Race War Everyday!

Nazza

Australia1654 Posts

December 15 2010 03:15 GMT

UPDATE: We got ourselves a news on ICCUP!

http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/content/news/race_wars.html

thanks Gecko[Xp]!

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Today, I noticed there were 20 something ppl in the Op Teamliquid channel. Naturally, one thing led to another, and voila, we had some Race Wars. For those of you who don't know what Race Wars is, it's basically, everyone goes random, and then you ally people of the same race. It's mad wicked fun, here is a battle report (from my perspective) of one of the games.

The Contenders

~~Protoss~~ Mantoss (Victory After Victory)

NyM)Pack (Brown)
cobaltblu (White)
elev3n (Orange)

Terran (The Pride of Battle)
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blau_grana (Teal)
herro_korea (Red)
isuckatlife (Purple)

Zerg (~~Overcome All~~ Roll Over and Die)

Nazza131 (Blue) (Me)
Garreeet (Yellow)

The game starts off. I spawn as Zerg. I decide that since this is FFA and all, people are most likely to rush and stuff. So I decide that I should 9 pool. What I don't know that this is on Killing Fields. Killing Fields is an imbalanced map made by Blizzard, and is 256 x 256 big. In other words, it's FRICKING HUGE. I'm already off to a great start.
http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft/Killing_Fields
I meet my one and only Zerg ally. I also scout around and see some T's around. Naturally, I make a proposition:

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The purple terran has two tanks, and a marine attacking his own barracks.
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Needless to say, the rush works out quite well.
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Red Terran comes and drives us back.

WAIT WTF IS THAT.
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CRAP.
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DOUBLE CRAP.
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I try to salvage whatever economy I have left. Meanwhile, Brown Protoss ggs out. We leave his robo facility alone so ~~brown can obs~~ use a shuttle and 4 probes to kill 10-20 workers while watching the game.
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White Protoss decides to mass carriers. While we yellow zerg decides to attack protoss, 8 carriers show up.

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STASIS
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aftermath
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After some time, the 2 mantosses decide that it's finally time to kill us off. They push with dragoons, zealots, HTs and Carriers. GG.

Link to replay file: [url blocked]
(Note, this is not the entire game)

Race Wars are fun, we should play them more often. What about you guys? Post any replays/funny stories here.

List of People that are interested in Race Wars/BGH/2v2v2v2/4v4 Monobattles/Random Shit

TL ID / Iccup ID
Nazza/Nazza131
xxpack09 / xxpack09
Conversion / ConversiOn
darklordjac / isuckatlife
konadora / konadora/caramell/konata[izumi]/[TL]konadora
GoShox / sMi.Shox
Garrl / Garreeet
Milkis / Tangerine
2Pacalypse- / 2Pacalypse-
Ursad0n / Ursad0n
Grobyc / mG.Grobyc
Ramiel / ???
Boblion / ???
Hesmyrr / ???
bITt.mAN / ???
Pifualkd / ???
L_Master / Lucid[Dreamer]
nbaker / ???
AleC / xyesyesx
CoWGoesMoo / ???
XsebT / XsebT
Trap / coffeetoss
Megaliskuu / Megalisk
renzy / ???
flamewheel / Alumina
dRaW / ???
Wala.Revolution / ???
LosingID8 / LosingID8[USC]
BLinD-RawR / ???
DorF / npnl.Pie
krndandaman / ???
Zergneedsfood / Zergneedsfood
Crunchums / ???
Anxiety / AnxietE
Scaramanga / ???
HollowLord / ???
Kimaker / ???
MelnaisKrauklis / ???
xccam / ???
QuickStriker / ???
HeavenS / blau_grana
Cpt.InSaNo / ????
Pholon / Pholon
PUPATREE / PUPA555
Metal[x] / PewPewPrincess
supernovamaniac / npnl.Alter
Danger_Duck/ DragonMilk
Akuemon / Akuemon99
Akrios/ lonely.probe | Akrios
GrazerRinge / Gogobisu
dotjpeg / the-artist
Baytuts / Baytuts
NoiSolpX / NoiSolpX
hacklebeast / hp.hacklebeast
renzy / sushiknight
Hesmyrr / Hesmyrr (?)
DTK-m2 / DTK-m2
DwmC_Foefen / eeeh
Kenpachi / ._
Jakalo / ??
Pasay / Pasay | hp.Lh
kanedeth / kane]deth[
etheovermind / rhaha
Sonikhawk121 / MagneticNorth
veQ / veQ
xtofuu / xtofuu
bItt.mAN/ D-FoEva
Detain/Detain
Slardar/WiMg
djcube /squishyinvader
Zapdos_Smithh / resonance
Zera/the_sczeratul
corumjhaelen/corumjhaelen
HaruHaru / Herms
Mr. Wiggles/Mr-Wiggles
Nymph / Herro_Korea

List is in order of thread, can't be bothered putting it in alphabetical order. Please post if i've left anyone out.

Poll: What time would you like to play Race Wars/ 8 Player events?

6 - 9 KST (16)

30%

9 -12 KST (11)

21%

After Proleague/MSL/OSL/SC:BW events (7)

13%

3 - 6 KST (6)

11%

0 - 3 KST (5)

9%

18 - 21 KST (3)

6%

Other (specify) (2)

4%

12 -15 KST (1)

2%

15 - 18 KST (1)

2%

21 - 24 KST (1)

2%

53 total votes

Your vote: What time would you like to play Race Wars/ 8 Player events?

