[TCPLemminks]

Welcome, welcome, to another exciting match report brought to you by me, Lemminks (well this is the first but if all goes to plan I may be writing a few more of these so shut up). Anyway today we have the finals of BSG #24 so without further ado.

In the pink corner, weighing in at wins, representing #foreverbronze whilst not being in bronze or we would ban him for smurfing (little blue bastards), he is your little zergy for the night; elimzKe.

And in the yellow corner, weighing in at wins, representing I don’t know I can’t stalk everyone here, he is your epic brotoss for the night ladies and gentlemen and the one of the pair whose name is grammatically correct; Solis.

+ [Game 1 Solis VS elimzKe] +

Xel naga caverns, everyone’s favourite 4 gate map against zerg, with Solis at the 1 o’clock position and elimzKe at the 7 (top and bottom if you’re poor and don’t have a watch). We start with a gl hf #foreverbronze from Solis, obviously he’s already on to elimzKe’s case, followed by a light QQ from elimzKe (typical zerg -_-), only for them to be kicked in the nuts by our neutral referee BakaInu prompting a COME AT ME BRO from Solis and a COME AT ME BRO from elimzKe.

+ [of course we could assume that he was referring to this] +

+ [and not this] +

Anyway after some more distractions from the ref, including a child services threat, elimzKe opens with an 11 pool but not saving larvae. Instead he got a queen as soon as it was done and pumped a drone or two before his first gas at 18 food, as well as his first pair of zerglings (I’m sorry but for some reason I tried to relate his first pair of zerglings to his balls dropping…). Solis meanwhile was doing the standard protoss shenanigans, although his second gas was a bit late (started after core had finished).

Deciding he didn’t want to dance, Solis throws a pylon to block the natural, which was rather pointless considering elimzKe went pool first and had zerglings on the way, but we got some bm so ^^. Meanwhile back at the protoss base, Solis places 2 more gateways and a pylon on the low ground, looking to go 3 gate expand.

+ [Diamond tip of the day for today] +

get hallucinations right after warp gates, assuming you got enough gas, you can start hallucination immediately after warpgates and still have enough gas for 3 sentries in the first warpin

and opting to place the nexus first before the forge, not that it mattered since elimzKe was busy macroing.

+ [Diamond tip of the day for toss no.2] +

enter something we call “shark mode”, where you move around the map (mainly the watchtowers) clearing zerglings and maybe an overlord or two with half your sentries and zealots/stalkers. In this case elimzKe has two overlords that could easily have been picked off

On the topic of elimzKe, he throws down a roach warren, double evo and his second, third and fourth gas at 6 mins 0_o, But doesn’t actually mine from his third and fourth for a minute or two. However Solis manages to ninja a probe into elimzKe’s main (happens when you have 4 zerglings around the map) and sees everything, prompting a second forge and robo and twilight council and 2 more gateways from Solis. After killing the probe who was trying to steal some minerals and bming a bit, four roaches from elimzKe pop and did you know they have little tails that wiggle? Kawaiii^^.

wiggle wiggle wiggle

I still hate them though -_-'.

This was followed by 2 minutes of nothing except a dead zerglings, whom elimzKe mourns. Both players were staying on top of their macro, queens had pretty low energy as did the nexuses (nexi? Word begs to differ) before elimzKe moved out with 17 roaches and 1/1 almost complete. Solis, on the other hand, had 3 stalkers (1 of which he immediately trades for 1 roach in the middle of the map) and 6 sentries and a zealot at his base, with 1/1 on the way as well.

After chronoing out his observer, Solis does something that makes me cry as a fellow brotoss. HE DOESN’T BUILD AN IMMORTAL!! Even though he knew roaches were coming *sigh*. Anyway with a pretty decent simcity and an overly eager ff or two he wards the 1/1 roaches away from his ramp. But XNC being XNC elimzKe circumnavigates the nexus and goes round the back, rendering the two cannons near the ramp useless.

With Solis’s forcefields not separating the roaches they all reach the mineral line and proceeds to kill probes. After losing a few of his stalkers and sentries, Solis manages to warp in some more stalkers, and with the cannon’s finally coming into play and his +1 attack finally finished manages to repel the attack. However he makes the mistake of attacking with his probes, causing his probe count to fall from 44 before the battle to 28 by the end of it, shooting elimzKe in the lead.

elimzKe quickly gets his 17 roaches back and moves in for the kill, going up against 8 stalkers and 2 sentries this time. While Solis was trying to get blink out AND STILL DIDN’T GET AN IMMORTAL *rage*.
The result?

Solis tries to move out and they engage at his gold rocks. With a larger roach army, the force fields were negligible and elimzKe easily destroys this army.

Solis calls GG and everyone leaves. elimzKe takes game 1.

+ [thoughts on match] +

Not pressuring and not getting that immortal was Solis’s downfall in this match. Going both twilight and robo was also a mistake, since he hadn’t taken his third and fourth gas. While his forcefield were ok, he could have tried to cut the army in half in the first engagement, or prevented them from going around like they did.

For elimzKe, better overlord placement would have been nice. He never had a sacrifical ovie in place and was playing in the dark for a lot of the match. Some of his overlords were also very vulnerable from getting sniped if Solis has gone into shark mode. Although his drone count was rather low, he had 1k min and 10 larvae. But he was getting his third as well as 2/2 and roach speed. So well done on the macro.

*editorial side note* Right main concerns are pics are to be, no idea how to edit them (i is noob^^) other than that any constructive criticisms are appreciated. I may do game 2 tmr. also i've gotten a complaint that the pic for the spoiler "and not this" is not showing, yet it works for me

[crAzerk]

Good writeup! Dropped you a PM Lemminks

[TCPLemminks]

lol i just realised i didn't update the win counter.....was gonna do their ladder wins