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France1270 Posts
This is Elky's matchup next friday.
How would you play that game?
- random T: can a quick M&M drop defeat a (probable) double nexus?
- random Z: rZ is better than picked Z, but still... could he go spire (since P probably won't start dual starport)?
- random P: quick reaver drop or DT drop? Or powering?
Elky hasn't been lucky so far, playing against T on Namyi ,Z on Nostalgia and now P on paradoxxx, and always being scouted very early. At least this time he won't be scouted too early, which makes it a 'real' random experience, and will undoubtly make this game very intersting! Plus his opponent will try his best (qualification is at stake).
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His opponent will probably play safe, cannons and corsair to scout early, or if he gets early exp he'll get some more cannons than normal in case of fast attacking terr or protoss, mutas he'll counter one way or another me thinks.
So Elky could power more than normal because of his random and try to get control of map instead of attacking early.
Then again his opponent might think that and go for some riskier build, thus catching elky off guard 
We'll see(or in my case read) soon enough!
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I think Elky is back to playing Terran. Random would have a nice advantage on that map though.
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France1270 Posts
On January 12 2004 17:47 amat wrote:
I think Elky is back to playing Terran.
He playde T again in dontremberwhatleague, but he has to stick to R in NHN, otherwise he has to announce his race 2 weeks in advance (or so; Waxy told about this rule a while ago).
And what would you do if you were Rainbow? Fast 1 stargate to scout for sure, but what else? Fast double nexus or not?
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tvp m&m would ROCK a protoss
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France1270 Posts
Thx for the insight.
What is the BO for a fast 1 dropship M&M drop? Would you bring a SCV to build a bunker in that case?
A 3 SCV + 5 rines drop to bunker could be even faster, but could it work?
I really hope Elky will play aggressive rather than powering, whatever race he gets. Man, this game gets me excited... Strategy is so wide open!
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is paradox solely island?
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France1270 Posts
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for random tvp:
lift rax onto big main island, make 1rax m&m with ups to drop. get 2 dropship loads worth and move them close to the top right base. drop the 2 loads into the base. win.
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France1270 Posts
How disappointing that game was... 
It seems IntotheRain wasn't really afraid of a fast M&M or reaver drop.
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Rainbow had forge to stop mnm, i think. And maybe he had confidence he could stop a reaver drop with sair.
I am not sure on the timing of all these; maybe i will ask a friend to help me figure it out and post. I am Zerg only, but it would be fun to work out the scenarios for the heck of it
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Norway28665 Posts
the cool thing about random vs protoss on isle is that, no matter how good he is, if he guesses totally wrong, he's DEAD.
:D
so I mean you gotta pick something to counter. if you counter a mutarush you're gonna die if it's pvp, if you do a pvp counter you're dead if he's going muta. so the toss has to do some hybrid build that *defends* against every build but also leaves you slightly behind against almost every build.
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EPT
