Match Rating: 6/10
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Game 1 – Delta Quadrant
Top positions with NesTea at 10 and BoxeR at 2
BoxeR builds his first depot at the bottom of his ramp
BoxeR walls off with first barracks, then gets a second barracks in his main
NesTea gets somewhat early pool and gas, then fast roach warren
Seeing the roach warren, BoxeR puts up a bunker in front of his wall in
BoxeR floats his forward barracks back to his main and gets two tech labs
NesTea getting speed and then banelings
Two more barracks for BoxeR
NesTea makes banelings, has roach and speedling escort
Banelings take out the bunker, speedlings kill the few marauders, marauders wipe out the marines
Roaches move into BoxeR’s main, only SCVs to stop them
With the roaches at the production buildings, BoxeR ggs
NesTea 1-0 BoxeR
Game 2 – Metalopolis
Close air positions (BoxeR at 8, NesTea at 6)
BoxeR doesn’t see NesTea’s overlord and scouts the wrong direction
NesTea goes hatch first
BoxeR gets a tech lab and then a reaper
BoxeR’s scouting SCV builds a bunker behind the expansion minerals
NesTea builds a spine crawler next to the bunker
NesTea’s drones intercept the reaper and almost kill it, forcing it to turn back
BoxeR salvages the bunker and expands
Lings poke but BoxeR has a bunker at his expansion
NesTea gets a baneling nest, BoxeR getting a starport and tanks
NesTea also takes a third
Huge number of banelings for NesTea…they move in…
BoxeR has two bunkers with more on the way, all the banelines die killing them
Rallied lings are killed by the siege tanks behind the wall in
BoxeR sends a banshee to kill scouting lings, also gets blue flame
Spore colony at NesTea’s natural repels banshee
NesTea gets a spire and roach warren, BoxeR getting an armory
NesTea tries to get a fourth but two banshees kill it
Four Hellions do huge damage at the third, massive drone losses
They go into the natural and kill more drones…one hellion has 18 kills
Large number of mutalisks go to BoxeR’s main…his turrets aren’t finished
Thor is out just in time to drive them out
Both players even in drones and SCVs though NesTea is on 3 bases
BoxeR and NesTea both expand
BoxeR pushes out with four tanks, two banshees, two thors, scvs, hellions , and marines
Stops below the top of NesTea’s main and builds turrets
Elevatoring thors on to the high ground, very large number of roaches preparing to defend
Mutas do a lot of damage in BoxeR’s base
Four thors in NesTea’s main
Tons of roaches attack, massive concave
BoxeR’s army is shattered, most killed, some flee, but a small group still in NesTea’s base
NesTea’s mutas killing BoxeR’s workers, but two Thors in his main take out tech structures
NesTea hasn’t seen BoxeR’s third base
Finally a ling spots the third, planetary fortress but little defense against the mutalisks
Hellions harass drones at NesTea’s third and forces muta to come help rather than attack third
Many turrets now around the planetary fortress and repel the mutaslisks when they finally come
BoxeR tries to move out but an enormous baneling/roach army from NesTea crushes him
BoxeR has no army and ggs
NesTea 2-0 BoxeR
Game 3 – Scrap Station
Proxy barracks from BoxeR in NesTea’s third
NesTea looks for it but doesn’t see it, then goes hatch first
BoxeR builds a second barracks at the proxy location
BoxeR lifts his first one and puts it on the high ground about the natural
NesTea already checked this so he may not see it
Finally an overlord spots the barracks
BoxeR builds two bunkers in between the natural and the barracks
Lots of drones coming to fight…first two marines are killed by drones
Zerglings arrive before the bunkers finish
BoxeR puts his next two marines behind the barracks and they repel NesTea’s zerglings
Some lings going to BoxeR’s undefended main base
BoxeR walls off with three barracks
Zerglings kill one of the walling barracks and start killing SCVs
BoxeR makes a decent clump of marines at the proxy location and fights NesTea’s zerglings
Wtih the help of a queen NesTea defeats them, BoxeR lifts and floats the barracks back to his main
BoxeR manages to clear the zerglings out of his base, though of course he’s way behind
BoxeR pushes out with a clump of marines plus two SCVs
Zergling speed finishing…zerglings surround the marines and annihilate them, gg
NesTea 3-0 BoxeR
Game 4 – Blistering Sands
BoxeR proxies his first barracks in the middle of the map
NesTea scouts it after seeing no barracks in the main
NesTea has gone hatch first thuogh
BoxeR’s second barracks is at the natural’s choke
Bunker at the natural choke for BoxeR
Six drones drive back the marines and scvs
They surround and kill the first two marines but the third one gets in the bunker
Drones surround the bunker and prevent reinforcing marines from reaching it
BoxeR falls back, expands, and floats the first barracks to complete the wall at his natural
BoxeR snipes an overlord behind his natural
NesTea’s zerglings start working on BoxeR’s rocks
The marine at the rocks is misplaced and doesn’t see them
BoxeR pushes out and the zerglings fall back to NesTea’s natural
Very good micro from BoxeR kills the defending zerglings
