Map: Dark Temple
~Electro28~: Brown Terran
~`DarkRider`~: Orange Protoss
Observers: bad_yellow28, Toilet-Duck-28, ~Status_28~

The game starts and ~Electro28~, henceforth known as Elec, starts off using the wiley terrans in the mid left position. ~`DarkRider`~, now known as Sid, starts off in the bottom mid position commanding the erotic protoss.

Each player goes for a standard build, Elec doing 8 depot 10 barracks 12 barracks, while Sid goes 7 pylon 9 gateway 11 gateway. Well, both builds are not very standard for a TvP, but these are no ordinary players.

Here their builds differentiate. Elec floats one of his barracks to his ramp and builds a supply depot there, commencing the dreaded wall-in, at which point we realized his strat - "Electro Heavy Metal". Why he did not just build the barracks at the ramp in the first place is a question that is unanswerable by us non-enlightened mortals. Elec also adds another bunker and supply depot, almost completeing his wall-in, and then finally starts to make a refinery.

Sid has not been idle during this and makes a forge and a pylon near his ramp, starting the strategy of walling off ones choke with cannons. He makes an assimilator after three cannons have been constructed at his ramp, and has five zealots there for defense. He adds another two cannons next to his nexus for extra measures, and then finally starts to warp in a cybernetics core.

After this Elec adds another bunker thus sealing off the last crack in his wall-in. Now he is free to continue the "Electro Heavy Metal" at his will, as he starts a factory as well as an academy, more than likely to have comsat in case of dark templars. But, as you can see, Elec must be so confident in his ability to handle the cloaked dealers of death, that he builds his unmoveable academy right in the path of his command center add-on. He then adds another factory and starts on the construction of tanks.

Sid however, feeling confident in the defensive power of his multiple cannons, starts building several stargates and begins warping in... scouts! Yes, with his four stargates, the scouts can start coming in by the bucketload, but just after his stargates are completed, he decides the time is ripe to attack. He sends the five zealots that he has had for the past five minutes on a march to Elec's base. I can only speculate as to why he did not attack earlier, but I must figure that he was so confident in his ability to micro five zealots against a wall-in, that he could give Elec that extra time to prepare a defense. The zealots plod along and lo and behold, they end up being rifled down by the bunkers lining the cliff. Sid loses one of his zealots before even reaching the ramp and decides to pull back. Apparently he under-estimated the skill of his opponent, treating him as a newbie instead of the master that Elec is.

After the attack, Sid has started warping in the scouts and added another two cannons to his main base and one more to his ramp. This brings his total to eight, four at his ramp and four scattered around his buildings. Sid has pulled his four zealots back to his base where they meet up with another zealot and dragoon, but they do not go into his base. Sid shows his ingueniety by keeping his force just to the right of the center, so that if Elec should attack, Sid could pull a deadly pincer move upon him. Meanwhile, Elec after realizing that he was not defended properly at his ramp, took his four tanks and sieged them at the ramp while adding a third bunker behind them. He also made a starport and sent an scv to make a naked expansion at the 12 o'clock position. A few minutes later, our fellow observer Status draw our attention to Elec's exp by commenting, "look at elecs exp at work" - you can obviously see how we reacted to this.

Sid then takes his now five scouts to harrass Elec's worker area, but are repelled by a lone turret. But, after realizing that one turret cannot stop the might of five scouts, he turns around and attacks it headlong. Elec, confident that his turret would not fall, does not repair it, but instead starts to construct another turret next to it. However, the turret does fall, but the scouts wind up retreating when Elec's twelve marines come to the rescue. Yes, Elec only had twelve marines, all of which were formerly housed by his three bunkers at his ramp.

Finally though, Sid's scouting probe finds Elec's expansion, which was nothing more than a command center and seven scvs. Immediately as the probe arrives however, Elec liftoffs the command center and runs away his scvs. Sid also sends his force of five zealots and one dragoon to deal with the expansion but when they arrive, they find nothing but dust, so they return to their post. Knowing he flew away, Sid uses his scout fleet to destroy the command center, which had floated to the nearby island.

Now Elec loads up a dropship and sends it off, apparently to the cliff above the 3 o'clock natural. Looks like he is pulling a turbo newbie, but Elec being the master he is, flew the dropship right over Sid's lone dragoon where it was almost shot down. Once the dropship was out of range of the dragoon, he unloaded its contents, which were surprisingly five scvs. Apparently, Elec wanted to make this turbo newbie so newbiesh that he was planning on building a factory on the cliff to make tanks, rather than have them ferried over by dropships. At least that is all I can figure, for it is near impossible to figure out what goes on inside the mind of a master like Elec.