StarCraft 2: BEST PRO Game of 2022 - Serral vs ShoWTimE!

Professional match of top level StarCraft 2 between Serral (Zerg) and ShoWTimE (Protoss). This is in my opinion the best pro game of SC2 of 2022 so far. Ridiculously close game between two of the best European pro gamers.
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[@lucachambard7785]

Ah yes, the weekly game of the year.. i've been waiting for it.

[@jamalgeorge3582]

lol

[@joeymorningstar2114]

Well it was a bad ass game!!!

[@joeymorningstar2114]

But the dude is right, just a little more patient and the Protos would win it!

[@MauricioRPP1]

Strategy from the player made a difference, not only fin the army/units

[@euqinuykcaj]

Einstein said "time is relevant".

[@leadjunkie5674]

I fully support the idea of a Game of the Year bracket where we can vote our way to the best of your videos you named GotY.

[@andrewrobinson4382]

Yes making a playlist of them and then we can go through them all

[@jaxenosborne1250]

This is genius

[@billl.2441]

Agree! 👍

[@JJChannel1492]

Game of the Year of the Year

[@tmjp0924]

@@andrewrobinson4382 GOTY Contendor.

[@jacobrogers2906]

"Serral with his back up against the wall, but Showtime is the wall." It's ok Lowko, we all have our fantasies.

[@thomaschevrierlaliberte5884]

A secret fantasy as "Showtime doesn't want to be caught with his pants down."

[@kmurphy0620]

It was definitely a contender for game of the year. What a finish

[@chip_7677]

i think you mean "finnish"

[@gamdanyunizar7849]

finnish's finisher

[@Phi1618033]

Some might call this game an absolute banger.

[@william_sun]

Still others might call this game an absolute bratwurst.

[@Phi1618033]

@@william_sun 👍

[@zerglinglover2303]

@@william_sun bratwurst are a type of sausage?

[@william_sun]

@@zerglinglover2303 Lowko searched for synonyms for "banger" in a recent cast, and the first result was "bratwurst".

[@Phi1618033]

@@zerglinglover2303 The English call sausages "bangers" and one type of sausage in German is a bratwurst, hence banger-->sausage-->bratwurst.

[@The8BallADP]

Okay fine.... this might actually end up being my favorite game of the year lol

[@nicklindberg90]

We are blessed to have so many games of the year!

[@mf.serious8581]

Reminds me of the 2000s era when every game had "game of the year" on the tin 😅. It is an outstanding game though 👏💪

[@kardainzr161]

Reminds me of the 2000's when everything was just in general better, no one glued to their phones, people talked to other's without shoving their phones in their face, everyone was just .... Oh well.

[@djinn_tseng]

@@kardainzr161 i share this sentiment.

[@drasleon4626]

Serral, never seems to end amazing us with his skill.

[@paulpickett4522]

How scary that Serral is branching out into skill sets other than just macro. How scary is that to play against? ;)

[@TheWoWisok]

I don't know too much SC2 but it looks more like Showtime choked when he had the chance to win through repeated over extending.

[@atrudokht]

Zerg proliferates flawlessly under Serral's command, just like what Zerg' supposed to be. Rogue isn't close enough to his level.

[@ApolloSilvercrest]

I’m starting to play again after an extremely long hiatus. I forgot how deep the game was, how much fun it is to cheese your opponents, setting your armies to hot keys so you can fight effectively. Forgot how much I loved this game. ❤️❤️🙏☺️

[@gokublack8342]

It also helps these players all wanna go late game and can't handle cheese or all ins. They ain't like they were in the WOL days. Wouldn't even get out of Bronze back in the day if you couldn't stop cheese

[@IAmBael]

I'm not sure why Showtime didn't hunt down the last of the queens and infestors at the end. Taking pot-shots at Serral's structures until the infestors got their energy back seemed like a bad way to go. I guess he didn't have any detection left if they burrowed. Okay nevermind, I answered my own question. 😂

[@Phoboz]

It felt like he had time to bring down a lot of buildings before the infestor regained his energy but he didn´t focus so much structures

[@atrudokht]

@@Phoboz nah, tempests are slow attackers, won't be able to destroy all of the buildings as fast as lurkers and lings

[@Dank_Lulu]

At this point, game of the half-decade may be an appropriate description... :D Either way, I'm here for it!

[@teresotajonera6557]

GAME OF THE YEAR - so much game clutches, I can't breath properly because its so intense. This game match is like your playing all 3 campaigns in 1 Legendary Epic Battle!

