Rossi.
Then came a sequence of events that were almost SIMULTANEOUSLY occurring - I think most observers would miss at least one of them.
Marines managed to clean this up, even with Jimdiddy's mutas coming to assist.
And what you probably missed:
Jimdiddy was probably busy with:
JimDiddy seems to choose to ignore the marines taking out his island expo and went for a counterattack
While the Mutas cleaned up the marines (in not a very cost-effective trade), JimDiddy decided to pull back when Rossi dropped his marines onto his gold expo.
Both players now work to get their next base up, while Jimdiddy does some mutalisk harass on Rossi's main, killing quite a few supply depots! Marines do chase the Mutas away eventually though. Both players macroed up another army of the same combination as before, with Rossi adding in a Thor for good measure.
Another battle ensued:
Now both players were on roughly 2 base, and as we know that Zerg loses when they're on equal bases with Terran. Rossi's macro was tip-top as he rallies more and more marines/tanks, and was over 30 food above JimDiddy.
With a drop by Rossi to take out even more Drones:
and Rossi sniping Jim's gold expo, AND Jim mismicroing these infestors:
JimDiddy is forced to GG out.
1-0 to TA!
*tell me abit about the line up - did you all already had that order in mind or was that something that was decided on the spot
*jimdiddy > nirvana > iaguz > oxygen > yyj
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*well we more or less decided who was gonna play
*in our customs and ladder results the top 2 players in alt were iaguz and yoon, with oxy and jim closely behind
*last spot was between me/pig/duckie/sheepy
*i thoguht i had a good build on that map but turns out i didnt prepare for that 1 base attack! i blame oxy for not doing it to me haha
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*Everyone was expecting PiG to come up before YYJ - and we were all surprised with the choice of Oxygen. I suppose Oxygen is just in better form than PiG recently?
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*yea well it was about the matchups pig. is very strong in zvp, zvz. zvt not so much. oxy has been in super hot form recently and he had a special build prepared for this map
*so he felt confident and i let him go
*his build was based around the terran fast e xpanding since that was a big map
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*Yea, the casters were commenting that it was odd since oxygen was supposedly known for his 1 base play or sth haha
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*but deth didnt expand and went the same build as the previous games, too bad oxy didnt see them he was eating lol
*yea thats a popular misconception.. oxy was a 1 base cheeser like 8 months ago. hes kinda low profile so pples perception of him hasnt cahnged yet. he can play very strong marcro games as well
*low profile in tournaments cause he doesnt play much in them*
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*From the pre-game interviews, it was clear that deth was one of the strongest players of TA. Did aLt have a plan for handling deth? He seemed to catch you guys with a strong 4-0 showing
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*yea deth played really impressively in all the games. our problem was we had players strong vs Zerg/Protoss but noone on our team was very confident against terran
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*Regardless, your team put up a strong showing, the first two TvTs were waaay intense and close. So good job!
any final words?
The SEACL Finals between TA and aLt kicked off with Rossi, a strong Terran player and JimDiddy, a top ranked Zerg GM!
Both players open standard, with JimDiddy going for a 15/15 hatch/pool, while Rossi did a reactor Hellion into a CC opening.
Rossi pokes in with 4 Hellions |
This attack killed 6 Drones, which I think could have been avoided with just an additional spine at the bottom right. Regardless, JimDiddy droned right back up and went ahead by 10 Drones within a minute or two. The power of Zerg!
Rossi transitioned into a marine/tank composition while JimDiddy got some Roaches/Lings out before going for Lair tech and a Baneling Nest.
Like all good Terran, Rossi moves out to attempt a Stim timing push!
However, Jimdiddy had good creep spread which caused Rossi to hesitate and pull back. He doesn't want to be engaging on creep where Zerg has the advantage! |
Slow push! |
JimDiddy keeping his units tucked away while waiting for Baneling speed |
With the help of Creep and baneling speed, JimDiddy is able to break the contain |
Jimdiddy establishes his 3rd on the 'island' expo while Rossi directly takes his gold. Jimdiddy had a sizable Drone lead at this point and continued massing up on sling/bling/mutas while Rossi sticks to a Marine/Tank army. Jimdiddy is very active with his Mutas and forced a few extra turrets from Rossi.
Then came a sequence of events that were almost SIMULTANEOUSLY occurring - I think most observers would miss at least one of them.
JimDiddy's flock of 20+ mutas flew into Rossi's main and decimated the turrets and mineral line. Rossi's entire army was already moving towards the middle so Rossi ignored this |
Big engagement in the middle - Rossi's marines only barely managed to dart off creep before it began |
And what you probably missed:
Oh, sneaky Rossi. A drop on the 'island' expo! |
Marines cleaning up all the drones and subsequently the Hatchery as well! |
Banelings hatched just in time to clean up the marines |
While the Mutas cleaned up the marines (in not a very cost-effective trade), JimDiddy decided to pull back when Rossi dropped his marines onto his gold expo.
Both players now work to get their next base up, while Jimdiddy does some mutalisk harass on Rossi's main, killing quite a few supply depots! Marines do chase the Mutas away eventually though. Both players macroed up another army of the same combination as before, with Rossi adding in a Thor for good measure.
Another battle ensued:
With good magic boxing, Jimdiddy was able clear the Thor, but there were just too many Marines! (upgraded 3/1 too) Seriously, +3 Marines are Muta killers :S |
With a drop by Rossi to take out even more Drones:
and Rossi sniping Jim's gold expo, AND Jim mismicroing these infestors:
All 3 got 0 fungals off |
1-0 to TA!
*tell me abit about the line up - did you all already had that order in mind or was that something that was decided on the spot
*jimdiddy > nirvana > iaguz > oxygen > yyj
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*well we more or less decided who was gonna play
*in our customs and ladder results the top 2 players in alt were iaguz and yoon, with oxy and jim closely behind
*last spot was between me/pig/duckie/sheepy
*i thoguht i had a good build on that map but turns out i didnt prepare for that 1 base attack! i blame oxy for not doing it to me haha
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*Everyone was expecting PiG to come up before YYJ - and we were all surprised with the choice of Oxygen. I suppose Oxygen is just in better form than PiG recently?
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*yea well it was about the matchups pig. is very strong in zvp, zvz. zvt not so much. oxy has been in super hot form recently and he had a special build prepared for this map
*so he felt confident and i let him go
*his build was based around the terran fast e xpanding since that was a big map
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*Yea, the casters were commenting that it was odd since oxygen was supposedly known for his 1 base play or sth haha
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*but deth didnt expand and went the same build as the previous games, too bad oxy didnt see them he was eating lol
*yea thats a popular misconception.. oxy was a 1 base cheeser like 8 months ago. hes kinda low profile so pples perception of him hasnt cahnged yet. he can play very strong marcro games as well
*low profile in tournaments cause he doesnt play much in them*
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*From the pre-game interviews, it was clear that deth was one of the strongest players of TA. Did aLt have a plan for handling deth? He seemed to catch you guys with a strong 4-0 showing
Bryan - www.sc2sea.com SEA Starleague says:
*yea deth played really impressively in all the games. our problem was we had players strong vs Zerg/Protoss but noone on our team was very confident against terran
alaN - part time gamer, full time boyfriend ヽ(´ー`)ノ says:
*Regardless, your team put up a strong showing, the first two TvTs were waaay intense and close. So good job!
any final words?