[2023 GSL S1] Code S Finals Cure vs Maru

final match cure tomorrow [Music] GSL finals we are finally here at the GSL code s finals it's been like 14 years of GSL we're still going we're down here at John shill uh the job shill studio and it has been a wild season Taryn dominance we finally thinned that number out to the two best tarents in the region Morrow versus pure is our finals tonight [Music] foreign the only player to defeat his opponent in this tournament that he's going up against in this finals he has shown massive Improvement uh really developed his own style but make no mistake is the underdog in this best of seven quietly one of the best Taran players in the world we'll see if he can go up against Maru here David verse Goliath a lot on the line here if he can win this a lot of people did not expect him to get this far but here he is now one best of seven away from taking the whole thing now his opponent his opponent Maru a player who needs a little introduction he has won five GSL code asses if he could win tonight it'll be a sixth it'll be history in the making um clearly the favorite moving forward here despite at times him saying that he feels like Terrence Terran has been his weakest match up he's here now in the finals one terrorist tearing away from breaking a new world record five GSL pins on his shirt already looking at a sixth and yet another trophy all right we've got to have our interview now with our two players Castor Park here on the stage he says these are the top two tarents here now with me on the final stage let's speak to them now you're here offline this isn't an online event anymore and you're facing Mario you've seen how he's performed in the past as well as today do you have confidence can you beat him oh I'll say this I'm not nervous I feel almost like I'm back at home playing I think this is doable tomorrow has a huge record but Mario has also been in the finals many times and has failed to win a GSL ow how would you evaluate tomorrow before he got to this finals I watched the semi-finals match it looks like a runner-up material to me but you heard that he's saying this to a guy who achieved the g5l but he said your performance is just a runner-up level you want to be in the runner-up again this time you'll have five championship titles but you'll also have another it would be five to four for runner-up titles well I don't really feel any pressure anyways five to four is also a fun number you said to jyp the semi-finals matchup wasn't fun but watch he said no that's not true I didn't watch it what was it fun or not it was fun because of Beyond what about here I don't care what that is play style okay Sparkles oh not impressed with your performance what do you say to that is [Music] pretty good but I don't think that was Bunny's best performance so I don't think it's a real measurement of where uh where bunny was at any words as we head into this so because it's the finals maybe my confidence has decreased a little bit hopefully this won't be a curse for me but this is the finals I'll do my best there's a player I know who's had seven Runners if I mention his name I might end up with seven runner-ups myself and a u cure anything you want to say I think in the finals says we're ready to get this started this is season one of the GSL code has finals Taryn versus Taran uh our semi-finals was four Terence total we haven't had that in 12 years of GSL and unusual season this time around let's see what happens is we have pure versus Mario in this best of seven decide who is the greatest player and the oldest Esports tournament in the world you know it took years for Maru to get that fifth GSL trophy after his fourth one we'll see if it takes some years to get to 6-1 man but the way that I'm seeing him play today Mario's looking really strong here cure had some good games against Beyond but remember those first couple of snatches looked a little bit shaky Maru solid from start to finish yeah you know I thought uh Mara would have a closer series against bunny Mario looked very on top of uh the mid game into the late game which I feel like is probably the most important part of the matchup um here his defense we should say versus Beyond was extremely solid um he did look to be very healthy I think he did look better than bunny if I'm gonna be honest but again you'd be a fool not to think that Mario is the favorite coming forward here Mars been playing out of his mind he looked Rock Solid all the way through the round of 16 the round of eight and now here in the quarterfinals moving on to the Grand finals long time ago it was the Undisputed best TBT player in the world not just the best Taran player I feel like that's becoming more and more true again with performances like this one we truly will Crown the best TBT player in the world today that's right um let's not forget here actually did beat Mario in this tournament it wasn't an elimination portion it was at the um the group section he was the only player to do that so I mean that's a big feat in of itself but a best of seven is such a different thing than the best of three and Mario is so much experience in best of sevens perhaps more than anybody else in Starcraft 2 his history at this point I mean he's been in so many GSL finals he's been in World Finals hasn't yet been crowd world champion but you feel that it's all but inevitable for a player of his his skill level and I mean Mario just the way that he's able to plan for a series not just the best of three but a best of five the best of seven I feel like that experience is going to pay dividends coming into this Grand Final I got to point out um as you were mentioning he did not win the World Championship he left katowice in a pretty shocking defeat a really historic moment in Starcraft 2 oliviera actually comes out on top I think Mario had to go back to the drawing board and in some ways this was basically the ideal GSL for him to recover in that matchup we had an abnormally large amount of Terence uh in this season and it stayed like that all the way up to the round of four obviously here in the finals with two terrans as well but Morrow you know he wins here tonight and he has broken that curse of course you're taking this would be one of the biggest GSL upsets of all time we have to remember that Mario has won five gsls which means he has surpassed everybody every GSL player I mean he is truly risen to the top now the question is how much further can he go but we've had crazy upsets in the past with GSL it could happen here tonight for Kiera player many people just probably weren't even thinking about in the final four could steal the whole show I made it all the way here to the top two Grand finalists cure up against tomorrow set number one will be played on altitude best of seven here so we kick off the GSL finals man I cannot wait to get started I want to see what these players have cooked up what they've got stored for us here in this festive seven what are their plans what are they gonna do we're gonna do a deep dive into this matchup who truly knows it the best this is Kira versus Maru game one in the best of seven here in the GSL code AS finals let's go foreign [Applause] foreign so much support from the fans here for Mario got tickets sold out here at the studio for those of you at home this is a huge uh huge Studio we've got here yeah this is considerably bigger than the one we normally cast out so thanks again to uh freaking TV for hooking us up with you congratulations buddy was that said he said he brought his wife for his honeymoon here welcome um where did you get the checks you mean the pro jackets does he mean the jackets we're wearing I didn't see that part actually that was another sign that said that those jackets Come From the Wardrobe room those aren't RJ is that an exciting story or what uh well so we have Kira here in game one going for a command center first tasteless against Mario here on ESL altitude it's a bold build to open up uh in the finals with but I think there's a lot of Brilliance here I think whenever you do Command Center first and the best of seven you're delaying more of your ordinary play from even contaminating the ecosystem of uh your the other players ability to evaluate you does that make sense yeah it's a bit of like a poker game you don't really want to show too much you don't want to have any towels you want your opponent to be in the dark not knowing what you're planning exactly and so you know many times winning the best of seven is about farming out information in each of the games and identifying ticks uh in their play style or the fact that they may like we saw earlier with cure versus Beyond right like we started to see beyond just really wants to proxy more than he wants to play a normal game in right um but I think only Command Center first it kind of erases that because you know you're probably not going to use it again after this uh a game or maybe you're crazy and you do it if he does we'll get to that um but he opens up with this and Mario's gonna come in here immediately with the reaper he's going to see what's happening and we're gonna see if he has any way to punish or exploit this yeah Marine coming down here to the Nashville will be able to oh nice grenade there for tomorrow actually I thought for a moment that SCV was gonna be able to work its way back up into the main base but instead deflect it back down to its death it's a nice pickup there for Mario as he mitigates a little bit of the economic Advantage here from this CC first opening and here's showing a lot of respect doesn't know if this is a two racks opening doesn't know exactly how safe he has to play does not want to be caught off guard so he has a number of SUVs pulled here to the front this is working out pretty nicely uh when you consider the fact that you know with just one Reaper you're getting this much value he is going to delay this slightly obviously you're going to continue to be making workers non-stop here on both sides it looks like that orbital is going to be finishing up over here for Mario uh and the game continues to um chug along a cyclone coming out for cure meanwhile Mara back at home actually opting for a widow mine addition to these handful of Marines and a Medevac coming out as well so potentially some early one of my harassment something we haven't seen too much from Maru so far in this GSL really is bread and butter has just been the siege tank for Marines and a Medevac play opening things up more often than not so also Mario kind of mixing it up a little bit here with his opening we'll see exactly where he decides to go with this one looks like it will be towards the main base so this is a little bit of a different opening than we've seen from morrow he's always tried to do something with the first Medevac I don't think I have casted a sixth Marine uh widowmine drop here a lot often times he likes the tanks and the four Marines at least for the early part of this year the question is where is he gonna go and how much can he actually get done behind it Mario throwing down the third Command Center back at home both players now building Ravens and that Reaper confirms that much of curious forces are holding down the ramp they're at that natural expansion so Reaper gonna jump into the main base Cyclone distracted for a moment does identify the correct Target and locks onto the Medevac widowmine will burrow you find there is a raven on the field Auto turrets dropped one of mine takes out a mule but besides that this attack from Maru quite well dispatched that Medevac Will Survive for now but you think a viking coming out it's all but inevitable how strange it's just such an odd drop right I mean I guess I don't know about you say but the unit composition of the drop is is kind of curious to me we know that Ravens are pretty typical uh for any ordinary game so I wonder why the widowmine dropped and then six Marines he did do some damage with it sure um but not very much and now the um Raven's gonna come in they're even coming in for a moment I was wondering whether this might try to set up for that Medevac to escape same all the way over here on the left side but for now just seems happy to pull down in that corner very low HP and third orbital coming in now for Maru yeah Mario definitely the first to a grass here the first to kind of get uh in the hair of cure and see if he can't you know kind of trip up his play a little bit but behind this we have stim started stem is fairly even on both sides I'm bringing that up because Mario has a lot of times um really started to be very active on the map Post stim in tvt he seems to be more able to do damage and take these very very delicate fights than pretty much any other Terran in Korea we only caught a glimpse of it but Mario already throwing down double engineering Bays you know the main storyline for him throughout a lot of this tournament in terms of tbt was how proactive he's been with his upgrades and creating large Windows of timing where he's able to exploit that upgrade advantage and once again seems like he might have that you know coming up his way plus one infantry weapons and armor almost halfway done now with cure just very far behind cure has done this in the other tbts we casted him in here in the semi-finals he's very quick to get out on the map with the first two sets of medevax Marlo is going to do the same thing but no matter what that's going to start to be a factor in this game a little bit later on now does Mario have a tank sieged up in his main he does he has that typical defense the turrets the Marines to basically make this undesirable it seems like you know in last year and the year before that we had a lot more two basic gauges that seemed to come down to some pretty tricky drops into the main seems like everybody's almost like preemptively defending against that so he's going to put that out and drop it down and basically treat those Marines like their zerglens or something that could counter attack if the push comes out later now inside of the main here for cure I don't see a tank or at least I see one now but it was not sieged up it's not in that defensive formation and Ravens are coming in here as well got two Ravens coming in stim comes through here for amaru infantry weapon and armor completed no disables coming in on the tanks and said just Auto turrets dropped down armor shredding missile will connect with all these marines and that's going to be maru's Q to get up out of this main base as both players trading Raven energy there Mario getting a little bit of damage done that was that was pretty good I mean it's it's not every day or honestly even every GSL season I I cast a Barracks being killed in a drop but that's actually a pretty big deal he takes that out he doesn't really suffer any losses uh oh my God dangerous situation there so good I was about to say like oh well this makes sense then I see he's completely ready for that he's got to be careful too because this can end up getting stuck in this location yeah Vikings now in production for Morrow so he might try to clean those medevacs out as best he can as there is a missile turret in position here to intercept these medevacs one of them will take a lot of damage coming in siege tank behind the command center shelling these marines and Cyclone also will get taken out so a little bit of a blunder there in terms of control here from cure these metamax very low on HP eventually we'll get cleaned up with the three marines coming from the widowmine drop actually drop down the natural expansion take off a ton of SUVs I mean this damage is really starting to to pile up we're not even really into the you know the part of the game where this much action should have even taken place but effectively here has been shut down at every pass and while you know the numbers on the screen at the bottom can look pretty even it can be very very misleading for where they're at because in a little bit we should start to see Mardo catapult ahead and Supply uh and probably be able to create some more opportunities in this game okay we would think so another drop coming in for tomorrow these four Marines just not only getting idle time but four additional SUVs as cure just continues to get his economy disrupted and that's going to get Mario the breathing group to move across the middle of the map but here's getting ready to meet him tasteless cure not ready for this engagement a little bit of a slow reaction there it's gonna lift the tanks and the medevax barely escaping destruction there and Mario just continues to swim forward against the center Tower backs off back home setting up for yet another drop Morrow is just on fire right now he is everywhere almost getting that Medevac with the two thanks and thank God for Cure's sake he didn't lose that just yet um but right now he is snaking around the map he is looking for any opportunities he can get to do some additional damage amaru maneuvering now towards the southern selnaga Tower going to see if he can find some angle over here towards the natural expansion of cure plus two infantry weapons and armor about to complete now for Mario he should have a sizeable window those upgrades only about two-thirds done now for cure so Marine upgrades certainly favoring Maru at this point and Medevac drop what big one oh you don't want to go in there though here is very much ready for that a good positional play there by cure tomorrow runs into that and he's basically put himself behind for this entire game Mario is now maxed out um here is going to come out here and try to intercept this it looks like this will actually go pretty nicely he'll be able to get this he tries once more to come in with those medevacs meanwhile a pushes uh out uh over here at the top he's going to set up a small position over here I gotta say this looking pretty good yeah this will eventually get cleaned up there by Morrow but it sets up for this attack over here on this left side Mario coming in with more Marines than Siege tanks pushing back