All hail to the Canadian foreigner Protoss MLG Champion. Huk won his debut match against ST Curious in his Round of 32 code A matchup just now. Huk managed to take down two games in a row with a 2-0 record in this Protoss vs Zerg PvZ game. Here's a short recap on both his matches. If you are not looking for spoilers skip this article.
Game 1 on Teldarim Altar
A new GSL map. For those of you who miss my review on the new GSL maps please check out my previous article post titled 'GSL Season 5 New Map Pool'. Teldarim Altar is an extremely large map. Huk spawned at the 7 o clock position while Curious spawned on the 11 o clock position. Huk started with Forge expansion build while Curious opt for a Gas Pool build and a slower Hatchery expansion. Curious managed to get 2 Zergling pass Huk's choke into Huk's main base and manage to stayed inside his base for a long period of time. Huk calmly microed his Probes and finally manage to take out the Zerglings. Curious got his second expansion after his first very early in the game. A push from Huk in the form of Sentry Zealots and Stalkers from a 5/6 Gate (I think) forced an insane amount of Roaches and Zerglings from Curious. Curious managed to defend and pushed Huk out from his base.
The game is then swing towards the favor of Curious with a large Mutalisk ball army catching Huk totally offguard without Cannons or Blink upgrade and managed to kill a lot of Probes but Huk managed to fend the Mutalisks off from his expansion. Then game soon dragged to a long macro war. Huk's army consists of mainly Gateway units and Immortals to battle Curious Roaches. A few burrowed Zerglings trick by Curious slowed down Huk's second expansion. A hidden Dark Shrine and Templar Archieve is being researched. A few warped in Dark Templars were able to kill a ton of Drones without the knowledge of Curious. Huk is exploiting the map itself for the long travel distances between expansion bases. It all went down hill for Curious from this point on. A very entertaining and good macro PvZ game with lots of battles. This is why the new GSL maps seems to be successful in promoting a longer and macro oriented game.
Game 2 on Metapolis
A close by air position where Huk spawned at 7.00 and Curious at the 11.00 position. Huk started with a standard 3 Gate into expansion and Curious was opting for the Gas Pool into Hatchery strategy build. Huk's army which consisted mainly on Sentries and a Zealot manage to catch a glimpse of Curious Zergling outside his base. Probably around 20 I guess. Huk instantly Force Field around the Zerglings creating a cage and boxed them in towards the wall. An impressive Force Field response by Huk. Two or three additional Gates from Huk ends the game outside Curious Base. Huk is considered one of the very best Force Fielder in the world and manage to show of his skill in this game by cutting, splitting and caging an insane amount of Roaches. A shorter game overall but nonetheless entertaining.
Huk is now a step closer to being qualified into the GSL Code S. If you miss the match itself, you can probably watched them at gomtv.net. You are only allow to watch a match if you don't plan to subscribe. Restreaming GomTV GSL matches is considered illegal. However, you can try watching from sc2rep.com but the commentaries are in Chinese.
Congratulations to Huk again.
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