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It was nice to top 3 this one, especially considering I got 7th/8th last 2 times I went to a cityhunter event (which for me is extremely disappointing, if I ain't top 3-ing it sucks).

My pool games were uneventful, mostly played really cheesy so I could go have lunch faster as I hadn't eaten yet that day. I think the best one was vs a silver Zerg, I went 11/11 rax just for bunker pressure. He typed out "big fan btw" and I couldn't help myself, I pulled all my scv's. He almost held it too.

First in ro16 was Ninja. I played really well in game 1 and just ezpz'd, I can hardly remember it. Game 2 I went for a really fast 3rd and got 200/200 at about 13 mins, 3/3 on the way, few tanks some medivacs. I push out on the center of Antiga Shipyard and ninja, who at this point is taking the center expo as his 4th, has only 1/1 ling/bane. About 100 banes. And they're coming in at 3 angles.

Well that's alright, just stim, run back and split right? Except the PC I'm playing on, despite being on all lowest settings, cannot handle all the units on screen and the FPS drops to about 4. I can't spread the marines so they stay clumped and despite having a game basically won (superior army composition, upgrades and economy on a map which favours Terran) I end up getting slaughtered. Well shit.

Game 3 was on Calm before the Storm and I play a bit greedy and lose to the DRG style roach/ling/bane. I don't know why you'd want to do that build up a tight ramp with a wall behind it but then again logic is not something you can apply to certain playstyles so, again, shit.

Next was vs GoSuTgun. Tgun's pretty damn good and my record in tourney series against him generally has me losing so it definitely a good time to engage man mode. Game 1 on Terminus, we both take 3 bases and throw units at each other. I had some crippling drops which led into a decent enough tank push that took out his 4th and then after a gruelling battle of attrition took him out of the game. I remember hoping the whole time that he hadn't snuck another expansion out somewhere (I'd had a brief look earlier but Zerg are pretty damn tricksy). Game 2 on Calm before the Storm, I opened with fast 2 expansions and cloak banshee, he opened for a roach/ling/bane attack off 3 bases (so not quite DRG style, but similar). I barely held it off because banshees are OP but afterwards was able to apply a ton of pressure and 3 base terran is pretty good vs 3 base zerg. Was pretty happy to finally win a series against Tgun.

Next was vs the lone Protoss, the guy with the letters I can't recall what they were. First game was a simple 2 rax which picked off his nexus and he couldn't recover. Second game was standard, he went for a 2 base colossus +1 armour timing and it very nearly broke me, but after I held it off the game was pretty simple.

Next was against Danmate. First game I gutted his drone line early with reactor hellions and then danced a bunch of units around Daybreak until eventually he gg'd out. Game 2 he tried the DRG roach/ling/bane bust and I had 2 sieged up tanks ready for it. GG.

Next was against Pokerface. Pokerface is pretty decent ZvT, he did knock me out last CH event. Game 1 on Antiga felt standard. I made 3 bases early, an arseload of units and the first push gave me map control so I could snipe his 4th. Antiga is a really bullshit map for Zerg and he should of thumbed it down. Second game was Shakuras, where again I took 3 fast bases and pressured with marine/medivac. I did a lot of damage early with that and 6 hellions and proceeded to marine/tank him out of the game without too much difficulty. Shakuras is also a bullshit ZvT map, surprised Poker didn't thumb it down (every other bloody Zerg did!)

vs PiG, former teammate, IEM GZ roommate and old buddy/rival. Me and PiG have a long history of beating each other in tournies (NRG, WCG aus, IEM Kiev, Dox cup 2, a Masters cup or 2, several ESL's, goddamn this list goes on) and I like to think we're 50/50 against each other. Sometimes it look like one of us is much better but then the other guy whips out some brand new technology and balance is restored. Anyway, game one on TDA, I did this CC first into banshee/hellion build which killed roughly a billion drones. a few big armies slam down his throat later and it's GG. Game 2 was on Daybreak. I figured PiG would be conditioned to fear hellions so I made 6 and decided not to suicide them in. After checking replay this turned out to be a ******* stupid idea as PiG was not making any lings. Goddamn. Anyway I lost the hellions badly and did this dumb double drop that took me out of the game. Poor play, was not happy.

3rd game was probably game of the ******* tournament, a grueling 40 min cross map Calm before the Storm slugfest. When I saw we got cross positions I realised that I was never going to be able to push down into his heart, there's simply far too much distance, so I aimed to try and keep him off 4th and 5th through constant harassment and large pushes. I musta killed roughly 80 drones that game but PiG was channeling idra's tenacity from his games vs PuMa on Tal'Darim Altar Cross map from IEM GZ and just wasn't having any of that shit. After I'd mined out 5 bases I realised I had nowhere else to expand towards and I tapped out. I'm not certain how I'm supposed to win that map cross spawn TvZ. Perhaps figuring out a proxy is in order?

Anyway, the event was crisply ran as usual. Good turn out, I enjoyed it.

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