[GSL] “Top of the Food Chain” - Ro32 Recap - Page 2

This refers to the Season 3 RO32 Match of GoldenfOu vs. ST_GgoBoogie game 1 on Steps of War.



This is what you could see from watching the HQ replay over an over again:



- Drone up till 10 supply with 1 drone out for proxy hatch location.

- Build Evolution chamber behind minerals at 1:23 (250 minerals)

- Cancel EVO chamber at 1:27 and build the proxy hatch once mineral > 300

- Build another Evolution camber at 1:46 (minerals just hit 75)

- Cancel EVO chamber at 2:17 to recover minerals (minerals recovered to 204) and builds Spawning pool.



The rest is straight forward.





THE EXPLANATION:

The purpose of the evo chamber is to choose a cheap building to build and make it look like he's building a spawning pool to the scouting probe and hope that ST_GgoBoogie does not click on the constructing building. Some players would just assume it's a pool that's being built and not click it.



He scouted the probe coming in with overlord so he builds an evo chamber then immediately cancels it so that the protoss scout SEES A CANCELLED BUILDING behind the minerals. This is to make the protoss think: "The zerg tried to go 9 pool cheese but saw that my probe was scouting early so the zerg cancelled the 9 pool and was going to drone up and play standard game."



The protoss's scout only saw the canceled building behind the minerals so he goes and checks the expansion and sees nothing so he comes back. By now, what the protoss would have assumed was a cancelled 9 pool would be back to a standard game, so he expects to see a spawning pool again. However, because of the proxy hatch, the zerg didn't have enough minerals to build spawning pool so he builds an evo chamber hoping that the toss would not click on it and just assume the constructing building is a spawning pool. The evo chamber(fake spawning pool) is to make the protoss think that there is no way the zerg had enough minerals to build a proxy hatch. 21 seconds later, when there was enough minerals for a spawning pool, he cancels the evo chamber and builds the pool.



Tricking the protoss into thinking the evo chamber was a pool didn't work at all because the protoss (ST_GgoBoogie) clicked on the evo chamber and saw what it is. However it did confused ST_GgoBoogie which is always a good thing. The zerg didn't lose too much build time because he didn't have enough money for the pool anyways. Evo chamber is cheap so building and cancelling does not lose you too many minerals and was effective at confusing ST_GgoBoogie.



There was actually no mistake made by ST_GgoBoogie. That must have been the exact build he planned out: The "DOUBLE FAKE POOL BUILD"