Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the third installment of…

This marks the half way point of I_Hate_Medics’ bid to become king of the hill. After struggling to find him an ideal 3rd round opponent, a 1200 player by the name of Broli stepped forward and offered his challenge. Welcome to game three…

Players: I_Hate_Medics VS Broli

Early Game: In contrast to the earlier matches, both players chose their races this time, I_Hate_Medics picking zerg starting upper left and Broli deciding on toss at the last second, starting lower right. While Broli opts for a standard pylon, gate gate, pylon gas build, I_Hate_Medics expands early to his natural followed shortly by pool and then a sunken defense/ling defense. Afterwards both establish their respective techs, as neither show any willingness to engage in early conflict. The first encounter of the game occurs as Broli is adding his third gate and robo facility in his main, I_Hate_Medics runs a few lings past the zealots stationed at the ramp and sets them on way point around the protoss base, giving him a full 2 minutes of free recon. At the same time, I_Hate_Medics expands to the 9:00 position AND starts a lair and hydra den. If left alone, this sacrafice in early troop count for powering and teching could pay off tremendously if he can hold off for a few more minutes.

Broli has not been sitting idly by however. After hunting an OL around the map with 2 of his goons, he finally scouts the new 9:00 zerg infestation and immediately moves to destroy it, with a force of zealots, goons and a reaver in a shuttle. The next few minutes are a flurry of chaotic events, as Broli charges 9:00, expands to his natural and adds a citadel and templar archives at home. At the same time I_Hate_Medics expands to 12:00, morphs 3 lurkers back at home AND manages to fend off the large and quite bloody protoss assault…

Following that assault, I_Hate_Medics immediately counters with a small group of lings, hydras and most importantly 4 lurkers in tow, as Broli has yet to put an observatory or forge back at home! The zerg forces charge the newly warped in nexus at the natural, and although 2 of the lurkers die before they can burrow, the remaining two proceed to tear down the nexus, while Broli adds and observatory and pumps templars back home.

Finally well placed storms rids the lurkers, and Broli attempts to get himself back into the game by expanding back to his natural as well as the 2:00 start, little knowing I_Hate_Medics has decided to expand to its very natural! A scouting OL find the expansion attempt however, and things begin to look grim as the nexus is eliminated and I_Hate_Medics is now macroing from 3 expansions and over 8 hatcheries. Broli manages a reaver drop on the zerg main, wiping out half of the peons and then escaping the chasing hydras. However, this is far too little too late. A glance at the minimap revealed an amazing sight as zerg troops streamed towards the small protoss base as Broli dug in for the assault with reavers, temps, Dark templars, zealots and goons. What follows is pure carnage…

"hopeless" is the correct term as even though the 2 dark templar combine for over 20 kills, the zerg forces prove too much, and Broli concedes the game.

Amazingly Medics has defied all odds and is now halfway home. Now the rules change a bit, nolonger will he fight better and better people as he wins. The people he will be playing are all so good I am in no position to say who is better than who. In light of this I am BEGGING any players who feel they are qualified and wish to participate in King of the Hill to drop me a line at mjp_cev@hotmail.com Hope you enjoyed!

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