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13 years ago

Group G sees protoss domination

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Group G saw a little bit of everything that SC2 has to offer - nail-bitingly close games, all-ins, building hunt and a 75-minute long PvT. At the end of this wild night, WhiteRa and ToD made it through to the Ro16.

Ro32 Group G
PlayerGamesSets
Ukraine WhiteRa2-15-2
France ToD2-14-3
Russia Happy1-22-4
Sweden Sjow1-23-5
ToD 2-1 Sjow
WhiteRa 2-0 Happy
Happy 2-0 Sjow
WhiteRa 2-0 ToD
Sjow 2-1 WhiteRa
ToD 2-0 Happy
Group G saw a strong kick off by its protoss players. WhiteRa opened the group with a 2-0 triumph over Russian terran Happy. It took them quite a long time to decide the winner on Daybreak, however, as Happy's marine/marauder composition had won him some early victories and the terran entered the late game with his army spine solid and straight. But that did not matter much and Happy's foundations soon crumbled under the persistance of WhiteRa who made wonders with his archon-centric army, putting the score to 1-0. Happy was brought to full submission on Shakuras Plateau as WhiteRa went for a 4-gate prism play, a build that the terran scouted a bit too late and could not stop with his bare hellions.

Coming into the Ro32, ToD showed that his first place in the previous round was not at all a random success. Although letting game one versus Sjow slip through his fingers, ToD came strong on Altar and tied the score. Fnatic's protoss survived through waves of hellions and banshee harass only to return the tormenting favour with a DT tech that disrupted Sjow mining for a good deal of time and which allowed ToD to crush the terran with his gateway army much easier. In the third game on Shakuras, Sjow had set his eyes on ToD's expansion and tried on multiple occasions to snipe them with both minor and major medivac drops. But as ToD made his best to protect his bases, Sjow's army slowly dwindled to extinction.

As the game entered the mirror phase, Happy got a shot at coming back in the group by besting Sjow 2-0, with the second game walking a razor's edge. Sjow was left to virtually no income but had quite the marine army so he ran around Antiga Shipyard in hopes of finding a vulnerable spot. Such were not fully absent and Happy even made some positional mistakes but in the end Sjow's crusade was labelled a failure as Happy's tanks bombared him to death.

In the other mirror, WhiteRa confidently dominated ToD and enjoyed a most comfortable 4-0 in sets, guaranteeing him an advance to the play-offs.

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WhiteRa's next match was against Sjow - a Series without much meaning as both player's futures at DH were already decided, but an entertaining one nonetheless. Sjow got the early lead on the back of a proxy rax/SCV all in and tried to do it the same in game two although now on two bases, but WhiteRa had the best composition possible - chargelots. The two fought for long and tense minutes and eventually the loyal zealots of WhiteRa helped him tie the score. The Swede was not done with the all-in play, however and one 1/1/1 build later, Sjow defended his honor and saved himself from a 0-3 finish.

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Photo by: GosuGamers.net

Group G was far from done, however, and ToD and Happy had still much to say. As if only to toy with audience's and casters' anxiety, the two opened the decisive game with a 75-minute long set which started as a normal PvT series but ended with zealot running around and underneath BCs trying to find SCVs to kill while the stalker count kept rising until eventually it was big enough to confront Happy's tier 3 without getting melted. Fortunately, the players set the pacifism aside in the second game and Happy went straight for the double-marauder bunker rush but as it was stopped and counter-struck by a solid gateway army, the Russian terran surrendered the series, letting ToD advance to the playoffs.