Clash of LR titans: The_Templar vs GumBa Game 1

The two players were very friendly, almost too friendly. In fact, The_Templar tried to reveal that he was GumBa's mother, a statement which made no sense. He attempted to confuse the issue by giving lichter a shoutout (Shoutout to lichter by the way), but GumBa had none of that and interrogated The_Templar on the state of the map pool, calling him 'literally worse than MLG'. This is the most serious insult possible and GumBa is giving a formal apology for it soon™.

As the game progressed, The_Templar threw a wrench in things by NOT battlecruiser rushing, even though he had gone 10-1 in ladder in TvZ with it only a few weeks ago, losing just to proxy swarm hosts on Overgrowth.

In fact, The_Templar was so confident, he announced he wasn't BC rushing. Admittedly this is at the point that GumBa can see an expansion and no gas in the main.




GumBa went for the newly formed strategy known as the "+burrow slow zergling timing" by researching burrow before zergling speed.




The_Templar, however, was not going for a sensor tower rush. He watched the VODs of himself playing in the LRSL and found his games against Chipmunklord17. In game 2, The_Templar had done a mass marine all-in off of two bases but had horribly misplayed it and lost after forgetting to make reinforcement units.

The build in question is somewhat difficult to identify, as it hides under a sheer number of barracks.




As there are only about 6 marines available before the production of 10 barracks, 8 with reactors, kicks in, at least 3-4 bunkers are needed in case the zerg does an all-in.




The_Templar's strategy is revealed to an enemy spy. However, it is unclear as to whether the build is mass marines or mass reapers.




The first move-out was extremely successful.




Upon realizing that creep was already halfway across the map, The_Templar suddenly saw the face of his greatest nemesis behind the veil of an alternate ID.




The_Templar praised himself for his amazing marine split in the last battle, right as he was moving out again.



Since The_Templar was probably not going to be playing a lot of TvZ in this series, he decided it would be a good idea to practice his marine splits anyway.






Here, The_Templar tries to sneak around the other side with 6 marines, but he is caught by units that were at the same location they had been for the last 5 minutes.




At this point, The_Templar's strategy and very odd map choice became shockingly clear. He intended to keep GumBa occupied on one of the main lanes while pushing the other one. (In fact, he had a similar thing planned for every matchup except ZvZ) However, GumBa's early 4th base and creep spread allowed him to easily keep up.






…And eventually The_Templar was forced back to his natural.







The_Templar did not like to give up, and prepared himself for a long fight over his natural as soon as he retreated.



However, he suddenly realized GumBa was on 5 bases and bowed out.




While The_Templar has a wide variety of cheeses and all-ins to choose from, many of them require a higher level of play to execute, such as this one. GumBa showed extremely strong macro play in this game, suggesting that The_Templar might need to go for an earlier all-in than this one to win.

To be continued...

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