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Greg”Idra”Fields is always a heavy favorite in any tournament since the release of Starcraft 2 after taking the Razer King of the Beta taking Tester out in the finals.
For those who do not watch Idra he specializes in macro and relies on his mechanics to take him ahead in the game. From watching him in beta tournaments to the Sheth Show-match, I have not see another zerg who can control his army, make drops and having almost perfect injects as Greg.
Greg has always been a notorious for being a bad-ass, not sugar coating a word and saying what he thinks. Some may over-look this but this makes him a target in the tournament scene cause they don’t like him and Idra said something offensive about them.
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Idra and the IPL
Game 1- Xel-Naga Caverns
In the first round vs Fnatic Fenix in the first round. Idra opened 15extractor 14 pool after realizing Fenix was trying to block his expansion. Fenix on the other hand went for a fast reaper into hellion per-igninter expand, then moving to some cloak banshee harass. By the time the hellions and the Cloaked banshee moved in Idra already hard Roaches and lings/banelings with speed. Even though the banshee did a lot of damage to his economy, making Idra go for the kill considering Fenix had a little to no units cause of the harass style opening. He took the game quite convincingly.
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I hear banelings are good
Game 2- Shakuras Plateau
Fenix opened 2rax while Idra went for 15Hatch 14 pool. Fenix went for a bunker rush but Idra pulled 6 drones killing 4 marines, forcing a cancel on 2 bunkers and losing 1 drone. Fenix trys to push with 6 marines and 2 scvs with more marines rallied while expanding behind it. Idra see's the push coming and takes 12 slow lings and defends the push with minimal loses to his lings.
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Bunkers Bunkers Bunkers!
By 7:00 into the game Idra already has double his opponents workers. Idra continues droning while teching to Lair. At the 11:00 mark Fenix pushes with 4 hellions 12 marines but Mutas and banelings are out. Realizing this Fenix pulls back, but scouting Idra's third with a hellion. Idra doubling Fenix's supply pushs with his Muta, speedling/baneling army.
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The After
then crushes threw Fenix's natural forceing a GG and Idra moves onto the next round.
Round 2
Idra's next opponent is ROOTDrewbie. Idra has had some “beef” with drewbie while destroying him on kulas ravine told him he is a failure and has no self-respect for playing Terran.
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Game 1 - Xel-Naga Caverns
Idra opens up extractor before pool for quick speed lings, which was perfect for Drewbie having a 2nd rax hidden that he did not even use. Without even pushing out seeing Idra did not take his expanstion, Idra expands with a couple lings out and scouting drewbie in his natural with a barracks flying over his marines.
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I can only imagine the grin on Idra's face
Though Drewbie did expand behind this and then heads into Infernal pre-igniter hellions and seeing 2 factory’s,
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o.O Whats that!
but Idra prepared already with roaches. With Drewbie trying to poke the drone line of idra but the Roach wall is their and prepared. Idra, pushes drewbies natural with roaches and banelings with speedling follow up and is just to much drewbies natural with 2 bunker and a siege tank. Forcing Drewbie to GG game 1.
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Game 2- The Shattered Temple
Drewbie opens 1rax FE, and idra going for 15hatch 14pool. Drewbie again to go for hellion harass but Idra defends it with just speed-lings and creep. With a Spire going down and idra droning up with not much harass from Drewbie, despite having a lot of hellions. With 7 hellions pushing the Mutalisks popping out just in time to scare away a lot of hellions before they could do any damage to the drone line.
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Saving private drone
Drewbie is prepared for the Mutalisk with a good amount of thors out and missle turrents. Drewbie going for another mech buiild taking a quicker third then the normal terran. This allows idra to just drone and drone until he has around 15+ mutalisks to pick off a missile turrent and a thor in Drewbie's base. Idra see's the mech play Idra responds with heavy infestors with Neural parasite and teching to brood-lords. Drewbie starts pushing out while taking his 4th being his gold while Idra is taking his 5th base. Idra banking 5,000 minerals before pushing out mainly waiting for his blords to come out. Drewbie desperately trying to get ravens out for PDD but can not get a sufficient amount in time in time for idra taking control of half of his thors with his Infestors but Drewbie is forced to GG with 6 Brood-lords at his natural and no thors or viking to deal with he brood-lords.
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They are mine now!
The Highlight of Drewbie in this game was the Planetary fortress with 180 kills of broodlings other then that it was a walk over for Idra.
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Thank you for reading my first match writeup, if you would like me to continue and finish up the write up please let me know I will.
This was my first write-up so sorry for the really bad pictures I did not want to make them gigantic, really was not sure.
