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At first the round started off with Chojja versus ForU, since Chojja had computer problems when they were supposed to play last week. After around 35 minutes of intense Protoss versus Zerg play, ChoJJa took the game. Next up were the match between NaDa and IPXZerg. Their last endeavour ended in a victory for NaDa, during the TeamLeague match between Suma GO and the Curriors. Now, it was time for revenge for IPXZerg, who despite all the talk about NaDa being the favourite, played in his own way, he tells FighterForum. He was also a bit surprised that he was not that nervous. "I thought I should have been nervous since I didn't play televised game for a long time." Emlary translates at TeamLiquid.net.
IPXZerg starts with a hatchery at his natural, while NaDa (pic) goes for dual barracks, scouts with an SCV and finds IPXZerg pretty fast. As soon as the first barrack is done, NaDa starts an Academy and a Refinery. Meanwhile IPXZerg adds another Hatchery at his ramp and has some Zerglings up and running.
When NaDa has five Marines, a Firebat and a Medic he advances towards IPXZerg's expansion. Luckily for IPXZerg he placed three Sunken Colonies there, guarding the expansion, but a slight risk for NaDa to sneak up the ramp. Seeing this, NaDa waits outside and adds a couple of more troops there. He also moves out with an SCV to his natural and starts up a Command Center to stay even with IPXZerg's economy.
IPXZerg playing NaDa in MBCGame Starleague - stonefaced.
Looking in IPXZerg's base, you see that he is just starting a Spire with the meaning to do some mutalisk harassment later on. He also adds a Hydralisk Den to take off those infantry units constructed by NaDa.With five mutalisks out, he goes off to search for NaDa's expansions and adds another expansion himself at bottom left. Moving in to NaDa's base he finds a Starport being constructed, guarded by Marines and Medics.
8 minutes in to the match, IPXZerg is building a Queens Nest to be able to build a Hive, going for either Defilers, Ultralisks or maybe Adrenal Glands? Back in the Terran base, NaDa goes for a Science Facility to Irradiate the Zerg forces.
What IPXZerg is doing now is that he contains NaDa with his mutalisk harassment and expands a couple of more times over the map, and builds up a Hydra/Lurker force. Meanwhile NaDa adds up a couple of more Barracks and has his first Science Vessel out - ready to slaughter some Zergs. He goes out, but then goes back in as he saw the Mutalisk force accompanied with a couple of Scourges. Now things are getting pretty interesting as IPXZerg adds a Defiler's Mound to his tech tree. Also, both players keep building units and mining, although IPXZerg has three expansions while NaDa is just having one.
Around 13 minutes in to the game, the both players meet on the battle field, a bit closer to NaDa's base. IPXZerg has a big Lurker force, Zerglings to help and Defilers for the effects. NaDa has his stable Infantry units and a couple of Science Vessels. With some wellplaced Dark Swarms and nice Lurker burrows, IPXZerg cripples NaDa and forces him to flee. He Dark Swarm-moves his way all the way to NaDa's expansion and destroys some more. By now IPXZerg has five expansions, clearly keeping the game to his advantage with the pressure he now has on NaDa. Eventually NaDa can kill of the Zerg swarm, and stays calm for a little while.
NaDa now initiates a Marine drop on IPXZerg's expansion in the bottom right. Almost at the same time IPXZerg does a quite impressive move with his Defilers - he plagues the Science Vessels, making them extremely vulnerable with only 1 hp left. NaDa manages to destroy the Hatchery at the expansion, but then IPXZerg moves down his forces and places a Dark Swarm and kills off the ~10 marines. To counter this, the Zerg advances once again to the expansion of NaDa in the same way he did before, although with some more forces. Slashing and hacking it down good, NaDa tries to counter by dropping Marines in IPXZerg's base and moving with a Marine/Medic force to the bottom left expansion. At the main are Ultralisks and the bottom left expansion is guarded with Lurkers.
IPXZerg (Z)reaching the NaDa's expansion and putting down some wellplaced nukes and mutilates the expansion.
Now it is only up to IPXZerg to move in to NaDa's base with his Hydralisks and Lurkers, accompanied by the Defilers. Here he really shows how to handle with an infantry force with Science Vessels - the right use of Defilers. To finish it all off, IPXZerg adds several Ultralisks killing off the remnants.
In the post-interview, IPXZerg tells FighterForum that the key to victory was to remove the Science Vessels. "After analyzing Nada's recent strategy, I reason out science vessel is the major problem.". He also tells that GoRush have helped him a lot training, as well as his teammates Iris, Sunni and Hwasin. His goal is to get Top 4 in MSL. If he plays this well in the other matches and dominates a match like this - he could win it all.
Chojja> ForU@ Neo Requiem *
IPXZerg> NaDa @ Luna
ZeuS> Yellow @ Neo Requiem
MinGu> Xellos @ Raid Assault 2
Reach> TheMarine @ Rush Hour
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Links
TeamLiquid.net - Interview with IPXZerg and more
TeamLiquid.net - VODs in Torrent files
In the second week of Uzoo MBCGame Starleague many of the star ranked players got themselves a cold shower. The hotshot players NaDa, Xellos and Yellow were expected to win by many, but lost all three. Instead MinGu, ZeuS and IPXZerg showed what they got and advanced in the tournament.
