GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open's conclusion is near. Today we will witness the first semi final. A Terran versus Protoss matchup between HongUn and Rain. Follow the games in GosuGamers minute-by-minute report.
13:24 - Okay, I missed the interview, but I heard that he does not want to play against oGsMC becuase he played a TvP today and his style has been revealed, so he would rather play Jinro.
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That's it for today. Tomorrow, 11:00 CET we will have Jinro against MC, do not miss it for the world! See you then!
13:13 - All Rain has to do now is to move in to HongUn's base. The Protoss wants dark templars out, but Rain has a lot of scans ready. Rain kills the pylons, annihilating the Protoss. HongUn concedes, Rain moves on to the grand final! 4-2!
13:11 - HongUn is in a terrible spot now. He has started gathering gas again, but once again tried a zealot attack on the expansion of Rain. Failed though.
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Another attack, now backed with three sentries. Doesn't work.
13:09 - HongUn attacking the destructible rocks just at Rain's base. Charge is complete, 12 zealots and three stalkers in the main of Rain.
Two bunkers down for Rain, all the SCVs repairing the bunkers. Zealots going down, Rain holds this.
13:06 - SCV just now chased out of the Protoss base. HognUn with two gateways.
Rain with one marauder, two marines and one SCV out on the field.
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Twilight Council out, HongUn researching Charge. HognUn has stopped his gas gathering. Mass zealots? :)
Game 6 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Blistering Sands
13:04 - Game six! Standard openings.
Game 5 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Scrap Station
12:56 - Finally we're off. HongUn in the top, Rain at the right.
No wall-in from Rain. Other than that standard openings for both.
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Three gateways being laid down. Adding a pylon in the middle map, just below the minerals.
Wow, Rain scouts with a factory, spots the gateways. Rain faking the tech, showing that factory to HongUn. Command Center being built for Rain, and one bunker.
HongUn going in. Five stalkers. Pylon just outside Rain's base, more zealots being warped in.
HongUn moves in with more zealots, Rain can't hold it off with his small marine, marauder troop. GG! 3-2 now!
12:50 - Still delay. Things seem to have solved now, and the games should be starting soon.
12:35 - A 20-minute delay due to some hardware trouble. I wonder how this will affect the players.
Korean observer's computer stopped working, so he'll be using Artosis' computer.
12:14 - HongUn losing a second gateway. HongUn with five stalkers, but can't do much against the many marines.
More marines moving in. HongUn concedes after losing his last stalker. 3-1 for Rain.
12:10 - An all in attempt by Rain, moving all his SCvs and six marines to HongUn's base. No sentries for HongUn.
A bunker comes down. Six marines and a bunker filled with marines. HongUn in trouble. His stalker force taking out some lone marines, but Rain microing well.
No SCVs there to repair the bunker. But Rain sending in more and more marines.
Game 4 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Delta Quadrant
12:07 - We're in for game four! On Delta Quadrant, we see HongUn in bottom right, Rain in top right. HongUn scouting early, finds his opponent. Sees that Rain has not yet taken his gas. Instead adds a second barracks at his natural expansion, a so called Makarax. A third barracks being laid down in the main.
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Rain's SCV gets killed off by the first stalker. Two gateways up for HongUn, two more on the way.
12:03 - Rain in defensive position, on two-base. HongUn adds some Colossi to his army composition.
Tonnes of marines, four siege tanks, a raven and some marauders.
Attack in the middle! HongUn has too few troops against Rain.
Rain runs into the expansion of HongUn, eliminating the few Protoss troops that are left. HongUn concedes! 2-1 to Rain!
12:01 - Wow, beautiful use of blink! A hallucinated phoenix flies into Rain's base. Stalkers blinking in, taking out two tech labs, one medivac and one raven before blinking out again.
12:00 - Rain getting a raven. First dark templar out, kills one marine before the raven spots it.
11:58 - HongUn doing some great stalker blinks, taking out siege tanks in the middle when Rain's marines are too far away.
HongUn very aggressive. We see Rain building a command center. HongUn with Dark Shrine on the way.
11:56 - Rain going siege tank, medivac, marine. Moves out, finds HongUn's stalkers in the middle - snipes one.
Rain moves back, but HongUn stays in the middle.
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A hallucinated Void Ray moving in to Rain's base, giving the stalkers the view to blink in. Rain with tanks and marines there, kills it. Bad move by HongUn.
Game 3 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Lost Temple
11:51 - Third game has started, on Lost Temple. Rain in the top, HongUn at the bottom.
