The UNBEATABLE Army? $1000 Direct Strike Tournament Finals

Watching this game as a pure commanders player and seeing 18mins go by without so much as a single gas from anybody truly boggled my mind lol

Really enjoyed the Zerg gameplay here!

How can we join these tournaments?

How to win at direct strike 101 - play Terran

I don't think spellcasters are being micro'd

I don't understand why they don't build medivacs although they already have tier 1 and they mostly have only ground units in the beginning

i remember playing the original map in the starcraft, it was my most favorite, and played map back then.

Here are some fresh chess-tactics for all non Desert Striker out there:
- Mass Queens (dont do it against protoss, 1 templar will fuck you up) and mass mutas
- Mass Sentry with Hallucination (when the enemy doesnt have detection those are OP.)
- Cant think of anything. Mass Banshees? Idk. JUST BUILD MARINES MAN!

Some good2follow-Rulezz:
- Mid Control gives you extra gas. Therefore dont take gas if you cant control mid.
- click onto your opponent units to see their upgrades. Try to match that kinda.
- you can scan the base of your enemy, reveiling their gas
- take upgrades after your units have been sent out. They will still count for that army. So you can squeeze 1 or 2 more units in

'cinimatic mode for a couple of mins' procceeds to not talk for the entier game..

Aaaaaand now I'm addicted..

i hate cinematic mode

who would have thought that anti-armor missiles and liberator shots is such a good background sound to go to sleep, now i need 1 hour video of terrans fighting

I'm going to mald if I watch this video, as a long term player who as lost countless games because a teammate kept making banelings vs marauders and similarly silly stuff this will be nothing but PTSD inducing

Man bleep you i feel personally attacked I struggle to micro an scv

I love direct strike because it's the one game on the arcade where you can make no mistakes and still lose because your team mates think it's OK to grab 3 gas in 5 minutes.

I have precisely zero context for what's going on in cinematic mode.

never see it before but i loved this and would love to see more GDSL content!

Zerg is terrible in DS. They have the worst AA and late game units. Ultras are better with the patch but end game, zerg suffers a lot.
Though arguable zerg won that 4th game, but that's because the protoss decided to go carriers. It is a trash unit that gets countered very hard by all races, particularly by Terran as we saw. Thors if it weren't obvious. Going carriers in any single scenario is a mistake. Getting any other units is probably better. the cost proposition of 475 (i think? maybe 450) just doesn't make sense when you can get any other units that are better for cheaper.
Zerg can't win a skytoss game, but if your teammate has Terran they can carry that shoulder with thors and as a Zerg you can focus on the ground army like getting ultras and lurkers. Ultras are competitive now since their prices kept dropping for how shit they were. I think it's currently at 350 (maybe 325 even? used to be like 400 or 450 in the very past) and is a good tanking unit for their cost

Can you do a little gameplay of this mode given some explanations and stuff?

Thank you, @WinterStarcraft, for another amazing cast of our Grand Finals! This was probably the last time ravens were used in this capacity, so the next final should look completely different :) Maybe a whole lot of Zerg?!