1 on 1@ Temple:

-Leaf takes on [o]Porky

Starting the Game

  After spending several long, painful, frustrating hours, I managed to teach myself the basics of HTML. So, I said, why not put your so called 'skills' to the test by making a BR? So, after continously asking for players for a 1 on 1 that I would be able to observe, some kind natives answered my plea. These kind souls were -Leaf and [0]Porky. After a few pleasentries, we got the game started.

First Blood

 Since it was a PGL Contest, map, I had no SCV's destroying to do, so I went straight to allying with the players. -Leaf chose zerg at the last second and spawned at 6 o'clock, while Porky decided to choose zerg as well, and ended up at the 9 o'clock position. Both the two players played with extremely similar build orders, both going Pool at 9, Hatchery at natuaral at 10/9 after Extractor Trick, extractor, and overlord. Porky for some reason was a little behind. At this point both the players decided to go lings, and Leaf decided to charge right in with a control group of lings. This did almost no damage whatsoever.

  Now Porky builds a few sunkens and builds a hatchery at his ramp, while Leaf opted for a Lair and a hatchery at his main. In the time it took for the Lair to evolve Leaf decides to put a Hydra Den down, and build a few hydras. Meanwhile, not one to be idle, Porky gets an evol. chamber down, along with yet another hatchery at his main. He has around fifty speed upgarded lings, and charges at Leaf's expansion. Leaf has 2 sunkens, and one in the makes, and around 25 lings and a dozen hydras. Leaf looses one sunken and all his lings except five.

MUTAS, LURKERS, LINGS, AND QUEENS! OH MY!

 While his kamikaze attack does next to nothing except waste time, Porky has started and completed his Lair and already started his Spire. On the contrary, Leaf decides to go lurkers, and already has 5 of these hidious beasts scuttling to wreak havoc on the unsuspecting Porky. Even though Porky has plenty of overlords in the area, he has no units to face the lurkers. When about two dozen hydras follow up, he conceded defeat. We are already making plans for a rematch game name when, out of the blue horizon, a dozen mutaslisks show up to save the day. With zergling suport they take out the attacking force, but not without suffering the destruction of the expansion and its inhabitants.

 Porky valiantly takes on the offensive and is razing Leaf's expansion unchallenged when He realizes about 20 hydras are pounding on his base. He charges the mutas back, but all the sudden big globs of green goo hit them. Yes, now we know what the Queen's nest was for. Ensnared mutas do not fail well against hydras, especially when they are outnumbered 2 to 1. He is barely able to survive the attack, but with last second sunkens and a lot of lings if survives to see another battle.

The True Power of Ensnare

 There is a brief pause, in which Leaf expands to the 3 o'clock natuaral, and his mineral only expansion, while Porky expands to the both the 12 o'clock natuaral and main. These expansions don't last long as hydras and Queens with ensnare crush the few mutas that protect them.

 Porky is now officially ticked of. He has ammassed three dozen or so mutas and assaults Leafs main, in hopes of taking out his tech buildings. He gets a few seconds of free shots before hydras arrive. The hydras are loosing to the superior numbers of the mutas. Is this the turning point of the game? Certainly not, as Leaf prooves, as a dozen queens come into the battlefield and ensnare every unit he could get the chance to click on.

 Soon enough, all of Porky's mutas are stuck in the greenish nuclear waste like goo, along with a couple of Leaf's hydras as well. Porky decides he has had enough and assaults the queens, ignoring the hydras. The outcome is about a dozen remaining mutas returning to Porky's base, all of which have a shade of neon green and have parasites. OUCHEE!!!

PORKY's LAST STAND!!!

 Boy, is Porky in a fix. He has one expansion, his natuaral, and it is fast running out minerals, with only 200 left in each of them. He continous to make mutas and zerglings, while I notice something odd. Porky has no Ground Armor or Attack Upgrades, and the only upgrade he does have is a Level 1 Flyer's Carapace. Meanwhile, Leaf has 2-2 ground upgrades, and no flyer upgrades, but since he has no flying units other then queens that don't engage in combat anyways, that's OK. Son, the final battle takes place. Some thirty mutas and fifty lings face of against a half dozen lurkers, and fourty hydras or so.

 The battle takes place where Porky's natuaral once stood, and it took almost ten minutes no finish. The hydras were dropping like flies, and the Lurkers died almost instantly to the Glave Worm richoteing fire. Then, almost instantly, half the screen was covered in green slime. Everything Porky had were ensnared by leaf's queens, and with the spare energy they broodlinged the zerglings. Porky was simply overwhelmed, and even with the help of his drones, he could do nothing but watch as his base fell.

 Thanks to both the players for a GREAT game, I had fun watching it. Both of these two players are extremely good, and both could wreck me in SC. Well, my eyes are bloodshot, and I need to catch some shuteye. CYA.

Thanks for reading,

                           Neal64