| ButterflyEffectZenith Terran T-#15 2010 Results: DNQ, ro64, ro64 Eliminated Map: Shakuras Plateau | vs. | oGsLittleBoy Terran #T-21 2010 Results: DNQ, DNQ, ro32 Eliminated Map: Delta Quadrant | Lost Temple Steppes of War Xel'Naga Caverns |
| AngelGirlPrimeWE AKA LotzePrimeWE Protoss T-#2 2010 Results: ro16, DNQ, DNQ Eliminated Map: Delta Quadrant | vs. | FOXLyn Terran T-#15 2010 Results: DNQ, ro64, ro64 Eliminated Map: Blistering Sands | Scrap Station Lost Temple Jungle Basin |
ButterflyEffectZenith (P) vs oGsLittleBoy (T)
Match Rating: 1/10
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Game 1 - Lost Temple
Close air positions, ButterflyEffect at 12, LittleBoy at 3
Command center on 17 for LittleBoy, ButterflyEffect does a standard factory/reactor opening
ButterflyEffect's initial scout sees LittleBoy's command center, LittleBoy puts up a bunker at the natural chokepoint
Two hellions emerge from the reactored factory while ButterflyEffect starts his command center
The first two hellions move out, two more being made, LittleBoy getting a factory
The first two hellions take a volley from the bunker, then wait for the next two
The four hellions run by, but one dies doing so and others are damaged
LittleBoy empties his bunkers and spreads his marines, cleaning up the hellions while taking almost no damage (the last hellion is even killed by an SCV)
LittleBoy getting banshees and cloak from a starport, ButterflyEffect making a viking from his starport
Five of ButterflyEffect's hellions try to pressure the bunker, but there's a tank backing it up. LittleBoy cancels cloak.
A raven, siege mode, and a second factory for LittleBoy, two more barracks and siege mode for ButterflyEffect
The banshee arrives at ButterflyEffect's main and kills a few SCVs before the viking cleans it up
LittleBoy clears the rocks at the gold and builds a command center there
Stim researching for ButterflyEffect, who is getting two more barracks for a total of five
ButterflyEffect sends a dropship full of marines to LittleBoy's base, but it turns around as a sensor tower finishes and marines hurry to respond
The two armies meet in the center of the map. ButterflyEffect's dropship is shot down while almost full of marines
ButterflyEffect has most of his units there and wins the battle, but he takes heavy losses and half of LittleBoy's army was elsewhere
LittleBoy leaves the game!
Clearly not intentional. According to Artosis LittleBoy was 20 supply up, and neither he nor Tasteless seemed to notice the dropship full of marines getting shot down.
LittleBoy was dropped, apparently. While he calms down, Tasteless spends a while discussing which ninja turtles he and Artosis are most similar to (taking the unusual angle of allocating two turtles to each).
Tasteless gives himself Leonardo ("the leader") and Michaelangelo ("the party turtle"), by the way. Artosis gets Raphael ("the angry turtle") and Donatello ("Because I'm smart?" "You're good with the bo.").
The game restarts.
Cross positions, LittleBoy at 12 and ButterflyEffect at 6.
LittleBoy does the same one barracks fast expand with a bunker at the chokepoint. ButterflyEffect goes reactor/factory.
Only one hellion coming for ButterflyEffect this time, quicker starport.
Somewhat faster factory for LittleBoy.
ButterflyEffect keeps making hellions one by one, medivac coming from the starport.
Starport, siege mode, and second barracks for LittleBoy.
ButterflyEffect drops three hellions and five marines in LittleBoy's base
LittleBoy responds and for a moment looks shaky, but a tank comes out of the factory and helps him clean up the attack
Banshee and cloak out for ButterflyEffect, second drop as well with two hellions and a few marines
The second drop gets cleaned up easily. Meanwhile the first banshee arrives at LittleBoy's natural
LittleBoy has three marines waiting, but that's not enough to handle the banshee. No reinforcements come.
A viking arrives at the same time as a second banshee. Both banshees cloak, but LittleBoy scans and kills the first banshee.
