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I hop onto the Abyss and play a few UMS/Fastest/Whatever games because I'm not in the mood for actually playing a ladder game. I just got laid off at work on Friday, so I'm planning on spending the majority of the weekend looking for a new job (I don't expect a call back, it's a small company and they laid off about 40% of the workforce over the last month, some of which have worked there for a few years, so, honestly, I was surprised they waited this long to let me go, I know I definitely impressed them, but I guess it just wasn't enough).
After a few games, I can't find anything interesting, so I decide to look for a ladder game anyways. I find one on FS and join, only to be booted by the host (1300 ranking probably doesn't help). This happens a few times before I finally get a game on Tau Cross. At least it's not Python.
I'm Z, my opponent is T. I feel like I should open 9 pool speed and try to double expand behind a speedling contain, but at the last second, I decided to open 12 hatch instead. I didn't send a drone out to scout, however, like I normally would vs T when I 12 hatch.
The result?
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Fuck.
I know that if he pulled that many SCVs though, he's all-in. I let my hatchery finish so he has to make a decision whether to kill it, or charge straight into my base. He decides to stay and kill it.
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He kills it, and then immediately leaves.
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Now, I know this looks bad, but he's D, and he just went all-in vs me, yet didn't finish me off. Believe it or not, at this point, I've actually killed 2 of his SCVs, and he has yet to kill 1 of my Zerglings. I know his economy is going to be absolute trash with all those SCVs not mining for that long, so I need to try to harass him a bit, to try to get myself back into this game. And the best unit for this job is the Mutalisk.
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I re-take my natural as soon as I realize he completely retreated.
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And then I proceed to do what I did previously with mutalisks - rip my opponent a new asshole.
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You wanted that Academy, right? Well, I killed the SCV building it.
![[image loading]](http://imageshack.us/a/img72/4615/91275447.png)
How about that Ebay? I also killed that SCV.
![[image loading]](http://imageshack.us/a/img594/2783/35073672.png)
But mutas won't win this game completely. So I have a backup plan.
![[image loading]](http://imageshack.us/a/img22/8315/38587618.png)
And I'm still causing chaos in his base.
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I've killed so many SCVs at this point, and he keeps making more turrets, probably hoping that it'll stop the onslaught. And i only made 7 Mutas. But it's enough to one shot a SCV.
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At this point I have a 2-1 food advantage, and it's growing, so he knows he has to do some damage, and as soon as I see him heading out I start thinking about the best place to engage him. The best time imo is when his tanks are sieging right outside of my base. So I time my counterattack to hit when he would want to be sieging his tanks so I can kill his small force with ease.
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And that's what I do. And that's when he leaves. 4-0 on ICCUP. :D
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