Accidental Battle Reporter

this must be a pro


still n-pool

minerals mined, m&m produced


when all of a sudden!


Vajda's superior macro kicks in


marine shield is down, target the main generator command center

this guy is at the top of the list, guess why


Dutch name, race terran, no surprises here


spot how it ended. it took a while...

tanks versus


tank is gg.

Watch out for Krystev's tank push, it's really scary.

it started with m&m being made


then some tanks added


then Lord Lucan took command


not much later the siege was on


vultures and spaceships were edging Lacik's tanks back


scvs being killed (unti with most kills was NOT the wraith)


the natural was broken and from there it all went downhill

Apparently one doesn't only need tanks, but also the code to orchestrate a decent push. Lacik's tanks did a phenomenal job defending, if anyone ever writes a good tank on highground defense script, let me know. In the end, battlecruisers microing like goons, in front of a vulture-tank combo, it's all a bit much. Better take out Klett fast if you get the chance.

these 3 tanks pummeled the natural and a couple of goons/zealots before I realised it was vs the carrier boss!


too late, too late! tanks took out the main nexus, the remaining 2 carriers had no minerals left, and ICELab produced goliaths AT ONCE

Watch out for those terrans!

build to zerglings and send them on their way, a very good way, to start


but then it gets repetitive, and if Smith keeps his units together, who can blame him?


who saw that coming? there are high templar out and observers, but they couldn't be screenshot

ok guys, group-hug!


Krystev at the door but lets not worry!


never no more...


dropship supervising destruction.

There were scvs too, repairing stuff. lets hope Krystev will face an opponent where it'll need all the fuzz it has but I haven't seen used yet.

1 marine in base while there is a goon out, 5 marines kill all probes


a reaver had been made, with money for 2 scarabs left, kills all the marines


there are more though

Reavers vs infantry is deadly, especially vs AI'd infantry. I've seen 30 supply go down to 1 reaver, and that reaver ran away. But here it was clearly too late. And why the dragoon didn't kill the first marine... ???

early rush defense? check


gap detection and a defensive bunker: not a good sign


tanks, perhaps Istenik has a good push up his sleeve as well?


scanning after being hit by mines, omg!


infantry kicks it, tanks and 1 wraith left for Klett


battlecruiser sighted! Istenik had better be ready for this...


he is: nice offensive siege line to cover the gap between 2nd and 3rd of Klett's


not very much later


not very much later either: gg

Klett has a very solid tank push as well, would love to see him play Krystev. Istenik has some good moves as well, although this time he fell short because he made too much infantry.

in-base cannon rush: pro


those codes at the center were Dekar's last troops


much later. look at the P main: no units. either an scv killed all the probes and is now killing buildings, or something equally horrible happened. we don't know, the obs doesn't show. still more than 60 minutes to go before the game ends and point score will determine the winner TT

After 90 real minutes (the game is faster than fastest), protoss wins on points! VICTORY!

Lacik going marine heavy. Didn't turn out vs the previous terrans in the dark with their tank pushes, but we'll see!


2 marine's of Rooyacker's come knocking...


oh the pressure, will Lacik hold?


Lacik holds!


Rooyackers doggedly keeps on the pressure


too much mining time lost I fear


gg

the first aggressive move by Pivackova


is met by ALL scvs, some marines and firebats


preparing another lot to send over the top


to arms! Valisova at the gates


lets fiddle while our backwater post burns


attack cleared and now onwards!


too bad the new mineral field is contested


Valisova delivers the coup de grace

Both rather limited AIs, I suppose, of which Valisova managed to last the longest. Pivackova stalled and went catatonic for too long, which led to the inevitable.

this was a really impressive hold with lings, sunkens and lurkers vs some m&m


imperial lurkers have entered the base!


imperial lurkers have KCCCCCCCCCGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHgg

Devecka moves up very high on my to watch list, zerg needed a champion and she may be it!

IceLab defeats a 4-pool bot with a bunker and goliaths, my bot defeats NUS-Bot with a bunker rush and Martin Pinter wins based on in-game score after the timer expired.