cures we're going a little bit tip for Tat here and Mario once again in the natural expansion coming in with yet another draw and he's doing all this while taking a fourth base he's basically using his offense as the best possible defense it's just hard to kind of catch up to him here uh he scans is he gonna actually move in here I think it would be an overextension if he did he did bleed off a couple extra units probably unnecessarily but these drops I mean State we're just seeing so much damage uh come out here and you could see how taxing this is on Curious multitasking he has not yet saturated that fourth base it hasn't been morphed into a planetary or an orbital command as Maro just continuously stays very active on the map and here we go disables coming in three Siege things already disabled to the front line but a nice Arc here for cure on the Marines of The High Ground is going to push back Maru for now a favorable trade here for cure despite some nice disables on those Siege tanks yeah he kills a lot of Tanks back there Mario dropping in supply for a little bit this position May in fact be uh perhaps too flimsy we should note that six o'clock uh for cure has not actually been used yet there's no oh sorry there's some SUVs yet there but again he's a little bit behind on actually uh soaking up the resources from that spot Mario almost trying to force the position here I'm not clear on if this is actually going to work it seems like there should just be enough tanks for the blow to blow to trade out here and Cure's favor that seems the trade the trade for The Siege tanks quite even that was actually sprinting forward we're gonna see if we can snipe one of them but does not want to test his luck too much there does pull back and another command center now getting built at 12 o'clock here for Mario as he continues to Rove around the map moving now towards the natural expansion yet again nice siege tank line here for tomorrow but he straight a little bit too far from it there on the south side and now a big counter attack from cure here it comes in there's nothing to defend right now all the SUVs are gonna be picked off here the tank Siege up but the command center is going to be gunned down in total 20 SUVs going down the CC will fall supplies even up now Mario going to see if he could try and find some angle over here on the triangle third and it seems like he will finally maneuvering into position this drop in the main base of Maru should eventually get cleaned up some meta vaccinating Focus fire now a big drop here in the main base tasteless I almost missed this this drop coming in here now is actually huge he is going to force here to come back and chase this back out but that may weaken the position of the command center we have tanks now shelling to CC more takes on the side suddenly Morrow like a boa constrictor is beginning to crush gear positionally yeah cure continuing to try to keep the pressure off this is the main orbital lifted over here to the third base it will be able to be repaired now but this third base here for a cure it's been under constant Siege and the drop is going to come in on top of these Siege things they are unguarded so those two should be dispatched quite easily here by cure for The Siege continuing down on this triangle third that orbital in a lot of trouble I mean I'm getting a little bit worried here both these guys have lost quite a bit it seems like functionally Mario barely has a little bit more but we have this huge counter-attack that's coming out and I don't know what exactly is ready to intercept this I mean it's possible that everything that Mario has is kind of on screen here now cure coming in on two different angles trying to set up a flank more with the quick reactions they're going to pick up the siege thanks and boost stim away trying to move her into a better position we'll see to the bottom of this ramp nice control there by Mario that was so good if he lost that force it could have been game over but instead he lives on to fight another day and now Kira continuing to press the attack moving towards the natural expansion of Maru but Maru is going back to the third he's gonna hit both the third and he's gonna hit six o'clock as well I don't know what that means for Spain though I don't think there's a lot of army back at home to defend as you see him retreating back into the main base and cure wants to get on top of the production he's coming up the ramp there's only one siege tank here on the left side one more by where the orbital used to be but these marines are so low they're taking so much damage from The Siege tanks reinforcements come back in and Mario might be able to clean this up he's got a siege tank in the main here see if he could just get up and get these two tanks it's gonna be huge in the meantime Mario continuing to Siege down the triangle Third Base there for cure is cure bleeding a lot of army supply here in the main base two more medevacs and a ton of Marines going down as Mario now has a 30 30 army supply lead this orbital lifting up once again cure really started for resources right now basically harvesting off a base and a half as Maru has these two uncontested bases at the 12 o'clock oh big mistake here oh yeah it looks like there was absolutely a thousand percent ready for that uh and that's gonna really soften that position but to what you were saying earlier saying I mean I think at this one time it's just a matter of fact that Mario is is drinking up more resources on the map he just has more bases and we can watch these fights but if we don't count the expansions we're not getting the true story and that's it Mario just has a better income and therefore should be able to continue to shoot up in Supply yeah but with Mara now or cure excuse me re-saturating that third base as economy should begin to catch up and a rare lapse in defense here for Curious he was not in position to stop Maru from getting set up here on this ramp that orbital command or planetary excuse me taking a ton of damage right now SCP is scrambling to repair it Kira this is his only full mining base with 60 mineral patches he's gonna try and come in to defend it might have been enough a little bit more than he can chew but instead no it's gonna be Maru pulling off here pretty even trade he's going to converge these forces right in the middle of the map he's so good he's going to reconfigure again and come in here cure is barely hanging on right now because Mario actually overextending here there's so many tanks down here the position is pretty good in fact the tanks are going to remain covered the Liberator gonna help out here as well got a bit of an over extension there for Maru Kira had the perfect surround there on the top of the ramp this beautiful Arc of not only the Liberator but the siege tanks and the Marines deflecting that push from Maru but behind this Mario with a worker lead and a base Advantage which cure has no idea about continuing to compound and although Maru for the past couple of minutes he might have been bleeding out slightly more resources his economy is that much better that it doesn't matter yeah uh another tank Falls here did Mario overextend a little bit it seems like you're able to lash back in on the map I'm seeing over at nine o'clock Command Center is about to land it was taken from the main um and you know Morrow this aggression sometimes it is a double-edged sword he might have overextended a couple minutes ago and now you're gonna try to come back in here and push it's going to be on tomorrow on the defense for the time being and when Morrow only having one biking on the field it's gonna be difficult for him to actually deflect these liberators okay Marines stem for it does cost a lot of lives but they are able to take that Liberator out that will allow him to get his scene shakes into a better defensive position here at the top of this third base it's a scary position here the siege tank count massively in favor of cure right now especially here at the triangle third for Mario and you see this art getting set up for a cure and you have to wonder how Mario exactly is going to break at 10 Siege takes to five right now and here's gonna try and reach forward I mean he's coming in but there's enough tanks in the back I think a cure might be able to just refill this with the Marines he's got in fact I think Mario make it a wise decision it's going to abandon this now pure um perhaps in the expansion lead you know that one overstep there from morrow the one where it looked like he was going to get six o'clock that he picked up the Marines that he regrouped uh and came back oh my god oh it's a big drop coming into the main base does get deflected there by Mario is curious to risk everything on it he might have actually been able to get in there there wasn't that much as far as infantry goes but there's nothing down here now at that triangle third you know just a handful of Siege tanks Orville's gonna get taken out very quickly by these plus three Marines continuing the stem four they do not care about the siege things but perhaps they should with two more by the natural expansion they will have to retreat just five of them surviving these players going back and forth so much Chase is so active on the map it's crazy I think that here might actually have this I think in the next couple of minutes he might be able to close us out we see tomorrow overextend just two times cure a little bit better on the defense a little bit more balanced and play yeah and now here being able to split off this 11 o'clock position is going to be disastrous here for tomorrow if he's not able to defend it cure did not realize that Command Center was there until this one moment so Morgan's trying to Sprint forward and put up a defensive position but look at how many Siege tanks we have here on the low ground it's 12 tanks it's for cure to three takes for Maru all these SCS are forfeit this Command Center is forfeit and now suddenly Maru who was able to propel his army forward by having a superior economy for the past couple of minutes is on the back foot he's down to four mining bases and it's cure who's in a better position and cure with I think a better game sense this time around he realizes okay I've killed off that base I'm in the lead I need to run back down here and meet this small attack that's headed southbound if he can just destroy this I think there's gonna be any more opportunities left here for Morrow yambaru running out of steam right now down 50 in army supply 126 to 84 as Kira is on the hunt trying to chase down these marines there's no facet of the game right now where Mario has an advantage except workers he's down in Marines down in Siege tanks down in medevax he has no Vikings to the Viking count of cure so he's gonna have to try and give cure the run around buy himself some time to build forces up back at home but cure he's so good he's already on point of the defense here at this nine o'clock base will get pushed back for now but buying himself a lot of time in this massive Army marching towards cure maru's triangle third all right he's gonna try to take that Command Center out here what is actually here to defend he's going to lift the CC up only to move that out as well in fact I think these marines are just going to kill it off meanwhile Pierre just kind of uses his scraps to clean this up um and I I think we're almost to the end here you know a game that I think Mara was winning for most of pure is basically done an incredible job of staying alive what Mario's trying to do is cause enough distraction on the other side of the map then maybe cure will come back and defend it and so far it seems like it's working this is Marlo on nope that's going to be it GG here takes game one yeah Maura made a valley and effort of surviving their last man but man what a way to start game one of his master seven series the first ESL code s finals of 2023 Cara versus Maru Kira taking game number one in dramatic fashion one of the most action-packed if not the most action-packed teaming team we've had so far in GSL I mean that was just a superb game this this season it's really something to be blown away by being pure basically going mono mono there with uh Maru and Maro when it looked like he was you know he was kind of in the lead for I think a good maybe seven eight minute stretch and cure was basically just barely defending but then Marlo started to overextend and here's you know never overextended in that game cure Pierre played a a really solid tvt back there and he was really cautious he didn't he didn't try to force it he didn't try to base trade it he just took his time he let Morrow over extend over and over and here we are the underdog ahead one to zero that cure was just Immaculate defense didn't move out too much on the map to attack Mario but whenever he did it almost always created value whereas Mario despite that economic lead throughout the mid games just kind of try to Manpower his way through try to Pummel the defenses of cure but cure did not let up sure now up 1-0 dragon scales is going to be map number two tasteless let's see what happens can Morrow even this out one to one or is you're gonna start to run away with his best of seven taking that lead Morrow if he wins this GSL finalist he will he will be the 6sl or the sixth GSL championship for him you're the underdog it would be a huge upset if he wins thank you let's go right to the trophy look out Club NV cure [Applause] on-site gaming Maru [Applause] man I really needed to breather out of that last game but tomorrow with this early STD on the map not sure I'm gonna get it tasteless okay here we go so so far this strategy has not really been working today for any of our Terran players Maru um he went for this build earlier today very excellent work guys wow it's a long distance to travel thank you for coming down but mama he overextended a little bit last time he tried the strategy and oh cure he's trying to scout for this his spider senses are tingling for a moment there I think the SCU was actually aiming down towards the barracks but he thought better of it decided to come over here on the left side will he come back up this ramp towards the GSL logo oh he's gonna he's gonna find it yeah he's gonna see it all right T-Rex gets spotted here now it's important to note that there's no way he can deny that if you get there right away you might be able to attack the SUV and basically make the whole thing a nightmare yeah but he would have to send the SCP so early to actually stop it from producing that barracks and so reapers are coming out and you're right Steve we actually haven't seen the strategy work yet it's been nothing but this strategy failing be untreated twice um and you know it's a no great success um Mario tried this and actually lost his uh his not Marines his Reapers right away yeah both Reapers and actually getting a little bit of flashback of guns games earlier as a proxy Factory now coming through for morrow in the middle of the map these two Reapers now pushing up the middle there's one reefer and one Marine in position defend a Hellion gets started on the factory some nice damage coming in on these SUVs none getting taken out just yet though we want to watch that Reaper count very carefully if he can keep all the Reapers alive chances of the rush overpowering uh the other player are very good let's not forget we saw cure actually hold this rush earlier this has like been cures big test today is not dying to this build order and so far he's undefeated with it right reactor now coming in on the barracks this production continues here for cure poor Reapers pushing up the ramp but it's very difficult to make that push especially against a Hellion now but just like we didn't see beyond really pull this strategy off I want to see exactly how Morrow does it I wouldn't be surprised if the strategy came from Mario and not from Beyond um but yeah I want to see exactly the idea for how this is supposed to end the game because this is a this is a crazy rush I mean everything besides the one of the barracks is actually outside the main yeah six Reapers in total now gonna come up the ramp and that means that these hellions are not going to be able to get a nice AOE damage shot on them SUV's getting pulled oh Pig shot by the Hellion and a Reapers five SVS already getting taken down oh these grenades are so good just purpose setting these Hellion seven scds in total falling and four of the reefers are going to escape with their lives I mean that's such a massive lead there's a viking that's going to come out that's going to counter the Banshee cloak Banshee coming out though it's gonna have cloth tasteless so there is an opportunity there is a world where cure is able to find some big counter damage here with a cloak Banshee on maru's side of the map because this Viking is probably going to be staying here at the front question is will cure send that Banshee around the peripheral of the map straight away or this is timed out he sends the barracks and this is the barracks from the main he sends this into spot for the tank all right the banshee's gonna stay home you take getting in position should be able to Shell these add-ons oh this is really painful here for cure the reactor is going to go down you should see that it's going to be banshees with cloak uh he's gonna start to fire does he have a uh a scan picked up you have to think that he's saving one if not now then very soon especially with another command center coming down in the natural expansion Maru is expanding behind this here's still on one Command Center there's nothing to heal these marines either so like any damage they take is is huge man she's as close as five seconds out we've got two Vikings here the add-on is dead or destroyed yeah only one siege tank on the field or will be on the field here for cure oh barely gonna get away is that banshee so close to getting taken out it doesn't get the siege take he had to lift wait did he did it pop I didn't say I