EPTNow back to the tournament, all of the matches were Bo3 and my first match of the day was a ZvP on Metalopolis. Of course I just had the bright idea of trying to metagame my opponent by assuming he would FFE ( it was metal gimme a break! :D) So I was very shocked to learn after I put down my third hatch that he did a 3gate build.... Ruh Roh... Luckily he only found out about the third after it was done and mining. At the 6 minute mark I was smelling something fishy (no expand by toss) and sacrificed one of my brave overlords for the greater good. That brave soldier did his duty and spied a warping DT shrine. Aha! His dt expand was scouted and since I had such a large economic advantage it was smooth sailing from there.. Oh wait somehow in my exultation from scouting the shrine I had let 6 zealots nearly kill my third... Im so good. After that scare the game was pretty much over, and I ended up winning the next game to finish that match 2-0.
On to the next match, my next opponent was also a protoss (just my luck T_T) these games were nowhere near as exciting, other then the fact that as part of my army comp in game 2 I did the slow creep spread march of death, using 6 queens as AA with some roaches God Save the Queen(s)!!!
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My next matchup was the one i was most worried about... ZvZ (Insert Dramatic sounds effect here)
First game was pretty standard, ling/bane wars transition into roach V roach battle. In which I ended up winning just by the skin of my ass. Second game was not my best work.. 14/14 into 8lings + spine crawler rush. Needless to say I cried myself to sleep at the memory of that cheese...
So at this point I was feeling pretty good... Who am I kidding I felt like the fucking king of the world.
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At this point I had had won 3 series without dropping a game.. Awww yeeeee /brag
The finals were a whole nother story... To get things straight as this was my first LAN event I was pretty shook up and nervous. To add onto that the finals of my division were being streamed downstairs onto a projector where 30+ people watched me play, it may not seem like much but it a really awesome experience and made me appreciate the amount of skill it took to play infront of thousands.
Back to the games, my opponent this time was a Terran, I thought I had it easy since ZvT was my second best matchup. But I came to learn that marines are a pretty good unit XD 3 out of 5 games were some kind of marine/tank timing push. The first game I won using some mutalisk harass and crushing his first push putting him way behind. The second game on Xel Naga made me want to fill a locker full of zerg tears
The same build was used but this time without a fast third I could do almost nothing to stop it, well maybe I could have turned down the suck but you know......At this point the score is 1-1 in a Bo5, the third game was on Antiga so I figured a good ol fashioned macro game. Needless to say he did the same marine/tank timing push and killed my third... At this point I thought the game was over but I realized during all of our games the terran seldom took the towers. So since I was so far behind I decided to go bat shit crazy and double expand at the golds... It worked.
Score is 2-1 I'm vibrating in my seat at the prospect of winning in my first tournament. Last game is shattered temple. At the beginning we agree that I wont use mutalisks if he doesnt use marines :D ( who cares were platinum!!!) After a normal hellion expand without those damn marines, I sent my overlord lieutenant to scout the opposing enemy's base.. He died well revealing the sly ways of the terran war machine...... CLOAK BANSHEES!!!!!!!
I got pretty scared, I hadn't even started my lair and I couldn't use mutas? WHAT COULD I DO?!?!
Simple answer.
Queens. 5 queens to be exact.
Trying to go for some type of all in he didn't know I had seen his trickery and after a rather effective drop of blue flame hellions I marched my ENTIRE base over to him drones and all. ( But unknown to him I had made a hydra den haha!!!) I started to focus those damn banshees while my roaches fought the hellions and my brave drones battled against the terran workforce. The game was very intense from this point on, I could hear the crowd ooohh and ahhh at dat micro.. In the end it all came down to 2 hydras marching their slow snail butts cross map to snipe the last remaining banshee...
Silence...
My Reaction....
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YAYAYAYYA HERP DERP HAHFUEGFJEHGWEG
Greatest feeling in the world, knowing all that ''hard work'' payed off with my first win, and at that time I learned there was a cash prize.. 25 BUCKS!!! JUST FOR PLAYING STARCRAFT!!!! I then realized that technically I am a progamer now... Better watch out guys you wont see the last of me, ill be sure not to rough IdrA up too much at the next MLG seeing as how I am a progamer now........
