Serral vs Cure bo7 $40,000 Grand Finals & Winner's Interview

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Welcome to the Grand Finals of one of the most anticipated StarCraft 2 tournaments of the year, where the best of the best clash for a staggering $40,000 prize pool! In this epic best of 7 (bo7) showdown, we witness two titans of the game, Serral and Cure, facing off in an electrifying battle for supremacy.
Serral, the Finnish Zerg prodigy, known for his impeccable mechanics and strategic prowess, is up against Cure, the South Korean powerhouse and master of standard Terran play, who has consistently displayed mechanical brilliance throughout the tournament. The stakes are sky-high, and both players are hungry for victory.
But what makes this Grand Finals truly special is the sheer diversity of strategies on display. Serral, renowned for his adaptability, pulls out all the stops to thwart Cure's strategically diverse openings and styles. Will his unorthodox tactics and masterful control be enough to secure the championship?
The spotlight is on Serral as he unveils a jaw-dropping strategy, utilizing mass Infestors to deal with Cure's powerful Mech army. These enigmatic units are rarely seen in high-level play en masse and Serral's unmatched control will be put to the test. Can he outmaneuver Cure's powerful Mech units and seize control of the match with his fungal growths and neural parasites? The tension is palpable, and every Infestor's spell cast could be the game-changer.
Cure, on the other hand, does not often play Mech, a style that demands meticulous positioning and resource management. Can he hold his ground against Serral's relentless assault? Or will Serral's unique strategy prove too effective to counter?
Join us as we witness this unforgettable clash of styles and strategies. It's a battle for the ages, a showdown that will go down in StarCraft 2 history. Who will emerge as the champion of this prestigious $40,000 tournament? Find out as we dive into this incredible Bo7 series between Serral and Cure. Don't miss a second of the action, because in StarCraft 2, anything can happen!
Match played: September 10, 2023 in the Master's Coliseum 6
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  • @steadfastsc2
    @steadfastsc210 ай бұрын

    Spoiler Shield: What is your favourite memory from GSL?

  • @sirdiealot53

    @sirdiealot53

    10 ай бұрын

    It didn’t spoiler shield for me. It showed the 2nd comment and I got spoiled 😢 My fave moment is sOs building a nexus in his enemies main and winning

  • @kowalityjesus

    @kowalityjesus

    9 ай бұрын

    Gumigod getting a trophy

  • @theculturedgentleman3699
    @theculturedgentleman369910 ай бұрын

    i have no business watching these but Serral is such a great strategist. I only watch him play. hes so good

  • @bobby4tw

    @bobby4tw

    10 ай бұрын

    He is great. Tho lately he has been adapting shenanigans from Dark's playstyle. This make him even more of a beast to oppose. Such a great player!

  • @felixbeaudouin1899

    @felixbeaudouin1899

    9 ай бұрын

    If you don't know Max Pax he has evolved into a great player too !

  • @WatchThatFast

    @WatchThatFast

    9 ай бұрын

    I beat them everyday, nabs.

  • @felixbeaudouin1899

    @felixbeaudouin1899

    9 ай бұрын

    @@WatchThatFast wooooh

  • @venom-gt7rc
    @venom-gt7rc9 ай бұрын

    Incredible how Serral is able to control infestors, vipers and queens at the same time

  • @bobby4tw
    @bobby4tw10 ай бұрын

    I really like how Serral infused a bit of Dark's crazy style into his gameplay. This makes Serral a beast to deal with.

  • @wedgeantilles8575

    @wedgeantilles8575

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah, if Serral had one weakness it was that he was predictable. He was the best and he knew he was the best. -> He did not need to take risks. However, that resulted in the others being able to cut corners. Today, Serral is not "too cheap" to make a 2 base roach all in. That makes him even stronger and as a byproduct it makes his games more exciting for the viewer too.

  • @OnigoroshiZero
    @OnigoroshiZero10 ай бұрын

    Amazing casting, glad I found your channel. Also, what a joy to watch Serral and Reynor obliterate all top Terrans constantly in every single tournament. I am just sad about the Zerg players that will end up playing with an abysmally weak race because it will continue to get nerfed until the inferior Terran players are able to beat Serral and Reynor, which is not going to happen until the race is unplayable for everyone else.

  • @wedgeantilles8575

    @wedgeantilles8575

    10 ай бұрын

    I would not call the Terran players inferior, that sound negative. It's just that Serral is too good, he is the GOAT, by a wide margin. I agree with you, that there is a problem if you nerf a race because one player is too good. After all, if a game is perfectly balanced, who wins? The best player of course. And who SHOULD win? Again, the best player, no? If you have 1 player that is above all other and you nerf his race to a point where he doesn't win a lot any longer - then your game is NOT balanced. If the best player does NOT win often, you did something wrong. I agree that Protoss should get a buff - that drones can't be killed as easily by banelings e.g. That's totally fine, because Toss gets dominated not only by Serral but loose against a lot of other Zerg - and Terran! - as well. But you should NOT buff Terrans vs Zerg, because Terran vs Zerg is perfectly balanced. Sometimes Terrans win, sometimes Zerg win. Well, except if Serral plays. Then Serral wins against Terrans (if the Terran is not Clem) most of the time. But that is because Serral is imba. Not Zerg.