The other banshee escapes and goes into the main, forcing another scan.
Three more barracks for ButterflyEffect, who is still making banshees. He's ahead by about 5 workers.
The third banshee arrives at the natural but takes heavy damage from the turret in the mineral line and has to withdraw
LittleBoy's vikings escort a dropship with two tanks in it. The tanks are dropped on the high ground over ButterflyEffect's natural.
A fourth banshee harasses LittleBoy's natural but gets cleaned up with a scan
LittleBoy's two tanks deny mining from most of ButterflyEffect's natural.
ButterflyEffect sieges tanks near the ridge and hits some of the tanks. LittleBoy drops a mule and repairs.
A second wave of tanks for ButterflyEffect clean the tanks off the ridge, but LittleBoy's vikings snipe a medivac.
LittleBoy has some tanks and marines to contain, but it's not a large force. ButterflyEffect attacks with a much larger army.
Despite attacking into a siege position, ButterflyEffect's superior numbers carry the day and he wipes out the containing force.
ButterflyEffect's army clears the rocks at the gold, then heads up toward LittleBoy's expansion
ButterflyEffect's army wanders into range of the siege tanks that line LittleBoy's ridge and takes significant damage from uncontested siege fire
After that mauling, ButterflyEffect retreats and starts a command center at his gold.
ButterflyEffect masses up his army and moves out again. LittleBoy has a small number of units at the watchtower and they get run over.
For some reason ButterflyEffect continues on into the teeth of LittleBoy's defensive position at the natural
ButterflyEffect's army melts under massive siege fire.
LittleBoy drops marines at ButterflyEffect's natural and kills a number of SCVs before getting cleaned up.
LittleBoy is down a base, but he floats a command center to the top left island.
ButterflyEffect sends a dropship full of marines to the island and forces it to lift off again
ButterflyEffect then attacks LittleBoy's natural again. This time his numerical advantage is so great he breaks through
SCVs come out to block ButterflyEffect's survivors and a siege tank comes out of the factory and finishes them off
LittleBoy tries to drop the gold, picks up and withdraws when marines come running, then misclicks and flies the dropship over the marines. It's destroyed immediately.
Meanwhile LittleBoy once again moves out with his units. He's so far behind it's probably doomed regardless, but with him not even sieged he gets crushed by ButterflyEffect's armies.
LittleBoy concedes
There have been some bad games in this GSL where one player rushes and just rolls over the opponent. This was definitely the worst "normal" length game. Both players made awful decisions.
Game 2 - Steppes of War
Command center on 17 again for LittleBoy. Interesting. Both players make a bunker, though of course LittleBoy's is at the expansion.
ButterflyEffect making a factory while his SCV comes back and scouts the expansion
Now ButterflyEffect takes his own natural and builds a hellion
The hellion takes some damage but it manages to run by into LittleBoy's main
SCVs chase it but it does a full lap of the base before being killed
Starport for LittleBoy, two barracks and siege mode for ButterflyEffect
Now a starport as well for ButterflyEffect, then stim
Banshee and cloak for LittleBoy, viking for ButterflyEffect
Turrets going up in ButterflyEffect's base as the first banshee approaches
The viking and turret easily repel the banshee
The second banshee tries the natural but is likewise forced to retreat
LittleBoy moves to the center of the map with about four tanks, about a dozen marines, and a few marauders
Both sides jockey for position. ButterflyEffect pumping vikings
Two of ButterflyEffect's vikings are shot down by LittleBoy's vikings at the standoff
ButterflyEffect brings a bunch of SCVs, moves his army down, and attacks LittleBoy's position
ButterflyEffect's army wins, but the only survivors are about five siege tanks
With no anti-air, a banshee forces ButterflyEffect's army to pull all the way back to his natural
LittleBoy tries to siege up underneath the natural, but he only has two tanks, so ButterflyEffect handles it relatively easily
ButterflyEffect is now at a huge worker disadvantage. LittleBoy rebuilds his army and then forces another engagement in the middle of the map.
