Maru vs. Dark - ESL SC2 Masters: Spring 2024 Finals - Semifinals

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Published 2024-06-02
You're watching the ESL SC2 Masters: Spring 2024 Finals, broadcasted from May 31st to June 2nd

ESL SC2 Masters Spring is the penultimate event of the 23/24 season of ESL StarCraft II Pro Tour: new up & coming players joining the glorious StarCraft champions are ready to compete for a $100,000 prize pool and four direct slots in the record-breaking StarCraft II Championship at the Esports World Cup with $1,000,000 prize pool. The tournament is played across three days, from May 31st to June 2nd, at DreamHack Dallas.

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All Comments (12)
  • @samihawasli7408
    My dumb ass sat there through the pause for 1 minute before realizing…
  • @nnamdos
    Watching this match again, I am convinced that two Marus showed up for this tournament. GSL King Maru aka "The 4th Race" faced Dark & Shin while International Gamer Maru aka "The Trophy Giver" faced Serral. Hope to see one Maru show up for an international tournament in the future.
  • @drhughied
    Game 1 is a perfect example as why you don't go for Mutas. Mines, Marines, Turrets and Thors - shuts it down so hard.
  • @nghiepho7055
    If you watch this match with Maru's face/name covered and do the same for the watch against Serral a day later, you would definitely say these are 02 different players. I have been watching SC2 for almost 10 years, and I could tell that Dark and Serral are not in a heaven-and-earth gap. Thus, beating Dark 3-1 and then losing 4-0 straight to Serral on the very next day is quite doubtful. It's even more conspicuous when Maru was playing all out to counter Dark after receiving game-ending damages (especially in game 3, 40+ SCV died to Ling Bane, yet Maru still tried hard and dragged Dark to a base trade situation). Against Serral, he was like a sitting duck, waiting to be rushed by mid-game Raven/Roach. Those losses in Katowice 2023 against Olivera (when Maru was considered "God of TvT), in Katowice 2024 (0-4 vs. Serral), and now, were they all on purpose?
  • @csboy36
    Number 1 serral 2 is Oliveira 3 maru 4 her0
  • @KBergs
    Snipe is such a stupid spell for a RTS