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Snow spawns at 7, Zero spawns at 1.
Zero went overpool. Forge just finished. Snow throws down a nexus.
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2-0, Zero imba! Protoss scum!
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Snow selects Bifrost 3. ZerO has done excellently on this map in the past, so Snow will need to do something special to beat him. ZerO elects to go overpool at 2:00, while Snow goes forge FEat 8:00. Unlike the other Protosses who have brought ZerO here recently, Snow doesn't plug the hole with a forge. His gateway and forge sit right behind it. Core goes up nearer his main.
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ZerO expands twice quickly. Fairly standard game so far. ZerO has only ever played standard on this map and dominated each time.
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Spire is plarced as soon as ZerO can build it. Six Zerglings test the wall out and notice Snow's two zealots and a cannon.
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ZerO places his two hatcheries at the choke, an action which has had strong results in previous games. Snow adds another gateway as his Templar archives and first sair are completed.
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Zero gets spire.
Zero puts down his two hatches at the crossing choke point to his bases.
First sairs are out.
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HTs under construction with DT crossing the center of the field to harass. Sairs move out all at once. Zergling heads out to check Snow is doing. Scourge arrive to thin the sairs, over ZerO's third, but they chase the overlords away long enough for the DT to take two drones out before retreating damage-free! The sairs are still patrolling around looking for a target.
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Additional DT moves out to kill a Zergling scouting the third. Speedlots with a DT and two HT move out towards ZerO's building 4th and destroy it, as well as the hydras that move to counter. It then attacks the hatch wall with disastrous results. Four gateways for Snow right now, and the third base is just about complete. Lurkers are morphing outside ZerO's 4th, take two. Sairs are looking very thin after that engagement, the flyover cost Snow his whole ground army and most sairs.
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Snow sends a force of zealots and a couple of HT. Before he can do any meaningful damage, hydras snipe the HT. Snow does deny Zero's 4th though. Snow takes a third base behind the attack.
Zero morphing lurkers.
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Snow has switched to mass dragoon with good timing! Hydralurk sits in Snow's 3rd/main choke, so ZerO sends hydralurk through the northern passage behind Snow's 3rd. It is deflected as well. We've got a stack of ten mutas joining the battle, but they are blunted by Dragoons moving out. The mutas run off, kill two cannons, and deal severe damage to Snow's natural. ZerOP burrows on the hill outside Snow's third and is answered by storm and obsgoons. The mutas rendezvous and try to assist. Zealots are scrambled to deal with the hydras reinforcing the top. More mutas are added to the stack tormenting Snow's natural. Almost all probes are destroyed there! A lurker sits on the cliff over the third and shuts mining down there as well! The game is severely in ZerO's favor as he takes the 6:00 base!
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Zero tries some lurker harass on the cliff at Snow's third. Storms and goons foil it.
Meanwhile, Zero's mutas are uncontested in the air. His mutas have gotten a good amount of probes for breakfast.
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This is going nowhere. They should get Bisu in here, Zero is just too good.
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Zero takes 6.
Zero dives in with mutas and lurkers at Snow's third as soon as Snow's goon army moves out. Somehow, Zero fails to take out the expo.
Zero tries again, this time replacing the lurks with lings.
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Lull in the action. New force of mutaling with a lurker beating down the cannons around ZerO's third. With four observers Snow finally kills the lurker on the cliff. Mass zergling moving in through the north to attack the 3rd again, and they will be unopposed! Snow moving out, but he did it too early! Mutaling striking the third, repelled by a few good storm! The muta are still alive over the cliff, with an observer in place to prevent any more shenanigans. The dragoon mass attacks the 6:00, and destroys it!. Lurkers sit outside Snow's warp gate in the bottom left. Dragoons have moved in to attack ZerO's 3rd, but they are surrounded! Can they abuse their position and repell all attacks?
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Archon/storm dragoon is met by the first dark swarms of the day, which allow ZerO to defeat the attack force. ZerO takes the 12:00 as his new 4th base. Snow is coming back into the game with this excellent attack! ZerO's lurkers defeat the warp gate and spill into Snow's natural!
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looks like snow is actually going to win this?
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Zero went afk in that fight, half the lurkers didn't even bury. Why TT
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Zerglings spill into the northern passage, then pull back and attempt an attack on Snow's rising 4th base at 11:00. The zealots defend that, and move on to strike and destroy ZerO's 12:00 5th. Then, zealot/archon/storm/mass dragoon attacks the 5:00 4th! Defiler play deals severe damage to the attacking force but it's only enough to delay Snow's forces. Lurker ling move in to challenge it and is met by extremely efficient storms. Snow is playing like a beast, but taking severe losses! ZerO decides he can't seem to get any good damage in and GGs!
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