This time it's LittleBoy using SCVs to help in the battle. His superior numbers win the battle easily.
ButterflyEffect concedes.
Both players continued to show what you could call a lack of sensitivity to attack timings. This time it was LittleBoy who emerged from trading punches with a decisive advantage.
Game 3 - Xel'Naga Caverns
ButterflyEffect goes reactor/factory again, LittleBoy gets gas and factory instead of his previous marine fast expand openings.
Command center on the high ground for LittleBoy, so it's not that different.
ButterflyEffect puts his factory on the reactor and starts making hellions.
Command center at the natural for ButterflyEffect, starport coming now for LittleBoy
The first two hellions arrive at the bottom of the ramp, then wait for the next two
There are only marines at the top of the ramp but the hellions are content to sit in a containment position in the natural
Starport coming for ButterflyEffect, banshee and cloak coming for LittleBoy
This time there aren't any turrets up yet for ButterflyEffect. The first banshee arrives in his natural and drives away the SCVs.
The banshee follows them to the main and kills more SCVs, but allows a turret to finish and loses the banshee afterward
LittleBoy tries to float to his natural but the hellions force the marines to withdraw
LittleBoy brings a banshee to help and is able to drive out the hellions. Banshees kill all of them before they can retreat.
Stim coming for ButterflyEffect, LittleBoy getting a barracks and putting up a turret
Both players set up positions at each watchtower
LittleBoy clears the rocks at his gold, both players building command centers for their gold expansions
LittleBoy sends a small group of marines the long way around to attack ButterflyEffect's natural, but defending marines intercept them
ButterflyEffect moves down and sieges in range of the gold...LittleBoy doesn't have the right angle to attack and has to retreat
The gold command center is destroyed before it can escape
LittleBoy counters to ButterflyEffect's gold, which is a planetary fortress
For some reason he only brings about half his army, so initially it looks like ButterflyEffect will crush it
But the other half of the army arrives and ButterflyEffect never sieged up, so they force ButterflyEffect's army to retreat
LittleBoy sieges up and starts killing the planetary fortress
ButterflyEffect attacks again while LittleBoy's tanks are firing at the planetary fortress and wins a huge victory
The planetary fortress is on fire but no SCV goes to repair. It has 50 health left, though.
LittleBoy tries to float a command center back to his gold, but absolutely no units escort it and he flies it over ButterflyEffect's army. Sigh.
ButterflyEffect's planetary fortress indeed burns down. Double sigh.
He doesn't mind too much, because his army continues on and routs LittleBoy's few remaining units.
LittleBoy surrenders.
Well, the end of this game was funny. That's about all you can say about it.
Commentary: Usually I rate games low because one player gets completely stomped. This is an unusual case in that both players looked horrible and made a constant stream of mistakes. I guess ButterflyEffect made slightly less mistakes, but remember that LittleBoy was way ahead in the original game 1 thanks to some terrible decisions from ButterflyEffect, so you could almost call this a 2-2 draw.
Close air positions, ButterflyEffect at 12, LittleBoy at 3
Command center on 17 for LittleBoy, ButterflyEffect does a standard factory/reactor opening
ButterflyEffect's initial scout sees LittleBoy's command center, LittleBoy puts up a bunker at the natural chokepoint
Two hellions emerge from the reactored factory while ButterflyEffect starts his command center
The first two hellions move out, two more being made, LittleBoy getting a factory
The first two hellions take a volley from the bunker, then wait for the next two
The four hellions run by, but one dies doing so and others are damaged
LittleBoy empties his bunkers and spreads his marines, cleaning up the hellions while taking almost no damage (the last hellion is even killed by an SCV)
LittleBoy getting banshees and cloak from a starport, ButterflyEffect making a viking from his starport
Five of ButterflyEffect's hellions try to pressure the bunker, but there's a tank backing it up. LittleBoy cancels cloak.
