I love how Maru has been through the protocol of claiming the trophy so many times but still 7 GSL wins and 5 years later Maru still gets startled by the confetti cannons
I hope GSL continues in 2024 as well ! I think our community has proven that it can support the tournament financially ! I've become a 30 dollar Patreon myself and will probably do some donations as well. We've been watching GSL since 2010 and it's been awesome ! Thank you ♥ I'll see you all in Korea hopefully for Season 3 this year in October !
. TIMESTAMPS TIMESTAMPS TIMESTAMPS 1:44 stateless 5:26 GuMiho & Dark interview, gumigod calls out zerg whiners 9:53 tasteless calls out zerg whiners 11:33 GuMiho v Dark GRESVAN 23:00 GuMiho v Dark ROYAL BLOOD 35:02 GuMiho v Dark ANCIENT CISTERN, 'surely he wont expect me to do it a third time!' 48:49 ads 51:35 Cure & Maru interview 59:28 Cure v Maru ANCIENT CISTERN 1:14:11 Cure v Maru NEOHUMANITY 1:22:27 Cure v Maru ALTITUDE 1:28:19 cyclone gaming 1:29:51 marus banshees 1:37:17 Cure v Maru ROYAL BLOOD 1:55:36 Cure v Maru DRAGON SCALES 2:16:10 GSL Theme 2:21:37 SC2 School -Recruiting Mentor for Each Race, BEHIND INTERVIEW 2:26:45 tasteless 2:28:00 Dark & Maru interview 2:35:55 Dark v Maru DRAGON SCALES 2:55:47 Dark v Maru ANCIENT CISTERN 3:05:28 Dark v Maru NEOHUMANITY, Maru takes one for the terran cabal 3:24:21 casters are contractualy obligated to not call it gentlemans sweep 3:28:05 Dark v Maru ALTITUDE 3:31:42 Dark drops a queen to reapers 3:48:20 skill growth 3:49:26 sigma nuke 3:59:25 Dark v Maru BABYLON 4:17:59 Dark v Maru GRESVAN 4:39:13 'some games end fast others end quickly' -tasteless 4:43:25 winners interview 4:52:55 'this is normal to mee'
@@zachansen8293 what are you even talking about? There are no results posted and those are the expected matches today. The finals match up isn't labeled with the players. People shouldn't watch this first if they don't want to know who's in the round of 4.
@@Massaphan Whether the games are a sweep or not is NOT in the thumbnail but IS in the timings. You don't think me telling you "whoever wins the first game wins the series" is a spoiler?
Yeeeeeeeeeesssss!! Maru, ma boy! Honestly i didnt believe you could do it in this gsl but i should not have doubted you. Congratulations, my boy! GS7 Wohooooo!!!! Good luck for G8L ;P
I don't play Starcraft 2. However, I've been watching GSL for 3-4 years now. Due to the casters, I just love listening funny and interesting when they both cast a game, lol miss you Artosis your replacement is great love state very funny also
Another poggers GSL finals in the books! I really enjoyed the player polls over what X would teach best before the finals, hope to see more variations of the player interviews for s3 :)
An exciting close to another excellent season! Love seeing some 'unconventional' Sky Terran play. Also, State has really found his footing in GSL. Looking forward to another 'Stateless' season!
@@Executioner9000 sucks, cause the afreecatv website is dogshit. Is it just me, or can you not rewind? Or start from the start of the stream if you missed it?
When I become a millionaire (and I will), I am going to rescue GSL and offer a $100,000 check to the winner. You will see how SC2 goes back to the top!
@@axioms22 How come top-4 of ESL Summer, HomeStoryCup and AfreecaTV - all tournaments with all or most of the best players in the world - had 3 Zergs in Ro4 and a Zerg champion then? It's only GSL that Terrans dominate this year.
Do you know who won the last GSL? It was a final round of four terrans. Zergs didn't even make it to the final 4. I think there are plenty of terrans who can beat zerg in 2023.
@@andrewbeznosov8046 "AfreecaTV" isn't a tournament dumbass. And HomeStoryCup is a relatively casual tournament that's really designed for the pros to relax, and have a more general "chill at home" atmosphere. Hence the name. Players try a lot more cheese, and don't take it seriously. Dreamhack Summer, which is a tournament, had 3 Zergs, because Byuns wrists broke and one extra Z got through. But it was even on Ts for the Top 12 and 16. So we have one tournament which doesn't exist, one which does but isn't a serious event, and one where an injured T lost a match with Z overperforming. Or, we could look at the world championship and the two GSLs where T did overperform.
@@rustytaco8412 one just happened in May but Serral won it. There is another one around Dec. But we have a mega tournament next week in Saudi Arabia, although its not confirmed to be within the ESL system yet.