actually see because the player cameras I think it actually might have finished I think the lower cameras might have been obscuring it yeah that was a really scary moment there well it was really low yeah that was about as close as you could possibly cut it because Banshee now continuing to try to make work happen back at home Mario did go for an engineering Bay this Banshee does get cleaned up so there should be a turret back in the mineral lines of Maru yep right there in the main mineral line there is a second orbital produced here for Maru as well so he should have scans in abundance here to defend that's a crazy Rush by the way it's been a crazy game this has just been like totally different game and I'm glad we're finally getting to see like the full scope of what the rush is intended to do that Banshee now coming is the main base that turret although it's able to defend most of the mineral line cannot protect the geysers it cannot protect these Barracks so Mario watch out for those minerals starting to float a little bit because he is slowing down on his production just a bit well you know here's the thing I mean he he does kill that off he's still got his Vikings another banshee's gonna come these banshees can like buy time and maybe you get a natural setup ideally he'd want to push that infrastructure as well but it's possible that Mario just has like a little bit more to work with as far as the units he's developed this game yeah another fancy gonna come in should be able to pick off a couple of SUVs before it gets taken out here by the Raven and Vikings and yeah we're just going to sack it we'll get four maybe five does get the fifth SCV so 31 workers now to the 24 for cure cure desperately needed to try and close that Gap a little bit but although the factory and the starport have lifted and gone back home keep in mind that Maro was able to produce two Ravens out of that Star Force so they're gonna be building energy this entire time and cure only just now throwing down that natural CC it's only about halfway done and starting to remind me a little bit about the game that he played against Beyond where yes he was able to defend the early aggression all these damaged SUVs now just get killed off a lot more easily later on it's just yeah if you don't have a Medevac that healed those at some point in time not that that's like the way to play but you know it's like any damage that happened is basically permanent uh so stems on the way I don't did we get stem for cure this is such a weird game I'm not actually sure if we gotta I assume that we have it because nothing's being researched right now but this could be some insanely crazy situation I mean keep in mind he lost so many SUVs early and I almost feel like he's got to go all in with this 22 23 STDs now he might be trying to get in there before the stim is done as well on that side and by the way the counter attack is really good because this is just really slowing everything down I don't blame Vikings are actually MVPs right here my goodness thing is with this many vikings a bunker and Ravens I feel like you can kind of disarm anything that comes towards you okay he's gonna have disables I think there's a slight biking Edge if I'm not mistaken here for cure it's three to three Vikings right now The Cure certainly does have more back at home keep in mind those two landed Vikings now joining the prey here horror sees those a backsaw fan I'm a little concerned for Curious position he's not producing SUVs constantly right now he's actually taking another gas but just watching that production tab he's skimping a lot on ezeko missing a lot of production Cycles on his command centers because he's just so broke right now and he's trying to make something happen with this group of units a little nap and no way a lot of Vikings are you really going for a counter-attack with this this is crazy well I guess the truth is the SUV count is so low how much is actually coming out of there also you could just kind of buy time with us right wow this is a genius play coming out of Marvel that's so many so many Auto turrets I don't think cure can really defend this I don't know exactly what the setup is at home but this is a very scary situation and curious aware of it now all these Vikings Landing auto turret as well as the mineral line getting dispatch and cure is going to see if he can try and breach into the natural expansion here for Maru more turrets getting thrown out of the main base there's basically no economy for cure back at home yeah I think here's dead he's just gonna hunt down these SUVs you know let's see fights like this every day yeah I know we're finally seeing the Vikings the way that Dustin Browner wanted them to be used he's like yo they could a lake would fly but they could also just like ran into fight then that never happened until this season of GSL and now he could just throw his SUVs in here because this game's over uh Mario is taking game two excuse me in a commanding performance action-packed technical play deep understanding of a very nuanced position what a game there from Maru and what a start to this best of seven Man game one and game two boat treats an action-packed macro game and game number one game two Mara goes back to a build that we saw the unused earlier in this tournament was able to find success but not as much success as Maru really got in that game because Maru from start to finish he got so much damage done that you can just tell that cure was up against the ropes the entire time he was cutting SUVs at times he didn't want to he didn't want to because he was so broke and you could see the frustration a little bit on his face because nothing really went right for him in that game and I mean after winning game number one in such spectacular fashion this back and forth action-packed battle where you win in the mid game and then the late game against Maru right to lose in basically one Fell Swoop like this it's got to be demoralizing here yeah for sure I mean here's what I want to know state is how many more times we're gonna have that build used because it does appear to be a build for both Beyond and from Mario that they don't really care if you know it's coming this may be some new tech here from Mario where he's like no actually it's pretty hard to stop I'm not sure if I even know how to stop it and I love that we finally see where it's supposed to go the tank comes out later the barracks it's made in the main is floated over to the expansion to be used in the push the Vikings come out to Aid that and eventually you have a raven to stop the Banshees I mean it's like everything sets up that forces the other Terran to to react in a way that the counter is then inbound right after that yeah we really saw that build at its full potential Morrowind and cure tied 1-1 here in this best of seven as we were loading up into ESL gresmond who will take game number three coming down closer and closer to crowding a new GSL champion [Applause] [Applause] on-site gaming Maru [Applause] took gas before Barracks yeah gas first for Mario Barracks racks for cure it's a double gas for cure okay seen this a couple times already today yeah again Mario really showing some deep knowledge I do feel like he does look a little bit stronger I think here today I mean that last game here was very impressive but you know it almost seemed like Mario overheated in game one and kind of overextended so many fans out here g6l in the bottom left I see that yeah because we have to keep that Meme going man that's four turns and top four is not enough GSL four terens in this round of four but no it's protos man um we love the signs guys oh okay so um Maru had the resources to throw down the command center straight away but he saw the SUV Scout coming in from Kieran so what he opted to do instead was to go for the SCV building a Depot there at the natural ramp and that's going to prevent cure from coming into the main base and confirming this and usually when you see a two Depot build like this you're thinking it's going to be Factory and then Command Center at least from the PBT point of view I'm not sure exactly how it shakes out on TBT but I imagine it's kind of similar so Mario playing a little bit sub-optimally in terms of build just to play the Mind Games a little bit here yeah it's it's very interesting to see so they're both basically playing a pretty conservative start here uh although they got here in very different ways but the command centers are going to be made in the main uh it's very much about making the other player guess that maybe a tech Rush is inbound when it's not um since they're both doing this this usually doesn't amount to very much two reapers on the field for cure just one for Maru right now is remember actually has nothing being produced from his Barracks instead was just going for the reactor now getting the hellions so these two Reapers coming into the main base could cause some problems here yeah he actually got a little bit too greedy I kind of anticipated something to come out of the barracks there I just really wanted that reactor and with nice control only going to lose one SCV and a little bit of mining time as that orbital command now comes down into the natural expansion and for a second I thought it was the third Command Center there from here on The High Ground but it's a star Port I was losing my mind for a moment there no that would have been wild uh cure did get a cyclone he may try to come out and look for some kind of a fight on the map with that appears very well with these early uh early Reapers here for cure Mario Just continuing to power up reactoring out these hellions mixing in ravens as well kind of a slow start here in game number three yeah quiet start but there's a lot of Mind Games going on some of the um you know best games you can watch at Starcraft don't really come down to like they've this guy tried to attack and this guy stopped it or didn't stop it but like how tricky the build orders are here and to the Casual Observer can look like nothing's happening but actually there's a lot of corner cutting going on and faking and bluffing uh here as well there's a reason why Starcraft players in general tend to succeed in other games like poker yeah after they end their careers is because long history of that actually with starca players making money in poker because the early game was basically a very similar idea wise yeah it's a game of limited information and especially in Starcraft 2 with how fast builds can progress I mean the Mind Games that you can employ are pretty crazy this is a lot of hellions actually taste I didn't realize we had so many hellions coming in helion's taking down Cyclones not something you see that often one cycling going to lock onto that Rave and still maintain luck on that Raven very low on HP we'll have to back off I think Mario really wanted to drop an auto turret there but just wasn't able to get in range that cycling doing a great job of zoning and protecting the rest of Kira's Army and um I mean he gets in he gets right back out we have the accumulation of ravens already happening tanks tank count is building up over here uh as well I don't know that either side can really fully engage with the other but I say that his cure is going to move out across the map secure moving across the map two Siege tanks 10 Marines as well as a cyclone and a viking so quite a formidable really push here especially against a player who is mostly going for hellions because Mario really doesn't have a lot of Firepower and behind this he's going for a third Command Center and double engineering base so a lot of greed on maru's side and if you're gonna be able to punish it it's gonna be a build like this one drop coming into the main base right now keep mine there is a cyclone with this now that Marine that scouted totally missed all of this uh-oh but it seems like Mario's gonna be okay regardless yeah for a moment I was really scared for cure there going a little bit too close to that natural expansion because those Ravens can rain hell down on those Siege tanks if they don't have enough support all right scans on both sides here it looks like he might try to push into the main I I don't see why not I feel like Maru is relatively safe here though and I like this disable coming in just kind of pushing cure away from that position Mario's gonna be able to take a more formidable anchoring point with these two Siege tanks at the natural all right he's continuing to relocate his tanks looks like here wants to try to set up again and create a threat can he hit the command center there I think you barely can't okay by the way I just want to point out that cure is very heavily investing in the Vikings he's been producing them non-stop seven Vikings in total on the field now going into liberators usually that's an indicator he's going to try to win with a push yeah I think this is actually going to be a very hard contain here on the outside of Mario Kira is looking to get damage done and forced marriage to attack into him actually the Viking is landing here focusing Down The Siege tanks getting a lot of damage in oh that might actually do it wow that actually might do it he's actually gonna get the command center too yeah Mario getting pre-checked a little bit here in game number three as he tries to find a flank oh I see he tried to go across the map and drop that's why there was so little well Mario might actually just tap out I think that might be a back-breaking move I think so I mean going for the drop and then also a third Command Center and also double engineering by behind all this is just a little bit stretched too thin a little bit of disrespect here from Maro not really appreciating that you know uh cure wood you know push come to shove just come on in and perhaps just didn't anticipate him coming for such a killing blow here is Morgan to try this countertop oh my God I would not be surprised to see Maru tap out very shortly here is the pressure just continues to ramp up here in the natural expansion I mean Mario literally on one mining base yes he does have a second orbital but there's very little he can get done here but he is a GSL Champion a g5l champion for a reason he fights tooth and nail tasteless he's gonna he's gonna make cure work for it as best he can well I think this is a smart move he's just gonna try to get as much value out of this position that he's fought into as possible uh and you know what honestly this is like a lot of damage I think he should be pretty happy with this um this is looking very very Grim right now for Morrow and he does have a second orbital uh because he would that was supposed to be his third orbital um but I mean what is uh cure really built up into here I mean his army is considerably bigger he has double the workers right now has the third Command Center up already probably gonna be lifting that to the third base very soon no doubt Mario does have at least one one but I mean that's a very small price to pay for cure to be one upgrade behind and just completely hamstring your opponents not only Army but economy so looks like Maru is just going to try and set up for basically one Hail Mary play if you look at the production type he's not even producing STDs at this point just pumping Marines and Seed tanks as best he can and he's gonna try and work some magic here but I would love to hype this up I feel like it's going to be very difficult for tomorrow to get basically anything done I mean cure kind of knows what he needs to do and it's not the most exciting thing in the world but it's just to kind of seal himself off and make sure he can't take any any damage you know on and it's on two bases which is you know one of the more doable things uh to go for here the drop's gonna come in he's going to commit up into the main what do we have here to defend we have one siege tank uh and the Vikings are gonna come in here the Vikings will actually trap the medevacs in so this may be uh the final death throws of Morrow in this game yes Tech failing here tomorrow back at home slowly incrementing out scbs but just too far behind 113 Supply to 51 and Mario's gonna tap out and Kira takes a 2-1 lead impressive here does it and I'll tell you when is the last time you in your memory uh have seen Maru die on two bases to a push because he basically died long before that attack actually at the very end there happened I mean he here came in there he pushed he sieged up he started to damage the command center he looked around he said you don't have any Marines and lands the Vikings and gets that kill it doesn't happen that often I actually can't from my service memory really recall again where Mario just got dismantled like that but you know Mario has been making a lot of greedy plays so far not just in this tournament but today he's been going for a fast third CC a lot he's been really trying to play the upgrade advantage to the best of his ability and cure is like I'm not even gonna play catch-up I'll delay my double engineering Bay I'm just going to go attack you as best I can short break guys we'll be right back when the finals continuing on don't go anywhere me know your enemy [Music] [Music] everything's upside down and inside out it's a new world that takes away all my doubts lower my eyes [Music] [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] don't work today [Music] [Music] [Applause] continue [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] use yourself [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] look at again [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign match cure tomorrow [Music] welcome back everybody the GSL finals continues on right now here is up two to one versus Morrow that's been an incredible set of games so far too every single one has been action-packed yeah I mean game number one back and forth macro game non-stop action cure getting the edge over Maru who I feel like is probably one of the best if not the best mid and late game TBT player in the world