| oGsTOP Terran T-#2 Map Veto: Jungle Basin 2010 Results: ro16, DNQ, DNQ GSL 4 Results: W STAce (2-1) W TSLAlive (2-0) W BanBansZenith (2-0) | vs. | sCfOu Terran T-#21 Map Veto: Blistering Sands 2010 Results: DNQ, DNQ, ro32 GSL 4 Results: W JSLZenith (2-0) W STGgoBooGie (2-1) W oGsCezanne (2-0) |
| Maps: Steppes of War, Shakuras Plateau, Xel'Naga Caverns | ||
| FOXLyn Terran T-#15 Map Veto: Blistering Sands 2010 Results: DNQ, DNQ, ro32 GSL 4 Results: W AngelGirlPrimeWE (2-0) W ButterflyEffectZenith (2-1) W FOXMoon (2-0) | vs. | ZeNEXByun Terran T-#9 Map Veto: Blistering Sands 2010 Results: ro32, ro64, DNQ GSL 4 Results: W SlayerSGolden (2-0) W TSLKiller (2-0) W STJuly (2-0) |
| Maps: Xel'Naga Caverns, Metalopolis, Delta Quadrant | ||
oGsTOP (T) vs. sCfOu (T)
Match Rating: 6/10
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Game 1 - Steppes of War
Both players get factories. TOP gets the earlier second gas and puts a bunker at the top of his ramp.
Starport for TOP, hellion and then starport for sC
sC moves up to pressure with his hellion, five marines, and an SCV but turns around after seeing the bunker.
Banshee and cloak coming for TOP, viking for sC
sC sends two hellions past the bunker. One dies but the other scouts, hits a few SCVs without killing any, then leaves.
Raven starts for sC as the first banshee arrives
TOP cloaks it when he sees the marines and viking waiting. sC scans but mismicros his viking, allowing the banshee to escape.
The raven finishes and the viking kills the banshee without it having really done much damage.
sC getting his own banshee now, both players getting siege mode
During his pressure TOP expanded to his natural. No command center yet for sC
sC's banshee arrives at TOP's natural and kills a few SCVs, but it doesn't have cloak and falls to TOP's viking
sC moves out with three siege tanks, his raven and viking, and about a dozen marines
sC sieges up underneath TOP's natural. But he only has two vikings and TOP has three.
TOP moves his siege tanks into range of sC's and gets off the first volley, killing three tanks and losing only one
sC floats a command center to his natural while TOP sends a cloaked banshee into sC's mineral line
sC's viking/raven air fleet cleans it up fairly quickly. TOP getting another factory.
sC getting stim, both players adding barracks
TOP moves down and sieges up in the middle of the map
sC moves to challenge TOP in the center. The vikings exchange fire but sC puts down two point defense drones
TOP suicides marines to shoot down the point defense drones, then snipes the raven
sC has 10 vikings to TOP's 7
TOP lands his vikings to protect them, then unsieges and moves into sC's tank line
TOP loses his army and what's left of sC's army heads toward TOP's natural
TOP defends with one or two siege tanks and a ton of SCVs
Carnage ensues but the SCVs actually kill all of sC's siege tanks
sC builds more units and charges TOP's expansion again but is repelled by siege fire
TOP takes the gold on sC's side of the base, sC has taken his natural third
TOP had so many SCVs that despite having to use them as attacking units he isn't at a worker disadvantage
sC tries to go around and siege up under TOP's natural again, but TOP drives him off again
TOP sets up a position in the center of the map again.
sC tries to move into a position to protect his third, but TOP stims a large group of marines and rushes in
With his tanks unsieged and TOP's tanks sieged behind the marines, sC loses his army
sC concedes
Disappointingly sloppy game as both players kept on trying things that didn't really work: banshee harassment, viking/raven, attacking siege lines, etc.
Game 2 - Shakuras Plateau
Cross positions, sC at 2 and TOP at 7
Once again both players get factories. TOP's is slightly faster.
Both players research blue flame and get starports.
