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22:18 EDT[local]: Ganzi 2 – 1 viOLet on Cloud Kingdom. Ganzi went for fast triple orbital while viOLet made a fast lair and attacked with a huge 2 base ling-baneling-roach force. Ganzi had 2 tanks on the high ground which let him hold easily, and won with a counter.

22:07 edt: MKP 2 – 1 DRG. Cloud Kingdom - MKP decided to commit to a two-rax bunker rush, placing three bunkers to wall-off the narrow choke at DRG's natural. DongRaeGu decided to pull drones and zerglings to try and break through the wall before it was completed, but ended up losing too many units in the process. MKP simply resumed building the wall after cleaning up a number of drones and zerglings, and received the GG from DRG.

22:02 edt: DRG 1 – 1 MKP. Metropolis - Some good mutalisk harass and ling runbyes meant DongRaeGu had a slight edge as both he and MKP took their sides of the map and went for a macro game. MKP brought his strange but successful bio-mech combination once more, but DongRaeGu was able to take care of it with some excellently placed fungals and baneling hits. DRG then threatened to throw the game away by producing ultralisks, but managed to switch to brood lords in time to secure the victory.

22:01 EDT: viOLet 1 – 1 Ganzi on Metropolis non-cross. Long back and forth game where Ganzi spent most of it contesting viOLet's fourth. He was unable to take it down and eventaully died to late-game ultra army.

21:39 EDT: Ganzi 1 – 0 viOLet on Entombed cross. Ganzi 2 rax and pulled SCVs, viOLet just kind of rolled over to it.

21:37 EDT: MKP 1 – 0 DRG on Entombed non-cross. MKP applied some pressure with a bunker into triple orbital, DRG sacrificed a few roaches early but did not do enough and MKP's marines were too scary once it got to 3 base vs 3 base.

21:23 EDT: PartinG 1 – 2 MC on Daybreak. PartinG double 10 gated inside MC's base. MC saw them and Gged instantly.

21:18 EDT: MC 2 – 0 PartinG on Cloud Kingdom. MC went for heavy 2 base play with both void rays and colossus, and finally a mothership. PartinG got up to 5 bases, but MC won the maxed out army battle and took the game.

20:59 EDT: MC 1 – 0 PartinG on Entombed cross. PartinG opened with phoenixes and went on the offensive with stalkers and the flying units, MC held on just barely and beat him back to win.

20:46 edt: MKP 2 – 1 Heart. Cloud Kingdom - MKP's early hellion-banshee attack caught Heart going only marines without a bunker, which meant a quick win for MKP.

20:40 EDT: DRG 1 – 2 Ganzi on Cloud Kingdom. They traded expansions a handful of times but DRG was able to keep more than he lost, won out with ultras in the end.


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• Game One: Entombed non-cross. MKP applied some pressure with a bunker into triple orbital, DRG sacrificed a few roaches early but did not do enough and MKP's marines were too scary once it got to 3 base vs 3 base.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis - Some good mutalisk harass and ling runbyes meant DongRaeGu had a slight edge as both he and MKP took their sides of the map and went for a macro game. MKP brought his strange but successful bio-mech combination once more, but DongRaeGu was able to take care of it with some excellently placed fungals and baneling hits. DRG then threatened to throw the game away by producing ultralisks, but managed to switch to brood lords in time to secure the victory.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom - MKP decided to commit to a two-rax bunker rush, placing three bunkers to wall-off the narrow choke at DRG's natural. DongRaeGu decided to pull drones and zerglings to try and break through the wall before it was completed, but ended up losing too many units in the process. MKP simply resumed building the wall after cleaning up a number of drones and zerglings, and received the GG from DRG.
  
  
• DRG 1 - 2 MKP

• Game One: Entombed cross. Ganzi 2 rax and pulled SCVs, viOLet just kind of rolled over to it.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis non-cross. Long back and forth game where Ganzi spent most of it contesting viOLet's fourth. He was unable to take it down and eventaully died to late-game ultra army.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. Ganzi went for fast triple orbital while viOLet made a fast lair and attacked with a huge 2 base ling-baneling-roach force. Ganzi had 2 tanks on the high ground which let him hold easily, and won with a counter.
  
