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Warning, this br is dangerous, it can harm you and your computer, if you have a phone line modem please do not watch this br load as it will own you and your ballz very badly, download rigormotis will take place and slowly paralize you, I warn you once more, RUN! As this br is abooot (yes I'm Canadian and im proud) 4 megs. And if you have cable or any other respecatble internet, kindly laugh at the lower folk and enjoy the br.

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And now on to our feauture presentation.

Thats right, Blank! a Nohunters regular who is a very respectable player, and also, Silent-Strike, he comes out every here and there and is known to some people as *super ultra mega godly gosu*. And I would have to agree on some of those terms judging by some of the br's I have read about him.

These 2 have already bouted out 2 matches before as both games ending up as ZvT , Blank! picking up Z as Silent Strike gets T, both games Blank! did win, but Silent-Strike did put up quite a fight, still very impressive feat for Blank!. The 3rd game comes, just to see if we can get a classic one.

On to the map, Rivalry, a 4 corners map with expansions at the top middle, middle right, bottom middle and middle left, along with mineral naturals only for the mains. There are also 4 gas only expos in the middle of the map.

GAME STARTING POSITIONS.

Blank! being dark blue starting at the number 2 (top right) position getting terran from random.

Silent-Strike being yellow starting at the number 11 position (top left) getting terran also from random.

THE GAME.

Blank! starts off with a heavy metal build, depot, rax, gas, depot, (completes weird wallin for that position) factory x 2 and an armory. It looks like blank! is going for a conservative and efficient build in a TvT heavy medal except he throws away early wraiths and gets some golies. Silent-Strike goes for a depot, rax, gas, 1 factory, depot, and then expands to the 9 o'clock expansion. It looks like Silent-Strike is going for a mini heavy metal build of tank/vulture and the occasional marine for now until he can secure his expansion. Looks like Blank and Silent-Strike are going to test their micro out early on.

Silent-Strike finishes his expansion and gets it in semi production, then the first tactical battle takes place with Blank! still not knowing that Silent has expanded. <

Indeed the above battle did take up alot of micro. It ended up as a tie at the end still leaving Silents expo not found. Isnt it interesting how he got those scvs to get that extra hit points in and just made the battle harder for Blank! to micro, they really were a factor of this battle. The 2nd battle starts very promptly after the first micro war. It starts off with Blank! starting with his gay turbo newbie from below and he slowly comes up the ramp. As you can see in the pic Silent-Strike did have the tanks to stop the battle, but it wasn't as easy as he thought, he lost about 2 tanks and a depot before he could stop the threat from Blank! and still the expansion hasnt been found. And then I took my 99th pic, not wanting to disturb the players or the game I quickly alt + tabbed out and transferred my pics, now, alot of action occured while this happened (DAMNIT) and I'll try and recap to you what has happened. Silent-Strike expands to the bottom left main in a effort to grab a large resource lead and also adds his 2nd factory, while Blank! expands to his mineral only natural and also adds 2 starports in an effort for Tank/goliath/vulture/Wraith, the build is gas intensive but it seems hes managing with 1 refinery for now. Soon after Silent-Strike finishes his bottom left expansion it is quickly found by a passing vulture and it slowly, and I mean slowly killing the 1500 hp CC.

Now knowing he has evened the resources battle, Blank! expands twice to the expansion at 3 o'clock (right middle) and at the bottom right main. He quickly secures each base with about a factory each building random metal units. Blank then gets a squadron of 6 wraiths, 4 tanks, 8 vultures and about 3 goliaths with a barracks to attack Silents-Strikes' Main. But Silent-Strike has quite a strong defencesive of about 7 tanks 5 goliaths and scvs to repair, this will be another micro intensive battle. Woo hoo. I have a large animation for your comfort to view this great battle.

This battle obviously wasn't as micro intensive as anticipated, but it was really a battle for the containment, in which Blank! did, successfully keeping Silent-Strike contained with his tanks and goliaths. Or did he?

The following animation shows Silent-Strikes quick counter.

If you followed the minimaps and watched some certain frames you could see that Silent-Strike has retaken the bottom left main and has destroyed Blanks!' attempt to expand to the bottom middle expansion. The resource battle has Blank! in the lead by 1 mineral only expansion. This game gets more exciting by the minute. And how can we show our excitement? Only by comparing stats of the game so far! Upgrades/Expansions.

As you can see the upgrades are perfectly even, making battles more micro intensive then ever, but looking at an expansion view Blank! has the advantage, meaning he can use more units in an attack, putting more pressure on Silent-Strike.

With the resource advantage Blank! does a very clever move by getting 5 barracks at his middle right expansion enabling him to get naked marines and making it easier to destroy expansions while STILL putting the pressure on Silent-Strikes' main base. Slowly Blank! is marching into victory with his marines, he has destroyed both of Silent-Strikes expansions, along with putting the pressure on his main, knowing this Silent-Strike concedes and gives the game to Blank!. Congrats and gg to both!

Unfortanetly I didn't get a picture of the scores but I'll give my esimate of what they were, I'm sure Blank! came out on top with structures and resources because of his majoirty of building factories and barracks at his expansions which he had many of to keep them from dieing from a small attack squad. In units im not really sure but I'm also guessing Blank! came out on top by a small amount.

Lessons Learned.

1: When expanding, always build a strcuture that makes units *ie gateway/barracks/factory* to enable you to have a mini army at that base so it doesnt die to 1 unit, Blank! showed this very well while Silent did with only his middle left expansion leaving his bottom left main very naked.

2: Never play Blanks! zerg.

3: TvT is very fun if you can play it right. Both of these players did very smart builds for TvT.

4: Big animations that hurt you and your modem are very cool.

5: My alt-text sucks nuts.

6: [Stupid]Derek also Derek'-' Helped me greatly on this report with his notes. I give him lots of thanks for the help he has gave me.

'PS: This is my first actual Starcraft report, so, all constructive critism is greatly appreciated, comments, even good things about this report are also welcome. All flames will be not appreciated, but hey, I can't stop you all :D.