GOMTV StarCraft 2 Open Round of 32 Day 4 - Live Report

14:26 - That's it for the round of 32, and we're moving on to the round of 16 already tomorrow!

14:25 - SlayerS_BoxeR interview:

Q: Why did you pull your tanks back before the battle in the first game?
I noticed that CoreJJang's forces and it looked like a counter attack, so if he would counter attack, I would be able to surround his units”

I wasn't able to practice much due to the BlizzCon schedule, but I did practice a bit with HuK at BlizzCon, and when I came back I got to practice some to. When it comes to joining a team, I don't know what to do yet, I need some time to decide”

Q: Terran vs Protoss, what did you do to prepare for this matchup?
I changed my play a lot before the ro64 match against happiness, but I finally decided to go with a strategic play for TvP”

Q: How does it feel playing Loner next?
I've played Loner a lot on the ladder, and the win/loss ratio is pretty much the same. And my statistics is pretty much the same as in BW, I have a bad record against Chinese, but I want to change that now”

14:13 - A Thor is out, and banshee with cloak is harassing JJang's mineral line. JJang has just started making his robotics, and GGs. SlayerS_BoxeR has moved on to the round of 16!

14:11 - Boxer has swapped the factory with a starport, and is putting down an armory, CoreJJang has a phoenix out, sends it to Boxer's base, and barely missed the factory on the island.

14:09 - A standard opening from both players, Boxer is currently making a reactor and a factory, followed by a starport, floats the factory to the island and makes a tech lab. CoreJJang is making a stargate.

14:06 - The second game is on Scrap Station, SlayerS_BoxeR on the right side position, and CoreJJang on the top left position.

14:05 - Boxer did in fact attack, forgot his tanks, but managed to win the battle anyways, and Boxer is up 1-0!

14:04 - Boxer just now expanded, has a raven out and a lot of marines and three siege tanks along with his two banshees. CoreJJang has a stalker based army which will not hold long if Boxer decides to attack, which it seems like he is.

14:01 - CoreJJang has an observer, BoxeR is making banshees, one banshee on the way to JJang's base. Boxer seems to wait for another Banshee and cloak, JJang has one observer in Boxer's base, but another one in his own. Boxer almost lost his banshee, but survived with five kills. JJang is expanding, and another banshee arrived, with three more kills. That one barely survives as well.

13:59 - Boxer has proxied a starport, while CoreJJang has proxied a pylon. CoreJJang has five stalkers and a zealot planning on attacking Boxer's front, boxer has a bunker up though. Boxer lifted up his starport to hide it better at the top left corner expansion, and making a tech lab to it right now.

13:58 - Boxer tricked JJang into believing he was making a tech lab that he started, but canceled it when the probe left. Boxer is making a reactor now, but CoreJJang scouted it with a stalker.

13:55 - The first map is Steppes of War, with SlayerS_BoxeR as the red terran in the bottom position, and CoreJJang in the top position as the blue protoss.

13:50 - COMING UP: SLAYERS_BOXER VS COREJJANG!

13:48 - NEXGenius interview:

Q: How has your experience becoming the BlizzCon world champion affected your gameplay?
Playing infront of a big crowd was an honorable thing, and it helped me become less nervous”

Q: How does your normal day look like, how much do you play?
About 20 games at most a day, and except from that I'm just like any other guy”

13:42 - Gilja goes for the pylon but gets trapped by force fields, and NEXGenius runs over Gilja's army and now goes for the kill, two immortals, zealots, sentries and stalkers. Gilja lifts off his command center, but that won't help much, NEXGenius is moving on to the round of 16, 2-0 for the BlizzCon champ!


that's the last we'll see of Gilja in the Season 2 of GSL.

13:39 - Gilja pushes NEXGenius, gets inside the base with concussive shells, does some damage but gets taken out. NEXGenius is planning a counter attack, getting a pylon close to Gilja's base to warp in reinforcements.

13:37 - Marauders with stim are coming up, while NEXGenius is making a robotics facility. Gilja expands.

13:36 - Casters' note: Tasteless explains how Artosis fell off the stage they're casting from yesterday, hurt his elbow and his head, but "the champ is still casting".

