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Ikidomari
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia485 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-02 10:56:24
July 02 2012 10:47 GMT
#1
Hello TL, as promised 3 days ago in my last promotion blog, Another battle report (My TL name was Justicejimzor for the last ONE). the game Which got me promoted (to platinum) was sloppy and poorly played by both of us. So instead I'll do a battle report of the ladder match the game before i got promoted. It was me (gold Terran) vs a Diamond Protoss.

Beware, Spoiler is image heavy.
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Just some friendly pre-game banter

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This guy was Really friendly

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A single stalker doesn't do too well against a large group of marines

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Wait, don't fast expanding Protoss need at least 5 gates? or 4gate robo?

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And uhh.. Probes on Gas?

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Luckily his Precious little Gas wasn't wasted on this observer, as I didn't have the energy to scan him before he flew away

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3 Colossus, one of the scariest things I could see.. my 4 vikings don't seem so good now.

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My APM peaks to 4x it's usual amount as i realize the Flying units Which will make my army worth anything at all are Flying in Alone.

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I chose to A-move, he chose to Run-Away-Move

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Turns out units Which attack beat units Which run away slowly. though i fear i would have Lost this FighT if my factory didn't absorb the 26 hit-points that it did.

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My opponent points out that i play an unfair race, I am dismayed to realize that this is the sole Reason I bested him in 1-on-1 combat.

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Despite losing due to unfair play, my opponent is still manner, and leaves with a good game.

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Next stop, Diamond League!

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BONUS! My ladder hasn't looked this good in a while, i got promoted to gold league on the last game stating '4 days ago'. there are about 11 games above this, of Which i won Only 4 (Diamonds are hard Okay)


Thanks for reading! Good luck and more importantly, have fun in your own games!

P.S. for anyone Who wants to hear me get mad as i lose, listen to ridiculous skype conversations, and see worse-than-average Plat>Dia Terran play check out my stream.
http://www.twitch.tv/ikidomari
I will try to stream at least 3 hrs a day (Probably more like 5-6 hours a day if i get a non-zero amount of viewers) from anywhere between 7:00PM > 3:00AM, and then again from 11:00AM > 4:00PM.

P.P.S. Any random capitilization i didn't notice is because i accidentally TLPD-ised the whole blog, and un-TLPDising didn't return it 100% to normal

**
Just break the rules, and you see the truth.
kongor
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada38 Posts
July 02 2012 12:56 GMT
#2
Congrats! Promotions are awesome...
Oldfool
Profile Joined January 2011
Australia394 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-07-02 13:09:22
July 02 2012 13:08 GMT
#3
Congrats! I was also just promoted to diamond after placing plat yesterday, coming off a 3 month break, feels good

And WOW you chat so much!
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it is difficult to discern whether or not they are genuine." - Abraham Lincoln
Ikidomari
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia485 Posts
July 02 2012 13:33 GMT
#4
Hahaha I don't normally chat so much, but this guy was nice. normally it's just "Glhf! :D" and that's the end of it
Just break the rules, and you see the truth.
DawN883
Profile Joined November 2011
Sweden558 Posts
July 02 2012 14:33 GMT
#5
Nice! congratulations! Getting promoted feels awesome!
If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die
danl9rm
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States3111 Posts
July 02 2012 14:46 GMT
#6
Entertaining read, hah.
"Science has so well established that the preborn baby in the womb is a living human being that most pro-choice activists have conceded the point. ..since the abortion proponents have lost the science argument, they are now advocating an existential one."
FlaShFTW
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States10529 Posts
July 02 2012 17:43 GMT
#7
congratz.

apparently the new meta, is that if you lose, a race is op :D
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Zealos
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United Kingdom3576 Posts
July 02 2012 19:12 GMT
#8
On July 03 2012 02:43 FlaShFTW wrote:
congratz.

apparently the new meta, is that if you lose, a race is op :D

Wasn't that always the meta? :D
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hooahah
Profile Joined October 2011
3752 Posts
July 02 2012 20:19 GMT
#9
nice, grats!
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
July 03 2012 01:30 GMT
#10
what's up with the random capitalization?
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
lac29
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States1485 Posts
July 03 2012 04:11 GMT
#11
Nice! What builds are you using these days for each matchup?
Ikidomari
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia485 Posts
July 03 2012 14:56 GMT
#12
On July 03 2012 10:30 mizU wrote:
what's up with the random capitalization?

says at the end in the P.P.S
Just break the rules, and you see the truth.
Ikidomari
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Australia485 Posts
July 03 2012 15:01 GMT
#13
On July 03 2012 13:11 lac29 wrote:
Nice! What builds are you using these days for each matchup?

Same build for every matchup with a slight variation
9depo
12rax
constant marines (for rest of game)
16orbital
CC when money
2 rax when money
2 gas when money
2 tech labs, 1 reactor
Stim/combat
Factory
Start gas at natural when factory finishes, starport at same time, put reactor on the Factory for a swap with SP
Double engibay

then:
vT Constant medivacs, attack when 1/1 finishes, (expand/armory while pushing out vs all 3 races)

vP
scan when i start medivacs, if there is robo, no TC, chuck a 2nd starport, push when 4 medivacs 6 vikings
if TC, make ghost academy, push when i have cloak
if both, make ghosts / 4 vikings

vZ
after medivacs start, put a reactor on the rax, push with 6 hellions, 8 medivacs

most games i push out between 11 and 13 minutes
Just break the rules, and you see the truth.
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