right now and then you know game two game three just some pretty fast action a lot of really fun plays some crazy stuff happening and cure actually basically beating Mario with a two base push Maro a little bit too greedy very weird builds going on on both sides where they're both trying to fake that they're doing some kind of tech when actually they're both um going into a hidden Command Center and then trying to play it out from there um but Mario you know when we saw his bestified before this one where he beat bunny it looked like he was just mechanically better at the basics of Terrence Terran better at taking fights in the middle better positional play but now that we see him against cure cure seems to be able to hold his own he seems to be able to uh deal and engage with Mario and and defend and let Marlo over extend an attack into him and now he's in the lead yeah up two to one and also not just with defense but the offense there in that previous game I mean Mario has been getting away with these greedy plays it feels like all GSL going for fast third command centers going for double engineering Bay drops and even in game number three behind all of that going for a Medevac drop while he's getting pushed it is natural yeah he's really trying to kind of stretch the limit of what should be possible and he got punished there in game number three I would be surprised honestly if we saw Maru lose the same way in this series I think he's got a little bit of time to adjust from that you know that little break that we had I think what you said earlier was really important State uh cure is greed checking tomorrow here he's coming in here and saying all right can you actually defend this he's he's he's testing the parameters of the defense and when he sees there's not much pushback he pulls the trigger he goes in there and then starts to deal that damage I think you're right I don't think we're going to see Mario uh lose another game like we saw in game three um that was him being like kind of crazy greedy but cure does seem to be getting the hang of what exactly Mario is doing here and look he's halfway there if he gets two more wins he's moving on to to uh be our finalist Champion yeah would be an incredible moment it would be an incredible upset even to have cure defeat Maru the greatest of all time GSL competitors that trophy the beautiful trophy I love the colors on it just waiting waiting for one of these Gamers to lift it up over their head as a champion and who's it going to be I mean before I came uh into the studio today I thought probably tomorrow right I mean you know it would it's happened before it's happened five times already but yeah right now it's cure up in the lead this is going to be a very important map for because there's only two possible outcomes either Morrow ties it up two to two and we're dead even or cure pulls out a massively three to one very difficult to recover from we're now going into Babylon uh let's continue this finals on as we get one step closer to crowning a GSL code s champion all right now oh boy wouldn't be a GSL finals without a proxy 2 racks tasteless I mean go all the way back I think that this was going to be the game to be honest but I didn't think so either I thought if he was going to do this maybe it'd be like Morrow after he wins this game or maybe save it for game seven some Maro versus or Mario excuse me MVP versus Squirtle action yeah yeah where it's like everything is decided on a cheese and people are losing their minds um well that's exciting I like this welcome down to the studio everybody GSL forever Starcraft 2 forever I saw that sign in the background yeah appreciate you well we're so happy to have you guys down here is this gonna be one where he has a third Barracks I guess it's probably more of a thing for sure what am I talking about but you know we've had some crazy games now hold on a second here is coming out on the map and this just might be a normal Scout yeah it might be a normal Scout and yeah that might actually be one of the best ways to actually Scout for this proxy tube Barracks because you kind of think of all the possible places where these two racks could be on the map and say you get really unlucky and it's just the last place you look like say you go all the way around the left side or the right side you come all the way that way you loop back and then oh it's not there the only thing that it's not going to cover is a Mac of Rags yeah where they you know they hide it just outside of their base and you overreact but I think it's probably the better way to play is it just like just go all the way across and look and see what they have yeah so care already has a very good idea of what's coming his way and I wouldn't be surprised to see him throw down a command center and then maybe a bunker right here or it could even be a factory we'll see that's gonna be the factory all right so obviously that first Reaper can't do anything as curious Reaper is going to get the first hit now remember we've seen uh double racks Reaper but before it was the weird build where he does one of the barracks in his um in his main but I don't see why you wouldn't be able to do the same weird build and make a factory here with this Barracks here right yeah that's a good point I know that one of the Seas Factory back here yeah I knew one of the SUVs went back home perhaps it was both of them as finally that SUV does it get cleaned up back at maru's base and that's just gonna be a light pressure I guess why are we now gonna lift this Barracks he's not really looking to end the game anymore he's just trying to get a good idea of exactly what cure is working with here and maybe get the vision to preempt some grenades now coming up the ramp 's actually set up quite well seeing a lot of different bio SCB building the command center does get taken down go to control here by Mario kiting back with the injured Reapers for a very long time continuing to do so even it's already success following and if all three of these Reapers get out which they might he's gonna land it oh gamer alert that's pretty sick gamer alert blocks it off that was wild okay so six SUVs already killed that's really good he lost one Reaper for that if I'm not mistaken that was some phenomenal control and I think the barracks really set him up for that just was able to map out what the plan was with the vision that he got and okay here we go again this is a really ambitious one but I suppose Mario wants to trade these Reapers out sooner rather than later more grenades coming in really nice hits only gets two more SUVs that's a lot of battered and bruised units and in total nine SUVs fall for five Reapers in total and Mario back at home his expansion a little bit later than cures but already a six worker relief all right well um I gotta say I wasn't expecting it to really do as much as it did but it seemed like the arcing the way that he was able to kind of circle around the truth is Marines just aren't as fast as Reapers they have a hard time catching up uh Mario seems to be in good shape so far it doesn't mean the Cure can't play this out and maybe come out on top but right now I gotta say it's it's a very good start for Mario I'm liking this opening for Maru a lot and also having that Command Center built on the low ground as opposed to on The High Ground which cure had to do because of the proxy 2 Barracks means that Mario is going to inch forward the SMB count lead just a little bit more a little bit more production time on that orbital and now a third Command Center once again coming in for Maru yeah here comes that uh Medevac now it's gonna be curious turn to try to come in and do some damage obviously the Medevac is going to spot that the moment it comes in uh just looking at the angled set up but there's going to be a third Command Center here for cure I look I think this is almost as we're really unpacking TBT now this seems to be just kind of standard right maybe better to just kind of sit back and land mules and make us CPUs and get that third Command Center out when you can um not trying to commit on any kind of two basing it feels like with the Cyclone a handful of Marines one siege tank and a raven you can kind of pull off most early game aggression here so yeah the third CC seems to be quite safe as Hellion drop does come in picks off four SUVs actually he's gonna get two more there with six or we're not pulling those ones back eight kills to be honest yeah when I saw that drop come in I almost wrote it off it's like okay this will be minimal we'll get two or three SUVs and then continue on other than that I'm like all right well whatever I mean I guess you got to use the hellions right like that you guys should get that many worker kills yeah but equalize here actually now with a worker Elite I mean albeit it's only one worker and only for just a moment but you will take that any day of the week if you can equalize from that traumatic early game Reaper harassment you'll be feeling a lot better about your position in this game now getting that Medevac means you have one less Raven we know marvel likes to get about three Ravens out and then try to be active on the map with that so let's see what he can actually find here um you know and again with Mario I do feel like he is the very very best at just making things happen with these minimal amounts of units now we have a cyclone and I think it was for Marines actually inside the Medevac here yeah it was Kenny maybe just get some some limited picks on the side over here maybe I think Mario also does have a cyclone at home if I'm not mistaken I'm not sure exactly where it is but he should be able to shoot this one away without too much trouble especially with those three Ravens back at home but at the very least Kira is going to keep Mario pin back a little he's going to secure this position up here in the front moving towards the natural expansion with his Siege tanks Ravens and Marines and oh Viking production starting really early here for Mars something we haven't seen too much from him so far today and wow he had a really good read on this I'm not sure if it was a scan that caught it or what exactly the situation was and it can't boost because of the disabled so it's actually just gonna die yeah that's actually a pretty remarkable wow that every day we get to cast you know a Medevac getting disabled but it's just one of those moments that goes to show you you don't want to just lurk like that um outside of the base because they can find you and they can just punish you like that it has some sick star sense there from Mara I'm not sure what symptom offer if it was just that he had a good read on what cure would probably try to do yeah in his position but that is just fantastic play from him all right the double ebays are about to finish for cure one one has already started here for tomorrow so he'll probably throughout this whole series maintain that upgrade lead but just barely just barely but we've had a lot of games for that just barely becomes just about everything yeah that is true so he's just gonna push the third CC away easy peasy not committed soft contained position backs up and um oh that's funny it's gonna get one isn't he oh yeah barely survives but yeah this is um you know Mario doing some nice maneuvering here I mean this orbital moving all the way from the triangle third to the third over here on the right side is going to cost secure not only mining time but also SCD production because he's not fully saturated yet so he's like getting two SUV kills more or less I mean it's a great win here for Maru yeah and you know whenever you're watching this you've got to be a little bit afraid of like a push into the main you know he doesn't have Medevac so he can't just pick up but you could like Siege up and start to Shell infrastructure uh and he might actually go for it I'm not clear on who has more Vikings I think Mara just barely is lacking here from cure especially with a rally point being so far back at home so he's gonna pivot instead towards the middle of the map just try and change the angle of attack here a little bit you're going to see if you can try and catch him I think he's caught wind of this so for a moment I was wondering whether he would just try to Siege up in a spot that was barely out of vision and get some cheap shots off but instead just gonna play it nice and safe continue to Rove around between the natural and the third base and already the Armory coming in now for amaru Kira keep in mind I mean the upgrade differential in one one is minimal between these two players but if Morrow gets that Armory and the plus two two started you know significantly faster than cure then that is where the window will be created yeah looks like it's actually a little bit uh closer than I thought with the upgrades I thought for some reason it was more like a 10 15 20 second thing well now it was because of the armories yeah okay well that is going to be there after all excuse me um it came full circle you're right now that was wrong before now I'm right this time um Mario fishing for a fight here opening up these parts of the map so that he could circulate and reposition as much as he needs to big armor shredding missile coming in right now is these Vikings getting extra value here with these hits some Ravens falling yeah a really bad engages with Mario's Vikings versus everything that here had he like barely killed a raven and then barely killed another Raven and by then he had lost most of his Vikings yeah a bit of a mystery there for Maru I think is perhaps he thought he had enough to One Shot The Raven and instead just lacking in Vikings a tad but now I think it's something like double digit Vikings to maybe three here for Maru so it's not the best situation overall if you're trying to play the air game you really want to be able to contest it the worst possible scenario is that you invest in Vikings you invest in Ravens you invest in all these air units and then you lose air control right sometimes we'll see players like Beyond just be like okay I do not care about this I'm gonna pump triple digit Marines and find my value that way but if you're Mario and you're losing biking traits like that then suddenly not only do you not have air control but when you actually do get into engagements with Siege tanks you need to drop down a ton of scans to actually maintain Vision so it really indirectly also hurts your economy all right he's gonna start the push into the main I'm not clear on what he actually has in the main okay so this is actually really bad uh for here um there's a lot of infrastructure a lot of stuff is going to get shelled here he can just maneuver these marines down a little bit further there's a counter attack over here up at 12 o'clock I don't know if this is going to go into the main or if he's gonna oh well he's got Vikings ready yeah Siege tanks as well they're at the third base so he is safer now and tomorrow with basically no air units over here on this side of the map they're all just back at home slowly building back up and he is going to come in and try and catch this might be able to get a Medevac does get one infantry weapons and armor 2-2 now finishing here for Maru as you know despite that kind of unfortunate exchange of Vikings and Ravens that happened earlier in the game the army supply is still very even Mario actually ahead a little bit as he's been getting the better end of a number of these trades and keep in mind he is the only player with a raven on the field right now so disables are still in the cards here instead can be an armor shredding missile coming down the Vikings and Mario's gonna try and breach this position as best that he can Vikings engaging here Liberator does get Focus fired down C6 is coming in as well and overall it seems a relatively even trade it looks like the Viking Count's starting to thin out though now for cure a healthy number of Tanks tomorrow continuing to remain very liquid on the map here able to relocate whenever he needs to um and the next couple maybe the next minute or so are going to be very important because Mario's looking to try to dislodge this fourth base and if he can dislodge it if you can punch the you know the command center to another location it's going to be a massive boost here but if Mario over it extends which we know he has done before uh it could be bad so he's actually gonna mix it up he's going to pull back he's going to relocate he's going to look for another opportunity I think that basically cure is ready to meet him in every pass though yeah sieging down over here on the low ground and here also has that sensor Tower by the fourth base so he has a good idea of where Mario's Army is positioning but keep in mind Maru during all this action he is expanding across the map he's taking the bottom left base that will bring him up to five bases in total plus three weapons now starting four cure no plus three armor just yet Maru already pumping both of those about a third of the way done so we'll be able to retain this upgrade lead throughout the rest of the game at least until that 3-3 finishes there for cure so another potential window maybe a minute and a half down the line here for Maru we'll see if he's able to find an Avenue of attack to actually take advantage of it and I kind of feel like he's trying to set up for some place like that as he kills the center Tower and then I guess of course Mark Curtis immediately throws down another one yeah um well Mario can't quite find a crack here in the defenses you know this map specifically it's kind of hard to see saw up and down you know we've already seen this kind of back and forth a couple times and uh it's really difficult to actually find that opening um well hold on a second he's gonna okay he's gonna back up once more I think the issue is the air superiority procure has just been you know a pain to the side here at Mario's is trying to navigate around and find these angles because he has to use scans not only to identify the