For quite a long time, these two players have been heated rivals. Each of them has met several times in the past. When they do, they always makes for a great match. This years BlizzCon would certainly be no different.

Game 1 on Blitz X:

The first and perhaps most exciting match of the entire tournament put these two rivals in an epic clash of skill. sAviOr would start at the 10 o clock position and Nal_rA would spawn at 2 o clock.

In an attempt to perhaps gain an early advantage, sAviOr builds a spawning pool before expanding with a second hatchery. When the zerg finally has enough money to build his second hatchery it is stopped. Nal_rA puts down a pylon blocking his natural expansion from being built, at least temporarily.

sAviOr expands to his second natural while Nal_rA ops to play defensively, building only corsairs. Back at the zergs base, sAviOr has chosen to build a spire and hydralisk den. He uses the hydralisks to defend his overlords while several mutalisks and scourge are made in order to combat the protoss air fleet.

Nal_rA decides to put down two robotics facility and a robotics support bay to build shuttles and reavers. Once he gets his first reavers, Nal_rA moves out to destroy sAviOr’s expansions. His strategy works, Nal_rA is able to cause serious damage at two of the zerg expansions causing him to lose several drones and a large portion of his ground force.

During the protoss attacks, sAviOr is able to use his mutalisks and scourge effectively and kills off several of the protoss units. The fights go back and forth in the air, but on the ground, sAviOr is massing a very large force of hydralisks and zerglings.

Both players are continuously expanding. In the middle of the map, Nal_rA begins to pressure one of sAviOr’s key expansions in which sAviOr is prepared to defend. Both of these players fight back and forth for close to ten minutes. When it seems like Nal_rA had overpowered the zerg, sAviOr is able to use plague and dark swarm to push Nal_rA back into his base.

By this point, sAviOr’s ground force is just too strong and Nal_rA types GG.

Game 2 on Reverse Temple:

Unfortunately, the final match of the whole event would be one of the shortest. In a bold move, Nal_rA decides to build his gateways in the middle of the map. sAviOr again starts off with a spawning pool before his hatchery.

Realizing that Nal_rA does not have his gateways in his base, he sends all of his zerglings right into the protoss main. His zerglings manage to kill off several probes and slow down the economy of Nal_rA tremendously.

Nal_rA sends a few zealots to sAviOr’s base and with great micro is able to kill several lings and the second hatchery. However, this would not be enough and sAviOr would be able to kill the remaining zealots. Knowing that the match is over, Nal_rA types GG and sAviOr wins.

sAviOr is the winner of the second BlizzCon SC Invitational.