Come watch some competitive StarCraft: Brood War! ASL Season 22 started on the 17th of August and runs until the 17th of October 2026.Today is Group E of the round of 24:Soulkey (Z)Organ (T)JyJ (T)sSak (T)Korean livestream: https://play.sooplive.com/afstar1English livestream: https://play.sooplive.com/dth03119Liquipedia page: https://liquipedia.net/starcraft/ASL/22
A Terran heavy group!Normally I do enjoy TvT but there is such a thing as too much TvT, so I'm very thankful that we have Soulkey here to shake things up. He's a good match too, Soulkey's very good against Terran.Organ is unlikely to advance today, since I consider JyJ and sSak better than him.
>3 zerg yesterday >3 terran todayWho plans this shit
>soulkey gets to MAEK his way into the finals againi'm tired boss
TVTBROS
>forward barracks and bunker rush fail>terranny is ahead>vultures die>terranny is ahead>wraiths die>terranny is ahead>vessel dies>terranny is ahead>marine-tank push dies>terranny is way ahead>terranny takes three bases for free behind all of this>terranny holds out against six base zerg for twenty more minutes with a fifty mineral unit>terranny mindlessly shuffles between the zerg bases with move command>terranny finally about to mine out>loads eight dropships and drops in all zerg bases>still somehow almost wins Wow.
zvt - just make muta and winzvp - just make hydra and win
>>746086328IT'S TIME FOR THE COMFIEST MATCHUP
SHOULDERS STATUS: COVERED
>>746086601I still don't know if people remember this game because it was a great game, or remember it because of the commentator.
Looks like I'm on time for once. Cool.
It's Terran Tuesday
Total teranny death.
>>746086637It's shouldover...
Chubby gook thighs on my ears...
>12hatchCome on man...
>>746087034Holy fucking based man of taste
MAEK'd just in time
Did even a single drone die in that push?
Ridiculous to scrape by with 2 sunks there. Yeah this game is over, SK now grows out of control.
>>746087206Maybe the evo chamber one, didn't see what happened to it
>>746087212that evo chamber literally saved soulkey there, the game would've been over if it weren't for that. Like that evo chamber delayed the death of those sunks by probably a good 7 seconds or so.
If T just continued pumping marines and rallying them through the map when he killed the sunks, the game would be over already
very sloppy plays by sk right now
lmao 2port
>>746087349Leta would disagree with you
dunno if these dropships are brilliance or desperation
>nydus AND defileryup it's that stage of the game alrightonly silver lining for organ/piano is that soulkey is still only on three bases
it's over, right
COMMENCE THE WIGGLIN'
>mass dropships
JESAS
gg
It's so over
>plaguuuuu hits literally 20 marines with one castlmao
>those dropshipskekkaroo levels of cucked
>last resort dropships>flies them straight into a scourge muta blob
>could have won by just building sci vessels>waste 6 dropships that accomplish literally nothing>lose to defilers
>>746087547>>could have won by just building sci vesselsdoubt
>>746087547>lose to defilerstale as old as time
>more dropshipsDefinition of insanity
Invincibility seems like a fair spell
BATTELCRUZAH OPERATIONAL
>random 2 BC just mixed into the army as wellOrgan lol what are you doing man
LFG CATTLEBRUISERS
>more dropships
Questionable plays
Who called in the fleet? No seriously, whose call was this?
TOTAL MARINE DEATH
desperation
Entertaining game even if was pretty one sided. I love TvZ.
I have never seen T win vs Z in late game in ASL matches. They might as well just instantly type GG after reaching 15 minute mark.
I love watching soulkey play, luv hydras
>>746087809I have never seen T win against soulkeyor P for that matter
>>746087547Yes, as we all know, science vessels that die to hydras and defilers and scourge can't be defeated, really. As long as you believe.
>>746087809Correct, because T is an entirely timing attack based race. If those timing attacks fail, the best Zerg players like Soulkey or Soma will basically never lose a scaling battle to any Terran player.
