great back and forth game with a lot of pressure coming from both sides, nice tactics by effort to keep trying to hold free to 3 bases while at the same time just about holding off counters

sharp looked better, but larva at least tried some cool stuff like guardians/queens, but had sloppy control/not enough defilers/let a bunch of stuff die to erasers

mind pulling out some hilarious old school builds (proxy factory lifted into the main, two port wraith) which don't really work

weird one, last bunker rushes and gets best down to about four probes before goon range finishes, it then goes somewhat into an ordinary game before best fakes arbiters into carriers, best then can't do enough damage before last masses goliaths and wins

effort seemed to be doing quite well, multitasking like a pro, sniping off tons of stuff with scourge/parasite, then just lost as he switched back to mutas with no upgrades which got torn apart obv

jaehoon actually played kind of well to beat sharp and force himself into at least playoffs, had some very touch and go reaver drop play before finishing it off with carriers, this despite forgetting zealot speed and not getting the interceptor upgrade until he's already won

zero also out, sea just blind guessed that it'd be mutas and preemptively got turrets, zero could do no harrassment and failed to snipe the academy before stim researched, then just lost

last went fast ebay and hit a +1 timing that simply ended the game really early

so i guess if you like tvt you'll love the rest of the tournament, 5 already through to the quarters with the possibility of six if (when) piano beats larva which'd make a sharp/piano/jaehoon playoff for two places

free neglects observers as shuttle goes DT's, doesn't end the game but free's too far behind

because piano goes into full troll mode with battlecruisers and mass firebat drops

mind tries 2 fact all-in, flash is somehow able to hold, not lose his cc, then takes out all of mind's tanks/marines for an auto gg

best basically outplays mong the whole game, pretty poor to start then he recalls with his first arb and does a lot of damage, is able to macro streamroll from there (heck, he had 2 gate arbs ffs)

ssak/2nd in tiebreakers on 14th, sea/hero on 16th, shuttle/1st in tiebreakers on 21st, last/flash on 23rd. piano/jaehoon/sharp playoff on sunday

FLASH (and Sea!)

jaehoon finally makes arbs into carriers work, mainly because he's able to mass enough of them, and back it up with ground army plus templars/archons, really pretty protoss play

piano goes for some sort of midas-style 6 marine plus tank/vulture pressure (although he forgets the vulture obviously), when that doesn't work he goes bio, and demonstrates why nobody goes bio vs protoss

piano goes cc first, which ends up being too greedy