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The Graken
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/FnTv7.jpg)
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.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/Z4i8Q.jpg)
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.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/qXaMS.jpg)
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.![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/dV4kv.jpg)
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.![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/R7QoJ.jpg) The Before
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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.![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/ZNNrX.jpg)
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.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/4NLEJ.jpg)
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.![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/Th67k.jpg)
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.
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Finished. Finally. Please reply if you want me to finish the whole rest of his games of IPL
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On May 03 2011 09:12 TheWarbler wrote:
AHHHHHHH not done editing DONT LOOK. Did not meen to hit post!
Too late, already reading =)
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Can't even see the pictures, they are all way too small.
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Nice write up, if you finish it i will read it 
^ i will agree that the pictures are too small though so fix that if you can.
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On May 03 2011 09:12 TheWarbler wrote:
AHHHHHHH not done editing DONT LOOK. Did not meen to hit post!
Still nice! Looking forward for the finnished version. A good read so far.
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Too late warbler :D
but yeah i agree idra is a boss and i love his play and he is heavy macro but he has switched up his late game tactics
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United Kingdom2950 Posts
Awesome write-up! Picture are a bit off-center in terms of ratio and size, but that's cool. Like your write-up and the captions!
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Needs a catchier title, but the write up was good. Need to scale the pictures better, but if that is all fixed I am sure it will turn out as an amazing writeup.
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I was gonna change the Title, but I hit post to fast and I cant edit title.
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laughed so hard with the IdrA/drewbie picture xd
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On May 03 2011 09:30 TheWarbler wrote:
I was gonna change the Title, but I hit post to fast and I cant edit title.
Yeah something like Greg Fields morphs into the Gracken. or Greg Fields: Leading the Swarm to Victory. I'm still trying to think of them. You can always pm a mod or request someone to change the title for you.
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I would love to see more games in your post.
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Awesome read. I'd enjoy it if you wrote more :D
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That planetary picture is just gold
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uhhh you better send in your app to become a tl writer
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nice writeup. I especially like the Before and After pics.
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Also, I'd say Greg "IdrA" Fields when talking about him personally or his winnings and IdrA when talking about his in-game skills. Bolding the headlines to each game might help it stand out a bit more, so you can see where you move onto the next game. Thanks for making this write-up and I'd love to see more games along with the original post you have.
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On May 03 2011 10:04 Demonace34 wrote:
Also, I'd say Greg "IdrA" Fields when talking about him personally or his winnings and IdrA when talking about his in-game skills. Bolding the headlines to each game might help it stand out a bit more, so you can see where you move onto the next game. Thanks for making this write-up and I'd love to see more games along with the original post you have.
Thank you for the tip!
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On May 03 2011 09:12 TheWarbler wrote:
Finished. Finally. Please reply if you want me to finish the whole rest of his games of IPL
please do! i missed the games and this write up was perfect, short explanation of the games and lots of pictures!
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Alright I will work on it tomorrow. If I can open a word document in a mac tomorrow in school I will work on it there.
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Thanks for the topic, but more importantly, thanks for the picture of the Razer girl, I think I love her.
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I love idra, and the fact that he is dominating TvZ with muta/ling/bling/infestor even though mutas really went out of date a while ago. I also like how in the last round of the ign proleague he was able to make all of his mutas fly in different directions at almost one time just for kicks and giggles. This showed that his micro was on par with the likes of boxer lol love you greg
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I really liked the write-up. Other than some grammatical and spelling errors I really didn't see anything wrong with it.
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On May 03 2011 09:34 Demonace34 wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2011 09:30 TheWarbler wrote:
I was gonna change the Title, but I hit post to fast and I cant edit title. Yeah something like Greg Fields morphs into the Gracken. or Greg Fields: Leading the Swarm to Victory. I'm still trying to think of them. You can always pm a mod or request someone to change the title for you.
The Gracken unleashed.
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lol...Idra always gives me a good laugh with his BM when he loses or his BM when he wins.
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Thanks dude, baller write-up. Idra is my favorite.
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On May 03 2011 11:04 PookySC wrote:
I love idra, and the fact that he is dominating TvZ with muta/ling/bling/infestor even though mutas really went out of date a while ago. I also like how in the last round of the ign proleague he was able to make all of his mutas fly in different directions at almost one time just for kicks and giggles. This showed that his micro was on par with the likes of boxer lol love you greg
muta out of date? lol?
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can someone make a picture fusing Kerrigan and Grack ?
he is definitely the King of Blades
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The pimp picture with idra is golden!
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The write up was awesome. Easily read and to the point. Thanks for filling me in on some of the ipl games. :D
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On May 03 2011 14:47 gNs.I-Jasa wrote:Show nested quote +On May 03 2011 11:04 PookySC wrote:
I love idra, and the fact that he is dominating TvZ with muta/ling/bling/infestor even though mutas really went out of date a while ago. I also like how in the last round of the ign proleague he was able to make all of his mutas fly in different directions at almost one time just for kicks and giggles. This showed that his micro was on par with the likes of boxer lol love you greg muta out of date? lol?
Maybe he just means we have been seeing some other strats lately that is not the usual ling/bling/muta fest that's been so popular against terran.
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Nice writeup!
Are there any VODs or Replays out?
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Australia18228 Posts
At he 11:00 mark Idra pushes with 4 hellions 12 marines but Mutas and banelings are out. Realizing this Fenix pulls back
Two typos here btw
* he = the
* Idra = Fenix
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On May 03 2011 16:24 Inflicted_ wrote:Show nested quote +At he 11:00 mark Idra pushes with 4 hellions 12 marines but Mutas and banelings are out. Realizing this Fenix pulls back Two typos here btw * he = the * Idra = Fenix
O will fix soon
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IdrA's "I don't play terran because i have self respect"
For some reason I remember that comment made quite a long time ago, back in 2010. Was this chat screenshot included in the ROOT.Drewbie game to add some more entertainment and flavor? Because I clearly remember this infamous chat log from the past. Did he just do this again?
