StarCraft 2: The UNEXPECTED World Champion! (Grand Finals)

The Grand Finals of the StarCraft 2 World Championships played at IEM Katowice. In this video I cast the Terran versus Terran that was played between Oliveira (TIME) and Maru. The winner of this match is the new StarCraft 2 World Champion.
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[@cosmonie2819]

Actually, the 87% win rate by aligulac was after they changed Oliveira's score based on his performance in the IEM. Before that, it predicted a 94% win for Maru

[@DarkTemplar42]

Goddamn

[@Eric_C99]

Another fun fact

[@larspersson1546]

This!

[@willbrolley262]

Before they recalculated the scores, the odds of Oliviera winning a 4-1 was less than 1%.

[@SarumanDeWhite]

Olivera said in Chinese - I would like to say to everyone who’s still watching this live - there really isn’t anything that’s impossible, (choking up) I mean, I’ve already become the world champion, so there really isn’t anything that’s impossible (crying now). In the beginning, it was really difficult. In the beginning it was really really hard. I lost 0-6 in the last contest and I told myself that as long as I worked really hard, really really hard, (almost sobbing) one day when I become the world champion, I can show everyone that it’s possible.

[@bongkem2723]

an incredible, truthful, heart-warming speech !!!

[@terradoxia_yt]

I do have to say, watching this live blew absolutely my mind

[@Ghost-dx8mm]

same lol

[@Davefitz04]

I watched it live also. Dude i was literally pacing and sweating from all the adrenaline! And after during his speech had to hold back the tears! Best tournament in sc2 history! I’m so happy i chose to watch this one live

[@NoHandleToSpeakOf]

When two such strong players are involved the game feels... brittle

[@pigletpiglet3632]

@@Davefitz04 it was fixed match

[@kishibenoa3346]

​@@pigletpiglet3632 copium for the win🤭

[@ScBroodSc2]

Wow. The mindgames. 31:00 Blue finishes his bunker and puts the SCV building it inside to make the bunker look full and defend with the other units the jump pad. At 31:28 Red comes in, look at that bunker and decide to retreat right away to take any damage (even though the bunker is filled with 1 SCV). Just, wow. 33:02 as Red comes in, the critter's behavior is to move away from any units and that gets picked up by Blue which unload the marine to scout why that critter moved. It's extremely precise gameplay.

[@freemeson6277]

wow thanks, would have never noticed these details

[@kindlin]

@@freemeson6277 I noticed 31:28, but not 31:00 (which makes 31:28 really matter) and not 33:02, both of which are top-tier plays. I was wondering how he knew to send the marine out right at that time, it actually made me a little suspicious, not that he did anything else funky except dominate everyone he played.

[@cosmonie2819]

No the red doesn’t get to see how full the bunker is

[@ScBroodSc2]

@@cosmonie2819 No it doesn't. But the bunker's animation is different if there is "something" inside than if there is nothing. So red did not even bother getting close in case it was a marine which would have dealt damage to his hellions.

[@cosmonie2819]

@@ScBroodSc2 I see. I went back to see the clip and I misunderstood your sentence. I thought "full" means "there are 4 units inside" but you meant "there is at least one"

[@JSs586]

I watched this live at 4:30am from China, a lot of us here cried as he did. Counting from the third match vs. Reynor, he won 10 games out of 12, against the highest rank Z, P and T in the world. In this match set with Maru in particular, he won in every possible stage - early game, counter-cheese, mid game, and the 25-minute late game. It was a miracle. I don't think he can replicate such winning streak against these players and actually he himself thought so too. But we'll worry about that another day. Today, we have a champion.

[@kmq1063]

LPNNB！

[@flaviusclaudius7510]

Reverse sweeping Reynor was spectacular

[@pigletpiglet3632]

They were fixed matches life 2.0 typical Chinese they pay for victory for propaganda

[@chinheat9565]

@@pigletpiglet3632it is sad to see stupid comments like yours, go outside once in awhile.

[@pigletpiglet3632]

@@chinheat9565 I hunt an fish so am outside but can see game fixing

[@BRA1NST0RM]

Oliveira was sincerely cheering for every win he got, even crying when he was lifting the Champions cup, such a passion! Prior to the tournament he was practicing 15 hours a day, so it was a well deserved win!

[@paleviolent]

knowing how brutal chinese society is, totally justifyable. it's like Byun (or is it Byul?) all over again. my guy possibly has a lot on the line.