13:35 - The second game is on Xel'Naga Caverns with Gilja spawning at the top position, and NEXGenius at the bottom.

13:33 - NEXGenius attacks Gilja's main, loses his immortals, but the colossus does a lot of damage combined with fine force fields, another one arrives, he takes out the whole army of Gilja and it's GG, NEXGenius is up 1-0!

13:31 - NEXGenius engaged the terran army outside his base, got a few kills, but nothing major happened.

Colossus is being made.

13:29 - Gilja gets inside the base, had a reaper harassing while he took out the rocks, when he got inside he got the immortal, but lost a lot of units, and some nice force fields caught some more units on their way out of there.

13:27 - NEXGenius' scouting probe got a lot of intel, seeing Gilja's second barracks and got out alive.

Gilja has a reaper out, but is currently attacking the rocks in his base at the moment, and he brings two marines and two marauders to help him out with it.

Gilja is moving out, but NEXGenius does scout it. Gilja is attacking the rocks in NEXGenius' base now, but NEXGenius knows about it and has his army waiting on the top.

13:25 - A standard build from both players, barracks and orbital command for terran, and gateway and cybernetics core for protoss.

13:23 - The first game has started out on Blistering Sands, with blue Terran Gilja in the bottom left corner, and NEXGenius as the red Protoss in the top right.

13:21 - The next match coming up is between NEXGenius, the winner of BlizzCon 2010, and he is up against Gilja, former StarCraft Brood War player SynC, with an OSL championship under his belt.

13:15 - InCa interview:

Q: Do you feel the void ray damage change in the latest patch change the game?
As you know the void ray damage when it's charged up has been nerfed, but when it's not charged up it's better than before, so that's why I tried it out today”


Q: What are your thoughts on maybe facing NEXGenius (if he advances) in a PvP the next round?
I have played a lot against NEXGenius ever since the beta, so I think it's going to be some very interesting matches”

13:11 - InCa happily moves on to the round of 16 after two fairly one-sided matches. Interview with the Protoss from oGs is coming up!

13:09 - At the same time InCa destroyed the rocks between the players on his side, TankBoy took down the ones on his side, and they met in the middle, the void rays did some insane damage, and InCa is currently running over TankBoy. GG, 2-0 for InCa.

13:08 - TankBoy expands very late, and committed too much into the banshees which he lost, and is way behind InCa. Two more banshees tries to do some damage, but with no success. 58 probes vs 39 SCVs, and InCa has eight void rays and starting pushing out.

13:06 - TankBoy with a major blunder though, sends his cloaked banshees into InCa's main mineral line to die from the stalkers, sentries and the void ray. InCa is suddenly in a much better position.

13:05 - A void ray is doing some harassment, an expansion has been put down for the protoss and a second starport is being made for TankBoy as well as a Raven.

It's going to be hard for InCa to hold off a banshee/raven with point defense drone push from TankBoy as he only got some stalkers and sentries.

13:03 - InCa is making a stargate, TankBoy sends his factory to find anything suspicious, but does not see the stargate.

13:02 - TankBoy is making his second barracks and a factory, InCa did not manage to scout it.

12:59 - The second game has started, it's on Scrap Station with InCa in the top position, and TankBoy on the lower position.

12:57 - The game is on hold right now, TankBoy just got his expansion up, but InCa is so far ahead and is just macroing up, making counters for anything TankBoy can make.

Nice force fileds kills off TankBoy's entire army, and it does not look good for TankBoy who is being attacked now and gets taken down. GG, 1-0 for InCa.

12:54 - InCa's chrono boosted the zealot charge, made a pylon so he can warp in units into the expansion behind TankBoy's main, but TankBoy quickly put down three supply depots to block that ramp. InCa does have his expansion up though, and is pumping out a lot of units.

12:52 - Dark Shrine is going up, but a scan reveals InCa's plans. TankBoy is making an engineering bay to make sure he won't caught off-guard against the dark templars. What he doesn't know though, is that InCa's canceled the Dark Shrine and put down an expansion instead.

12:50 - A bunker has been put down in InCa's base, he gets it up with some nice micro killing off the sentry with marines, but it's too far away from InCa's buildings to do any harm, and InCa can just sit back and relax.

