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Battle report from Olympus

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THE FINAL IN ONGAMENET OLYMPUS STARLEAGUE has today, 12.00 CET been played. It was a best out of five match and we have the full battle report for you. I won't tell you the winner yet but read the battle reports and you'll see. Notice, the following text is written by FrozenArbiter and includes some bad langugage:


Game 1
Nostalgia

  • After two regames cause of disconnects, a third try for the first game starts on Nostalgia. Xellos 7 and yellow 5. Yellow 9 pools including gas and rushes while xellos got 2 rax. Yellow rushes with 6 lings and expands, 2 hatch at his exp. Xellos blocked his ramp with 3 scvs and yellow backs off as soon as he sees them. Both players powering up, xellos gets 3 rax marines medic bat with upgrade while yellow goes 3 hatch lurk / ling. Yellow catches up the bigger part of xellos army which leads to a butchering. ;o Xellos expands and attacks some, yellow has got 3 expansions. Yellow is using lurker / lings very good and xellos has to retreat. Xellos gets tanks and starting to push his way out, xellos drops against yellows main and avoids a scourge.. One scourge catches up though, the dropship starts to get home and the marines is killing yellows spire just a sec before they get killed. Yellow expands 12, yellow attacks with lurker hydra scourge at xellos entrance (bridges), both players losing a lot of units but xellos still got a small army left. Xellos sends a dropship against 5 HYDRAS WHO JUST GOT RALLY POINT AND MISSES THE DROP SHIP! Xellos gets away with the ship and goes to exp @ 12 where yellows hydralisks kills it. Xellos attacks the middle but loses all his tanks with tanks but now losing them all, and cannot proceed with the attack since yellow got about 10 lurkers. Xellos expands to nine while he has while he has evaded yellows army and are now attacking against @1. Yellow is attacking xellos natural exapnsion which isn't leading anywhere and he has to retreat to defend his exp @1, which is now killed, so he puts his army in the middle of the map. Xellos attacking against @3 but has to fall back, since yellow just killed his exp @9. yellow expands 11, 9, & 6. Xellos attacks with a HUGE army with about 25++++ marine with some vessels and tanks. Yellow is attacking WITH A BIG HUGE ARMY ULTRA AND LINGS WHERE THE FUCK DID HE GET THEM FROM!? Xellos kills 9 o clock exp as well as 12 but yellow have expansions at 11, 1 and 6 and soon a new one at 12, xellos tries to killl 11 but is intercepted by some lurkers. Yellow has got a good mapcontrol and it looks dark for xellos, cuz yellow has got a HGUE ult hyd army and xellos only marines (50, no medics). yellows huge army attacks and kills @9 without any
    resistance.Yellow attacks with all his units against xellos natural where he have about 50515 marine medics but dark swarm make it a bloody, one sided affair :O



Game 2
Neo Bifrost (Map stats: 26-23 tvz)