Now both players get dropships. TOP's is finished a little earlier and moves out with three hellions.
sC sends his SCV into TOP's base and actually goes under the dropship
TOP building a command center in his main and getting a banshee and cloak, sC getting a banshee and tank
sC drops his hellions in TOP's base. With a siege tank there to help defend, not a lot of damage is done.
Command center, raven, and siege mode coming for sC. Engineering bay for TOP.
Both players send banshees to each other's mains at about the same time
Hoping to have pulled sC's defending units to the bottom of his base, TOP drops his hellions at the top of the main
sC had marines and a siege tank there and they slaughter the drop taking no damage.
Meanwhile sC's uncloaked banshee kills about 10 SCVs in TOP's main before a viking kills it.
sC drops two hellions in TOP's base, lets them attack a supply depot for a while, then goes and kills a few SCVs that TOP hadn't already sent away
TOP drops two SCVs in sC's base and kills a ton of SCVs, making the two players almost level
Factory, more barracks, and siege mode for TOP. sC moves into the middle of the map with his army.
TOP's banshee goes into sC's natural and kills still more SCVs before getting killed by a scan
sC takes out the rocks at the bottom of the map and moves toward TOP's base
TOP desperately moves his units back from his natural to meet the attack as the rocks go down.
sC is sieged at the bottom of the ramp within range of TOP's extractor and engineering bay
Both players taking third bases, TOP at the 10 o'clock main and sC at the 4 o'clock natural
sC stims his marines and charges TOP's defenses. With only three tanks there they fall quickly.
Despite destroying TOP's army, sC has to fall back to his third base to await reinfrocements
Stim researching for TOP, who sends a few marines into sC's natural and kills about half the SCVs there
sC moves his rebuilt army toward TOP's main along the bottom of the ramp.
TOP runs into it with his tanks unsieged and takes heavy losses
TOP concedes
Another back and forth game. This time the harassment was successful for both players. Despite TOP's superior macro, sC outplayed him in the positional game and eked out a victory.
Game 3 - Xel'Naga Caverns
Factory for both players. sC researches blue flame and both players make starports.
sC pokes the ramp with a hellion but there are about six marines there.
Raven for TOP, then a command center. sC loads his hellions into a medivac.
sC drops three hellions into TOP's main and kills a few SCVs before TOP's viking and tanks clean everything up
TOP floats his second command center to his natural and sieges up tanks there.
sC gets siege mode and a second factory. He moves down to TOP's watchtower with his army.
TOP getting stim and a second factory, sC floating his command center to his natural and starts making hellions again
Armoy for sC, TOP getting cloak. TOP moves into the center of the map with his army
sC pulls back before TOP's advance.
sC drops four hellions in TOP's base, but TOP quickly pulls his SCVs. A tank kills one hellion, then the dropship picks up the rest and flees.
TOP's vikings move and intercept the dropship before it can unload
sC moves in on TOP's army in the center of the map and destroys it. He moves into a contain position.
TOP has air superiority, so sC quickly withdraws to his gold and destroys the rocks there.
TOP moves to sC's watchtower and sieges up. His banshee goes ahead and forces sC to pull back to his natural.
sC sends five hellions down into TOP's natural, where they melt almost instantly to siege tank fire.
TOP's banshee, now cloaked, moves up to sC's natural and hits tanks until vikings arrive and kill it with a scan
TOP siege crawls into sC's natural, forcing sC to attack into TOP's position with everything he has
sC manages to take out most of TOP's army, but he loses an enormous amount of units. TOP calls down mules on the fighting.
sC sends some more hellions around to TOP's natural and main, but they get cleaned up easily.
sC surrenders
sC's hellion strategy looked horrible, but most of that was down to TOP's scrupulous defense. Of course, his macro advantage made it unusually easy for him to leave defending units in his bases.
Commentary: I'm not as impressed with TOP as Artosis is. His macro is good, and that was probably the difference in this match, but by Code S standards there's nothing unusual about that. Meanwhile his TvT seemed sloppy and uninspired. He should make Code S since he can choose his opponent (sanZenith, I choose you!) but unless he gets better I expect him to have a rough time there.
Both players get factories. TOP gets the earlier second gas and puts a bunker at the top of his ramp.