(Vote): 0 - 3 KST
(Vote): 3 - 6 KST
(Vote): 6 - 9 KST
(Vote): 9 -12 KST
(Vote): 12 -15 KST
(Vote): 15 - 18 KST
(Vote): 18 - 21 KST
(Vote): 21 - 24 KST
(Vote): After Proleague/MSL/OSL/SC:BW events
(Vote): Other (specify)

Conversion

United States3308 Posts

December 15 2010 03:32 GMT

oooh i want in next time

why is it op teamliquid always filled with 8 afkers when im there qq

fun battle report though. poor zergs

xxpack09

United States2160 Posts

December 15 2010 03:40 GMT

I must say, I'm impressed you managed to survive after my cannon rush AND my allies both attacking you.

Edit: you should change "obs" in "so brown protoss can obs" to "use a shuttle and 4 probes to kill 10-20 workers while watching the game"

There were actually 3 racewars played that day, I have the full replays of all of them

Watch for cannon rushing-carrier massing-probe drop harassing-backstabbing fun (yeah, that's right. backstabbing/team realignment in a racewar)

I definitely think this should become a regular op teamliquid thing

edit: the last 2 images in OP don't load for me?

nbtnbt5

232 Posts

December 15 2010 03:41 GMT

Nice battle report. Sounds like great fun =) Oh, and the last two images are broken.

darklordjac

Canada2231 Posts

December 15 2010 03:43 GMT

Haha im isuckatlife btw and this was great fun, everyone should stop by to do it

EDIT: WTF LMAO MY MARINE LOL never even noticed that i was half paying attention and didn't think it was open there so the tanks where over where I thought the choke was even though it was wide open

And pack omfg those fucking probes in that shuttle totally shut down my expo along with that one dam cannon.

konadora

Singapore66365 Posts

December 15 2010 03:52 GMT

wow shit that looks fun, needs moar!

and some images are broken :<

TheNessman

United States4158 Posts

December 15 2010 03:57 GMT

For sure, you should organize, i would be so down for some crazy bw.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

December 15 2010 04:13 GMT

Sounds a lot of fun !

At what time do you guys play ? American evening ?

Usually when we play race wars, we only put 6 players in, which has two big advantages
- More balanced teams (if 2P 2T 2Z, we only have 2 players teams, if 3T, 1P, 2Z P and Z ally up and we play TTT vs ZZP)
- We take a lot longer to reach the map limit. With 8 players and a huge map, everyone gets a lot of units, and after a while you can't make units anymore, BW says "cannot make units, map limit reached" which basically screws the game.

Holgerius

Sweden16951 Posts

December 15 2010 04:18 GMT

The teamliquid channel is never so full whenever I'm on.

CobaltBlu

United States919 Posts

December 15 2010 04:40 GMT

#10

I'll continue where Nazza left off.

Yellow and Blue stage a huge attack against my remaining Protoss ally. I didn't think we could survive with our combination of 8 carriers and the storms that orange's army was packing.
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After a prolonged battle and a sweet stasis Protoss manages to emerge victorious and took surprisingly few casualties.
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With this victory behind the carriers leave with an escort of corsairs to cause some destruction.
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but Yellow Zerg is back at it, pressuring Orange's expos with another large Hydralisk force. I bring my carriers back from razing the Terran bases to fry some zerg.
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With the Zergs dead Terran's last hope lies in a group of cloaked wraiths sniping the obs and taking out as many carriers as possible.
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Paper planes.
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We actually played these games today but we were hoping we could get together and do some race wars or something goofy on Wednesdays. It was a lot of fun today.

]343[

United States10328 Posts

December 15 2010 04:51 GMT

#11

ooooh cool. is op teamliquid the new name for op irc? haha

(i actually played iccup for the first time in a while today. as expected, i still suck

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konadora

Singapore66365 Posts

December 15 2010 05:34 GMT

#12

btw, if i make a huge 8 player map specifically for this, would you guys play on it?

Nazza

Australia1654 Posts

December 15 2010 05:45 GMT

#13

On December 15 2010 12:40 xxpack09 wrote:
I must say, I'm impressed you managed to survive after my cannon rush AND my allies both attacking you.

Edit: you should change "obs" in "so brown protoss can obs" to "use a shuttle and 4 probes to kill 10-20 workers while watching the game"

There were actually 3 racewars played that day, I have the full replays of all of them

Watch for cannon rushing-carrier massing-probe drop harassing-backstabbing fun (yeah, that's right. backstabbing/team realignment in a racewar)

I definitely think this should become a regular op teamliquid thing

edit: the last 2 images in OP don't load for me?

I spawned as Zerg 3 times in a row lol. Fun times

On December 15 2010 14:34 konadora wrote:
btw, if i make a huge 8 player map specifically for this, would you guys play on it?

I definitely would. This was in the morning for me in Australia though. I could probably play around midnight PST though (that's 7pm for me).

Around 08:00 GMT (+00:00)

EDIT: It would be super cool if it had the TL logo in the middle lol.

CoWsGoesMoo

250 Posts

December 15 2010 06:12 GMT

#14

I'll join you guys next time ^^;;

xxpack09

United States2160 Posts

December 15 2010 19:17 GMT

#15

On December 15 2010 14:34 konadora wrote:
btw, if i make a huge 8 player map specifically for this, would you guys play on it?

yes

GoShox

United States1845 Posts

December 15 2010 19:20 GMT

#16

I'd definitely join in this, Race Wars are amazing.

Orbital Death is probably my favorite map for this. Constant action all over the place.. the bigger the map is, the worse the game is cause it just gets dull over time.