Dark vs. Maru - IEM SC2 Katowice 2024 - Group Stage

You're watching Intel Extreme Masters SC2 Katowice 2024, broadcasting live from Katowice, Poland
StarCraft II once again returns to Katowice, to one of the most venerated venues in the history of esports.
Twenty-four of the world's best players have gathered to compete for a prestigious IEM trophy and the lion's share of the $500,000 prize pool.
This will also be the penultimate stop of the ESL Pro Tour Season 2023/24, as we're nearing the record-breaking championship event in Riyadh later this year.
Who will be victorious in front of the ever-so-passionate Polish crowd? Join us and find out!
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[@vaettra1589]

7:31 MASSIVE FART!

[@mustard9933]

There is actually no fucking way that Maru vs Dark is a sideshow game. What the fuck is production doing? This calibre of game is what people buy tickets for. If I paid to see this event I would be pissed.

[@real_MacrocosM]

Yup. This should have been on stage.

[@PincodeMe]

nahh.. i rather wanna see serral vs maru.

[@aegars]

maybe its predetermined who plays on what stage based on winners and losers, not by players names and how big calibre they are. It would be a mess if everyone would start to move players around on the go. And what if you get Serral vs Raynor and Dark vs Maru at the same time?

[@kainakrit9311]

Pretty sure losing your gold base to 2 medivac's worth of marines, then being even on workers to a terran with mules isn't a dream scenerio for any zerg player but ok

[@Laou41]

Western casters dont understand marus strategies

[@JoeRe63]

Western or not. Casting is cringe and hard to listen to.

[@Laou41]

@@JoeRe63 I find that is often the case in SC2, I don't know why...

[@xsision5513]

@@Laou41because there are actual casters like artosis and lowko who are pretty knowledgeable about the game and watches a few hundred matches in year and casts and these casters who are more color casters here to fill the crazy amount of games in the group stages

[@caelestigladii]

@@JoeRe63As a nonplayer who loves watching bw/sc2, I’m thankful that there are casters. I wouldn’t know what’s happening else. Edit: I mean knowledgeable casters, not these idiots.

[@jamesdi7261]

Magnificent games! Thank you!

[@foreverblue1646]

Steadfast is such a knowledgeable caster. "It looks like Maru is huge trouble!"...30 sec later..."GB is called (GG- Maru wins game 1)".

[@vaettra1589]

gb?

[@cookinrelaxin45]

Game 2 is absolutely amazing.

[@stoilkayryakov6527]

Maruuuuu 😊

[@Nil-js4bf]

Was it Serral that started making burrowed infestors more mainstream in ZvT? It's been so many years but it looks like pros finally think it's worth the APM and attention to have an invisible spellcaster that can move.

[@aceofspades5465]

They used to be way slower while burrowed back in the days didn’t they ?

[@Nil-js4bf]

@@aceofspades5465 Not that I remember. It was actually more OP back then because you could cast fungal without unburrowing. Took a while until the players realized that was broken.

[@lukewade4958]

Fungal, neural and infested terran while burrowed. They were OP

[@atutor1]

If Blizzard still cared about SC2, the ghost woulda been nerfed by now

[@courtesylicking9312]

one of these dudes does suck to lsiten to get winter in here

[@fdcrat]

Beomulf's casting voice is so annoying to listen to! Why does he have to drag out those ending wovels like that?

[@winstonhow3614]

Winter's good

[@real_MacrocosM]

The AHL [Ambient "Hyuuuuge" Level] is at about 6.7 this game..

[@andrewsmith-ym9qf]

Nice Fart at 7:28

[@xiaoleideng]

nice casting. I wish for a bit more chemistry between the casters. sometimes it feels a bit more competitive for airtime instead of working together. Also I wish one of the casters tune down the enunciation a bit, feels a bit overly dramatic.

[@maxdishaw]

You’re right about the chemistry

[@ProductofChina]

7:30

[@kinama33kinama]

There's no way right? I thought it was my imagination creating sounds.