Starport for TOP, hellion and then starport for sC
sC moves up to pressure with his hellion, five marines, and an SCV but turns around after seeing the bunker.
Banshee and cloak coming for TOP, viking for sC
sC sends two hellions past the bunker. One dies but the other scouts, hits a few SCVs without killing any, then leaves.
Raven starts for sC as the first banshee arrives
TOP cloaks it when he sees the marines and viking waiting. sC scans but mismicros his viking, allowing the banshee to escape.
The raven finishes and the viking kills the banshee without it having really done much damage.
sC getting his own banshee now, both players getting siege mode
During his pressure TOP expanded to his natural. No command center yet for sC
sC's banshee arrives at TOP's natural and kills a few SCVs, but it doesn't have cloak and falls to TOP's viking
sC moves out with three siege tanks, his raven and viking, and about a dozen marines
sC sieges up underneath TOP's natural. But he only has two vikings and TOP has three.
TOP moves his siege tanks into range of sC's and gets off the first volley, killing three tanks and losing only one
sC floats a command center to his natural while TOP sends a cloaked banshee into sC's mineral line
sC's viking/raven air fleet cleans it up fairly quickly. TOP getting another factory.
sC getting stim, both players adding barracks
TOP moves down and sieges up in the middle of the map
sC moves to challenge TOP in the center. The vikings exchange fire but sC puts down two point defense drones
TOP suicides marines to shoot down the point defense drones, then snipes the raven
sC has 10 vikings to TOP's 7
TOP lands his vikings to protect them, then unsieges and moves into sC's tank line
TOP loses his army and what's left of sC's army heads toward TOP's natural
TOP defends with one or two siege tanks and a ton of SCVs
Carnage ensues but the SCVs actually kill all of sC's siege tanks
sC builds more units and charges TOP's expansion again but is repelled by siege fire
TOP takes the gold on sC's side of the base, sC has taken his natural third
TOP had so many SCVs that despite having to use them as attacking units he isn't at a worker disadvantage
sC tries to go around and siege up under TOP's natural again, but TOP drives him off again
TOP sets up a position in the center of the map again.
sC tries to move into a position to protect his third, but TOP stims a large group of marines and rushes in
With his tanks unsieged and TOP's tanks sieged behind the marines, sC loses his army
sC concedes
Disappointingly sloppy game as both players kept on trying things that didn't really work: banshee harassment, viking/raven, attacking siege lines, etc.
Game 2 - Shakuras Plateau
Cross positions, sC at 2 and TOP at 7
Once again both players get factories. TOP's is slightly faster.
Both players research blue flame and get starports.
Now both players get dropships. TOP's is finished a little earlier and moves out with three hellions.
sC sends his SCV into TOP's base and actually goes under the dropship
TOP building a command center in his main and getting a banshee and cloak, sC getting a banshee and tank
sC drops his hellions in TOP's base. With a siege tank there to help defend, not a lot of damage is done.
Command center, raven, and siege mode coming for sC. Engineering bay for TOP.
Both players send banshees to each other's mains at about the same time
Hoping to have pulled sC's defending units to the bottom of his base, TOP drops his hellions at the top of the main
sC had marines and a siege tank there and they slaughter the drop taking no damage.
Meanwhile sC's uncloaked banshee kills about 10 SCVs in TOP's main before a viking kills it.
sC drops two hellions in TOP's base, lets them attack a supply depot for a while, then goes and kills a few SCVs that TOP hadn't already sent away
TOP drops two SCVs in sC's base and kills a ton of SCVs, making the two players almost level
Factory, more barracks, and siege mode for TOP. sC moves into the middle of the map with his army.
TOP's banshee goes into sC's natural and kills still more SCVs before getting killed by a scan
sC takes out the rocks at the bottom of the map and moves toward TOP's base
TOP desperately moves his units back from his natural to meet the attack as the rocks go down.
sC is sieged at the bottom of the ramp within range of TOP's extractor and engineering bay
Both players taking third bases, TOP at the 10 o'clock main and sC at the 4 o'clock natural
sC stims his marines and charges TOP's defenses. With only three tanks there they fall quickly.
