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Thanks in advance to the live reporters, please note the map being played in your commentary 
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Thanks for the thread, I get to eat my lunch ^^ I'll probably leave work early again to catch this and 41's match 
Poll: Head:ZerO (6) 100% Snow (0) 0% 6 total votes Your vote: Head: (Vote): ZerO
(Vote): Snow
Poll: Heart:ZerO fucks given~ (4) 67% First Snow is here! (2) 33% 6 total votes Your vote: Heart: (Vote): ZerO fucks given~
(Vote): First Snow is here!
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snow would prove a better opponent than shittle, but i think zero will still prevail given his good form.
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Fresh off Shuttle and the G, and all they can send is Snow?
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+200 extra balls to ZerO if he wins this and a shot for another extra 500 and a spot in the final koth showdown. hwaiting!
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30 min left until moar wins for zerguu~~
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Will there be a thread for HOGN KOTH? Its on too.
Root for ZerO to continue his confidence with his streak or Snow to end ZerO's little parade?
edit - Larva's playing.
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Its started!
Zero spawned at 1, Snow at 5.
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Zero went 12 hatch, Snow went forge into nexus.
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Only 2 lings out for Zero. He took his third at 10. 1 cannon at the nat for Snow.
Lair going up.
Zero upgrading speed and adding lings.
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There already is a thread for HOGN. Im just entering a dead signal zone so brb.
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Snow is caught with only one cannon. Despite an extra pylon 2 and zealots to wall, Zero's lings get through with only one dead.
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Overlord speed pops just as sairs hit the OL stack at his natural. DTs rush out to combat ZerO's hydra bust on the forge. With no overlords nearby, the hydras can only destroy the forge before being forced back.
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Oh, didn't see one. -_-'
Looks like Zero went spire. Seven sairs are roaming the map. Zero has taken his 4th at 11.
Zero has spore colonies at each base. The large amount of sairs must've been the sign that a threatening ground army is still a ways off.
In other news, Zero has hydras and they took down the forge researching +1
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Lurker aspect halfway done. Hydras, hoping to deny Snow's third, are reflected by a superior force of zealots and storm. The nexus will go up. Lurkers morphing near Snow's third!
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Contention for Snow's third going on as ZerO tries to move in from the center. Sair reaver gets plenty of kills at ZerO's main. The retreating Shuttle picks up two DTs at the 2:00 island expansion and drops them to follow the reaver up to great effect. Two lurkers burrow at Snow's third, shutting down mining and killing many probes! Great damage all-around!
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It's 4-bases to three and an air stack has come out to support ZerO's hydra army. Mass speedlot forces the hydras back, but the zealots draw back towards the wall, where a reaver and dragoons are waiting for them. Mass hydra moves in now, right after the HTs on call morph into an archon! Reaver dead! This is a good attack by ZerO on the natural wall! Cannons all going down now that the army is dead. Snow GGs!
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Zeros's mutas run into a storm. 6 kills for the HT. But Zero has lots of hydras at the back.
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Game 1: Fighting Spirit goes to ZerO.
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Snow chose Katrina!
ZerO starts at 9, Snow at 12
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Snow selects Katrina. ZerO spawns at 9:00, Snow at 12:00. ZerO scouts in the wrong direction with his initial overlord. Econ builds from both.
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12 hatch for Zero.
Nexus first for Snow.
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Snow's Forge goes up after his nexus. Then a cannon, and a gateway. ZerO prepares a third hatch at 6:00 as he discovers his opponent with his second overlord.
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Zero takes 6 as his third base.
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ZerO 's natural (that is, his more secure base in the bottom left corner, is where he begins his lair. Snow's core completes. The first zealot is out. Core not spinning for dragoon range.
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4 zerglings torment Snow's only fielded zealot as ZerO gains Zergling speed. The first sair is out. A spire is morphing at ZerO's 9:00 as a sair attacks an overlord at his natural. Zerglings inspect the wall and retreat. Forge is spinning and an evo chamber has been researched. Spore colonies soon to follow. Citadel of Adun is complete, and Snow has 4 corsairs out.
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A squad of four zealots moves out to attack the 3rd at 6:00, at which two sunkens, a spore, an evo chamber and a hydralisk den await. ZerO has taken a 4th behind his 3rd, in the bottom right. Zealots scout the 4th, and die before the sair stack shows up. Meanwhile, a few zealots run by ZerO's natural wall and deal minor damage to ZerO's economy.
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A lull in the action. Snow's robotics facility is nearly complete. Hydras move out, and meet the sairs for a moment. Snow's simcity bifurcates the area between his main and natural into two, with a large wall of pylons and gateways. The hydras retreat to ZerO's wall before moving to occupy the area between the mineral-only patch and the main. They are met by a mass of zealots backed up by HTs and an archon! the drones are in full retreat! Hydras fail to prevent the spire snipe!
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Hydras get multiple kills on corsairs in the center. Shuttles are out. Snow is preparing a deadly followup to that successful attack. Hydras move in to deny the mineral-only third that is going up for Snow, and they are successful. There are zealots once again in ZerO's natural! They are handled. Snow appears to have only two corsairs remaining.
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Had to feed cats.
Zealot drop in Zero's base.
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Snow uses that drop to take his third in the middle expo nearest to his base.
Zero has lurkers now.