We see Rain going for standard play. First stalker out, sentry being built. Rain has a factory with a tech lab on the way. Starport being laid down.
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Two more gateways and a twilight council for HongUn. Blink Stalker strategy on the way.
Hallucination being researched!
11:45 - And, we have a little break. Commercial I guess.
11:40 - HongOn moves back in, force fielding the ramp to block Rain from defending. But a wide set of bunkers defending the expansion - HongUn backs off again.
Void Rays doing a lot of harassment, but marines catching them in the main, killing off one.
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Rain with a looot of marines and marauders now. Has stim packs, moves out in the middle of the map, catching HongUn's troops. Protoss units smashed, only goo left. HongUn GGs. 1-1!
11:35 - Rain expands, gets spotted by HongUn's probe.
Rain moving out with some marines, marauders, goes up the ramp! HongUn's void ray, stalker and sentry kills it off. Force field hindering him to move back.
Game paused. What happened? Artosis, Tasteless guess for a hardware problem.
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Rain's monitor keeps turning on and off. I'm guessing they will re-game. Nope, it will be continued.
Wow, HongUn in such a good position, two Void Rays, three stalkers and one sentry. Going in for the expansion. Void Ray targeting the marines. Marines moving in to the bunker, HongUn falls back.
11:33 - Both players scouting each other. HongUn finds a single gas, double barracks and a reactor.
Rain sees the regular one gateway, cybernetics core. Zealot out for HongUn, can
chase out the SCV from his base. Lays down the Stargate as soon as the SCV moves out of there.
Game 2 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Xel'Naga Caverns
11:32 - Wow, nice game. Let's see what Rain can do against this high templar, tech heavy build from HongUn. We find the Protoss in the bottom right, Terran in the top right.
11:29 - HongUn keeps being aggressive, storming the crap out of the Terran barracks force.
Rain concedes, and gives the first win to HongUn. 1-0!
11:26 - HongUn with a little more zealots now, going for an attack at Rain. Stalkers, templars and sentries being a bit behind. Zealots going at the marauders, taking heavy fire.
Protoss units so strong. Pushing back Rain. HongUn, with the advantage, takes the gold expansion. Lots of high templars out, storming effectively and feedbacking the medivacs.
11:23 - Big attack in the middle. HongUn laying down some misplaced force fields, who are actually in Rain's favour. But HongUn keeps moving forward, his force so buffed with the high upgrades.
While Rain goes for a drop in the main of HongUn, but a couple of Stalkers can hold it off.
HongUn moves forward into Rain's base, but the reinforcements of Rain defends well.
11:22 - HongUn doing some heavy upgrading, has tons of techs out. Observers out as well, making sure he knows where Rain's units are. Immortals and gateway units out, but no Colossus yet.
HongUn taking his thord expansion. Rain as well.
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Two medivacs out for Rain.
11:18 - HongUn with a Robotics Facility up. Wow, Rain building a Ghost Academy and a fourth barracks.
A little task force, marines, marauders and a ghost advancing on HongUn's position. Goes for the attack! HongUn has sentries and stalkers, holds it off nicely.
Game 1 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Metalopolis
11:11 - It's started! Cross positions. Rain at the left side HongUn at the right.
Rain has blocked off his ramp, but no gas yet, seems to be going for a fast expand.
HongUn has his stalker on the way out, getting chrono boosted.
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Both players going safe, not attacking each other, both laying down expansions. Rain adding two more barracks, one gas taken.
Double gateway, second gas for HongUn.
11:07 - The show has started, but the players are no where near to be ready yet.
10:48 - Oh, hello! Glad to see you tuned in. Today will only feature one match, but if we're lucky it'll go to all seven games.
Today'ss game is between HongUnPrime and TSL_Rain. Last round both players defeated a GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open champion, with HongUn beating FruitDealer and Rain NesTea. This clash will be epic.
For those of you wondering "WHERE'S JINRO?!", I can let you know that he is playing tomorrow. Yes, against oGsMC.
***
Check out this interview with Jinro I made yesterday.
Want to catch up with GSL Season 3?
Then stop by the rest of our coverage of the season:
- ROUND OF 16: VODs
- ROUND OF 16: RESULTS
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 4
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 3
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 2
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 1
- ROUND OF 64: VODs
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 4
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 3
- ROUND OF 64: BATTLE REPORT - DAY 2
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 2
- ROUND OF 64: BATTLE REPORT - DAY 1
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 1
- ROUND OF 64: SCHEDULE & GOSUBETS
13:24 - Okay, I missed the interview, but I heard that he does not want to play against oGsMC becuase he played a TvP today and his style has been revealed, so he would rather play Jinro.
