GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open Semi Finals Day 2 - Live Report
GSL Season 2 - Semi FinalsNovember the 4th, 2010 - Day 1
BoxeR4-1 St_HopeTorture
November the 5th, 2010 - Day 2
SlayerS_BoxeR0-4 NesTea
The Grand Final:
12:20 - NesTea interview:
Q: Did you think your career was over when you retired from Brood War, and how does it feel coming back as a pro-gamer in StarCraft 2?
“I stopped playing BW because I was getting too old for it, and I started playing StarCraft 2 for fun, but I got good, and thought to myself "why not join the tournament?" and I did, and here I am”
Q: What does it feel like being a legend like SlayerS_BoxeR?
“It was great playing against the Emperor, and I think it was some good games”
Q: How does it feel going up against the fake Boxer who has such an aggressive TvZ?
“I've played against FoxeR a lot on the ladder ... (stream lagged, I missed the last part of that, help me out those of you who heard it)”
12:16 - NesTea has not lost a single game in this entire tournament, 2-0, 2-0, 2-0, 3-0 and now 4-0 against SlayerS_BoxeR who GGs for the fourth and last time of the second season. NesTea moves on to the grand final!
SlayerS_BoxeR walks up to NesTea, shakes his hand and leaves the stage for the last time this season. The emperor is out.
12:14 - Boxer pushing out again, spreads his marines very nicely, but there were just too much units for NesTea who is now freely harassing the expansion of Boxer with his mutalisks.
Boxer is however making another push in the mid again, but there are too many units for the zerg, too much to handle, even for a micro-king the emperor is. NesTea counter attacks Boxer's main.
12:13 - SlayerS_BoxeR dropping marines at the third-base hatchery NesTea had put down, NesTea manages to cancel it before it gets killed. Boxer tried to drop in the natural as well, but the medivak dies from the queens and mutalisks.
A new hatchery is being made at the golden third-base of zerg now.
12:11 - SlayerS_BoxeR macroing up, and pushing out, he got siege tanks and medivaks, but NesTea has a lot of banelings, pushing out now, nice splitting by the marines, but the roaches come out as the winners of that battle. Spire and a new baneling nest is now being made.
12:09 - Zerglings get inside the main, marines holds them off, NesTea then attacks the expansion, held off again, now a bunch of banelings, kills a few marines, not a good use of banelings as he went chasing marines instead of SCVs, but it's a constant pressure on the Emperor now, but he is doing quite well, will he be able to hold this off?
Lair has just started, so NesTea is behind in tech.
12:07 - Boxer pushes out with marines, kills off the first army of zerglings with beautiful micro, but gets surrounded by drones and a few lings afterwards and dies. NesTea again attacking the rocks, and they are soon down, Boxer just found out when the rocks are very close to going down.
12:05 - Boxer has now decided to stop pressuring, and is making an expansion, walling up with barracks. He kills an overlord. Zerglings are now attacking the rocks at his other entrance of his main, Boxer does not know about it.
12:03 - The proxy barracks has been spotted, another barracks has finished for boxer back in his base, two SCVs now at NesTea's base, making a bunker.
“Boxer has to be careful, this is now Yellow who just dies from bunker rushes”
One marine gets surrounded before it reaches the barracks, zerglings are out, chasing marines, more marines coming, bunker is down
12:01 - The fourth, and maybe the last game is on Blistering Sands, we have NesTea in the top, and Boxer in the bottom position. NesTea scouts early in case of proxy barracks, and Boxer is in fact making a proxy barracks, but it is not scouted yet.
11:58 - Boxer writing GG for the third time in a row today, NesTea is one game away from reaching the grand final.
11:56 - Boxer is still alive, and his wall is up again, but NesTea has an expansion, is now making the zergling speed and another queen.
11:54 - NesTea knowing Boxer has nothing to defend his base with, sends zerglings to Boxer's main, boxer has walled up, but does not have anything behind the wall to defend against the zerglings.
