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Aotearoa39261 Posts
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Corinthos
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
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Haha, maybe you should let your associate pre-write your threads for you, too :D
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Hopefully soon people will stop putting out ZT teams on Hunters because ZP is obviously superior.
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Are Daum updates timed intentionally just before the matches begin?
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It has started.
Map is Andromeda.
Free is Yellow Protoss at 5. Kal is Brown Protoss at 7.
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Both players start their Pylons in their base and nothing interesting is going on so far. Gateways are out and both players scout directly at each other with their first try.
Free opts for a 12 Pylon in his natural and a manner Pylon in Kal's line as he builds a 12 Pylon as well. Kal tries to do a manner Pylon as well but fails and it doesn't trap anything.
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Zealots are chasing away the scouting Probes now. Both players have gotten their gas.
Free's Cybernetics Core is up, and Kal's is going up as well. Scouting Probes are still alive, and Free's Core finishes quite a bit before Kal's does. Free throws up a second Gateway.
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Another manner Pylon goes up by Kal, this time nicely trapping 2 Probes. He cancels it just as it's about to die.
Kal expands to his safe min-only above his ramp, but is still only running off of one gate. He has 4 Zealots and a Dragoon blocking his ramp, compared to Free's 3 Dragoons and 2 Zealots.
Free puts up his Robotics Facility near his gates and moves out with his goons and zeals.
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The Nexus almost finishes, and two more Dragoons join Kal's forces on the wall. Free tries to move up but wisely decides to retreat before any shots are fired. He has put up the Nexus at his natural as well.
Observatory is going up for Kal.
Free double expands to his gas nat underneath the ramp as well.
Robotics Support going up for Kal and Free.
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Where are you watching, Daum? Is it on YaoYaun?
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Kal drops a Probe on the blocked ramp behind Free's gas natural and spies it going up before the Probe dies. Reaver is out for Kal and it manages to escape the watchful eyes of Free's Observer. Kal moves his forces out towards Free's base, and it looks like they're catching Free's forces offguard. A bugged Scarab saves Free's Reaver from a horrible death, though, and it looks like Free will be able to fend this off even without a Shuttle helping his Reaver move about.
A Scarab comes out and kills Free's Reaver, but Kal had to trade his entire standing army to do the damage that he did. The gas nat for Free is completely up, and Kal's putting his up as well.
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nice reaver harrass from kal
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Kal does a 2 Reaver drop on Free's Natural mineral line and takes out few Probes but a very good number of Dragoons. He drops it again at the min only and takes out a chunk of Probes before being forced to retreat. Unfortunately, Free's Goons come and take out both Reavers.
Kal's gas nat is up and he maynards his Probes over. Kal reloads his Shuttle with more Reavers and brings his Gateway count up to 5. The forces meet in the middle. Kal comes out ahead by one Reaver, which incidentally is a poor tradeoff given the size of the armies before hand. Free moves a handful of Dragoons in and picks off the Shuttle-less Reaver of Kal.
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Both players increase their Gateway count. Kal moves his forces towards Free's base but is forced to retreat due to Dragoons on the high ground and the fact that he lost his Shuttle early. Free barely manages to save his Shuttle and Reaver - they're both at low HP. Both players still running off of three bases.
Kal has a Forge and it's currently spinning an upgrade. No Forge evident for Free yet, although I could be wrong. We haven't seen much of Free's base at all. Free moves his units into Kal's choke and engages. Kal loses his Reaver early and is forced to retreat. Free has his single Reaver left and it looks like the Shield Battery that Kal built won't help him now. The Reaver is still alive and even manages to take out a big chunk of Probes.
Another Reaver is out for Kal but it falls, and along with it, Kal's hopes of victory. Free's monstrous forces break their way up Kal's ramp. Free's only producing speedZeals at this point, but they're taken out quickly by some nice Reaver micro from Kal. Kal still stands and clears up all the forces at his base, but it won't matter soon enough. Free has expanded to 3 and Free's clearing up whatever remaining Probes Kal has left. Kal rebuilds his forces and moves towards Free's base, but some nice storms take care of it and Kal ggs.
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uh oh bad start for STX. i voted for STX. STXsoul fighting!
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tsk tsk-his weakest matchup  Good thing I voted hanbit
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Impressive PvP. Kal shouldn't have lost his reavers so carelessly but he defended like a true champ. gj Free.
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Hungary11305 Posts
Kal's reaver micro was absolutely beautiful, but besides that he could not keep up with free. Free is more the goon-micro guy.
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Wow, that push through the valley looked epic, just by terrain. And the final scarab to pop 4 goons was also nice. Happy for free.
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yay~~ seems like calm is gonna win
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FREEEE FIGHTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111
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Opening was so good for Z that I thought it would be over soon, but apparentl T is fighting back. But looks like too many Z expansions to me, many ultras out and more coming.