  • @aaronbuffalo7769

    @aaronbuffalo7769

    10 ай бұрын

    @@wedgeantilles8575 Cure needs the late game skills of maru and vice versa, cure is immaculate until late mid-game then never gets ghosts since not comfortable with em, then the late game armies get out of control.

  • @wedgeantilles8575

    @wedgeantilles8575

    9 ай бұрын

    @@aaronbuffalo7769 Yeah, Ghosts are a must-have unit for Terran against Zerg lategame.

  • @richardhegymegi1427

    @richardhegymegi1427

    9 ай бұрын

    You mean the same way terran has been balanced around Maru? Except what Maru does cant be repeated by any other terran while Dark, Sarrel, Reynor, Solar and Rogue once he is out can do the exact same thing. The only difference is maru been a title winner since wol, while non of these "top" zergs have a single tournament victory before lotv. Almost as if they are better then average players carried by their race.

  • @DOMINATOREDWING
    @DOMINATOREDWING9 ай бұрын

    Glad I'm not the only sc2 fan/hockey fan.

  • @kw8295
    @kw82959 ай бұрын

    Serral using Blinding Cloud on the Thors to mitigate the damage to the Brood Lords is why he is The GOAT! THE GOAT!

  • @riddimzoo4069
    @riddimzoo406910 ай бұрын

    game 2 is a masterclass vs mech, game 3 is a master piece vs bio o_O this Serral is the best sc2 player of all time, no way.

  • @geuros

    @geuros

    10 ай бұрын

    Funny, when Clem beats him it's just "ghost OP", when Serral beats 5 Terrans or so in a row, he's just the best, nothing wrong with Zerg obviously

  • @christoffertoftpersson895

    @christoffertoftpersson895

    9 ай бұрын

    ​@@geuroslook at any of the battle reports in the mech game and tell me serral does not massively overperform cure both in terms of spells and abilities used in any of the engagements? Just in the one of them theres like 40 spells cast for zerg and 0 for terran.

  • @geuros

    @geuros

    9 ай бұрын

    @@christoffertoftpersson895 that's the thing, Zerg spellcasters are way too good. You hit one great fungal and it's GG. Hitting an amazing EMP means you have a chance to not lose the fight.

  • @thecrazygamer2853

    @thecrazygamer2853

    9 ай бұрын

    @@geuros Hitting emp means the one win con that Zerg has is gone. Hitting Fungal neutralizes the win con for Terran. Serral has demonstrated an amazing adaptation to the emp by sacrificing one Infestor to emp the ghosts. In response Maru has begun splitting his ghosts. It is a continual back and forth. The issue is for the lower level players who can not compete at this level. Also ravens literally never get used, when they have a slew of super good abilities, and you can try and argue neural, but at this level you should be able to micro you raven outside of neural range as it literally can detect. As a Terran lover, it hurts to see my ghost bois die, but I also know that using them as the ONLY spell caster when you have another with Ant- armour and detection for infestors is kinda killy.

  • @rustyshackleford11
    @rustyshackleford119 ай бұрын

    serral is the reason I started playing sc2

  • @nrf82
    @nrf8210 ай бұрын

    Nice cast

  • @snoopyt7
    @snoopyt79 ай бұрын

    Serral beat Lambo, Dark, MaxPax, Maru, Byun, and Cure in his lower bracket run. What a gauntlet for the GOAT.

  • @7jackaloper7
    @7jackaloper79 ай бұрын

    What an insanely epic game 2!!

  • @patmacrotch5611
    @patmacrotch561110 ай бұрын

    All your thors are belong to us!!

  • @pete0222
    @pete02229 ай бұрын

    Zerg doesn't seem to have any weakness at all.

  • @Jhorsma
    @Jhorsma10 ай бұрын

    Steadfast- you should think about doing career as a comedian, when you said "everyone who struggle with mech, play like Serral" - I wish I could, anyway gj with your broadcast, you are doing great job!

  • @wedgeantilles8575
    @wedgeantilles857510 ай бұрын

    24:00 - wow, what a fight! A moment of perfect beauty. "All your army are belong to us" (Anybody here old enough to know this - slightly altered - meme?)

  • @gh0stluv979

    @gh0stluv979

    10 ай бұрын

    yep and i can't find the original one i watched like in the early 2000s

  • @thecrazygamer2853

    @thecrazygamer2853

    9 ай бұрын

    Lol "All your bases are belong to us" WC3 cheat code to win the game instantly

  • @theomniscientopossum6350
    @theomniscientopossum635010 ай бұрын

    Serral 🐐

  • @kurtremislettmyr7108
    @kurtremislettmyr710810 ай бұрын

    I saw it with winter. Wish there was a way to know what games you were gonna cast.

  • @marvinkmooneyoz
    @marvinkmooneyoz9 ай бұрын

    Whats the 3 spore cancel, how does that work?

