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I stock my natural with a crew of diligently mining probes, make three more gates to bring my total to five, and rally them to a spot just outside my mineral only natural. I research zealot speed, hoping to go on the offensive sometime soon. I accumulate an archon, four dragoons, and twelve zealots at my mineral only natural. I set two zeals to patrolling the three o'clock and nine o'clock mains respectively, and sent the rest of my forces into his natural expansion. I killed most of his drones there, but in a few seconds a huge (40+) swarm of zerglings accompanied by a group of nine to twelve mutas come swarming in to defend their territory. Because I have the +1 weapons upgrade for my zealots and an accompanying archon I manage to kill all the zerglings and several mutas. However, I am only left with four zealots and they fall prey to the remaining mutas.
I have only started to replace the forces that had been defending my mineral only natural when a wave of zerglings hits. My forces are grossly outnumbered but thanks to my +2 weapons upgrade and zealots running interference for dancing goons I come out on top with just one dragoon remaining. In a minute or two I have stationed a sizable force of six dragoons, two archons and a temp near my mineral only expansion's Nexus. Another, larger wave of zerglings arrives looking to cause some havoc but they are easily mowed down by the archon/dragoon combination. My opponent's muta/ling is obviously failing miserably, and I expect a strat change to come soon. I say to myself, "Self, what would you do in this situation?" And of course I immediately respond, "Gaurdians, you schizophrenic bastard." With this thought in mind I start warping in two stargates. When they are finished, I queue up four scouts.
My temps were next, but thanks to a handy hotkey I got off a pair of excellent storms, severely weakening a clump of gaurdians. My goon's focued-firing brought down five weakened gaurdians in rapid succession before the goons were liquified. However, this still left five gaurdians and a trio of mutalisks to pound on my expansion. I ran the probes away and secretly started a Nexus at the nine o'clock main in case I should lose my mineral only expansion. My opponent, eager to take out the expansion, got greedy and morphed his remaining mutas into gaurdians. They completed just as my first pair of scouts arrived on the scene to wreak havoc. My opponent lost all his gaurdians, and my probes returned to mining. The Nexus was at 250 hit points. Zealot and dragoon reinforcements began trickling in, but not before a large wave of zerglings hit my Nexus in a kamikaze-like wave, reducing it to rubble before being killed. No matter, for my expansion at the nine o'clock main had just finished warping in a Nexus and I transferred my probes over there. 
Though you wouldn't think it my confidence level jumped a huge amount with this turn of events. I had just weathered the storm of my opponent's chosen tech tree(s). In addition, I was currently outresourcing him, with my natural, the nine o'clock main and my mined out main to his presumably mined out main and natural. I had just started research on the +1 air weapon and +3 ground weapon, and had five gates and two starports ready to pump scouts, zealots, dragoons, temps, archons. I possessed the counters to zerglings, mutas, and gaurds. I presumed that my opponent would now transition to hydras, so I sought to strike before he built up a significant force. I assembled a large number of the aforementioned troops outside his natural and patrolled in. He attempted to block out his ramp from my zealots with peons and have his hydras snipe from behind, but a series of brutal storms dissuaded him of that idea and my three control groups of random ground troops and scouts moved in to roll over his small force of nine hydralisks. I then took out his natural and a fledgling expansion he wasn't even mining at three. With a graceful gg my opponent resigned. 
Well, my randomizer(is that a word?) was apparently lazy as I once again drew Protoss, this time at three. I started my orange probes to mining and considered my options. I stupidly revealed in post-game chat after the first game that I had an extremely difficult time against five hatch hydras as Protoss on temple. I hoped my opponent hadn't drawn Zerg again, but whether or not he had I wanted to strike an early decisive blow this game. I figured I could afford to play daringly since I was one game up and readied the only real early strike strat I have in my limited repetoir(other than an early pool); a reaver drop. I go with a hybrid two gate reaver build. This slows down my tech to reavers but allows me to get enough zealots on a one-ramp map like temple to defend a decent sized early game attack. 
I get a few zealots and am happily climbing the robotic tech tree when my scouting probe runs a marine gauntlet into my opponent's base at 6. It discovers a pair of barracks with a factory and machone shop whirring. My opponent retaliates for my scouting with a pack of eight marines. However, the zealots on my ramp easily quell the marines.
My robotics support bay is just finishing, and I have a chance to catch my opponent with a reaver both unaware and siegeless. Unfortunately, in my excitement I laxly allow an enemy marine to slip up my ramp and spot my robo bay and support bay. My opponent probably knows whats coming. Trying to be sneaky, I fly my shuttle directly into his base rather than using my usual around the back flight plan. I unload my reaver, my opponent's defenses are totally out of position, and I get off two scarabs in the confusion. A large chunk of my opponents scvs were cleared out and the rest ran away before a newly sieged tank drove my damaged reaver away. Meanwhile back at home I had built a citadel of adun and observatory, and started researching both observer speed and zealot speed.
Sensing victory in my grasp I got a little over-confident and expanded naked to the top left island. I neglected to build extra gates, however, and instead made observers. My opponent had several turrets around the perimiter of his base, but didn't have any in the centre! I love the laxness a lack of dark templar can induce in vanilla Starcraft Terrans. A little shuttle distraction later and I had a pair of observers sitting in his base, watching his every move. 
Unfortunately I missed the fair sized tank push moving out, and moments later a compliment of tanks and infantry were knocking at my door. I was able to stall his ascent up my ramp with hastily built cannons on the cliff, however, and soon zealot speed had finished researching and my troops moved in to dispell the invaders. They didn't fair too well, however, and were about to be destroyed when I quickly popped a reaver down right next to his two remaining tanks. A scarab or two later and the push had been dispelled, leaving me with a reaver, a shuttle, two dragoons, and three zealots. 
Seeking to return the favor I sent my troops to his natural to play a little contain, and rallied my gates there. I took my own natural and started upgrading and making troops as money allowed to prepare for a major assault. Patrolling zealots hadn't revealed enemy expansions, so I felt somewhat safe in my resource advantage. Unfortunately, before I had managed to accumulate more than a control group and a half of random ground troops, a contingent of marines, tanks, and wraiths landed in the northern half of my main. They quickly stimmed down my Nexus; the joke was on my opponent, however, as my main is mined out and my top left island and natural are fully operational. I attempted to remove the incursion with a reaver, but sieged tanks dispelled that idea. Instead, I simply dismissed the attack as unable to eliminate me and charged headlong with my troops into my opponent's main. With a large portion of his forces in my base, my opponent was unable to defend my attack and his base was razed by my motley force of ground troops. 
My opponent wasn't aware of my island expansion in the top left, and thinking that I had been reduced to no resources by his attack on my main(which had destroyed quite a few buildings by now), he tried to evacuate all his aerial buildings to the top left island. He also loaded up eight scvs in a dropship and ran them away. When patrolling goons brought down every building but his CC and an engineering bay, and his dropship of scvs was quashed by my island probes, however, my opponent realised it was hopeless and conceded. Congrats to Cheezltz on a pair of games well played.