A raven, siege mode, and a second factory for LittleBoy, two more barracks and siege mode for ButterflyEffect
The banshee arrives at ButterflyEffect's main and kills a few SCVs before the viking cleans it up
LittleBoy clears the rocks at the gold and builds a command center there
Stim researching for ButterflyEffect, who is getting two more barracks for a total of five
ButterflyEffect sends a dropship full of marines to LittleBoy's base, but it turns around as a sensor tower finishes and marines hurry to respond
The two armies meet in the center of the map. ButterflyEffect's dropship is shot down while almost full of marines
ButterflyEffect has most of his units there and wins the battle, but he takes heavy losses and half of LittleBoy's army was elsewhere
LittleBoy leaves the game!
Clearly not intentional. According to Artosis LittleBoy was 20 supply up, and neither he nor Tasteless seemed to notice the dropship full of marines getting shot down.
LittleBoy was dropped, apparently. While he calms down, Tasteless spends a while discussing which ninja turtles he and Artosis are most similar to (taking the unusual angle of allocating two turtles to each).
Tasteless gives himself Leonardo ("the leader") and Michaelangelo ("the party turtle"), by the way. Artosis gets Raphael ("the angry turtle") and Donatello ("Because I'm smart?" "You're good with the bo.").
The game restarts.
Cross positions, LittleBoy at 12 and ButterflyEffect at 6.
LittleBoy does the same one barracks fast expand with a bunker at the chokepoint. ButterflyEffect goes reactor/factory.
Only one hellion coming for ButterflyEffect this time, quicker starport.
Somewhat faster factory for LittleBoy.
ButterflyEffect keeps making hellions one by one, medivac coming from the starport.
Starport, siege mode, and second barracks for LittleBoy.
ButterflyEffect drops three hellions and five marines in LittleBoy's base
LittleBoy responds and for a moment looks shaky, but a tank comes out of the factory and helps him clean up the attack
Banshee and cloak out for ButterflyEffect, second drop as well with two hellions and a few marines
The second drop gets cleaned up easily. Meanwhile the first banshee arrives at LittleBoy's natural
LittleBoy has three marines waiting, but that's not enough to handle the banshee. No reinforcements come.
A viking arrives at the same time as a second banshee. Both banshees cloak, but LittleBoy scans and kills the first banshee.
The other banshee escapes and goes into the main, forcing another scan.
Three more barracks for ButterflyEffect, who is still making banshees. He's ahead by about 5 workers.
The third banshee arrives at the natural but takes heavy damage from the turret in the mineral line and has to withdraw
LittleBoy's vikings escort a dropship with two tanks in it. The tanks are dropped on the high ground over ButterflyEffect's natural.
A fourth banshee harasses LittleBoy's natural but gets cleaned up with a scan
LittleBoy's two tanks deny mining from most of ButterflyEffect's natural.
ButterflyEffect sieges tanks near the ridge and hits some of the tanks. LittleBoy drops a mule and repairs.
A second wave of tanks for ButterflyEffect clean the tanks off the ridge, but LittleBoy's vikings snipe a medivac.
LittleBoy has some tanks and marines to contain, but it's not a large force. ButterflyEffect attacks with a much larger army.
Despite attacking into a siege position, ButterflyEffect's superior numbers carry the day and he wipes out the containing force.
ButterflyEffect's army clears the rocks at the gold, then heads up toward LittleBoy's expansion
ButterflyEffect's army wanders into range of the siege tanks that line LittleBoy's ridge and takes significant damage from uncontested siege fire
After that mauling, ButterflyEffect retreats and starts a command center at his gold.
ButterflyEffect masses up his army and moves out again. LittleBoy has a small number of units at the watchtower and they get run over.
For some reason ButterflyEffect continues on into the teeth of LittleBoy's defensive position at the natural
ButterflyEffect's army melts under massive siege fire.
LittleBoy drops marines at ButterflyEffect's natural and kills a number of SCVs before getting cleaned up.
LittleBoy is down a base, but he floats a command center to the top left island.