[@IIIiiiDAWiiiIII]

terran needs more free maphacks and more units with 12 range.

[@reliewz]

What happened at 7:30 in the video guys? Listen carefully 😂

[@fryllmancera5435]

Were is lowko mann

[@OSU2010]

Maru is destroying everyone gezz, serrell, Dark, Rynor, running through everyone lately

[@caelestigladii]

This didn’t age well.

[@TomThompson]

Why is this not on the A stream? If it cant be on the main stream, then please, just let Steadfast cast alone.

[@sheeftz]

I'm watching this after Clem - Solar playoff. These games look like I'm watching it at x0.5 speed. Like I recently watched Ferrari vs McLaren, and now I'm watching Fiat vs Skoda.

[@ronaldmadrid9929]

Steadfast is Dark fanboy

[@freddiesanchez3424]

Who are these casters

[@LittleMikeStarCraft]

drink every time steadfast says 'trouble'

[@cookinrelaxin45]

My liver hates you

[@ESLArchives]

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[@mamadikhalifa2591]

Harstem and Lambo should cast games of this level, not these 2 nubs

[@boyxao]

Steadfast is a bit dumb

[@greghuffman3061]

darkaru

[@jeremyshough947]

Ghosts have to be nerfed

[@bobbobby8250]

They're balanced perfectly.

[@real_MacrocosM]

LLOOLL 😂• so, they have been.. .. TWICE

[@gerkahn8179]

„Nerfs“ that had no impact on the game

[@gerkahn8179]

TWICE

[@gerkahn8179]

Btw infestors got nerfed too which imo has More impact on ZvT lategame than the Ghost „nerf“

[@Tranithx]

Guess he never watched Dark when all he would do was mass roaches for years.

[@Canard_Ivre]

gb

[@LittleMikeStarCraft]

miss arty and tasty

[@GhostStyle007]

Game 1 is crazy, cant believe that Maru plays so greedy in a tournament ! He was lucky to be playing against god of throws there.

[@LittleMikeStarCraft]

casters must be nervous or something, they are just kind of babbling and mixing up a bunch :D

[@geuros]

27:54 look at that widow mine and tell me again they're broken

[@bishamonite]

Was tired of hearing Beomulf Fanboy for Maru even though he was losing in Game 1. How about even cast. "Ohhhhh Maru has great concave, when Dark literally had it surrounded and moving in on the backline tanks... " Stop fanboying your casts and just cast the game clown...

[@TlcforFree]

Dude stop spoiling other games during your cast they just need pig and roderdam to cast every game

[@ykwdota]

Really wish @WinterStarcraft would be the official caster for these games. Cant stand these other casters, just babbling nonsense the whole time.

[@travisli5632]

Totally I agree, I like most of the casters, but for these two - misread, obnoxious voice all the time. I had to turn down the volume.

[@LittleMikeStarCraft]

@@travisli5632 They have that 2015 'caster voice' lol.

[@real_MacrocosM]

Wait.. you call what Winter does, anything other than babbling nonsense 😂¿. Winter is just pure comedy-casting. Nowhere near the calibre of tryhard analysisplayByplay chemistry that PiG & ZG have for eg. Or Rotti+Demu. Winter is fun, to be sure, but not a serious caster. He is a dumbed down, canned-comedy version of 'casting'.. if he worked well in a duo, he might be the Tasteless to someone else's Artosis tho.

[@ykwdota]

@@real_MacrocosM you could not be more wrong, but im not gonna waste my time explaining what "babbling nomsense" means. You already dont get it.

[@winstonhow3614]

I "love" how pro dark these commentators are. Bring back Tartosis, these guys sucks

[@thedeadbaby]

it will be another TVT grand final. sc2 is dead

[@Natsukashy]

In the most recent masters colliseum there are 3 zergs and 1 toss on top. Same patch, same mappool. Cry me a river.

[@ExValeFor]

you dropped your L