Accidental Battle Reporter - Page 3

Martin Dekar opens with a Bio M&M build.
This build goes up against the Hydralisk build of Adrian Sternmuller.
Martin Dekar suffers heavy casualties against the hydralisk, but it does have the power of a white cube.


Eventually, the M&M army overwhelms the hydralisks.



But then, Martin Dekar only uses its M&M to guard a mineral field used for very long distance mining



The hidden Zerg base has produced enough units to attack. Martin Dekar managed to hold of this attack with the power of two white cubes.



Unfortunately even two white cubes are not enough to defeat the second attack, and Martin Dekar loses.

The game starts of with both players going for a Bio heavy army.
Martin Pinter gets first blood.


But the marine from LetaBot gets revenge



Eventually the marine micro from LetaBot is too overwhelming, causing Martin Pinter to pull its SCV's.



But it was not enough. And LetaBot remains undefeated

Jakub Trancik opens with a cannon rush.
Followed by even more cannon rush.


Karin Valisova tries to break the contain with Bio units, to no avail.



But Karin Valisova simply uses Wraiths to destroy the Protoss base.



Karin Valisova had just one problem, it never learned to build siege tanks.
If it would continue to attack the cannons with bio, then Jakub Trancik would win based on in-game score.
Unfortunately for the bot, this was not meant to be. By spending more than 55 milliseconds per frame on cannon micro, it eventually exceeding the time penalty and lost the game.

The zerg bot opens with a 6 pool


Some heavy fighting going on at the Terran base.



Even more fighting. LetaBot is loosing a lot of SCV's



Unfortunately for LetaBot, a 6 pool on a 2 player map is too much to handle.
LetaBot loses its 100% winrate

Is this Korea? A veritable goon pressure on a repaired bunker.


ICELab holds by the skin of its teeth, and vultures weave a web of mines.


A tank push gets ahead of itself and Smith cuts it down easily.


Once more unto the breach, my friends! Will ICELab hold?


Tanks hold the line from behind the wall and claim the field once more.


Keep them rolling!


I'm about to drop the hammer-


- and show some indiscriminate sauron terran!


Smith's efforts to rebuild melt under the unforgiving arcalite cannon: gg.

ICElab demonstrated once more the power of the siege tank. But, if it were not for the bunker hold and spider mine deployment, Smith might have won this battle. Perhaps Smith is the most advanced protoss, with excellent macro skills and templar implementation. Its next challenge will be to learn to split the T, that is, it has arrived at the point all of the best bots are at.

Te ability to crack a fortified tank line may be the key to dominance for any top bot out there.

Ever tried to micro 5 goons down a ramp and round a cliff?


Retreat!


Also notice the frames > 55 ms: if 320 frames take more than 55 ms to execute, the bot gets disqualified. Mass goons seems to require lots of commands. To retreat, they weren't firing much.


Luckily the number of goons decreased fast. But still gg.

Vajda's XIMP bot now takes 3rd place. At the end of this game I saw it operate 3 groups of carriers independently: they were attacking seperate targets. For Aiur!

Goon pressure: check.


Ready to roll out!


Vultures we can handle -


- but from tanks we run away and gg. ...

All nice and dandy, but if your units try to stay out of siege tank reach, there isn't mucht hope fighting a tank push.

Probe kills 5 SCVs while marine stands by.


Goon pressure without a bunker, gg.

Good enough to keep down the scrubs, but not enough to throw down with the big boys. Maybe next year!

Uh-ow...


Black White had issues too.


Tank/Vulture plasma.

Krystev's 1 dropship ferried vultures and goliaths into Black White's main, but the stouthearted Protoss had developped a neurosis of his own, and stopped doing things. In the end, after the P main was dead and Krystev's forces failed to kill expansions (tried and failed? not even tried!), Black White got disqualified because it caused too many frames to exceed 55 ms. ...

Poniatowski placed a bunker! Help!


Vultures mined the trail...


Before the factory for the starport for the wraiths got up, gg.

Second loss for the Dutch Terran! Now he still is ranked 1 because of more wins vs 2 losses, but Dave Churchill, Tomas Vajda (Carriers!) and Tomas Cere are breathing down his neck. Just below that, Krystev and ICELab with 3 losses each. This tournament isn't over yet!

Cere starts with a small force to guard the holy circle.


Vultures defend the push and win the field.


ICELab puts pressure on the 3rd. Siegetank fire is a major issue for any race-


Zealots give their lives and clear the threat.


ICELab being a dirty cliffer again.


Then Cere suicides 120 supply into another tank line,


ICELab drops goliaths in the 3rd,

and it all goes downhill from there rather quickly.