Maru earned it but ghosts bro lol There was a really game game earlier with I think Solar who just focused on getting rid of medivacs and when he did, eventually the ghosts had no way to retreat effectively. Someone has to find a way to beat Maru in late game with Zerg.
You can't because the last 3 times MARU won GSL, terran was Imba, so being one of the best players with Imba race.. ehm... ok. Even when HerO won GSL terran was Imba, but herO was at peak of his performance.
@@OnigoroshiZero Serral and Reynor got beaten by Maru lategame a lot of times. Ask Reynor himself, he would say Maru just camp against him and Reynor hating it.
Maru just needs to win IEM this year and shut all the haters up. He deserves a world championship win and that will set him clearly above Serral and all others.
He can try to win Gamers8 tournament next week and that should be adequate to me. Remember he already won WESG which was another mega prize tournament at the time.
As much as pre-2018: GSL and Korea was the apex of SC2, today it isn't anymore. Take Maru as an example, he's a league above everyone at GSL, however internationnaly he's unable to beat Serral or Reynor when it matters. Maru/Reynor are the only one that can hope to match consistently Serral. Every other players (Korean or not) are just able to cause one time upsets. The only one to have been able win big tournaments where Serral was there consistently is only Reynor. Overall results speaks for themselves, Serral won countless internation titles (where Maru participated) including multiple world championships, Maru was never able to.
@@carlosmandeiro This is just dumb, Reynor hasnt won anything outside of HSC for more than a year and you still think hes anywhere near consistent is simply incorrect. And Serral didnt win "countless" international tournaments neither. He won 6 international tournament within the last 3 years while Maru won 4. Yes Serral still win more but its dumb to act like Maru never win anything outside of KR.
At 3hours 40 they say the double fungal didn't do any damage and get any kills but at least ten marines popped as the supply and unit count for Maru dropped suddenly in one chunk after dark pulled back. Once a double fungal is chained there isn't much that stops the marines dying.
13:07 Gumiho accidentally cancelled the wrong barracks so his first barracks timing was super late. Poor Cure, he has some cool builds in all match ups and executes them well but losing that CC was harsh. The last game where landed vikings dealt damage on both sides and ultimately decided the game was hilarious. Final G1 was so back and forth. Maru did so much early on but the 2 bane hits on the left and right killed so much momentum. The subsequent runbys killing 25+ scvs also forced Maru to push or die. Props for the observer for catching a lot of the things the caster missed and never mentioned.
It's simple - the block is from fighting a champion. In the GSL, Maru is simply on another tier. Innovation at his best wasn't this dominant. MVP was great but still inspire fear and despair. Maybe only Flash in SC1 has a similar dominance.
@JK-srsly whatever works for you mate, I prefer to discuss topics and ready to change my mind if there is a good argument. If you keep eating wamburgers you'll remain in your echochamber forerver.
Ghost is just a hard counter for anything. No protoss unit can match it. Basically any zerg unit is free kill whenever there are ghosts around. Lings, banes, roaches, mutas and hydras are soft counters but we all know whenever there are engagements, these units can be easily hard countered by marines and tanks, put rauders into the mix and you have a cheap frontline damage soaker.
Broodlord infestor with good control is the counter. Dark tried it in the last game, but had horrendous control. No detection at one point, infestors all in a ball for maximal EMP effectiveness, terrible infestor positioning when using neural. He honestly looked really out of practice, but when played properly the ghosts can never get close enough to snipe, and you neural all the Thors and roll over the rest of the army.
@@space_orphan yeah, in late games, But if you are talking about Serral control, it's pretty much impossible for anybody. And with the Jan 2023 patch where Ghosts were weakened in late games, but deadly in early mid game just like a tier 2 unit doing tier 3 abilities, any pros can rush to produce five or more to tip the game in their favor. Brood, festors and vipers are at least 20mins gametime units
It's more than the maps. If ypu look away from the minimap for just 2 seconds, a medivac with some mines will kill 15 probes in a mineral line. So you have to be extremely aware all the time. Protoss was even nerfed in the last balance patch.
Nah, Dark just played poorly. The counter is broodlord infestor with good control, but Dark looked really out of practice and messed up really bad with it.
State shouted himself raw this semis and finals. Shoutout to the new casting archon (based in Korea), State has been doing such a great job. Gotta pace yourself a bit though, or you'll be without a voice every season!
Ghosts just too OP when handled by top level pro players. They're way too cost efficient and I don't think zerg can realistically compete against terran in late game scenarios if both players are evenly skilled. I'm really tired of seeing almost unbroken terran dominance because of that single unit. Even GSL isn't very interesting to watch anymore, thanks to Terran being so OP due to the damn ghosts. I really wish Blizzard would get off their butts and do something about it.