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Snow has gone heavily into dragoons, with an observer for incline support. DTs have been dropped in ZerO's natural, and deal minor damage before being handled. Snow's force is Dragoons, with zealots and HT as support. ZerO is developing despite the adversity. His spire is back up. Shuttle full of Zealots headed for ZerO's naturall. ZerO catches it with hydras and a sunken!. The Shuttle is sniped on the return trip by spare hydras. Snow pushes out and approaches ZerO's main wall! Lurkers guard ZerO's main from within. The Dragoons move back to defend the mineral-only 3rd Snow is once again preparing. Major engagement in the hilltop south of Snow's mineral-only 3rd! Hydralurk comes in through the back (the left of the mineral-only third, gets the observer, but loses most hydras. Storm cleans up the rest, but the rest of ZerO's forces push in from the south! Battle is over - Only scraps of Snow's army remain, and the second ZerO wave advances!
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The second wave overcomes ZerO's forces and the mineral-only third is shut down despite strong storms and speedlots on demand. Snow is in trouble and he knows it! He ggs!
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Game 2, Katrina, goes to ZerO!
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Zero attacks from two sides, the southern side a bit faster to distract Snow's main army. 2nd army attacks but fails to take down the nexus amid storms and goon fire.
Zero reinforces his attack with more hydralurk. He attacks from the south again. Snow just ran out of units to defend. GG
This looks to be a stompin' from Zero.
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Snow's in your face shuttle harassment usually works for other zerg users but not Zero.
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Just 2-0 in favor of Zero
Snow picks Bifrost III. Home of the best games in these test matches.
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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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Snow attacks 6 and then Zero's third. It looks bad, Snow's army looks surrounded. Lurks burrowing, storms taking them out. Dark swarm is casted. Snow falls back.
Zero gets lurkers at the backdoor of Snow. Snow quickly deals with it with some storms.
Snow pokes Zero's 4th but its too well defended. Snow takes his own 4th.
Snow then attacks Zero's new 12 expo. Zero rushes in lurkers to defend but zealots take it down.
Snow switches to Zero's 4th. Swarms are casted, but toss army just too strong. GG from Zero.
Snow survives for another.
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Neo Harmony. Zero picks Neo Harmony.
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With Game 3 on Bifrost III going to Snow, ZerO selects Neo Harmony for game 4! Snow spawns at bottom right, ZerO at bottom left. ZerO scouts in the right direction!
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hmm Love has 500 viewers but calendar shows 35. I'll go ahead and blame Blizzard for this.
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I thought ZerO was going to win the previous match
Zero starts at 7, Snow at 5.
Zero with some weird overlord scouting at the ruins on his nat. Snow with 1 base play??? Zero went pool first though.
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Despite the pressure, Zero still takes his third. O.O
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41 is ready to start so after this is over get ready for Mind vs Snow. Also there's another caster with him.
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ZerO feeling the pain from the 2 gate pressure. ZerO has a 3rd going up at 10:00, but loses his 2nd. Sunken goes up to repel the forces from his main, although they park themselves on his base. Zerglings get the surround and annihilate the 2 gate rush force! Snow instantly walls his remaining zealots at his base. ZerO takes the time to rebuild his natural hatchery, his 3rd up and functioning. To see what's going on, ZerO disperses and recollects his zerglings near Snow's base. Snow builds a pylon at his natural in preperation to take it. Snow 's new Stargate builds his first corsair while ZerO'sd lair is half complete, his hydra den already up. A burrowed Zergling disrupts the construction of Snow's natural! The rest of ZerO's forces burrow as well!
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2 zealots, later backup'd by 2 more destroy Zero's nat hatchery.
Snow walks into Zero's main but there's a sunken there. Zero with a ling surround. Snow is forced on the defensive now. He promptly blocks his ramp with new zealots.
Getting stargate. Snow drives Zero's lings off and puts down a pylon in his nat.
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Snow responds by placing a cannon at the nat. hahaha
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ZerO is making Snow eat his decision to go one-bsae. Photon cannons allow Snow to reclaim his natural from the burrowed zergling and he finally starts his hatchery. Three sairs thin the overlords while taking damage from hydras on call. Hydras have movespeed and half of grooved spines. ZerO's new evo chamber is researching missile attacks!
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Dark templars are roaming! Hydras just waiting for a good number. ZerO begins his 4th at 10:30.
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Zero sure knows how much Snow likes DTs. He always gets early ovie speed.
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Zero is morphing lurkers near Snow's nat.
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Overlord speed completes. Burrowed zergling keeps an eye on Snow's forces. Hydralurk preparing for a drop it seems, sitting on the hill north of Snow's natural. Snow adds two more gatewys. The sair stack is menacing. All ZerO's bases full saturated. Lurkers alive and burrowed in the labyrinth north of Snow's natural. Hydralisk drop successfully blunted at Snow's western main wall. DT goes out, bunch of hydras goes in. DT takes three drones down at ZerO's third. Hydras all over the map. Snow pushes out with mass goon!
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Zero moves in through the other entrance. He is greeted a storm. Zero loses a unit or two and opts to contain.
At Zero's 3rd, a DT manages to sneak by and gets 3 drones.
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Fresh sunkens building at the 3rd. Queen's nest built and Hive halfway up for ZerO! Lurker shuts down Snow's natural as the attacking Protoss force collides with ZerO's 3rd base sunkens! They overrun the defenses and reinforcements arrive to kill the force before any structural damage is done. Snow.. ggs. Guess he lost heart.
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ZerO's tech advantage transcends the loss of his natural and he was able to delay Snow's own expansion long enough to take the win on Neo Harmony. Game 4 and the series 3-1 to ZerO!
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ZerO showing you can't tear him down with 1 base play.
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Recommending Game 3 on Bifrost III.
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Great work guys 
LP updated
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