Great picture of IdrA, he looks intimidating with his leather jacket and his sort of fluttered eyelids. Good job and release the Gracken!!!1
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On May 04 2011 06:21 D_K_night wrote:
IdrA's "I don't play terran because i have self respect"
For some reason I remember that comment made quite a long time ago, back in 2010. Was this chat screenshot included in the ROOT.Drewbie game to add some more entertainment and flavor? Because I clearly remember this infamous chat log from the past. Did he just do this again?
Great picture of IdrA, he looks intimidating with his leather jacket and his sort of fluttered eyelids. Good job and release the Gracken!!!1
Yeah, that quote was 5-6 months ago when terrans were quite OP but they all denied it. Thing like:
Reapers with fast speed
Barracks before depot
Tanks did a solid 50 on everything
BC did 48 damage per second (10 damage at .225)
Bunkers took 30 seconds to build (they take 40 now... I think)
Medivacs were faster
EMP killed ALL protoss energy instead of 100
IdrA has not really talked about terran since, and that matchup is considered by the community one of the best and most balanced now.
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On May 04 2011 06:28 Mailing wrote:Show nested quote +On May 04 2011 06:21 D_K_night wrote:
IdrA's "I don't play terran because i have self respect"
For some reason I remember that comment made quite a long time ago, back in 2010. Was this chat screenshot included in the ROOT.Drewbie game to add some more entertainment and flavor? Because I clearly remember this infamous chat log from the past. Did he just do this again?
Great picture of IdrA, he looks intimidating with his leather jacket and his sort of fluttered eyelids. Good job and release the Gracken!!!1 Yeah, that quote was 5-6 months ago when terrans were quite OP but they all denied it. Thing like: Reapers with fast speed Barracks before depot Tanks did a solid 50 on everything BC did 48 damage per second (10 damage at .225) Bunkers took 30 seconds to build (they take 40 now... I think) Medivacs were faster EMP killed ALL protoss energy instead of 100 IdrA has not really talked about terran since, and that matchup is considered by the community one of the best and most balanced now.
I would agree that the changes to terran did fix all the OP things they could do before in the past. However I do feel that the reaper is a bit overnerfed. IMO I think they should be just tweaked, and I agree that depot before rax is fair.
Personally I think reaper build time should be faster and the nitro packs back to require just tech lab, but scale their HP down to just 30 HP. They would be 2 shot by stalkers and 1 shot(?) by spines.
My vision of reapers are, very dangerous but murder on your APM to control if you care to keep them alive at all.
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On May 03 2011 14:55 ShooTouts wrote:
can someone make a picture fusing Kerrigan and Grack ?
he is definitely the King of Blades
![[image loading]](http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/23/idralol.th.jpg)
Lol. I shopped this real quick. Maybe someone with more PS skills can do a better one.
*Edit, don't know how to embed pictures properly. : /
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Wow man what a great read! and I love the title too, Idra will always be my favorite player!!!!!!!
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Edit: I think Drewbie later apologized which should be included, many terran players did :-).
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I believe it's "Gracken" but lol w/e 
Nice write-up, would like to see summaries of his other games as well. I only watched the finals (stumbled upon it by accident)...
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Nice article. I didn't see those games so this recap is great!
(too lazy to check the VODs )
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Just updated the title thanks chill ! Also thank you guys for the compliments. I find my writing terrible, but maybe because I am only 16 and wrote this after reading one of Waxangels articles.
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Sweet writeup man, don't stop! Much appreciated
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This doesn't have anything to do with that writer position, does it?
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On May 04 2011 08:23 Munk-E wrote:
This doesn't have anything to do with that writer position, does it?
No, I did it for fun. I did email a resume for JP's job postion. I dont think I am good enough for TL
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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.
Not to be insulting but I really can't figure out what this means. Idra saw that Idra didn't expand and so Idra expanded and Drewbie floated a rax?
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LOL 180 kills on a planetary!!!
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On May 04 2011 08:43 wonderwall wrote:Show nested quote +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. Not to be insulting but I really can't figure out what this means. Idra saw that Idra didn't expand and so Idra expanded and Drewbie floated a rax?
I just re-read it and god its terrible. sorry, I will fix this soon.
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Excellent write up. Thanks for the pictures too. I wasn't able to catch the games. - probably should start paying attention to IPL.
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Can anyone link me to VODs of IdrA's last 2 matches against Select and Kiwi?
I can't find them anywhere =/ They're not in the IPL channel.
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On May 04 2011 10:31 Subversion wrote:
Can anyone link me to VODs of IdrA's last 2 matches against Select and Kiwi?
I can't find them anywhere =/ They're not in the IPL channel.
http://www.ign.com/ipl/videos Free hd videos
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IdrA vs Select semis:
Game 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
IdrA vs Kiwi finals:
Game 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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It's cool you're writing these but there are numerous typos and other errors (such as random capitalizations that aren't needed and some weird sentence structure) that detract from the reading experience. Still, thanks for the time spent putting this up!
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Cool haha that was a cute write up
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Good read, would like to see more :D
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On May 05 2011 21:21 Jtn wrote:
It's cool you're writing these but there are numerous typos and other errors (such as random capitalizations that aren't needed and some weird sentence structure) that detract from the reading experience. Still, thanks for the time spent putting this up!
Sorry, I try to catch what I can, I am not good at revising my write ups.
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EPT
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