Note from the author:
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Today's matchup takes place on Dire Straits...

Y2K-Sausage (aka Necro-Sausage) starts in the top left as Terran.
His partner, Y2K-Lewis (aka King-Lewis) starts in the top right as Zerg
Pitt_the_Newt (aka -Pitt-) starts in the bottom left as Protoss
His partner, CathyOwnz (aka ????) starts in the bottom right as Protoss
My fellow observer was Y2K-Mac (aka Gay-Mac) who was quite confident about the outcome of this particular game:

Early Game Builds:
Sausage starts out with a depot, a refinery, and a barrack. When his barrack is complete, he begins work on 2 factories.
Lewis builds an extractor, a second hatchery, and then a spawning pool. As soon as his spawning pool is complete, he begins morphing both of his hatcheries into Lairs. He then starts a Hydra Den.
Pitt and Kathy's builds are almost identical. They go with a pylon, gateway, assimilator, cy core, and robotics bay. While the robotics bay builds, they make zealots out of their gateways. It becomes apparent that someone is going to have to deal with zealots soon.
First Blood:
At the begininng of the game, Lewis had sent an overlord down to scout Cathy's base. The minute Cathy and Pitt spot the overlord, they know that Lewis is Zerg and where Lewis's island is.
Pitt finished his zealots and shuttle first. He loads up his zealots and flies his shuttle off to the northeast towards Lewis's base. Cathy is not far behind and since she has a shorter distance to fly, she arrives at Lewis's main at about the same time as Pitt.
They decide to split their forces. Pitt lands his 4 zealots on the left hand side of Lewis's base and Cathy lands her 4 on the right.
They both charge into Lewis's base and find that there are only 2 hydras defending. However, there are 6 eggs morphing. Lewis immediately pulls his drones off mining duty and orders them to attack Pitt's zealots. The drones surround the zealots and then the 2 hydras start attacking. Meanwhile, 2 of Cathy's zealots start attacking Lewis's spawning pool while 2 zealots begin attacking the drones still mining vespian gas.

The zealots don't accomplish much with their assault. A few drones die, the spawning pool is damaged, and Lewis loses valuable mining time. But his overlord upgrades are just about completed and he quickly restarts his economy and prepares to counter.
The Counter:
Immediately following their assault, Pitt and Cathy expand to the islands above them. Pitt also drops off a probe at the island between his and Kathy's base. Pitt instructs Kathy to tech to templars and he does the same.
Meanwhile, Sausage has been able to work on his build order unmolested. After completing his 2 factories, he had built an armory and a starport. He now has 2 dropships completed and he loads them up with a marine, an SCV, 3 goliaths, and 2 tanks. He takes this strike force and flies off to the southeast towards Cathy's base.
Cathy's base defense consists of 4 zealots and a freshly completed templar. Sausage's force arives on the northwest edge of Cathy's base. He seiges up his tanks and begins constructing a missile turret with his SCV. His force is shortly supplemented by 4 hydras that have been provided by Lewis.
Cathy sends her 4 zealots in to attack the threat but they are quickly sent to zealot heaven by the combined forces of Sausage and Lewis. Cathy has enough mana for 1 storm and she attempts to use it on the 4 hydras, but they quickly run out from under the deadly lightning.
Seeing his ally in trouble, Pitt flies a shuttle over loaded up with 2 zealots and 2 templar. Pitt's storms prove to be more effective than Cathy's. They succeed in killing all the hydras and goliaths. Sausage's 2 sieged tanks and 1 marine are all that is left of the strike force. Pitt's 2 zealots move in and turn the two tanks into scrap metal. One zealot dies and the remaining zealot shreds the marine who, as his last act as a living human being, throws down his rifle in disgust.
Sausage and Lewis's attack manages to destroy one of Cathy's pylons before being repelled.
Game Status:

Pitt and Cathy have been working hard establishing their expansions. Pitt has 4 cannons and a templar at his expansion. Cathy has 3 cannons with 2 more warping in at hers.
Sausage is building a command center which he plans to float over to the expansion between himself and Lewis
Lewis has decided that its time to break up an expansion and he floats 3 overlords full of hydras south towards Cathy's expansion.
Expansion Busting
Lewis's overlords arrive at Cathy's expansion before the 4th and 5th cannons are finished warping in. The 12 hydras land safely and are able to start laying waste to the expansion. Pitt is not pleased with this sudden turn of events.