positioning of cures Army but also to set up for a lot of engagements to happen as uh it's 15 Vikings now for Kira to the nine of Maru and I actually didn't even realize that the difference was quite that fast yeah but Fusion core coming in for cure too okay 3-3 is done so we're not gonna get stronger infantry then than this right now here from morrow I guess the truth is Mario is still outgrowing him while he continues to rotate and kind of he appears APM uh burned up you know getting ready to defend these different angles the reality is that he's he's just sort of a faster macro player yeah wow this is a really ambitious sensor Tower to set up too this will give aru a ton of information is look at all these circles around here on the Minimates it's because it was it was you know a kind of soft contained rotation into hard contain he's actually building turrets up here he doesn't want to give this up he wants to basically make here really work to get out of here this is uh kind of crazy to see yeah now getting Liberator range we'll make it a little bit easier for him to dislodge these Siege tanks around the map you're trying to do his best to really finesse his way through this position we'll be able to break in here small drop coming into the natural expansion Bureau will get cleaned up the first drop we've seen here from cure in a long time it's been kind of a passive game really I mean Mars been active in attempting attacks but he hasn't been able to find any Avenue and you know it's a lot of work to try to get these tanks removed unless you want to bum rush them but you could always end up trading unfavorably and I mean I gotta say I'm very impressed with Mario here I didn't quite expect the game to get kind of this intense here by the way vehicle weapons level three here so these Siege tanks are gonna be brutal if you overstep uh and and walk into a five liberators in production at a time now for cure though tasteless so care is making a little bit of a transition here into air Terran Sky Taran coming through and I mean five liberators with range they can take down Siege tanks in a hurry and even if you are quick with your reactions here is Mario unseating and trying to withdraw from the position it's still very difficult to make it happen and a lot more turrets coming in high stack Auto tracking also coming in that is missile turret range here for cure vehicle weapons 2 completed as well as Rio just filling out the tech trees and we're gonna try and make an engagement a lot of disables coming in four tanks get disabled they will get cleaned up here it actually armor shredding missile here on the Vikings so are able to take a little bit of a better trade than he otherwise would have been able to and that's a big win for him because keep in mind cure just pumped out five liberators he has two more in production yeah and so now losing the majority of his Vikings 17-5 or 17-7 excuse me in maru's favor those liberators suddenly a lot less scary almost dead Supply here as Mario just holding down the air superiority at this point might be his path forward to actually start breaching these positions yeah you know it's funny he built his way up to this very specific Unicom but it can't really be utilized if the Viking dominance is so important and this is sort of the organic tier list of of power and tvt right I mean it starts out with who has stem then eventually it's who has you know have Siege tanks and then it truly controls the skies because the siege tanks can't be utilized without uh you know something in the air to spot for him and notice this base uh it's not at 12 o'clock it's like just past 12 o'clock to Cure's side of the map this is where I'm starting to worry because if Morrow can actually keep this position that he has set up here he's gonna have like two-thirds of the map and the bay and the expansions that come with that this container is going to be very hard to breathe so liberators are sieging up here another armor shredding missile a lot of ravens here for more would not be surprised to see him drop down some Auto turrets but instead just going to opt for his Vikings making the best trades possible here is he's also now mixing in liberators and if a trade there would ship weapons now getting researched by both players and Maru just really controlling basically all of the map yeah I mean this is uh I gotta say it's kind of remarkable I feel like this is not what normal Starcraft 2 TBT looks like this actually looks a lot more like uh not even a modern StarCraft one tvt but kind of like a a older almost pre-star craft too like Starcraft 1 TBT the funny thing is also that we we started this game with bio and we went all the way up to 3-3 and now both armies are just almost entirely Mech yeah yeah it's kind of crazy it's been a very wild game I mean just look at the Raven count right now for Maru is absurd I mean there's no way of dodging these armor shredding missiles and so the Vikings coming in from Mario are just constantly getting better trades here and even liberators if they enter The Fray and start doing their AOE damage I mean if you couple that in with armor shredding missiles they could actually start to pack a little bit of a punch here and I know their supplies are even um but I do feel like actually it is uh tomorrow who's basically getting the upper hand in every one of these fights like he's got the liberators he can actually push the tanks back now here's the Ravens he has seven more Vikings he's continuing to add more Ravens I mean his upgrades are also just on point and Kira is completely contained he doesn't really have another path forward to expand and you might look at the mini map and say okay yeah he's on five bases though it's fine and the reality is a lot of these bases they're mining out of minerals and soon cure if he wants to continue to fund his War Machine he's going to need to secure all right 12 o'clock or the six o'clock base and Maru is giving him absolutely zero Breathing Room another armor shredding missile coming in more trades Maru has slightly less Vikings overall but yeah we're gonna get the auto turret spam out here that should even out this number and you know Mario's actually fought all the way back to this location here uh at the top right and oh wow I didn't even notice the siege tanks actually laying oh I actually didn't know I didn't see it either man because you know there's all this flying stuff over it yeah you know I I think that Mara was kind of done the remarkable I mean he's actually slowly you know consistent uh systematically sequentially brought this game to this position GG and that's how he's going to take I mean you just don't really see Starcraft do pvt like that no that really don't that was a very very very unique game one of the most technical tbts I think I have actually ever seen yeah in Starcraft 2. I mean the transition from these biotank armies High Mobility lots of harass trying to set up seat positions and then not being able to break through and then after that being like okay let's dial it back let's go into the mech units the power units the supply efficient units and switching from literally 3-3 bio into Mech for both players and Maru just absolutely consuming the map and mixing in those Ravens I think was a critical part of him actually being able to secure the win because once those Ravens coupled in with the Vikings hey the armor shredding doesn't matter too much for Vikings as opposed to units like Marines or Marauders of course with a high rate of fire but it still makes a big difference and so Maru with his more technical Army just able to write that to a win and the best of seven turns into a best of three is now both of these players only two map wins away from being crowned the next GSL code s champion yeah it's basically like a reset here now it's like a best of three right um dead even pure is definitely able to hang with Mario but tomorrow really showing some incredible technical prowess uh in end game tvt where he really knew how to elevate each step of his attack to the point where he was finally at the very very top of that Tech ladder in every conceivable way he had the right number of tanks on the ground he had hardly any Marines which is the right number of Marines to have he had the Ravens the Vikings and then the liberators and was basically able to control the entire map and ice out any position that would let Kira have an economy for much longer in that game now that was an exhausting game no doubt for those two players it was exhausting to cast honestly for us it was a crazy long game we're gonna go to ancient sister now and see which of these two players is going to take the lead is it going to be cure or is it going to be Mario remember Mario if he wins this GSL it will be the sixth GS Elias one breaking all records cure the underdog looking to take that lead and cause the upset of the year in Starcraft 2. thank you oh here we go again it's a blue SUV is that a curious here's the blue one although even I even I was like not sure about Colin and I'm like wait a minute don't I did I just get the colors mixed up so it's gonna be cure with a double racks I feel like we see this all the time and it's not working as much as it is but he's gonna put it here worked it worked last time didn't it we did the last game actually start with a T-Rex I'm struggling to remember it was so long I'm sorry to put you on this spot no I'm not sure it's been what this is the third TBT Series so far that we've casted but uh I I can't quite recall but yeah it seems like it's kind of Hit or Miss and oftentimes it comes down to positioning and control and whether it actually gets scouted in time yeah well I mean there's also many ways you know the closer you make it the stronger it is but then you know are they going to look forward or not um Mario along with everybody else seems like it's caught on to this idea of just Scout them don't Scout for the proxy but actually just go across the map because at this rate I mean how common is a macarax compared to to this I would say like one out of every 40 games we have a macrax very few is that oh and black a party party over there it's partying the dress is a Ninja on the right it's a ninja he's trying to hide from us whether the producer said partying in my ears and I'm like the guy in the middle isn't partying I know what partying looks like I heard it too and then I looked at the right I'm like this guy there he is he's watching these tears celebrities celebrities yeah celebrity trying to hide for the paparazzi but we found him we found him um all right so Mario got the Scout off of the main base he knows this is coming that's why he pulled all these SUVs trying to hamper this first Reaper from coming up as the main able to get a good bit of damage down that will slow the push just a little bit as cure will want to wait for that Reaper to reach at least the majority of its hit the points before coming back in and actually hold that thought as he just pounces on this straight away and that one Reaper almost did get taken out yeah again it's all about keeping every Reaper alive so that that damage can start to stack up the factory back at home indicating this is not going to be any kind of Rush that we've already seen a little bit worried here I mean he's being pretty Cavalier there is a way you can kind of yeah I was going to say there's a way you can kind of preempt what they're going to do you know that jump isn't instantaneous that does take you know a little bit under a second to kind of get up and then land and then you can move it back out and in that time you can be receiving damage I feel like cure was trying to find one Marine kill or one Reaper kill before the Hellion got out but just wasn't actually able to get it and that's on Maru just having really good control though I mean he's one of those players that does this build more than anybody else oh it only makes sense that he will know what it should look like defending it right I'm excited to see how Mario is going to play this too because like you know if you're losing to a build on ladder a whole lot one of the best things you can do is just do that build to somebody who's really good and see how they stop it all right now he actually got in here with a good Angling a little bit of a Miss click yeah these are some massive grenades too that's a lot of AOE damage on these SUVs look at how low HP they are 7 SUVs already going down will it be eight just barely not oh he actually does get one so that's a very good trade there for cure I've got to say that's better than I was expecting and also keep in mind that he lost one of those Reapers straight from the get-go it's just yeah those grenades were so clutch they got so much AOE damage in that it was like every single STD was in the red crazy moment back there uh ultimately was a success um and now I mean this is a substantial worker lead here when mareeper I think has snuck its way into the main base is those SUVs are actually frantically trying they're huddling to repair each other they don't want to fall to yet another reefer and it's kind of a feels bad man they're from ours you do not want to spend all of these resources repairing your SUVs instead of mining the answers not what you want your units to be doing now the reality of the situation is there's all solo because those grenades can cure were so solid that if you don't do it you run the risk of hellions coming in or one or two more Reapers coming in and suddenly everything's getting one shot or two shot if they don't repair that damage is permanent basically you know it's uh and and that can be brutal um if this Barracks is finally going to be picked off here are we going to have any aggression here for tomorrow or is he just gonna dial it back and try to wait it out we'll see I feel like we've just done a full rollover because Kyra's already thrown down this Earth CC back at home he's got one Cyclone one siege tank and one Viking so it's a Mech Army for now we'll see if he decides to throw it out more Barracks I'm sure that um they'll be using those to build add-ons in the short term but long term I would not be surprised if you can pivot back into a bio composition is would be wild to have more Mech come in yeah let's see what he's got in store for us here probably just sending an empty Medevac out it's like a hallucinated oracles scarier yeah just a hallucinated phoenix I'm not sure what the plan is with this well maybe I'm trying to think about what the plan might be and if it doesn't die it's cheaper than a scan so maybe he's trying just to like move in there take a little bit of pull damage and see if there's an orbital or something yeah I guess so I mean a lot of times we see that orbitals over on the side but kind of a weird move well maybe he thought it was full for a second and it wasn't I'm not totally sure yeah because if he was trying to pretend like it was aggression I would imagine trying to fake a drop yeah like oh look at me I've got you know a cyclone in here and I'm gonna try to harass you I think that's actually it because now looking at the mini map we haven't gotten a shot of it on screen but I believe Mario actually has a third Command Center and is going to eBay so he's just trying to feign like he has the units to go for the aggression earlier than you should yeah maybe he'll keep that dancing on his main a little bit longer when in fact he has no intention of attacking that makes sense we're so good we're so we get to figure all this stuff like Sherlock over here man like suddenly the game slows down every Terror player watching the homes his face probably that guys this is 101. they've already already muted us is what's happened like they have no idea what we're saying anymore they're like that's better um so stem is coming along now for cure and um I mean Mario you know in pretty good shape it was kind of an explosive start but things have slowed down a little bit um and what can occasionally be a little bit of a dry early to mid game yeah and as things are shaping up it seems like Mario's gonna have about a 15 or 20 second lead in his infantry weapons overall and both players throwing down more Barracks I was wondering if we might see something a little bit more metcavi coming out of here just because of how much idle time he had on the barracks using them to build add-ons and just mostly focusing on The Siege tanks the Vikings and the Cyclones but he is going into bio he's got a couple Barracks out already adding two more now plus 183 weapons as well of course and now I think the real aggression is going to start coming out here from Mario yeah he's gonna start to roam with these medevacs he's gonna look for any openings we do have the Ravens lagging behind just slightly these medevacs they're not as quick can you imagine if Raven's Head boost though it comes in and runs right back out um I think there is potential for this to get a good bit of damage done and man just barely skirting around yeah man hug those Corners turret also only just now starting so Kyra's gonna Sniff and try and stop this but we're gonna have turrets drop immediately here we are ready dude he's gonna get the upgrades look at that can I get the other one I would be surprised with the siege tanks here but I think you just take the win right there I mean he lost like what three Marines some Raven energy it was like three or four turrets at most and you stop plus one armor yeah and I mean to be honest with you having the armor braid delayed that much I mean that is that is huge it's a really big deal especially in infantry versus infantry yeah it's going to matter a lot in the Marine versus Marine fights now if you're trying to go and break a position where there's a lot of Siege tanks that are garrisoned without support I mean it's it's not too much of an issue having that minus one armor but in all other cases it's it's an issue so Mario is going to be compounding that upgrade advantage that he already had Now by taking out the engineering band plus