[@TheDarkTemplar3791]

I was watching this live and it was absolutely insane, even though ShoWTimE was already down 0:3 in the series. Probably the best game i've ever seen and I have seen a loooot of games

[@EXXTSON]

Like youre mom

[@Konranjyoutai]

lol...I love at the end how Serral fungals Showtimes entire army like 8 times and Showtime just leaves it in a huge clump fight after fight. Like if Showtime actually split his army and microed in any of the late game fights outside of stutter steeping he would have easily won.

[@xitaris5981]

I feel like the power of Protoss units makes players more prone to develop a bad habit of clumping units together

[@quintus920]

@@xitaris5981 More like the slowness plus largeness of Protoss units makes spreading them impractical in any engagement.

[@zzasdfwas]

showtime mostly came out ahead in those fights though. serral didn't have enough anti-air to kill the fungaled army and ended up losing many infestors.

[@Konranjyoutai]

@@zzasdfwas Dude don't rationalize it. Reverse the roles. Would Serrals army had survived if it was clumped vs storms? No? Then why should Skytoss survive easily?

[@cooldudep]

Double edged blade for having unlimited selection imo.

[@lyolev6628]

That truly was one of the best and most intensive games I've seen. Great play from both Showtime and Serral, loved it :))))

[@Wright1331]

I found myself helping Serral at one point in this game... I was screaming Burrow, Burrow, Burrow your 3 queens hes got no detection, and then 5 seconds later he does it. Your welcome Serral ;)

[@saratei99]

I love your weekly games of the year lowko

[@ggtt2547]

Well this was an amazing game!! Edge of our seats for the last 10 minutes! Well done on casting it so well too!!

[@kampkrieger]

he is phishing right?

[@Therunner77452]

Love finding more Lowko SC2 content I haven't stumbled across before (:

[@boorekk]

My prayers go towards the poor probes at the end, who were doing their best to carry some extra minerals, for a new interceptor. Literally 1 new interceptor Great cast as always!

[@jakkard5026]

okay yeah I would say THIS is the best game of the year hands down, had me on the edge of my seat at the end there!

[@jamesoreilly8115]

The burrowed zergling at 23:20 "hehe, I am sneaky."

[@zachayres4959]

How could you not look at the final resources lost!!! We HAVE to know! You end your casts too quickly!! Great cast, amazing game!! Can't wait til next week for the new game of the year.

[@jasonlynch282]

Winter would have shown us the unit's and resources lost. :p

[@mrlithium69]

and he might have won, if not for a couple of moves like being late to sacrifice probes then losing too many probes, then serral realizes there must be hardly any probes left so he goes to kill every last probe... Or then at the very end, losing 1 oracle = no detection, thats huge. or just casually missing opportunity by not taking out every single creep tumor in sight by attack move stutter stepping the tempests during boring flight over creep cause they have huge range and high DPS but you cant let them idle.

[@Andytlp]

Thanks for casting. Been watching sc2 pro casts since hdstarcraft and husky. When hd quit no one filled the void til lowko showed up

[@sunieldanoksha]

What an incredible match . thanks Lowko for making it so entertaining. love it 😊

[@alexs5814]

this was such a satisfying watch! great game, thanks for sharing it.

[@starcraft2zombies533]

Awesome game, first time I've watched on like this. The use of combined arms, mixing ground and air, and using pretty much every unit available, was amazing.

[@IsaacFNghost]

i know this is a late comment but damn that micro at 25:59 was good! even this late in the game, pulling back banes on spread zealots and letting the lings mesh thorugh to wrap around followed by 2 roaches to clean them up without wasting any banelings. this level of play is something else

[@user-gp7kp2df5u]

You can call the first best game " THE BEST GAME", the second one "THE VERY BEST GAME", the 3rd "THE VERY VERY BEST GAME". You got the idea

[@linusgerbsch374]

The real please believe me I swear dude best game of the year

[@MoeraeofAH]

Nobody's talking about how much money showtime threw away towards the end with the batteries, static defense and rebuilding that nexus over and over. I had a sinking feeling most of this game thinking that my favorite zerg serral surely would lose this. I can't believe it

[@alderweghier3935]

If showtime saved those minerals to build interceptors for the carriers he would've won for sure

[@atrudokht]

@@alderweghier3935 interceptors are pretty easy to counter, I shot them down so quickly with mass hydras. They're also expensive. Carriers nowadays aren't as strong as StarCraft Broodwar's carries anymore, easily countered by many type of other units.