Problem is that Blizzard is not doing balance patching anymore. It's been community based for some time and since it changed terran has gotten stronger and stronger.
@@AB-xo3pl Meanwhile Protoss has struggled to be relevant at all. All the pros are either Terran or Zerg, so obviously that places heavy bias on balance changes - pros can realistically only give feedback about the race they play, since knowledge of other races is mostly playing *against* them and occasionally playing *as* them when off-racing for practice.
Dark kept his banelings in the back every single fight, the banelings were always the last units to go in. Dark sure plays a lot, practices a lot but his style of play feels very mindless. He is on auto pilot mode and makes the same mistake repeatedly. 12 years ago, NesTea would break Terran defenses with banelings spearheading the attacks then clean up the leftover with more valuable units. This finalist kept his banelings at the every back every single fight.
Does the Mutalisk even exist in Korea? It's the one unit that is supposed to shut down endless drops and keep the terran from simply turtling up, maxing out, and plastering the map in PFs, tanks, and ghosts that you have no hope winning a war of attrition against. Is the Mutalisk that bad where Zerg just goes roach every game, or does it just seem that way because Dark was the only viable non-terran this tournament? (lol where was Rogue?) I don't have any ideas for Protoss. They seem utterly hopeless.
I love the absolute shenanigans Zerg and Protoss (unsuccessfully) have to get up to now to keep Terran from turtle-winning every pro game. At least on lower skill tiers everyone makes so many mistakes the game balances out somewhat.
@@diwajerebation4077 oh the humanity!!! And @OP, no, Maru is just the best late game player. If someone is the best at late game, doesn't it make sense to try to end the game before it gets there? Isn't that basic strategy? Dark easily manhandled Gumiho in the late game cause, turns out, Gumiho isn't as good as Maru in late game. Balance whiners never use their brain, I swear, it's the same dumb shit every time
Need a new map pool ASAP it's getting beyond frustrating got at bare minimum 4 significantly Terran favored maps with just just comically abusable siege tank positions that makes it impossible to clean up without taking a very unfavorable and cost inefficient trade and then there is the issue of Ghosts just being the most cost efficient counter all unit to Zerg need to increase the supply cost or lower the HP of the unit while maybe even increasing unit cost idk, but the map pool is really the current and largest problem needs to be changed and soon. Don't want to take anything away from Maru he is just taking advantage of the things he has been given to play with.
Base on statistic, which means numbers dont like, Zerg is favored over Terran in the Current map pool, they have over 50% win rate in 5 of 7 maps. Terran has >50% win rate in Gresvan and Dragon Scales
@@tigera6lmao those stats don't mean anything sample size and the number of Terran players involved in those stats completely skews the numbers. When 5 Terrans make the RO8 and 3 make the RO4 of course Terrans map % is going to be worse when you have significantly more Terrans than other races that means lots of TvT and every TvT or any mirror matchup for that matter will almost always lead to a sub 50% win rate for the race when you have one Terran always losing and sometimes 0-2 or 0-3 it completely skews the numbers and make them completely useless and unreliable. Your kind of stats only truly work if there is an even number of all races and they play the same amount of games and matches between each race which will never happen in a real tournament. So of course when there is a bunch of Terrans beating up on each other and one or two Zergs winning the majority of their games of course the percentages will look that way so try again sir. I think any reasonable and not absurdly biased SC2 fan can see this map pool is awful I'm far from the first person to point it out.
@@InExcelsis9 What the hell are you talking about? there are plenty of TvZ happening in tournaments. And even if the case is that Terran playing each other alot, the BEST Terran will move on from it and that mean the win rate is still between top level Zerg and Terran. You are acting like 2 Zerg having 100% win rate on Terran but the rest of Zerg having 10-20% win rate or something. I know Serral is pretty perfect with TvZ but the rest of Zerg ARENT struggling neither, not sure where you think thats is coming from.
SPOILERS: All terran players when they win: "We just play better" All terran players when they lose: "That race is just broken" Yes, i bet ghosts are very balanced =)
How come top-4 of ESL Summer, HomeStoryCup and AfreecaTV - all tournaments with all or most of the best players in the world - had 3 Zergs in Ro4 and a Zerg champion then? It's only GSL that Terrans dominate this year.
zzzzzzzz haven't had an interesting GSL finals since like herO was in, part of me doesn't want GSL to die but the other part understands it and why ppl don't watch as much, and the recent 2 top 4's/end-results and the terrible balance patches that ppl on copium will defend anyway aren't helping
'the terrible balance patches' the only meaningful things that changed are queens off creep and snipe range, gsl is only terrancraft right now because the other pros are off, just play like serral/stats
Why dont you list out the top 10 KR players currently and see it for yourself how many of them are Terran. Off the top of my head, I think 5-6 in the top 10 are Terrans, 2-3 are Zergs and 1-2 are Protoss.