But NesTea surrounds the marines with drones and kills them
NesTea sends more zerglings to BoxeR’s ramp, starts a baneling nest
BoxeR sees the zerglings at the rocks at the last second
BoxeR loses a siege tank but marines push them out of the main
The zerglings kill more SCVs at the natural before getting cleared
NesTea makes banelings at the rocks and heads in
It’s a lot of banelings but they don’t do as much damage as expected
More fighting in BoxeR’s base, sieged tank in the main is holding off zerglings
NesTea starts his lair, BoxeR scans it
BoxeR moves out with fifteen marines, a medivac, and three tanks
NesTea makes a lot of banelings
For some reason the baneling nest is at the natural choke, BoxeR kills it with no resistance
BoxeR siege tank crawls toward the natural
BoxeR spreads his marines as the banelings attack
Four queens transfusing roaches clean up the attack
NesTea remaking the baneling nest plus a spire in his main
NesTea clears the rocks at his gold and starts a hatch there
One Medivac drop of marines at the gold, forces a cancel
BoxeR moves the dropship to the natural but mutalisks kill it
BoxeR pushes out again with three tanks, some marauders, and lots of marines
NesTea has banelings, roaches, mutas, and speedlings
BoxeR’s micro is excellent but there are too many units for NesTea, roachs and mutas overwhelm it
NesTea’s mutalisks harass the natural, killing turrets
BoxeR pushes out with his small army but again, too many units for NesTea
This time NesTea goes all the way to BoxeR’s main with mutalisks and roaches
With most of his base gone, BoxeR drops 8 marines in NesTea’s base
Finally BoxeR acknowledges what’s been clear for a long time and ggs
NesTea wins in a clean sweep
NesTea 4-0 SlayerSBoxeR
Commentary: TvZ was rumored to be BoxeR’s worst matchup, and based on this series that seems accurate. BoxeR always pressures early, but in this series he was even more aggressive. He didn’t seem to think he could win a long game. Unfortunately for him, NesTea’s early defense was excellent, and BoxeR never did enough damage to get any real advantage. In previous rounds, BoxeR’s micro meant he won almost every battle, but in this series, NesTea made sure to have overwhelming force before engaging BoxeR’s armies in the mid-game. It’ll be fascinating to see if NesTea can do as well against Foxer in the finals. Although Foxer has probably beaten better players and certainly shown more flair, at this point it’s hard to bet against NesTea, who has yet to lose a single game of any match in the GSL (13-0), an absolutely amazing feat.
Top positions with NesTea at 10 and BoxeR at 2
BoxeR builds his first depot at the bottom of his ramp
BoxeR walls off with first barracks, then gets a second barracks in his main
NesTea gets somewhat early pool and gas, then fast roach warren
Seeing the roach warren, BoxeR puts up a bunker in front of his wall in
BoxeR floats his forward barracks back to his main and gets two tech labs
NesTea getting speed and then banelings
Two more barracks for BoxeR
NesTea makes banelings, has roach and speedling escort
Banelings take out the bunker, speedlings kill the few marauders, marauders wipe out the marines
Roaches move into BoxeR’s main, only SCVs to stop them
With the roaches at the production buildings, BoxeR ggs
NesTea 1-0 BoxeR
Game 2 – Metalopolis
Close air positions (BoxeR at 8, NesTea at 6)
BoxeR doesn’t see NesTea’s overlord and scouts the wrong direction
NesTea goes hatch first
BoxeR gets a tech lab and then a reaper
BoxeR’s scouting SCV builds a bunker behind the expansion minerals
NesTea builds a spine crawler next to the bunker
NesTea’s drones intercept the reaper and almost kill it, forcing it to turn back
BoxeR salvages the bunker and expands
Lings poke but BoxeR has a bunker at his expansion
NesTea gets a baneling nest, BoxeR getting a starport and tanks
NesTea also takes a third
Huge number of banelings for NesTea…they move in…
BoxeR has two bunkers with more on the way, all the banelines die killing them
Rallied lings are killed by the siege tanks behind the wall in
BoxeR sends a banshee to kill scouting lings, also gets blue flame
Spore colony at NesTea’s natural repels banshee
NesTea gets a spire and roach warren, BoxeR getting an armory
NesTea tries to get a fourth but two banshees kill it
Four Hellions do huge damage at the third, massive drone losses
They go into the natural and kill more drones…one hellion has 18 kills
Large number of mutalisks go to BoxeR’s main…his turrets aren’t finished
Thor is out just in time to drive them out
Both players even in drones and SCVs though NesTea is on 3 bases
BoxeR and NesTea both expand
BoxeR pushes out with four tanks, two banshees, two thors, scvs, hellions , and marines
Stops below the top of NesTea’s main and builds turrets
Elevatoring thors on to the high ground, very large number of roaches preparing to defend
Mutas do a lot of damage in BoxeR’s base
Four thors in NesTea’s main
Tons of roaches attack, massive concave
BoxeR’s army is shattered, most killed, some flee, but a small group still in NesTea’s base