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  • Yellow@top right and xellos@bottom left yellow 9 pools with gas while xellos 2 rax, block his choke with supply as well as second choke, yellow goes hyd den and lair while xellos is getting gas and academy. Yellows lair just finished morhping and he is getting lurker upgrade I think. Xellos is moving out with 10 marines 2 medics but decides to wait for bats and moves back and then continues his trip to yellows main, yellow has put 3 lurkers (on hold I guess) at his second choke (the wide one) but xellos, probably expecting that decides to try and go around the back where he is intercepted by lings and seeing his surprise spoiled he returns to go the main way- and as luck have it yellow has just unburrowed those lurkers but fortunately for yellow he manages to burrow them in time. Yellow have expanded to his gas natural and xellos goes around the wide choke killing a lurker using some nice micro, then proceeds to cause headache for yellow killing a couple of lurkers and bringin yellows hatchery down to yellow health(no pun intended). yellow has made another hatchery as well as a spire. Xellos has gotten a starport (and a science fascility). As xellos moves out with his army yellow attacks xellos main but retreats, xellos army runs past the one lurker at yellows choke and kills his hatchery and then kills 3 or so lurkers with nice micro. xellos is at one exp while yellow is onlyrebuilding his gas exp as well as getting queens nest while xellos builds a third barrack and has a quite nasty looking marine medic firebat vessel army. Xellos moves out and chase yellows lurker ling army away.. Yellow sacrifces a couple of lurkers in the middle but then in a real sexy move kills both of xellos science vessels and now looks prepared to fuck xells army over! The battle is a standstill as xellos retreats with both players mostly dead, yellow is getting defiler den at his gas exp while xellos is expanding to his gas and have a new vessel and some marine medics out:O Yellow engages xellos forces on the bridges but manages to burrow his units BETWEEN the dark swarms -- how the fuck do you that. Yellow dark swarms and plauges xellos army! AND HAS PUT A LRUKER IN THE WAY OF XELLOS RETREAT OMG SEXY AND IS AT THE SAME TIME ATTACKING XELLOS WITH HIS ARMY OMG THIS IS FUCKING ART !!!!!! Yellow attacks xellos wide choke and casts 4 dark swarms and fills them with lurkers! a new defiler is ready and yellow is forcing xellos to lift of his cc as well as killing one of the vessels. Yellow is now dark swarming xellos main as xellos is sending his
    marine army to kill of yellows expansion WITH NO DEFENCE ON IT. With yellows only expansion dead and his main soon to follow he ends in his last lurker/ling army which dies, yellow with no units still for some reason unknown to me refuse to say gg , oh my bad apparently he have 2 defilers and some lings left + 1 lurker ;o Yellow re expands to his gas natural but he hardly have any drones and xellos marine force is still alive. Xellos moves out with a quite huge marine medic vessel army and yellow says gg.


Game 3
Guillotine (Map stats: 4-8 TvZ)

  • Yellow at 5 xellos at 7
    Yellow 9 pool xellos rax @ choke+ sup and a second rax in main. Yellow hatch@ choke with 2 sunks and then a hatch at his exp. Xellos is doing factory before academy but with an academy right after going for a fast dropship. Yellow is getting lair and have 3 sunks at his choke as xellos is going fast drop with a marine attack as well, yellow morhps 4 sunks at his choke and place his speedlings at his newly built exp as well as a sunk, yellow goes spire in main as well as adding a sunk, xellos tries to abuse the high ground by unloading 8 marines on high ground to give the rest of his marines cover , yellow ads another sunk but xellos manages to kill it as well as the defending lings and he almost kills of the sunk before lings arrive, xellos is at 2 dropships and seds one of them into yellows main but it gets killed by scourge before it gets a chance to unload, the second dropship was apparently empty as it returned to xellos main instead of unloading anything when yellows lings was away from the exp. Yellow goes dropship hunting with a couple of scourges but xellos had placed his dropship in a safe location amongst 2 turrets. Yellow ads a hydra den in his main as xellos sends out a scv to @1 , probably scouting. Xellos has built up a rather huge marine medic firebat army and loads 2 dropshps full BUT 2 defending scourges kills one of them, unfortunately xellos managed to defense matrix the second one and use it to load another bunch of marines which raise hell in yellows expansion , killing most of his dones, a scourge kills of xellos vessel as xellos loads the rest of his marines in his dropship and goes into yellows main but yellow defends without too much trouble. at the same time as xellos sends another dropship to yellow exp but this time there is 4 lurkers coming just in time, xellos promptly reloads them into his dropship and goes into yellows main where he unloads/attacks rinse and repeat until finally caught by a scourge not doing too much damage, xellos has expanded to his natural and is pushing while yellow is dropping xellos expansion with lurker ling . yellow kills all of xellos scvs but lose his choke, he manages to stay quite efficently with lurkers and kills a couple of vessels , xellos is down to 2 tanks 7 or so marines and 2 medics while yellow is expanding as well as killing xellos expansion, yellow KILLS XELLS LAST VESSEL AND NOW HAVE A LURKER DEFENDING HIS EXPANSION! Xellos command center is burning down as XELLOS PLACE A MARINE ON YELLOWS LURKER AND ATTACK IT WITH HIS TANKS! yellows expansion IS going down but he still have one exp as well as one lurker and some lings, yellow has salvaged his drones and locked xellos inside yellows old main, xellos have 2 scvs left and manages to repair it. yellows lings appear and kills the last scv's. yellows 2 lurkers have xellos effectively contained and a couple of his lings and raising the remains of xellos main at the same time as yellow have built up his expansion to the point where it has gas and a hydra den, xellos decides to charge through the lurkers losing 1 of his 2 tanks as well as half his marines, yellow have 2 expansions and 2 lurkers defending the choke of his main one and xellos walks straight into them, manages to save half of his force and is and is now floating his cc looking for a place to land it, xellos attacks yellows second expansion which is killed but yellow drops 2 lurkers at the expansion and kills his tank as well as 1 of his marines xellos have 3 marines 3 medics vs yellows mass lurker (5-6 ;P). Xellos is still floating all of his buildings around and yellow's lings are searching for the missing cc as yellow surrounds xellos force with lurker ling and xellos gives the gg!