I think the problem is the best protoss players have had their careers disrupted / retired all at the same time. Stats and Zest are in military, Classic got back but is still working his way up(but he's actually starting to look really good again, he beat Reynor in the AfreecaTV champions cup last week). sOs and parting retired. Seems to me more like a coincidence that all of these things have happened at around the same time, leaving a bit of a protoss vacuum. I don't think it's a balance problem, herO and MaxPax are still having a lot of success.
Correct me if I'm wrong here but this map pool looks as if zerg has few avenues to spread creep. So Terran only has to camp 2 or 3 places to stop it and there's so much dead air space medivacs can always scoot around any units sent their way.
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Thanks to all at AfreecaTV for keeping our sub culture alive.
True man of culture rite here^🫵🏼💪🏼💯
Dog it’s crowd funded. You better thank ME.
@@JimmonTV nah they still deserve the thanks, don't be stingy
Yup🎉 I’ve been watching tastosis since gomtv days holy shit I’m old
@@philliplam2704you are only old if you can identify the shape of the cup/juice holder, that goes with Mecchios breakfast cereal 😉
Thank GSL, you're the real StarCraft heroes!
Hahahaha the boys 😂😂
I love how Maru has been through the protocol of claiming the trophy so many times but still 7 GSL wins and 5 years later Maru still gets startled by the confetti cannons
😂
he's autistic, that's why
Man 🤣🤣
This was amazing. The cure maru nailbiters were absolutely insane!
I can't even count how many times i jumped up and screamed "what is going on?!?"
I will happily watch maru keep winning for the rest of my life. I love this game, thank you Afreeca!
2018 vibes here
same
me too, i even don't play SC2.
I hope GSL continues in 2024 as well ! I think our community has proven that it can support the tournament financially ! I've become a 30 dollar Patreon myself and will probably do some donations as well. We've been watching GSL since 2010 and it's been awesome ! Thank you ♥ I'll see you all in Korea hopefully for Season 3 this year in October !
. TIMESTAMPS
TIMESTAMPS
TIMESTAMPS
1:44 stateless
5:26 GuMiho & Dark interview, gumigod calls out zerg whiners
9:53 tasteless calls out zerg whiners
11:33 GuMiho v Dark GRESVAN
23:00 GuMiho v Dark ROYAL BLOOD
35:02 GuMiho v Dark ANCIENT CISTERN, 'surely he wont expect me to do it a third time!'
48:49 ads
51:35 Cure & Maru interview
59:28 Cure v Maru ANCIENT CISTERN
1:14:11 Cure v Maru NEOHUMANITY
1:22:27 Cure v Maru ALTITUDE
1:28:19 cyclone gaming
1:29:51 marus banshees
1:37:17 Cure v Maru ROYAL BLOOD
1:55:36 Cure v Maru DRAGON SCALES
2:16:10 GSL Theme
2:21:37 SC2 School -Recruiting Mentor for Each Race, BEHIND INTERVIEW
2:26:45 tasteless
2:28:00 Dark & Maru interview
2:35:55 Dark v Maru DRAGON SCALES
2:55:47 Dark v Maru ANCIENT CISTERN
3:05:28 Dark v Maru NEOHUMANITY, Maru takes one for the terran cabal
3:24:21 casters are contractualy obligated to not call it gentlemans sweep
3:28:05 Dark v Maru ALTITUDE
3:31:42 Dark drops a queen to reapers
3:48:20 skill growth
3:49:26 sigma nuke
3:59:25 Dark v Maru BABYLON
4:17:59 Dark v Maru GRESVAN
4:39:13 'some games end fast others end quickly' -tasteless
4:43:25 winners interview
4:52:55 'this is normal to mee'
anyone got timestamps of cures blunders?
lol epic
Thank you, Timestamp Man
4:39:17 "Some games end really fast, others end extremely quickly!" Tasteless - July 2023
Wiser words have seldom been spoken
truly the John Madden of StarCraft ❤
The viking action in game 5 Cure vs Maru was insane 😮😮
Maru was like "Oh you like Viking attacks? I'll show YOU a viking attack"
Dunno how many times I watched the end of this VOD! Thaks afreeca for everything! We love you and love SC2!!! Congrats to the champion!!
Gumiho vs Dark: 11:52
Cure vs Maru: 59:42
Final match: 2:36:18
these are spoilers as the top comment. Stop that shit.
@@zachansen8293 what are you even talking about? There are no results posted and those are the expected matches today. The finals match up isn't labeled with the players. People shouldn't watch this first if they don't want to know who's in the round of 4.
@@zachansen8293Also, the players are literally on the thumbnail.
