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57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-01-01 22:45:12
January 01 2011 22:32 GMT
#1
Ok, so I entered today's craft cup, knowing I wasn't going to get far, but entering for the lulz anyways.

First round I get a bye. Considering around 270 people checked in for the tournament, most people in the first round got byes.

Second round I faced a 2200 Zerg player. We elim our maps, and end up with Xelnaga caverns. I spawn top he spawns bottom. He doesn't fast expand, chosing to go for quick winglings while I open with my standart 9 pylon, 12 gate, 14 gas, 15 pylon. He tries scouting a few times with lings, but to no success. Time passes, and I get a stargate and 2 more gateways, making 3 total. At around 9 minutes i push out with a sizable gateway army (6-7 zealots, 4 stalkers, 1-2 sentries) and 3 void rays. He is caught completely off guard by the attack (he had just started his hydra den), and I won.

Third round I face a 900 point platium protoss player.
We get Xelnaga again. I use the PvP strategy i have been using recently (I call it the korean 3gate), and he falls pretty easily. At the start i remembered seeing a video of a very strong cannon rush on the bottom base of xelnaga, so i placed my first pylon in a place that would prevent that. Nothing much exciting here, and by this time I was feeling pretty good. I had made it farther than I expected.

Fourth roundI looked up my opponent, and i proceeded to shit my pants. 3150 Zerg at the top of their league. I still want to win though, so i go for it. We get Metalopolis as our map, he spawned bottom, i spawned top. I tried the same strategy that I used in the first game, but was met with three times the roaches compared to the first zerg. My void rays deal a bit of damage, but his roaches completely own all of my ground units. I enter a death struggle, defending from the mass burrowing roach (no tunneling claws yet) with only a few sentries and stalkers left at home. Forcefielding my ramp, i then see he starts to get hydras. After a bunch of forcefielding and a bit if mismicro, he storms up my ramp with quite a few Hydras and Roaches, and I GG.

Well, I made it past the point I thought I would, and thats what matters.

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Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
Entropic
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada2837 Posts
January 01 2011 22:39 GMT
#2
3gate voidray no good

My friend just played in today's craftcup as well. He got knocked out first round, might be even by the same zerg (he said some 3000+pt zerg haha).
omgCRAZY
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada551 Posts
January 01 2011 23:03 GMT
#3
I played today too. Was a lot of fun. I made it to the 3rd round (1st rnd bye). But could not stop a Terran timing attack on Metalopolis close positions. Oh well. Gratz on making it to the 4th round.
THIS NEEDS FACE!
lac29
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1485 Posts
January 01 2011 23:11 GMT
#4
I'm impressed with their website ... it looks very userfriendly and pretty straightforward. I wonder if other tourneys are run as well as theirs'.
Pokebunny
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States10654 Posts
January 02 2011 00:16 GMT
#5
who was the zerg? I am curious.
Semipro Terran player | Pokebunny#1710 | twitter.com/Pokebunny | twitch.tv/Pokebunny | facebook.com/PokebunnySC
qwerfsad
Profile Joined July 2010
United States23 Posts
January 02 2011 01:47 GMT
#6
the zerg he play was Xomp
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
January 02 2011 02:01 GMT
#7
On January 02 2011 10:47 qwerfsad wrote:
the zerg he play was Xomp


Yea, him. He got elim'd next round though.
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
Nub4ever
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada1981 Posts
January 02 2011 05:00 GMT
#8
On January 02 2011 08:11 lac29 wrote:
I'm impressed with their website ... it looks very userfriendly and pretty straightforward. I wonder if other tourneys are run as well as theirs'.

Not all of the other ones are imo, At least the few tournaments I"ve been in before at best used like irc and stuff, nothing like craftcup's website that has everythiing build in, even choosing who you're playing and stuffssss
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