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Game 2 was definately the best game i've seen in phase 2. Both players macro was lacking though, but it was entairtaning as hell. And you kind of knew that TLO would win when it got into late game, as he is so strong in these type of games where he can harass and then get BCs. In game 3 I was pretty much expecting Tester to get VR, as they are strong as hell, and IMO a bit overpowered right now. Tester didn't even hide his starport, but there is almost no need for it as VR are so strong. I mean a VR can easily own like 6-7 marines. And unless you micro the viking extremely well, which TLO failed to do, the game is over.

The downfall of TLO was that Tester was able to charge his Void Ray up just before engaging the Viking. I guess his harass with that one hellion took too much focus away from getting a Viking out as soon as possible - he could've intercepted the Void Ray. I think TLO lost that game due to the lack of scouting, which is a pity, because game 3 was kind of anticlimactic after that very intense game 2.

TLO scouted as much as anybody did in that game. As soon as the scvc left Testers base he started building a starport. And soon after TLO began his harass, and then becan building a viking asap. There was pretty much nothing else he could done giving he would open that way. However you could critize him for trying that opening giving the starting positions. But really how can you as terran do anything against the void ray except for some sick viking micro, or having 7+ marines?

How could he have intercepted the void ray? I think he almost got the viking out as soon as possible in that game. IMO blizzard should increase the build time of the VR after fazing has been discovered as 1) Startport can he impossilbe to scout as terran. 2) Marines are barely cost effective against VR+ definately not build time effective against CB VRs unless you have lots of barracks/reactors.

In retrospective, it's always easier to say things, yet TLO could've sacrificed that SCV to either know what's going on or to delay the Stargate (since Tester probably wouldn't have started to build it until the SCV was either dead or out of sight). Concerning the Viking, it doesn't get build right the second the starport is finished for TLO, and it truly is a matter of seconds whether he's able to repel the Void Ray attack or not. But I agree with you that it's very hard to counter VRs when spawning so close to each other - I've had my share of problems with it as well.

Well I didn't think TLO waited more than 5 sec to build the viking, and this is kind of the problem with the VR right now. Because you have to play incredible well to defend it. While the protoss player just have to charge up the VR and then eventually shift click marines. Any gold player can learn this, and imagine how strong this kind of play is gonna be against terran players with apm of less than 100? He will have almost no chance of definding this. THis is why I feel the VR is kind of overpowered, because the terran has to scout alot (not easy as Tester actually could have placed the startport at any place of his map, and then the terran player would never have spotted it without a hellion).

When every protoss player begin going VR against terran (at least at maps with short flight distances), Terran players are going to start out by massing marines with early stim. This is my predicition, because Terrant can really afford to get tanks out early game right now without being 100% sure of the p player going 4gate or 3gate/robo. You could even imagine the protoss players doing a lot of fake builds. Like building a robo bay or 2 gate when the terrans scans, and then immediately cancel them and get a starport. So well unless Blizzard nerfs the VR (like increasing building time), I imagine Terrans having a lot of difficulties with protoss in the future. Not just because the the protoss player will build VRs, but also because of the threat of the VR. If the protoss player decides to hide to gateways in a 4gate all in, the terran player has no chance of knowing what the p player does, and if he do the 1/1/1 build he will have to get at least 1 early vikings out combined with constant marine production, and this mean that he will have lots of trouble dealing with the protoss rush.

I completely agree with you here. Dimaga played surprisingly bad. And I cant understand why players like Idra/Artosis expect him to continue to dominate. His play style has so far through the beta been extremely cheesy, and more and more players will learn how to counter that. And if he really is a better player than QXC, why didn't he choose to play long macro games, instead of risky all-in builds? In game1 against QXC, QXC even did the build that Dimagas was supposed to counter. Lings+ roach should in theory > hellions +2-3 marines. However 1 scouting scvc saw the roaches, and QXC put down a bunker, and then Dimaga wasn't even close to be able to break the line... IMO what a poor strategy. 1 scouting scvc and the strat didn't work?

Ok he had a follow. Expand and then mass muta. But this was easily countered by getting a few thors out, yet Dimaga kept producing mutas? Why not get transition qucikly into roach/hydra? IMO only thing that could make Dimaga win the game were for some kind of metagame reasons, in which QXC would expect Dimaga to transtition into roach/hydra and therefore stop building thors and instead get tanks. However there are a lot of assumptions in this one. And IMO the best player should take the more "safe game approach" instead of allin cheasy, high variance approach. I know ZvT is a bit imbalanced right now, but still...

In game 2, I throught he played pretty bad as well. Why not just a copule more spine crawlers instead of losing all those lings. Sure its better losing lings than drones, but it just did not seem like very good execution by Dimaga.