>LyL
>>746087880T can also lolturtle and straight up ignore the opponent and 4vs8 base them in 10 hour long games.And i wish i was joking.
>ssuck at 31% tvzWow.
>>746088093Then why have we seen this tactic exactly zero times in ASL history?
>>746088157Solved game, why stomp prottoss in 10 hours when you can stomp them in 13 minutes.
>JeJ already fucking up due to cross spawn
>>746088196And I thought we were talking about TvZ but turns out you were a goal post moving schizophrenic all along
It's over
nice CC first NERD
*pew*
MAEK retirement
somehow this counterattack is actually so good lol
nice scv nerd
bew bew im a graith =DDDDDD
Dropship?????
scrappy TvT games are the best
>mass valks>jyj has no air units for the valks to shoot????
>>746088630That's not true he has like 1 Wraith farting around somewhere!
>>746088630It's obviously so he can shoot down jyj's buildings when he tries to lift them off, your brain just isn't big enough to understand his plan
>>746088630apologize
>2/1 to 3/0Interesting choice by ssak, does the armor upgrade just not matter here? Also why not double armory?
ssak just looking confused for half the game, doesn't know what units to be building or where to be positioning them
first time seeing jej win
what the fuck happened to suck's supply
>>746089036Those dropships were full.
>>746089036
>>746089036Lost 30 scvs in the span of 30 seconds because he wasn't defending his expansionsEconomy completely fell apart afterwards
>>746088889Yeah, armor upgrade basically doesn't matter. The biggest breakpoint in TvT is +2 weapons because that lets tanks 2 shot each other, and even +3 armor doesn't change that. The more you can pour into tanks, the higher quality your army is, and then you can also pour gas into map control through air as well. As such you'll see them highly prioritize +2 weapons and then not care much past that.
>>746089343Also, I think the reason ssak went 2/1 is because it's not like upgrades don't matter at all, they're just a lower priority, and normally you would go +3 to make vultures and goliaths perform better, but ssak lost his Science Facility which he was using to scout and probably didn't want to remake it, which goes to show the valuation on upgrades by him.
>12hatch againBruh.
I think it's even now.
t players are so fucking stupid
MAEK MUTA
gg ez
what a shocker
>terran army watching from distance as Soulkey rapes himliteral cuckoldry
>maek>winIt really is that simple
>>746089850I don't know what JyJ was thinking. He obviously can't bust that. He just has to prevent the 3rd and build a fuckload of turrets.
Committing the mutas to take out those three turrets was the right call.
MAEK MUTA WIN
I can't sit through two more TvTs and I don't care who else gets out of this group, they all suck except Soulkey
zerg is so cringe
>ssuck my organ
lol
4 Zergs in semifinals confirmed
>>746087809Z should unironically never lose any late game. Cracklings do more dps than BCs, let alone the carnage one defiler can do
rematch
>>746090830turns out when map makers use the exact same zerg-favored template which encourages muta harass via exposed mineral lines, into perfect chokepoints for lurkers + swarm to hide behind, there's not a lot T or P can do
Another day of pretty bad gamesFirst week of ro24 was exciting, this is just sadSee you guys tomorrow for (hopefully) a fun set of games
>>746091573>PZZZ>fun set of games
>>746091664better than soulkey maek muta
>ssak on +0>armory not even spinningThis is pathetic
how the hell is ssak still in this game
Mongoloids vs. troglodyte.
thoughts?
>>746092595ANother ZvZ shitfest only this time with the upside of maybe seeing some Mini cringekino
>>746092595mini gonna shit the bed this asl sucks
Maek dropship
>>746091258But they aren’t Zerg favored the race is just the strongest. You mention defiler lurker choke points for instance, get rid of these and it makes any early Zerg cheese stronger. Maek hydra becomes even more dominant against Protoss