[@vincentdesun]

@@paleviolent that's not true. No one pressured him to practice, instead, there are people questioning if he should retire at just 22yo. He has emotional support from his father, and that's pretty much it.

[@warrenliu743]

15 hours a day? U sure it wasnt 25 hours a day?

[@kittyflier8338]

@@paleviolent Actually Chinese society is relatively more friendly to the e-sport gamers, for unlike South Korea, there is no mandatory military service.

[@aaa-oy3vl]

@@paleviolent brutal？Don't be fooled by Western governments.

[@MadcatMashupMayhem]

A bit of reminder that Olievera was Maru's punching bag out of tournaments. Beginning of match 3 Maru started to go "wtf how the heck is this noob outplaying me" mindset and started to be indecisive

[@dankwak7]

Lowko please give our new world champion some extra love and cast Oliveira vs Hero and Oli vs Reynor

[@kindlin]

I also just read he also took out Serral, but I haven't substantiated that. Taking out Maru, Serral, Reynor, and Hero is like the epitome of a champion's run.

[@WuYixiang]

@@kindlin He didn't play Serral. He beat Clem, HeRoMaRinE, and Cure, though.

[@kindlin]

@@WuYixiang Yeah, I just watched Serral's games. Crazy.

[@fangchaohere]

51:28 looks like Maru made an impressive hold at his base, but what happened at the same time, and none of the casters noticed, is that Oliveira set up two liberators at his 10 o'clock and 6 o'clock expansions and killed 35 SCVs with no response from Maru. This basically sealed the deal for the final match, even without Maru's pathing mistake in the end.

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

Guess you could say it was TIMED perfectly

[@kindlin]

@@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong Yeah, he really Oliveira'd that one. Wait, what?

[@milefiori7694]

No one also noticed how stupidly scripted this game is

[@yamao4938]

​@@milefiori7694Or you were just a typical hater. Why did I even waste time on you😅

[@qudavid2996]

Nobody noticed the liberators run by that killed 34 scvs of two saturated bases at 51:23 , literally the game winning move.

[@freemeson6277]

Yeah the live cast didn't notice that either, with the main battle looking to be so decisive. On its own an attack into the base like that was very risky (and it indeed turned out to be a worse trade army wise) but taking into account the potential economic damage he could get at the same time along with his remaining bank the risks were justified.

[@summonsays2610]

that and the very ending with just the fatigue of all the games got to Maru and he let half his army take a bad path.

[@F4c2a]

Lol I actually rewatched the battle because I was confused where the SCV's went down, never realized it was liberators somewhere else

[@canebro1]

Oh wow, I thought it was where the battle was, but that was only part, didn't notice the other base getting cleaned out.

[@josephdiscavage2709]

Oh wow, this is awesome! I’ve never been more hyped for TvT in my entire life

[@111HYPE111]

Lowko, you have GOT to replay Creator vs Dark. Final match of 5, Creator had the clearly dominant army, lost his nexus a split second before the recall back home and lost all his buildings to a base race from Dark. Super drama filled finish, I was flat out sad for Creator, he looked absolutely heartbroken.

[@TubeTAG]

I don’t really watch SC2 outside of Lowko’s casts, but I’ve been watching for a pretty long time. I honestly can’t remember the last time the world championships didn’t involve a Zerg player. I went back and looked it up, and if I’m reading it right, the last time the world championships didn’t include at least one Zerg player in the finals was 2012. This is the first TvT in the finals ever. Makes my little Terran heart swell with booze infused pride.

[@waynehu4086]

Your video pops out at the exact moment I want! I have been so hyped by TIME's win for 2 days XD.

[@seanbrady6775]

As a chinese player who play sc2 since 2011, I cried so hard when TIME finally proved himself. SC2 is considered as a dead game in China nowadays and only few gamers want to play sc2 due to the difficulty. Also worth to mention that the chinese server was closed just few weeks ago. This is the darkest time for all chinese sc2 fans. I am so proud of Niuniu gege (Oliveira).

[@justaguy-i1v]

Didn’t blizzard leave china? Or got kicked out or whatever?

[@wenxinwang7512]

@@justaguy-i1vrom what I heard they left China.

[@Nekon3k0]

@@justaguy-i1v They couldn't come to an agreement with the distributor/publisher in China so they left temporarily until they find a new one, it was quite a big story in the gaming world so you can check out some video's which covered it.