NesTea’s mutas killing BoxeR’s workers, but two Thors in his main take out tech structures
NesTea hasn’t seen BoxeR’s third base
Finally a ling spots the third, planetary fortress but little defense against the mutalisks
Hellions harass drones at NesTea’s third and forces muta to come help rather than attack third
Many turrets now around the planetary fortress and repel the mutaslisks when they finally come
BoxeR tries to move out but an enormous baneling/roach army from NesTea crushes him
BoxeR has no army and ggs
NesTea 2-0 BoxeR
Game 3 – Scrap Station
Proxy barracks from BoxeR in NesTea’s third
NesTea looks for it but doesn’t see it, then goes hatch first
BoxeR builds a second barracks at the proxy location
BoxeR lifts his first one and puts it on the high ground about the natural
NesTea already checked this so he may not see it
Finally an overlord spots the barracks
BoxeR builds two bunkers in between the natural and the barracks
Lots of drones coming to fight…first two marines are killed by drones
Zerglings arrive before the bunkers finish
BoxeR puts his next two marines behind the barracks and they repel NesTea’s zerglings
Some lings going to BoxeR’s undefended main base
BoxeR walls off with three barracks
Zerglings kill one of the walling barracks and start killing SCVs
BoxeR makes a decent clump of marines at the proxy location and fights NesTea’s zerglings
Wtih the help of a queen NesTea defeats them, BoxeR lifts and floats the barracks back to his main
BoxeR manages to clear the zerglings out of his base, though of course he’s way behind
BoxeR pushes out with a clump of marines plus two SCVs
Zergling speed finishing…zerglings surround the marines and annihilate them, gg
NesTea 3-0 BoxeR
Game 4 – Blistering Sands
BoxeR proxies his first barracks in the middle of the map
NesTea scouts it after seeing no barracks in the main
NesTea has gone hatch first thuogh
BoxeR’s second barracks is at the natural’s choke
Bunker at the natural choke for BoxeR
Six drones drive back the marines and scvs
They surround and kill the first two marines but the third one gets in the bunker
Drones surround the bunker and prevent reinforcing marines from reaching it
BoxeR falls back, expands, and floats the first barracks to complete the wall at his natural
BoxeR snipes an overlord behind his natural
NesTea’s zerglings start working on BoxeR’s rocks
The marine at the rocks is misplaced and doesn’t see them
BoxeR pushes out and the zerglings fall back to NesTea’s natural
Very good micro from BoxeR kills the defending zerglings
But NesTea surrounds the marines with drones and kills them
NesTea sends more zerglings to BoxeR’s ramp, starts a baneling nest
BoxeR sees the zerglings at the rocks at the last second
BoxeR loses a siege tank but marines push them out of the main
The zerglings kill more SCVs at the natural before getting cleared
NesTea makes banelings at the rocks and heads in
It’s a lot of banelings but they don’t do as much damage as expected
More fighting in BoxeR’s base, sieged tank in the main is holding off zerglings
NesTea starts his lair, BoxeR scans it
BoxeR moves out with fifteen marines, a medivac, and three tanks
NesTea makes a lot of banelings
For some reason the baneling nest is at the natural choke, BoxeR kills it with no resistance
BoxeR siege tank crawls toward the natural
BoxeR spreads his marines as the banelings attack
Four queens transfusing roaches clean up the attack
NesTea remaking the baneling nest plus a spire in his main
NesTea clears the rocks at his gold and starts a hatch there
One Medivac drop of marines at the gold, forces a cancel
BoxeR moves the dropship to the natural but mutalisks kill it
BoxeR pushes out again with three tanks, some marauders, and lots of marines
NesTea has banelings, roaches, mutas, and speedlings
BoxeR’s micro is excellent but there are too many units for NesTea, roachs and mutas overwhelm it
NesTea’s mutalisks harass the natural, killing turrets
BoxeR pushes out with his small army but again, too many units for NesTea
This time NesTea goes all the way to BoxeR’s main with mutalisks and roaches
With most of his base gone, BoxeR drops 8 marines in NesTea’s base
Finally BoxeR acknowledges what’s been clear for a long time and ggs
NesTea wins in a clean sweep
NesTea 4-0 SlayerSBoxeR
Commentary: TvZ was rumored to be BoxeR’s worst matchup, and based on this series that seems accurate. BoxeR always pressures early, but in this series he was even more aggressive. He didn’t seem to think he could win a long game. Unfortunately for him, NesTea’s early defense was excellent, and BoxeR never did enough damage to get any real advantage. In previous rounds, BoxeR’s micro meant he won almost every battle, but in this series, NesTea made sure to have overwhelming force before engaging BoxeR’s armies in the mid-game. It’ll be fascinating to see if NesTea can do as well against Foxer in the finals. Although Foxer has probably beaten better players and certainly shown more flair, at this point it’s hard to bet against NesTea, who has yet to lose a single game of any match in the GSL (13-0), an absolutely amazing feat.
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