The game starts on Circuit Breaker, with STX's ace player Bogus spawning at top left, and Soulkey spawning at the top right. Bogus plays safe with a 1 rax cc, while Soulkey opts for a 12 hatch. Although Bogus is the more late-game orientated player, being down 1-3 must have made Soulkey play safe, as he went for a drone scout and thus, spotting the close spawn positions.

Rather than pulling back the drone, Soulkey decides to make the most out of it, annoying busy SCVs and forcing a SCV to stop working and roleplay as a marine until the real one appeared, by then which Soulkey was forced to pull back the drone.




Soulkey puts down his third hatchery, going for the standard 3 hatch into muta build, while Bogus puts down a Command Center of his own at the natural.

He gets a quick gas, and instead of an academy, opts for a fast upgrade, getting the ebay off just one barracks - a very common build on this map. Meanwhile, the scouting SCV that made a huge trip around the map is now making a small one in Soulkey's territory, scouting everything from unit production to build order.




Back in the Terran's main, Bogus has gone 2nd rax into academy, getting that stim and range done at an appropriate timing to counter mutalisks by sacrificing barracks and marine count. In order not to hand the advantage over to Soulkey, he persistently scouts his main, even doing a baton pass to a fellow SCV with full hp, giving Bogus a better idea of what Soulkey is doing, seeing the lair finishing timing in the process.

Bogus saw that Soulkey had no sunkens, and Soulkey himself knew that. He expected Bogus to push out to punish Soulkey for his lack of defense and thus prepared one and a half control group of Speedlings to flank the army, except there was no army to flank. Because Bogus sacrificed marine count for upgrades, he was playing safe, and it sure did pay off, because the game could have ended right there.




Bogus now laid down 3 more rax, deciding to overpower Soulkey with marine medic count and fast upgrades. Soulkey, on the other hand, had been playing standard, going 3 hatch muta into expansion at the 5 o'clock main. Mutas arrive, only to face an adequately erected number of turrets. Unable to do much damage, Soulkey decides to save the mutas for flanking later on.

Bogus waits for another round of unit production before pushing out with a larger-than-usual number of marines and medics, an amount that Soulkey could not engage. All he could do was delay the army until his lurkers were done morphing, but with the marines' +1 weapon upgrade done and bogus continuing to push into the center of the map and towards his natural, it seemed like a rather daunting task. Probably being too preoccupied trying to deal with the initial army, Soulkey failed to cut the reinforcing army, and there was now a huge deathball blob moving across the map, threatening to devour anything in its path. So what does Soulkey do to buy himself nearly half a minute of time?

He provokes, but never engages. He cuts off small reinforcement groups and picks off units here and there, but never enough such that it forces him to go deep and risk losing his entire mutaling army. Incredibly smart play, considering the enormous risk he was taking here.




Bogus realizes that any more delay would result in his huge early investment in units going bad, so he finally decided to ignore the mutaling army and headed straight across the bridge towards the natural, resulting in a split army thanks to the terrain and bad 10-year old AI pathing. Soulkey grasps this opportunity to cut off the forward half of the army, buying even more time for sunkens and lurkers to morph. Bogus, instead of retreating, presses on and eventually loses them as well to the now-completed sunkens, lurkers and mutaling army.




Soulkey now has his 3rd gas safely running, while Bogus is on the Starport tech tier. He continues to pump out infantry from the 5 rax, and quickly recovers back the lost army. He pushes out with this enormous army, while Soulkey only has a couple of mutalisks and slightly over a dozen zerglings. With the army size obviously incomparable, Soulkey is unable to distract the main army this time, and heads to cut off reinforcements. Bogus realises that the mutaling army is far away, and stims straight for the natural, where he was greeted with arms wide open by two unburrowed lurkers, one which had the misfortune of dying before dealing a single blow. With only two morphed lurkers, Bogus rushes in and quickly picks off the lurker in the front. With the reinforcement just a screen away, it seemed that Soulkey would fall here and lead to his team's loss.

However, two of his lurkers morphed just in time, right as a couple of lings spawned to absorb fire (with additional meat shield buffer by the lone sunken colony) from the marines, giving just enough time for the lurkers to safely burrow and deal damage against the 1/1 upgrade marines. The cleanup crew of mutaling arrived, and Soulkey's natural was safe once again. Bogus' failure to make use of the control of the bridges, as well as a slightly late scan was to blame on his part.




Soulkey was not in the clear yet. Bogus sent his third wave of units, now better and stronger, with the addition of three tanks and a vessel, a delayed standard 10-minute push. Facing such a huge army while (likely due to his own mistake) having a slightly late defiler mound, Soulkey looked to be in some deep trouble. However, his excellence as a tactician shined once more, delaying the seemingly unstoppable force for over one and a half minute in the middle of the map through excellent army positioning and making use of the bridges.

Unable to get anywhere by land and deal damage, Bogus decides to drop. It seemed like a doomed drop, as a Zergling spots the dropship flying by at 12 o'clock. The Zergling saw it, but the player did not. It seemed inexcusable, until you notice that Bogus is now putting pressure on Soulkey's 5 o'clock natural.