one armor just so far behind here for cure and here come the sieges I disable comes in I think for a second here actually I might have thought that you think was in range and oh and then she's on the other foot yeah nice trade I guess he gets a sensor Tower there as well I don't think Mario's gonna stick to this though he's pretty good at like taking what he can and then just packing it up and trying to reconfigure yeah he's very good at sharking around in the middle of the map with um Marine tank and kind of keeping the other player at least relocating tanks repositioning and every time he does this he takes the fourth base he does it so very well he takes the fourth base usually on location I think we're seeing that develop here on the mini map at six o'clock and um kind of keeps the other player just you know uh trying to figure out what's going on another command center coming down here for cures he's starting to power up a little bit back at home these tanks will Siege Morrow does have a scan on that and uh-oh bad split off there that actually have to Scurry away into the corner most of these marines will be able to get away and you know with a lot of back and forth it's still a very even game all things considered Mario a little bit ahead in workers you're a little bit ahead in Army I think the main story for me right now is the upgrade Advantage here for Maru might set up for a killer timing once 2-2 is done you know here if you didn't have that it didn't sorry he did have the armor parade is the word I'm trying to find um I think it could do a lot Maro is now on five bases because here's three so like oh that's right positionally cure might be able to do a lot here because this is a pretty wide spread but like uh this is looking really bad all right long term here this is you should get canceled immediately does so now all you know uh basically uh the whole thing here's actually maxed out maybe you can make this work I'm not sure yeah Maru dipping a little bit Supply right here as Curry's going to try and find an opening but Mario a little bit too wise for that does retreat back to the third base and is able to defend it and now cure with the rest of his army trying to Pivot towards that top fourth base here for Mario and down here it's a little bit concerning for cure he only has a handful of Marines there to support these Siege tanks and keep in mind that Morrow has two very high energy Ravens so disables our other cards here and that's probably why Kira is starting to pull away from this position is there just isn't enough infantry on the ground to actually support those Siege tanks and now we see cure expanding to a fifth base continuing to move around the map well I think that tomorrow is just going to slip right out with this small group you know four is usually the number in medevax when you start to get serious about the drops there's a lot on the map here um for here that's kind of out and cures bringing everything back to deal with this small drop I think he just doesn't really have a path forward for attacks just yet right so he's just gonna come back home deal with this does lose 10 SUVs but kills what three soon to be four Meda backs a lot of Marines in total he nice military went for him yeah I mean he's still killing a lot of SUVs he's been 14 I see these built so far that's actually quite a bit it's actually so funny Mario focuses down the uh the reactor on the starport and Curtis immediately lifts It And Trades places with a reaction Barracks yeah yeah it's instantaneous those reactors they take a long time to make it's actually a really good building to Target without in there um so in total 17 workers did go down for a cure but he's still close to Max so his army is actually massive 132 army supply to the 101 for Maru but Maru very entrenched here by the triangle third and this six o'clock base it will be a hard position here for cure to breach especially with the disables that Mario has in the bag but let's see tasteless okay he's actually eating so much damage from The Siege tanks Mario's shying away from the position itself uh not not bad for cure maybe a necessary trade out there yeah but he didn't get the base and that army supply he still retains an advantage but it's not as it's not it doesn't feel as insurmountable as it did a moment ago where Kira's Army was just really absolutely pumping there and no losing this much bio especially against Maru who really likes to favor Ravens and has been able to retain those two high energy Ravens throughout basically this entire game can lead to scary situations where Siege tanks get disabled and then a massive swarm of the Marines come down and just clean everything up but for now Maru his Marine count it's relatively under control I think it's down to something like 35 or 40. most of his army supply right now it's in air units it's in Vikings it's in Ravens there's sub liberators now in the field they have 13 Siege tanks I'm getting worried man I think curious kind of starting to win in a long game of uh of the tank uh infantry Liberator Viking versus each other he seems to be kind of he has two big army positions and he's ready at any moment to strike where he he feels that Mario is going to be weaker on one side and whenever you see this kind of setup from Kerry you know he's gonna also be able to take another base as soon as he has the moment to give his attention to that yeah I hear what you're saying but at the same time I feel like this is kind of maru's comfort zone if it was a lesser Taran player then certainly I would feel much more comfortable with cure just consuming the map taking map control like this and expanding all across you know the top side of the bottom side but Mara his defense has just been so impeccable and keep in mind he was a lot faster with his uh Stargate transition so here you see him just continuously trying to breach positions like this disables come through on these forward Siege things that's going to allow tomorrow to move all the way up these tanks are dead in the water and I feel like Mario was just kind of building this ultimate Army and I think this might be basically all of his Marines here coming in for a counter attack I think you're probably right he's gonna go right onto these SUVs and then Target the command center get plus three armor again yeah you get plus three armor one more yeah that's so funny yeah there it is that gets denied and now Morrow is ready to move out yeah so the supply is still favoring cure but the economy here for Maru it is solid and unless there's some missteps I mean even with all these marines dimming forward he's going to be able to shave off a couple of these huge tanks but not too many going down and the siege tank counts still very healthy here for Maru keep in mind that he has had his star ports up these extra star ports much earlier than cure so the Raven count is higher the Viking count is higher he has two liberators two none there for cure and as we saw in the previous game usually it is that Sky Terran that is going to reign supreme should we go to a split map scenario and the way this one is going it kind of feels like we are starting to tread down that path so I'm wondering now whether Kira is going to be able to find an opening at any of these ulterior bases here for amaru or if maru's defense is just gonna get Tighter and Tighter and he's going to reign supreme in the sky and eventually be able to eke out a win that way because it worked for him in the previous map yeah it really did um he's gonna stem and run by with these few Marines notice he's not even making medevacs here it's like just send the Marines out they're juggling that's what they are just get what you can find Medevac good when they slow down stim him again and keep running [Music] yeah there really is a situation here it's it's funny to think about it like that extensive Tower sure yeah trailing's for gas units this is the stage of the game where a gas is starting to become a more contested commodity for all these term players because the units they want to make oh we have battle Cruisers actually coming up for tomorrow this is so cool cool that's very interesting really going into the Supreme Sky tear in here this is so funny this game in the last game started to kind of go into these weird directions they look like old Starcraft 1 tbts not even really modern StarCraft one TV teams by the way like we had a lot you know split map with tanks and kind of a hard uh no man's land drawn across the map and then battle cruiser Tech which is what you oftentimes get at the very very end of tech yeah in StarCraft one and cure behind all this he's not even maxed yet he's behind on workers um Maru with his max he's making battle cruises which are one of the most expensive units in the game if not the most expensive besides like Mothership right right on top of that he's also throwing now a ton of additional command centers some of those might be planetaries I guarantee you a lot of those will also be orbital commands so soon Mario's gonna get into the position where he's going to be able to operate on a little bit of a less Supply intensive economy with mules and once SUVs start getting shaved off and he's able to fully invest in even more sky Taran my question becomes how is cure possibly going to be able to handle that because with this number of ravens I mean armor shredding is just a guarantee on the Vikings here for cure there's basically no way he's going to dodge it and battle Cruisers they attack so fast yeah coupled with turrets coupled with the Vikings that Mario also has on the field I'm very concerned for Kira's position here in terms of the way the sky armies are shaping out I don't know if he realizes quite how dire the position is starting to turn into because I mean this just an overwhelming Sky Force here for Maru and by the way he's setting his own SUVs in here to to basically let them get killed off so he can free up his Supply so 13 SE deals will get traded out as those Oriole commands compete and complete excuse me and um now we have Mario just moving across the map with these battle Cruisers and they walked the long way around so once danger enters they will just be able to teleport away and this hurts here for Kerry he's only at 54 workers oh my goodness Yamato on the planetary Forge is barely not able to take it out there might be enough DPS yeah I think you can actually get it if he just focuses it down he does goodbye goodness Maru just so good teleporting back almost full HP barely even needs to repair those things and now Karen I mean he's such a high tank count but the tanks are obsolete he has got this crazy composition he could probably Roam and find another base and take it out as well I think Kira's gonna have to try to take a fight is he gonna have enough to actually do that though I don't know man because Mario basically has something set up where he can systematically move out fill a base get back and and pretty much do it unscathed here's a handful of more Vikings but the Raven count and the battle cruiser count obviously supporting Maru here makes me think that man he's just gonna send his small group of Marines and just he's even gonna fly it in there and got a little flying please Queen to transfuse these uglings too so funny all right he's gonna just go for this tank now this also has to be so annoying for cure because yes it is only three Marines in the Medevac but you still actually have to deal with it you have to send stuff back and it can't be just like your own three Marines in a minute it has to be like enough that like you can basically just wipe it out yeah like what are you gonna do like Patrol Vikings back at home to deny the three the three Marines in the Medevac it's such an awkward situation and it's times like this I wish we could see the army supply split between land Army and air Army because I feel like I mean for Maru just the air superiority it is unbelievable here and even this turret doing work I'm surprised the tanks are taking so long to take it out Mario just on another level right now it feels like all right armor shreds are gonna come down and they go down first uh connecting on top of Heroes Army so now he could just come in here and destroy all these tanks I mean this is insane if I was smarter I would just I would just teleport my battle Crews on top of those Vikings oh yeah I mean he might still do that yeah he might these Vikings here we go there it is coming in are the battle Cruisers the Vikings on lamb trying to run away through the little little waddle but they cannot get away now you have motto's also coming up oh my God what an ending flexing his late game TV team muscles what is it got to say this has been one of the best tvt finals I think I have ever seen here at GSL it's right up there with Mario versus Ty I mean this has been so much fun I feel like this might even be better honestly like the way that some of these games are ending is insane oh my God what a great game there from our really the last two matches just playing to Perfection and you can see the Grid on his face man that is his comfort zone that is where he thrives is these extreme late game scenarios and you can just tell I mean that's two games in a row where he did this against his opponent and he just did it so much better well that was like late game TBT like we just didn't even know how deep the rabbit hole of the matchup goes yeah pretty much because he cares like what like what is happening right now he's just not gonna attack me and he's just gonna keep making Vikings and eventually he has battle Cruisers he can harass with that and then Escape back out and then eventually it's like you can see especially with tanks right like it's not like Marines you could just stim and run in or SUVs if you just send them out and get rid of them it's like okay well let me try to do something with these tanks and everything falls apart yeah Mario just with a perfect spread on defense there was unbreakable and this is something that we didn't really see throughout this GSL at all unless I'm mistaken this extreme TBT gameplay we've had a lot of what what I called late game tvt which was you know before battle Cruisers came into play I mean I've casted all this many times before but the BC play is very interesting it also shows that Marlo has an approach to an extremely long game where he knows how to kind of like halt the back and forth and he has two different solutions one was where he actually just kind of pushed out with the turrets this is probably mostly map dependent um and then kind of just carves out the map gets enough liberators gets the right number of Tanks it just sort of makes it so that you're just not going to have enough bases long term and it's too costly to try to push out and then we had this like Mass battle cruiser style which is just it's fresh to me I'm not used to it that's fresh to me too man TBT is one of those matchups that I feel like I'm learning every single time that I watch it every single time that I cast it and of all days today this is what we were talking about beforehand it's like we're gonna have a deep dive of tvt we're gonna really figure out who's the best to match up what are the the strongest ideas at play I mean we've had uh this kind of double racks than proxy uh Factory starport play these unusual pushes we've seen just straight up Reaper Rush um kind of like a little bit cheesy play we've had Mario showing some of the craziest uh late game we've had Kira showing some of the most robust mid-game we're really getting a taste of everything Mario's now in the lead it's three to two either cure can tie this up three to three that would be the dream or Maru is about to win his fourth I'm sorry his sixth GSL he's gonna see his fourth map win um only one map away man could be the g6l the success cell however you want to phrase it the champion of fitting uh map name here Royal Blood as we see what cure has in store his tournament life on the line he's made it this far but he's against the best in the business Maru ready to make history one more time let's find out if it happens this is game six [Music] can't wait Club NV cure [Applause] on-site gaming Mario so just to talk for a second about everything that we've really seen here um look we've definitely had some some proxies we've definitely uh like we're having in this game we've definitely had some uh pretty epic mid games but what's been fascinating to me is that Morrow has had more success with aggression and less success in mid game into kind of a normal late game it's actually kind of weird right I think normally we would expect a different um something different to happen cure seems to be better at kind of having tanks and marines that could join the map and doing that back and forth and so what Mario's showing us is just a a more uh extended version of the matchup where he can drag it out and then bring a new tech and win that way and that's very cool to see is that cure might have a better Mastery like he beat Mario on it with a two base push um he has not really died to a lot you know you look at the way that bunny died and they compare that to tomorrow uh it's it's crazy um Kiera has a much better handle on that in the matchup but uh Morrow really is showing some of the most insane late game in any matchup I've ever seen Mario's just playing out of his mind right now giving us a taste of everything and even the Mind Games here and game number six on Match Point throwing down the SUV the timing he could be building a low ground Command Center trying to fame that he's not going for this T-Rex proxy again and this is the same build that we saw bien do earlier in his best of five of the semi-finals against cure of all people it's what we're seeing Marudu now this proxy Barracks the proxy Factory two Reapers now coming up the ramp you're a little bit unprepared for this takes a lot of damage there on that Marine not as many SUVs pulled and okay this time the sap comes back is going to be able to delay the factory