lol Zerg, Maru attacks Curious with eight hellbats and a raven at 5:00 and Zerg just straight up dies to it. idk how it took so long for Terran to figure out that cheesy two base builds are really strong, it's so easy to just die to this ****.

Cloaked banshees were on the way too but Zerg didn't even live long enough to see one lol

Sea/Effort - kind of similar to Flash/Hyun, Effort went overpool/3 hatch before lair crazy zerg, difference was that he was able to do some muta harassment and control the air enough to take and hold the island, Sea couldn't prevent Effort later taking another main and got run over

Bisu/Soulkey - fairly standard PvZ with SK getting up to 5 hatches off three bases while Bisu forge expands into stargate/templar, Bisu had the first DT do nothing, then took his third too quickly and with mutas sniping a HT or two there wasn't enough to hold a hydra bust

Effort/Soulkey - Both 12 pool gas then expand, Soulkey might have slightly overmade drones and it looked like Effort could have overrun him with lings before mutas hit, but Soulkey microed it well and held with less lings, this gave him a bit of a muta advantage which snowballed and allowed him to win

Bisu/Sea - Bisu decides to be really annoying with a probe, stealing the gas and even getting an SCV kill, then goes into reavers and loses the initial shuttle for zero damage. Should be dead but is able to claw his way back into it having already got shuttle speed, doing a bunch of storm drops and keeping going with the reavers, probably killing at least 50 workers, did botch a recall into the main but hit some money stasises and expanded everywhere, somewhat fantasy gg timing

Bisu/Effort - plays out like a fairly standard PvZ, with a lot of action, lots of hydras, lots of storm, suicide mutas trying to snipe templar, sick egg blocks

sSak/Bisu
Mong/Shine
Soulkey/Best
Flash/Last

I'm so disappointed about jaedong not getting through

Last is a ****ing monster. Despite all the stuff Jaedong threw at him, he only ever got equalized in supply once, and spent most of the time 40-50 supply up, which I presume is bad even given mech units being generally higher supply than Zerg units.

Bracket stage is hilariously lopsided with arguably the 4 best remaining players on the same side. Flash vs Last and Best vs Soulkey all on the same side is a travesty. Once the other side was established, I really wanted Last vs Soulkey and Flash vs Best.

Seeing what SK would do against Last would be interesting, given that he's actually beaten Flash in an important game. In the Kespa days he did use queens vs mech quite a bit, which I've not seen too often post-Kespa. Then again, he was 2-7 vs Last last month, which is more one-sided than any zerg Last's played recently. Only way I see Last not winning if he gets through Flash is if he faces Bisu, who's been crushing Last of late, but as Bisu's losing to Shine through three straight hydra all-ins it's moot

Also I don't think I've ever seen six valkyries at the same time, sick build from sSak vs JD

proxy gates in opponent's base into proxy dt's into neither player has any detection with invisible units in each others bases into drops everywhere, game somehow lasts over half an hour