[@zh1037]

@@justaguy-i1v Blizzard asked too much from Netease (partner in China) so they broke, it is unlikely that Blizzard games will set up new servers in China in a short period of time, probably never...

[@alexliu5987]

No one helped him analyze the data, no one accompanied him to train, no one gave him guidance, and he even had to go to various competitions at his own expense. His winning percentage was only 0.37%. He is the world champion.

[@ryanyc9619]

Damn, didn't know that. This makes his victory all the more worth it. This is the very definition of the "self made man". People who build their future not thanks to money, but thanks to their effort, determination, and skill.

[@RealFableFox]

If you watch some of the interview, apparently Maru help him train (online perhaps). I thought of same team, but apparently not. Maybe just close SC2 friend? I do notice the semi final seems to be there is a lot of team kill. Anyway in one of the interview he said he prepared for the IEM by training with Maru.

[@buffetize]

He had coffee (the chinese terran player) help him prepare TvT, and nice (the taiwanese p) help him prepare the semis vs hero.

[@Nozdormu1982]

@@buffetize nice of him :P

[@vorkosigan-p6f]

that's not true. Oliveira literally says he practised with Maru and Hero in his post win interview. He has said how helpful Coffee (the player) was in preparing for various series. There are documentaries/videos on youtube that talk about Oliveira's family background, revealing that his family is fairly well off and able to support him in his SC2 career. He absolutely deserves his world championship, but he very much has found support all along his journey

[@SnyperMK2000JclL]

What a banger of a series! I honestly cant believe that Time won... hes performed so well over the past few years but never really making it to the final rounds. Absolutely crazy how you could visibly see Maru get shook halfway though this series, I think Time shutting down Marus bread and butter really delivered a massive blow to marus confidence as he really started making those small stupid mistakes and questioning himself in real-time...

[@fallensnipa]

I thought I was going to be a long and mildy exciting match but man... there were some surgical-level tactics over there. It was not luck, it was not cheese, it was skills!

[@magicclamsoldthings7212]

Also watched this live. Definitely one of the craziest series I've ever seen!

[@overthinker8706]

I've only seen finals and semifinals online, but I'm glad you did cast this game. I enjoyed watching Oliveira vs herO - maybe cast this one.

[@TritonTv69420]

Congrats (redacted)! I listened to his speech and you could feel how emotional it made him to be the underdog and win. He deserved it, you can tell he practiced night and day.

[@Nay-yr5wj]

Ouch. I'm watching from the YT app and it always shows the top comment. Yours was the one shown and unfortunately I think I just got spoiled haha!

[@jacobmitchell2085]

Seriously

[@ZigZagZoccs]

Delete this comment 😑

[@mastersonogashira1796]

Nearly 20 years of CN starcraft, i remember watching my cousin playing SC1 back in the early 2000 in China. I’ve basically lost hope after we lost the server, but this definitely makes me full of tear seeing a world champion coming from this old community I only realized this happened now. It’s been a year since I last watch any starcraft, but if anything would bring me back to the game, this would be it

[@136iti]

I was expecting the finals to have Maru, Serral, or Hero in them. Time was definitely not one of my guess. I had a feeling that Serral was out of the finals when he went against RagnaroK due to his struggles in ZvZ. I wasn’t sure if Raynor or Time would win but I was certain it didn’t matter because Hero was going to win that next round. Good on Time proving me wrong and taking an amazing win and the championship title.

[@BlackMethos]

This series... was amazing and totally unexpected. Gotta admit though, after beating HeroMarine, I started rooting for the guy. Deserved win, played like a god.

[@kurofox1247]

Oh gosh, thank you Lowko for casting this! I'm never able to watch the competition itself and you casting this is amazing for me. Seeing 2 terrans here was already surprising, I wonder who wins!!!

[@jacobsvensson8193]

In case you didnt know, you can rewatch everything that has been streamed on twitch after the livestream have ended. There are 10 hour long videos of every day from IEM Katowice on ESL_SC2 on twitch

[@kurofox1247]

@@jacobsvensson8193 that's too much

[@frankhsu3899]

48:22 poor guy missed his flight lol

[@adicacid]

At 51:44 the craziest thing about this eco damage is that it happened like 5 screens away. Two harassment liberators were shift-queued going around the edges of the map to different bases a whole minute before the big fight. While the major engagement was happening at the main, that one lib decimated the worker count.

