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Group C Game 1: GGPlay v Sync on Requiem
GGPlay 6, Sync 3
GGPlay OL, drone trick 10 pool 10 hatch at expo, while Sync typical 2 rax build, typical Sync-style gathering of marines and no turbo acad. GGPlay goes fast lair, Sync adds 3rd rax.
GGPlay spire after lair, Sync gathering lots of mmf, GGPlay with 4 sunkens
Sync pushes out, GGPlay adding sunkens like mad, Sync goes in agains 5 sunkens and 3 building, almost makes it but drone/few muta save the day.
GGPlay mutaharassing effectively, Sync factory and addon. GGPlay expands to his island gas expo, reinforcing sunkens at his nat (9 sunkens seems overboard but Sync eats sunkens like noone else). Sync pushes out mmf and 2 tanks, sieging sunkens. GGPlay hive finished, greater spire almost complete. GGPlay focus fires tanks slowly and gets rid of both. Sync seems to back off but instead goes in with many mmf against around 10 sunken.
GGPlay guardians pop out and Sync’s entire army wiped out with about 2 of GGPlay’s sunkens remaining. Sync has no sci facility, trying to get last minute wraith. Sync is basically screwed, all of his attacks on sunks failed and he’s miserably behind. Sync trying to use wraith to fend off guards but GGPlay has devourer mixed in with his guard and muta and Sync can’t stop the attack on his main. GG Sync.
Group C Game 2: NaDa vs Pusan on Requiem
NaDa 6, Pusan 12.
Pusan makes an early zeal to harass NaDa’s wallin, cyber is slightly delayed. Pusan makes second zealot and citadel, 2 zealots hitting wall, adds a dragoon to the harass.
Depot gets to the red before tank pops out but Pusan’s archives is up. NaDa going 1 fac 1 port, making eng bay. Pusan still only 1 gate, dt pops out. When dt arrives, turret is almost complete. Pusan can’t get in and backs off and expands at his expo.
Pusan’s robotics is complete (still only 1 gate) and shuttling 2 dt into NaDa’s main. Only 1 tank 1 turret, Pusan focuses on turret, doing good damage. NaDa simultaneously drops 2 tanks into Pusan’s main but goons minimize damage. NaDa finally stabilized with 4 turrets and has second dropship now. Drops 4 tanks behind expo minerals but 2 goons there to delay until Pusan can ferry a few dt as well, NaDa gets away.
Slight lull in the action now as Pusan adds gates and NaDa building CC for expo. NaDa expands now but Pusan’s expo went up much faster, NaDa must do something with his dropship harass to make the game more even. NaDa adding factories now, no vults yet.
Pusan attacks with about 10 zeal 10 goon, zeal bomb, forces CC lift and rids almost all of NaDa’s forces, NaDa barely blocks attack. Pusan expo at 3 main now up and running, but NaDa catches probes on the way and takes out about 12 probes at Pusan’s 3 expo.
However, Pusan’s insane macro kicking in now and he continues attack on NaDa’s expo, seems like NaDa can’t stop the constant flow of zeal goon and even high temp. Continual blue line from Pusan’s gates to NaDa’s main, and NaDa has shit-eating expression on his face.
NaDa GG.
Game 3: GGPlay v Pusan on Ride of Valkyries
GGPlay 7, Pusan 5
GGPlay OL 10 pool, 2 drone, gas build. This guy uses some strange builds -…-
After lings pop, expo, and after 100 gas he pulls gas drones.
Pusan going 1 gate fast tech build. GGPlay lairs, Pusan stargate going up. GGPlay hydra den, Pusan adds robotics. Pusan’s first sair arrives, sees hydra, and Pusan adds support bay for reaver, and continues to add sair. Pusan’s 3 sair catch 4 OL total, reaver out. However GGPlay has lurker ready and forces Pusan to return shuttle with reaver back to defend. GGPlay goes up ramp anyway and Pusan somehow defends with lucky scarabs and reaver splash damage. GGPlay bought a lot of time with that ling lurker attack and his spire is complete now. Pusan loses 2 sair to scourge but still has 5 sair. GGPlay massing muta now, also expands at 10. Pusan taking his natural expo now, GGPlay attacks with muta scourge, takes out around 4 sair and the cannon at Pusan’s expo.
