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+ [GAME 2] +

Game 2 of the SEACL Finals.

We’re here on Tal’darim Altar LE with TARossi against aLtnirvAnA. After a thrilling game 1 TA is up 1-0 on aLt.
aLtnirvAnA warps-in in the top right, while TARossi spawns in the top left.

nirvAnA goes Nexus first, getting it at 2:41, puts down a gateway afterwards and sends his scouting worker to the south. Meanwhile Rossi makes a clever moves and builds a supply depot at his wall-off, completely blocking it off, but stops the building SCV and sends him to scout to the right, scouting nirvAnA’s nexus and gateway.


nirvAnA then puts down an assimilator followed by a second gateway and starts saving up some chrono, throwing down a Cybernetics Core as soon as his first gateway is done. Rossi meanwhile throws down 2 more barracks, which is quickly followed by a 4th. His one marine at his ramp denies nirvAnA’s scouting worker.

nirvAnA chrono’s out a zealot and manages to kill Rossi’s scouting worker before sending his zealot to poke Rossi’s ramp and getting a second assimilator at his natural. However with 4 barrack constantly pumping marines Rossi scares the zealot away before pulling all but 4 of his SCV’s along with 9 marines and a little train behind them going for the marine/SCV all-in.


nirvAnA sees this with the probe and zealot at the watchtower. And sacrifices his zealot and throws down a pylon and gateway at his front. However he only has two stalkers out and wastes a chrono on a supply-blocked zealot, with his Warp Gate research only a quarter way done.
Rossi then says “choo choo”
poking a little fun at Mr. Choo (nirvAnA) as his train of death reaches nirvAnA’s ramp.

With some stutter-step Rossi reaches nirvAnA’s production facilities and scares away the stalkers with the SCVs.
He then proceeds to target the Artosis pylon, unpowering nirvAnA’s two gateways and stopping warp gate research as well as supply blocking nirvAnA. nirvAnA manages to get a zealot out and pulls his probes off at his natural, trying to go after the reinforcing marines. Meanwhile he pulls his probes from his main and moves in,

however Rossi’s SCV’s form a wall ahead of his marines and nirvana is only able to kill 1 of them before losing everything but 1 stalker and he gg’s out.

TARossi takes another form aLt and TA is up 2-0.

+ [GAME 4] +

Game 4 of the SEACL Finals and the score is 2-1.

TA sends out TAdeth against Gimli, playing for aLtiaguz. The map is GSL Crossfire, with aLtiaguz spawning in the top right and TAdeth spawning in the bottom left.

Both players start with the exact same opening, including an SCV high five in the middle of the map. deth then loses his scouting worker to a marine, while iaguz manages to bring his back and secures a 1 worker advantage.

Both player then put down their factories, however iaguz puts down his second gas as well. He then gets a tech lab on it while deth get a hellion instead and both players start a starport for the Destiny’s Cloud Fist build. With his hellion out deth moves forward while getting a medevac from the starport, iaguz meanwhile preforms a switch-a-roo with his factory and starport, getting cloak and a banshee.

However deth is knocking on his front door with 6 marines and 2 hellions against iaguz’s 5 marines and hellion, forcing iaguz to pull back behind his supply depot wall. deth then starts an engineering bay as well as a Viking and his second gas, seemingly on top of iaguz’s banshee play. Iaguz meanwhile throws down a Command Center in his main and gets another banshee out, sending the other one the long way around to deth’s base. However deth has a missile turret in his mineral line already, and is saving energy on his Orbital.

deth then barges his way up iaguz’s ramp once his medivac arrives and easily destroys a depot since iaguz was building a reactor on his barracks and didn’t have enough units out, this also supply blocks iaguz, who pulls his banshee back from near the middle of the map. With medivac support and hellions deth easily kills all of iaguz’s marines, however the banshee arrives and cloaks on deth’s army. deth then immediately scans and kills the banshee with his 8 marines before destroying the rest of the wall’s depots. However iaguz has another cloaked banshee that just popped out of the starport and also has a siege tank out.

Then deth immediately scans, killing the banshee and prompting iaguz to pull all his SCVs

which causes deth to pick them up in his medivac, saving 5 marines and a hellion while killing two SCVs.

Meanwhile deth starts building an expo in his main and tries to drop the previous marines and hellions, however iaguz easily wards this off with his two tanks. deth then gets a raven followed by cloak and banshee of his own. Iaguz moves out to the middle while floating his orbital to his natural, however pulls back to kill a banshee in his main.

deth then sends a banshee to iaguz’s natural whilst securing his own natural. He manages to dodge the first scan, before killing the turret building SCV and forcing a cancel on the turret before the banshee goes down to another scan.

deth builds another barracks, resulting in two reactored racks and one with a tech lab. However iaguz starts his Stim earlier than deth, however has almost no marines and no medivac.

deth then starts building an expo at the gold while iaguz builds one next to his natural, virtually in the middle of nowhere. deth then tries a marine drop but iaguz with his superb game sense has three Vikings patrolling it’s path,

fortunately deth is able to save at least 4 of his marines before the medivac dies with his own quick reactions.

Because of starting stim early, iaguz is able to get marine shields up first while throwing down another barracks and factory. However deth already has 4 barracks, three of them with reactors, resulting in a food lead of 24 supply. deth then moves out while saturating his gold and getting a planetary fortress, with iaguz positioned at his watchtower. Deth takes a single tank shot before retreating back to his own watchtower and setting up a line there. Meanwhile iaguz float his command center all the way across the map to the top left expo and morphs in a PF.

deth moves a small drop with only 4 marines up the left side and drops at the 3rd, however the PF prevents iaguz from losing any SCVs.

christ that is a painful death animation

However with 1 marine deth prevents any mining, even killing 1 SCV and making iaguz leave 4 guys in gas when he is cleaned up.

