With players like MorroW, fuzer, HayprO, Satiini, lalush and jimpo, the upper bracket of yesterday's Viking cup was set to be a gourmet's delight. And it didn't disappoint, with many good games coming from these encounters. The only surprise came when HayprO lost to MeYera, a relatively unkown zerg swedish player, while playing terran.
On the other side, it was quite a smooth ride for Namma, the finnish terran player, who methodically, easy and steady pushed his way to victory, almost literally in every single game. After that, he had to wait on the lower bracket final berth and cross his fingers for a match up he favoured.
But while Naama was slaughtering his opposition in the lower bracket, lalush was on fire. He eliminated MorroW in an exciting game in round four, took out fuzer in the quarterfinals and finished in style the day by defeating Satiini in a best of three. Three top terrans in three series, lalush must have been happy. Until he found out a fourth terran was waiting for him in a best of seven to be played today, at 20:00 CEST.
In the finals, lalush took the first map, Lost Temple, after some back and forth action when the ultralisks came into play, just ramming through the terran army. Game two was just Naama schooling lalush in Steppes of war after the latter decided for a very risky two base hive tech to ultralisks. The terran player literally sieged lalush and forced him to give up. In Scrap Station, the one who swarmed the other was Naama, whose macro was just spot on, against quite a sloppy play from the zerg, who pretty much tried to delay the inevitable for far too long. 2-1 for the terran player.
Metalopolis, the map where everyone is supposed to be comfortable, ended up with: "whoever designed this game made it for newbies liek you" from lalush. 3-1 for Naama after yet another disappointing display from the swedish zerg. Thus far, he had been way too passive, mainly due to the fact that Naama was all over him for most of the games. With quite an angered zerg, Blistering Sands was the fifth map. Naama, as was to be expected, repeated the same build 1-1-1 hellion harass he had done the previous four games. His decision making while being 20 suppy under after finally some aggression from lalush, allowed him to come back into the game and finally crown him as the Viking Cup #12.
That means Naama gets 25 points, lalush gets 15 and both will most likely be present to duck it out next weekend for €150 in the monthly finals.Stream will be available from TheBeard and OminouS.
Links
esl.eu - Bracket
esl.eu - Source
esl.eu - Stream
