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October 27th, 2012 21:59 | StarCraft 2
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Last week, GomTV players protected their home turf, and yesterday night, By.Rain made sure to do the same for KeSPA. DongRaeGu came in looking to make GomTV players two for two in the GSL and OSL, but Rain made it look like a foolish challenge, thrashing the MVP Zerg by a 4 - 1 scoreline. For KeSPA's brightest star, it was a crowning achievement, living up to the expectations that had been put upon him during his runs through the GSL and WCS Asia. Though the Royal Road was denied to him in the GSL, he reached its end in the league where the term was first coined.

Rain got off to an inauspicious start in game one, falling to DongRaeGu's passive-hive play in a game that may serve as the best piece of anti-Zerg propaganda yet. In the end, however, that was not a cause well served on the night, as Rain recovered to dismantle DongRaeGu in the next four games. Rain decided it was best if he simply disallowed DongRaeGu from achieving such powerful hive compositions in the first place, taking three bases and battering DongRaeGu down with excellently timed attacks. In the fifth and final game, Rain channeled the spirit of his more illustrious teammate, Bisu, using simultaneous Dark Templar attacks at four locations to cripple DRG and set up his game winning push.

In victory, Rain proved to be a modest and humble. Upon receiving the final GG, he took a few seconds to close his eyes and contemplate the enormity of his achievement, after which he allowed himself a smile, followed by a hug from SK Telecom head coach Boxer. On the other hand, DongRaeGu could not contain his disappointment, failing to hold back tears as he apologized to his friends and fans who had come all the way up from Busan to support him.























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Grand Finals Recap: DongRaeGu vs. By.Rain


By: Waxangel


Game One – Antiga Shipyard

DongRaeGu went into game one looking to put the 'turtle' in 'turtle-hive.' After some fairly mundane openings where both players secured three bases, DRG rushed straight up to hive tech behind a sea of spine crawlers.

Rain seemed to take it stride, building up in an attempt to hit a pre-hive timing with stalkers and colossi. However, he couldn't find any success, poking away and killing several crawlers but unable to deal any significant damage to DRG before his brood lords were out. Rain shifted track towards playing a longer game, securing a fourth base and teching to templars and mothership.

DongRaeGu was able to push out to the middle of the map and take one more expand at the center before the game broke down into an ugly stalemate. DRG had no desire to attack his opponent until he built up a perfect army, while Rain likewise did not want to engage the fearsome brood lord-infestor composition. Rain contented himself by doing what he could do to exploit DRG's immobility: taking expands for himself, denying them for DRG, and wiping out the entirety of DRG's main and natural with warp prisms and zealots.

Unfortunately for Rain, all those gains proved to be rather inconsequential in the face of an army he could not dare to face. Due to impatience or whatever other reason, Rain was finally goaded into fighting DongRaeGu's force head on... and the results were not pretty. The crucial vortex was only able to swallow up a few brood lords, while the rest of DRG's troops did their work picked Rain's army apart.

Having lost his mothership, Rain had no chance at winning another engagement. DongRaeGu began his march of death around Rain's bases, forced a brutal last stand from Rain, and took the first game.

DongRaeGu 1 – 0 By.Rain


Game Two – Entombed Valley

DongRaeGu set out to try and make game two a repeat of game one, rushing hive once more. Rain wasn't fazed by the events of the previous game, going for yet another phoenix build into a three-base attack aiming to hit DongRaeGu before he could mass brood lords.

The second time around, things went better for Rain. DongRaeGu was attempting to secure a fourth base, which stretched his defense line much thinner compared to the veritable wall he had been able to erect on Antiga Shipyard. Rain managed to force a cancel on DongRaeGu's fourth, but more importantly, was able to sneak a warp-prism into DongRaeGu's main to take out the greater spire. It was a crucial break for Rain, delaying DRG significantly while allowing himself time to secure his fourth base and prepare an army suitable for fighting in the late game.

Rain did not squander the advantage he had been able to take, hitting DongRaeGu one more time before the critical mass of brood lords and infestors was reached. With a decent vortex, some storms, and blink stalkers, Rain was able to clear out DRG's fourth base – all while warping in more zealots in the Zerg main, of course. Rocked and unable to recover, DongRaeGu GG'd out.

DongRaeGu 1 – 1 By.Rain


Game Three – Ohana

Rain decided to open up game three with a build that looked suspiciously like the infamous Startale immortal all-in, getting upgrades and a robotics facility at the appropriate timings. DongRaeGu was wary of the build as well, sacrificing two overlords to make sure he knew what he was up against. Seemingly having confirmed Rain's plan, DongRaeGu pumped out a batch of roaches and lings in preparation, but as it turned out Rain had duped him, going for a fast third base instead.

DRG went into recovery mode, taking his own fourth base and trying to build up his economy and tech at the same time, but he was already a step behind Rain. For his next trick, Rain struck with a Creator-esque mass immortal and blink stalker timing, even duping DRG one more time with a hallucinated colossus. While DongRaeGu's roaches and lings were doomed to die to Rain's attack, the handful of useless corruptors that hatched certainly did not help.

DongRaeGu 1 – 2 By.Rain


Game Four – Daybreak

Game four turned out to be oddly similar to game three, with Rain kicking down the front door with a three base blink-stalker + immortal timing, though the road there was slightly different.

As things tend to go on Daybreak, both players took three bases without much trouble, and DongRaeGu didn't fall victim to any kind of trickery this time. He took a fourth base, built spines, and reared up to take whatever attack Rain decided to come with.

Alas, even somewhat prepared and expecting what was to come, DongRaeGu didn't have a chance. Immortals and stalkers chewed through all the resistance with remarkable ease, and DRG had to surrender his third consecutive game.