Game 4
Gaema Gowon (Map stats: 27-22 TvZ)
  • Yellow@8 vs xellos@11
    Gaema Gowon is known to favour terran in tvz, I'm not 100% sure why as I dont play TvZ/ZvT but it has something to do with the fact that a vessel tank marine push is really hard to stop or something ;). Since Xellos play, is really 'perfect', he might be at an advantage. Yellow goes for fast expand and Xellos builds an engineering bay there (for some odd reason he prefers to waste some minerals building a 125 min building instead of a 100, but yellow builds his hatch right next to it and makes xellos cancel,
    and then rebuilds, Xellos takes 6 scvs off minerals and bunker rushes, which causes yellow to cancel the hatchery, build a sunken in main and build a second hatch in main as well as gas rush Xellos. Yellow tries to attack with some lings but a scv on the choke makes him flee after losing 2 lings. Yellow morphs lair and expands to his natural again. Xellos is attacking with 8
    marines 2 bats 2 medics and causes yellow to cancel his natural hatchery, again, waiting for lurkers, which he builds in a sneaky place preparing to attack Xellos main! Yellow expands to 5 si main and place a couple of lurkers in a sneaky place preventing Xellos main force of marines from moving back
    to his natural, Xellos expects something like that and just wait with his marines. Xellos decides, for some reason to try to move in anyways, and lose some marines, at the same time Xellos finds 5 si main and scouts ahead with a scv for lurkers BUT yellow have hold on his lurkers causing Xellos to lose all his marines , Xellos has teched up to vessel and tank and looks set to move out whilst Yellow have teched to spire. Yellow has expanded to his natural and builds up a sizeable army of hydra lurker ling and scourges. Xellos begins to siege out and Yellow retreats his lurkers, but he manages to get 2 scourges to bear on Xellos one vessel which leaves Xellos in a peculiar positon. Xellos has his cc ready as Yellow attacks but nice marine retreating makes yellow retreat after losing his lings.
    Yellow's hive just finished morphing and he would appear to be in a real good position, morphing in a defilers mound at 5 si main.
    Xellos has finally gotten a new vessel and is moving out with 5 tanks, around 20 marine medic firebat. Yellow retreats and attacks Xellos expansion with 10 lings 3 lurkers. In the mean time Xellos sieges up at Yellows natural where Yellow just stalls with lurks, Xellos takes care of the lurkers at his main as Yellow lose a defiler at his natural. Xellos begins sieging Yellows main whilst Yellow waits for defilers, and in the mean time Yellow use dark swarm and a lurker to attack Xellos expansion, he casts a dark swarm in his main to but it is badly placed and causes him to lose his main. Yellow have expanded to 5 si natural and in nice move he scourges Xellos vessel and casts a dark swarm killing a couple of tanks. Xellos having no vessel just siege up and waits for the swarm to clear. Yellow is getting ultralisks and is re expanding to his mains natural. Xellos moves out with 20~ marines with medics as well as 3 vessels and 3 tanks. yellow casts 2 swarms but his lurker is still morhping and he quits with a GG.



