Iris walls in and techs mech with a fast starport at 11 o'clock and EffOrt three hat hydra into lurker at 3 o'clock. EffOrt manages to glitch a zergling into Iris's main and scouts Iris' starport before Iris can kill the zergling. Iris produces 1 wraith and kills two overlords with it, but doesn't seem too interested in harassing/scouting diligently.

The reason for his lazy wraith is revealed when he builds a dropship and drops 4 vultures into EffOrt's main. The first wraith was a decoy for his intentions, and a very successful one. EffOrt had very little to deal with the vultures and loses more than 10 drones before he can recover. In the meantime, Iris switched his tech to produce marines and medics.

The map littered with spidermines, EffOrt sends his Lurkers toward Iris' poorly defended natural. Unfortunately, there are no overlords to spot the mines, nor hydra to snipe the mines even if there were, and EffOrt's first three lurkers die to mines. EffOrt then sent a couple lurkers to Iris' temples, and tore them down in order to stab at Iris' buildings. Iris placed a bunker on the highground, however, and EffOrt is only able to force a cancelled upgrade on an engineering bay.

Iris moves out at 100 supply and takes the middle of the map, threatening EffOrt's expansion at 5 o'clock, which he's eventually able to do after a long battle for position in the middle of the map. Iris leaves a large force of plagued marines/medic at 5 o'clock and concentrates on using fresh units to fight EffOrt. Both players worked to exhaust one another's economies, preventing eachother's expansion, but eventually Iris remembers he has an army at 5 o'clock and adds them to his remaining forces which secures him the win.

EffOrt lost this game when Iris successfully dropped vultures into his main, but almost made a comeback out of the game.

EffOrt spawns at 5 o'clock and Iris starts above him at 1 o'clock. EffOrt drone scouts and steals Iris gas until he's sure Iris has dedicated to barracks play. Iris was going 1 rax expand anyway so the gas steal doesn't affect him negatively.

Iris builds up a timing push with 9 marines and two medics. Iris successfully takes out two sunkens and all of EffOrt's natural drones before EffOrt's mutalisks hatch to save the hatchery. EffOrt's muta harass isn't overwhelming and Iris is able to casually defend against them while he builds up his tank numbers.

Iris then pushes out with a couple control groups of MnM and 3 tanks, then sets up a contain outside EffOrt's natural. Iris successfully sets up 3 bunkers and several turrets. Unable to remove the terran presence after several attempts, EffOrt conceded.

Iris' timings in this game were simply perfectly matched for EffOrt's build. Once the contain was set-up, EffOrt had very little chance.

EffOrt spawns in the north, attempting a 2 hat muta build. Iris starts in the south and opened with mech, mined out EffOrt's mineral ramp, then sent vultures up into EffOrt's natural. Concerned about Iris' potential to send vultures through his backdoor, EffOrt gives the natural to the weak Vultures, confident they'll be unable to kill the hatchery. Iris intelligently ignores the hatchery, however, and simply kills EffOrt's larva. When EffOrt's speedy muta hatch, there are only three of them... and they're easily handled by the few goliath Iris makes. EffOrt is unable to recover from the early larva murders and Iris coasts to victory.

Iris' build was simply a direct counter to the build EffOrt had dedicated himself to.

GGs, Iris! Amazing series! GL in the finals!

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