I was hanging out in X17 channel today looking for a fun 1on1 game when ~Dry-Ice agreed to play me, little did I know that we'll end up having a really fun 5 game series.

GAME 1

Map:Lost Temple(ya I'm gay =[)

~Dry-Ice chosen Toss at 12

[Feel]GhOsT random Toss at 3

Knowing that we're both toss I started out with a pylon, gate, gas, pylon build planning to do goon/temp. Being the cheezman that I am I offensive gased Ice which in retrospect didn't really help that much. I made only 1 zealot before getting core and another gate and starting on goons.

I was planning to contain him with goons while expanding and getting storm and a few DTs to partrol the map. Once I had my first 6 goons I tried hitting Ice but he had 5 zealots and a cannon on the ramp so it ddin't work out I retreated with 1 goon in red damage. As I moved out more goons to contain him I saw my probes blowing up from the DTs he sneaked into my base, my cannon couldn't finish warping and I conceided the game.

GAME 2

Map:Lost Temple(yah again)

~Dry-Iced random Terran

[Feel]GhOsT random Toss

Knowing that we're both random I got risky and went with pylon, gate, gas, gate build but I saw his SCV while scouting with my probe and hastly cancelled my gate replacing it with cyber core. I couldn't get any scouting done since he walled off with 3 depots and a rax so I just left a probe outside his base to watch for any early rushes. After my core was done I quickly threw up a citadel while producing goons, templar archives follow shortly afterwards. Once my first DT popped out I decide to try my luck and send it his base, he had no detection so I was able to take out a depot and finish up the 2nd with my goon/zealot force along with his barrack but then he had SV really fast and my DTs became useless I kept sending in more goons for harassment but they didn't really do much good since he made good use of tanx and dmatrix. While all this was going on I took the 12 main and shortly thereafter the 6 main.

I threw up about 10 more gates and started making goons and temps. I tried to hit him again but he had tanx and cloaked wraiths so it really didn't do much , I needed observers and FAST. I quickly made a robo facility and got observers while keeping containment with goons/zealots and a few token DTs outside his base.

About that time I saw his CC flying over to the my exp at the 6 main, my 8 goons finished it off and went back to their containment duty. Right as they left he dropped my exp with M&Ms and 2 tanx, I lost most of my probes and a cannon but temps/goons and zealots arrived to help out, to take an even bigger resource lead I took the 12 gimme and put down more gates.

A huge force of assorted ground forces with observer support was assembled outside his base once I thought I had enough I hit his natural wiping it out and forcing him to surrender. Its all tied up now folks!

GAME 3

Map:Lost Temple(standarized map)

~Dry-Ice random Zerg

[Feel]GhOsT random Terran

Winning that 2nd match convincigly gave me a bit of a momentum going into our 3rd game, he scouted me with a lord right away so there were no surprises. I went with a rax on 8 build just in case he tries to exp early on me, I followed up with a depot on 9 and another rax on 11 with gas on 15 and academy on 18. After scouting him I saw that he was going 2 hatch without early expansion.

I assembled a force of about 14 M&Ms and decided to hit him, I was able to take out his newly made hatc at the ramp before the arrival of his 4 lurkers, I was able to kill 3 but then my comsat ran out and I was forced to retreat with 3 marines and 2 medics left. Back home I was putting up and ebay with 2 more raxes and a fact, I used a marine to scout the other positions and found no exps...good.

About the time my rush hit him I started making a CC at home which I floated to my gimme reinforcing it with a turret/bunker and M&M combo. He tried to hit it with 3 lurkers but they died killing 1 marine. I also set up a bunker and 2 turrets D by my CC and thats when he dropped 4 lurkers into my base. He burrowed just out of the bunker's range to I was forced to run my peons and bring in 2 tanx, I lost 2 depots, a turret and quite a few workers but that was alright since I already had my exp running at full speed while he was operating off just 1 base.

I was keeping up with my infantry upgrades and having about 7-8 raxes and a fact with SV now I decided to move out and finish him off. I caught him with his pants down as he was trying to take his mineral only and quickly disposed of the guarding lurker/hydras and 2 sunkens with my marine/tanx/SV combo. I brough in more marine reinforcements and killed his natural, he conceided and I take a 2-1 lead!

GAME 4

Map:Lost Temple

~Dry-Ice random Zerg at 3

[Feel]GhOsT random Toss at 12

He scouted me early with a lord so we both knew each other's positions, I was able to delay his 2nd hatch by harassing the drone with my scouting probe before it got double teamed and died. Knowing that if I allow him to power from that early exp I won't stand a chance I send 3 probes to attack his hatch followed up with 2 zealots fresh from my gates, with a lil' micro I was able to take out all his lings losing only 1 probe

His hatch died and with low troop count and my 4 zealots and 2 probes about to ravage his main Ice conceided and YES ladies and gents I score a comback 3-1 victory in the hard fough series.

LESSONS LEARNED:

-If you're gonna go fast goons make a cannon to fight off the pesky DT rush.

-Toss seriously own terran and 1.08 needs to come out N O W!

-Cheezy probe/zlot rush is great when toss and zerg are nearby and zerg powers.

-Mass M&M/tank is evil vs zerg.

-I need to work on pvp cuz I lose that too much.

Hope you enjoyed this BR and plz gimme LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of comments goddamnit.

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