Despite destroying TOP's army, sC has to fall back to his third base to await reinfrocements
Stim researching for TOP, who sends a few marines into sC's natural and kills about half the SCVs there
sC moves his rebuilt army toward TOP's main along the bottom of the ramp.
TOP runs into it with his tanks unsieged and takes heavy losses
TOP concedes
Another back and forth game. This time the harassment was successful for both players. Despite TOP's superior macro, sC outplayed him in the positional game and eked out a victory.
Game 3 - Xel'Naga Caverns
Factory for both players. sC researches blue flame and both players make starports.
sC pokes the ramp with a hellion but there are about six marines there.
Raven for TOP, then a command center. sC loads his hellions into a medivac.
sC drops three hellions into TOP's main and kills a few SCVs before TOP's viking and tanks clean everything up
TOP floats his second command center to his natural and sieges up tanks there.
sC gets siege mode and a second factory. He moves down to TOP's watchtower with his army.
TOP getting stim and a second factory, sC floating his command center to his natural and starts making hellions again
Armoy for sC, TOP getting cloak. TOP moves into the center of the map with his army
sC pulls back before TOP's advance.
sC drops four hellions in TOP's base, but TOP quickly pulls his SCVs. A tank kills one hellion, then the dropship picks up the rest and flees.
TOP's vikings move and intercept the dropship before it can unload
sC moves in on TOP's army in the center of the map and destroys it. He moves into a contain position.
TOP has air superiority, so sC quickly withdraws to his gold and destroys the rocks there.
TOP moves to sC's watchtower and sieges up. His banshee goes ahead and forces sC to pull back to his natural.
sC sends five hellions down into TOP's natural, where they melt almost instantly to siege tank fire.
TOP's banshee, now cloaked, moves up to sC's natural and hits tanks until vikings arrive and kill it with a scan
TOP siege crawls into sC's natural, forcing sC to attack into TOP's position with everything he has
sC manages to take out most of TOP's army, but he loses an enormous amount of units. TOP calls down mules on the fighting.
sC sends some more hellions around to TOP's natural and main, but they get cleaned up easily.
sC surrenders
sC's hellion strategy looked horrible, but most of that was down to TOP's scrupulous defense. Of course, his macro advantage made it unusually easy for him to leave defending units in his bases.
Commentary: I'm not as impressed with TOP as Artosis is. His macro is good, and that was probably the difference in this match, but by Code S standards there's nothing unusual about that. Meanwhile his TvT seemed sloppy and uninspired. He should make Code S since he can choose his opponent (sanZenith, I choose you!) but unless he gets better I expect him to have a rough time there.
ZeNEXByun (T) vs. FOXLyn (T)
Match Rating: 7/10
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Game 1 - Shakuras Plateau
No gas fast expand for both players, both building in their main
Second barracks and factory for both players
Bot players float their command centers to the naturals.
Starports for both players, stim for Byun
Medivacs for both players, shields researching for Lyn
Engineering bay for Byun, two more barracks for Lyn
Siege mode starts researching for Lyn while Byun moves into the center of the map with his army
Lyn drops marines in Byun's main but Byun deals with it easily with less marines as he has stim and Lyn doesn't
Lyn immediately starts researching stim. Oops.
Byun is still in an advanced position but Lyn has more tanks.
Second factory for both players. Byun reinforcing his forward army.
Byun steps in, snipes a medivac with his marines, then sieges up underneath Lyn's main
Lyn tries to move in three siege tanks, but Byun sees it and sends in stimmed marines, destroying all the tanks
Lyn loses a barracks to Byun's siege tanks. Then he goes in force with tanks and marines and cleans up Byun's army.
Lyn moves into the center of the map. Byun takes down the rocks at his gold and is building a third command center.
The two armies moving in the center of the map run into each other. Lyn's numerically superior force wins easily.
Lyn tries to move in on Byun's gold but runs into a small siege position. Then he loses more tanks to stimmed marines.
Byun tries to move marines into position at his watchtower but Lyn's siege tanks are positioned correctly and he gets wiped out.
Lyn's marines shoot down Byun's third command center and then join his tanks in a containment position outside Byun's natural.