[@ash_durant6071]

Oliveira (Time) has evolved as a player. Maru was visibly shook halfway this series, because his playing style was getting cancelled consistently. In addition all of his small mistakes had a noticable impact in every game.

[@Name-ru1kt]

He trained with maru apparently which makes sense why he tried to prevent it and it also seems his tvt is his best matchup so that was a bit lucky I was sorta hoping though dark would win cause I knew he would have something crazy in store for us

[@ObeliskM]

@@Name-ru1kt he also beat Reynor and Hero...

[@cpy1446]

@@ObeliskM and also Serral

[@GameAlan83]

@@Name-ru1kt hahaha ya, a Sc2 world champion cannot TVZ and TVP, do u really know what are u talking about lollllll? How many good Z and P players loses to him, did you know that? Luck? Hahahaha do some homework before you talk

[@kindlin]

@@cpy1446 I was wondering who took Serral out. Wait, so Oli took out Serral AND Reynor? That's world champion level stuff already, even without a finals under your belt.

[@rossgosla33]

Saw this match when is dropped on the ESL channel -incredible series! Caught some of the other action as well -especially loved Lowko casting the Serral Byun match - great tournament all around, Oliveria/Time well deserved win

[@daszveroboy]

Maru will regret unsieging at 53:27 for a very long time, he also wasn't paying attention on whether Oliveira continued moving down the ramp or not.

[@Josh-99]

It's crazy how a SC2 game can hinge on such small things. One tiny error, one missed opportunity, one overlooked detail and the game slips away. It's just as stressful as real-world warfare... which is why I'm not in the military anymore!

[@tanomugu2116]

This championship has extra meaning to chinese audience like me. It was literally dawn after seemingly endless night.

[@bigriverraiders9243]

Caught this live and was sooo good. Also hard to miss that Serrel's lack of any competent zerg practice partner became apparent

[@damedley75]

53:25 Another decisive move here. Some tanks derp around the wrong path and Oliveira pounces!

[@damedley75]

14:30 Game 2 could be chalked up to a fluky early base trade. I doubt Maru was worried. But if there's one thing I noticed about Oliveira's run, it was brilliantly identifying the right moment for a kill shot and aggressively and skillfully committing to that read. The SCV pull vs herO might be the best example.

[@atharisgroholm8992]

Hell, it's about TIME!

[@kienzays6282]

Fun fact: in Portuguese, the "ei" in "Oliveira" is pronounced just as the "a" in English (like Asics, ade, made, etc), or at least in a very similar way.

[@TubeTAG]

Easier comparisons would be eight, weight or freight, but good to know about Portuguese.

[@kennysmith5696]

That last game was super intense! I felt anxious for Oliviera

[@AblinkinNA]

I can honestly say I havent played SC or SC2 in many years but about 6 months ago your videos magically made it into my recommends and after 5 of those 6 months, I started playing SC again. Good stuff though I have terrible APM I am winning on the campaigns.

[@Ghost-dx8mm]

FORGET the fact that Oliveira won the championship.....how about Lowko getting to cast! Now THATS why i watched!

[@addamere]

I waited until you released a video of this match to watch it because I love your commentary better than any of the other professional or semi-professional casters out there. Thank you so much what you do, and as always don't forget to smile!

[@darnokx9277]

The title giving it all away was the only downside if this video - thank you for the cast regardless, well done! Tournaments and skill level are a tricky thing. To win any tournament, you do not have to be OVERALL better than any or all of your opponents, you have to be better than any or all of them AT THE TIME OF THE TOURNAMENT, especially during the games played. Add psychology to this, and stuff like this - beautiful - story can happen. Congratulations to TIME for a tournament win well deserved!

[@twentyapm4931]

If this is going to be the end of world championship of Starcraft2 as it seems to be, let it be. Because it is an EPIC ending.

[@krzysztofchojnowski5946]

Lawko - you should give more details of what has happened after he won - that was trully amasing - as much as the game itself

[@wdsf3178]

It would be really fun if you could pull out the replay for the Reynor vs Oliveira session and talk them over to us. That second game was really the enlighting moment for Oliveira where he realized he actually got a chance, even though Reynor won that specific game. He said himself in his livestream that he "ended the second game smiling"

[@InturnetHaetMachine]

Unexpected huh? I love watching a series when I know the results beforehand. Thank you Lowko!

