And all of them befell Liquid`Taeja. Although always a tournament favorite, the dreadful terran saw an early exit from Code S, finishing last in his group.
From carelessly allowing a scouting probe into his main to dying to an unscouted 4-gate via a proxy pylon in his own natural, nothing was going right for Taeja in the match against finale. The loss would put him against Polt in the next match but after a drawn-out but entertaining TvT that barely went into Polt's favor, Taeja made a grave mistake once again. In a classic bio vs mech scenario, Taeja was foolish enough to walk down his ramp, exposing his hellions and tanks to a major marauder flank and losing a position he direly needed.
Polt himself had a rough way of coming back after losing to Parting and after taking care of Taeja, he had to play finale in the deciding match. A misplace of his army cost him his third, his natural and the game in set one but things took a quick and dirty reverse as the series developed. A 1/1/1 opening - and the four-hellion rush in particular - slew finale's economy for the tie and a rocky defense against the 6-gate in game three trampolined Polt to the Ro16 as he joins the all-dominating Parting, the player that stood atop of it all by dropping just a single map.
Code S Season 5 Group A
Parting4-1To Code S Ro16
Polt5-3To Code S Ro16
Finale3-4To Code A Ro32
Taeja0-4To Code A Ro48
Finale 2-0 Taeja
Parting 2-1 Polt
Parting 2-0 Finale
Polt 2-0 Taeja
Polt 2-1 Finale
Tomorrow's matches are from Code S Group B with Symbol, Hack, Happy and Code S debutante and KeSPA elephant RorO.
