I find it hilarious that Alicia's games were mirror images of each other with opposite results. I'm calling a slightly OP terran situation.
Game 1, P goes for 3 base and cloaked units. Terran makes 1 detector, easily kills all cloaked units, attacks, completely owns Protoss.
Game 2, T goes for 3 base and cloaked units. Protoss makes 2 detectors, can only chase away cloaked units after getting probes killed. Attacks, despite having a much more expensive army can barely put a dent in Terran. Cloaked units kill half his workers in 5-10 seconds.
Points to bring home are --
-- Protoss can't win a frontal assault with micro and build/warp in guys at another location to defend. Protoss needs to have an attack move situation somewhere to fight in two places at once. -- Terran can defend with cheaper army and workers. -- Banshees are extremely betterer than dark templar, since they fly, have range and can't be killed without phoenixes and observer speed.
If Alicia had defended the banshees well, he would have lost his whole main army in the big attack. It was a bad situation to be in, and the 3rd base made it game changing. Luckily for Terran they can take risks and not really ever be in trouble against Protoss on 2 bases.
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