[Satu]

What I should be doing right now is sleeping. But Im accepting the fact that I wont be able to for a while after what I just saw. That has got to be one of the most exciting team league matches in SC2 history. For those who don't want to have it spoiled, do not read on.

Here is why it was so darn exciting:

SlayerS_Alicia starts for SlayerS clan, and Im sure most had low expectations for SlayerS coming in to this match. Alicia wins the first game. Then the second game, vs Losira. Then the third, notably eliminating IMNestea via a 4gate vs a triple hatch which was attempting to blind counter.

WHAT THE HELL.

Already, the unexpected has occurred. What everyone has thought to happen was just reversed on itself, and crushes any doubts about SlayerS clan coming in to this match. Artosis makes the comment of how the IM coach said they would go 5-0. They could indeed be correct.

The next matchup, however, PvP. SlayerS_Alicia vs IMYongHwa. YongHwa rolls over Alicia after Alicia blinks up his ramp, causing majority of his stalkers to die.

Okay, so it wont be 5-0. It looks like IM might just come back and own SlayerS. Oh well.

YongHwa vs Golden was next. YongHwa completes another victory in which he demolishes his opponent, after getting 2base up and using infinity gateway units.

Oh well, here we go. Too bad for SlayerS, I guess.

SlayerS pick Ryung. OKAY, here we REALLY go now.

Ryung beats YongHwa in a fairly convincing display, after some very back and forth action in a TvP. His ciking count killed all of the collossus, his marine marauder count killing everything left on the ground. The phoenix were forced to watch from above as their master was killed off.

Woah, the momentum just turned AGAIN? Seriously, at this point, I had no idea who was going to win it. It had kept changing so much, and SlayerS clan was up at 4-2. But I remembered why IM was were they were.

IM choose MVP.

Yep. SlayerS are pretty much screwed...

Ryung has good TvT, which showed in his game against MVP. He had a superior tank count, whereas MVP had a huge viking count. Which was odd, because it just kept growing... Then the battlecruisers came out. Ouch...

Yeah, ok, MVP will probably own SlayerS...

SlayerS choose Ganzi. Which is kinda odd, until Artosis points out they are forcing MVP to play TvTs so that they get as much information about MVP's TvT for MMA, in the last game.

Then theres a problem. Ganzi says "pp" (please pause) then leaves the game shortly after. Obviously just leaving the game, even if there is an issue, was not the correct thing to do. Regardless, they restart the game (The game was only towards the beginning anyway).

Although, this time, MVP doesnt open the same way he had before the restart. Instead, he goes for a 5rax, and kills pretty much everything from Ganzi. Ganzi manages to get tanks up and siege tech, but then MVP stomps him as he sets up shop at MVP's base. Ouch, yet again. It really started to look like IM had it, as MVP brought it back to 4-4.

Down to the final game, MVP vs MMA. This was the most crazy TvT I've seen in a fair while. It involved MMA going marinekingprime style, losing out in many engagements early on, although it didnt matter much as he had a gold expansion up. Yeah.

When MVP finds it, MMA takes it back to his third and mines there for a fair while while MVP is still on 2base. Eventually MMA is forced to pull it back, but he floats it to the other side of the map and takes that gold instead. He holds that for almost the entire game, and has an insane income as a result.

Eventually, MMA manages to dwindle MVP's army down and forces MVP to run back and forth with his tanks, sieging when he gets to the spots in order to kill off the 3/3 marines. Eventually, MMA takes advantage of this, runs up to the tanks and kills them all. GG.

At this point, I was going insane too. The finals were so back and forth and eventually resulted in the underdogs winning. A seriously good event to stay up late to watch (Although for some gamers 12ish AM is early...). Just wow. Im sure this brings BoxeR a lot more credibility back to his name, after failing to show results in his inidividual starcraft 2 career so far, GSL-wise.

Discuss, yo.

[LennX]

This finals is indeed an interesting match to watch. It's kinda hard to believe how gomtv was trying to delay time in the beginning as they felt that the matches were ending too fast until the series evolve into a TvT slug fest. ^^

One thing to note is that why is it only on the Slayers side, their games seems to be disrupted by a few hardware and bnet glitches. Yet they managed to pull through the problems and win the series.

Oh btw
Protoss has 5wins for the finals.
Terran has 4wins for the finals.
Zerg got all-killed for the finals.

I sense that Zergs are crying for HOTS to come out as soon as possible. :P

[FaDeGofire]

Finals were so epic. i thought nothing could top last season's gstl finals but this was just as good. only thing missing was bm-ing and ceremonies :P. I watched every day of the gstl and I'm really impressed with SlayerS, i was rooting for them all the way. It's like the stereotypical underdog team with great spirit overcoming the former champions. Great builds throughout the series but the final set in particular was just amazing. The most intense tvt i've ever seen... seeing the camera pan to the player's faces.. mvp and mma were 100% focused and totally determined to win it for their team.. both sides pressing hard and not wanting to back down... and then the final maneuver to destroy mvp's army. mma has got to be one of the best players in the world. I only got 2 hours of sleep last night but whatever.. unforgettable night.

[Starcraftmazter]

Originally Posted by LennX

Terran has 4wins for the finals.

Umm...aren't these almost all TvT? I'm pretty sure protoss got most kills excluding all mirrors.

I'm sure that the IM coach is going to ass spank (totally not gay) losira and nestea especially for playing like they're in the wood league.

[Satu]

Originally Posted by LennX

I sense that Zergs are crying for HOTS to come out as soon as possible. :P

The theory is that since the WOL campaign was terran-based and blizzard had to focus on terran so much, terran was kinda OP because of it. So MAYBE Zerg will be increased in power in HOTS.

[ZergGirl]

They forced so much TvT on him to tire the bastard out. Pretty exciting to watch though.

[ETL.Santi]

Man zerg players are so retarded. You guys really are EMOS.

[kellyMILKIES]

Ok so what happened was that drama was all afloat at GOM after that PP.

In any case, before the match I already predicted SlayerS win.
While I was casting Code A for SlayerS_Alicia, I knew he would be code S material because his decision making skills is so insane. PvP is his weakest match up and YongHwa strongest match up is PvP so I knew YongHwa would take that. I was surprised that they picked Golden because I do not think so highly of him. I know GLaDe rolls him on Ladder almost all the time. Plus the fact that he forsaked the Zerg clan and swapped over to protoss yo...

Anyway. So they sent MVP up. For sure he wants to show his come back, but then MMA was going to snipe him and IM already knew that.

MMA sniped 3 GSL champions and he is such a boss. However to be honest during his Code A matches he did not impress me that much T.T

To be honest, I love GSTL more than GSL. However I feel that they should seriously be more BM. Instead of ^5ing your teammates you should go BM your opposing team. That was what made team leagues so incredibly sick exciting in BW.

SlayerS win and they now have a Soju swimming pool. Gogo

[StitcH]

I'm so impressed by Alicia & MMA. I thought Nestea would beat Alicia but nooo.