GGPlay again attacks with scourge muta to hunt sair and to continue to threaten Pusan. On his third wave of attacks, GGPlay loses all his sair and can’t protect his expo. GG.
GGPlay advances to the Starleague.
Game 4: Sync v NaDa on Luna
Sync 2 NaDa 8
Both go gas before rax, with Sync slightly faster. Sync starts his fac first but NaDa goes 2 factory simultaneously. Sync goes 1 fac 1 port, NaDa adding on to both facs simultaneously. Sync’s vulture arrives at NaDa’s main, kills 5 scv before dying. NaDa upgrading speed and mine, goes at Sync’s main with vults. Sync good micro with tank to minimize the damage and NaDa loses 4 vults without doing anything significant. Both players now expanding, almost at the same time. A lull in the action as Sync adds facs and NaDa adds starport. Sync is the first to push out and he goes all the way to in front of NaDa’s expo, but siege tanks are ready, and NaDa repels the threat. Sync drops 2 dropships worth of tank and goli into NaDa’s main but NaDa defends well with scv and 2 tank in dropship. NaDa 3 dropships now, more active going around the map and expanding to his mineral expo, but Sync has 2 wraith. Small skirmish as dropships meet, but Sync wins and NaDa forced to retreat. After a lull another skirmish in the center, with both dropship troops and ground troops, but NaDa wins this time as Sync’s dropship arrived a bit late.
Sync expoing now at 5, while NaDa takes 11. Both players now adding significant numbers of vults to their armies, trying to grab greater territory in the center. Sync trying to use vulture guerrilla to hurt NaDa’s economy but it’s mostly unsuccessful, and it’s clear that Sync is now behind, with NaDa having better positioning in the center, 2 up in attack (vs. none for Sync), and also a better economy.
Sync drops 5 dropships worth of troops at NaDa’s 11 expo but it’s stopped by NaDa’s troops there. Sync again goes on the offensive and tries to break through NaDa’s tank line near the center with dropships but NaDa reinforces with his own dropships. NaDa counters by dropping 4 dropships worth in Sync’s undefended 5 expo. Sync forced to lift, and now the game is squarely in favor of NaDa, whose macro has now kicked in full force. He goes up with his entire army, breaks through Sync’s tank line and towards Sync’s base. There’s nothing Sync can do to prevent the line of metal and Sync loses his natural expo. Sync GG.
Game 5: NaDa vs Pusan on Forte
Grudge match for NaDa, starts at 7, Pusan starts at 11.
Both players using very normal builds, Pusan going 2 gate range goons, NaDa going 2 fac. Pusan normal goon harass but NaDa has tanks out already, Pusan going reaver. NaDa progresses up with 3 tank and mine vults, gets all the way up to Pusan’s low ground. In the meanwhile, Pusan reav drops NaDa’s naked main, NaDa forced to abandon his base, goes all-in with scv, 5 vults, 2 tanks. Pusan stops it no problem with the goons he has, so NaDa is forced to back off, and he has very low scv count.
Pusan returns back to NaDa’s main, catches a few scv but loses his reaver. Soon after, Pusan goes back to NaDa’s main with 2 shuttle drop full of 2 reaver 2 zealot 1 goon but somehow NaDa wins the fight with 3 tank and some vults. NaDa goes back towards Pusan’s base with 3 tank and more vults, but Pusan seems to have advantage with 2 shuttles and around 6 goons. NaDa loses everything but he manages to sneak a few vults into Pusan’s expo. However the game is now firmly in Pusan’s favor and he goes back with 2 shuttles, one of which contains a reaver. Despite NaDa’s best efforts, he loses a ton of scv and has 1 tank and a few vultures left. Pusan returns soon after with another 2 dropships worth of troops, and NaDa GG’s.
Pusan advances to Starleague.
So Pusan beats NaDa twice to advance, while GGPlay advances easily with wins over Sync and Pusan. NaDa seemed really out of whack today, while Sync played way too aggressive in all of his games. Who woulda thunk it? a P and a Z advance while the two T's die off.
pusan, "and nada has shit-eating expression on his face", gotta love that
