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[Corran Horn]

GAMES START:

• 19:10 KST
• 12:10 CEST
• 06:10 EDT
• 03:10 PDT

*6 hours from post.

GSL Code S Finals
GomTV Stream*
TL Live Report Thread
Regular Season GAF GSL Thread
GSTL GAF Thread (Finals Tomorrow!)
Liquidpedia Link

GAF IRC: http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=#StarCraft2-GAF

*Gom Player Required. SQ Stream Free, HQ Stream requires pass
GSL HQ Pass Store

TeamLiquid Writeup: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=356023

SK_MC

Strengths
– The best Protoss player in the world.
– Unsurpassed experience in front of huge, live audiences.
– Completely fearless and unpredictable in multi-game series.
– Excellent small scale battle micro, especially force-fields.

Weaknesses
– Very inconsistent against other top level Protoss players.
– Possibly overconfident, though he could just be playing mind games.
– SK Gaming may sabotage him to keep his contract affordable.

Ideal winning scenario: Proves that PvP can be epic and entertaining, regardless of the final score.

Craziest winning scenario: Literally flips a coin inside the booth before each game, proceeds to win.

LG-IM_Seed

Strengths
– Showed a total lack of fear in his second GSL run ever.
– Huge heart, coming back from serious deficits against more highly rated opponents.
– Has the full support of LG-IM as the team seeks to complete a T-Z-P GSL grand slam.


Weaknesses
– Has only played in front of a GSL studio crowd, not thousands at a live final.
– PvP has been largely untested in the GSL.
– Never played a highly competitive best of seven.

Ideal winning scenario: Proves that PvP can be epic and entertaining, regardless of the final score.

Craziest winning scenario: Goes down 0 - 3, comes back with a reverse-sweep to solidify his position as the gutsiest player ever.

Map Playlist

• Set 1 - Metropolis
• Set 2 - Daybreak
• Set 3 - Whirlwind
• Set 4 - Entombed Valley
• Set 5 - Cloud Kingdom
• Set 6 - Antiga Shipyard
• Set 7 - Atlantis Spaceship

To all the protoss haters...

 

[jasonng]

When did the metagame shift to the point Protoss became OP? Are toss players finally learning how to chrono boost?

 

[Wedge7]

Fuck me, a PvP.

Expecting and hoping for an MC victory, but damn, PvP is always my second most hated Matchup, just behind ZvZ. Hard to get too hype or excited, but I'll be watching all the same, just like I always do.

 

[Corran Horn]

Finals Location

Its at Busan straight on the Beach. If MC wins I hope he goes all Firebathero on us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv0I1X2r2oQ

 

[Snowman]

Pretty excited for this, hopefully we'll get to see some cool new PvP builds, although I definitely expect MC to win.

Edit: Also, I'm loving the thread title, awesome thread as always corran.

 

[Aaron]

Its at Busan straight on the Beach. If MC wins I hope he goes all Firebathero on us

He promised to dance from some kpop vid if he wins. So I hope Seed wins.

 

[farnham]

IM SEED! Und das is' unser Gebiet,
singender Caballero auf´m bombigen Beat.
IM SEED - boooom! Wenn sich der Nebel verzieht,
dann hörst du irgendwie von irgendwo so heiße Musik...

IM SEED! Und das is' unser Gebiet,
singender Caballero auf´m bombigen Beat.
IM SEED - boooom! Wenn sich der Nebel verzieht,
dann hörst du irgendwie von irgendwo so heiße Musik...
IM SEED - und das is' unser Gebiet,
singende Caballeros auf´m bombigen Beat.
IM SEED - boooom! Wenn sich der Nebel verzieht,
dann nenn es so oder so, es bleibt dieselbe Musik...

 

[hamchan]

Haven't bothered watching the whole season. Looks like the game is still good times for Protoss huh.

 

[Corran Horn]

Haven't bothered watching the whole season. Looks like the game is still good times for Protoss huh.

Eh Final 4 were 2 protoss, 1 terran and 1 zerg.
Season started with 10 protoss, 13 terran and 9 zerg.

Its as balance as you can get without counting metagame shifts from time to time.

 

[(._.)]

thinking of sleeping for 4 hours or so then waking up for the finals.

 

[Corran Horn]

About 1.5 hours away now.

Also, SC2 GAF IRC http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=#StarCraft2-GAF

 

[Majine]

Eh, ofcourse I'll watch it. Just wished it wasn't a PvP, the second worst matchup from a viewing standpoint.