Lyn tries to move into Byun's natural. Both players lose a lot of units in the resulting battle. Afterward Lyn's few survivors fall back.
No longer contained, Byun moves into the center of the map. Lyn has command centers at his natural third and his gold.
Byun starts to push toward Lyn's gold base, sieging up just barely in range of it.
Lyn has to lift his gold command center at least temporarily
Lyn goes around and threatens Byun's gold. Byun tries to counter but Lyn stims and crushes Byun's force.
Byun's survivors run it range of Byun's other siege tanks.
With Byun's defending units gone, Lyn sieges up in range of Byun's gold command center and destroys it
Byun moves to Lyn's third and sieges up in range of it. Lyn attacks with SCVs from one side and a marine army from the other.
Byun actually wins the battle and destroys the command center. Lyn is still ahead on bases because he has taken the outside expansion on Byun's side.
Lyn floats a command center back to the gold and drops a ton of mules
Byun sends a small group of marines to Lyn's outside base, forcing the SCVs to flee and the command center to lift temporarily
Lyn moves into Byun's gold with an overwhelming marine/tank army.
Byun concedes
Tasteless says it was a mistake for Byun to try to beat Lyn, a Warcraft 3 player, in a slugfest. Maybe so, but I've never been tremendously impressed by Lyn's SC2 micro.
Game 2 - Metalopolis
Cross positions, Lyn at 12 and Byun at 6.
Game 3 - Xel'Naga Caverns
Lyn doesn't even scout, just builds a command center on low ground. Byun scouts, sees this, then does the same.
Two more barracks for Byun, bunker and factory for Lyn
Lyn gets an SCV into Byun's base and sees the barracks
Starport for Lyn and a hellion, stim and then shields for Byun
Another barracks, a banshee and cloak for Lyn
Factory for Byun, siege mode starts for Lyn
Two engineering bays for Byun. Lyn's hellion moves out but gets caught and destroyed by marauders.
Starport and turrets for Byun as Lyn's banshee arrives at Byun's main
Second factory and two more barracks for Lyn, but his banshee is killed while it shoots Byun's engineering bay
Stim for Lyn, armory for Byun. Both players still making more barracks.
Byun moves his army to the underside of Lyn's main, loads two medivacs, flies in and sees some siege tanks in siege mode, turns around immediately.
Another one of Lyn's banshees kills one of Byun's stray SCVs, then gets killed by stimmed marines
Byun takes a third while keeping his army outside of Lyn's natural
Lyn moves out with marines and tanks, forcing Byun back
Lyn making a command center and an armory. His army is a lot larger than Byun's, but Byun has a lot more medivacs
Byun moves around Lyn's army and clearly thinks about countering, then follows Lyn's army as it moves into Byun's tihrd
Byun's command center has to lift off. Byun attacks Lyn's forces from both sides and destroys the entire army.
Byun's burning command center floats back and gets repaired just in time.
Byun pokes Lyn's main with two dropships but Lyn's sensor tower allows him to react immeidately. Meanwhile Byun's army moves toward Lyn's third.
There's too much at the third so Byun attacks Lyn's natural instead. Siege tanks force him to retreat quickly.
Byun making three factories. Meanwhile his two dropships move into Lyn's main, but the drop is cleaned up easily.
Byun finds an angle to attack Lyn's army from both sides and destroys it.
Simultaneous, Byun drops Lyn's main in force, destroying several production buildings
Byun pushes into Lyn's natural and snipes the orbital there. Lyn attacks from both directions but Byun retreats quickly.
Lyn pursues only to get crushed by reinforcing units.
Byun's fourth is up. Lyn drops some marines to attack it, but it's a planetary fortress and kills them easily.
Byun moves to Lyn's third and at this point Lyn doesn't have much left to defend it.
Lyn concedes
Much better play from Byun. Sticking with infantry meant his armies were almost always qualitatively weaker than Lyn's forces, but his tactics and timing made up for it. Although leaving a lot of tanks in his bases meant Lyn was safe from drops for most of the game, his armies in the field lost almost every battle because of it.