11:53 - NesTea finally spots the barracks, boxer tries to block the ramp with two bunkers, but it does not look good, and does not seem to work out.
11:52 - SlayerS_BoxeR is proxy his barracks, makes another one, NesTea suspects something, but does not find the barracks and puts up an expansion first.
11:52 - SlayerS_BoxeR is proxy his barracks, makes another one, NesTea suspects something, but does not find the barracks and puts up an expansion first.
11:51 - We have SlayerS_BoxeR in the top mid position as the red terran, and the blue zerg, also known as ZergBong, NesTea in the lower position.
11:47 - The commercial break is over, the next game will be on Scrap Station.
11:40 - It is commercials, I'm going to get myself some coffee, and hopefully the stream is working out better when I return, because this has not been a success so far. For those of you who missed it yesterday, I posted an official statement from GomTV support, where they explained that they ARE working on the issues with the European region, but will they be able to fix it before the season is over? Let's cross our fingers for that.
We are currently working on improving Live stream and VOD quality in the European region. We hope the process will improve the connection and the lagging issues. We will do our best to provide you with more better service as soon as we can. We apologize for your inconvenience and thank you for your patience. - GomTV Support
11:37 - The minute NesTea discovers the expansion of Boxer, Boxer moves in hellions into NesTea's expansion killing off a few drones. Just soon thereafter Boxer made a move and pushed out, but there were too many banelings, too many roaches, too much swarm, GG from SlayerS_BoxeR and 2-0 for NesTea.
11:35 - I missed what happened after Boxer's army was taken out due to the horrible lag the HQ stream has, but Boxer is still in the game with a third base top middle, but things are not looking good for him however.
11:34 - At the same time NesTea is doing a lot of damage in Boxer's main, a ton of roaches enages the contain of Boxer, and it is too much for Boxer's army.
11:33 - SlayerS_BoxeR is now pushing out, making a contain outside NesTea's main, and starts to drop units up on the platform of NesTea's main.
11:31 - NesTea with a lot of mutalisks counter attacks, good timing as the thors have not finished yet. NesTea deals some damage and wisely leaves before the thors kills the mutas.
11:29 - NesTea is making a spire and a roch warren, while Boxer now has three factories. Boxer does some harassment with a banshee and hellions are driving around to catch anything off-guard. An unfinished hatchery did not get canceled before it died from the banshees.
Hellions killed a lot of drones.
11:28 - NesTea with a baneling zergling push, but Boxer very nicely walled up his ramp, and the siege tank could take care of the banelings.
11:26 - A baneling nest is up now, Boxer scanned NesTea but did not see the baneling nest. NesTea has now his third-base up and running.
11:24 - Boxer is making a reaper, and at the same time he's putting down a bunker in NesTea's expansion, drones almost caught the reaper off guard, Boxer salvages the bunker.
Boxer got an expansion up while he kept that pressure up.
11:21 - The second game has already started, it's on Metalopolis with Boxer in the left side position and NesTea in the bottom position.
11:20 - GG from SlayerS_BoxeR, 1-0 for NesTea.
PS: After the games the winner will be interviewed with help from this guy:
11:19 - NesTea has tech switched to banelings, now engaging SlayerS_BoxeR with roaches, zerglings and banelings, bunkers go down, this does not look good for the emperor.
11:16 - SlayerS_BoxeR walled in his base from the outside of the ramp, meaning he only needs one supply depot and one barracks.
A roach warren is going up for the Zerg, no zergling speed.
11:13 - The first map for today's Terran vs Zerg is Delta Quadrant and we have SlayerS_BoxeR in the top right corner as the red terran, and NesTea as the blue zerg top left.
11:08 - The first game starts very soon
10:50 - Listening to the Gladiator soundtrack to get even more hyped about this match, it's SlayerS_BoxeR vs NesTea, the winner will be facing FoxeR who's waiting in the grand final!