[@bluex610]

I've watched a lot of Times/oli games during the tournament and man it was amazing. So many great reads/plays all tourney long. Sometimes the smallest details can make the biggest difference. The decision making and gameplay was top notch. I recommend casting at least a few of his games. Reynor vs Time and Hero vs Time are worth the cast too imo.

[@GG-bi8tb]

me, after seeing maru losing the biggest change he'll ever get to be world champion: "my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined"

[@msi112]

same, im happy for TIME but im also so disappointed about marus performance in the finals

[@136iti]

@@msi112 it kind of looked like Maru underestimated Time. He was being super aggressive which is what you’d expect if you felt someone wasn’t as good as you.

[@overthinker8706]

@@136iti I agree. I only watched semifinals and finals. I remember after that Maru after wining with Ragnarok did comment something like "I did expect to win because I'm in a peak form right now." That did seem kind of disrespectful to me. Oliveira on the other hand said before his semifinals "I just came here to enjoy playing the game, and to make my dreams come true." As a Terran player at this point I knew I was rooting for him instead of Maru.

[@kindlin]

@@overthinker8706 I actually totally forgot about this until this video showed up on my feed. I kind of want to watch some of the actual casts from the tourney. I used to watch a number of them each year and save the finals until I watched X others.

[@cyberhikikomori5326]

Yeah, Maru's already won everything there is to win in SC2 but this laurel, sad day for him. But TIME/Oliveira did such a stellar run even up to the finals, he deserved it this time.

[@vape_monkey]

thanks for this cast, looking forward to more from this series.

[@Josh-99]

I watched this live, but I watched it again because you didn't get to cast it live which was... a TERRIBLE decision on the tournament organizers' part. Your casting throughout the event was so on-point and entertaining, and I'm not sure why they didn't have you there for the final big dance. I really appreciate you taking some time before the games to talk about the tournament structure, as I only got to catch a few games. It's crazy how that last game went on for so long -- as long as the previous three games, just about -- and came down entirely to Maru's Siege Tanks pathing the wrong way when he tried to move them, with Oliveira noticing it in time (ha!) to get on top of them with his Marines. Just one little misstep and the game was over.

[@tiga2001]

Wow, I knew him as Time but never thought he'd be able to lift the championship trophy. Great job!

[@alliev8035]

First time watching SC2 live and what a blast. yeah, I'll watch this one again.

[@KuroiRenge]

First Championship that I followed from start to finish since 2018. This did not disappoint.

[@displacedicon7643]

Honestly across all esports this has been one of the most impressive showings for a underdog player especially in sc2 where there are sometimes upsets but they still stay within the top 6-8 players.

[@liamgonzales8111]

Gumiho vs Solar best game of the day 2! Super exciting, I think it was their second or third game.

[@RobCanadian1]

Lowko coming THIS close to spoiling the result at 1:00, nice save :D

[@Synthetic_geth]

Remove your comment you just spoiled it for me and probably other ppl.

[@housemana]

@@Synthetic_geth if u didn't immediately pick up who the new champion is by the title of the video, which i think lowko tried but honestly in typical lowko fashion failed entirely to shield us from who actually won..... then.... idk what to tell u bro u are helpless lmao

[@quwarq]

Another content creator even put the winner's image in the Thumbnail as "New Champion", compared to that the "unexpected" in the title after saying aligulac rates this 87%-13% is... okay, that is still bad, but at least I had to click on the video to be fully spoilered :D

[@RobCanadian1]

@@Synthetic_geth I've learned that if you don't want to be spoiled you can't look at youtube comments. Sorry it happened to you.

[@Synthetic_geth]

@@RobCanadian1 damn you you're right Sucks to be me ig

[@jommsnow]

Watched this at the livestream. Absolutely crazy run from Time. Only disappointment came from herO losing as a protoss main. Terran truly OP! Haha. Cast Time vs Reynor!!! That series was an absolute banger

[@johnwrath3612]

I haven't had time to watch the tournament until just now. I had to look real closely when i kept seeing the name "Oliveira" in the VODS. Didn't recognize the name. SPOILERS Realized during his match vs Her0 that it was Time. I hadn't heard about the name change. Then Time won the world championship??? What????? I knew he was good but he always seemed kinda mid tier, like Gumiho level terran. Gumiho is an amazing player he just isn't a regular tournament winner like Maru or old school Innovation or even someone like Cure. What a crazy run for him. Ragnarok had a great year and so did Creator also. So glad to see these long time players finally having success after a goddamn decade of grinding.