Another game decided by the in-game score after the timer expired.
Igor Lacik decided to build many proxy Command Centers :






The match was won by Igor Lacik due to in-game score.

Jan Pajan(Terran) vs Krasimir Krystev(Terran):

Krasi0 steamrolled Jan Pajan with vultures.

Florian Richoux(Protoss) vs. Dave Churchill(Protoss):

The bot developed by Dave Churchill uses a combat simulator to micro its units.
Florian Richoux could not deal with this micro, and thus lost.

Jan Pajan(Terran) vs. Daniel Blackburn (Zerg):

4 pool zerg rush > standard Terran play

Igor Lacik(Terran) vs. Roman Danielis(Protoss):

Roman Danielis got held up by a neutral building.
This allowed Igor Lacik to build a large Medic/Marine army with siege tank backup.

The M&M also got stuck on the same neutral building, until the bot found a detour.
Despite the large amount of photon cannons, Protoss was overwhelmed by the M&M force.


NUS-Bot(P) vs. Lucia Pivackova(T):

Nus-Bot opens with dragoons/zealot. Superior micro allows it to defeat Lucia Pivackova.

Vojtech Jirsa(T) vs. Maja(T):

Maja opens with an aggresive Bio build.


This shocked Vojtech so much that it dropped out of the game




Jan Pajan(T) vs. Denis Ivancik(Z):

A hero drone almost destroyed the Barracks, but dies before it finished the job.

After over-saturating the Refinery, Jan Pajan attacks with vultures and wins.

[b]Matej Kravjar(Z) vs. Florian Richoux(P):

Matej Kravjar opens with a zerg rush, but the Hero probe distracts the zerlings.


This allows Florian Richoux to build up a Zealot/DT army that crushes Matej Kravjar

Where are 2 of the 4 starting SCVs going?


Proxy rax on a 2 player map!


The pressure is on-


- and rising -


and done.

Slightly above the protoss base there are 2 dots on the minimap: 2 bunkers. Can you read the text on the last screenshot? Dev mode hasn't been disabled, so we can see what LetaBot's 13-0 strategy is all about: Getting 4 marines into 1 bunker, and later 8 into 2. If the bunkers are not under attack, the marines seek out and destroy. Look ma: with only 4 SCV's mining! 2 SCVs out and 4 marines, ultimate pressure before a depot is needed. 13-0 off a 1 rax cheese build, in AI battle only.

Simple, elegant, 13-0. GG LetaBot, good luck with the rest of the tournament!

The bunker rush strategy worked on all the other protoss bots encountered, thus LetaBot also tried it against Tomas Cere.
(Shown here with a weird screen grab of mine)


The Marines attack the Probes:


The zealots try to attack the Marines, but the marines managed to get in the bunker in time



After a bit of back and forth, the Marines destroy the Nexus



But I didn't have enough time to program the marines to finish the game, hence LetaBot is building Wraiths to scout and attack the remaining buildings.



They eventually find the building and destroy it, resulting in the following victory screen:



And now LetaBot is the only bot in the tournament that still has a 100% winrate

Expand, capture enemy choke.


Provide high ground vision.


Coordinate perfect mech/infantry assault.


Map out the high ground, don't expose scouts too much.


Base destroyed. Have a look at the minimap.


Brand spanking new base with turret.


The observer doesn't show it, but SCVs being redistributed.


SCVs are now long-distance mining.

Notice in the right corner the penalty box. If more than 320 frames take longer than 55 milliseconds to execute, ICELab will be judged to have lost the match. There may be a building floating around somewhere, we can't see. The one thing in this game that proves ICELab is still a bot, is that it mines out the map rather than scout somewhere it hasn't already. Lets hope the timer of 90 real life minutes runs out before ICELab gets disqualified.

The timer ran out before ICELab had time to make too many excess operations errors and won. GG!

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.

Tomas Cere opens with fast dragoon, Dave Churchil with fast zealot.
The dragoon micro stalled the zealot rush, but eventually Tomas Cere lost.

