cancel. The battle report describes the finals in the third StarGate Tournament, where 
Dealer stood up against 
ENJoY[SiN]. It was played best of three, and all games on Martian Cross. We would like to thank cancel very much for doing this battle report.The third tournament hosted by the GosuGamers crew on StarGate was played yesterday. A 64 man draw was created at approximately 21:00 CET. The games began smoothly, and no problems came along such as the router issue in the second tournament where neither player could create the game.
As can be expected from a 64 man tournament, some sections of the draw filled up faster than others. Winter, coming out of the top right portion of the brackets, had to wait quite a while for his semi final opponent to come. It turned out to be ENJoY[SiN], who bested Winter in their best of 3 semi final series.
ENJoY[SiN] already had an opponent ready in the finals. It was relead, also known as Sweden's own Dealer. He had come out of the bracket defeating strong players like 
anon and the WGTour star 
Fk.TimothY. ENJoY[SiN] had blasted through the right bracket with victories over 
CriX, 
Taurent and 
ash.doLife. ENJoY has had success with WCG, making it to the 2003 final tournament in Korea. Dealer is known to the European brood war community as an "old school legend". Both players were ready to roll, and thus the finals began.Game #1:  Dealer (02:00) versus  ENJoY[SiN] (10:00) |
Map:  Martian Cross (Chow Chow) |
| Replay: » Download here |
Relead, who I will refer to as dealer, warped in as protoss. Landing the terran command center was enjoy. Dealer began with a fairly standard pvt build, making one dragoon to start. He then added a robotics facility, a second dragoon, and then the dragoon range upgrade. On the adjacent side of the map, enjoy also did a safe tvp build, making 2 factories and a probe-warding marine. Dealer added a second gateway, and an observatory. He also took a fairly early expansion, to the 02:00 natural. Enjoy abandoned a potential push or rush, and instead chose to secure his natural expansion slot.
Seeing this safe move with his observer, dealer began to claim the 03:00 expansion, and added a third gate/citadel of adun. Enjoy's pesky vultures slowed the development of dealer's 03:00 territory, and enjoy started to add more factories as well as an academy. Enjoy began to establish a very small tank push out of his natural, and dealer identified the danger and continued to make gates/ground units. Dealer made a gateway to secure the 04:00 base, determined to out mass the terran. In a smart move, enjoy made a fast armory for weapons upgrade, and took the 09:00 expansion in the name of the terran dominion. Enjoy's push had covered the middle, and he began to move inward. With obs seeing the very strong push, dealer began to make stargates at his main.
Dealer bought time by devouring the portion of enjoy's push that was moving deeper into his territory, but was unable to engage further in the narrow corridors, and pulled back. Enjoy secured 07:00, and brought a good bit of his forces to the bottom area. Now conscious of dealer's carriers, enjoy began to make wraiths, and constructed two armories to upgrade them. Feeling confident at 195 psi, dealer began to attack enjoy's 07:00 area, but was swiftly drawn back by the narrow opening filled with tanks and vultures.
Enjoy's advantage started to show at this point. With a strong tank/goliath force, he began to attack dealer's brand new 07:00 natural expansion, and dealer responded by sending his carriers. Dealer made sure he had no less than 6 stargates to make a dominating air force. Experienced with anti-carrier techniques, enjoy scanned and killed dealers observers, and killed vunerable carriers. Dealer filled up the queue with observers at his robotics facility, and got the speed upgrade for them. Unfortunately for dealer, the detection problem continued to be his achilles' heel. His eye-for-an-eye mentality failed when cloaked wraiths took out the carriers attacking enjoy's 07:00 expansion, and enjoy's ground force took out his only new expansion. Dealer conceded the match.
| Game #2: Dealer (10:00) vs ENJoY[SiN] (07:00) |
| Map: Martian Cross (Chow Chow) |
| Replay: » Download here |
Dealer sought revenge in game two, and enjoy hoped to close him out fast. Dealer's better scout recon in game two was a great help. He saw three marines being built before the first factory, an obvious sign of a rush. Dealer made a second gate extremely fast, and then added a dragoon/dragoon range. He began to attack enjoy's wall with three dragoons. Enjoy had four marines and a tank, and tried to fight back. Dealer's fast range was a big aid to him, and he broke down the supply depot and barracks wall completely. After having his marines and a tank die, enjoy was able to hold off the dragoons with sieged tanks. Dealer had taken his expansion, and took 04:00 when enjoy tried to construct his own expansion. Dealer had made a templar archives by this point, and tried to do a four dt drop. Enjoy had prepared for anything like this, with fast scan. The drop failed with only one tank dying.
Feeling confident, enjoy threw everything he had into an aggressive push. It worked, and he was able to make dealer run his probes away from his natural. Wisely, dealer had made three gateways at his 04:00 expansion, and began to make an army there. He intended to sneak into enjoy's base from the back entrance, because his 04:00 base was still unknown to enjoy. Dealer's brilliant plan worked, and his dts/dragoons began to murder vultures and scvs. Enjoy had to abandon his push to save his base, and this was a fatal move. Dealer violently broke out of his main and charged to enjoy's base. Enjoy made a desperation tank run into dealer's 04:00 base, but it was stopped by dragoons and dts. Enjoy said gg and prepared for game 3.
There was an issue brought up by enjoy about which map to play. He insisted it was loser's choice, but the people in the channel told him that it had to be chow chow if they couldn't agree on a map. After about 10 minutes of debating, enjoy agreed to play on chow chow again.
| Game #3: Dealer (04:00) versus ENJoY[SiN] (10:00) |
| Map: Martian Cross (Chow Chow) |
| Replay: » Download here |
Enjoy hoped to rebound after a disappointing loss in game 2. Dealer's probe was lucky enough to find a lifted off barracks, and he slipped into enjoy's base. He would do dragoon range after his first dragoon, and then a second gate. Enjoy did the same 2 factory build as always. Dealer put a pylon in front of the factory, and enjoy had to lift off to make room for a machine shop. Dealer began to attack the wall again, but the distance between bases hurt him. Siege mode came when only two dragoons were at the wall. Dealer ran home, and did a robotics facility/observatory, as well as a nexus in his natural spot.
Enjoy took his own expansion, and set out with tanks/vultures/marines/scvs towards dealer. Dealer decided to go for the early dagger, and made a shuttle with zealots to accompany his dragoons. They went back and forth, with dealer's shuttle hovering above the tanks. Enjoy had began to make an impressive push very fast, and dealer tried to help his economy by taking the 03:00 expansion. Dealer tried to take on enjoy's strong force at a narrow opening in the map. This was a bad idea, and the fiasco would cost dealer the game. Vultures targeted and shot down all the probes at 03:00, and tanks prevented probes from mining at dealer's natural. Enjoy was too ahead to lose now, and dealer gave up after losing his small force to enjoy's onslaught.
ENJoY[SiN] is the champion of the third official StarGate tournament. Congratulations to enjoy, and credit goes to dealer for putting up a great fight on a map foreign to him. This tournament was a big success. Thanks to everyone who participated, and we hope you can join us for the next upcoming official StarGate tournaments, with dates to be announced later. That is the end of the report. I hope I gave a bit of insight into the games and such.
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