Serral vs. Clem - ESL SC2 Masters: Winter 2023 Finals - Semifinal
You're watching the ESL SC2 Masters: Winter 2023 Finals, broadcasting live from Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The world's best StarCraft 2 players have gathered at DreamHack Atlanta to compete for a prize pool of $75,000 and the final international title of the year. We are halfway through the ESL Pro Tour 2023/2024 season, with two more stops after Atlanta: one in Katowice, Poland, and another in Dallas, Texas, USA later next year. The entire year of competition will culminate in the coming summer at the yet-to-be-revealed EPT World Championship event.
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OMG that 3rd game, absolutely the game of the year!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!
wrg
Those tanks on the high ground...
Nah
If human scarcifice is illegal, can I sacrifice a puppy for my devil summoning ritual?
We have new Maru with so good micro.
This is peak starcraft
some of the highest level of play ever witnessed in SC2. game 3 was so intense. game of the year imo
Easily.
Nah, that's Baldur's Gate 3.
Clem sending the 4 vikings to anticipate the overlord drop in game 3 is so ridiculously high level
The gg wp gl from Serral and handshake was wiiiicked homie. I love seeing these 2 play, how could you not.
If you want to watch a balanced gameplay where both races can win, the series is not pleasant to watch
@@arkrou I disagree. But I hear ya.
That game 3 was actually some of best I've ever seen
Nice from Serral to write "GG wp gl" and the as the loser to walk over immediatley to Clem and congratulate him and shake hands.
This is the best TVZ of all times, period.
From a Serral fan, thank you for great casting! Super entertaining
What a masterpiece series!!! I'm speechless at how high a level this series is at. Whatever race you play, you just gotta watch this one. To me this is also the series of the year!
no such thing as mastx or speechlx or havx or etc, cepuxux, outx, sx, can outx, sx etc any nmw s perfx
@@zes7215wtf?
3rd game best game ever I ever seen in SC2
Always been a Serral supporter and while I'm kinda saddened that Serral lost, Clem earned this win.
This is truly the highest level of Starcraft I have ever seen.
It's the second highest I've seen. Def up there
Fr : Quand j'ai vu la troisième game en live sur le stream français, j'étais tellement stressé par la tension du match que j'en avais les jambes flageolantes Eng : When I saw the third game live on the French stream, I was so stressed by the tension of the match that my legs were trembling Thank you so much Clem for these wonderful games, an explosion of emotions !
Game 3 was such a great back and forth. So close so many times
This has to be the highest quality series to date - holy moly what a level!
For such an old game, Starcraft 2 is still so exciting to watch at times. I just wish Protoss was also viable. Stormgate will have a lot to live up to.
Sc2 ain’t dead
The problem of Toss is that it is a very strong race at mid-pro level but when you reach the level of these monsters, the other race are better if you have the APM required. The skill cap for terran is high but the Maru/Clem of this world are so good that they can unleash the full potential of the race which almost no one can. Pretty sur if you let an AI play with no APM limit, terran is the strongest race... but at a human level...it is the hardest race.
@@Caccac40 I don't play SC2 but do watch. No APM limit, blink stalker will obliterate everything.
@@daominhhuy2011for sur they will be strong but won't obliterate you forget about borrow and medivac pick up. Many shots can be avoided while the blink has a cool down. There will be a tough window for sure but I don't think they would "obliterate everything"
Clem is so incredible, that third game oh my goodness
They bowed to each other at the end. True samurais.
Definitely the series of the year. It must have felt so satisfying to finally beat Serral in a series. Congratulations to Clem. He deserves it
That third game was a masterpiece.
What a series what a game, 3 game best game that I ever witnessed, just incredible, incredible, it wasn't like errors or screw ups, nop, both were at the top top level, incredible series
Esto definitivamente es top StarCraft 2. No hay partida que supere esta serie 👏👏
The third person over shoulder segment is insane! How did this idea take 15 years lol I love it!
this series was INSANE! game 3, even game 2 was magnificent! like clem was attacking from 3 different spots at once, and then he threw in a fourth prong to the attack for a bit there.
what a great game, each player that can beat Serral is a true master
woooow. Game 3 was so tense
What a game!!!
That hero widowmine deserves a statue 😆
French casters said the same and french tchat pressed F when this heromine died
time when we see that widowmine, plz ?
