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Comments (about the report, although you can comment on IdrA too if you want, I won't ban you from my blog) are most welcome!
Hi guys!
It's me again, although most of you probably don't remember me, I decided to write a battlereport of CJ_Idra vs 3D.Strelok. Note that this contains spoilers of Broodsport/Liquibition of Strelok vs F91. If you somehow have not seen those and do not want to be spoiled (then my congratulations to you for somehow avoiding it while still reading TL...), then do not read this.
IdrA vs 
Strelok @ Chupung-RyeongThe Replay
Anyway, the replay is hosted on GosuGamers.net and at repdepot. I won't tell you how to find it because I'm not supposed to link to IdrA replays. I'm sure you can find it yourself at gosugamers.net's starcraft replay section, it's not that hard.
The Map
Twelve professional TvTs have been played on Chupung-Ryeong, but I can't say much interesting about the balance of the map as it's TvT! I'm not a good enough player to be able to say whether the 1 or the 7 position have an appreciable advantage against the other in TvT.
The Situation
Strelok and Idra... two of the top foreigner Terrans. Interestingly enough, they both played and lost TvZ vs F91 recently. Strelok lost 2-5 in games, and Idra lost 2-5 in games! Strelok is known for having a strong TvT, while Idra's TvT is lesser-known. However, with the map being Chupung-Ryeong and Idra having professional level practice partners, that historical TvT imbalance would seem to be minimized.
IdrA lacks the respect for Strelok that Strelok has for him, however, so it will be a game that IdrA definitely does not want to lose!
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The Game
Idra lands his teal Command Center at the 7 o'clock position, while Strelok speedily builds his red one at the 1. Note: Idra was actually yellow and Strelok was orange. This makes for bad screenshots! I've used ally colours so that's why they are those colors. Through use of slavic speed, Strelok rapidly siezes the advantage by building his SCV .00001 seconds faster!
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Idra; Strelok. Green vs Red--a contest to determine the best Christmas colour!
IdrA begins my mining minerals with his SCVs, whereas Strelok begins mining minerals with his SCVs and
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Strelok attempts some sort of cheese? Time shall tell!
Strelok makes a Barracks on 6 supply below/right of IdrA's natural. Idra, meanwhile, is at 8/10 supply with his 8th SCV about to finish.
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Strelok's proxy cheese. One can imagine IdrA's reaction now if he had gone 14 CC and not scouted it
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Progamer SCV sense of star saves the day!
IdrA continues standardly with Barracks/Refinery, while Strelok adds a Supply Depot at home.
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"Fuck off!" "No you!" "Fine T_T"
Strelok is forced to cancel his proxy Barracks because IdrA's SCV was attacking his building SCV. Now comfortably behind, Strelok makes another Barracks in his main and takes his own gas.
Status Check!
Strelok is down by a little less than 2 SCVs, economically. His Barracks is less than half-done while IdrA's is already complete. Similarly with the geysers.
Idra adds a second Depot before starting his Factory, while Strelok (when his lazy SCV finally finishes the epic project of the Barracks) throws his down prior to the second depot. Because of this, IdrA's factory is only slightly ahead of Strelok's.
Strelok makes a single Marine and then floats his Barracks, while IdrA instructs 3 men on the use of Gauss Rifles before lifting his.
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You may have stopped my proxy, but I'm going to have a Barracks at you one way or another!
Both players go 2 fact, researching mines first, although Strelok's second factory ended up significantly behind due to his opening.
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IdrA attacks Strelok's forces. Strelok has no Siege Tank, and loses a Marine immediately, before pulling back behind the mines.
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IdrA mentally curses a mine for blowing up half his men
IdrA and Strelok continue by researching Ionic Thrusters, while Strelok adds a Starport, hidden at the top right corner of his base. Strelok also adds a third factory.
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IdrA's expansion CC is blocked! Meanwhile, at Strelok's corner....
Strelok's CC was roughly 650 HP slower than IdrA's due to his more diverse tech choices. Strelok also elected to cancel that third factory he was making. Strelok thus has 2 factories and a starport against IdrA's (now) four factories and armory/academy which he just started.
An attack!
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Meanwhile... The wraiths kill many SCVs (at time of that screenshot they had 9 kills between them, but they got many more (we're talking 25+)
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Strelok, "the SCV assassin", is everywhere!
Hm
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Attempting to prove his point, IdrA attacks!
Having given up his natural as unsalvageable, IdrA migrated that CC to the 9 expansion. Strelok also took the 3 at this time.
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All was not well at IdrA's 9, however...
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IdrA's main gets dropped, but he managed to shut down Strelok's 3 o'clock expansion, while taking his own near the bottom right.
IdrA quickly gets frustrated with trying to defend his last expansion, however, and leaves.
IdrA the "Manner Bear"
Strelok posted in support of IdrA after IdrA's loss in broodsport:
On February 22 2009 01:52 3D.Strelok wrote:
Stop talking shit about Idra, it's not about his game, it's all about F91. I remember how i played CJ_Orion in PGL. He used EVERY small mistake or even sign of mistake. F91 is not ofc Orion, but also very solid zerg!
Stop talking shit about Idra, it's not about his game, it's all about F91. I remember how i played CJ_Orion in PGL. He used EVERY small mistake or even sign of mistake. F91 is not ofc Orion, but also very solid zerg!
So how exactly did IdrA leave? Did he type "gg", or even "g"? Well...
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Thanks To:
Teamliquid.net, for being the best StarCraft website out there!
Strelok, for being a good player and playing awesome StarCraft!
Imageshack, for hosting the images!
GosuGamers.net, for being where I originally got the replay!
Idra, for being consistently bm and cocky, without which the replay would just have been a good TvT, but not motivating enough for me to write this!
Note to Moderators/Admins:
Hopefully you respect me and my contribution enough to keep this open, unlike the IdrA bm vs Strelok topic which was previously closed before (and it was admittedly short on content apart from bashing Idra so I don't disagree with that decision, but I've attempted to mitigate that problem by actually writing a battlereport about the game itself).
