Nal_ra vs ohlw19

I thought for sure Nal_ra lost this. Never underestimate the power of Arbiters in the super-late game.

those 2 dragoons each had 20 kills, each arbitor had 10 kills in the end lol!!!

-Protoss starts to build normally, with 10 gateway, scouts no opponent at 12 and goes for a Nexus. He doesn't do a very decent job at keeping the scouting probe alive or harassing the workers.
Last thing he saw were 2 marines + a factory being built.

-He proceeds as if he has made a 12 nexus, going 1 zealots 2 dragoons and delaying range a little bit. Kills a tank and manages to get inside terran base (that was a nice move by the protoss), but then he leaves his units to the mercy of God. Doesn't micro at all inside the base.

-Anyway, he saw the Terran did expand too, and then sends a probe to take a third... instead of taking the third he makes a Robo bay, and you notice his macro starts to fall apart, probes being delayed, gas getting low, and he gets another gate (?)... looks like he is going for an all in?

-The reaver comes out. Nal_rA was known for his amazing reaver control. So what does he do? He sees one turret by the ledge, then runs the shuttle right in the front door, suicides everything inside the shuttle to kill 1 tank + 3 scvs. Yah, that was a "brilliant" move by Nal_rA.
Meanwhile he adds 2 more gateways, followed by two more gateways.

-At this point it really feels like he is desperate. Although the Nal_rA impersonator had his dragoons watching the Terran's exit, he didn't make a single attempt to send a probe anywhere else to try to expand.
I assume he decided to gamble in a very unlikely outcome. He wants to take advantage of the terran lack of information (all the T knows is that he delayed a probe trying to take a third, and might therefore assume the Protoss intention is to go triple base), and probably intercept a timing push by going low econ from 2 bases.
But lets be honest here. This would only work if the Terran is stupid enough to blindly commit to a deep push. Pretty much, anything else the terran decides to do would put the Protoss at the disadvantage. Like, if the Terran took the island expo and macroed from 3 bases, would probably be over. The Protoss only has mass gate, weak econ, no tech.

-This Terran doesn't have scan, has his ebay strategically placed in the most useless location he could ever find.

-All suggests the Protoss is indeed expecting the T to move all. He seems to be 'hiding' his army at his choke, probably wants the T to think the dragoons at the front represents most of his army.
But nothing really happens... The terran decides to take the mineral only and the Protoss finally gets 11 oclock.

-Terran positions his army in a bad fashion along the cliff line.

-Terran does a weak drop at the Protoss main, places mines badly and ends up killing only one zealot.

-It is 14:04 minutes into the game, there were hardly any fights. None of the players have any upgrades yet, just a feast of bad moves, bad micro/macro, useless attack and bad unit positioning. Fear not though, the best is still to come.

-The Protoss has amassed a BALL of zealots at his choke!

-The Terran proceeds to lay around 20 mines right next to a group of dragoons, but not near enough to kill any, nor far enough for them to walk into them unsuspectingly. They just clear the useless mine field.
...the zealot ball has grown (they dont even look hotkeyed. Maybe Nal_rA is too busy spamming apm instead of trying to actually position his army to control the map, defend, or any other seemingly relevant purpose.

-Terran starts moving vultures randomly across the map, attacks 11, then loses all vults+dropship at the bottom mineral only, because he doesn't notice them being attacked.

-Protoss manages to defend the 11 after losing some dragoons to mines, but shows some nice probe running skills.

-The zealot ball remains static.

-No problem though, the Protoss had a Machiavellian plan up his sleeve. He could obviously walk to 12 and break the terran expo, but noooooo... There was 1 vulture right in the pathway! Damn, better off casting a recall!!
Recall = instant GG! Great use for the arbiter's 150 energy.

-Terran then shows GREAT EXECUTION with a wonderful all-unit push going South, then heading for 11 oclock! Thanks to awesome positioning and carefully planning he lost every unit without putting much of a fight. But because this protoss cant seem to be able to defend any expansion properly he loses his recently built 4th making it a close game.

-The Terran does an awful job at map control and defending expos too.

-From that point on it is all desperate and jumpy play. The Terran trying to sneak expos anywhere, and the Protoss running around mindlessly trying to prevent him.

-There is a close and fun ending to save the entire replay.