  • @steadfastsc2

    @steadfastsc2

    9 ай бұрын

    That's a good question. The spore cancel is a trick that Zerg players can use to overmax on supply. So in this case, Serral was already at 200/200 supply, but by starting three spore crawlers, and then building units to fill up the supply and cancelling the spore crawlers afterwards, he goes to 203/200 supply. It used to be very common as Zerg, but it's sometimes not worth it. In this case, it was a great way to get 2 extra Brood Lords

  • @mrherrada797
    @mrherrada79710 ай бұрын

    Haven't seen a money shots like this since asa akira took on mick blue 1:34:02

  • @IsaacFNghost
    @IsaacFNghost9 ай бұрын

    Game two idk why cure didn’t make ghosts in place of some of those tanks. Feel like he could have held off the infestors

  • @kurtremislettmyr7108
    @kurtremislettmyr710810 ай бұрын

    These guys play so fast that it's hard just to comment on the main army movement...

  • @user-rc9jf8ng2k
    @user-rc9jf8ng2k10 ай бұрын

    Who is Chur?

  • @nothingnesses8563
    @nothingnesses85639 ай бұрын

    Why is 30 fps?

  • @midnightaustin9287
    @midnightaustin92879 ай бұрын

    one of the game of RTS that i don't really understand how to play lol

  • @unimusha77
    @unimusha7710 ай бұрын

    I'm confused, is this the Master's Coliseum?

  • @aaronbuffalo7769

    @aaronbuffalo7769

    10 ай бұрын

    MC6 yep

  • @tyrellwreleck4226
    @tyrellwreleck42269 ай бұрын

    Cure's upgrade is so slow. I remember when he got beat by lambo. His attack upgrade is level 1 and it's 12 minutes into the game

  • @orangepearlf40
    @orangepearlf4010 ай бұрын

    SPOILER: Last game was straight up bullying, rofl. I love seeing terran bio get rekt..

  • @Alexissss717
    @Alexissss7179 ай бұрын

    alguien que me explique porque serral es tan bueno que hasta arrazo con maru?? contexto, veo las partidas desde que paul ganaba todo hahah pero no entiendo como nadie puede detener a seeral.

  • @igit_7296
    @igit_729610 ай бұрын

    Cure did better than most Koreans vs the mighty Serral, good efforts!

  • @pange8132

    @pange8132

    10 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the spoiler

  • @SickmanOfVietnam
    @SickmanOfVietnam9 ай бұрын

    Gg

  • @Jannatul.Firdaus.255
    @Jannatul.Firdaus.2559 ай бұрын

    wish this game was balanced

  • @iantru9929
    @iantru99299 ай бұрын

    nerf fungal, nerf infestor

  • @user-jc5hj4hy7i
    @user-jc5hj4hy7i9 ай бұрын

    hellions should have a gas cost -- cars that drive around shooting flaming fuel are the only source of splash damage in the game that doesnt cost gas. Stupid.

  • @bobbobby8250
    @bobbobby825010 ай бұрын

    Neural parasite is broken!

  • @sandormezei2848
    @sandormezei284810 ай бұрын

    Poor terran :( Imba zerg .

  • @Dimythios
    @Dimythios10 ай бұрын

    We had a massive decline of people watching Starcraft 2 when Serral beat everyone. Now 5 years later it's going to happen again. In 2019 we had new blood such as Reynor and Clem that brought back the excitement. However in 2023 there has been no real new blood to this old game. I'm ready to bail because of it. Don't get me wrong Serral is a great player however when no one can really challenge him, then normies will leave. Like they did back in 2018.

  • @hampehwakenabeb7773

    @hampehwakenabeb7773

    10 ай бұрын

    blame that on the other players... their standards dropped, but not Serral.... Serral is never complacent, he didnt rest on his previous achievements... instead, he kept on improving, learning and adapting all the time.... his dedication to the game is something that any sc2 fan should applaud, not shy away from....

  • @Daniel-rd6st

    @Daniel-rd6st

    10 ай бұрын

    You have followed the mot likely greatest underdogstory in SC2 history, that happened at the last WCS?

  • @aaronbuffalo7769

    @aaronbuffalo7769

    10 ай бұрын

    @@hampehwakenabeb7773 clem is the only terran fast enough to challenge serral's style, Cure just doesn't have the late game mind set to take on serral's lategame. reynor in championship mode is arguably even more dominant than serral is, Gamer's 8 had the highest level of play of the year and Reynor went on a similar wrecking ball run with only dropping a bo3 series to classic.

  • @aaronbuffalo7769

    @aaronbuffalo7769

    10 ай бұрын

    Not much about serral, almost a year of same maps,meta and playerpool, only so many times you can watch virtually identical games over and over, Meta shifted slightly with 2rax reaper and 15hatch, but needs more,

  • @lucasfiore1935

    @lucasfiore1935

    9 ай бұрын

    In my opinion you're wrong: Serral games easily get the highest viewer count every single tournament, a foreigner having good chances winning the tournaments he enters is actually rather keeping the scene alive than killing it.

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