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WC3 players win the weekend cups
Kas and Naniwa took home the cash prizes from this weekend's Zotac and Go4 cups respectively.
By Michael 'Zechs' Radford
Aug 31, 2010 20:17
Kas and Naniwa took home the cash prizes from this weekend's Zotac and Go4 cups respectively.The success of WC3 players in SC2 continued this weekend with both Zotac and Go4SC2 being won by Warcrafters. had to defeat a fellow-WC3 player in ESL's Go4SC2 when he took-on Juha-Matti 'Satiini' Bäckström in a PvT final.
Go4SC2
On Deltra Quadrant Naniwa had a near-perfect game. After holding off an ill-fated hellion push he expanded at his destructible rocks natural. Neither player seemed willing to be the aggressor, so Nani was given time to tech to colossus. His first attack proved to be the final act of the game; he hit just as Satiini's expansion was landing and simply overwhelmed the Finn's medium-sized bio-ball.
Game two proved to be equally one-sided on Steppes of War. The early game was all about Nani holding off Satiini's push. He survived the early pressure andskipped colossi, opting for numerous immortals instead. It was the perfect counter to the terran's tank play, containing his opponent in his base while he expanded. Satiini tried to force an expansion of his own but was forced to lift it off. When he tried to break the contain with marauders and tanks he was already too far behind to match Nani's superior force.
Cross spawn positions on Lost Temple proved to be predictably uneventful. Almost nothing happened for the first ten or so minutes except for a gas steal by Satiini. Both players just built up their armies off a single base and threw them at each other in the middle of the map. Satiini was able to kill Nani's colossi but lost most of his ground force at the same time. There was to be no way back as he simply left the game without a "gg."
Zotac Cup
Mihail 'Kas' Hayda is yet another WC3 player who chose to go terran in SC2. It paid off for him on Sunday night when he defeated a zerg player named 'lalush' 3-0. Starting off on Blistering Sands, Lush went for late-ish hatchery and went straight to roaches, expecting reapers. Kas did make a handful but the roaches were out of position when he sneaked into the expansion and blew it up. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian made his own expansion and started pumping an MMM army. By the time he attacked head-on he was way ahead thanks to the disruption of his opponent's economy.
Scrap Station was a longer game but it ended in much the same way. Unanswered banshees nearly took out Lush's main base but the queens arrived just in time to save it with just 18hp. From there it turned into a hit-'n'-run vs macro style game. A couple of drops in Kas' base did significant damage but when the terran attacked with his bio/medivac army the zerg simply couldn't hold it off. Five medivacs provided enough healing for his ground army to survive fungal growth and roach attacks with minimal losses.
The final game was the shortest of the series, surprisingly, since it was on Metalopolis. Both players spawned on the bottom half of the map and Lush again went for an anti-reaper build with the later expansion and early roaches. Kas, on the other hand, opted for banshee harass but the zerg player had had enough. He didn't have layer tech finished but he also didn't know that Kas wasn't research cloak. Instead, he left the game with a "whatever," leaving Kas a 3-0 winner.
Go4SC2
On Deltra Quadrant Naniwa had a near-perfect game. After holding off an ill-fated hellion push he expanded at his destructible rocks natural. Neither player seemed willing to be the aggressor, so Nani was given time to tech to colossus. His first attack proved to be the final act of the game; he hit just as Satiini's expansion was landing and simply overwhelmed the Finn's medium-sized bio-ball.
Game two proved to be equally one-sided on Steppes of War. The early game was all about Nani holding off Satiini's push. He survived the early pressure andskipped colossi, opting for numerous immortals instead. It was the perfect counter to the terran's tank play, containing his opponent in his base while he expanded. Satiini tried to force an expansion of his own but was forced to lift it off. When he tried to break the contain with marauders and tanks he was already too far behind to match Nani's superior force.
Cross spawn positions on Lost Temple proved to be predictably uneventful. Almost nothing happened for the first ten or so minutes except for a gas steal by Satiini. Both players just built up their armies off a single base and threw them at each other in the middle of the map. Satiini was able to kill Nani's colossi but lost most of his ground force at the same time. There was to be no way back as he simply left the game without a "gg."
Zotac Cup
Mihail 'Kas' Hayda is yet another WC3 player who chose to go terran in SC2. It paid off for him on Sunday night when he defeated a zerg player named 'lalush' 3-0. Starting off on Blistering Sands, Lush went for late-ish hatchery and went straight to roaches, expecting reapers. Kas did make a handful but the roaches were out of position when he sneaked into the expansion and blew it up. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian made his own expansion and started pumping an MMM army. By the time he attacked head-on he was way ahead thanks to the disruption of his opponent's economy.
Scrap Station was a longer game but it ended in much the same way. Unanswered banshees nearly took out Lush's main base but the queens arrived just in time to save it with just 18hp. From there it turned into a hit-'n'-run vs macro style game. A couple of drops in Kas' base did significant damage but when the terran attacked with his bio/medivac army the zerg simply couldn't hold it off. Five medivacs provided enough healing for his ground army to survive fungal growth and roach attacks with minimal losses.
The final game was the shortest of the series, surprisingly, since it was on Metalopolis. Both players spawned on the bottom half of the map and Lush again went for an anti-reaper build with the later expansion and early roaches. Kas, on the other hand, opted for banshee harass but the zerg player had had enough. He didn't have layer tech finished but he also didn't know that Kas wasn't research cloak. Instead, he left the game with a "whatever," leaving Kas a 3-0 winner.
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