Game 5
Nostalgia

Yellow@1 vs xellos@11
  • Xellos does 2 rax in main, Yellow does some diagonal scouting and find Xellos on the second try, yellow exp-> pool and tries to a gas rush:)
    Then a second hatch at his natural.
    Xellos engage Yellow forces (LINGS) below his choke and wins, Xellos has acad up and is getting 3rd rax as well as upgrading , Yellow have power speedling and 2 sunks at the bridges, whilst morphing a lair in his main. Xellos moves out with 8 marines 2 firebats 2 medics, but stops at his natural, waiting for another medic and a couple of marines. Yellow is at 5 sunks in his natural whilst Xellos moves 1 firebat, 1 medic to Yellows cliff, preventing any ling flanking. Yellow has built a hydra den at his main and researches lurkers, and decides to engage the firebat with 8 lings WHICH ALL DIE-- Xellos expands to his natural and starts a bunker as well. Yellow gets an evo chamber. Yellow moves out with ling lurker but is halted by Xellos killing one lurker before escaping,
    Yellow has cleared the firebat and catch Xellos troops with his lurker ling and expands, Xellos have a new army up and running
    in the middle and he and Yellow runs around trying to get into an advantageous position. Yellows expansion at 3 is finished as Xellos is at 4 rax and a star port. Yellow tries attack Xellos expansion with lurker ling but retreats, Xellos attacks yellows expansion at 3 but it is defended by 2 lurkers and Xellos ends up losing his army to lurker ling. Xellos has built up a decent sized army at his natural, whilst yellow pops up expansions at 5 6 and 7. Xellos army of 3 tanks and around 20 marine medic siege up at his natural. At the same time Xellos does a really late drop in Yellow's main which Yellow handles easily without too much trouble (he hardly even lose any drones surprisingly). Xellos finally has a vessel up and is preparing to move out as Yellow for some reason, I have no idea why, decides to attack with some lurkers hydra, managing to kill a 3 of xellos tanks. Xellos army
    3 tanks and 20+ marines and 3 medics and 2 vessels attacks Yellows poorly defended expansion at 3 whilst Yellow is morhping in some lurkers in the middle. Yellw counter attacks and traps xellos force killing both tanks, Xellos dropship kills 6 si expansion as his main army dies to hydra lurk, killing a suprising amount of units, Xellos dropship attacks 5 si expansion but Yellows lings as well as a lurker and a sunken scare him off. Yellow have 5 si 7 si and his natural- Xellos only have his natural, and now drops on Yellows main but is met by lings forcing him to retreat. Xellos have a new army ready
    to go and attack Yellows natural but lose all his tanks to Yellows quite huge lurker ling hyd army and retreats his marines, seeing yellow army of 10~ lurkers, Yellow keeps on killing tanks and slows down Xellos who has expanded to 9 whilst Yellow has re expanded to 6 and 3 I think. Xellos expansion at 9 is killed leaving Xellos with an almost dry natural expansion and low gas. Xellos army (a bit more than 20 marines 2 medics and 3 tanks attacks 5 si main and yellow doesn't look like he have all that much to stop him. Yellow is expanding to 12 si, getting defiler mound and re expanding to 5 si and 7 si as Xellos makes a move for 6
    which Yellow wisely evacuates (the drones that is). Yellow also has an expansion morphing at 3 I think whilst xellos drops 12 and kills it-_-;; Yellow has a couple of defilers while Xellos once again attacks 5 si. Xellos has once again expanded to 9 si and
    his scvs moving to the newly built expansion is met by Yellows lurkers and then also a dark swarm with lurkers in it attacking
    Xellos natural. 3 si expansion of yellow dies. XELLOS DROPS 5 SI KILLING IT. Yellow expands to 12 si. Xellos army is forced to retrat by darkswarm + lings. But a huge amount of firebats finish yellows army off. Yellows expansion at 12 is killed. Yellows last defilers are irradiated and Yellows last lings died attacking the marines (and firebats, even though the marines were inside the dark swarm. Xellos drops Yellows main, lings force him to retreat, Xellos finds his expansion at 3, drops Yellows drones at his natural and yellow gives .... up T__________________T NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
GG

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