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Perhaps not the best playing from either side, but a very close game.
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Omg at that offensive hatch and sunkens

this game is entertaining to watch. However, is it a bad decision by free to not go mass reaver ?

Why didn't free just break his temples? Then he could just walk out w/o having to do shuttle play. If you look, none of the sunkens would've hit anybody coming out from there.

he didn't even have to go mass reavers. reavers have a longer range than sunkens so just sticking two or three out and creeping towards the sunkens while protecting the reavers (much like terran tank push with bionic support) he could have broken out in no time. and he definitely needed reavers in his 4th base. he lost so many units and relied entirely on storm to defend when he could have easily gotten one or two reavers and a life-of-lively shield battery to keep it safe. he had the robotics support bay and the speed shuttles... i don't understand why he didn't. it also would have helped him harass later on in the game because hydras would have melted in the battles he was in if only he had a reaver (the time he dropped on the mineral only at 9 o clock comes to mind).

The purpose of that hatchery isn't to stop toss from moving out period. It's to stop toss from moving out through the wide gap that the natural provides. The alternatives are three places, top expo, bottom expo, and the temple. They have one thing in common, all three have a narrow path. If you watch Great's gameplay, his entire build is centered around map control by 1) blocking the natural 2) lurk scourges to control the narrow paths. If Free had broken his temple, he would have added an additional path that he could get out of, but essentially, Great would just move lurkers near bottom of the ramp and add some sunk/spores to block it up. I think Free's decision to go shuttle play was oriented towards a harassment play to counter Great's map control and to get his foruth nexus up. Personally, I think a reaver build would have allowed for earlier and better harassment while Great was busy building sunks and spores at the natural, as well as better defense at multiple places, ie. take the bottom expo as well for late game.