My online tournament recap (p1)

We spawn close air, which I immediately scout with my OL. I go for 15 hatch, 15 pool, or well...that was my original plan. Too bad I accidentally made an OL instead of a pool because I thought I already made a pool. Oops. Maybe I should've played a practice game before the tournament <_<




The worst part was that he was doing the standard 2 rax, and my zerglings were heavily delayed, but because he was rusty too, his opening was a couple seconds late and I successfully held off his attack with a handful of lings, forcing him to cancel his bunker and walk back home with a couple of marine casualties.

Seeing his expansion, I grab my third at around the 10 minute mark, around the same time as his natural starts to get saturated. Using an OL, I see a factory + tech lab, so I anticipate the standard marine/tank build. This calls for standard zerg play: mutas!




Eventually he decides he has a big enough marine/tank ball to push through. But he's not expecting me to engage so soon and well, I catch a couple of his tank unsieged! I push through and engage with about 40 lings, 20 banes, and 10 or so mutas against his 20ish marines and 5 tanks.




I dunno if he was looking somewhere else but all my banelings exploded on his marines and....yeah.




Foolishly thinking I was really far ahead, I decide to do a small counter attack with my mutas and fly directly over a pack of marines and a thor in his main. I think I end up losing like 6 mutas for free. He tries to expand to the gold but I deny it with a ton of lings and blings, forcing him to lift. His army composition starts to look like Thor/Marine while I'm still sticking to ling/bling/muta. I'm sitting at a comfortable 61 drones to his 55 SCVs, and my 4th and 5th have just gone up. Things are looking good.




He manages to sneak in his 3rd and makes it into a planetary with turret support before I can deny it, but by now I have a pretty scary flock of 30 mutas. So here I am, destroying his main with my mutas when for some reason or another, I end up looking away for 5 seconds. This is what happens when you don't look at your mutas for 5 seconds.







Here comes his big push. I think I have enough units, so I throw everything I have at him. Turns out thors and marines actually do a shit ton of dps. I lose pretty much all my lings and blings for maybe a tank and a couple marines.




Good thing I had 5 hatcheries though, because I end up making around 60 zerglings and A LOT of baimnings.




I end up wiping out that attack even when I decide to be retarded and use my lings on marines and banelings on thors herpderp. Now I have ultras out. My opponent is still in this game though, he has now expanded to the gold and has cut thor production. Now' he's got a ton of marines and tanks, perfect against my ground army (not sure why I didn't go Broodlords).

But then I did what every Zerg player does when he's miles ahead. I made a million banelings and right clicked on his planetary fortress at the gold. It died. By this time I was so far ahead it was the simple matter of finishing him up for the GG.