- Format -

I was lucky enough to watch the semi-finals in a SCN/SCL Brood War 1v1 tournament. The we're quite good to watch and since I was asked to do a Battle Report of them this is it.

- Center Stage -

To center stage the two frisky contestants met, accompanied on with their legions of fans and beautiful ladies each stood their ground and sat down drawing the unseen mutual line between one another.

The format for the nights groosome and bloody tournament would be a best of three to descide the soon to be all out chapion of the universe! Then with that title they must battle 12 foot aliens on a distant planet...

- Battle Ground -

The place of battle for the first game would be a well known arena only remembered as Winter Conquest.

Newby4life`SA = Zerg North East.
[N].Scorpion = Terran South West.
FireFly = All around you, god like.

- Chapter 1, Chobo to the MAX! -

The game started like any other game, WAIT! No it didn't, infact it took 5 trys before the game actually went smoothly. First off we played on the tournament assigned maps, designed maps by someone *cough* idiot *cough* so that observers can see everything, but the only problem with the map was that it automatically had share vision on for the players so they got to see everything. The second try with this map we finally relised this and went off to play the normal ladder verson.

More problems? The 3rd try for the first game of a somewhat no-show messed tournament was just as bad, Newby4life`SA shared vision with scorpion insted of me. After cussing himself for 5 minutes we re-hosted, this time after a few minutes I went to ally both of them, (NOT SHARE VISION!) but ally... I look at the alliance screen in my half asleep daze and click the two boxes on the right which I thought to be ally. But insted we quit the game after I shared vision them and went for attempt #5.

And so like the beginning of any other tournament games we had our unique story we can some day tell our bizzar kids while watching them steal our cars and thow burning pot buds onto our carpet.

Now the game started pretty smoothly, apart from Newby4ever`SA turned up his gayness spice girl music which made him feel sick sometime later. Newby did a 9th lord, spawning pool to expantion start while Scorpion did a standard supply depot with barricks his choke build and I done my regular float CC to a corner instant win due to ally victory but it's use map settings so who cares strat.

After consulting my SCV's I descided to check out how the players we're going. Not that much had happened as of yet, Scorpion had made a second barricks, another two supply depots and a refinary, while Newby had up an extracter, a couple sunken colonies at his expantion and one at his main. I was amazed how much these two players scouted, I know I scout all the time and quite well but it seemed like they we're sending half their armies on scouting missions. Or maybe not.

The game was a little bizzar to what i'm used to, while Newby teched to lurkers which by scouting Scorpion could have guessed, Scorpion went for a second base and a couple of engineering bays. He didn't even glimpse at getting tanks but rather just power M&M.

On Scorpions expantion and main he got comsat, so he wasn't going to die to lurkers very easily. Then Scorpion sent the first wave. He gathered his men just outside Newby's base and sent them in rolling!

Marines and medics poured into the zerg brood's defences and wrecked havoc. Though the casualties we're high they just kept pressing forward til every man dropped and the zerg armies vanquished. Or until lurkers chased them out while swinging to the tune of "Livin' la vida loca" OH MY GOD!!!

However even though Newby got out his fuzzy lurkers, the damage was already done. Though none of his actual Hatcherys we're destroyed only his Hive all his peons we're. With a imballance of ecodomy he was certainly doomed, though took out as many marines for cheap points as possible so he didn't look chobo ^^.

He even took out the girls :(. But with 50 reinforcements of M&M's Newby's little base was to die real soon, and that would be the end of game one.

The scores we're close, Scorpion trippled newby's score quite easily.

- Chapter 2, Terran ownz Zerg kk? -

This was quite a sort game so I won't bother stressing it much, Incase you didn't know, newby got to chose the first map and then Scorpion had second choice. Scorpion chose Lost Temple, and we had more problems :(. Since we just gave up on the tournament selected maps, we went onto a PGL verson of Lost Temple, little did we know that it wouldn't work. Second try around we chose a different verson of PGL Lost Temple and we we're set.

[N].Scorpion = Zerg 3:00 position.
Newby4life`SA = Terran 6:00 position.
FireFly = Referee (greater than elvis)

And a vice versa game, Scorpion scouted newby early, and newby scouted Scorpion early. Newby did a basic scv harrasment trick which seemed like it destracted him more than Scorpion.

Scorpion went a standard 9th overlord then hatch and spawning pool at about the same time at his main, not expantion. Meanwhile Newby built supplydepots and three barricks at his choke point. This was where the game actually started and at the same time ended, Scorpion scouted Newby once and saw 3 marines and no bunkers, he then sent his army that-a-way and when reached destination rallyed his men and sent 1 in as a scout.

With speed he sent his guys in, straight past the marines and when reaching a point attacked the marines.

Unfortunately for Newby that was the end of the game, though he did try and float his command center away only to be met with hydras, and then built a engineering bay to float away to be met with hydras, I think i've ran out of my hallerious? Jokes to make the images interesting :(. Well maybe just one...

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