ButterflyEffect sends a dropship full of marines to the island and forces it to lift off again
ButterflyEffect then attacks LittleBoy's natural again. This time his numerical advantage is so great he breaks through
SCVs come out to block ButterflyEffect's survivors and a siege tank comes out of the factory and finishes them off
LittleBoy tries to drop the gold, picks up and withdraws when marines come running, then misclicks and flies the dropship over the marines. It's destroyed immediately.
Meanwhile LittleBoy once again moves out with his units. He's so far behind it's probably doomed regardless, but with him not even sieged he gets crushed by ButterflyEffect's armies.
LittleBoy concedes
There have been some bad games in this GSL where one player rushes and just rolls over the opponent. This was definitely the worst "normal" length game. Both players made awful decisions.
Game 2 - Steppes of War
Command center on 17 again for LittleBoy. Interesting. Both players make a bunker, though of course LittleBoy's is at the expansion.
ButterflyEffect making a factory while his SCV comes back and scouts the expansion
Now ButterflyEffect takes his own natural and builds a hellion
The hellion takes some damage but it manages to run by into LittleBoy's main
SCVs chase it but it does a full lap of the base before being killed
Starport for LittleBoy, two barracks and siege mode for ButterflyEffect
Now a starport as well for ButterflyEffect, then stim
Banshee and cloak for LittleBoy, viking for ButterflyEffect
Turrets going up in ButterflyEffect's base as the first banshee approaches
The viking and turret easily repel the banshee
The second banshee tries the natural but is likewise forced to retreat
LittleBoy moves to the center of the map with about four tanks, about a dozen marines, and a few marauders
Both sides jockey for position. ButterflyEffect pumping vikings
Two of ButterflyEffect's vikings are shot down by LittleBoy's vikings at the standoff
ButterflyEffect brings a bunch of SCVs, moves his army down, and attacks LittleBoy's position
ButterflyEffect's army wins, but the only survivors are about five siege tanks
With no anti-air, a banshee forces ButterflyEffect's army to pull all the way back to his natural
LittleBoy tries to siege up underneath the natural, but he only has two tanks, so ButterflyEffect handles it relatively easily
ButterflyEffect is now at a huge worker disadvantage. LittleBoy rebuilds his army and then forces another engagement in the middle of the map.
This time it's LittleBoy using SCVs to help in the battle. His superior numbers win the battle easily.
ButterflyEffect concedes.
Both players continued to show what you could call a lack of sensitivity to attack timings. This time it was LittleBoy who emerged from trading punches with a decisive advantage.
Game 3 - Xel'Naga Caverns
ButterflyEffect goes reactor/factory again, LittleBoy gets gas and factory instead of his previous marine fast expand openings.
Command center on the high ground for LittleBoy, so it's not that different.
ButterflyEffect puts his factory on the reactor and starts making hellions.
Command center at the natural for ButterflyEffect, starport coming now for LittleBoy
The first two hellions arrive at the bottom of the ramp, then wait for the next two
There are only marines at the top of the ramp but the hellions are content to sit in a containment position in the natural
Starport coming for ButterflyEffect, banshee and cloak coming for LittleBoy
This time there aren't any turrets up yet for ButterflyEffect. The first banshee arrives in his natural and drives away the SCVs.
The banshee follows them to the main and kills more SCVs, but allows a turret to finish and loses the banshee afterward
LittleBoy tries to float to his natural but the hellions force the marines to withdraw
LittleBoy brings a banshee to help and is able to drive out the hellions. Banshees kill all of them before they can retreat.
Stim coming for ButterflyEffect, LittleBoy getting a barracks and putting up a turret
Both players set up positions at each watchtower
LittleBoy clears the rocks at his gold, both players building command centers for their gold expansions
LittleBoy sends a small group of marines the long way around to attack ButterflyEffect's natural, but defending marines intercept them
ButterflyEffect moves down and sieges in range of the gold...LittleBoy doesn't have the right angle to attack and has to retreat
The gold command center is destroyed before it can escape
LittleBoy counters to ButterflyEffect's gold, which is a planetary fortress
For some reason he only brings about half his army, so initially it looks like ButterflyEffect will crush it
But the other half of the army arrives and ButterflyEffect never sieged up, so they force ButterflyEffect's army to retreat
LittleBoy sieges up and starts killing the planetary fortress
ButterflyEffect attacks again while LittleBoy's tanks are firing at the planetary fortress and wins a huge victory
The planetary fortress is on fire but no SCV goes to repair. It has 50 health left, though.