[@mikegarcia4808]

No one and I mean NO one saw this coming. I don't remember the last time Maru lost a TVT series. However Oliviera completely dominated. He played out of his mind. His decision making was out of this world. He read everyone perfectly. Nothing beats the SCV pull against Hero though.

[@txopin]

Lowko, I dont like to say this, as you're by far my favourite caster, but I have to admit I was super hiped watching it live... and Tastosis did a banger of a cast. Once said that, I loved your casts at Katowice. Very very nice job you did there. Sorry for the first part.

[@minecraftomat123]

Amazing series, and absolutely insane games from Oliveira!

[@paleviolent]

Im all for Maru and anyone winning. I just love to see the match. having a chinese champions possibly means spearheading the market share and a brand new audiences(or something of a similar manner, you know what i mean.) and its a huge one. if you are asian like me you'll know how big of an impact china has over the region. could potentially be a double edge sword for the overall SCII community, yet I'm excited to see what comes up next for our beloved games and player. if it goes to where im predicting this might be the spark that lit a whole another waves of China for SCII which could impact the competitve scenes as a whole. this is history in the making. Oliveira being the first against a legend Maru himself. what a story.

[@WhyNotUseChineseName]

Blizzard exited the Chinese market last year😢

[@zealothockeypublo2609]

Crazy to see that TIME BEAT: THE best protoss player HerO The best zerg player Reynor (I know Serral is technically but its fine they trade) the best terran player Maru

[@kindlin]

I just read he also beat Serral, but I've also read posts like this that imply he didn't. Who beat Serral?

[@stalwart56k]

So excited to see you cast this!! Lowko, I enjoyed seeing you on the ESL Twitch/KZbin videos for IEM Katowice 2023, but honestly I much prefer your slightly more laid back "Meta Commentary" as opposed to the more technical "click by click hype" I heard from Wardi and Zombie Grub when you cast with them. I get that casting a game live adds a lot of intensity and the tournament wants to keep up the energy for the fans watching live, but most of the lead commentators were not my favorite. One day Simon, one day. I do have to say the ESL obeservers were AWESOME. The picture-in-picture second perspective of two things happening at once was great.

[@damedley75]

51:00 Look at this move. Scans ahead, sees an opening, and move right into his opponent's vital organs. Insightful! Gutsy!

[@tillthetroler7113]

Nice Intro, thanks for telling us about the still humans that are going to play

[@yoelezequieldemedici2545]

Idk if Blizzard closing China servers would affect him at all, probably practicing on KR server or even going to Korea to practice there with less ping.

[@Venim85]

52:09 If it was me casting the game I'd say, "Knock knock fucker!"

[@shakacien]

Ooo it does hurt to see the last engagement go down like that. Olivera cruising, but that was some major pathing right there.

[@bbsonjohn]

I like how Maru landed a CC in the middle of Oliveira and later Oliveira tried to build a CC at Maru siege tanks range.

[@mathiasn3182]

Win a world championship and Lowko will finally get your new name right consistently 😉. So, pro players, if you're thinking of changing your name, you know what you need to do.

[@IWTHMF]

I was waiting for this cast! Watched it live and it was insane, I'm so ready to watch this

[@sergiohotjazz]

Funny detail. Oliveira it's a Portuguese name. It's how we portuguese say olive tree. Amazing games.

[@arad922]

Oliveira changed his name, started doping, then took the finals. Maru was also playing sluggish which is out of character but it be like that sometimes. Either way I’m glad Oli took the dub

[@stalwart56k]

any of the closer series, Reynor vs Oliveira, Ragnorak vs Serral, Dark Vs Creator, and Oliveira vs Hero, would all be awesome to see on this channel. Maybe Hero Vs Dark, just for old time sake :)

[@andrasribanszki1683]

Hey Lowko, Maru vs Byun was an incredible match at Katowice. Cast that next? :)

[@shanebanzet7205]

Spectacular games. Also, I love your upbeat fun commentary.

[@Lilah_Lazuli]

I feel that putting unexpected world champion kind of spoils it for everyone who pays attention to the sc2 scene.

