Reach, the ManToss. I'm no ManToss, but I'm getting there. Represent!
Time for another Starcraft rant... hmm where do I even begin..
Firstly, more Hamachi games were played tonight (typical Friday night). Ambrose, Michael and I played around a bit, and then the Coreans came on. Moo challenged me to play him, so once again, I head into the only player that matches up as Protoss against me. I get little PvP practice, not to mention that any game of Starcraft feels a bit intense to me. Up until this point, we have been 2-1 (the first time we played, we 1-1'ed, and another time, I beat him with a dual gate zealot rush).
So he seemed pretty determined to want to play me, so I jumped right in. What to do, what to do? He didn't want to play on LT, and he suggested Luna, so I figured why not. The map's a bit bigger, but makes little difference. I knew what I was going to do. Instead of dragging the game into a macro war, I decided to seal it with a triple gate zealot build. Him tending to lean towards tech builds in PvP, this was the right build to trump that.
It was all over in a little over four minutes. I noticed his building placement, so I decided to pylon prison his dragoon. Not the first time, but certainly slick.
Yeah. Like that. Trapped his goon, and.. zealots went for the probes. The pylon prison was sort of irrelevant, but it was cool. In any case, that's how that one went down.
At the beginning of the next game, I was trying to decide whether or not to do the same build again. It was LT this time, as opposed to Luna, so I opted for a 2 gate zealot build, less strain on the economy. This time, a bit more wary than before, he posed a zealot and probe on his ramp. In a stroke of.. intuition, I brought 2 probes with my initial zealot, and.. the game proceeded to be just like the previous one, except a little bit less in my favour than before. In any case, this game also ended in about five minutes. 2 - 0. That was that.
More importantly, then, Ryan Jung came on. And.. after some fussing, I decided to play him 1v1. In the beginning, it felt like a typical PvZ. I fast expanded, and in response he double expanded. One moment of pure pimp that I recall now was that when my scouting probe was poking around his base, I was trying to see what lair tech he was going to. He put down a Hydralisk Den, and that was that. What I didn't know was that in his natural was his actual focus: a Spire. But his ramp was cleverly guarded with two zerglings, and my probe was chased headfirst into the deathtrap, so no Spire-intel for me. Fortunately, Stargate was still a part of my build, and he eventually contained me with Mutalisks, Scourges, Lurkers, Hydralisks and Zerglings. Supply-wise we were exactly matched, but him containing me, he expo'ed alot. Needless to say, he was going to win eventually, but unfortunately, he disconnected dropped. Poor guy. The game was his no doubt.
I, however, still feel proud that I put up as good a fight as I was ever going to. I played well, and the outcome is irrelevant. However, after the game, from bwchart, it came to my attention that:
He has a.
Ridiculous.
APM.
Of.
300.
That's amazing. Terry Cho already told me about him and his gosu skills, but now I guess I got to see things first hand. Good experience. I respect him alot. GG Ryan.
In summary, tonight was a very successful night for me. Well-executed games vs Moo, and a good effort against Ryan. No worries, I'll get there, and I'll show that Chinese people can play just as well as Coreans =D. Or at least, I'm going to be ManToss among us group of players.
That's enough Starcraft ranting. If you read all the way until here, I hope it was not a disappointing read. In any case, I will close as usual with a random picture. This one is not a sandwich, but it's still cool.
Savior, the Maestro
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