Korea Trip and CSL Blog #2

In this game, I went for a build that I have had a lot of success with on ladder. It is basically a double reactor barracks reaper into expo. I have found that against reaper or bio openings you pretty much straight up win if they don't go into factory quickly. Against hellion drops you can usually defend pretty well as you just stop reaper production and have 4 marine production. However, if you watch the game it didn't go so well. Aidan scouted the second rax and prepared with a bunker. I kind of over committed and was behind on tech.

Long story short I fell apart to his drops etc and lost.

ReMiiX -> Aidan

Georgia Tech 0 - 1 UMCP

So I didn't get to watch this game (I was on a walk with my mother :3) but I imagine it was epic.

While MaSsan's ZvZ is his weakest matchup, we predicted him to win this match in our pregame meeting.

Quantic.MaSsan <- RomanDragon

Georgia Tech 1 - 1 UMCP

So this isn't our usual 2v2 lineup. We were kind of experimenting with putting me in 1v1 and playing Aucamazn in 2s. Usually we play Rane/ReMiiX as TZ is the strongest 2v2 team in our opinion.
Aucamazn mains zerg and he got lucky by getting z in this matchup. Double racing is usually banned because it is extremely strong, but in the case of a team with random players it is allowed.

In this game, GT started out really really far ahead with a really successful attack on both players bases. I really think that at anytime Tech could have just pushed and won, but they decided to play out the macro game and eventually lost. I chalk this up to them being an inexperienced 2v2 team (it was one of their first times playing together. But I applaud UMCP for sticking in the game and playing it out.

Rane/Aucamazn -> TheHappyNUN/sGKINtoYOu

Georgia Tech 1 - 2 UMCP

Splayers is another new member to our lineup. Generally his spot is taken by a zerg, BORAT, but he was out of practice and unavailable so we ran Splayers on the most terran favored map (along with Akilon). UMCP had the same idea and ran a terran as well.

This was a pretty confusing game to start, since Splayers had like 60 workers before he decided to land his second CC in his natural. For the most part this was a pretty standard Mech vs Mech macro game, with Splayers generally staying ahead in the base and supply count. However, Splayers was WAY behind on mech upgrades (3-2 to 1-0) and suffered greatly because of it. Splayers eventually gg'd out (way too early imo) when a small push came, citing lag issues.

This was a pretty good game and I would have liked to have seen it played out a little more.

Splayers -> kimji

Georgia Tech 1 - 3 UMCP

I didn't get to watch this game either but why are we still playing Daybreak? I feel like ZvT is really Z favored on this map.

Since our games were played simultaneously, I was unaware of how close we were to losing here. Any losses would result in us being knocked out.

Luckily, Shield is where the deepness of our lineup really starts to shine. Before the match, we pegged this one as a win for Tech due to Shields ZvT dominance and the difference in ladder ranks.

FXOShield <- Shifty

Georgia Tech 2 - 3 UMCP

Once again, I did not get to watch this one but I think AWu rolled Zerg and it went to a macro game.

TheoRy is a very strong player so we were pretty confident in him winning this match.

FXOTheoRy <- AWu

Georgia Tech 3 - 3 UMCP

This was our first match that did not result in a 3-0 victory for Tech, so going to an ACE was a little scary.

We decided to play our hero, MaSsan against Aidan from UMCP on Neo Planet S.

MaSsan's ZvT is absolutely stupid so we were happy that they chose Aidan. We originally predicted them to throw RomanDragon again for a ZvZ tossup.

The game was a pretty standard macro game that resulted in a win for MaSsan and for Tech! Aidan had really good harassment, but eventually the macro and baneling mine usage (or lack thereof t_t) from MaSsan overcame it.

Quantic.MaSsan <- Aidan

Georgia Tech 4 - 3 UMCP