12:49 - A Maka-rax from TankBoy, and InCa's probe is stuck inside TankBoy's base, and won't find the hidden barracks and probably thinks he is going for a one-rax expansion.

12:47 - The first game has started with red Protoss InCa at the top right corner on Delta Quadrant, cross positioned is TankBoy as the blue Terran in the bottom left corner.

12:43 - Next game up is between InCa and TankBoy, a Protoss vs Terran. While we wait we listen to a cover-version of the song 'Men in Black'.

12:37 - BoxeR interview:

Q: What were your first thoughts when you heard you're playing FruitDealer in the Ro32?
It was hard to believe as he is one of the SC2 players and the winner of the last GSL, so I prepared very hard for this.”

Q: How does it feel to take out THE favorite?
I'm aware I beat the favorite player, and I'm determined to show my best play and satisfy the fans.”

Q: Who do you think is the best StarCraft player of you and SlayerS_BoxeR?
Without a doubt SlayerS_BoxeR is better than me, and it's almost rude to compare us. I will probably change my ID”

12:32 - Too many units for BoxeR, it actually looked like FruitDealer would fight himself back into the match, but BoxeR kills everything, played very impressive in both games, and it's GG from FruitDealer, the current champion is OUT of the tournament!

2-0 for BoxeR against FruitDealer.


FruitDealer packing up his stuff and leaves GSL in the round of 32.

12:30 - FruitDealer has an overlord loaded up with banelings and is looking to catch BoxeR's marines off guard, BoxeR is putting on some constant pressure, a very even battle, and it looks like FruitDealer has fought himself back in this game, but the battle is constant inside FruitDealer's main right now.

12:28 - BoxeR pulled back, but is now up with a new army including five medivaks, FruitDealer got some roaches and banelings, and FruitDealer actually manages to hold it off, amazing!

12:26 - Another hatchery at FruitDealer has been put down, and BoxeR has two medivaks loaded with marines heading for FruitDealer's expansion - FruitDealer does not know about this.

BoxeR does a ton of damage, FruitDealer does not have anything but zerglings, and the baneling nest is down, this is looking like a big upset, expecting a GG from the FruitDealer any second now!

12:25 - BoxeR starts out with some early pressure with four marines, but backs off. Factory is going up as well as two more barracks.

Zerglings chase the marines back to their base, but does not catch up with them and the marines are safe and sound back home in their base.

12:22 - FruitDealer goes for a hatchery first, and BoxeR goes for a 1-barracks expansion.

12:20 - Second game has started out on Jungle Basin, FruitDealer in the top position and BoxeR at the bottom.

12:17 - GG from FruitDealer, and BoxeR wins the first game on Metalopolis, 1-0!

12:17 - The GSL Season 1 champion is in a lot of trouble, and is soon about to be hardly hurt by a push from Boxer, around 8 marines and two marauders.

The expansion of FruitDealer goes down!

12:15 - We see some great micro by Boxer until FruitDealer gets his metabolic boost ability finished and counters Boxer with the zerglings. Boxer has expanded, but manages to hold off the zerglings and is now getting a bunker up.

12:13 - Two SCVs and three marines are pressuring FruitDealer, who is now supply blocked as Boxer managed to kill an overlord. SCVs are down, but more marines are there and the queen goes down as well as another overlord!

12:12 - Boxer is going for a proxy barracks, with one barracks in his main as well, while FruitDealer expands.

12:10 - The first game on Metalopolis has started with the red Zerg, FruitDealer spawning at the top 12'O clock position vs the blue Terran, Boxer Jr. at the 9'O Clock position.

12:00 - The stream is now up and running, after about 15 minutes with Korean pop music videos we now have Tasteless and Artosis in their seats, ready to cast.

11:27 - The fourth day of the round of 32 will begin in approximately 30 minutes and expect some great matches today as we have;

FruitDealer (Z) vs BoxeR (T)
oGsInCa (P) vs TankBoyPrime (T)
NEXGenius (P) vs Gilja (T)
SlayerS_BoxeR (T) vs CoreJJang (P)


- Note that the BoxeR in the first match against FruitDealer is not the Emperor, the real SlayerS_BoxeR plays against CoreJJang in the fourth match.