First lurkers get semi-repelled.


Tanks pop for Poniatowski and the Devecka's attack is stopped completely.


In the true spirit of zerg, massive amounts of lurker/ling are thrown at the bunker and tanks, often burrowing late.


Poniatowski didn't scout anymore, which is a shame, because there must be some serious macro going on beneath the fog of war.


Lift a rax out of spite... I feared half an hour of this screen burning in my screen, but then-


5 minutes later a single hydra was created and drove it home!

Both on 3-base, a couple of attacks have struck a cannon wall, and the first carriers are out.


Richoux's ground forces take down Vajda's 3rd.


Vajda's XIMP bot has 2 bases, Richoux 3. Now look at the time: 27:52: Mains and naturals are drying out. This will all come down to macro (I think).


Vajda has stopped expanding, is not distance-mining, out of minerals! (not gas, obviously)


Unfortunately, Richoux forgot to build anti-air, and the game for him is lost.


gg

Nemsilajova's text is superimposed upon by the broadcasting software, but look at the grid-mapping: scouting obviously is very important to this bot.


SkynetBlack White has run a combat sim, and thinks a probe may be victorious vs a building SCV... Also note the 'hitlist' in the top right: 1 command center and 1 depot known to be killed.


Disregarding the fact that Nemsilajova's troops are not intent on defending themselves, the next combat sim predicted a zealot and a probe are up to another SCV. Not the build-order in green in the top left, and the something manager bottom right. Remind me to ask Black White's boss what that's all about, it looks pro.


Main destroyed, mission accomplished, but why no gg?


They are rebuilding, attack vector logged in (in zealot voice).


Some more scouting happened (which I can't explain but must be in the code somewhere) and the expo was killed and all. gg!

I love debug info on first person videos!

Minerals being mined, one of the first SCVs scouts...


Shakespear wrote about it: All zerg are 5poolers...


Cue starving and ignominious defeat...

Marine pressure incoming? Is this another LetaBot?


Defend the expo, cut them off at the pass!


Marines scare easily, but they'll be back in numbers...


This combat simulator, I didn't get the code book, is 100% correct: Marines do not fire upon dragoons unless they're 3 to 1. One good killed 6.


If you don't want this, send them over the top, at least then you'll have a chance.

"We're a prophylactic unit (a)"


Either a loose wire, or somebot about to one-up Nada's salvation army.


"We're under attack!"


"Around the last combat building, at the double, protective carre- FORM!"


"Aaarghj!"


The turret failed to hold off the rampaging hordes, gg.

A cannon-rusher vs a 5pooler, excitement and nail-biting!


The forge did not survice this. Later the nexus got killed. Stalemate ensued...

Choke being guarded...


We're under attack!


Mines and lurkers, and infantry...


Target!


Wave upon wave rolls in...


Terran holds!


Hold the ridge and blast 'm!


I said: "Hold the ridge..."


1 base vs map into...


gg! Devecka makes more lurkers each game (if she doesn't crash) than Lee Jaedong has ever seen!

ICELab has enemy choke detection and sends some tank to contain, while expanding furiously


and dropping mercilessly.


And again.


Klett has been teching up to battle cruisers though, and clears the contain.


ICELab send some vessels to inspect the destruction of siege tanks.


Soon after, ICELab's cruisers arive to harass a factory.


4 base battle cruiser bot engaged.


Yamatoing depots...


while getting matrixed in case the factory shoots back.


Good thing the supply is capped at 200: gg!

How not to stop a 5pool...

Civil war! A Dutch tvt, hold on to your stroopwaffles!


LetaBot LetaBotting...


gg!

Early game complete, but it's XIMP, and XIMP...


STARSHIPTROOPERS! (the movie)


Once more unto-


yah yah....


Chaaaaaaaaaaarge!


is met by death from above.


Expos built, but gg.

What is Simon Prins trying to build in Jirsa's natural?


Skirmishing going on...


Incoming!


We can't hold 'm! gg

And the win. Congratulations Simon!

gg!