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| Johnny_Vegas: CB | | | Author: | | | IP: | user-2ivXXXX | | Date: | 04/20/00 12:04 | | Game Type: | Starcraft | | Labels: | none | | Report Rating: , # of Ratings: 4, Max: 9, Min: 9
Lifetime Rating for The.Confessor: 8.0426 |  | It could have been like any other night. NH was full of lame bots, so a bunch of us had retreated to Brood War USA-1000. It was just me and a few others, playing and watching various games. Nothing spectacular going on, nothing of interest… and then Johnny_Vegas walked in.
It hit me then, my old King of the Hill series made obsolete by the advent of tennis season, it was time for something new. Something exciting. A series with bigger players, bigger games, bigger names and most importantly, a title I could rip off so I didn’t have to think one up on my own. I would randomly select well known members of the br.com and nohunters community and pit them against someone equally as famous or good. And they would be mine, all mine to BR. Thus was born, Celebrity Deathmatch…
Party time!
Both players selected their races for this match, Johnny_Vegas landing terran at 12:00 and [HS]Merlin spawning zerg at 9:00. They both scout each other fairly early, having a large effect in their build orders and goals. [HS]Merlin gears himself for a heavy, heavy powering build, going OL, hatch at mineral natural!, pool, then another hatch at his natural. Johnny_Vegas, never much a fan of watching his opponent double expand, goes for a rush oriented build, depot, rax rax, then depot. Just as [HS]Merlin’s mineral natural comes online, I see a small force of marines begin to leave the terran base… followed oddly by a large splotch of blue on the mini map.A glance shows an impressive 10 SCVs accompanying the marine force, as Johnny_Vegas seems hell bent on sending this zerg infestation packing early!  The force begins its assault as the first sunken begins to morph, and easily dispose of it before going to work on the hatchery. A small force of lings is sent out to stop the force, but some excellent marines and SCV micro dispatches the lings without much trouble.
 After taking care of the mineral natural, the marine force moves on to find another newly formed hatch at [HS]Merlin’s natural, again with light defense. After some light ling resistance is sent out, [HS]Merlin contents himself to write off his natural and begin an extractor and sunken defense at home. Amidst heavy cheering from Mark4 and extremely annoying SCV dancing from Bob_the_Newt, the marines begin to cut into the expansion. After taking care of the hatchery in a spectacularly messy explosion, Johnny_Vegas gathers his forces up and heads back home to regroup and plan his next move.
The road to 12:00…
Sending his SCVs back to mining, Johnny_Vegas opts to gear himself for a heavy marine/medic combo, setting up a refinery, academy, e-bay and several turrets. A scan of [HS]Merlin’s base revealed a lair and spire in the works, mutas only a step away. Taking proper precautions, Johnny_Vegas sets up a bunker and turret by his peon line and pumps constant marines.  While slowly pumping mutas, [HS]Merlin decides to test the terran front door with a small pack of lings. Despite the advantage gained from the line dance the lings formed as they headed up the ramp, the marines held off the force with little difficulty. =] After retaking his natural and building up his force of mutas, [HS]Merlin decides to try the back door of the terran main. What begins is a solid 5 minutes of muta harassment unlike any other… Hell, it even has a gay comment from bob in it! What more could you ask?
Trouble at high noon…
Now normally muta harassment is sucessful if for nothing else, because of forcing lost mining time. However, right before the attack, Johnny_Vegas had started a command center at the 3:00 start, and simply maynarded all of his SCVs from his main base to his expansion. While a factory is set up, and more marines are pumped, [HS]Merlin takes time to add a queens nest and sends his muta squad on some more harassment, this time coming across the lightly defended 3:00 start.  This forces the SCVs there to vacate BACK to the terran main until marines arrive and quell the threat. Now while that was going on, Johnny_Vegas has set up a small containment force of a bunker, turret and assorted marines and tanks outside the zerg natural. It does not last long however, as the mutas are come back and easily dispose of it. HOWEVER, while the mutas are busy with the containment force, Johnny_Vegas quickly takes back the 3:00 start, with more defense, and starts on starports and a science facility. The roving mutas come back to give 3:00 another try, but upon seeing the defense, quickly back off. Oh yeah, and somewhere in there [HS]Merlin added a hive and greater spire, yeesh!