@@Massaphan Timings ARE spoilers.
@@Massaphan Whether the games are a sweep or not is NOT in the thumbnail but IS in the timings. You don't think me telling you "whoever wins the first game wins the series" is a spoiler?
Yeeeeeeeeeesssss!! Maru, ma boy! Honestly i didnt believe you could do it in this gsl but i should not have doubted you. Congratulations, my boy! GS7 Wohooooo!!!!
Good luck for G8L ;P
Thank you GSL for bringing back the love casting in studio. It’s always feels special having an audience as well. I hope GSL never ends!
I don't play Starcraft 2. However, I've been watching GSL for 3-4 years now. Due to the casters, I just love listening funny and interesting when they both cast a game, lol miss you Artosis your replacement is great love state very funny also
Way to go Maru #7 no way anyone beats that. And the only Zerg player that has ever beaten Maru on a consistent rate is Rogue.
True, Maru does have a winning record against Rogue though (44-40).
Another poggers GSL finals in the books! I really enjoyed the player polls over what X would teach best before the finals, hope to see more variations of the player interviews for s3 :)
spoiler...
Oh Cure... he must be dying inside. He was so close and it should have been but somehow just wasn't.
I honestly couldn't believe the throws. Letting that CC burn down..... T.T
Man. Cure deserved it. He is the real monster. But Cure is not a winner, he is the best. He is a killer. But he isn't lucky. He will be winning next.
An exciting close to another excellent season! Love seeing some 'unconventional' Sky Terran play.
Also, State has really found his footing in GSL. Looking forward to another 'Stateless' season!
I agree 💯👍
Stateless is GENIUUUS
Huge thank you AfreecaTV for keeping starcraft alive and sharing these games! Mad respect!
Glad they got rid of the border on the VODs for this year's GSLs
They seem to only put the borders on the live stream. I think they rent to promote their website for the streams
Yes, thank you for removing it on the VODs! I dont mind it usually as I just listen rather than watch but on finals I watch too
@@Executioner9000 It's Artosis. He hacked the computer in the studio and added the borders before he quit. Nobody can figure it out...
@@Executioner9000 sucks, cause the afreecatv website is dogshit. Is it just me, or can you not rewind? Or start from the start of the stream if you missed it?
4:40:43 "Solar would have lost the broodlords..." Savage xD
When I become a millionaire (and I will), I am going to rescue GSL and offer a $100,000 check to the winner. You will see how SC2 goes back to the top!
this 4th race is OPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. SC2 GOAT
we miss artosis :( but i love starcraft and big thx to afreeca please continue hosting GSL
Waiting for ASL..
The first video i was watching had the border. They took it down and re put it up lol
They do that every time.
Just need to wait if you want a video without the border.
Perfect finals! Thank you AfreecaTV! I wonder if anyone can ever beat the Maru's record!
It looks like Terran is OP, but it is only Maru who can beat the Zerg like that
it looks like it because it is
@@axioms22 How come top-4 of ESL Summer, HomeStoryCup and AfreecaTV - all tournaments with all or most of the best players in the world - had 3 Zergs in Ro4 and a Zerg champion then? It's only GSL that Terrans dominate this year.
Do you know who won the last GSL? It was a final round of four terrans. Zergs didn't even make it to the final 4. I think there are plenty of terrans who can beat zerg in 2023.
@@andrewbeznosov8046 "AfreecaTV" isn't a tournament dumbass.
And HomeStoryCup is a relatively casual tournament that's really designed for the pros to relax, and have a more general "chill at home" atmosphere. Hence the name. Players try a lot more cheese, and don't take it seriously.
Dreamhack Summer, which is a tournament, had 3 Zergs, because Byuns wrists broke and one extra Z got through. But it was even on Ts for the Top 12 and 16.
So we have one tournament which doesn't exist, one which does but isn't a serious event, and one where an injured T lost a match with Z overperforming. Or, we could look at the world championship and the two GSLs where T did overperform.
@@FalconPaladin many Protoss players can't join GSL, that why Terran rules
Congratulations Maru 7th GSL, looking forward for ur ESL championship.
When is the esl tournament?
@@rustytaco8412 one just happened in May but Serral won it. There is another one around Dec. But we have a mega tournament next week in Saudi Arabia, although its not confirmed to be within the ESL system yet.
Maru earned it but ghosts bro lol
There was a really game game earlier with I think Solar who just focused on getting rid of medivacs and when he did, eventually the ghosts had no way to retreat effectively.
Someone has to find a way to beat Maru in late game with Zerg.
You can't because the last 3 times MARU won GSL, terran was Imba, so being one of the best players with Imba race.. ehm... ok. Even when HerO won GSL terran was Imba, but herO was at peak of his performance.
@@eugenijusdolgovas9278 ehm.... oK?
