The Liquid Terran will get a second chance at taking a DreamHack Winter championship after two decisive games against the StarTale prodigy.

Taeja opened the series with a cloak banshee tech but the signature ling aggression of Life soon arrived to put the Terran into defensive position. The two players continued to macro up after the initial punches and by the 10th minute the game was dead even.

This equality suited Life well. Unpressured by any form of Terran harass as Taeja could not get past the muta/baneling swarm, the Zerg went up to four bases and started to grow his mutalisk flock even more, adding an infestor tech behind that.

A single mismanaged engage by Life turned it all around. Killing most of the enemy banelings and severely damaging the mutalisks, Taeja saw an opening and paraded his bio army towards Life’s fifth. After a minute of sieging and unrelenting rallying, the base was conquered and Taeja marched south looking for a new prey. A gg came from Life, the StarTale Zerg fully aware he could not repel the snowballed Terran forces. 


With his front door open and Zerg units streaming in, Taeja is almost dead at the 17th mark but manages to pull through

After repelling the initial reaper harassment, Life took a gamble and invested into a surge of zerglings, splitting them up and hiding one half out of Taeja’s sight. Aiming to surprise the Terran and get either a surround on his hellions or just a victory march into his open base, Life sprinted towards Taeja’s natural but all he found was excellently positioned hellions with a hold-positioned SCV wall in the front.

Life did not give up on the all-in mentality and a massive zergling/baneling follow-up came shortly. This strategy failed even more miserably: Taeja had no trouble at all splitting against and gunning down the speed-less banelings of Life. His win streak ended, the Zerg fell down to the losers’ bracket, hoping for a better luck tomorrow.

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