However with some of iaguz’s marines out of position deth moves in from the side. Running by some of iaguz’s tanks while taking some heavy damage. Despite this he still has a 20-food lead on iaguz.

A point defence drone distracts the Vikings while deth’s marines move towards the 3rd, with his tanks sieging near iaguz’s tanks. deth’s larger marine count is able to clear off a lot of iaguz’s marines. However with air control iaguz has one hero tank that begins to shell at deth’s tanks, killing 3 of them. Meanwhile deth loses his raven and his overstimmed marines become sandwiched between a planetary and some siege tanks. Things don’t go well for them.
However he is able to pick up 16 of them. Who then kill off the two siege tanks with marine drops, as well some of iaguz’s reinforcing marines and two more tanks. iaguz returns the favour with his own marine bombs, taking out two of deth’s tanks.

deth then moves in through the middle.

However he gets outflanked and iaguz destroys his army.

Throughout all that both players have been staying on top of their macro, with iaguz throwing down several naked barracks while deth has 5 reactored barracks and a 4th base. deth retreats back to his watchtower and iaguz expands to his own gold. deth then moves, catching iaguz’s marines out of position without all their tank support.

A mismicro causes deth a lot of his marines and he is forced to pull back. Deth tries to go with a double drop on the right side, but with iaguz sending a squad of marines to kill a idle marine and his two patrolling Vikings iaguz decimated the drop.

Deth throws down 2 more starports and a fusion core at his natural 3rd

then gets tech labs on 4 starports. iaguz builds his own his fusion core, but only has 1 starport with another under construction. Meanwhile deth, despite his loses, manages to get a double drop into iaguz’s main after clearing the right side. However iaguz cleans it up easily and it becomes all quiet on the western front.

Except for the fact that deth has two Battlecruisers with yamato as well as the 25 starting energy, although a little mistimed.

deth moves out with his two BC’s supported by 11 vikings against iaguz’s 7 vikings. He hits iaguz’s siege line from the flank


iaguz scares them off with some marines, but runs them straight into deth’s siege line.

With no answer to deth’s now 3 BC’s, and his tanks getting decimated, iaguz gg’s out.

And with that TA takes another game, making the score 3-1.

+ [Game 6] +

With the scores at 4-1 the Singapore based aLt clan is hanging by a tread, but will the possibly hung over Yoonyj, arguably the best terran in SEA, save them and carry his team to victory? The map is Metalopolis and they’re in close air on the right side of the map (which is actually the Central Business district seeing as how they have the shops and the other side doesn’t).

TAdeth VS YoonYJ

Deth scouts close positions first, even though this is the GSL version meaning no close spawns. Because of this is scouts YYJ and does see the tech lab on Yoon’s barracks. Yoon then gets a reaper out to clear the watchtower, and hides a command center to the north of his natural. Deth, meanwhile, goes 1/1/1 with a hellion from the factory.

YYJ then gets his second gas while building a factory on the tech lab and getting a reactor on his barracks. deth tries to preform a bit of elevator action into Yoon’s main, but Yoon, showcasing his fantastic game sense, positions some marine near edge. However with hellions and marines on the low ground deth is easily able to get by YYJ, who only has 4 marines and a tank. His hellions push toward the mineral line before getting picked up. However with two marines in his mineral line Yoon is able to just pick off the medivac before it escapes.

Deth the gets a banshee out, however a missile turret in the main deters it away to the natural, where she is able to stop mining and proceeds to hide in the top right corner, rendezvousing with her equally hot sister. Yoon sends a Viking to chase her but he is just to low and misses them. They then go to harass but with a turret in the main and marine in the natural deth is unable to do much damage and loses one of them escaping.

Meanwhile deth has got his natural up and 2 more raxs then Yoon gets both shield and stim before Yoon. They both move out at the same time, however deth’s higher marine count plus medivac support forces Yoon to fall back. Deth then sieges below the main base and elevators units into the main. Yoon is able to clear out the marines up top, however a scan allows deth to finish off all of yoon’s marines before losing all of his own and falling back.

Both players then start getting a third up. With more production facilities deth takes the supply lead, and snipes two of Yoon’s tanks that were out of position.

He then elevators two tanks and 8 marines into the main from the same spot. Stimming the marines and sieging the tanks, he takes out the tech lab attached to one of Yoon’s factory.

Yoon moves in with 3 tanks and some marines, however they don’t have shields and deth’s marines have +1 attack. As a result Yoon’s army gets decimated.

deth then sends 14 marines to Yoon’s natural

while shelling Yoon's production in his main, deth destroys two barracks and a factory, forcing the orbital away. He also forces Yoon’s third to lift off with a single marine.

After losing the factory and being forced to float the starport away, Yoon pulls all of his SCV’s to clear the tanks up top.

Despite doing so he is miles behind and tries a desperation drop into deth’s main. However he is unable to do economic damage and deth clears it up, with Vikings destroying the last medivac, and with that Yoon loses all but two of the marines.

GET TO DA CHOPPA

Yoon pulls all his SCVs off, but with siege tanks on the low ground and more marines deth clears it up, and with a page right out of Yoon’s book drops the manner mule and Yoon calls GG.

So there you have it. Terror Austalis’s deth completes his hat-trick and wins it for TA. I’ll let craZerk finish it off.

+ [GAME 7] +

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[TCPLemminks]

yeah there you go.
BTW deth went 3-0 not 4-0, we may need to correct this in our interviews
7/8/9 are anti spoilers