Game 3 - Delta Quadrant
Lower positions, Byun at 5 and Lyn at 7
Two barracks for Lyn, with the second one in the minerals at his front expansion
Command center for Byun
Byun's scouting SCV is prevented from scouting, though it does see an SCV coming back from the second barracks
Lyn moves out with some marines and a huge number of SCVs
Byun pulls almost all his SCVs to help defend. Lyn slightly mismicros and doesn't do well in the initial fighting.
Lyn sends more SCVs, but meanwhile Byun manages to complete a bunker
Lyn has to pull back. Both players lost a tremendous number of SCVs.
Lyn moves out again with marines and SCVs. Byun see him move out and gets SCVs into position to repair.
With SCVs repairing the bunker, Lyn's army has basically no chance of breaking the wall-in.
Lyn surrenders
So much for Lyn's Warcraft 3 micro...when he initially attacked his marines were hitting the depot instead of Byun's marines or SCVs. Still, Byun did a good job...he had to since his fast expand build was very vulnerable to a two barracks rush.
Commentary: After a shaky game 1, Byun looked like the better player in game 2 and then perhaps was slightly lucky to survive the rush in game 3. As a Code A finalist who can choose his promotion match opponents, he is almost certain to make it into Code S. It'll be interesting to see how well he does there, as he seems to be better tactically than a lot of Terrans. Lyn has a chance as well, of course, but may have a tougher road. He's good, but not so good that he seems like he could do much damage in the Code S tournament.
No gas fast expand for both players, both building in their main
Second barracks and factory for both players
Bot players float their command centers to the naturals.
Starports for both players, stim for Byun
Medivacs for both players, shields researching for Lyn
Engineering bay for Byun, two more barracks for Lyn
Siege mode starts researching for Lyn while Byun moves into the center of the map with his army
Lyn drops marines in Byun's main but Byun deals with it easily with less marines as he has stim and Lyn doesn't
Lyn immediately starts researching stim. Oops.
Byun is still in an advanced position but Lyn has more tanks.
Second factory for both players. Byun reinforcing his forward army.
Byun steps in, snipes a medivac with his marines, then sieges up underneath Lyn's main
Lyn tries to move in three siege tanks, but Byun sees it and sends in stimmed marines, destroying all the tanks
Lyn loses a barracks to Byun's siege tanks. Then he goes in force with tanks and marines and cleans up Byun's army.
Lyn moves into the center of the map. Byun takes down the rocks at his gold and is building a third command center.
The two armies moving in the center of the map run into each other. Lyn's numerically superior force wins easily.
Lyn tries to move in on Byun's gold but runs into a small siege position. Then he loses more tanks to stimmed marines.
Byun tries to move marines into position at his watchtower but Lyn's siege tanks are positioned correctly and he gets wiped out.
Lyn's marines shoot down Byun's third command center and then join his tanks in a containment position outside Byun's natural.
Lyn tries to move into Byun's natural. Both players lose a lot of units in the resulting battle. Afterward Lyn's few survivors fall back.
No longer contained, Byun moves into the center of the map. Lyn has command centers at his natural third and his gold.
Byun starts to push toward Lyn's gold base, sieging up just barely in range of it.
Lyn has to lift his gold command center at least temporarily
Lyn goes around and threatens Byun's gold. Byun tries to counter but Lyn stims and crushes Byun's force.
Byun's survivors run it range of Byun's other siege tanks.
With Byun's defending units gone, Lyn sieges up in range of Byun's gold command center and destroys it
Byun moves to Lyn's third and sieges up in range of it. Lyn attacks with SCVs from one side and a marine army from the other.
Byun actually wins the battle and destroys the command center. Lyn is still ahead on bases because he has taken the outside expansion on Byun's side.
Lyn floats a command center back to the gold and drops a ton of mules
Byun sends a small group of marines to Lyn's outside base, forcing the SCVs to flee and the command center to lift temporarily
Lyn moves into Byun's gold with an overwhelming marine/tank army.
Byun concedes
Tasteless says it was a mistake for Byun to try to beat Lyn, a Warcraft 3 player, in a slugfest. Maybe so, but I've never been tremendously impressed by Lyn's SC2 micro.
Game 2 - Metalopolis
Cross positions, Lyn at 12 and Byun at 6.