DongRaeGu 1 – 3 By.Rain


Game Five – Antiga Shipyard

With everything on the line, DRG decided to throw his wildest change-up thus far in the series, going for a muta-ling based strategy after a standard three base opener. As for Rain, he resisted the temptation to go for a two-base all-in for the fifth game in a row, going for yet another one of his safe, not-particularly-greedy three base builds. However, he did give it a little twist.

With DongRaeGu starting to mass up mutalisks and zerglings in an attempt to knock Rain off balance, it was Rain who would knock DRG on his back instead. Four heroic dark templars found their way to all four Zerg bases on the map, hitting them at the same time while DongRaeGu's main force gathered near Rain's base. The results weren't pretty, with DongRaeGu reacting late to each threat. Drones were massacred, while DRG's macro suffered all the while as he went into crisis control.

In that chaos, it was all too easy for Rain to push out with his blink stalker army. Rain caught DongRaeGu in one of the worst possible positions, with over a thousand minerals banked, and a paltry army of mutalisks and zerglings that had been meant to harass, not act as the last line of defense. Though it was hopeless, DongRaeGu mounted one final defensive effort. After taking a few moments to contemplate his loss, DongRaeGu gave the final GG of the night.

DongRaeGu 1 – 4 By.Rain





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 Tanzklaue   Germany. October 27 2012 22:11. Posts 86
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well, it doesn't come surprising, for me the mainquestion was "how high will rain win?".
DRG shouldn't take this loss to much to heart, Rain is just an amazingly good player, and for DRG in his current state, to make it to the finals is already a big achievement. he is capable of beating Rain when he is on top of his game, and the same goes for Rain.
all in all a predictable result, that cements Rains status as THE best protoss and possibly player of the world atm.
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 torm3ntin   Brazil. October 27 2012 22:11. Posts 2368
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that was fast. shame i didn`t wake up in time. Shame DRG couldn`t make it. The only thing i saw was him crying a lot. That made me sad.
Grubby and Ret fan, but a TERRAN player :D
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 Chicken Chaser   United States. October 27 2012 22:12. Posts 512
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Oh damn. I stopped watching after DRG took game 1... didn't see this coming...
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 neoghaleon55   United States. October 27 2012 22:14. Posts 6198
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https://twitter.com/moletrap/status/262162396733374464/photo/1/large

He'll be alright.
moo...for DRG
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 PiPoGevy   Australia. October 27 2012 22:28. Posts 1557
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Kespa players getting good man
'Only God Can Judge Me' and I dont care how many times Boxer loses, as long as he gives us entertaining games, boxer fighting! Help Support Warcraft 3!! http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=317133
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 Khai   Australia. October 27 2012 22:29. Posts 218
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Jung Yoon Jong! Jung Yoon Jong! Jung Yoon Jong!
SKT1 & LG-IM
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 ComaDose   Canada. October 27 2012 22:30. Posts 2086
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Rain is inspiring.+ Show Spoiler +
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
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 m0nt   Australia. October 27 2012 22:31. Posts 55
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lmao I waited all week for this and then got distracted and forgot to watch it.

anyone know where the games get archived/uploaded?
Professional level cs player - http://www.youtube.com/user/meNtal2p
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 Heavenfallz   Australia. October 27 2012 22:48. Posts 70
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Was hoping for a good and epic game like game 1.
The games after became underwhelming thou grats to Kespa for having a player that won't fall behind the ESF!!!
"Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories" - Sun Tzu
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  _MagnuM_   Denmark. October 27 2012 22:55. Posts 136Profile # 
VODs? ... i missed it cos stream died at one point
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
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 ShotgunMike   Sweden. October 27 2012 22:56. Posts 231
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I only managed to see the first game. Are VODs available for non-paying customers?
Hot_Bid: "B10" - ThorZain: "BINGO" - Naniwa: "Apologize! ¤%#¤#&¤% Terran IMBA"
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 ThomasjServo   October 27 2012 23:02. Posts 2326
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That is just a kick in the pair for me as a DRG fan.
I mean, it's a fact, sure as day follows night, sure as eggs is eggs, sure as every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is shit. @callmetomservo
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 xAdra   Singapore. October 27 2012 23:24. Posts 411
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You got it right that game one might possibly be the best piece of anti-zerg propaganda yet. The strength of Infestor-GGLord is simply too much.
Fave players: Squirtle-sOs-PartinG-Rain-Grubby-MC-Life-Soulkey-mvp-MMA-Innovation
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 ZergX   France. October 27 2012 23:25. Posts 354
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Damn! I missed it

Will there be a way to watch those games for free?

Congratulations to Rain !
Nestea fightingg ! DRG fightingggg !! Sen fightinggg ! July fighting ! Sheth fighting !
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 vAtAZz   France. October 27 2012 23:35. Posts 188
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On October 27 2012 23:25 ZergX wrote:
Damn! I missed it

Will there be a way to watch those games for free?

Congratulations to Rain !

There will be VODs, don't worry, and this will be free to watch.
Talent is nothing if you don't have the constant desire to stay at the top. SlayerSBoxeR
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 nimdil   Poland. October 27 2012 23:38. Posts 1143
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Yea, Rain for the Bonjwahood. First step made.
MMORPGs are extremely boring.
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  euskaltelteam   Finland. October 27 2012 23:41. Posts 3Profile # 
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 snorlax1   Singapore. October 28 2012 00:09. Posts 222
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Congratz Rain, I only watched game 5 and the 4 Dts simultaneously at 4 bases of DRG certainly threw DRG off. The muta-ling army could not defend the push.
 
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 awwnuts07   United States. October 28 2012 00:10. Posts 604
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Zerg tears. I love it.
I'm a noob
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