LittleBoy tries to float a command center back to his gold, but absolutely no units escort it and he flies it over ButterflyEffect's army. Sigh.
ButterflyEffect's planetary fortress indeed burns down. Double sigh.
He doesn't mind too much, because his army continues on and routs LittleBoy's few remaining units.
LittleBoy surrenders.
Well, the end of this game was funny. That's about all you can say about it.
Commentary: Usually I rate games low because one player gets completely stomped. This is an unusual case in that both players looked horrible and made a constant stream of mistakes. I guess ButterflyEffect made slightly less mistakes, but remember that LittleBoy was way ahead in the original game 1 thanks to some terrible decisions from ButterflyEffect, so you could almost call this a 2-2 draw.
AngelGirlPrimeWE (P) vs FOXLyn (T)
Match Rating: 4/10
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Game 1 - Scrap Station
Nexus on 15 for AngelGirl followed by gateway, standard opening for Lyn
Lyn's factory floats to the back of AngelGirl's base while he makes a starport
Lyn also builds a bunker and gets called out by Tasteless since he's going against a fast expand build
Banshee and cloak coming for Lyn while the factory makes a hellion
Lyn waits until two hellions are ready then sends them after probes
Some pretty terrible probe micro results in the hellions killing 10 probes, and one of them even escapes from the stalkers
Now a cloaked banshee arrives. There's no robotics but there's a cannon in the mineral line
The banshee simply avoids the cannon and does a lot of damage. Meanwhile Lyn makes a command center
The banshee's cloak runs out so it retreats while a second one arrives at the natural
The second banshee at the natural kills the only pylon there so that the cannon warping in won't be powered
Meanwhile Lyn has his natural up as well as a raven and is getting stim
Lyn starts taking down the rocks. Both his banshees survived to join his army.
Lyn moves across the rocks and defeats AngelGirl's outnumbered army. Meanwhile he lands his factory in the back of the base again, but it's not needed.
AngelGirl concedes
Well-played by Lyn, but not an impressive showing from AngelGirl.
Game 2 - Lost Temple
Close ground positions, AngelGirl at 12 and Lyn at 9
Standard openings from both players
Stargate for AngelGirl, starport for Lyn
Inexplicably, AngelGirl moves his stalker away from the ramp and lets an SCV into his base, where it scouts the stargate
Void ray coming, Lyn getting cloak and banshees
Twilight council coming for AngelGirl, then dark shrine
The void ray arrives with two stalkers to harass the front of Lyn's base
Viking coming to help with the void ray while the first banshee moves out
The cloaked banshee arrives and starts killing probes, but meanwhile DTs warp into Lyn's base
Raven being made as he scans and kills one DT, then when the second moves in another scan is ready and it's killed as well
AngelGirl puts a cannon in the back of his minerals and gets a phoenix
Command center and stim coming for Lyn
Lyn's banshee attacks again, doesn't react to the cannon's presence, and gets shot down
Lyn's small clump of infantry moves to the ramp with a raven and viking
Lyn sees the phoenixes and thinks better of his attack, pulling back to the watchtower
Lyn lands his command center at the natural, then moves to AngelGirl's ramp and forces another force field
Phoenixes snipe a medivac as Lyn's army maneuvers
The phoenixes pick off some stray SCVs
AngelGirl tried to take an expansion at 3 o'clock, but a group of infantry goes and forces a cancel
The phoenixes harass the infantry as they move back to the watchtower
Templar archives coming for AngelGirl, who is now taking his natural
Ghosts, vikings, and marauders being made by Lyn
Lyn moves into AngelGirl's natural with his far more numerous army and EMPs some of the sentries
AngelGirl surrenders
Getting cloaked banshees was a good reaction to what AngelGirl was doing (and the timing seemed to imply it was a deliberate counter). Another game where AngelGirl wasn't too impressive and Lyn was solid.