[@p3272]

1) a bit disappointed to not see Serral in the final 2) even more disappointed to see a TvT as the grand final

[@crankpatate3303]

Lol, Oli just used like 10 scans on Maru at the last fight. He knew, he won, right that moment, haha.

[@囧囧]

Feel like a World Cup situation. Beat the strong players.

[@kevinkaczynski102]

@lowkoTV 46:45 “Oliveria trying to choke out his opponent right now, with a nickname like that it might be appropriate!” Is that a Charles Oliveria reference you slipped in there? Are we going to see some MMA commentary from Lowko in the future!?

[@paulsvensson6948]

A fun fact to note. We saw a lot of zerg players in the quarter finals, and people complained a lot about the race being op. But then we get a finals without zerg, and we don't see a single balance complaint. This really shows that the people complaining just hate zerg, and that balance has nothing to do with it. If it would be actual balance complaints, terran would get destroyed by the starcraft community.

[@displacedicon7643]

Maru's TvT is really good as well only constantly in second to TY when he was still around.

[@spookyghostwriter3110]

Frankly the only tourney where an upset like this comes to mind was Scarlett at IEM pyeongchang way back in 2018. Honestly, just WOW.

[@nmlsaiya]

Dark was my bet... good thing is that either maru or hero get the trophy thanks to oliveira hahahah

[@bigriverraiders9243]

Was cheering for dark. He looks like he really wanted a big win before his mandatory service

[@Cesard.verdugak]

Maru is my favorite SC2 player. But today I think Olivera deserves to be the champ. What a game. And as usual great Cast Lowko.

[@TP_Rockstar]

suggestion: Dont spoil the winner in the title. Especially when its a supprise. Could've called it "The unexpected finalist" instead. Would still be true, but kept the outcome secret

[@SquintyGears]

For people who are subscribed you're probably absolutely right. But in general people don't click on videos if it's not clickbait in the title and the thumbnail. So would you really ask lowko to lose half his views to prevent a spoiler that many people in the community already know?

[@user-bb4in5ez9e]

I guess most sc2 viewers knows the result before watching this video

[@TP_Rockstar]

@@SquintyGears you can still make clickbait without spoiling the content. In fact, if you spoil the content then people are less likely to click, since they've already been given the main twist at the start.

[@TP_Rockstar]

@@user-bb4in5ez9e Yeah, might be. I mainly watch Lowko for my sc2 content so I just knew the tournament was going to happen soon because he kept mentioning it in the video. Never even bothered to check when it was, so this video was my first seeing anything from it.

[@SquintyGears]

@@TP_Rockstar the average retention is 5min anyways... The title doesn't say who. No but seriously try and come up with a better title that you honestly think people would click. It's not that easy

[@oDcore]

I would love to see you cast Dark vs Creator from the Round of 12 probably my favourite match from IEM this year, specially the last Map of cos :)

[@KuzkulaDemon]

Nice cast browko

[@ZDarabos]

Now we know why the GOAT was playing 2v2 with Oliveira.

[@XabiBello]

Turns out Oliveira was carrying Serral all the Time.

[@thelifeinchina9624]

@@XabiBello haha

[@NoName-kf1cy]

This last game is one of the best ones I've seen that was amazing

[@dotathewot390]

U could see his training with serral if u all follow up 2vs2 game, truly awesome

[@lautarodesimone54]

Hey Lowko, will you upload more matches of the tournament? i wasn't able to watch it.

[@jonsolo32]

Olivera just played smart and safe. Only taking calculated risks.

[@fangchaohere]

The deciding moment for game 2 and maybe the entire series, which Oliveira himself acknowledged, is Maru not scouting with the SCV building the first proxy barrack and discovering Oliveira going reactor first. If he did, Maru would not wait for the 2nd reaper to go in and Oliveira's factory would never finish, and Maru would win game 2 99%. I'm surprised none of the casters pointed this out.

[@dafewger]

My respect to the guy holding up the "Terran Patch" sign

[@jdspencer60]

Watched this live, sounds like you had a blast at Katowice, crazy that Oliveira pulled it off!

[@neroravtong]

19:54 in my opinion, that revan is actually the turning point of that run

[@wraithryder]

Where can I watch your cast of the games? Or which Games did u cast so I can watch?

[@tb34567]

Game 5 was so beautiful by Olivera. Winning every air engagement absolutely took Maru apart