BoxeR4-1 St_HopeTorture
November the 5th, 2010 - Day 2
SlayerS_BoxeR0-4 NesTea
The Grand Final:
12:20 - NesTea interview:
Q: Did you think your career was over when you retired from Brood War, and how does it feel coming back as a pro-gamer in StarCraft 2?
“I stopped playing BW because I was getting too old for it, and I started playing StarCraft 2 for fun, but I got good, and thought to myself "why not join the tournament?" and I did, and here I am”
Q: What does it feel like being a legend like SlayerS_BoxeR?
“It was great playing against the Emperor, and I think it was some good games”
Q: How does it feel going up against the fake Boxer who has such an aggressive TvZ?
“I've played against FoxeR a lot on the ladder ... (stream lagged, I missed the last part of that, help me out those of you who heard it)”
12:16 - NesTea has not lost a single game in this entire tournament, 2-0, 2-0, 2-0, 3-0 and now 4-0 against SlayerS_BoxeR who GGs for the fourth and last time of the second season. NesTea moves on to the grand final!
SlayerS_BoxeR walks up to NesTea, shakes his hand and leaves the stage for the last time this season. The emperor is out.
12:14 - Boxer pushing out again, spreads his marines very nicely, but there were just too much units for NesTea who is now freely harassing the expansion of Boxer with his mutalisks.
Boxer is however making another push in the mid again, but there are too many units for the zerg, too much to handle, even for a micro-king the emperor is. NesTea counter attacks Boxer's main.
12:13 - SlayerS_BoxeR dropping marines at the third-base hatchery NesTea had put down, NesTea manages to cancel it before it gets killed. Boxer tried to drop in the natural as well, but the medivak dies from the queens and mutalisks.
A new hatchery is being made at the golden third-base of zerg now.
12:11 - SlayerS_BoxeR macroing up, and pushing out, he got siege tanks and medivaks, but NesTea has a lot of banelings, pushing out now, nice splitting by the marines, but the roaches come out as the winners of that battle. Spire and a new baneling nest is now being made.
12:09 - Zerglings get inside the main, marines holds them off, NesTea then attacks the expansion, held off again, now a bunch of banelings, kills a few marines, not a good use of banelings as he went chasing marines instead of SCVs, but it's a constant pressure on the Emperor now, but he is doing quite well, will he be able to hold this off?
Lair has just started, so NesTea is behind in tech.
12:07 - Boxer pushes out with marines, kills off the first army of zerglings with beautiful micro, but gets surrounded by drones and a few lings afterwards and dies. NesTea again attacking the rocks, and they are soon down, Boxer just found out when the rocks are very close to going down.
12:05 - Boxer has now decided to stop pressuring, and is making an expansion, walling up with barracks. He kills an overlord. Zerglings are now attacking the rocks at his other entrance of his main, Boxer does not know about it.
12:03 - The proxy barracks has been spotted, another barracks has finished for boxer back in his base, two SCVs now at NesTea's base, making a bunker.
“Boxer has to be careful, this is now Yellow who just dies from bunker rushes”
One marine gets surrounded before it reaches the barracks, zerglings are out, chasing marines, more marines coming, bunker is down
12:01 - The fourth, and maybe the last game is on Blistering Sands, we have NesTea in the top, and Boxer in the bottom position. NesTea scouts early in case of proxy barracks, and Boxer is in fact making a proxy barracks, but it is not scouted yet.
11:58 - Boxer writing GG for the third time in a row today, NesTea is one game away from reaching the grand final.
11:56 - Boxer is still alive, and his wall is up again, but NesTea has an expansion, is now making the zergling speed and another queen.
11:54 - NesTea knowing Boxer has nothing to defend his base with, sends zerglings to Boxer's main, boxer has walled up, but does not have anything behind the wall to defend against the zerglings.