Commentary: The quality of play in GSL 1 wasn't up to the standards of the later tournaments, so players like AngelGirl who didn't qualify after the first one were assumed to be several steps down from the later players. That doesn't work in all cases (like Tester/sSKS/Trickster/whatever he's being called this week) but certainly seemed the case today. Lyn hasn't lived up to his Warcraft 3 reputation but he's a solid SC2 player and deserved to advance.
Nexus on 15 for AngelGirl followed by gateway, standard opening for Lyn
Lyn's factory floats to the back of AngelGirl's base while he makes a starport
Lyn also builds a bunker and gets called out by Tasteless since he's going against a fast expand build
Banshee and cloak coming for Lyn while the factory makes a hellion
Lyn waits until two hellions are ready then sends them after probes
Some pretty terrible probe micro results in the hellions killing 10 probes, and one of them even escapes from the stalkers
Now a cloaked banshee arrives. There's no robotics but there's a cannon in the mineral line
The banshee simply avoids the cannon and does a lot of damage. Meanwhile Lyn makes a command center
The banshee's cloak runs out so it retreats while a second one arrives at the natural
The second banshee at the natural kills the only pylon there so that the cannon warping in won't be powered
Meanwhile Lyn has his natural up as well as a raven and is getting stim
Lyn starts taking down the rocks. Both his banshees survived to join his army.
Lyn moves across the rocks and defeats AngelGirl's outnumbered army. Meanwhile he lands his factory in the back of the base again, but it's not needed.
AngelGirl concedes
Well-played by Lyn, but not an impressive showing from AngelGirl.
Game 2 - Lost Temple
Close ground positions, AngelGirl at 12 and Lyn at 9
Standard openings from both players
Stargate for AngelGirl, starport for Lyn
Inexplicably, AngelGirl moves his stalker away from the ramp and lets an SCV into his base, where it scouts the stargate
Void ray coming, Lyn getting cloak and banshees
Twilight council coming for AngelGirl, then dark shrine
The void ray arrives with two stalkers to harass the front of Lyn's base
Viking coming to help with the void ray while the first banshee moves out
The cloaked banshee arrives and starts killing probes, but meanwhile DTs warp into Lyn's base
Raven being made as he scans and kills one DT, then when the second moves in another scan is ready and it's killed as well
AngelGirl puts a cannon in the back of his minerals and gets a phoenix
Command center and stim coming for Lyn
Lyn's banshee attacks again, doesn't react to the cannon's presence, and gets shot down
Lyn's small clump of infantry moves to the ramp with a raven and viking
Lyn sees the phoenixes and thinks better of his attack, pulling back to the watchtower
Lyn lands his command center at the natural, then moves to AngelGirl's ramp and forces another force field
Phoenixes snipe a medivac as Lyn's army maneuvers
The phoenixes pick off some stray SCVs
AngelGirl tried to take an expansion at 3 o'clock, but a group of infantry goes and forces a cancel
The phoenixes harass the infantry as they move back to the watchtower
Templar archives coming for AngelGirl, who is now taking his natural
Ghosts, vikings, and marauders being made by Lyn
Lyn moves into AngelGirl's natural with his far more numerous army and EMPs some of the sentries
AngelGirl surrenders
Getting cloaked banshees was a good reaction to what AngelGirl was doing (and the timing seemed to imply it was a deliberate counter). Another game where AngelGirl wasn't too impressive and Lyn was solid.
Commentary: The quality of play in GSL 1 wasn't up to the standards of the later tournaments, so players like AngelGirl who didn't qualify after the first one were assumed to be several steps down from the later players. That doesn't work in all cases (like Tester/sSKS/Trickster/whatever he's being called this week) but certainly seemed the case today. Lyn hasn't lived up to his Warcraft 3 reputation but he's a solid SC2 player and deserved to advance.
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