by Shor[Y] aka [a5]Christina
[DISCLAIMER: all games are reported from my point of view, please excuse any over glorification and misreported aspects of the game. It's all written in good humour. MANNER GAME SHOR KK?]
I'm at Paya Lebar [where?] MRT, looking for a purported 186cm guy named Bryan Choo aka Cow...
'Bryan?'
'Yep'
'Im Shor, the guy who uses Sosowac on ntu'
'Oh hi, this is Pony aka gary'
Introductions are made, and we wait for Organz aka i have no idea, and Limper, who has decided to sleep in.
Instead we decide to move on to the Cybermania Cafe, where there is already a small horde of gamers loading up sc. There are 10 Teams registered in total, more would have been registered but the organisers decided to set a limit [for good reason too]. It's a 2 group round robin affair, with the top 2 going into the finals brackets. Points are given for winners (3) and top scorer in games (1).
There are 2 teams from XM and 2 from some other clan, + 1 from Legendary though to our disappointment [well mine anyway] no guy, yuri or kyo.
We seem to be seeded in the weaker section, as the good XM team and LGD are in the same bracket.
The competition begins! ] Team A5 Consisting of: [
Gary aka Pony aka [a5]Natalie (not a bad chick at all)
Lucas aka Shor aka [a5]Christina (now there's a real chick, who can actually sing and look good)
Bryan aka Cow aka [a5]MandyMoore (SLUT!!!!)
[Note: I am a bit blurred about the first 4 games, so forgive me if i screw up the order and minor details]
This game was on hidden shrine, an old starcraft classic that
Pony and Cow had no idea about. It's a smallish 6 player rush map.
Pony and I randomed,
Cow
went terran coz he likes medics [they look like mandy moore you see].
I am at 8 Zerg, Cow at 6:30 and Pony is Terran at 3. My lord scouts up and I decide to 7 pool. NO RUSH 5 MINUTES KK? I find the enemy terr top left, with 2 slow rax. My drone is already on the way there causing havoc probing the scvs making the depot and 2 rax, and my 6 lings are rallied there, causing the terr to lift up. Similarly, Pony has been early pooled by the Zerg to his immediate top [due to Pony sharing vision with the enemy]. So now both terran are out of the game, and it's a zerg/terran vs zerg/protoss [at 5].
Cow is hit by a double rush but with decent micro and some lings of mine he beats it off. I have 2 hatchs now and have just started an exp above my main. Our lings and rines go to hit 5 toss before his teching leads to dts. With only a few lots and goons, he is quickly defeated. In the meantime, both Pony and the enemy terran have got back on their feet. Thus Cow and I take a short detour on to our way to the enemy zerg, clearing out the enemy terran, joining up with Pony to finish the outnumbered Zerg. High score belongs to Cow. GG
Well, currently it's 1 game an hour almost, so
Cow and i take to sleeping [resting] on the outside tables, occasionally watching our opponents.
Pony and I comment on the fast clicking of the Legendary
Clan and the XM2 clan. Our conclusion? They sure as hell click fast, but most of it is meaningless clicking on minerals and left clicking on enemy units etc etc, hyper inefficient. But we cant just talk the talk, we have to walk the walk, so its on to our 2nd game.
This one is Ground Zero, on a map tileset which i despise. Again, Pony and I random while Cow goes for the Terran. This is a UMS game, with the 3 of us on the right, im Top toss, Pony is mid Zerg and Cow is bottom Terr. They are Top zerg, mid Terr and Bottom Toss.
It starts with mass scouting by our team, probes, lings, lords and scvs are everywhere. I am going 2 gate gas, as there are only 6 minerals at our mains and naturals are far away. Pony has gone 2 hatch gas also, while Cow has gone his usual marines. I get hit by 8 early lings but 2 lots, probes, 1 marine and Pony's lings defeat them. We start on a counter but see mass orange rines, red lings and teal lots heading to Cow across the map. We all arrive just before they do, and defeat them messily. Our scouts report a 2 hatch den build from red, and with his lings used up, decide to attack him with our combined forces. We take down his sunks and one hatch, start killing drones but orange reinforcements arrive, with mass lots soon afterwards. At this time, i notice about 6 mutas raping the enemy toss probes. YOU GO Pony ! 3 gate goons and 4 rax marines end the orange terr and red zerg, while Pony cleans up the toss. High scorer is Pony. GG
Good old char magma. Travis arrives around now, and comments on the gayness of Magma. I describe it to Cow
and Pony.
'Big.'
'Really big.'
With those words in mind, we decide to go zerg/zerg/protoss. I am toss at 12, Cow is zerg at 6 and Pony is zerg at 5. Our opponents are zerg at 9, terr at 7 and toss at 3.
Cow decides for the risky 3 hatch before pool maneuver, while Pony goes the 2 hatch gas sunks. Both take their naturals, naturally [haha] while i opt for a 3 gate zealot massing.
Zerg at 9 decides to early rush Pony with late support from 5 marines and some zealots, they begin to trash Pony's natural. His cries of help do not go unheeded. Cow and I both send our available units...
To Red zerg at 9. I glance at Pony's monitor as his natural goes down but his sunk/drone/lings finish off the enemy, turning back, Cow and i rip through all of red zergs defences, chewing up some drones just as reinforcements take us down.
Cow starts to pump mass hydras, while i take the time to expand to 1 and my natural, while teching to Dts.
My dts prove a turning point, as they 1) start raping defenseless probes at 3, until mass cannons warp in, 2) Chew up the 3v1 rush on Pony's natural [even though he loses that hatchery again] and 3) chew up the terran/toss reinforcements heading for Cow. Those units run headlong into the massed hydras of Cow. Who proceeds to demolish the zerg at 9. With 3 expansions, i mass goons and our combined armies run over the enemy. High score belongs to me. GG
Our final round robin game is on acropolis, a decent sized 6 player map with a raised plateau in the middle.
All 3 of us random, I draw zerg at 6, Pony is terr at 2:30 and Cow is zerg at 12. Our opponents are Toss at 4, Zerg at 7:30 and Terran at 10:00. I begin with my standard 3 hatch lings build. Pony is going rax acad naturally and Cow begins a mass hydras build.
The enemy 3v1 with mass lings, rines and zealots on my poor base. I defend poorly and rely on help to turn the tide, i have about 10 drones left. Pony and Cow mass units and charge the toss who has nothing, because his zealots are outside my door! Enemy zerg's mass lings + the remaining enemy lots begin a cat and mouse game with my 2 sunkens, few lings and few drones.
Finally I am able to beat them off with 1 drone remaining thanx to Pony's marines. Toss is dead and Pony and Cow mass hydras and terr infantry + a few tanks on to the zerg, who is desperately forcing his lurks to research faster, but good micro stops both the lurks and the blue terran help.
Zerg dies, and as more and more mass hydras and tanks descend on the blue terran, the enemy give up and surrender. High scorer is Cow again. GG