GSL Final: Set 5

Map: Scrap Station

Wow.

Just wow.


Even though Scrap Station is a Zerg-friendly map, there are still plenty of ways to plague Zerg with early problems. HopeTorture demonstrated that point with a proxy barracks and early Reapers that went unscouted while Fruit Dealer blindly expanded. Everyone thought it was all over for Zerg, but once again the Dealer of Fruit would not be denied!

Driving the Reapers out with a combination of zerglings and roaches, Fruit Dealer showed how awesome he was by using the smoke around the Xel'Naga tower to prevent the Reapers from kiting his lings and giving him time to build up a defense.

Fruit Dealer followed this up with a heavy Roach push, breaking HopeTorture's wall and doing some decent damage to his worker line. And to everyone's surprise, after HopeTorture rebuilding his wall, Fruit Dealer did it again with speedlings! HopeTorture figured Fruit Dealer would turn his lings around since the wall could be repaired faster than lings could damage it so didn't send anything to repair it until he realized Fruit Dealer was calling his bluff, but by then it was too late.

From there, Fruit Dealer transitioned to Spire for Mutalisk harassment and continued to expand at every opportunity while keeping HopeTorture contained. This gave him the economic edge he needed to fund his Bling/Ling/Roach army that decimated HopeTorture's by now predictable marine/tank/thor composition.

Even with his forces destroyed, HopeTorture made one final push with a handful of marines and a couple of medivacs, just to show that he would fight until his last breath. Unfortunately, that last breath came a few seconds later when a wall of banelings melted HopeTorture's remaining defenses and the last thing those marines saw were a flock of Mutalisks swooping down upon them.

The real star of this set(and really the entire match) was the Baneling. Whether dropped from Overlords or flanking in from the sides or behind, they racked up more kills and won more sets than any other of Fruit Dealer's units.

So there you have it-- Zerg may not be as powerful as the other races, or as simple to play, but there is no denying that what really matters in this game is the skill of the player and his drive to win despite the odds. Something we should all remember, especially when our first instinct is the cry "imba!".

Congratulations, Won-Ki Kim, otherwise known as Fruit Dealer! Enjoy your $100,000,000 KRW($87,000USD)!