[@alderweghier3935]

@@atrudokht I take your word, I haven't played starcraft for almost 10 years. Only watch the pros every now and then

[@MFARIGA]

Damn the endgame was wonderful. Deserving the game of the year title for sure The whole game was full of unusual(drops, Muta vs phoenixes etc)moves while not really being mistakes Thanks again for the great content 🙂

[@jasonsublett8908]

Lowko your videos always brighten my day thank you so much for posting

[@KeepersofKeys]

Great stuff! Unusual and gripping game, even though the map got mined out there wasn't a dull stalemate. Well worth the watch and the like.

[@delithor8799]

"Who is this Lowko guy and why is he so fun?" Actual quote I said when I came across your video for the first time. I didn't really get into Starcraft too much and seeing how Lowko keeps such a high and fun energy around the game, it's making me think the community may be mature and fun to play with. Lowko, if you're reading this, you're a really awesome dude. Thanks for the fun video and end to my night.

[@patrikhala1910]

As a Protoss player, Showtime made me a little bi nervous for 2 reasons: - not using more of the robotics bay units since they can be very efficient against roaches, ravagers, zerglings and queens - using the Stalkers for way too long and consequentialy switching to skytoss far too late Then he basically "shoot his own foot" with some bad decisions (recalling when he should not, using storms in favor of feedbacks which would probably prove more useful in his situation). But nevertheless, awesome showtime from the two of them while the protoss player definitely stood up to his name

[@YodasMessenger]

serral is straight up unbelievable that last fight when he managed to neuro the final tempest made me audibly gasp

[@laurihuttunen4550]

Thank you Lowko. I'm at 1min 23s and you have saved my night. We have Die Mauer vs the Overlord Finisher. Thank you God for this treat.

[@draganandrei5356]

Amazing game, very enjoyable to see

[@LostOnceLefthanded]

You should make a video series called "Moving the goalposts once again" You can put every "game of the year" in that playlist. Probably would make the longest playlist on this channel.

[@Usul75]

"Serral up with his back against the wall" i lold so hard, made my day.

[@alexvig2369]

Those games that go on like that until the very bitter end truly are the best, in SC2. Well done to both players for giving us such a show :)

[@Reelix]

Congrats on 500k Subs! :)

[@nemigazhogynincsszab]

Yellow Protoss vs. Purple Zerg... reminds me of my youth :)

[@rearnakedguy1501]

I think this is the game of the year! A mini base race and micro down to like 5 units each!? Phew Wish that ground army moved out sooner when there was nothing left to fight ground toss

[@petepan9696]

Ahhh man nostalgia hitting my real nice right now. Good memories of this game when I was young.

[@bmagalhaez]

that fart in 11:57 was on point

[@chaostheory7788]

That was seriously amazing to watch!!!!!!

[@ahtoshkaa]

I had no idea what was going on but i still watched from start to finish. Great commentator!

[@tankotee9755]

This is how Starcraft 2 should be played. Two strong warriors fighting all the way down to the last mineral. The ultimate result is a stalemate where all resources are gone and no damaging units left :D.

[@kurosetsuna29]

Honestly the first half of the game, it wasn't really Game of the Year material, but those last 5 minutes, ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!!

[@MichaelNatrin]

Great match & cast.

[@1KamaronConClase]

This was absolute madness! More swings that in a tennis match! GG Well Casted!

[@jlee1522]

At the end of the year, Lowko needs to have a tournament bracket of his "Game of the Year" videos. It's quickly turning from a bracket of 8 to a bracket of 64.

[@danielglennsoria3423]

I am a year late, but that was AWESOME! I wouldn't have able to think about those kind of moves. Serral is BEAST! Kudos to Showtime as well. Both are awesome players!

[@alex.projects1400]

I've waited so long to see a game of the year!

[@dogetastic2846]

Loved watching it :)

[@jeremykiahsobyk102]

"Once those minerals have been mined, they aren't coming back." -Lowko, 2022

[@dmitryb4765]

WOW!!! Thanks for the entertainment and 4K vids!

[@ClarkPotter]

I don't even play SC2 and watched that whole thing. Epic nailbiter.

[@Andreas-el5qd]

While watching that match live i already knew 100% that im gonna watch a lowko cast of it, calling it game of the year. and this time i fully agree.

