It is time once more for Game of the Week. This week I finally get to cover one of my favourite players, the best player from my home country of England.... yes that's right, DeMusliM! In week three the formidable White-Ra took on DeMusliM in a great series that saw some new and interesting builds for the TvP match-up.







Our players spawned at the 8:00 (WhiteRa) and 2:00 (DeMusliM) positions. Both players elected to go for fast expansion builds, DeMusliM going gasless CC while White-Ra took his Nexus off one Gateway. DeMusliM then dropped a third CC inside his main almost immediately as he pumped Marines from 1 rax. White-Ra focused on his economy as well, chronoing out Probes by the bucketload to be ahead by almost twenty harvesters at the nine minute mark.

DeMusliM decided to stick to a bio/medivac force with heavy upgrades from two Engineering Bays. Meanwhile, White-Ra decided to go for Warp Prism harass, forcing DeMusliM to build a Viking and dealt a small amount of economy damage. In the end, DeMusliM emerged mostly unscathed.



The game quieted down as DeMusliM finally flew his OC over to his third at around the twelve minute mark in the game. White-Ra tried more Warp Prism harassment, but DeMusliM shuts it down hard, killing the Warp Prism and trapping the Zealots at his third. It was not a huge loss for White-Ra, however, as he had been building up his army had a good mix of Zealots, Stalkers and Colossi as well as having Templar tech on the way.

The first large engagement finally happened just as the timer rolled past fifteen minutes. DeMusliM moved out to the center of the map and was greeted by a huge Protoss Deathball. He immediately retreated his army back to his natural to allow himself better positioning and WhiteRa obliged by chasing him in. The big clash commenced as Zealots charged forward in to the bio ball. The engagement favored DeMusliM as he had both the bigger army and the better upgrades, sitting at 2/2 while WhiteRa had only 2 armour.




The battle quickly turned in the Terran's favour, and once the tanking Zealots fell the Stalkers and Colossi soon followed. With the Protoss army defeated, DeMusliM pushed to take control of the center of the map. Even so, DeMusliM had taken his fair share of losses as well, and had to work to fend off the next round of Zealot reinforcements coming to contest the center. DeMusliM used some excellent micro in this engagement, dropping his Vikings to the ground to waste the Zealot's charges, before putting them back in to flight mode and allowing his bio ball to go to work.



After that battle concluded, the supply favoured DeMusliM by around forty, but White-Ra had a slightly better economy and production. On the other hand, DeMusliM had mostly caught up in the harvester count and he had a significant upgrade advantage with 3/3 on the way for his bio and +1 weapons for his Vikings while White-Ra was still on zero attack upgrades. Despite having had had Templar tech for some time, White-Ra had skipped over Psionic Storm upgrade in favor of Archons.

DeMuslim pushed into the Protoss third but the production from White-Ra proved to be too much, repelling the attack with minimal losses. However, at the same time, Vikings were landing in the Protoss main and took down a decent amount of Probes before being forced to lift. The balance of power proved to be precarious, as another small engagement in the middle of the map saw DeMusliM's supply lead turn in to a deficit as the Archons blasted Medivacs out of the sky. Unfazed, DeMusliM added Ghosts to his army while ramping up his production capabilities with a ton more Rax and backed up into a more defensive position.



As White-Ra planted his fifth base, he moved to attack the DeMusliM's fourth. DeMusliM tried to even the score with a marine drop at White-Ra's fourth but had his harassment deflected. However, with a single Marine chipping away at the White-Ra's warping fifth, DeMusliM managed to draw the entire Protoss army into the bottom right hand corner of the map, a cul-de-sac into which the Terran army was rapidly pursuing. A great EMP pushed the Protoss army even further into the corner, but there was nowhere to run for White-Ra. DeMusliM kept pushing hard and with great EMPs and better upgrades, ripped through the trapped Protoss army with barely a loss. When the engagement ended, the supplies stood at 193 to 108 in favour of the Terran.



DeMusliM immediately headed for the third base of White-Ra, extending the lead with another victorious battle that took down the Protoss base. DeMusliM continued to storm his way through White-Ra's bases, ripping through the natural and the main. White-Ra tried a counter-attack directly in to the Terran main, but it was only delaying defeat. The counter attack was cleared up by newly spawned forces, and White-Ra was forced to GG as the Terran army arrived at his last mining base.



A rather short write-up for what was actually a pretty epic game, which was due to a quiet first fifteen minutes that suddenly exploded into crazy action. This is definitely one of the best games of the season so far. Also, the first game was just as good, so it also comes highly recommended.