***
That's it for today. Tomorrow, 11:00 CET we will have Jinro against MC, do not miss it for the world! See you then!
13:13 - All Rain has to do now is to move in to HongUn's base. The Protoss wants dark templars out, but Rain has a lot of scans ready. Rain kills the pylons, annihilating the Protoss. HongUn concedes, Rain moves on to the grand final! 4-2!
13:11 - HongUn is in a terrible spot now. He has started gathering gas again, but once again tried a zealot attack on the expansion of Rain. Failed though.
***
Another attack, now backed with three sentries. Doesn't work.
13:09 - HongUn attacking the destructible rocks just at Rain's base. Charge is complete, 12 zealots and three stalkers in the main of Rain.
Two bunkers down for Rain, all the SCVs repairing the bunkers. Zealots going down, Rain holds this.
13:06 - SCV just now chased out of the Protoss base. HognUn with two gateways.
Rain with one marauder, two marines and one SCV out on the field.
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Twilight Council out, HongUn researching Charge. HognUn has stopped his gas gathering. Mass zealots? :)
Game 6 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Blistering Sands
13:04 - Game six! Standard openings.
Game 5 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Scrap Station
12:56 - Finally we're off. HongUn in the top, Rain at the right.
No wall-in from Rain. Other than that standard openings for both.
***
Three gateways being laid down. Adding a pylon in the middle map, just below the minerals.
Wow, Rain scouts with a factory, spots the gateways. Rain faking the tech, showing that factory to HongUn. Command Center being built for Rain, and one bunker.
HongUn going in. Five stalkers. Pylon just outside Rain's base, more zealots being warped in.
HongUn moves in with more zealots, Rain can't hold it off with his small marine, marauder troop. GG! 3-2 now!
12:50 - Still delay. Things seem to have solved now, and the games should be starting soon.
12:35 - A 20-minute delay due to some hardware trouble. I wonder how this will affect the players.
Korean observer's computer stopped working, so he'll be using Artosis' computer.
12:14 - HongUn losing a second gateway. HongUn with five stalkers, but can't do much against the many marines.
More marines moving in. HongUn concedes after losing his last stalker. 3-1 for Rain.
12:10 - An all in attempt by Rain, moving all his SCvs and six marines to HongUn's base. No sentries for HongUn.
A bunker comes down. Six marines and a bunker filled with marines. HongUn in trouble. His stalker force taking out some lone marines, but Rain microing well.
No SCVs there to repair the bunker. But Rain sending in more and more marines.
Game 4 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Delta Quadrant
12:07 - We're in for game four! On Delta Quadrant, we see HongUn in bottom right, Rain in top right. HongUn scouting early, finds his opponent. Sees that Rain has not yet taken his gas. Instead adds a second barracks at his natural expansion, a so called Makarax. A third barracks being laid down in the main.
***
Rain's SCV gets killed off by the first stalker. Two gateways up for HongUn, two more on the way.
12:03 - Rain in defensive position, on two-base. HongUn adds some Colossi to his army composition.
Tonnes of marines, four siege tanks, a raven and some marauders.
Attack in the middle! HongUn has too few troops against Rain.
Rain runs into the expansion of HongUn, eliminating the few Protoss troops that are left. HongUn concedes! 2-1 to Rain!
12:01 - Wow, beautiful use of blink! A hallucinated phoenix flies into Rain's base. Stalkers blinking in, taking out two tech labs, one medivac and one raven before blinking out again.
12:00 - Rain getting a raven. First dark templar out, kills one marine before the raven spots it.
11:58 - HongUn doing some great stalker blinks, taking out siege tanks in the middle when Rain's marines are too far away.
HongUn very aggressive. We see Rain building a command center. HongUn with Dark Shrine on the way.
11:56 - Rain going siege tank, medivac, marine. Moves out, finds HongUn's stalkers in the middle - snipes one.
Rain moves back, but HongUn stays in the middle.
***
A hallucinated Void Ray moving in to Rain's base, giving the stalkers the view to blink in. Rain with tanks and marines there, kills it. Bad move by HongUn.
Game 3 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Lost Temple
11:51 - Third game has started, on Lost Temple. Rain in the top, HongUn at the bottom.
We see Rain going for standard play. First stalker out, sentry being built. Rain has a factory with a tech lab on the way. Starport being laid down.