[@LilMidgeto524]

This was for sure a real banger!!

[@NachoCheeze88]

my oldest brother and I used to play this all of the time... Good times!

[@setokaiba4414]

this is like 20th game of the year lowko uploaded to youtube this year : O

[@johannesfourie4053]

Super fun game. Thx for casting

[@finnhe197]

Serral proves himself to be the strongest SCII player again by his amazing tactics

[@evankerns9503]

Loved it!

[@guilhermefeitoza6803]

19:42 I wasnt ready for this one hahahahahahah

[@sebastiancawsey5024]

What a nail-biting game. Endgame came down to the wire, was backing the underdog ShoWTimE for most the way, but I guess the adrenaline gave way and thought he was close to the win but didn't make the best trades in that finale after he lost the Oracle and the two Tempests. If he bided his time a little more, could have been a different outcome but it is what it is. Serral has certainly proved he is good enough to win, even with his opponent gaining the golden mineral base. Kept himself in control no matter the situation, waited patiently to strike clinically and decisively, earning him that awesome Victory. 100% agree with this being a GotY.

[@c0barsm]

That was sick!

[@Yohanan552]

That was insane. Absolutely ridiculous

[@aimlessplays7894]

Man I was rooting for Serral the entire game... So close, but a amazing game

[@lief3414]

I am only at the opening phase but I gotta point out how satisfying it is backseating for Serral. At the very worst there's 5 sec delay between me pointing something out and him actually doing it. I know it doesn't seem like much given he's supposed to do the correct moves but it's really rare even at that level to be that optimal.

[@lief3414]

Ok, 15 minutes in and it's really weird. I say Serral's gotta get his carapace (not ranged) upgrade and he queues it up 5 sec later together with flyer attack. I said earlier to get that top forward base and entrench it with 3, no 4 spines and 5 minutes later there it is. Exactly 4 spines as optimal but with better timing cos now broods can cover it. Seriously it's like anything smart I can gather by not doing milion other things and just observing he does but even better. This is just weird. I guess the grind is a pathway to many powers some consider unnatural.

[@mechadoggy]

38:25 “There’s four probes somewhere out on the map.” Uh Simon, those aren’t probes. Those are minerals.

[@marcinp3608]

Time goes gaster when you are happy ... last month felt like 5 years and here we go again ... year...

[@tiongkiong]

This is absolute game of the year material. One of the best of the best match this year.

[@icecream6256]

The fun game is when both player mines out entire map, with 0 economy left. That's when the heart and adrenaline start to race

[@tacticalnukegaming8979]

What observer interface or mod is used to see player cams and Chrono on the production tab?

[@TankedMush]

That could have gone either way the whole game. Top tier play from the both of them.

[@tzuhanwang5719]

I laughed out loud at 20:24, nice comment bro

[@cjfletcher325]

Dude no way didn’t think Serral had a chance more towards end WOW

[@DarkHeroGamePlay]

Hey lowko at the end of the year, you should redo all the "best of the year games" and have everyone vote what they think was the best 👌

[@benjamineidam]

Compliment for Lowko: THAT kind of a banger/bratwurst after THIS short amount of time it was played is ... definitly something, thank you!

[@SzelmaAnanas]

that was guite a treat for a weekly game of the year :O

[@hydraulichydra8363]

That was pretty savage

[@GeneralAlgren]

Absolute nail biter the entire time! brilliant.

[@CrayXP]

great game, great cast :)

[@zaksmith1035]

One of the best games I've ever seen. SO crazy from start to Finnish

[@huylevi]

I think LowKo should make a GameS of the Year Bracket/Poll/Playlist

[@zeitgeist8870]

This was a banger for sure

[@soul8bounce]

Serral sniping that group of high templars was the clutch play.

[@dabaconboss6261]

That was pretty awesome

[@twoface9959]

Where can you find more of these pro league games to watch?

[@Irish25cent]

Haven't seen one of your videos in a very long time. Hope you're doing well!

[@cedrick0012]

*when the last nexus falls and there's nothing left to do but have the armies fight* it's... Showtime 😎

[@aeromorte]

Holy shit this is such a good year for the games of the year

[@stingrayray3413]

This was awesome.

[@khemeher]

I dunno man there's still room for more suspense. I want a game where it's a probe, a drone, and 2 gas mines left to duke it out.

[@roar533]

I've only seen showtime as someone who can stop serral from spreading creep all over the map and still put pressure on the opponent ❤