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On February 20 2012 10:59 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Game two is on Shakuras.
Illusion top right, Hwangsin bottom left.
Both FE.

Illusion attacks at 10 minutes with mass bio and ghosts (*nukes).

Hwansin holds off the push with great forcefields for 3 full minutes, causing Illusion to waste a few stims, not do too much damage, and eventually pull back.

At around 15-16 minute marks, we see both players take their third bases (along each side- no pocket expos). Charge and thermal lance about finished. Medivacs finally in good production.

At 17-18 minutes, Illusion dropping all over the place, keeping Hwangsin contained but doing minimal damage overall (sniping a few pylons and probes).

170 supply each at the 19 minute mark. Colossi and gateway ball (including archons- no storm yet) vs. MMMGV. Illusion taking fourth (bottom right).

21:30- maxed armies. Storm finishes but not used. Ghosts EMP, but colossi kill off the bio before dying, which engage too far forwards. Protoss army topples Terran army by about 70 food differential (~150 - ~80 left over). Illusion calls gg.

Hwangsin 2-0.

On February 20 2012 11:11 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Game three is on Antiga Shipyard.
Illusion at the 11 o'clock; Hwangsin in cross position at the 5 o'clock.

Fast double gas for Illusion; walls off with a bunker and two depots. Reactored factory for hellions; fast starport too. Fast robo and blink for Hwangsin. Then 3 gates total.

4 hellion drop killed 9 probes. Decent damage but the building placement and reaction time of Hwangsin stopped it from doing a lot more (he only had 3 stalkers too).

Hwangsin counters with blink into Terran main. Picks off a few scvs but there are two banshees out. 50 supply each at the 9:30 mark. Observer gets sniped; stalkers need to retreat. Banshees have cloak.

Illusion expands a bit before Hwangsin around 12 minutes each. More importantly, Illusion is up 77 to 59 supply. Same number of workers (27) and so Terran has a much bigger army. Raven out too.

Both players have a myriad of units- Banshee, raven, tank, marine, scvs vs. zealot, immortal, stalker, sentry, high templar. 15:00- siege outside the natural. Some engaging ensues but Illusion clearly has the upper hand. Hwangsin calls gg once the high templar are gone.

Hwangsin 2-1

On February 20 2012 11:37 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
x.x My fourth live report just got deleted. Sigh. And now the game just ended x.x From what I remember:

Game four is on Cloud Kingdom. Illusion @ top right; Hwangsin @ bottom left.

Hwangsin goes Nexus first. Illusion can't pressure it. 1rax FE into 4rax. Still can't do significant damage because stalkers come out.

Blink upgrades and Terran upgrades. Third gets taken for Hwangsin. Illusion up in supply because of mass marine production but has less tech.

Tries drop play but gets caught and sniped, closing in the unit differential. Charge finishes, double forges at work, colossi production big time. MMMV vs. colossi, zealot, stalker, sentry, immortal.

Illusion takes third and then Hwangsin takes fourth with many cannons. Illusion engages poorly into the cannons (wastes stims, loses vikings to blink), pushing Hwangsin up by around 30 supply.

More engagements back and fourth as Illusion takes a fourth. Colossi slowly get sniped, but storm comes out and deals a lot of damage and EMPs are missed. Archons and immortals take out the bio, and Hwangsin barely comes out on top over a very long series of engagements. "G" from Illusion.

Sorry for not having any times at all. Lost everything so this is from memory >.<

3-1 Hwangsin

On February 20 2012 11:46 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Game five on Shattered Temple. Illusion at bottom; Hwangsin at top.

Illusion proxies a factory and lands it right by Hwangsin's dt shrine. Yes, that's an accurate statement.

Dark templar shrine gets cancelled, some bio pushes through the front, and a hellion pops out. Everything gets cleaned up by Hwangsin for about 30 seconds.

Proxy starport as well, and blink goes down. Cloaked banshees come out, deal a lot of damage to the sentries and probes.

A bunch of marauders rush through the front. Observer popped out for the cloaked banshees but it didn't matter. Hwangsin gg's quickly.

Hwangsin 3-2

On February 20 2012 12:01 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
Game six on Dual Sight. Illusion on the left; Hwangsin on the right.

Both players open safely. Illusion opens with 2 barracks with a reactor on the first. Second rax has a tech lab with concussive shells. Hwangsin gets 3gates, then a robo.

Hwangsin takes a nexus at 7 minutes. Factory finishes for Illusion. Illusion pushes out with a bio army to try and put on some pressure, but forcefields cause him to pull back and put his expansion up (finishing at ~10 minutes).

At around 11 minutes, immortals and medivacs are added in to another engagement at Hwangsin's natural. Forcefields keep being used up. Two colossi with thermal lance pop up just in time.

At 12:00, Illusion drops everything in Hwangsin's base to stop Hwangsin from moving out, and then lifts his bio up and leaves once the Protoss army pulls back. Hwangsin has been up by ~25 supply since his natural has been up longer. Now Protoss moves towards the Terran base...

at 14:00, Hwangsin finally pushes, but there are vikings out now. Good forcefields, thermal lance, colossi micro, and bigger army size = Hwangsin wins!

Congratulations to Hwangsin!!! 4-2