  
• Ganzi 2 - 1 viOLet

• Game One: Entombed cross. PartinG opened with phoenixes and went on the offensive with stalkers and the flying units, MC held on just barely and beat him back to win.
  
  
• Game Two: Cloud Kingdom. MC went for heavy 2 base play with both void rays and colossus, and finally a mothership. PartinG got up to 5 bases, but MC won the maxed out army battle, potentially due to a PartinG misclick, and took the game.
  
  
• Game Three: Daybreak. PartinG double 10 gated inside MC's base. MC saw them and Gged instantly.
  
  
• MC 2 - 1 PartinG

• Game One: Entombed Valley - Chaotic drops and counter-drops ensued as both Terrans went for marine-tank based play, but MKP came out decisively ahead in the exchanges. MKP used this lead to crush Heart in a direct confrontation and took the first game.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis - MKP went for the hellion-reaper-medivac build made famous by Boxer, while Heart opted to play a more orthodox style. The two players ended up attacking each other in a bizarre early game base trade scenario, one that saw the two players reset the game at 9 supply to 13. However, Heart was left with slightly better units, and some more SCVs to rebuild from, and was able to win the reset.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom - MKP's early hellion-banshee attack caught Heart going only marines without a bunker, which meant a quick win for MKP.
  
  
• MKP 2 - 1 Heart

• Game One: Shakuras cross. Ganzi kept DRG on equal bases and repeatedly denied DRG's third and fourth attempts, then rode his superior income to victory.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis cross. Ganzi opened by expanding and then getting reactor hellions and a banshee while taking a third base, while DRG attempted a ling-roach bust. Ganzi's banshee did more damage and left him with 3 orbitals vs 2 hatcheries and he won out in the midgame.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. They traded expansions a handful of times but DRG was able to keep more than he lost, won out with ultras in the end.
  
  
• Ganzi 2 - 1 DRG

• Game One: Entombed non-cross. Huk made 2 quick gates, then added a third and attacked MC. MC's first forcefield was bad and Huk waited for the second one to run out and rolled him over.
  
  
• Game Two: Daybreak. MC opened DT while Huk went for blink stalkers. Huk didn't make any sentries and once MC's DTs were in his base he tapped out.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. Huk expanded off a small gateway army while simultaneously teching to colossus, MC moved out with 1 base colossus and ran him over.
  
  
• MC 2 - 1 Huk

• Game One: Daybreak - PartinG used some fast void ray + gateway unit pressure off his fast expand to hurt viOLet early on, allowing him to take his own third rather easily while limiting the Zerg economy. PartinG then followed up with a large blink stalker attack, and despite viOLet's best efforts with roaches and infestors, he was not able to hold out until his brood lord tech was finished.
  
  
• Game Two: Tal'Darim Altar - PartinG contemplated going for fast DTs after his forge FE, but changed his mind mid-way and went for a two base blink-stalker all-in. His indecision cost him, as he attacked later than the usual deadly timing, and viOLet was able to calmly use infestors, roaches, and zerglings to defeat the attack and collect the GG.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. After multiple late-game brood lord vs mothership battles, the game broke down into a hectic base trade scenario when PartinG decided he could not fight the Zerg army head on, and went for backdoor tactics instead. The game came down to the last few buildings on both sides, but viOLet had a stronger remaining army and was able to take the game.
  
  
• viOLet 2 - 1 PartinG

• Game One: Shakuras cross. Huk went for 2 base colossus timing, Heart dropped him and killed a lot of probes and Huk couldn't get a big enough army to stop the first marine marauder viking ball.
  
  
• Game Two: Cloud Kingdom. Huk went 2 base colossus again and gained a nice lead through the midgame, but lost a big battle going after Heart's third. Heart overtook him with good ghost usage in the late game to win.
  
  
• Game Three: Entombed non-cross. Huk opened 1 gate nexus to 4 gate, while Heart cloak banshee 1-1-1ed. Heart's first siege was bad and Huk cleaned up the first wave easily and went on to take the game.
  
