TBH at the speed that he looked at both the locations (the CC and marine), What meany is saying is actually quite viable.
(yes i watched the replay, esp taking notice of the points pointed out by zerggirl)
He would have tried to scan both places almost instantaneously one after the other to try locate the CC from the running scv he saw earlier running northward from the XN tower. (assuming he saw it on the minimap).. At the APM he was playing at he most likely didnt have the time to think between both locations: "oh shit i have no energy im not going to try scan the other spot now"
I have watched the replay and that point in the replay was most concerning and i was leaning to believing he actually hacked, but now after his explanation, I believe he may very well be innocent. (ofcourse this is just my opinion)
Just for an example for those who refuse to understand what I am saying.
- If you have a bunch of energy in your nexus's mid-late game stored up and you see a push coming and need more units (protoss), you will just spam 'c' on all your warpgates, If you have 6 gates and only ~110 energy over a few nexus's, your going to still spam them on all of your warpgates regardless
At that point do you sit there and count your exact energy? No.. you try get that chrono and if you dont then BL for you.
-i could use an example for Z but its 3am and i cbf, i think you get the point.
among the other things he was doing, he would have just tried to quickly scan the locations.. and it turns out he didnt have the energy BL.
'2. Let's just assume you were planning to scan at the natural at the 1 o' clock position at 14:17(Where the random scouting marine was). You clicked your CCs and attempted a scan but realized you had no energy. If you had no energy, would you mind explaining why you flip your screen immediately afterwards to Cosmos' expo at 11 o' clock when you knew you had no energy ?'
Yeh it happened extremely fast, would would have tried to just scan both locations as fast as he can soo... idk.
As the others have said it would take more replays to really confirm anything. Alot more imo.
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