Sunday 5 June 2011

MC vs Idra: MLG Columbus Semifinal

MC managed to fight his way through the losers bracket to emerge to take on Idra in the Semifinals. With massive amounts of hype it was sure to be an epic, bad mannered series. Due to the extended series rule, MC would have to win 4 times with Idra only having to win twice.


First game took place on Shakuras Plateau, and saw MC go for a forge expansion, Idra faked his expansion and threw down a Roach Warren, making 7 roaches and going for a standard Roach-Zergling all in. MC planned on going Stargate which perfectly countered this all in, after it failed Idra didn't even attempt to salvage his economy and gg'd.

Second game saw Idra go hatch first on Tal Dar'im Alter, to which MC responded to with Cannon Rushing him in, and as soon as the first Cannon popped Idra gg'd out, evening up the extended series advantage.

Third game, Typhoon peaks, again against a forge expand Protoss, Idra went for another all-in, except this one took place of two base, MC's sim city wasn't quiet tight enough to stop Zerglings but Idra did not notice and attempted to break it in from the front, again MC had a Stargate up, causing the all-in to eventually fail and again Idra gg's out early

Fourth game started out with some BM in the chat, MC asking Idra "Are you angry?" to which Idra replied "Why would I be, Zerg isn't supposed to win" to which MC responded with "okay gg". This game on ICCUP Testbug saw a macro game with 5 base zerg vs 3 base Protoss, Colossus-Blink Stalker vs Corrupter-Hydra-Roach. Idra successively won multiple engagements, but after lots of DT harass, gg'd again, a bit early, in my opinion.


MC will play the loser of MMA vs Losira, and then the winner of that match will play the winner of MMA and Losira. So now we have a guaranteed Korean First, Second and Third, stay tuned to MLG to see how it all ends up!

34 comments:

  1. WHOOP WHOOP IDRA! His tactics are like old but have a nice twist to them. I like it.

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  2. can't wait for more updates. love me some sc

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  3. I love your playbyplay breakdown dude.

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  4. Wow bad day for Idra.
    Atleast Idra went gracefully.

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  5. uh oh this looks like it could be crazy xD

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  6. Haha why did it take me so long to find this blog? SC2 is awesome and sadly Idra just BMs a tad bit too much and MC is a bit cocky now even though he wins with what is considered cheese. MC put it in a good way though: Money is on the line and he wants to win it no matter what.

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  7. the commentators where horrible.

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  8. SHIT JUST GOT REAL!!! Look forward to my daily update of MLG SC, top post.

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  9. crazy stuff!!! Good story, friend! Please VIEW my newest blogs :)

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  10. Nice, looking forward to new updates! :)

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  11. Wow, detailed breakdown. Nice job.

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  12. Nice post, love this! Following.

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  13. i hope for more good games

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  14. Idrai is such a crazy player - I can't believe how quickly he gg's.

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  15. Nice, following this. It is relevant to me :)

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  16. seems like a crazy match. I barely survived the campaign so I don't really know much about the game :P.

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  17. Wow, nice line-up. E-sport is the best sport. :)

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  18. Idra needs to start taking notes from other players, his game is getting too predictable in my eyes. Still one of the greats though.

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  19. gogo IDRA. Show them what a zergling rush is really like.

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  20. Oh man I watched his game yesterday where he quit. I felt bad for him :(

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  21. wow awesome blog!! im following this.

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  22. You're my favourite supenerd. <3

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  23. Good breakdown, I'll be keeping my eye on this blog

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  24. Love idra and great chart you made there :)

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  25. post videos of you playing

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  26. Idra is beast, shame he didn't win. Still personally prefer Terrans in SC2 and Zerg in SC.

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  27. Star craft seriously takes a lot of motivation to play. And these guys make it all pay off. Good for them.

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