EPTI arrived on early saturday and started playing my games, It was 2 groups of 5 people, with 2 bronzies and 2 masters per groups, plus a gold-plat player ( that would be me ! ).
So I came out of the group in loser's bracket after taking 2 games 2-0, and losing two games 2-0 against a Zerg and a Protoss, both masters, but I was SO CLOSE to taking 1 game to both of them, by 10 pooling the Zerg and Nydus rushing the Protoss.
Anyways, I was in LB against a bronze from the other group, I won 2-0 and then I had to wait 3 hours to play another Zerg master who lost in the WB 2-1 to the Protoss.
I go out, light my cigarette and think about good ZvZ strats, go to the nearest Mc Donalds that's like 5mn away and eat my meal in front of ZvZ replays of pros. The announcers call my name : 30mns left.
i have another break, come back in, go in a ladder game, ZvZ, I lose.
Well, fuck me. I have to play right now.
The game starts, 1st map is entombed, I get rolled over because I fail my build so hard it's ridiculous. I take a deep breath and when he asks me :
-"map ?"
I have a brilliant idea :
-" Tal'darim Altar"
The game starts, I 6pool.
It's a blind 6 pool on the biggest map of the LAN's map pool, and it has multi spawns, my lings pop, i send them north, they reach the middle of the map and I realize he's at the 7 o'clock position. Well, fuck.
My lings enter the nat, hatch first ... good
Gas second ? Pool third ??? PERFECT
He microes, I micro, 4 drones left, his lings are killed by my sick Plat-level micro and the incoming reinforcements.
GG.
I pull off my headset, punch the air with my fist and smile.
Damn that felt good, I took a game off of a master !!
Then i proceed to lose Game 3 to a stupid decision error, but still !
He comes up to me, says " GG dude, that 6 pool, that was crazy, you're good man ! "
He lost 4-2 to the protoss in the grand finals but mad props to the guy, xShogo, for being so good and so mannered !
That was the highlights of my 1st lan, for those who read this I can leave you a link to the replay if you appeared to care
. I guess even 6 pools take some skill to pull off well, right?