Well, after taking a short pause, the players decide to make things even more interesting, as [HS]Merlin expands to the 6:00 main and prepares to make a large guardian force! A comsat reveals the new zerg base and immediately a squad is sent out to deal with it. 10 marines and 4 medics, with SV support arrive at the base to find 4 morphing sunken colonies. The marines stim and it quickly becomes a race to eliminate the colonies before they morph. Unfortunately, the sunkens manage to finish and easily dispose of the marines along with the aid of a pack of mutas, despite the use of defense matrix…
Over the horizon…
Now if you noticed on the mini map of the previous pic, there was a large orange splotch above [HS]Merlin’s natural. Right after dealing with the expansion threat, this splotch of mutas is morphed into the dreaded guardian force, just as the terran army adds the 12:00 natural expansion. After spreading out the guardians to protect against an abuse of irradate or, god forbid, valks, they are sent in with OL and devourer support. What follows is a long and hard fought battle over Johnny_Vegas main, one in which even nice micro is not enough to stop the incoming onslaught…
 Now at this point, most people would call the game over, hell, an entire main base had just been wiped out, and [HS]Merlin had taken the opportunity to expand like a very cheap woman (whore??), taking the 6:00 natural and even the 3:00 natural, apparently mocking his terran foe who had a base directly above that expansion. But then again, this is Johnny_Vegas, and he never did take to kindly to being mocked. He regroups his forces to his new main, adds several starports and barracks and begins a massive build up of marines and science vessels. While retaking the 12:00 natural, Johnny_Vegas tries to clear out the hatch at the 3:00 natural while launching, amazingly enough, a COUNTERATTACK , sending a large marine and small science vessel force to the 6:00 natural. They begin to attack the hatchery and destroy it, until the a hydra/muta/ling force comes and destroys the marines.
From out of the ashes
 After dealing with the 6:00 natural, Johnny_Vegas sets out to rid himself of the hatchery at the 3:00 next. Marines are sent out and begin to attack the hatch until the dreaded mutas show up and use superior numbers to slice and dice the marines. However, not to be outdone, Johnny_Vegas uses his continuously growing SV force to irradate to death EVERY single muta that was used to defend the expansion. Marines clean up the last of the hatch, and a CC is quickly floated down. Howver, just as Johnny_Vegas appears to be getting back on his feet, [HS]Merlin sets out to evict terran presence from the 12:00 natural.
 While the command center is forced to lift off, the mutas make a hasty retreat at the sight of the science vessel armada’s arrival onto the seen. It will be important for later on to take note that during this time, fellow observer Bob_the_Newt was making a general nuisance of himself, making his SCVs dance despite [HS]Merlin’s protests, floating his CC in and out of various bases, and generally just being his usual, annoying as self. Not important now, but just take note…
A short while later, a rather large hydra/ling force attacks the terran main, but several defense matrixed marines and medics make short work of the force. While [HS]Merlin steps back to add an ultralisk mound and several new hatcheries, Johnny_Vegas once again leads a charge on the rebuilt 6:00 natural. However, the sheer number of SV he has produced and which accompany the force allow for a ridiculous number of D-matrixed marines. Only the combined effort of 4 sunkens and several waves of reinforcing zerg troops fend off the super marine threat…
Bob_the_fruit
Now as you may recall, I directed your attention the nuisance Bob_the_newt was being throughout this match. [HS]Merlin had grumbled and yelled, but still put up with Bob’s antics through it all. Until Bob made the mistake of having his dancing SCVs attack [HS]Merlin’s troops. Apparently, he took some offense to his hydras dying at the hands of Bob’s SCVs, and after a quick unallying, the 40 some odd random zerg troops begin to lay waste to Bob’s CC! Here’s a great pic of Bob realizing his error a moment before dying in a spectacular explosion, leaving with the parting words: "EAT MY BIG (censored)!!!"
When Titans clash
 Apparently, the comedic death of Bob made both players decide enough was enough. An absolutely massive force is sent towards 3:00, seemingly invincible, unstoppable.. until running head smack into over 15 science vessels, supplying irradates, D-matrix and 3/3 marines/medics in healthy numbers. Zerg blood littered the ground…
 Despite the heavy losses, [HS]Merlin, proving he is far from a slouch, sends an immediate following of the dreaded ultras! Here, Johnny_Vegas faces a problem it seems, with his marines dying rather quickly… until he launches another irradate raid, and after a minute and a half of the ultras stupidly wandering around covered in radiation, the threat is quelled.. for the moment.
Cracking the egg…
I say for the moment, because thanks to an amazing number of hatcheries, another force is ready in mere moments, this one even larger than the first. What follows is a true testament to these players micro ability and determination…
Realizing that he has no time to take a breather, Johnny_Vegas once again d-matrixes a dozen marines and sets out take over some more ground… At the same time, both players continue to contest over the 12:00 natural and main, making it increasingly difficult for Johnny_Vegas to keep up on production. Running into another seemingly endless wave of ultras and other zerg troops can’t help either :P.
This time, the zerg forces are too much, and with very little income left, Johnny_Vegas concedes with a very deserving GG as the last of the zerg troops pour into his main…
In closing…
This was a sheer joy to watch, and I feel the final stats reveal a lot about the game:
In closing I would like the following people:
Johnny_Vegas and [HS]Merlin for a game REALLY worth reporting
Mark4 for providing Johnny with moral support during the game…
Bob_the_Newt for providing the funniest death of an observer I have ever seen…
_Fox_ for managing to not say a SINGLE thing throughout the game…
::nobody:: for providing the title pic
Praetor. For helping my writing style far more then he would know
I am spent, ill see you on bnet all…
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