@@GrosZug Myself i saw it in the french live stream so i don t know in this one but it was in the third game. When it died, the heromine was at more than 53 kills (tchat counts 58).
Me too but i wanted to see it again XD@@rocobrasaure
@@rocobrasaure sur la video c'est bien 58 kills
"So what's your strategy for this series? - Harrassing, offmeta, meta, micro, macro, overwhelm, tactics, ...?" "Yes." "What do you mean?" "All of them at once"
With no disrespect to Dark, this semi finals series was even better. Personal opinion. Gratz to Clem!
Agreed
Fr
games 2 and 3 were incredible. highest level sc2 of all time
The 2nd game is just unbelievable. Such goosebumps! I'd say that would have been impossible even for an AI.
AI will beat either of these within 5 minutes 100% of the time.
this is simply not true@@aj2228
@@aj2228 ey look an angry sad person
Intensely awesome
you always love terran amazing game
Alright, that was epic gameplay
I love this game Don’t play it anymore since I work all the time but I will always watch High level gameplay Something special about this game The 10 year old in me loves this game My life for Auir
11:14 Insane how Serral drops changelings behind Clems army so they are blocked and cannot retreat as quickly
Game gets better every year
Clem is now the best all around Terran player of all time surpassing Byun and Maru. His game play is so well rounded, whether it be multi prong attacks, defensive styles, hyper aggressive , multi prong harassments while macroing up behind, and you name it.
He is probably playing the best Terran right at the moment, yes. But hes not YET best of all time, because Byun won a world championship and Maru won 7 GSL along with other big tournaments as well. But Clem will have a chance to surpass both of them if he can keep this up for sure.
Hard to pass Maru on Titels, but he is playing the game insanely good at times. He is TvZ sure feels like the best of all time.
Florencio cam 1:05:50
Well deserved win against Serral, what a freakin amazing series that was!
Now Terran have a great counter to a OP Zerg mass attack a real sniper
Terran counter everything, free scans, free workers=crazy income+army supply, ghosts the best unit in the game, ability to camp to infinity, widow mines, mass liberators with astronomical range
People say SC is dead. I have no clue what they're saying. The games are so entertaining at this point!
awesome!amazing!
a moment of silence for the poor observer who has to follow along at this pace
ESL. Please. Just please copy how GSL titles their VODs to prevent spoilers. Just put “Grand Finals” on the thumbnail. @ESL
We find him, we find the guy....Serral Killer!
He open the way now
😂 Solar and Maru are ALREADY Serral killers; they've both done it three times or more. The best series I've ever seen is still Dreamhack Winter 2021, Maru 4 - 2 Serral. You can't pretend that just because Clem won his first [ever] Premier tournament best of 7 against Serral, that this means he's the first/only/preeminent player to do it. He's good, sure, but a few have come before...
Clem juste incroyable, un monstre micro-macro, l’assurance prise est indéniable, quel moment incroyable sur le stream de la ComeBackTv c’était juste incroyable de te voir enchainer les bonnes prises de décisions, c’est mérité !! Bravo l’artiste
So much class from Serral, realizing how overwhelmed Clem was in the exact moment, to come over and give him a handshake instead of waiting for Clem to come to him
Чудова, захоплюючи гра! Невже Клем - новий Мару?
every other terran but Clem and Maru would get completely destroyed in game 3
That 3rd game was incredible, just wow. The announcers get really hyped 1:04:15 😂
clem's cc tactics is so uber.
Ghost is by far the best unit in the game
crazy
55:16 Angels exist!
I think and are under feeling that Serral did play tickle tickle kind of a game with Clem. TH
Clem clem clemmmmmmm ! 🎉🎉🎉
56:16*
58:18 it was 64 suply vs 152.... 56 vs 110 army suply how is this even possible to come back from...
the mulehammer
Is Serral actually a Zerg?
Clem is the antidote of Serral.
i need the casters to mind read the players through game
Do Europeans find it odd that the US Army is advertising on the ESL?
As european i dont care as long as they pay for this events
kinda smart to recruit competitive SC2 players into the army, they have good self-discipline, reaction time and sense of tactics. btw DVA character from overwatch 2 is a little teenage starcraft 2 pro that was recruited to the army to fight in a mecha because of her skills
C'est ça qu'on veut laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ! Woualleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez !!!!!
