[BW] The Death of Telecom (Battlereport in HD!)

The player I played against says he's Telecom; eSpi.EvertOss was his ID, his bnet profile checks out. Here's his iCCup profile: http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/espi.evertoss.html
However, it might not be him; could be someone pretending to be him for whatever reason?
He's known as GGZerG on these forums.

I spawned in the bottom right corner, while he was in the bottom left corner.


I opened with an overpool into 11hatch. I sent my overlords to scout and a crossmap drone to see if he was there, which he was not. I concluded he had to be at the bottm left of the map, and as I had a pair of zerglings on the way, I sent my drone immediately to the top right natural to place my third hatch. My timings were looking good, until I forgot my overlord at 16. Oh well, 18 is a higher number than 16 so it must be better!~ (yeah that drone isn't mining >.>)


We noticed that there were a few lag spikes, but it was quite playable as long as the lag spikes didn't happen at crucial moments, so we carried on.

I killed his scouting probe with my gosu ling placement on the ramp, as I started my fourth and fifth hatcheries. My timings weren't perfect but he didn't seem to be sending zealots to harass just yet so I was fine.


...or was I...


his 2 zealots harassing my third gave me some pause but I made a few zerglings and killed his zealots, so they only managed 2-3 drone kills and a couple of zergling kills. Still, at this stage that's useful harass for him. Anyway, I had my hydralisk den and evo chamber up, and my second gas. Lair had completed and my spire was on the way, along with zergling speed.

He started his third base up, while harassing my third again with some zealots and dark templar. But I was well prepared, with my simcity up to scratch (practiced that with the lovely sB.icedraco, thanks my friend!)

I knew his third would be going down at about this time, so I started mass hydralisk production as I took my fourth, and sent them to take out his third. I took out most of the cannons, but...


...most of his probes ran away and the Nexus remained standing after all that work.


I continued to harass, taking out several corsair with a fleet of scourge, and killing yet more units, but his storms and dark templar drove me away.


My persistance did not go unrewarded! Finally I was able to take down his third. He had already started preparing for his fourth base, but my scouting zergling took down his probe and I was suddenly in a strong position! I threw down two more hatcheries at my fourth in celebration. The kegs of beer would be opened tonight!


But he destroyed all my lurkers And my hydralisks ((


One of my hydralisks found his top left base he was making, so my massive new army of hydralisks went up there to kill it, which they did quite easily. However, his reflexes were sharp and he caught my army before they were able to get down from the high ground. Storm blender ;(

That's 40+ hydralisk bodies right there. Rest in peace, my brothers.

Here's the reason I wasn't able to micromanage those hydralisks: A counterattack to his natural! Didn't do much damage, but one of my current goals is to multitask effectively, so I was happy that I pulled it off while denying his fourth. I also took my fifth base at this time.


yaaaa plaguuu! That's my other objective in this game: use plague. I'm very bad at using it but it's so useful vs protoss particularly. So at least I got off one plague in the entire game. However, he still has a massive supply lead and I just lost my entire army...I'm somewhat dubious as to my chances of success at this stage. Still, I have 9 hatcheries! Anything can happen.


He seemed content to sit back and probe up with his two new bases at the top left, which he desperately needed. He was very good at keeping his minerals low compared to me, but soon he had a maxed out army.

He kills my base, and my army. But meanwhile...

MULTITASK! Double lurker drop at his two new bases, denying all his mining! And killing most of his probes. It's super effective! I lost a base, he lost two, for a while at least.


I scrounged up a massive army, and while I dropped four lurkers and a control group of cracklings in his main, I also engaged his massive army with mine! Ultralisks pretty good yo! He cleaned up my drop very quickly though, nice reflexes. But I cleaned up his entire army!


With my suddenly strong position, I kill his third (again) and his fourth, with swarm and ultraWINsks!


Apparently I'm trash. Except I'm from New Zealand, so it's rubbish, not trash. And some rubbish just smashed Telecom without difficulty, in the first long game I've had in 2-3 months, in ZvP, my weakest matchup. And I'm a D+ noob who's been playing 1v1 BW for less than a year.


He then proceeded to ragequit, and gave me some charming whispers later:




Here's the replay for anyone else who wants it. http://www.mediafire.com/?5g1i58h47zlsz1a