that's very important this Factory not only you know is every Factory that comes out of that's delayed but the starboard itself is delayed and I also want to dial this back a little bit because we've seen this build a couple of times now with the factory and without the factory and oftentimes the way this one ends up going is yes there is aggression they trade one player usually the defender is going to lose a healthy number of SUVs maybe five maybe six sometimes more but generally speaking everybody so far today has been pretty good at navigating themselves out of this position into a longer macro game with one player having a slight Edge so there is an Avenue towards normalizing and if I'm not mistaken it I think he's completely pulling out of the build yeah Maru is just I mean we were talking about mind games this is so cool so here's overreacting and making a bunker there is no command center exactly and and um with with Morrow expanding um it basically cures bracing for impact he's he's now that doesn't mean that like for instance Rush is going to come in that's one thing right but it's totally different from the siege tank push that we saw Mario do earlier and so uh luckily for cure he is going to send these two hellions across the map we'll see if he actually gets any damage done oh I'm sorry he is gonna make the tank but not push with it he's gonna make the tank and send it all the way back to home again very weird build but he's actually forced cure to overreact yeah and the cures Command Center starts when Mario's Orwell command starts so a full CC ahead is Mario a lot of these units though they are on this side of the map here so these two hellions only a handful of Marines in position to fans SUVs will fall the question is how many oh that one Hellion gets kind of stuck on the other SUVs we've got three kills so far if you can get a fourth these hellions have at least paid for themselves he does manage to get that you're gonna see this uh Hellion come down towards the natural and here's gonna realize he's in a very different game than what he was preparing for as he sees it already Mario is going to drink up the resources from the second base and I think cure in a moment of panic is basically leaving his base saying oh God can I attack you at least can I get any value out of the situation and that's what we're waiting to see for that Christians even try and find some damage four Reapers kiting Marines in the middle of the map taking a little bit of damage there Atlanta Vikings are able to kill one of them as grenades also pop those two Siege tanks so Maru back at home he does have that Raven he has the siege tank position at his natural expansion as well the rate the reapers are gonna try to come in here and kill SUVs and I mean I don't think that really cure it accounted for this he is going to be able to have some rallies siege tank just popping and two marines right behind it but I'm wondering whether Mario is going to be able to break out of this very easily because with the two Vikings here it's tough well he's gonna commit I guess he's just barely not in range and so tomorrow has to be very uh quick to move that tick the tank is basically the thing that's keeping everything together he's going to pull out just in time before the first Liberty shot can hit that's gonna allow Kira to move up an inch closer and now he's in shelling distance of the command center and Mar once again sending the Raven around he might try to get a wrap around behind this getting a couple more SUV kills back in the actual expansion there for cure it looks like he might be gunning to drop wait or he's gonna come for the side he's got a blanket yeah I was wondering whether he was going to drop on the tanks or if he was going to come from the side and let's say it will be the side play as far now getting in position Raven with a hand what am I watching I don't know that he can I think that actually here might just be able to take this possible SUV is now coming in trying to make their way into the main base nine sorry 11 kills 11 kills there yeah just gonna have to go for the counter attack right now I don't think I think here might have just taken this but hold on he could I know he could disable the tanks hold on a second I'm jumping the gun myself here he's gonna scan there's another tank in the main base a lot of reinforcements here and okay stem is done stim's gonna come in orbital gets lifted now tinkett's immediately focused fire down and that siege tank there in the main base it repositions into a more defensive position hold on a second I think here has enough Marines to just kind of uh wipe this out it's actually even in workers so there was 17 STDs killed 23 to 22. very very tense game here yeah I I think I still have to give the advantage to cure right now I mean he's just continuously getting closer and closer to breaching this position and the Viking count just continues to grow and also look at the positioning here with the orbital commands the seat shakes are gonna pop out on the left side oh yeah it's a good point um yeah I mean the thing that cure has going from yeah he actually has a push that has momentum I don't see a way that Mario is going to be able to stop this three Siege tanks he's gonna stem forward now coming in with the medevax from the backside as he does get the full surround he gets the lat no he does not get that finally gets the last tank wow okay I guess that's how you do it then for Maru as the reinforcements come back home and clean this up and this is a crazy game by the way I'm on the edge of my seat I can't believe how intense this is this is wild and you know at the end of the day it's gonna be almost even army supply is secure up four workers overall the stem's not done here he invested all that Tech and at this point in time um I I I mean maybe he could even uh Mario could push into the main I think from here we just normalize honestly I think we might be going into another macro game but I yeah maybe you're right I guess you know he just he just barely has enough tanks well hold on this is such a tough cast by the way it's such a crazy game with the Marines out of the base maybe he can also just run in there's no Raven though he can't disable any of the siege tanks that would cure set up back at home with three tanks in Siege mode and you gotta know that he's gonna be covering every possible angle there's only so many sides that Mario can try and come from and maybe we'll see if he can find one I love him beating away the biking here for just a moment and behind all of this are going to engineering Bay adding in the third Command Center and now cure coming in with a drop in the main base of Maru okay you know you take what you can get he gets rid of one um oh my God there's a blind spot here this Tank's gonna go down this is a lot of damage to Kirk and deal over here it's already down over here in workers yeah the Marines had to go all the way around that Sim City too there's no Gap in between those structures so I had to take the long way around to try and support that tank and that's gonna be even more Marines escaping here Mario just a little bit too slow to catch those medevacs on the route back home man now with third Command Center coming down for carrot I think we've reached a point where we are stabilizing I would say that cure probably has a slight lead but keep in mind upgrade Advantage I think right now in favor of Maru I believe it's just one engineering Bay here for cure yeah I think he's been in a bit of a difficult spot uh trying to to play this out I mean he had a moment where it looked like he was about to end the game and that was a lot of what everything he was doing was sort of hinged on where Mara was playing a little bit more kind of middle of the road um we have drops on both sides inbound what are these two red dots here in the middle of the map those are add-ons oh okay or maybe one thing it went to Depot I think it's a Tech Lab on the the factory in a Depot if I'm not mistaken it looks like a vampire bit the middle of the map or something I wonder what that was um yeah you're right though it's uh just that plus one attack a parade here for cure I mean if you don't get armor it's hard to be competitive in a long game and I think it's possible well I here's gonna just be expanding a little bit later here as well the orbitals are already done yeah morrow in a nice defensive position back at home and we have seen time and time again Maru leveraged this upgrade Advantage into highly favorable trades throughout the mid game we'll see if he's able to do the same thing now his Armory is going down for cure there's no way that he thinks he's on two engineering days right now right so I'm surprising okay now just adding the second engineering base so just it was a choice to opt for plus one infantry weapons before anything else I'll be going for plus two and plus one once that engineering Bay complete so he will be one upgrade behind Maru for the foreseeable future and the way things are shaping up now I I really do think we're getting back into that position where it's going to be difficult for either player to really break especially with no Ravens on the field right now we don't have that same kind of position breaking play available to either player yeah yeah I mean I think this game just normalizes uh cure um as far as math is concerned it's just the head in every metric but the upgrades are going to be better long term for tomorrow which you know with how good these guys are in control it may matter the most so the third CC has landed over here development is pretty even even resources lost is relatively even cured a little bit more resources gathered in total sensor Towers come up almost at the exact same time and Mario looks like he's already pumping out a lot of Vikings he has five on the field right now already excuse me is um two more are entering The Fray here for cure and I wonder whether we're going to see a second star Port sooner rather than later okay cure so instead of adding a second starboard he's going to be going for another Factory so wants to play a little bit more siege tank heavy with his style perhaps as a response to how good Mario's late game has been if you get a significant enough siege tank leads sometimes you truly can just bust down a single position right it is true uh this is kind of a weird moment you just killed the command center I mean I guess he got it so I feel like I never see Mario make targeting decisions like that yeah it was a interesting play it was also funny like cured pretty much every single siege tank right there yeah you can't possibly oh he's gonna get the full matter back oh he's not oh just like barely escaping with a game as even as this one is right now I mean those are the kind of plays that can really change the dynamic of a game no I mean that that's a really scary moment if they uh well he is gonna get it I can't believe he didn't just go straight up to the top yeah I'm surprised got every single Medevac in fact so that's like 25 Supply going down there for Morrow yeah I mean that's a huge drop in Supply it's not the end of the world but it is pretty bad yeah I think that's more than anything else that basically kind of forces Morrow into position where now he has to play defense he can't really be roaming around the map as much at least not for the next couple of minutes unless cure comes in with some really unfavorable trade because losing that many units and kind of one Fell Swoop for really no it wasn't a trade I mean he just it just got killed he like canceled he like cancel the command center it was a third of the way done and then all the medevacs died halfway across the map and now Kira's gonna try and lay Siege down on this position Viking counts tied nine to nine Siege King counts Ten to Ten Kira with the lead in Marines though doubling the count right now of Maru so a little bit more flexibility here for his army and it's actually cure that's adding in the Ravens first liberators being added now for Maru and the way that I'm seeing cured play this with you know adding in Ravens going for liberators a little bit faster than before going for second Factory Siege tanks makes me think that it really does want to try and play for a position where he can just lay down Siege disable some seed Shanks from his opponent and potentially deny a base but Maru he's already gearing up for the late game two more star ports in production yeah he's basically trying to counter the tech that cure wants to get to to end the game so Mario's gonna be on the defense for a little bit longer actually probably a lot a bit longer um yeah cure seems to want to play a very conventional TBT at the highest level in the late game against the greatest Taran of all time he wants to get uh just enough Siege tanks with just enough Vikings and liberators with the right number of ravens to kind of uh systematically break open positions deny command centers back up reconfigure do it again uh and it seems like what Mara wants to do and I don't know if we're going to the battle cruises or not I really can't call that right now but it's kind of uh preempt that Tech itself and win the air fight and then therefore mute the ground presence such a tower gets taken out here by cure is just trying to poke and prod a little bit and get an idea remember who's at and this is now going to be a point of contention here this fifth face here for Maru armor shredding turret coming down to the Vikings here this time in Curious favor is Mario taking a bad trade we'll have to lift that command center with this many vikings and Mike had taken out I mean this is a pretty humiliating defeat here for Morrow I think he almost half-heartedly even tried to set up to fight it this is exactly the fight that cure was looking for and Mario stepped right out and gave it to him and you know what I want to say right now is I bet if we if we hit the player colors if we hit their names and you came into this game six having watched the previous two games you would think that right now Kira's Maru and maru's cure it's been a role reversal in the way that they're navigating their unit compositions this time it's cure that's faster with liberators he's faster adding in the Ravens Mario lying behind just a bit and right now it's painful for him he lost his fifth base because of that he has to rebuild that Command Center on the low ground outside the natural and this soft contain although it's not covering a lot of ground here for amaru because cure just Hazmat control right now it is very hard for Mario to actually maneuver and take either that base at the top left or the center right yeah I mean I gotta say cure it's like in line with what we were talking about earlier like he's almost better at this part of the game than Morrow is but Mario is going to try to just you know power up with his his star ports here and try to bring this Tech into uh a very different type of late game more Star Sports being added for cure now as well is both Terran players just slowly pivoting in the sky toss and now the Cure is maxed adding in four additional command centers getting planetary fortresses up as well just really filling out his Tech Tree as these marines will get caught but this is again kind of a similar story to what we've seen in the previous two games where yes we are starting with 3-3 bio but we are going to end up with Mech yeah exactly I mean these marines are basically like zerglings for now he actually wants to get rid of him he'll eventually get rid of his SUVs too by the way 83 SUVs is great when you're going to get all the other upgrades and star ports and everything but eventually you need to just rely on mules uh for an income and use the SUVs they're just like gas miners basically yeah look at kiranhow setting up with turrets and sensor Towers in the middle of the map just the same way that Maru did a couple of a couple of maps ago I love this play from him tomorrow seems like oh it seemed like he might have had a read that cure was going to be going for a drop here but said does not actually catch wind of this well I mean he's gonna try to come over here I think he's a bit surprised to see that there's a small ambush of infantry units that are just going to gun that all down and it's kind of a tough infantry force in this Lodge here from res to slowly creep his way forward with these huge tanks because his Marine count is actually just so low and we'll eventually be able to clean that up I would love to see the production tab right now because I think that okay no battle Cruisers in production just yet we're just continuing to play sky toss with Vikings with Ravens with a handful of liberators I would imagine there's a moment when that's going to be triggered here uh he throws down some Auto turrets I believe under there well hold on a second is Kira actually losing this fight I think it's quite it's pretty even then the liberators are going to come in here no I think he's actually Mario's gonna win this fight sorry it's a little bit hard to call yeah it's hard to put a usual the color schemes and then also The liberators Siege kind of obscuring the vision there yeah difficult but more getting the better end of that trade well he's doing the thing that he did before that won the game for him he has reached out and grabbed another base um note The Cure has spent all of his savings um which is like what he needs to do but the point is he doesn't have this massive mineral gas cushion uh Mario of course has done the same but Mario is I guess you could say teched above here and Mario is getting air superiority again pure is pumping out biking six at a time to try and close the distance It's the funniest thing it's like you know look it's a game where here surrounds him and then nothing happens for a while and then Mario suddenly comes out and is making big advances on the map he's going to take another base right away after this I don't know what's to say that Mario can't come out a little bit further and