Most Terran vs. Terran games tend to be monotonous and without much diversion from the norm. Both macro with small battles until expansions, and every so often someone wraiths.
v can be exciting however, but with a few requirements:Requirement 1:
Two progamer Terrans with exceptional skills and experience, going head to head in a korean proleague match.
check.
Requirement 2:
The game starts out with the most ridiculous of BO's, followed by the most creative strategies possible.
check.
Requirement 3:
A LOT OF MECHANICAL SHIT BLOWING UP.
double check.
So allow me to introduce:
Sea.s2 [aka NaDa] vs. `SlayerS`BoxeR:
vs. 
Round 1: Fight!
The map was Luna and NaDa landed at 1 while BoxeR planted his feet on the soil at 11. Both players started off with unorthodox builds, as BoxeR decided to go for a 1fac into 2port wraith, while then scouting NaDa's 1fac into 1port wraith with cloak. BoxeR instead of trying to make up for lost time and get cloak as well continued to pump wraiths until he had a full control group and then took out every barrax or engineering bay NaDa tried to scout him with:
Round 2: Turtle!
After both players had opened with wraith, neither could really attack the other head on because of the threat of wraiths to destroy any ground army. Therefore, being the Terrans that they are, they both turtled and expanded to their respective naturals. Boxer then daringly advanced his land army across the map to NaDa's choke outside his natural and set up a nice contain to allow BoxeR to macro his heart out:
NaDa followed through with the typical Terran turtle tradition and waited until he had achieved an advantage on BoxeR in the way of a +1 Vehicle attack upgrade. He moved out from his natural to break BoxeR's contain, and although he did manage to kill the majority of the forces there, that was a small price for BoxeR to pay in exchange for all the valuable time he had gained macroing while untouched by the hand of NaDa:
NaDa breaking the contain:
BoxeR, not to be outdone by NaDa's aggressive break on the contain at NaDa's natural, decided to just contain him a little farther down at NaDa's mineral only expansion:
By the time NaDa finally broke out of the second contain put on him by BoxeR at his mineral only, he was in desperate need of some kind of advantage, so he tried to destroy BoxeR's fully running main expo at the 7 base. He came close as close can get, taking BoxeR's CC down to ~200 health before his mass goliath drop was stopped by freshly imported tanks, straight from taking down NaDa's mineral only:
Round 3: More Turtle!
While I expected one of them to make a grab for the win, neither apparently wanted to be daring at all, and both were content to sit back and macro while microing one step at a time across the map with siege tanks:
(Boxer's army at 34:23)
(4 minutes later at ~38 minutes)
That crazy BoxeR! He moved 5 feet outside his choke! Risky indeed.
It was quite apparent NaDa was not interested in being a macro fighter as he stuck with his trusty 6fac throughout the entire game:
So What indeed was that tricky NaDa doing? Well, he was going to try to pull a fast one on the man who invented fast ones; BAD IDEA!
Round 4: Personnel Cloaking Activated, Sir.
NaDa slowly teched to nukes and was probably tasting victory as he saw visions of hundreds of sieged tanks dying as they were hit by stealthy nukes planted by even more ninja-like ghosts. However, BoxeR practically invented nukes, and shows not once, but 3+ times why you shouldn't try to nuke him:
NaDa must have been just sick of being shown up so badly, because he didn't even bother macroing for the latter part of the game, and just feebly tried to nuke BoxeR despite only getting off two nukes. One killed two sieged tanks, and the other took down a whole two missile turrets, yes folks you heard it, TWO MISSILE TURRETS! -korean fangirl screams-.
BoxeR decided to 1up NaDa's little ghost microing by starting some of his own:
He then showed NaDa how to micro ghosts and locked down almost every tank NaDa had, while simultaneously surrounding his army on all sides:
From there the game was a "gg" and NaDa tried to use his 6facs to pump millions of vultures in defense of his mined out main and natural....
The game ended with NaDa typing out well over the 54th minute and BoxeR emerging the victor.
So kids, what did we learn?
Please, never try to be sneaky against BoxeR and "suprise" him when playing a race that he has played for 12+ hours a day for 8 years. It's just not going to happen. I'll throw NaDa a "nice try" for his effort, but BoxeR was clearly the better player here.
To close, I'd like to submit one more screenshot that should silence all
v critics once and for all, as anyone who says they don't think this picture is exciting is just a dirty, dirty liar:
Links
GG.net Replays - Community Replay Archive
BoxeR vs. NaDa - Rated Replay DL Now!
