It’s past 3AM here, and over the past 6 hours or so, I have been cranking on a few minor features for Spawning Tool, but primarily machine learning to learn to label build orders. It’s not very well-trained at the moment, but it got to 61% on Reaper Expands, so it was above 50-50. More importantly, the code ran to completion! I’ll write more about that soon.

In the meantime, however, I think I might be sleeping in tomorrow, so I thought I would publish stats before heading to bed. Enjoy the semifinals tomorrow!

MC (P) v jjakji (T)
1. MC beat jjakji 3-1 at IEM Sao Paulo with surprises everywhere. He opened Blink, Phoenix, DTs, and Robo
http://spawningtool.com/research/?p=1&after_time=&before_time=&after_played_on=&before_played_on=&p1-race=&p1-tag=106&p2-race=&p2-tag=475
2. Out of 10 recent TvPs, jjakji went for a Bio Mine composition. Expect to see more of it
http://spawningtool.com/research/?p=1&after_time=&before_time=&after_played_on=1%2F1%2F14&before_played_on=&p1-race=&p1-tag=475&p1-tag=132&p2-race=1&p2-tag=

MMA (T) v San (P)
1. San loves Templar. Before the 25 minute mark, he casts ~2.6x as many Storms as all PvTs, and Ghost usage is also up to compensate
http://spawningtool.com/research/abilities/?after_time=&before_played_on=&p2-race=2&p1-race=&p1-tag=286&before_time=&after_played_on=&p2-tag=&el-after_time=&el-before_time=25
http://spawningtool.com/research/abilities/?after_time=&before_played_on=&p2-race=2&p1-race=1&p1-tag=&before_time=&after_played_on=&p2-tag=&el-after_time=&el-before_time=25

Alicia (P) v HyuN (Z)
1. In 18 games, Alicia has never played a PvZ shorter than 12 minutes.
http://spawningtool.com/research/winrates/?after_time=&before_played_on=&p2-tag=&p1-race=&p1-tag=285&p2-race=3&before_time=&after_played_on=
2. Unlike his ZvT, HyuN doesn’t care how long a ZvP lasts: his win rates are always about the same
http://spawningtool.com/research/winrates/?after_time=&before_played_on=&p2-tag=&p1-race=&p1-tag=82&p2-race=1&before_time=&after_played_on=

Revival (Z) v Oz (P)
1. Oz does a lot of Forge Fast Expands (which are less popular than Nexus First and 1 Gate Expand builds) and at a lot of different timings
http://spawningtool.com/research/tags/?after_time=&before_played_on=&p2-tag=&p1-race=&p1-tag=380&p2-race=3&before_time=&after_played_on=