11:53 - NesTea finally spots the barracks, boxer tries to block the ramp with two bunkers, but it does not look good, and does not seem to work out.
11:52 - SlayerS_BoxeR is proxy his barracks, makes another one, NesTea suspects something, but does not find the barracks and puts up an expansion first.
11:52 - SlayerS_BoxeR is proxy his barracks, makes another one, NesTea suspects something, but does not find the barracks and puts up an expansion first.
11:51 - We have SlayerS_BoxeR in the top mid position as the red terran, and the blue zerg, also known as ZergBong, NesTea in the lower position.
11:47 - The commercial break is over, the next game will be on Scrap Station.
11:40 - It is commercials, I'm going to get myself some coffee, and hopefully the stream is working out better when I return, because this has not been a success so far. For those of you who missed it yesterday, I posted an official statement from GomTV support, where they explained that they ARE working on the issues with the European region, but will they be able to fix it before the season is over? Let's cross our fingers for that.
We are currently working on improving Live stream and VOD quality in the European region. We hope the process will improve the connection and the lagging issues. We will do our best to provide you with more better service as soon as we can. We apologize for your inconvenience and thank you for your patience. - GomTV Support
11:37 - The minute NesTea discovers the expansion of Boxer, Boxer moves in hellions into NesTea's expansion killing off a few drones. Just soon thereafter Boxer made a move and pushed out, but there were too many banelings, too many roaches, too much swarm, GG from SlayerS_BoxeR and 2-0 for NesTea.
11:35 - I missed what happened after Boxer's army was taken out due to the horrible lag the HQ stream has, but Boxer is still in the game with a third base top middle, but things are not looking good for him however.
11:34 - At the same time NesTea is doing a lot of damage in Boxer's main, a ton of roaches enages the contain of Boxer, and it is too much for Boxer's army.
11:33 - SlayerS_BoxeR is now pushing out, making a contain outside NesTea's main, and starts to drop units up on the platform of NesTea's main.
11:31 - NesTea with a lot of mutalisks counter attacks, good timing as the thors have not finished yet. NesTea deals some damage and wisely leaves before the thors kills the mutas.
11:29 - NesTea is making a spire and a roch warren, while Boxer now has three factories. Boxer does some harassment with a banshee and hellions are driving around to catch anything off-guard. An unfinished hatchery did not get canceled before it died from the banshees.
Hellions killed a lot of drones.
11:28 - NesTea with a baneling zergling push, but Boxer very nicely walled up his ramp, and the siege tank could take care of the banelings.
11:26 - A baneling nest is up now, Boxer scanned NesTea but did not see the baneling nest. NesTea has now his third-base up and running.
11:24 - Boxer is making a reaper, and at the same time he's putting down a bunker in NesTea's expansion, drones almost caught the reaper off guard, Boxer salvages the bunker.
Boxer got an expansion up while he kept that pressure up.
11:21 - The second game has already started, it's on Metalopolis with Boxer in the left side position and NesTea in the bottom position.
11:20 - GG from SlayerS_BoxeR, 1-0 for NesTea.
PS: After the games the winner will be interviewed with help from this guy:
11:19 - NesTea has tech switched to banelings, now engaging SlayerS_BoxeR with roaches, zerglings and banelings, bunkers go down, this does not look good for the emperor.
11:16 - SlayerS_BoxeR walled in his base from the outside of the ramp, meaning he only needs one supply depot and one barracks.
A roach warren is going up for the Zerg, no zergling speed.
11:13 - The first map for today's Terran vs Zerg is Delta Quadrant and we have SlayerS_BoxeR in the top right corner as the red terran, and NesTea as the blue zerg top left.
11:08 - The first game starts very soon
10:50 - Listening to the Gladiator soundtrack to get even more hyped about this match, it's SlayerS_BoxeR vs NesTea, the winner will be facing FoxeR who's waiting in the grand final!