  
• Heart 2 - 1 Huk

• Game One: Entombed non-cross. MKP took down MC's third quickly but MC came back with storms and overpowered the Terran army with archons and HT.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis cross. MC took an extremely fast third and MKP went on the offensive, MC held the initial attacks but his upgrades were too late and he fell slowly but steadily.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom - MC followed his fast expand with a dark templar drop, but MKP stopped it easily as he was going for a two base push with a fast raven. MC looked like he would have trouble holding against MKP's push after having expended resources on the failed DT drop, but he managed to hold it off very well and take the lead instead. MC then tech switched into a massive colossus ball, allowing him to win the deciding battle of the game and take the series.
  
  
  
• MC 2 - 1 MKP

• Game One: Entombed cross. Ganzi did a 1-1-1 against a 1 gate expand, an incredibly long battle at the Protoss natural occurred and Ganzi came out ahead after constant small skirmishes.
  
  
• Game Two: Cloud Kingdom. Ganzi opened with a fake 1-1-1 into command center, but PartinG went 5 gate + robo and pushed out after his second immortal and busted through Ganzi's natural.
  
  
• Game Three: Metropolis cross. Long macro game with both dropping, Parting was able to make his more efficient.
  
  
• PartinG 2 - 1 Ganzi

• Game One: Shakuras cross. Heart won with a marauder and blue flame hellion attack.
  
  
• Game Two: Metropolis cross. Heart opened reactor hellion into cloaked banshee, then did a mech push. DRG held off the push and then countered with lings as Heart all-ined with a second push, DRG stopped it with banelings and took the game.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. Long back and forth macro game, DRG fought 3-3 marines for a long time with ultras and infestors and after some nice late game fungals was able to overtake Heart's army.
  
  
• DRG 2 - 1 Heart

• Game One: Daybreak. Huk opened 8 gate and couldn't kill viOLet's third. Huk took a third and viOLet attacked the front and the third with roaches until he beat Huk down and took the win.
  
  
• Game Two: Tal'Darim non-cross. Huk attempted the 3 pylon block of the natural and main but it didn't work on the version of the map they played on or he placed a pylon too high and viOLet took it down without losing anything. Violet took control with mutas and Huk never had a chance.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. Huk aggressively cannoned both the natural and third of viOLet but neither did enough damage. Violet massed up roaches and killed Huk.
  
  
• viOLet 3 - 0 Huk

• Game One: Shakuras non-cross. Marine tank vs marine tank, Heart forgot siege mode and Ganzi forced a battle to win.
  
  
• Game Two: Entombed non-cross. Marine tank vs marine tank, Ganzi controlled the game and won when Heart's army got trapped in between 2 of his forces.
  
  
• Game Three: Cloud Kingdom. Heart's mech vs Ganzi's bio, Heart had one bad siege 20 minutes in and lost his army to marauders.
  
  
• Ganzi 3 - 0 Heart

• Game One: Daybreak. PartinG opened with DT and killed the third and delayed the fourth. He mustered up a big stalker, immortal, sentry army and killed DRG before burrowed movement finished on roaches.
  
  
• Game Two: Cloud Kingdom. PartinG did a good job denying DRG's expansions and when it got to late game his maxed army with a mothership overpowered broodlord infestor.
  
  
• Game Three: Tal'Darim. Parting opened 2 stargate and couldn't kill DRG's third. Went to relatively normal midgame, DRG took control with muta switch and killed with broodlords.
  
  
• PartinG 2 - 1 DRG

• Game One: Entombed non-cross. MKP 2 raxed and followed it up with a 1-1-1. He did enough damage to transition into a normal midgame and ground Huk into the ground.
  
  
• Game Two: Cloud Kingdom. Huk 6 gated, MKP held off barely with his first medivacs and won in an incredibly long back and forth battle when his upgrades kicked in.
  
  
• Game Three: Antiga. MKP meched and Huk overextended a bit trying to kill the third, MKP moved out and killed him.
  
  
• MKP 3 - 0 Huk

• Game One: Daybreak. MC opened with heavy 2 base blink stalker play, game went until maxed split-map situation. MC's mothership wasn't out in time and broodlord infestor killed him.
  
  
• Game Two: Entombed non-cross. Both players got nearly maxed armies and viOLet forced a battle at MC's third, lost the game when he couldn't kill the base or the Protoss army.
  
  
• Game Three: Metropolis cross. Got to split map and maxed armies, viOLet runs by with lings and killed MC's natural while winning a big engagement and rode his advantage to victory.
  
  
• viOLet 2 - 1 MC