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Grand Final: Xellos wins 2-0

wcg.jpgXellos just beat midas[gm] in the finals, two straight games in Terran vs Terran. Xellos did not lose a single game through the whole tournament and can now proudly call himself the best - the perfect terran.

Both Xellos and midas (not to mention forU) come from the progaming team Suma GO. They have practiced Terran vs Terran against each other lots and lots of times which means that this was more a psychological game - what strategies they will be using and if they have moves or tricks they did not show each other yet.

First map was Dahlia of Jungle where they both started out with vultures. midas was tricked by Xellos - intenationally or not - to follow his troops right into a mine and lost two vultures and most of the health on his tank. That seemed to hurt him pretty bad but he got back into the game shortly. He countered with first moving a wraith down left to Xellos's expansion, shooting some SCVs and awaiting the goliaths. When they arrived, he sent the wraith straight to Xellos's main and waited for the goliaths there. It seemed as the exact moment when the goliaths arrived to Xellos main and midas let his four vultures unload from his dropship down left - knowing the sector was clear. It was successfull and he killed several SCVs though once Xellos's army arrived his vultures didn't stand a chance.

Xellos's time to attack and he did so by dropping tanks and vultures into midas main several times and then switching to attack his expansion. midas sneeked out seven or so tanks with his dropships and just when Xellos attacked his main, he attacked Xellos' main instead. They killed each other's mains pretty badly but Xellos had another expansion where he sent all his factories using liftoff. midas was just about to kill off the expansion and it did look good for him, even though his main was all wiped out. Just then, three wraiths arrived resulting in a "gg" and loud cheers from the spectator area.

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Second game was on Gorky Island and midas pulled off a strategy that didn't work so well. He went two starports wraiths and tanks, harassing Xellos's dropships and natural expansion. Xellos recovered quickly though and sent in a couple of dropships in midas main. midas fought on but then couldn't fight against the tanks on the cliffs killing his main's SCV. He banged his keyboard and quickly left the game and then hid his face in his hands. He sat like that for a while and one could see he was really hurt by the loss. Both of them rose up and were escorted to the press area where 40 or so reporters followed them with cameras, microphones and questions. A woman was the translator and the journalists could ask questions to them both. Xellos explained that their team did benefit on the fact that the players got to chose their preferred map for the best-out-of-three matches. midas felt too sick to answer any questions whatsoever.

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Press meeting with the SC finalists. 5 minutes old.


Sorry for the bad quality on the pictures. I was granted a great series of pictures of midas crying after his loss, taken with a great quality camera. I will upload them in a few hours. We'll do our best for further comments from the players if they're in the mood for it, and add the usual day report when the closing ceremony has finished tonight.

Links
SG Replay archive - Game 1
SG Replay archive - Game 2

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