then push one of your spaces at a position it's almost bewildering that Maru has been able to rebound from what was a not very good middle game position into what is slowly turning into basically even ground now that big flood of Vikings that cure made just a moment ago now coming to fruition here we'll be able to snipe that Command Center and get a handful of ravens as well so here's what I'm talking about he doesn't want these SUVs um it's so strange these are all very very old early Starcraft ideas about TBT and even including getting rid of the SUVs when you get far enough along where it's like all right we don't want that many workers it's a little difficult to follow exactly what well I mean the game plan if you boil it down to just trying to get navigate yourself to a sky tarot Army as best as possible yeah it's quite simple but the small tactics that both players are continuously employing to try and get there makes it so hard to follow I mean just the way that they're navigating the map with these sensor towers with missile turrets by setting up these kind of lines of Siege tanks and just fortifying these positions I mean it's really wild to watch like tomorrow we're even doing a mild bio transition here just to break this position because he knows he has enough Ravens yeah he can actually fight through he's fluctuating between these different texts depending on what what is appropriate to to disarm this given situation and then he's refilling it you know what it reminds me of it reminds me of a lot of what we've seen in these end game zerk uh yeah where they like go into a certain Army and then they go into brood Lords and then that force is like you know the count of The Brood Lords whether you're against the Zerg or Taryn and then they counter that he's kind of doing the Taran version of that only in a mere match-up it does feel that way because notice he hasn't really made any Vikings to try and contest the Viking count here for cure instead he's just been pumping Ravens and he's been pumping Marines so he's splitting his minerals in his gas that way and you know if cure doesn't have a healthy number of sea Shanks on the ground there really is nothing to Zone away the Marines from just stimming forward and taking care of these Vikings right yeah so yeah it's a very intricate dance they're doing with their unit compositions and I feel like I mean Maru is just so good at this in general is a little bit of a I want to say a misclick there is I don't think the Army was intended to go in that direction but it's so interesting to watch these Army compositions just continue to develop and evolve as the game progresses and see exactly what triggers what transition yeah I mean this has been quite a wild ride um though I have to say I think that in the last couple of minutes Mario has like bled off quite a lot of his tanks well hold on a second he's not gonna come in here he's disabled all the tanks we have like a 180 degree Arc of Tanks up here only four Siege tanks behind these Vikings though and so Mario's gonna kite back and man this one Thor has been alive for so long but it's actually doing an excellent job of zoning out all these Vikings all these Ravens here for cure there's this one long-range anti-air unit that you just kind of rely on that it's more Ravens getting taken down now and look at these disables coming into this car was breaking this position with pure Marines there's nothing that can fight the Marines on the ground it's just Auto turrets and all these high-tech units to a cure are getting mopped up it's like another kind of tech here it's like just Marine auto turret to force a win there now the tanks can move in suddenly Morrow is just on top of pure pure seeming to be almost paralyzed to what Mario is is tacking into here it feels like cure just doesn't have and he's got medevx he can actually go up into where the infrastructure is if he does this right that's true even more disables coming in on The Siege thing since Mar just continues him forward and you see cure knowing that he needs Marines of his own to start to try and counter this but instead of tomorrow that just continues to push up another orbital commands Falls these seats will eventually get cleaned up here by cure with that seat check in the natural expansion but overall a very cost efficient trade for tomorrow I feel like this Viking should have landed a long time ago I think he's like suddenly can remember that he could do that yeah the one concerning thing there for Maru is although the first engagement went very well the follow-up was not quite as spectacular a lot of the Ravens died the Skytop Sky keep saying skytosks I'm so used to talk about skytos listen Sky Taran here in tvt the sky Taryn effectively was reset there for Maru and cure has a much bigger gas bake and he's now going into battle Cruisers and behind all this wild man look at the map as well Kira's been expanding despite all this aggression so his economy also firing on all cylinders here but neither player able to reach a maxed Army that's right here has an ungodly amount of gas I mean that that is a very important factor here now I know that we're saying that his brains are being made but you know obviously controlling the tank or battle cruiser or Raven or whatever else count that's very big Mario um you know Empress top left as well as his Central base needs to start probably taking the gases over there and soaking that up they're both closing uh getting closer closer to maxing out here every single base on the map is taken now at this point cure does have the gold bases so one small economic Advantage for him although I say that this one just immediately gets taken out yeah well he's just gonna come right through here and just clean this out and he may continue to be on the move let's remember that cure has actually been mining for more bases um for longer I would love to see the units lost cabbage get an idea of exactly who has been more cost efficient and and cure just continuing to mix in battle Cruisers this is one thing that Morrow doesn't really have it feels like it might be curious Ace of the hole here as he already has three battle creatures on the field with that gas he's also adding in a ton of ravens he's getting all of the elite upgrades here for the BCS plus three air weapons vehicle weapons Yamato Cannons all coming in pretty brutal here with that battle cruiser yeah Marines are not really the answer and tomorrow he's transitioned very heavily instant he's got about 50 Marines in total on the field right now the siege tank count here for cure only at nine the good news for tomorrow is that he he's he knows how to kind of throw those Marines in there and use them to do damage and try to make something else happen um I mean we're still maxed out there's almost 50 Marines for Morrow where there's 11 here for um here so I mean pure practically doesn't even have Marines I feel like Maru at this point in the game should just start trying to eat up bases with his superior mobility build up a bank behind it and try to ReMax on something that can take on these battle Cruisers because there really isn't much of an answer to them right now I mean yeah maybe you can disable every BC and then like Drop Auto turrets but that's not really a long-term solution to killing these things right I think we need more Vikings here for Mario or VCS of his own he is going to deny this base up here these bases for cure that have gone uninterrupted I mean oh here we go you might actually be able to catch these missile coming in Auto turrets as well that was the one thing that he had going for him was these battle Cruisers he could even I think stack the disables here yeah he just did yeah sat onto the cooldown on the other side of the map we were able to disable these Siege tanks with no Raven support at all oh the Ravens are a little bit too far behind this one might be able to teleport away actually both of them getting back it's actually pretty big that's a little bit of a slip up there for Maru as yeah I mean he's trying to put out all these other fires right it's easy for us as observers look at this one thing but really Mario's like like 580 right now trying to whittle his way through this but yep now Mario has been interrupted more on his side of the map and so he might end up with more minerals in the long term that he could mine from uh Carey's gonna try to move out here this is the craziest DVT ever yeah this is an insane game Hill we're seeing pretty much every single Terran unit here there's a lot more disables are coming in that's going to give these marines some reading room armor shredding missile on the Ravens and the missile turrets there as the Marines just power through and look at Cura Supply just dipped down to 153 but behind it these four Marines these hero Marines taking out a lot of SUVs there for Mario are able to pick off three as the attack continues and I don't know exactly what the Army is here for cure but it's only at 93 supplies so this is a very scary situation now he could get up into into oh no because he can't get up into the main I was gonna say if the man is vulnerable he could probably just run right up there and try to take a fight like that well he might just do that anyways so many more disables coming in on normally the VCS but also the siege thinks there on the low ground as Mara might be able to get on top of the production tasteless and if he does I don't know if Cure's gonna have an answer for it his history about to be made is Mario about to win his sixth GSL he is in the main all of the infrastructure is here this might be a tasteless for 167 Supply on all the production here trying him out a counter-attack on maru's side of the map but it's not gonna work it's only four battle Cruisers and we might have Maru being crowned the sixth GSL Champion today this is an insane game I don't think there's any way the Kirk can recover these four battle Cruisers are just not going to do enough damage everything that can make anything that would allow cure to recover is being destroyed pure is going to try to move across the map and do as much damage as he can but as we see that happen the Marines are here to answer this as well the battle Cruisers disabled are gunned down and cure is processing his loss as Morrow is going to be uh the GSL Champion for the sixth time in a row GG what a moment here for Mario six trophies no one has besides Morrow has ever won five cementing his legacy is the greatest GSL player of all time and arguably the best player of all time I wasn't ready for him to win again this quickly I mean he just got that g5l Morrow with just such an incredible performance and I gotta say cure he put up an amazing fight I mean this truly was the season of Terence but Mario with great rushes and builds but more importantly the deepest understanding of the ebb and flow of late game of endgame of knowing exactly how to Bob and weave in your attack so that you come out ahead three different end game settings one of a hard contain cutting the map a knot and a half but really to two-thirds his size and choking him out another game where he's switching to battle cruiser attack in a surprise move swept across with harass and of course the final game with the Infantry uh late game switch the very end after all that says his start in his end is all about Marines such an incredible performance endless passion for the game an unprecedented record six time GSL code s Champion all four Terence came in today looking strong showing different talents and skills But ultimately you uh we're the one walking away with the trophy wow you were worried about the runner-up curse it was one of the toughest finals I've ever casted but here you are in the end what do you have to say today's Final series was so hard I'm happier than ever you must have felt a lot of pressure [Music] history from so many moments in Starcraft and here you've done it again for GSL ow such a tremendous and formidable record it really sorry what motivated you beyond actually helped me a lot today with my friends thank you I think I played very well because of your help beautiful advice along with last season yet another championship for you I'm wondering now are you going to make another champion ship after this and also any words to your fans recently uh whenever I make it to the finals I had been losing many times before so I had some confidence issues but uh today I came you don't care um I think I've regained that confidence I'm happy to grab another Trophy and I'm going to keep doing my very best to bring you guys great games we've got so many fans that have stayed here late into the night at the studio [Music] I think the last Train's gone and people are still here [Music] you stayed here to see uh as well as the foreign I'm sure many fans were eager to have finally be able to come down to the show and see it live foreign [Applause] [Music] special trophy for him I think it was just the same one but something tells me they might make another special trophy now for the what we call this gs7 we just gotta start subbing out the yes for all these numbers here it's gonna get crazy man giado g9l 10l I Like It Go well pretty high I think because he keeps playing like that with TBT like that I would say pretty damn High [Applause] just from q1 of 2023 you know but I I guess tomorrow came in here with just such a deeper understanding and I think cure has can only be proud of himself I mean in the most Terran intense GSL he showed such a deep understanding of the matchup congratulations to him you can't have a great finals like that without um a great opponent for Morrow to go up against and for a little bit there it looked like it was going to take it even to that last game I'm like is tomorrow going to be able to figure out you know how to get out of this Tech we're all but he did it it takes two to tango this was one of the best TBT finals I have ever seen here it's my favorite tdt finals ever so superb the knowledge these guys brought to the table the skill that they showcased here today fantastic stuff you'd love to see it and you know Mario's now starting to kind of break through um I mean he already broke a record with the fifth GSL win right but now he's getting the six now we're starting to get to this kind of crazy territory as far as star league winners go where it's like oh you might just like start picking up more of these you might be kind of like uh um I don't know I mean just like the goat you know on a level that it's almost impossible to catch up too all right well I think we're gonna be giving Morrow that award soon just [Music] give his feel on Mario here we go come out tomorrow we're gonna bring the CEO co-ceo excuse me of a freaking TV and he'll be giving out the first place check s how do you feel after watching the finals well firstly what an incredible night one of my favorite finals I've ever watched not only the finalists the semi-finals what a bunch of great games tonight we have so many foreign fans here at the studio I want to say thank you all so much for coming down I hope you enjoyed yourselves uh We've we've been reduced in size I know that um here in Korea but also just fans all over the world were very supportive to us so we want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts Alexander we've been very touched by you so next season SL will be offline at this let's go we're back all matches will be held offline oh that's news to me baby I love that tomorrow I'm so happy that's great news that's just the best news ever wow because of your guys's support how exciting um and now it's time to give [Music] all right give it up for Mario sixth GSL Championship just unbelievable Stops Another pin another pin how many more pins can a shirt take I mean this is crazy he is looking like one of those uh Banana Republic dictators well the medals on his is gonna get too heavy we'll be able to game with all those pins that's dangerous man uh all right there it is yeah plus it's a surprise plus the crowdfunding really though thank you everybody who supported GSL on patreon for the bottom of our hearts what a brilliant moment and is this great we're gonna be back to the studio we'll have more information on I assume it's the original Studio we're working at it but zombie Studios now we want to just make sure but uh that's exciting to hear and um full season of GSL you did a great job it was a treat to cast with you I know it's a big shoes to fill but your casket is topped here you are a blast to work with and um I don't know which is a great mood what a great uh a season a weird season too yeah this weird like Terran uh uh uh top heaviness but it turned out to be really fun as well and history has been made today Mario has won a sixth GSL oh my God yeah I mean coming into the semifinals today I was thinking okay it's maybe maybe not gonna be the best it's you know three TV teams in a row but wow like the games really delivered that's one of the best GSL finals I've seen a very long time and Mario getting his sixth win and now that we're going back offline I'm glad that we had like a minute before we were back on camera because I was grinning like a fool GSL season two is back on um July 4th July 4th of America became free of course for the four for the American Casters Of course of course it comes back like that um 6 30 p.m I was just confirmed it is in the uh the freak up Studio that's the one at Samsung station if you've been attending gsls for a long time it's the same one that we've been in before uh there is a surprise video at the end after the credits so do not turn off the show but we're gonna go we love you we'll see you in season two bye-bye doesn't really matter [Music] [Music] [Music] doesn't really matter cause I never [Music] gotta get it [Music] [Music] again [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign definitely foreign [Music]

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Id: A_S_0Z7U6LQ

Length: 164min 4sec (9844 seconds)

Published: Thu May 18 2023