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GoodFriend vs Midas
Game 1 – Tau Cross
[Indent]GF (Purple - 10) opened with a quick proxy rax in the center of the map and midas (Yellow - 1) went with a very typical depot/rax BO. GF pressured with a constant stream of rines while he built a proxy factory right outside of midas’ main. He stopped gas mining and put everything into rines and vults to end the game quickly.
[Indent]GF held off long enough to build up a decent rine/vult group and attacked Midas, who still had not seen the factory right outside his base. The attack was overwhelming and good old predictable Midas fell, once again, to a 5 minute rush build.
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GF overwhelms Midas before he can properly react to the fast approaching vultures.
GF > Midas
1:0
[Indent]GFs build and building placement was cool. He knew his opponent well, which apparently isn’t hard with Midas if the past month is any indication.
Game 2 - Peaks of Baekdu
[Indent]GF (Purple – 7) got the bottom main and chose to proxy rax in the center yet again, while Midas used a depot/rax build, once again. GF didn’t rush however, and opted to build all the way to factory before making a marine. Perhaps his proxy was meant purely for psychological purposes.
After some marine play in the center, Midas expanded to his nat followed shortly by GF and they entered macro mode.[Indent]Both players built up a vulture force, but little came of it as GF made his way around the map and Midas held back to defend his natural from vult raiding. But Midas wasn’t passive for long. He was the first to get a dropship in the air and used it to lightly harass GFs main which created an opening for his vultures to halt GFs newly building expansion in the bottom right of the map. Midas expanded to the right gas expansion as he layed mines and harassed GFs main some more. In the end GF lost a bunch of tanks to random mines and his expansion was stopped for a very long time.
[Indent]GF eventually got his half of the map and the standard TvT no man’s land opened up in the center, but GF was far behind and Midas was ramping up wraith production. GF knew his time was running out, so he went for it, sending everything that could move at Midas’ tank line. It didn’t end well for him.
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GoodFriend gives it all he’s got, but it isn’t enough.
Midas > GF
1:1
[Indent]Midas displayed some great dropship harass. The beginning of the game was fun to watch, seeing vult/goly teams beat tanks with mobility. GF never really gained any momentum.
Game 3 – Arcadia
[Indent]GF (Red - 5) opened with a standard factory build while Midas (Orange - 11) used a greedy CC first BO. Midas built up a second factory as he built vults from the other and GF layed a starport down for a wraith while his first tank and upgrade started. GF layed a bunker down and set his tank up behind Midas’ nat to fire upon the mining SCVs. The Teddy Bear Terran was in trouble now, as he retreated his workers to his main. GF had still not expanded and he was still running only one factory, which I found odd, but his attack seemed to have worked well.
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GF does his best to punish Midas for his quick expansion.
[Indent]But Midas wasn’t about to be pushed around. He floated his CC to the mineral only and gathered his army up for a raid on GFs sparse attacking force.
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Midas throws everything at GF’s tiny attacking force.
[Indent]GF tried to salvage his pressure, setting up a short lived tank line in the center and getting his newly built natural mining, but as Midas floated his CC back to his gas nat for a second refinery, it became clear who was in charge. That’s when the drops started.
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Midas starts pushing his weight around.
[Indent]It didn’t take long for Midas to secure another gas economy and roll GF over. The deciding game had been decided.
Midas > GF
2:1
[Indent]Midas played well, using his periods of economic superiority to his advantage. This kid can certainly play when the pressure is off.
[Indent]These games were not the most important played that day. Mani will follow this report with a recap of what happened with the lower seeded players and tell us who managed to survive the massacre and get one of the last 2 seeds in the next OSL.
[Indent]And of course, be sure to check out jkillashark's awesome OSL summary topic for all the info you need on this OSL.
