Idra opened pool first, in contrast to his game against Ensnare. Clide went 2 rax, but with a limited ability to pressure he quickly started an expansion and began a factory. Idra having scouted the initial marines reacted with additional zerglings, preventing Clide’s expansion from mining until he moved out with 4 hellions. Using just speedlings, a couple of well placed spinecrawlers and his queen, Idra deflected the initial hellion harass, but Clide kept his hellions alive, setting up a frightening hellion marauder marine push. Incredible control and patience by Idra allowed his spire and initial mutalisks to finish just as the push reached his natural, Clide’s 7 were marines not enough to take down the mutas, and Idra’s strong control limited any damage the marauders and hellions could do before being cleaned up.



Immediately counter attacking, the mutas were met with limited anti air. As reinforcing mutas joined the front, Idra was able to take down barracks and any marines he could find.



Clide was desperately building turrets marines and replacing rax, but Idra’s great muta control and incredible macro was simply overwhelming, easily getting a third expansion and 40 food lead.



After finally stabilizing as Idra set up his gold 4th, Clide desperately moved out in attempt to take his own gold, but the muta ling baneling army was far too big. Having completely dismantled Clide, all that stood between Idra and a guaranteed spot in the Ro8 was NSPGenius.

Genius placed his first pylon down the ramp, indicating forge first play against Idra’s hatch first. Genius was able to force a cancel of the hatch however, walling his probe in with 3 pylons behind the minerals quickly adding a couple cannons.



The hatch and one of the cannons canceled, Idra quickly expanded to the 3 o’clock position, Genius getting up his own natural and gateway. With only one cannon, Idra’s roach army was more than a match for the protoss defense, Genius desperately warping in new cannons and a brave stalker.



After taking out a couple cannons, a gateway, the nexus and the cyber core Idra pulled back relying on a strong 2 base economy. Attempting to retake his natural, Genius moved out with a small stalker sentry force, but with a speedling roach army and a creep highway connecting the distant bases, Idra would not be denied from this strong of a spot.



As roach speed finished, Idra crashed through Genius’ natural, the first few hydras rallying to the front before Genius’s first void rays could clean up the roaches, and a thoroughly crushed Genius could only type out.

Idra opened hatch first, but Nada’s 1 rax play managed to snipe a drone before retreating, going for a fast thor drop play. The first thor was unable to do much damage however, Idra immediately surrounding it with lings and making sure not to lose a queen.



This was only the start however, Nada quickly repaired the thor and pushed out with some SCVs, marines, 2 thors and 2 medivacs. Idra was quite prepared, his banelings able to make quick work of the SCVs and most of the marines. The zerglings able to overwhelm the rest, Nada was forced to pick up the thors and retreat yet again, now significantly behind in worker count.



Nada was committed though, again repairing the thors and moving out, this time 4 thors and a few marines. Idra had begun roach production however, and once again repelled the attack with ease, this time killing two of the thors.



Still on one base Nada was now desperate to do some damage, attacking with one last marine thor push, but Idra cleaned it up with ease in a dominating 3-0 performance , securing a top seed for the Ro8.