Serral and Reynor destroy him in late game, they are just not Koreans. Maru can barely get in a top 4 of any international tournament with them in it.
@@eugenijusdolgovas9278 Did you have a stroke?
@@OnigoroshiZero Serral and Reynor got beaten by Maru lategame a lot of times. Ask Reynor himself, he would say Maru just camp against him and Reynor hating it.
toss op!
Glad to finally see a Toss in a competitive Finals and actually winning!! Finally!
Lovely season of GSL, keep it up!
GG, awesome games 🔥 🔥🔥
Thank you Afreeca. Amazing matches as always
Tasteless' favorite phrase in this season: "This is wild"
Should have played a drinking game.
Maru just needs to win IEM this year and shut all the haters up. He deserves a world championship win and that will set him clearly above Serral and all others.
He can try to win Gamers8 tournament next week and that should be adequate to me. Remember he already won WESG which was another mega prize tournament at the time.
As much as pre-2018: GSL and Korea was the apex of SC2, today it isn't anymore.
Take Maru as an example, he's a league above everyone at GSL, however internationnaly he's unable to beat Serral or Reynor when it matters.
Maru/Reynor are the only one that can hope to match consistently Serral. Every other players (Korean or not) are just able to cause one time upsets.
The only one to have been able win big tournaments where Serral was there consistently is only Reynor.
Overall results speaks for themselves, Serral won countless internation titles (where Maru participated) including multiple world championships, Maru was never able to.
Cure will win IEM. Serral is lucky, that he isn't facing off Cure early.
@@carlosmandeiro This is just dumb, Reynor hasnt won anything outside of HSC for more than a year and you still think hes anywhere near consistent is simply incorrect.
And Serral didnt win "countless" international tournaments neither. He won 6 international tournament within the last 3 years while Maru won 4. Yes Serral still win more but its dumb to act like Maru never win anything outside of KR.
@@jamomoritz6763 Serral literally just beat Cure in the finals of AfreecaTV Championship cup 2 finals
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That was some good Starcraft2!!
At 3hours 40 they say the double fungal didn't do any damage and get any kills but at least ten marines popped as the supply and unit count for Maru dropped suddenly in one chunk after dark pulled back. Once a double fungal is chained there isn't much that stops the marines dying.
Awesome!! Keep it up!
I'll watch GSL as long as it exists ❤ I do miss Gyuri
@JK-srsly lol and so shall u 😂
AWESOME SEASON AS ALWAYS!
Since Gyuri left should we rename the Gyuri Starcraft 2 League to the Maru Starcraft 2 League (GSL to MSL)???
Can someone please tell State that sensor tower does not reveal burrowed units?
Congratz for the awesome work!
13:07 Gumiho accidentally cancelled the wrong barracks so his first barracks timing was super late.
Poor Cure, he has some cool builds in all match ups and executes them well but losing that CC was harsh. The last game where landed vikings dealt damage on both sides and ultimately decided the game was hilarious.
Final G1 was so back and forth. Maru did so much early on but the 2 bane hits on the left and right killed so much momentum. The subsequent runbys killing 25+ scvs also forced Maru to push or die.
Props for the observer for catching a lot of the things the caster missed and never mentioned.
This is it!
This just in. Starcraft 3 will only have Terran & Zerg
It will actually be called TerranCraft.
here's hoping.
Im pretty sure it will just be Terran
Love GSL!!!
thanks Gsl .thanks to casters.State we love you
Its crazy that with Tasteless we no longer need a translator for the interviews :)
Awesome season of GSL
The god of Terran!
It feels like Dark has a psychological block preventing him from beating Maru. He doesn't seem to play as confidently against him.
It's simple - the block is from fighting a champion. In the GSL, Maru is simply on another tier. Innovation at his best wasn't this dominant. MVP was great but still inspire fear and despair. Maybe only Flash in SC1 has a similar dominance.
one true king, bonjwa maru.
4:39:15 Tasteless is the John Madden of SC2
Dark is MY Daddy!
Proud of you Dad. Always making all of us happy and giving us hope.
dark is my son
There is no way for zerg to win if terran does not make a blunder. Terran destroys protos and zerg, the only matchup terran struggles with is TvT.
@JK-srsly whatever works for you mate, I prefer to discuss topics and ready to change my mind if there is a good argument. If you keep eating wamburgers you'll remain in your echochamber forerver.
Ghost is just a hard counter for anything. No protoss unit can match it. Basically any zerg unit is free kill whenever there are ghosts around. Lings, banes, roaches, mutas and hydras are soft counters but we all know whenever there are engagements, these units can be easily hard countered by marines and tanks, put rauders into the mix and you have a cheap frontline damage soaker.