 

[ShinNL]

*6 hours from post.

Great opening post, this little data is like the best way to tell time. I almost forgot about the date and then I saw this thread, yay! Hype! Go MC! MC is such a cool fella! Good luck to Seed. But still, MC, yeeeaaaah!

 

[Hazaro]

Fucking shitty ass 3g wifi at 1.5 star hotels.
Might be able to catch an hour before I go to work, should be a good ballsy series.

Check the TL article that has the 'PvP Viewers' guide to help make it much more interesting to watch.

 

[Yoshichan]

I wanted to see this

Should I watch this at work?

 

[fanboi]

I wanted to see this

Should I watch this at work?

Ha.

You don't have a work.

 

[Yoshichan]

Ha.

You don't have a work.

I do, and I have lots of friends here..

 

[TheThunder]

About 1.5 hours away now.

Also, SC2 GAF IRC http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=#StarCraft2-GAF

"Your IP address (xxxx) is BLOCKED by our DNS blacklist"

Well then...

 

[Wunder]

GET HYPE GO SEED! MonsieurJToss!

 

[SteveO409]

no Kpop band is performing?

 

[fanboi]

I do, and I have lots of friends here..

So meta!

 

[Tacitus_]

I hope this'll be a good final. Fucking PvP though.

 

[Jokab]

I hope MC dances to Gangnam style when he inevitably wins.

 

[SteveO409]

Cutting off IU..

 

[Corran Horn]

Preshooowwwww

 

[Tacitus_]

Gangnam Style!

 

[Jokab]

Gangnam Style!

Gangnam Style!

 

[SteveO409]

I guess the main event will be the GSTL. Seems like 30% of the seats are filled

 

[J2d]

Kill him MC.

 

[Majine]

I can't open the stream despite it being greenlit. On any browser. Shit?

 

[Corran Horn]

I can't open the stream despite it being greenlit. On any browser. Shit?

Sometimes during finals getting the stream to go is kinda messy due to high traffic.

 

[Majine]

Sometimes during finals getting the stream to go is kinda messy due to high traffic.

"The protocol (gomcmd) is not accociated with any program"

Can I open the stream from GOM Player?

 

[Hazaro]

HQ no go
SQ please hold up on this shitty internet

Agh, not even 450kbps is slow enough. Free SD please not for GSL Finals

 

[(._.)]

ughhh 6 am im gonna die

 

[TheThunder]

I guess the main event will be the GSTL. Seems like 30% of the seats are filled

Doesn't look close to being filled, don't know if GSTL will even mange to do it tomorrow.

 

[Corran Horn]

"The protocol (gomcmd) is not accociated with any program"

Can I open the stream from GOM Player?

Dont believe so.

Can try this, not sure if it still works
http://sjp.co.nz/projects/gomstreamer/

 

[Sliver]

Depressing amount of seats left open. Maybe I should start paying more attention to Dota 2.

 

[Hazaro]

Depressing amount of seats left open. Maybe I should start paying more attention to Dota 2.

Isn't it on the beach in summer?

 

[Corran Horn]

Should have left it in Seoul

Isn't it on the beach in summer?

if you want to be on a train for like 2 hours from Seoul :/

 

[Sliver]

Isn't it on the beach in summer?

It's the same exact location as the famous FBH ceremony finals. But about 30% of that crowd showed up.

 

[tylerf]

They aren't even showing Tastosis on camera to avoid showing the empty seats.

 

[Aaron]

It's too early. It's pvp. It's not LOL.

 

[Corran Horn]

They aren't even showing Tastosis on camera to avoid showing the empty seats.

Reflections show all

 

[(._.)]

tasteless is seriously annoying to listen to when you're cranky from little sleep. no wonder why everybody that stays up for GSL complains about him xp

 

[Striek]

You have the wrong link to the gom stream, scrub.

 

[TheThunder]

Depressing amount of seats left open. Maybe I should start paying more attention to Dota 2.

Dota 2 is way more fun to play at least.

SC2 is not really catching up in Korea, OGN has the LoL backup plan (which is probably the main plan looking at the numbers), but GOM and Blizzard ? yeah, good luck.

 

[Zen]

Well the crowd sure is disappointing, hopefully next year will help things out.

 

[Striek]

GSL finalszzzzz.

 

[SteveO409]

wow amazing build!!

 

[TheThunder]

It's okay America, you only have to stay up for 20 more minutes.