The drop deals some drone and ling damage, but the real damage was done by distracting Soulkey enough at 5 o'clock and costing him a few free lurkers, mutas and zerglings. Usually, the Terran gets less aggressive after the 10 minute timing push fails, but not Bogus. His attention moved to 5 o'clock, something that Soulkey wasn't exactly prepared for. Defiler quickly swarms near the tanks and lurkers proceed to take the tanks, but being a quickly cast swarm, it wasn't very well positioned, for it covered only half the natural's wide entrance. Bogus took the opportunity to punish soulkey for it, using his marines to kill a couple of lurkers, zerglings and the nydus canal at the natural. Thankfully, Soulkey still had a nydus canal at the main to reinforce and save the natural.




Tanks, with the vessels providing vision and detection, continues to chip away at Soulkey's units. despite defiler out, Bogus continues to mount pressure on Soulkey's 5 o'clock, with his initial army's tanks still alive. a dropship arrives to elevate the units straight into the 5 o'clock main, dealing a ton of unnecessary damage to soulkey's defense and economy, losing a handful of drones, lurkers and sunkens in the process, no thanks to a badly-positioned swarm. Despite this, Soulkey had his 5 o'clock natural as a backup economy, so the damage was not very huge. Bogus continued to knock on both of Soulkey's bases, but time and time again, Soulkey was ready with just a small number of lurkers and defilers in order to save gas for ultralisks, very much reminiscent of a certain bonjwa zerg.




Bogus starts the mech switch, while taking the mineral-only and 9 o'clock gas expansion at the same time. He starts cutting off ground routes with spider mines, providing safe cover for the expansions by preemptively cutting off guerilla zergling forces.

The STX Terran continues to be aggressive even with his slower-than-bio mech army, even forcing a cancel on Soulkey's 5 o'clock mineral-only expansion with some well placed mines, a vulture and 2 tanks, massacring more than a dozen of lings as a bonus.

With mines cutting off soulkey to the middle of the map, Bogus takes the 7 o'clock main as well, and it seems that soulkey was heading for some deep trouble if he didn't act fast enough. Soulkey thus decides to cut off bogus' mineral-only, a key to Bogus' never-ending vulture supply. but mass tanks and spider mines immediately negates this, dealing practically no damage at all.




Soulkey's second attack does much more this time, with a very smart drop with lings, lurkers and a defiler on Bogus' 9 o'clock gas expansion, forcing a lift and SCV pull.

Bogus isn't someone to just sit and not retaliate, however. He immediately takes control of the high ground at 5 o'clock, quickly shutting down Soulkey's mineral-only expansion, while slowly cleaning up 9 o'clock.

Like two boys fighting it out over the stupidest things and never willing to give up over who's the manlier guy, Soulkey decides to go for an attack that will do even greater damage. Another small guerilla drop force at Bogus' mineral-only forces a worker pull, effectively shutting down a base temporarily.




Meanwhile, we see Soulkey starting to accumulate ultralisks. Normally, Terrans would be around, sniping defilers and irradiating the cows with their vessels, but the skies were filled with scourges, allowing Soulkey to slowly and safely grow his army strength.

A few subsequent and relentless drops on Bogus' scattered tank-heavy army everywhere, from the forward army at 5 o'clock to the tanks at 11 o'clock guarding the mineral-only, was starting to hurt Bogus, as his tank counted dwindled quickly. Soulkey was trading cheap and dispensible zerglings for Tanks.




Oh, did i mention Soulkey had almost a dozen fresh ultralisks waiting?

Similar to how Hulk Hogan gets all fired up after getting a hell of a beating, Soulkey starts unleashing his fury upon Bogus, his tormentor for the past twenty minutes. Drops at Bogus' supply and factory area, while simultaneously destroying his 9 o'clock expansion AND defending against his army at 5 o'clock which consisted of a dozen tanks, followed immediately by harass at the mineral-only and expanding at the 12 o'clock gas expansion, Soulkey was in complete control. His excellent technical usage of defilers and his late game capabilities and understanding shone brightly, such as when he used a defiler and a single lurker at a ramp to hold off half a dozen tanks. Pimpest moment right there, folks. All Bogus could do was wait for the swarm to clear, as all his depots were... well, cleared.




Bogus frantically pulls together whatever remaining forces he has and pushes towards Soulkey's main. He tries to gain the high ground advantage but swarm repels him back to the low ground. Having failed to command the high ground, Bogus decides to take the bridge. Smart choice, except it is not very effective if all the units fly to you. A two-pronged attack cleans up the army clean, and while all this was happening, Soulkey had sent a small guerrila army to harass the mineral-only at 11 o'clock, while expanding to his 6th gas expansion at 3 o'clock.







Bogus is now potentially supply blocked, down to just 2 running bases against soulkey's 5 base pumping hive-tech economy. With no way to stop the waves of ultraling or shutting down any of the zerg's expansions, the Terran typed out. GG.

And it was a good game indeed.