Broodlord infestor with good control is the counter. Dark tried it in the last game, but had horrendous control. No detection at one point, infestors all in a ball for maximal EMP effectiveness, terrible infestor positioning when using neural. He honestly looked really out of practice, but when played properly the ghosts can never get close enough to snipe, and you neural all the Thors and roll over the rest of the army.
@@space_orphan yeah, in late games, But if you are talking about Serral control, it's pretty much impossible for anybody. And with the Jan 2023 patch where Ghosts were weakened in late games, but deadly in early mid game just like a tier 2 unit doing tier 3 abilities, any pros can rush to produce five or more to tip the game in their favor. Brood, festors and vipers are at least 20mins gametime units
Just play like Serral brah
From Omaha, Nebraska, USA, congratulations Maru!
no one cares where you're from
What's the name of the song that plays right before a match starts?
anyone know the music at 4:55:18 ?
State seems to have a sore throat or something. Kudos on pushing through. Love the casting with Tasteless as always.
MARU~~MARU~~MARU~~~Congratulation^0^
They really need to address the terran favored map imbalance next season.
It's more than the maps. If ypu look away from the minimap for just 2 seconds, a medivac with some mines will kill 15 probes in a mineral line.
So you have to be extremely aware all the time. Protoss was even nerfed in the last balance patch.
IF I cvould watch maru, dark and classic battle it out to the end of time that would be just great
Have not seen VOD - have scrolled down to view only the "add comment" section to say - GL HF GG's!
Ghost just counter everything zerg has. EMP, snipe, cloak, move and attack fast enough against lings/banelings.
Nah, Dark just played poorly. The counter is broodlord infestor with good control, but Dark looked really out of practice and messed up really bad with it.
Nice series
at this point maru is without the slighest doubt the best player in starcraft history by a long shot
State shouted himself raw this semis and finals. Shoutout to the new casting archon (based in Korea), State has been doing such a great job. Gotta pace yourself a bit though, or you'll be without a voice every season!
2:16:11
i found the gsl theme song
Maru man of steel
Ghosts just too OP when handled by top level pro players. They're way too cost efficient and I don't think zerg can realistically compete against terran in late game scenarios if both players are evenly skilled. I'm really tired of seeing almost unbroken terran dominance because of that single unit. Even GSL isn't very interesting to watch anymore, thanks to Terran being so OP due to the damn ghosts. I really wish Blizzard would get off their butts and do something about it.
Problem is that Blizzard is not doing balance patching anymore. It's been community based for some time and since it changed terran has gotten stronger and stronger.
@@AB-xo3pl Meanwhile Protoss has struggled to be relevant at all. All the pros are either Terran or Zerg, so obviously that places heavy bias on balance changes - pros can realistically only give feedback about the race they play, since knowledge of other races is mostly playing *against* them and occasionally playing *as* them when off-racing for practice.
Can someone explain the different GSL pins Maru gets?
Dark kept his banelings in the back every single fight, the banelings were always the last units to go in. Dark sure plays a lot, practices a lot but his style of play feels very mindless. He is on auto pilot mode and makes the same mistake repeatedly. 12 years ago, NesTea would break Terran defenses with banelings spearheading the attacks then clean up the leftover with more valuable units. This finalist kept his banelings at the every back every single fight.
Does the Mutalisk even exist in Korea? It's the one unit that is supposed to shut down endless drops and keep the terran from simply turtling up, maxing out, and plastering the map in PFs, tanks, and ghosts that you have no hope winning a war of attrition against. Is the Mutalisk that bad where Zerg just goes roach every game, or does it just seem that way because Dark was the only viable non-terran this tournament? (lol where was Rogue?)
I don't have any ideas for Protoss. They seem utterly hopeless.
Maru's current style reminds me of peak Polt hahaha
This skin they use for the red player in TvTs is awesome. Is it for sale in the game?
"if Dark wins its going to to 5 maps" LOL Dark said hold my beer you got smoked with that comment
I love the absolute shenanigans Zerg and Protoss (unsuccessfully) have to get up to now to keep Terran from turtle-winning every pro game. At least on lower skill tiers everyone makes so many mistakes the game balances out somewhat.
QQ
zergs shenanigans as in microing their units now instead of amoving queens and lings
@@diwajerebation4077 oh the humanity!!! And @OP, no, Maru is just the best late game player. If someone is the best at late game, doesn't it make sense to try to end the game before it gets there? Isn't that basic strategy? Dark easily manhandled Gumiho in the late game cause, turns out, Gumiho isn't as good as Maru in late game. Balance whiners never use their brain, I swear, it's the same dumb shit every time
Need a new map pool ASAP it's getting beyond frustrating got at bare minimum 4 significantly Terran favored maps with just just comically abusable siege tank positions that makes it impossible to clean up without taking a very unfavorable and cost inefficient trade and then there is the issue of Ghosts just being the most cost efficient counter all unit to Zerg need to increase the supply cost or lower the HP of the unit while maybe even increasing unit cost idk, but the map pool is really the current and largest problem needs to be changed and soon. Don't want to take anything away from Maru he is just taking advantage of the things he has been given to play with.
