Z7 EG.IdrA < Shakuras Plateau > coL.CrunCher P1

Cruncher begins the match with forge, nexus, gateway while Idra opens with a spawning pool and gas, making a hatchery at his natural shortly thereafter. Cruncher begins with a stargate and begins taking down his backdoor rocks while Idra grabs a third.

After seeing the initial voidray, Idra prepares with an evolution chamber and hydralisk den, maing spores to guard each base. Cruncher's plan is obvious as he adds a robo, then proceeds to take the base at 12 - he is looking to max out and take it to late game. Idra responds by adding a fourth base and begins amassing a roach-hydra army with corrupters.

Idra's nearly maxed army breaks down the front door, but is unable to do damage before being driven back by a colossus-voidray-stalker force. Poking in a second time it is clear he will not be able to engage head-on, and begins making a nydus near 12 o'clock which is stopped before completing.

While taking the rest of the map, Idra barges into the Protoss natural, killing most of the probes but leaving the nexus alive. Losing a large portion of his army triggers Cruncher to wander into the middle of the map with an imposing force of 13 void rays, 4 colossus, and a handful of stalkers.

Idra is able to easily remax, but takes a poor angle on the next engagement and leaves without a GG as Cruncher begins feasting on the rest of his bases. [22:01]

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Z3 EG.IdrA < Terminus RE > coL.CrunCher P9

For the second time, Cruncher begins his game with forge, nexus, gateway, but this time Idra opts to hatchery before pool. He follows that hatchery up with a second, taking 3 bases off 2 lings as Cruncher populates his mineral lines.

Quickly after Idra's lair is finished, be begins researching ventral sacs. At the same time, Cruncher begins to start a small harassement force of void rays and phoenixes. He is repeatedly repelled without doing any damage, and Idra begins to creep out into the map's center while taking a 4th base.

The real fighting begins as Idra loads his entire army into overlords and unleashes a huge hydra-ling force into Cruncher's main. Cruncher is able to stop it with the help of his first colossus, but a second drop on the mineral line kills all the helpless probes as a third force of hydras are damage the newly finished third nexus.

Idra drops the main base several more times, killing probes and then pulling his units back into overlords and running away when the Protoss army arrives. Eventually his economic advantage becomes overwhelming and his main force attacks through the natural to kill Cruncher's entire army directly. [19:45]

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Z2 EG.IdrA < Crevasse > coL.CrunCher P5

Cruncher opens the third game with a gateway and core, unlike his previous two. Idra makes a pool and then a fast second hatchery. Cruncher makes a fast stalker to kill the drone in his base, and then immediately lays down a nexus. As the nexus is finishing, he makes 4 additional gateways and prepares to pressure while Idra's roach warren finishes.

Laying forward pylons along the way, he brings a largely sentry force to Idra's front and traps five roaches in a forcefield circle, making them instant cannon fodder. Idra pulls drones and attempts to hold as more roaches build, but it isn't enough and the game is over. [10:17]

T1 Empire.Kas < Crevasse > Liquid`HayprO Z5

Kas goes for a gasless rax FE, but Haypro doesn’t hesitate to hatch first as well. Walling off with barracks, Kas doesn’t tech to starport before pumping out tanks from dual factories. Kas sets up a position outside Haypro’s outer expansion, and uses that time to stall and get defense up at his own third. Haypro waits for baneling speed before doing a flank on that siege, and Kas does not have enough tanks to deal with banelings. Kas sends a second wave of tanks and marines to set up enough soft contain on Haypro, this time adding turrets as well. Haypro’s mutalisks fly to deal some harass on Kas’s backdoor expansion. Although 20 supply behind, Haypro once again surrounds the siege area, and with Kas not reacting in time with his marines, baneling splash and the sheer number of zerglings break the siege line. A huge clump of his marines was missing due to their adventurous hunt of mutalisks at the bottom left of the map. Kas pulls back his siege line, this time just outside his potential 4th at the center of the map. Haypro times it perfect as Kas unsieges and masses in, but it is the tanks in the back that saves Kas with a crucial hit on the banelings rolling down the ramp. Kas counterpushes the fourth, takes it down, catches glimpse of drones Maynarding, and completely shatters Haypro’s economy. Haypro makes a last ditch effort and rams all his banelings into the planetary fortess, and afterwards, GGs. [21:59]

Z2 MYM.Mondragon < Crevasse > ZeeRaX P10

ZeeRaX starts his game by walling off, and making a quick stargate after a sentry. Mondragon chooses to hatch first, but makes the unorthodox play of expanding towards Protoss insead of using his comparatively safe backdoor natural.