Game 3 - Xel'Naga Caverns
Lyn doesn't even scout, just builds a command center on low ground. Byun scouts, sees this, then does the same.
Two more barracks for Byun, bunker and factory for Lyn
Lyn gets an SCV into Byun's base and sees the barracks
Starport for Lyn and a hellion, stim and then shields for Byun
Another barracks, a banshee and cloak for Lyn
Factory for Byun, siege mode starts for Lyn
Two engineering bays for Byun. Lyn's hellion moves out but gets caught and destroyed by marauders.
Starport and turrets for Byun as Lyn's banshee arrives at Byun's main
Second factory and two more barracks for Lyn, but his banshee is killed while it shoots Byun's engineering bay
Stim for Lyn, armory for Byun. Both players still making more barracks.
Byun moves his army to the underside of Lyn's main, loads two medivacs, flies in and sees some siege tanks in siege mode, turns around immediately.
Another one of Lyn's banshees kills one of Byun's stray SCVs, then gets killed by stimmed marines
Byun takes a third while keeping his army outside of Lyn's natural
Lyn moves out with marines and tanks, forcing Byun back
Lyn making a command center and an armory. His army is a lot larger than Byun's, but Byun has a lot more medivacs
Byun moves around Lyn's army and clearly thinks about countering, then follows Lyn's army as it moves into Byun's tihrd
Byun's command center has to lift off. Byun attacks Lyn's forces from both sides and destroys the entire army.
Byun's burning command center floats back and gets repaired just in time.
Byun pokes Lyn's main with two dropships but Lyn's sensor tower allows him to react immeidately. Meanwhile Byun's army moves toward Lyn's third.
There's too much at the third so Byun attacks Lyn's natural instead. Siege tanks force him to retreat quickly.
Byun making three factories. Meanwhile his two dropships move into Lyn's main, but the drop is cleaned up easily.
Byun finds an angle to attack Lyn's army from both sides and destroys it.
Simultaneous, Byun drops Lyn's main in force, destroying several production buildings
Byun pushes into Lyn's natural and snipes the orbital there. Lyn attacks from both directions but Byun retreats quickly.
Lyn pursues only to get crushed by reinforcing units.
Byun's fourth is up. Lyn drops some marines to attack it, but it's a planetary fortress and kills them easily.
Byun moves to Lyn's third and at this point Lyn doesn't have much left to defend it.
Lyn concedes
Much better play from Byun. Sticking with infantry meant his armies were almost always qualitatively weaker than Lyn's forces, but his tactics and timing made up for it. Although leaving a lot of tanks in his bases meant Lyn was safe from drops for most of the game, his armies in the field lost almost every battle because of it.
Game 3 - Delta Quadrant
Lower positions, Byun at 5 and Lyn at 7
Two barracks for Lyn, with the second one in the minerals at his front expansion
Command center for Byun
Byun's scouting SCV is prevented from scouting, though it does see an SCV coming back from the second barracks
Lyn moves out with some marines and a huge number of SCVs
Byun pulls almost all his SCVs to help defend. Lyn slightly mismicros and doesn't do well in the initial fighting.
Lyn sends more SCVs, but meanwhile Byun manages to complete a bunker
Lyn has to pull back. Both players lost a tremendous number of SCVs.
Lyn moves out again with marines and SCVs. Byun see him move out and gets SCVs into position to repair.
With SCVs repairing the bunker, Lyn's army has basically no chance of breaking the wall-in.
Lyn surrenders
So much for Lyn's Warcraft 3 micro...when he initially attacked his marines were hitting the depot instead of Byun's marines or SCVs. Still, Byun did a good job...he had to since his fast expand build was very vulnerable to a two barracks rush.
Commentary: After a shaky game 1, Byun looked like the better player in game 2 and then perhaps was slightly lucky to survive the rush in game 3. As a Code A finalist who can choose his promotion match opponents, he is almost certain to make it into Code S. It'll be interesting to see how well he does there, as he seems to be better tactically than a lot of Terrans. Lyn has a chance as well, of course, but may have a tougher road. He's good, but not so good that he seems like he could do much damage in the Code S tournament.
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