Base on statistic, which means numbers dont like, Zerg is favored over Terran in the Current map pool, they have over 50% win rate in 5 of 7 maps. Terran has >50% win rate in Gresvan and Dragon Scales
@@tigera6lmao those stats don't mean anything sample size and the number of Terran players involved in those stats completely skews the numbers. When 5 Terrans make the RO8 and 3 make the RO4 of course Terrans map % is going to be worse when you have significantly more Terrans than other races that means lots of TvT and every TvT or any mirror matchup for that matter will almost always lead to a sub 50% win rate for the race when you have one Terran always losing and sometimes 0-2 or 0-3 it completely skews the numbers and make them completely useless and unreliable. Your kind of stats only truly work if there is an even number of all races and they play the same amount of games and matches between each race which will never happen in a real tournament. So of course when there is a bunch of Terrans beating up on each other and one or two Zergs winning the majority of their games of course the percentages will look that way so try again sir. I think any reasonable and not absurdly biased SC2 fan can see this map pool is awful I'm far from the first person to point it out.
@@InExcelsis9 What the hell are you talking about? there are plenty of TvZ happening in tournaments. And even if the case is that Terran playing each other alot, the BEST Terran will move on from it and that mean the win rate is still between top level Zerg and Terran.
You are acting like 2 Zerg having 100% win rate on Terran but the rest of Zerg having 10-20% win rate or something. I know Serral is pretty perfect with TvZ but the rest of Zerg ARENT struggling neither, not sure where you think thats is coming from.
Terran just imba 3 out 4 haha sc2 come on
SPOILERS:
All terran players when they win: "We just play better"
All terran players when they lose: "That race is just broken"
Yes, i bet ghosts are very balanced =)
How come top-4 of ESL Summer, HomeStoryCup and AfreecaTV - all tournaments with all or most of the best players in the world - had 3 Zergs in Ro4 and a Zerg champion then? It's only GSL that Terrans dominate this year.
zerg when they arent stomping every tournament around the globe:
zerg when stomping every tournament around the globe:
I Will be in Seoul during the season 3 finals, could anyone let me know how to attend the event?
Congratz Maruu
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
GG
zzzzzzzz haven't had an interesting GSL finals since like herO was in, part of me doesn't want GSL to die but the other part understands it and why ppl don't watch as much, and the recent 2 top 4's/end-results and the terrible balance patches that ppl on copium will defend anyway aren't helping
You mean yo udont want to watch TerranCraft?
'the terrible balance patches' the only meaningful things that changed are queens off creep and snipe range, gsl is only terrancraft right now because the other pros are off, just play like serral/stats
Why dont you list out the top 10 KR players currently and see it for yourself how many of them are Terran. Off the top of my head, I think 5-6 in the top 10 are Terrans, 2-3 are Zergs and 1-2 are Protoss.
I think the problem is the best protoss players have had their careers disrupted / retired all at the same time. Stats and Zest are in military, Classic got back but is still working his way up(but he's actually starting to look really good again, he beat Reynor in the AfreecaTV champions cup last week). sOs and parting retired. Seems to me more like a coincidence that all of these things have happened at around the same time, leaving a bit of a protoss vacuum. I don't think it's a balance problem, herO and MaxPax are still having a lot of success.
Mine burrowing time needs to be tripled... mine drops are insanely OP.
Maru is legend for sure
Dark look Hispanic with the mustache lmao
2 liberators and 2 vikings in Gumi’s game 1 would have been better than thors numbers 5 and 6, the starport was just sitting there
Guys anybody know the song in the background the one with - should have never let my guard down,
Maru is so good!!!!
I love it, just love it! But got to say, having semis and finals on the same day feels like a huge downgrade compared to glorious days 😔
Correct me if I'm wrong here but this map pool looks as if zerg has few avenues to spread creep. So Terran only has to camp 2 or 3 places to stop it and there's so much dead air space medivacs can always scoot around any units sent their way.
Good, it’s been pretty consistently agreed that creep as a tool is way too overpowered for zerg
The nerf on creep cooldown taking effect.
@jameswong4837 then maybe Terran should also lose scan and sensor towers....
You're wrong, Dark is just bad at creep spread
@@TrxmpBrownNosersBgone and let Zerg keep their perma scan / sensor tower that is creep ? Lol
Do all the pros take off their shoes while playing? I always see them putting there shoes back on after matches.
The Byunjwa build.