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Ganzi gged out as Ultras and swarm stomped his natural 1-1, tied series.
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STX will probably take the 3rd set, and Hanbit take the fourth, so PRETTY[GM] FIGHTING!
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Aotearoa39261 Posts
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daum needs to open another room for this game.
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I'm loving the Cats song for the commercial =P (the Luna game)
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Game Starts on Hunters.
MaX and PianO are Blue and White respectively, spawning down at 6 and 4. sOo and Hero are Yellow and Teal respectively, spawning at 9 and 11.
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wow yaoyuan is that far behind? they're still chilling in the booths here.
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Both Zergs scout counterclockwise. It looks like both Zergs went for 9Pool and then extractor. Piano's going for 2Rax and sOo is going for 2Gate.
The Spawning Pools finish for both Zergs and Zerglings spawn almost simultaneously. Max catches Soo's first Zealot and gets into Soo's base to see a Core going up. The Zerglings start dealing damage to the Probes and Soo's forced to run around with his Probes.
Max sunkens up his mineral line to defend against any Zerglings that may run by. Hero has a very large number of lings and Soo's Dragoons are coming out. Zerglings manage to sneak into Soo's mineral line though and take out some more Zerglings before being taken out by Hero's own Zerglings.
Piano's moving out with a small MMF force and bringing up a 3rd Barracks. Hero tries to do damage to Max but the Sunkens prevent any damage from going up. Both Zergs are getting their 3rd Hatchery and Piano's MM force does quite a bit of damage to Soo's ZealGoon and Hero's Zerglings thanks to the Firebats. However, it looks like Hero's lings will be enough to fend off the attack on Soo's base.
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Stream buffer...
The 3rd Hatcheries are done for both Zerg players and Piano's going up to 5 Barracks while Soo's just now getting his 3rd Gateway. Max's Zerglings are countering Soo's Dragoons while Hero's Zerglings counter Piano's M&M. Players are just running about in their rrespective bases. Hero seems to have a lot of idle larva but still has a much larger Zergling force than Max.
Piano tries to engage Soo's Dragoons with his M&M but is halted by some good Dragoon micro. A Pylon in the middle of the map from Soo, whose use is yet to be determined. Max attempts to expand to his natural but is stopped by Hero's large ling force threatening destruction. Piano's Marines and Soo's Dragoons are dancing back and forth in Piano's choke. Hero with a very large number of Zerglings keeping Max in his base.
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I see these teams are not as loved as WeMade and Samsung...
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Hungary11305 Posts
Max is playing really well in this game. Very good ling micro and teamplay.
And lings + medics for combo of the year.
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Stream buffer yet again...
It looks like Piano's broken out of his base with his MMF force but Hero's lings prevent him from doing anything else beyond just chilling in his choke. Max attempts to break out with his Zergling force vs. Hero's own Zerglings but is forced to move back again. Soo builds Cannons in the middle to reinforce his already powerful Dragoon line. At this rate, Piano will be unable to do anything. A very nice Cannon Line prevents Piano from moving out at all, while infiniti lings prevent Max from being able to do anything.
Soo and Hero commit to an attack on Max's base. While Hero's lings absorb the hits, the Dragoons fire on the Cannons. Piano attempts to move out in the meantime with SCVs absorbing fire, but it doesn't work so well as there are just too many Cannons there. The Marines don't even end up taking out the Cannon line, and Max's base has been razed to nothing. It's all but over for Hanbit. They gg out.
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STX soul is containg the hell out of Hanbit terran.
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STX killed Hanbit Zerg it's over soon. GG.
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I wonder why Max stayed on 2 hatch all game though - hero was comfortably pumping from 3, so he naturally had more zerglings to toy with.
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could it hurt to build a tank?
or tech to lair?
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On April 19 2008 15:30 talismania wrote: could it hurt to build a tank?
or tech to lair? Probably, especially considering the map.
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Hungary11305 Posts
4th map is on, blue storm. Zerg dual expo vs. Protoss forge FE with stargate, nothing spectacular.
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Zero playing well, he has good economy and delayed protoss 3rd by placing a lurker there. Expanding to 6 as well. Bestgod taking 3rd, both go for the middle for a small clash between goons + temps + archons vs. Hydralurk.
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Hive tech incoming now for zero who is keeping Bestfod on his toes. Bestgod has a stable stand at his 3rd base though with 4-5 temps ready and waiting. Moves out and storms the lurkers in the middle to bits - but does he have storms left for the rest of the army?
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Bestgod comes out on top with a large goon army, but now darkswarm is keeping him from advancing further. The odds twisted in his favor though, as he can now take down 6.
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Huge protoss army clashes into the min only of zerg, will be a matter of time for him to gg out.
And he is gone! STX wins the clanwar with 3-1.
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nooooo! Is Free Hanbit's only good player?
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Well damn. Free tries hard, but can't save Hanbit (again)
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Yes thank you stx soul <3 =D
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