WOW
If Terran plays at 100% Zerg must play at 150% ( and toss at 300% 😂)
Seral visibly tilted after incredable game 3 from clem
The "aim high" cam is distracting. The airforce needs a different recruiting tool.
Chlem playing like a zerg.. amazing level play
yes, every zerg is scanning and sniping on rapidfire
Ironically, hes playing like Maru, aka the lategame turtling style.
Why serral produced ultra when clem had 15 ghosts? I am not saying he is wrong but i want know reason
Zerg have been seeing success with ultras more recently, probably due to a combo of the snipe damage nerf, smaller model size, and slightly cheaper cost. Plus, T hasn't had as much practice playing against ultras in the past, although that seems to be changing. The meta will probably shift again before Katowice arrives. I wonder if part of the solution will be adding in a sprinkle of broods?
@@apeist But still i think this is poor choice. Ultras just couldnt get value vs 15 ghost
He wanted the big fungal on the ghosts. But he didn't get it, at least not when he needed it the most.
@@johnkalyvas4838 He had banelings which kill units faster in fangal than ultra
With that bank 60 mutas win the game... sad.
Mules good unit...
Seems like Zerg has to work so much harder for wins.
that 3rd game was something. i'm curious, can the players hear the commentators?
I imagine that would spoil important battlefield info
nah they can't. they have earpieces for game audio.. then mufflers on top to mute out the arena. As you can see, they never take off those mufflers.
I'm uncertain whether players can hear the casters, but it seems they might unintentionally provide one player with more information. For example, during this game, some crucial moments were exposed: At 37:10, after Clem's scan missed, the casters revealed that Serral had a Lurker Den and a Hydra Den. At 40:15, they disclosed information about a doom drop. At 1:02:32, they give away an infestor. Do you think imposing a mandatory delay on casters, similar to the delay used by streamers, would be a solution to avoid giving an advantage to their favored player?
Anticipation. They are high level players and they regularly confront each other. And I'm sure you can find plenty of examples where players don't react to information given by casters.
Those headphones pump in a ton of white noise - players can't hear us!
the headphones nowadays have active noise cancelling , you cannot even hear the person talking next to you , only lip reading , i tried one at home and i was mesmerized by the quality of this feature
And also, they were playing in the fog of war. Just because you hear the cheer or scream, it might not mean much.
Clem the kingslayer
In that case, Godslayer !
Serral is so good I always want him to lose haha
😵
I can't even
God of terran
Just clicked to watch this one, and suggested at the very top is the one with the Grand Finals... Please don't have the names of the players when they are at the final stages, just have Semi/Grand Finals (or whatever round it is). Anyway, I will still watch this because all the games between these two are amazing.
This is all the proof that humans could colonize mars.
Great games as always from these two. It's a pitty this channel's video quality is so bad.
Clem>Maru
For once yes. This time, Maru is not the best Terran in the world any more.
He is now
@@Anthobvs They way Maru played in Atlanta this time around, hes not even the 3rd best Terran in the world.
@@tigera6 sad but true
Amazing series Sc2 players at the perfection of Skills but Terran so fkng OP
No but Clem is OP (like Serral) !
Ghosts are imba in the hands of Clem
Ghosts + medivacs are OP.
"sexy fungal"
テラン、プロトスでザーグを破壊する道はいくつもあるがザーグは苦しいようにみえる
Zerg doing everything in vain, fungals doing nothing, terran picking up after every mistake, terran turtling and being invincible, etc. This was a terrible game that only showed the imbalance.
Is it just me or does it seem like serral gave up a bit too early? Feels like he lost heart.
clem有点猛😃
Serral needs to be nerfed. Too OP.
Terrans broken
get rekt overpowered zerg!!!!!!!
So happy Clem was able to kill the boring POS Serral. Amazing games
I like that Zerg needs to hit fungal growths on ghosts to win at that stage of the game since ghosts counter all of Zerg late game units and fungals do no damage and last 1 second and are projectiles that can be dodged (unlike EMPs) and infestors are fat and slow and rely on being undetected in the backline for a suicide attack with this ability that is super hard to land and even if it lands does fuck all because terran just picks up into medivacs before banes can hit. Just wonderful experience for Z vs T in 2023
Once again, ultralisks make serral lose in a big tournament
Mutas would stop the stupid liberaters aswell and map control and harassment.. geez why?! Why does serral not make mutas?
you have no idea about the game. I guess you are gold league?