Lewis's hydras quickly tear down the expansion before there is time for any reinforcements to arrive.
Revenge:
Pitt is not pleased with the way that Lewis has treated his ally. He loads a shuttle up with 2 templar and flies northeast towards Lewis's Zerg encampment.
He flies up and around the edge of the island and lands his templar right behind Lewis's peon line where defenseless drones are busily mining unaware of the ominous threat.
Suddenly, crackling fills the air and drones scream as they burst into piles of charred flesh. 6 hydras hear the screams and go running towards the sound of their terrorized comrades. They see 2 templar loading into a shuttle and quickly move under the shuttle. Before the shuttle can get underway, they blow it out of the sky.
Lewis quickly morphs more drones to replace the fallen ones.
While Lewis was busy dealing with the templar threat, Sausage has organized another assault on Cathy's base. The assault force consists of tanks, marines, and SCVs. The SCVs quickly construct a bunker and a turret while the tanks rain down fire on Cathy's buildings. She has very little to defend with and what she does have quickly dies to Sausage's powerful terran force.

To make matters worse for Cathy, Lewis gathers up the remaining hydras that he used moments before to destroy Cathy's expansion and drops them on her main to assist Sausage's forces.
In a last ditch effort, Cathy sends her probes out to attack the hydras, tanks and bunker. But her effort is in vain and the assault effectively knocks her out of the game leaving Pitt to fend for himself.
Lewis and Sausage kindly left her a couple of buildings so that she could watch the action.
1 Toss Vs. 1 Terran AND 1 Zerg... Imbalance?
When Cathy is eliminated, Pitt has 2 solid expansions, one to the north of his main, and one to the east.
Lewis is starting an expansion to the south of his main and Sausage has the one expansion to the east of his main between himself and Lewis.
Sausage makes the first move after Cathy's elimination. He loads up 5 dropships with an assortment of terran infantry and metal. He flies them to the southeast around Pitt's northern expansion. He then veers back to the southwest and attempts to land them on Pitt's main.
Unfortunately for Sausage his roundabout route is discovered when he gets a little to close to Pitt's eastern expansion and a templar spots the imminent attack. Pitt quickly casts a storm that is able to kill 1 of the 5 dropships. The other 4 quickly fly over Pitt's main but there are 2 templar there waiting for them and because they are so tightly clumped, 2 well placed storms are all it takes blow the entire terran force into oblivion.
Sausage responds to this turn of events like any normal SC player would after such a catastrophic event.

But Lewis has built a nice sized compliment of hydras and mutas. He takes this force over to Pitt's northern expansion. He has Sausage Comsat the island then uses his mutas to fly in, take out the 2 templars, then fly out. He then flies back in over the island with his mutas, drawing cannon fire while he flies in 6 overlords full of hydras.
The expansion quickly falls.
Pitt makes one final attempt at offense by flying 2 reavers over to Lewis's main. The reavers are able to do some damage before 6 mutas hatch and end the threat.

Lewis then pulls the same stunt on Pitt's eastern expansion that he pulled on his northern. He sends in the mutas first to draw cannon fire, then he flies in with the overlords and drops his hydras. The result is another decimated expanson for Pitt.

Back at his main, Pitt has amassed a sizable force of zealots and templar. He has also constructed a stargate and an arbiter tribunal. As one final act of defiance, he sends a freshly completed arbiter north to Sausage's main. The arbiter arrives safely at Sausage's base, however, all hell has broken loose back at home. A terran force of goliaths, tanks and marines along with a zerg force of hydras and mutas has started to pound on Pitt's main. Before he has a chance to recall his forces into Sausage's base, they are forced to defend his main and are soundly defeated.
Pitt's main base is obliterated and he is forced to conceed. Good games are passed around and all players and observers exit to the score room.
The Scores:

In Closing:
I am kind of surprised that a double toss team failed to win against a Zerg and a Terran opponent. I think the main downfall of the Protoss team was their lack of air superiority. Not a single corsair was built the whole game. Imagine the chaos if one of those terran drops or hydra drops had run into a pack of corsairs.
When on a double toss team while playing on islands, it is almost always an advantage if one player builds corsairs. Corsairs are the best containment tool on island maps.
Hope you all enjoyed the report.
Thanks for reading.
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