"The last foreigner alive" are words often attributed to HuK and the Canadian was once again good enough to chant them true as he outplayed Parting 2-1 and advanced to face Heart next.
What began as a normal 3-gate opening from both snowballed out of Parting's reach as the game progressed further. The first loss for the Korean was his proxy zealot warp-in being spotted and cleaned, as well as the pylons he used to do that. HuK's next step was a blink stalker attack that shoved Parting deep in his base, followed by a chargelot/archon assault that forced Parting's expansion to be cancelled and rebuild as a wall-off tool just so he can stay alive. By that moment, Parting was so far behind that the next attack of HuK broke him in two.
3-gate/dark shrine was HuK's build order of choice in game as the Canadian also sneaked a proxy pylon behind Parting's expansion nexus. The Korean was oblivious of what was coming but he kept his composure and pulled off an immaculate defense by controlling perfectly and making use of HuK's indecision to keep both his expansion and probe count standing. Building upon this advantage, Parting got his own dark shrine just in time to slice through HuK's follow up attempt and tied to score.
In the final game, the Canadian went for a familiar blink stalker into dark shrine build, punishing Parting's robo expand. The first battle was won as the Korean failed to scout the proxy pylon of HuK in time and lost a lot of mining time running his probes away from a pair of zealots. The second step in his fall was HuK's front-door pummeling with archons to lead the way: Parting's forcefields - his only hope of keeping his immortals safe - were no use and once again HuK was the last remaining foreigner in the MLG.