***
Two more gateways and a twilight council for HongUn. Blink Stalker strategy on the way.
Hallucination being researched!
11:45 - And, we have a little break. Commercial I guess.
11:40 - HongOn moves back in, force fielding the ramp to block Rain from defending. But a wide set of bunkers defending the expansion - HongUn backs off again.
Void Rays doing a lot of harassment, but marines catching them in the main, killing off one.
***
Rain with a looot of marines and marauders now. Has stim packs, moves out in the middle of the map, catching HongUn's troops. Protoss units smashed, only goo left. HongUn GGs. 1-1!
11:35 - Rain expands, gets spotted by HongUn's probe.
Rain moving out with some marines, marauders, goes up the ramp! HongUn's void ray, stalker and sentry kills it off. Force field hindering him to move back.
Game paused. What happened? Artosis, Tasteless guess for a hardware problem.
***
Rain's monitor keeps turning on and off. I'm guessing they will re-game. Nope, it will be continued.
Wow, HongUn in such a good position, two Void Rays, three stalkers and one sentry. Going in for the expansion. Void Ray targeting the marines. Marines moving in to the bunker, HongUn falls back.
11:33 - Both players scouting each other. HongUn finds a single gas, double barracks and a reactor.
Rain sees the regular one gateway, cybernetics core. Zealot out for HongUn, can
chase out the SCV from his base. Lays down the Stargate as soon as the SCV moves out of there.
Game 2 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Xel'Naga Caverns
11:32 - Wow, nice game. Let's see what Rain can do against this high templar, tech heavy build from HongUn. We find the Protoss in the bottom right, Terran in the top right.
11:29 - HongUn keeps being aggressive, storming the crap out of the Terran barracks force.
Rain concedes, and gives the first win to HongUn. 1-0!
11:26 - HongUn with a little more zealots now, going for an attack at Rain. Stalkers, templars and sentries being a bit behind. Zealots going at the marauders, taking heavy fire.
Protoss units so strong. Pushing back Rain. HongUn, with the advantage, takes the gold expansion. Lots of high templars out, storming effectively and feedbacking the medivacs.
11:23 - Big attack in the middle. HongUn laying down some misplaced force fields, who are actually in Rain's favour. But HongUn keeps moving forward, his force so buffed with the high upgrades.
While Rain goes for a drop in the main of HongUn, but a couple of Stalkers can hold it off.
HongUn moves forward into Rain's base, but the reinforcements of Rain defends well.
11:22 - HongUn doing some heavy upgrading, has tons of techs out. Observers out as well, making sure he knows where Rain's units are. Immortals and gateway units out, but no Colossus yet.
HongUn taking his thord expansion. Rain as well.
***
Two medivacs out for Rain.
11:18 - HongUn with a Robotics Facility up. Wow, Rain building a Ghost Academy and a fourth barracks.
A little task force, marines, marauders and a ghost advancing on HongUn's position. Goes for the attack! HongUn has sentries and stalkers, holds it off nicely.
Game 1 - HongUn vs. Rain @ Metalopolis
11:11 - It's started! Cross positions. Rain at the left side HongUn at the right.
Rain has blocked off his ramp, but no gas yet, seems to be going for a fast expand.
HongUn has his stalker on the way out, getting chrono boosted.
***
Both players going safe, not attacking each other, both laying down expansions. Rain adding two more barracks, one gas taken.
Double gateway, second gas for HongUn.
11:07 - The show has started, but the players are no where near to be ready yet.
10:48 - Oh, hello! Glad to see you tuned in. Today will only feature one match, but if we're lucky it'll go to all seven games.
Today'ss game is between HongUnPrime and TSL_Rain. Last round both players defeated a GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open champion, with HongUn beating FruitDealer and Rain NesTea. This clash will be epic.
For those of you wondering "WHERE'S JINRO?!", I can let you know that he is playing tomorrow. Yes, against oGsMC.
***
Check out this interview with Jinro I made yesterday.
Want to catch up with GSL Season 3?
Then stop by the rest of our coverage of the season:
- ROUND OF 16: VODs
- ROUND OF 16: RESULTS
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 4
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 3
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 2
- ROUND OF 32: LIVE REPORT - DAY 1
- ROUND OF 64: VODs
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 4
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 3
- ROUND OF 64: BATTLE REPORT - DAY 2
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 2
- ROUND OF 64: BATTLE REPORT - DAY 1
- ROUND OF 64: LIVE REPORT - DAY 1
- ROUND OF 64: SCHEDULE & GOSUBETS
