[TSL] Finals, 3rd-4th Recap and Interviews

P5 mouz.HasuObs < Tal'Darim Altar > Empire.Kas T2

The match begins as Kas pressures with 2 marauders and a marine, expanding as his second barracks is constructing a reactor. Hasu has chosen 2 gateways before nexus, and after losing his first stalker is forced to pull several probes to defend. Kas continues to kill units as they spawn with rallied marauders, putting Hasu's expo significantly behind. Kas constructs an early engineering bay and starts weapons research while teching to medivacs.

As +1 attack finishes the Terran builds a second e-bay to begin double upgrades, and moves out while taking his third. Hasu builds a robo, support bay, and then a second robo and readies a probe to take his third as colossus production starts.

After waiting to hit 2-1, Kas goes for a familiar tactic and drops 2 medivacs worth of units in Hasu's main while using his main army to pressure the road towards Hasu's now warping third. Thanks to Hasu's colossus count hitting 5 from double robo so quickly, his repels the attack at the front with ease but isn't able to deal with the drop before losing his twilight counsel, forge, and several probes. As Hasu continues to amass a scary number of colossus, Kas keeps him trapped in his base with drop harass.

Hasu takes his fourth, and Kas makes a ghost academy and begins producing ghosts. A short while later he takes the upper left main, far away from any action. Hitting 3-1, Kas stims in for another assault on Hasu's third and is able to kill the nexus and most of the Protoss army before multiple colossus finally push him back.

Kas regroups his forces and goes in again, only to find that storm has finished for Hasu and has his army annihilated. Able to walk to the center of the map for the first time this game, Hasu claims a watchtower and retakes his third while also getting up a fifth base, meanwhile Kas does the same which keeps them even on mining. Kas splits up his army and attacks Hasu's third and fourth, losing both forces but taking down each nexus. He also sends 3 marauders over to the Protoss fifth and stops it from warping, finding himself in a situation where he has a vastly inferior army but is up several bases.

Hasu counter attacks but is stopped short at Kas natural, and from there not even clever DT play can stop the inevitable as Kas has 3 mining bases to Hasu's 1. [37:01]

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P2 mouz.HasuObs < Xel'Naga Caverns > Empire.Kas T7

The game starts with 2 gateways from Hasu, and 2 barracks and a reactor from Kas. He rallies his troops to Hasu's natural and brings 4 SCVs with his initial marine-marauder force, setting up shop with 3 bunkers at the bottom of the Protoss ramp. Hasu readies himself with a third gateway and robo, attacking while the bunkers are constructing but only killing one.

Kas builds a command center, and gives up his contain willingly as it floats over to land at his natural, having delayed the Protoss expansion by over a minute. Firmly in the midgame, both players tech up - medivacs for Kas and colossus for Hasu. Kas annoys Hasu's army while he begins building his third CC, and once again delays Hasu's third by landing a his factory there.

Terran is able to take the gold and planetary up, while Hasu opts for the safety of the non-gold expansion. After switching from medivac to viking production, Kas launches an assault on the third of Hasu and is pushed back by colossus after eliminating much of the gateway units of Hasu. He takes his fourth base as he retreats.

Hasu researches storm, and adds supplements his army with high templar. Right after research is done, the army of Kas is on top of the cliff behind Hasu's third and stops mining until storm chases the bio units away. Kas then stims and runs into Hasu's natural, and then runs further into Hasu's main but is unable to kill much before being escaping with a few units in medivacs.

The armies once again clash behind the third of Hasu, while Hasu takes his fourth base in the middle of the right side of the map Kas kills much of his army, his third, and takes control of the center.

When Kas spots the right side base by flying a CC there to land, he swings his army around and takes care of it with ease and just as with game 1, Hasu's income dries up and he is overwhelmed. [32:15]

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P2 mouz.HasuObs < Crossfire SE > Empire.Kas T7

Up 2-0, Kas starts the third game by expanding after a single marauder, while Hasu builds a gateways and robotics before adding a nexus. With little action, Kas techs to medivacs and begins bio upgrades while Hasu adds a robotics bay and starts on colossus production.