At first the round started off with Chojja versus ForU, since Chojja had computer problems when they were supposed to play last week. After around 35 minutes of intense Protoss versus Zerg play, ChoJJa took the game. Next up were the match between NaDa and IPXZerg. Their last endeavour ended in a victory for NaDa, during the TeamLeague match between Suma GO and the Curriors. Now, it was time for revenge for IPXZerg, who despite all the talk about NaDa being the favourite, played in his own way, he tells FighterForum. He was also a bit surprised that he was not that nervous. "I thought I should have been nervous since I didn't play televised game for a long time." Emlary translates at TeamLiquid.net.
Terran versus Zerg on Luna
IPXZerg starts with a hatchery at his natural, while NaDa (pic) goes for dual barracks, scouts with an SCV and finds IPXZerg pretty fast. As soon as the first barrack is done, NaDa starts an Academy and a Refinery. Meanwhile IPXZerg adds another Hatchery at his ramp and has some Zerglings up and running.
When NaDa has five Marines, a Firebat and a Medic he advances towards IPXZerg's expansion. Luckily for IPXZerg he placed three Sunken Colonies there, guarding the expansion, but a slight risk for NaDa to sneak up the ramp. Seeing this, NaDa waits outside and adds a couple of more troops there. He also moves out with an SCV to his natural and starts up a Command Center to stay even with IPXZerg's economy.
IPXZerg playing NaDa in MBCGame Starleague - stonefaced.
Mutalisk harassment
Looking in IPXZerg's base, you see that he is just starting a Spire with the meaning to do some mutalisk harassment later on. He also adds a Hydralisk Den to take off those infantry units constructed by NaDa.With five mutalisks out, he goes off to search for NaDa's expansions and adds another expansion himself at bottom left. Moving in to NaDa's base he finds a Starport being constructed, guarded by Marines and Medics.
Teching for both players
8 minutes in to the match, IPXZerg is building a Queens Nest to be able to build a Hive, going for either Defilers, Ultralisks or maybe Adrenal Glands? Back in the Terran base, NaDa goes for a Science Facility to Irradiate the Zerg forces.
What IPXZerg is doing now is that he contains NaDa with his mutalisk harassment and expands a couple of more times over the map, and builds up a Hydra/Lurker force. Meanwhile NaDa adds up a couple of more Barracks and has his first Science Vessel out - ready to slaughter some Zergs. He goes out, but then goes back in as he saw the Mutalisk force accompanied with a couple of Scourges. Now things are getting pretty interesting as IPXZerg adds a Defiler's Mound to his tech tree. Also, both players keep building units and mining, although IPXZerg has three expansions while NaDa is just having one.
Well defended expansions and great micromanagement
Around 13 minutes in to the game, the both players meet on the battle field, a bit closer to NaDa's base. IPXZerg has a big Lurker force, Zerglings to help and Defilers for the effects. NaDa has his stable Infantry units and a couple of Science Vessels. With some wellplaced Dark Swarms and nice Lurker burrows, IPXZerg cripples NaDa and forces him to flee. He Dark Swarm-moves his way all the way to NaDa's expansion and destroys some more. By now IPXZerg has five expansions, clearly keeping the game to his advantage with the pressure he now has on NaDa. Eventually NaDa can kill of the Zerg swarm, and stays calm for a little while.
Plagued Science Vessels giving IPXZerg the victory
NaDa now initiates a Marine drop on IPXZerg's expansion in the bottom right. Almost at the same time IPXZerg does a quite impressive move with his Defilers - he plagues the Science Vessels, making them extremely vulnerable with only 1 hp left. NaDa manages to destroy the Hatchery at the expansion, but then IPXZerg moves down his forces and places a Dark Swarm and kills off the ~10 marines. To counter this, the Zerg advances once again to the expansion of NaDa in the same way he did before, although with some more forces. Slashing and hacking it down good, NaDa tries to counter by dropping Marines in IPXZerg's base and moving with a Marine/Medic force to the bottom left expansion. At the main are Ultralisks and the bottom left expansion is guarded with Lurkers.
IPXZerg (Z)reaching the NaDa's expansion and putting down some wellplaced nukes and mutilates the expansion.
Just a few more minutes...
Now it is only up to IPXZerg to move in to NaDa's base with his Hydralisks and Lurkers, accompanied by the Defilers. Here he really shows how to handle with an infantry force with Science Vessels - the right use of Defilers. To finish it all off, IPXZerg adds several Ultralisks killing off the remnants.
Good analyze on NaDa by IPXZerg key to the win
In the post-interview, IPXZerg tells FighterForum that the key to victory was to remove the Science Vessels. "After analyzing Nada's recent strategy, I reason out science vessel is the major problem.". He also tells that GoRush have helped him a lot training, as well as his teammates Iris, Sunni and Hwasin. His goal is to get Top 4 in MSL. If he plays this well in the other matches and dominates a match like this - he could win it all.
Chojja> ForU@ Neo Requiem *
IPXZerg> NaDa @ Luna
ZeuS> Yellow @ Neo Requiem
MinGu> Xellos @ Raid Assault 2
Reach> TheMarine @ Rush Hour
This could not have been done without the TeamLiquid.net Bit Torrent site, where especially fw uploads a lot of VODs. Thank you very much for providing things like this for the community.
Links
TeamLiquid.net - Interview with IPXZerg and more
TeamLiquid.net - VODs in Torrent files
