Going pro - Part 3

Round 1:
Met some silver dude, sent some marines early and the game was just over. Nothing else to say really lol.

Round 2:
Met a zerg on 2.3k rating, this was bo1 so I went with my mass marine build. We had some intense battles outside his natural, with me just rallying more and more troops to him. Eventually I sent a group of marines up and took out his third, and short after his natural also fell. After this I just went up his ramp and won the game, recieving some angry comments from my opponent after.

Quarter finals(bo3):
In this round I met a 2400 diamond rated terran. He and his opponent was still in the game, so I had some time to go through his match history and found out that he liked to go for blue flame hellion drops in TvT, so I placed my marines out to stop any drops and placed them in a line at my ramp to minimize splash. It worked out decently, although after some disorganisation on my part he got hellions into my mains mineral line, the damage wasn't enough tho as he had lost a lot of hellions and he lost that drop too. I eventually went on to take game one!

Game 2:
If I recall correctly, he went for onebase pressure that I barely held off with heavy losses, as I went for my standard marine heavy FE. In the end, my control of the xel'nagas caused me to win the game, as I caught his army in an awkward position and completely demolished it. He went on to call me a hacker and left the game. Feels good! Props to you, Noxout, for handling a loss real well!

Semi Finals(bo3)
My opponent was a random race player on 1.9k. First game he spawned as zerg and tried to baneling bust me. When it didn't work he tried it again. And again. And again.
Kinda like this:
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Eventually I just won since I survived all the baneling busts, not much more to it.

Game 2:
I went for mass marine again, as I feel confident I can beat most zergs just straight up, even if I used that same style before. I failed pretty hard on micro this game however, and thought I was going to loose. I managed to turn the game around slowly though, and pull out a win, mostly because of superior macro.

Finals(bo3):
My opponent was a 2k rated toss, and my TvP is just horrible so I didn't really expect to win. I went for a FE with marauders into bio + double starport vikings in all three games, while he went for colossus tech in game 1 and 2. Game 1 was on "Enigma" and it is a fairly wide map so I figured that if I just got a third relatively early and massed up a lot of units I could get realy good concaves on this map, and I should be able to beat colossus tech quite easily with viking support. It worked out nicely and I won game 1.


If only all maps were as wide as this one!

Game 2:
Second map was match point, I went for an FE with early marauder pressure. My opponent stopped it pretty easily with Force fields(tm), and even though it was a pretty even game, my opponent choose to attack me at a time where my first vikings had not finished yet. I was in a decent angle when the attack came, but for some reason I choose to back into a corner and take many unnessecary hits while relocating my army. I also didn't split my units up at all, so micro fail really cost me the game here. He went on to kill off my third and by then it was already GG.

A horrible sight, many scv's families cried that night.

Game 3:
I thought about my map choice for a while, looking through the map pool. I wanted a map that was as open as possible, so I could get as good concaves as possible if he would go for colossus again. I choose God's Garden, a map that I really liked in BW and that has a really wide and open middle which makes it just great for me.

I figured that if I just played like game 1 on this map, I would win no problem, so going for a similar plan on this map I had my expansion up when suddenly:


My opponent going for blink was very unexpected, and as I had seen his stalkers in the middle of the map, and moved out to snipe them with my marauders it could have turned out really bad, but fortunately my army wasn't that far out and since my army was almost only marauders I could clean up all the stalkers in my base while taking very little damage, I then went out to take out his proxy pylon and killed even more stalkers on the way there. Having no expansion and no army my opponent GG'd and I had actually won the tour, I was really happy!