The first skirmishes come from a series of drops by Kas, none of which do any damage. After defending, Hasu moves to the center of the map and sieges up a position with his colossus just outside the natural of Kas. As he has just taken his third, Kas can't muster up the forces to fight back and has to GG when Hasu storms in. [16:33]

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P9 mouz.HasuObs < Terminus RE > Empire.Kas T12

The third game opens with Hasu making 2 gateways from Hasu, and double barracks from Kas. Both players begin their expansion shortly after, looking to head into midgame safely and strongly. Kas feigns aggression with a few marauders while teching towards medivacs and upgrading from his engineering bay, while Hasu builds a forge and twilight counsel.

Hasu takes his third as Kas attempts to drop, but the medivac is sniped when stalkers find it before it can escape. As Hasu begins to research storm (skipping colossus), Kas takes his third and ensures he is not far behind economically. Kas decides to take a fourth base, and meanders into the center of the map to keep Hasu contained at his choke. After a scan that discovers Hasu has no colossus, Kas flies his vikings to the main of Hasu and lands them to harass while simultaniously dropping Hasu's third.

Kas continues to upgrade from 2 engineering bays, and begins to add in ghosts for emp the large Protoss ground force. The two armies dance around in the center for some time, Kas army is weakened after several storms and after Hasu traps them he eliminates the Terran force with ease. Hasu marches forward and tries to kill the planetary at Kas' third but is unable to take it down before being driven away, he too takes his fourth as he runs.

Both players take their fifth, and Kas engages guerilla-Terran mode by dropping multiple places at once and sneaking around the Protoss main army. Hasu finally adds in colossus, and starts to stop mining by placing stalkers behind the minerals lines where a planetary can't hit them.

Kas runs an entirely marauder force to the bottom of the map and snipes an expansion, and then when Hasu's army runs down to catch it he snipes a second nexus where Hasu's fourth is. Hasu is forced into retribution, and catches the scattered Terran legions as they run in various directions. When he charges forward the game ends as Kas finds himself unable to deal with the main army of Hasu. [32:03]

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P2 mouz.HasuObs < Shakuras Plateau > Empire.Kas T7

Back to an even series, Hasu opens with 2 gateways before a nexus while Kas expands after a marauder. Kas goes for early +1 attack while working towards medivacs, and Hasu throws down a robo and its accompanying bay to start massing colossus. Kas begins making his third as +1 is nearing completion, and brings his army mid map to control when Hasu can take a third of his own.

The armies dance around in the center briefly, eventually running into eachother and trading. As Kas takes his fourth, he catches Hasu's army before it is strong enough to take him on and destroys the opposing third, retreating after the damage is done. The bread and butter Terran play, Kas drops the main and attacks Hasu's natural and is able to take out the expansion nexus in exchange for a handful of units.

Hasu sets up shop at both 12 o'clock and the base just below it, but not in time as the now 3-1 army of Kas is able to kill his army and end the game before they are up and fully running. [22:44]

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P9 mouz.HasuObs < Metalopolis > Empire.Kas T6

Match point for Kas, the game begins with Terran taking both gasses at 17 supply, while Protoss make a nexus on 1 gateway after a few stalkers. As his double gas indicates, Kas ramps up to starport immediately and begins producing banshees and researching cloak, flying the first banshee over immediately to work on the probe line.

Stalkers chase it out, but only temporarily as cloak finishes before Hasu's robo is even 50% completed. After 14 kills, entirely probes, the first runs out of energy and is killed but a second has joined the fray and continues the worker slaughter. Managing to kill another 7 probes before the observer forces it away, Kas has a second orbital back home waiting to expand and secure a lead.

Knowing he is leagues ahead, Kas floats his second base to the gold and ramps up to 6 barracks and produces a raven. While simultaneously making units, Kas is able to take his natural and a fourth base and moves his army towards the Protoss natural. A stim and scan is all it takes from there, he takes the first engagement with ease and wins the honor of a seed for TSL4. [14:01]