Clash of LR titans: The_Templar vs GumBa Game 7

Both players are shocked that it's the same matchup as the roach game!




GumBa opens fairly standard, but gets a late nexus considering it's a huge map of unbelievable size.



The_Templar gets a fast three bases and is playing standa- wait a second, that's a hidden base.




GumBa starts chronoboosting phoenixes. The_Templar hates, hates phoenixes as zerg because he likes to keep his overlords all out of the way so he doesn't have to look at them. Because of phoenixes, The_Templar has to keep his overlords all next to his spore crawlers, which is very frustrating for him.





GumBa also goes for zealot pressure.



Good thing The_Templar made roaches!




Phoenixes are super annoying.



At this point, The_Templar is really frustrated because he hates going up against phoenixes, hates playing macro ZvP, and is really tired after 6 long and exhausting games. He decides that he will go all-in with his roaches and leave if he doesn't do damage.





Suddenly, The_Templar becomes inspired and builds an infestation pit. What could he be planning? Might it be passion hosts?!?




Hint: it's ultralisks.




The_Templar unleashes his battle cry, "enjoy coca cola", and charges in with a 55 supply lead.



The ultralisks show us the dance of their people.



By the time the ultralisks get to the stalkers and colossi, all of them are dead.



GumBa tries a counterattack. Meanwhile, more ultralisks.





A few zerglings kill probes.



GumBa unleashes a ferocious counter-attack and manages to kill some queens as well as deny mining at the third base.





The_Templar made a plan to attack the main with ultralisks while running into the fourth again, in order to catch the army unaware.




However, ultralisks love to spontaneously dance.




Predictably, GumBa sent his entire army to the fourth, thinking The_Templar would assault it directly and had sent his zerglings too early, and by the time The_Templar managed to get one of the ultralisks to attack the gateway at the ramp, the army had already gotten back.



Meanwhile, GumBa's vision of the map.




The_Templar uses some #TheTemplarMicro and attacks into a choke with ultralisks.




However, zerglings get into the fourth and kill some probes.



The_Templar continues to take completely random bases while morphing brood lords.





Both players get their armies ready for an engagement.






GumBa doesn't need positioning, because he has great storm micro.










GumBa goes for a counterattack and since The_Templar was stupid enough to go mass ultralisk, all of his units are finishing at different times.






The_Templar runs a bunch of zerglings into archons by accident. His multitasking is clearly falling down again because he hasn't gotten any drones in his two newer bases. He doesn't even spread creep. His APM is really inefficient or something.




GumBa loves bases.



Hydralisk den?!




The_Templar doesn't send enough zerglings to GumBa's base.




The_Templar runs all of his ultralisks into GumBa's army again.




The_Templar actually trades well with the ultralisks O.o.




Brood lords run away from the last archon.




Here's what GumBa sees right now.




GumBa goes for another attack.




Ultralisk hero!!



Since GumBa has a ridiculous number of archons, he breaks through the brood lords and zerglings. However, hydralisks are still doing damage at the back.



Hydralisks are good against archons.




The_Templar still has 3 brood lords alive against no anti-air, so GumBa sacrifices his entire army to kill as much as possible.





Back at home, GumBa starts adding void rays into the mix.




The_Templar starts attacking one of GumBa's outer bases with zerglings while rebuilding at home.





The_Templar spent too much APM harassing GumBa's bases and now his army is really badly positioned when GumBa attacks again.






Panic zerglings run right past a zealot/archon meat grinder.



GumBa gets into the main and natural. The_Templar can't hold there.




Zerglings manage to kill GumBa's 7th, but that's unlikely to matter at this point.

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Both players played well this series, but the winner was the one with more patience. With more consistency. More protoss.

The_Templar showed some entertaining games in this series but it wasn't enough to win. If only he had microed his marines better in game 1. Or attacked with his locusts in game 2. Or played better in game 4, or positioned his army better in game 7. He might have won those games. He might not have.

However, GumBa might have made void rays instead of carriers in game 3. He could have made enough vikings in game 5, or just not gone mech. He could have played better in game 6. What could have been done is irrelevant when something different happens, except for those that love intricate layers of hypothetical situations.

In the end, GumBa turned out to be arbitrarily the better player, by an inch.