The first voidray arrives at this base with two phoenix, murdering queens, drones, and overlords as the evolution chamber finishes and spore crawlers morph. Mondragon takes and populates a third as the harass continues, preparing for the midgame with a hydra den and roach warren. ZeeRaX begins colossus production while continuously making phoenixes to support the lone void ray.

Mondragon decides to all but ignore the phoenixes, throwing all of his resources into roaches and attacking the Protoss front, where a third base is warping in. After successfully denying the expansion Mondragon launches a double pronged attack, dropping the back natural and hitting the front with a pure roach army.

After killing several colossus that wander too far into the fray, Mondragon kills the natural nexus and begins to work on the newly finished third as void rays attempt to stop them. They are unable to deal enough damage in time and the game is over when roaches overrun the main of ZeeRaX. [17:45]

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Z7 MYM.Mondragon < Shakuras Plateau > ZeeRaX P2

ZeeRaX starts game 2 off with a gateway and core at the front of his natural, while Mondragon makes a pool and gas followed by a hatchery. A stargate follows, but the first void ray isn't created until after a nexus. Protoss starts teching to colossus immediately, still with one gateway, while Zerg takes a third base before adding a hydra den.

Like the earlier game, Mondragon bursts through the front with an entirely roach force and kills a colossus and several probes before being stopped. As he is taking a fourth base, he loads 12 roaches into overlords and drops them in the main while bringing a smaller roach-hydra force to the front door.

ZeeRaX, not having started stalker production quite yet, is forced once again to try to defend purely with void rays and colossus, the latter of which are quickly overwhelmed. Reinforcements stream into the natural as the probe count in the main is reduced, and ZeeRaX taps out. [15:30]

T1 Liquid`TLO < Xel'Naga Caverns > oGs.NaDa T7

NaDa begins by teching to starport and getting a banshee, while TLO starts with double tech lab barracks and a ghost academy. Some early pressure from TLO is unable to go up NaDa's ramp, he backs away and begins a command center right at the gold. While his forces are breaking down the center rocks, the single banshee is able to stop mining and rack up close to double digit kills before being taken down. While NaDa builds up a sizeable tank marine army, TLO focuses solely on marines and marauders and adds a whole slew of barracks. NaDa eventually catches wind of the base at the gold expansion, and sieges up to prepare an assault. TLO tries to slow it with a nuke on the opposing army, but NaDa scans in time to kill the ghost and TLO is unable to repell the tanks. [13:38]

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T7 Liquid`TLO < Crevasse > oGs.NaDa T2

Both players open with a command center after barracks, teching to a factory shortly after. Into the midgame they both keep pace building units, with little conflict. TLO remains a hair ahead of NaDa in harvesters and upgrades during this entire phase, as the armies dance around the map's center he attempts to drop NaDa's third but is largely unsuccessful. The two continue mirroring eachother, as they take a 4th base with similar timings and each begins harassing with one banshee. A key difference occurs here when NaDa takes a 5th base in the corner of the map and TLO readies himself to produce battlecruisers. TLO spots the expansion thanks to transfering SCVs, and is able to take it down before the planetary fortress finishes morphing. TLO engages NaDa's force head first and is able to drive it back and overcome it easily thanks to a marginally superior army, economy, and 2 battlecruisers. [20:24]

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T12 Liquid`TLO < Terminus RE > oGs.NaDa T9

TLO begins with a command center at 15, while NaDa opens comfortably with a banshee and cloak before taking his natural. NaDa makes two banshees and splits them between the main and expansion of TLO, racking up SCV kills while taking his third. TLO attempts a counter with a handfull of marines and lone marauder, but is easily stopped cold at the NaDa's front door. The banshees of NaDa have survived through this entire episode, and continue to score the occasional worker kill. Eventually NaDa brings his tanks and marines to TLO's base and he is forced to GG, facing down a superior economy and army. [12:48]