Note: this report is painfully long and contains 3 games in it. It has over 2 megs of Graphics so plz, for the love of all things Starcraft, wait for it all to load or else I'll sick Slings on you . . . . thx, gw. (sorry, had to say it ^_^) - don't worry, it's worth waiting for it to load, believe me.

Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the final showdown between SlingsNArrows and ..(Myst)... These 3 games will finally decide once and for all, who's the better player, and the winner will be hailed as the Ultimate Starcraft Champion for Years to come! (days actually). While the loser will be scorned for the rest of his life! Game 1 took place the other day at about 8pm pacific time (I think) and game 3 ended at about 10-11pm pacific time (somewhere in there), we all had a very happy time watching Slings try to win and got drunk and all then the cops came and arrested POA, but he still managed to hack into the computer at the police station and observe all the games with me and Watz. Well actually I just made all that up so forget what you just read, ha ha ha! Anyway, with tensions high between both players, we comensed the game and are all hoping for Slings to win (of course) since how can you not wuv slings?

As you can see from the pwetty picture on the left, SlingsNArrows chose Zerg and started off in the South East position, while Myst randomed Terran and started off in the South West position. (well, you can't actually see that he randomed in the picture, but that's what he did, the picuture is just there to look pretty)

The Starting Build Orders were as follows:
SlingsNArrows went for an early Hatchery at his Natural, followed by yet another Hatchery at his natural, then he got gas (pun intended) and built a Spawning Pool.
Meanwhile, Myst had gone Supply Depot on 8 by his main, then a Barracks at his choke, followed by another Supply Depot at his choke to finish off the Wall-in. Then he started work on a Factory.

Then Myst started teching like a whore and put down a Starport, then an Engineering Bay and an Academy. Slings was now way behind in tech, he had just put down his Hydra den and Myst was already scouting him with a Wraith. It's just a good thing that Slings got down a Spore Colony in time before any Overlord's were hurt.
About a minute went by when me and my fellow observers were horrified at the sight of a Dropship, already full of tanks, heading towards SlingsNArrows's base. I could see (because of my observer godness) that Slings wasn't going to fair this attack very well, since the back of his base was relatively undefended. The tanks unloaded and started to take shots at the drones. Slings wasn't able to move them fast enough and a lot of them died. He then sent in all his forces consisting of about 4 hydra's and 10 lings, and started morphing more Hydra's. But because of how well Myst positioned his tanks (behind the minerals and on the little bluff) Slings had a very hard time killing them, and lost a lot of units in the process.

Slings was eventually able to destroy the tanks but by that time, Myst had already put down 2 more Barrack's and had loaded up the Dropship with some M&M's and was already heading back to do mo damage.

With the help of newly hatched Hydra's, Lings, and even a lurker, Slings was able to fend off the attack and finally start mining again. But since Myst has just established an expansion of his own, and was in the process of building another Command Center to float over to another expansion, Slings is now way behind in Minerals and tech. Things aren't looking good for him.

Myst now has a Science facility and some Science Vessels floating around, as well as multiple Dropships, and a shit load of Infantry. He is obviously way in the lead, but this doesn't deter Slings, since Slings is expanding in the mid-east expansion spot, and is now equal to Myst in expansions.

Unfortunately for Slings, Myst is about to make his final assualt, and is massing a huge army of M&M's along with Tanks and Science Vessels. Poor Slings, he doesn't even know what's about to hit him.
Without wasting much time Myst sends in his troups. His science vessels irradiate all of Slings's Lurkers and then about 40 Marines with medics and Tanks come poring into Slings's natural and literally tear apart the small amount of defences stationed there (20 lings, and a few hydra's and sunkens). Then he advanced onto Slings's main, which didn't even stand a chance. We knew it was over for Slings, both players exchanged gg's and game 1 goes to Myst.

Ok, game 2, who will win this one??? Well we'll just have to see then, won't we?? ^_^

This will be an intresting game, both players are Zerg, with Slings randoming and Myst choosing Zerg. Slings started off in the South West starting spot while Myst started out in the Noth East. Both players scouted with their overlords Counter-clockwise, although Slings already knew Myst was Zerg, which might give him a small advantage in this game.

I was almost laughing my ass of when I was watching both player's builds, because they were almost identicle. Both Slings and Myst went easly gas, then another Hatchery, then a Lair and Hydra Den. The players strats did differ a little as Slings got dual Lairs for both Overlord upgrades at once, while Myst got his Hydra Den down faster.

Both players also put down a 3rd Hatchery at about the same time, although Myst did get his about 10 seconds faster, probably because Slings spent more resources on two Lairs. After about a minute Slings kept massing Zerglings while Myst had already gotten a good number of Hydra's. However, Slings's strategy was clear now, he was going to drop Myst with Zerglings! Yep, that's right, Zerglings, I watched as he loaded up 5 overlords with Lings and headed out to Myst's base, and appearently so did Myst, as he had been tailing Slings's Overlord around for a while now and could easily see the attack coming. So then I was wondering what has gotten in to Slings, he is dropping with lings and he knows that Myst is watching his every move and can clearly see the attack coming and prepares his Hydra's.
Now this is where Slings' true gosu micro skills come into play. He splits up his OL's into two groups full of Lings and first attacks with one group (that is easily stopped) but then comes around with the other and drops the other lings on the other side of the island and manages to take out one of Myst's Evolution Chamber's before the lings are stopped. A relatively good move but considering all the lings he lost, and the fact that he only took out one Evo Chamber, it wasn't that good resource wise.

Slings attempts to drop Myst again and again but they fail miserably now that Myst knows it's coming. So Slings now knows it's time to change and starts building Hydra's and Lurkers, while Myst now starts his attempt to drop Slings. About half a minute goes by when Myst loads up some Overlords with a bunch of hydra's and heads out to Slings's main.

However, one of Myst's OL's passes by one of Slings's OL's so now Slings knows it's coming and immidiatly gathers all his hydra's and starts patrolling the end of his island with them. Myst has to move around his overlords a bit before he finally finds an openning, and exploits it.

And so a fight ensues...

Slings ends up easily beating back Myst's strike force with his massive amount of Hydra's he's already accumulated. And then preceds to put down a Spire in the light of this recent victory.
Myst made several attempts to expand during and after this time, however, Slings caught him each time and dropped him and destroyed the expansion. Myst finally got another expansion up and it seemed as if he would keep this one, since his life depended on it as his Main just ran dry. Slings's main is starting to run dry but there is still a little bit of minerals there, he's even able to get out about 6 Muta's with his Main's minerals only, and I'm starting to worry that he will run dry and not have enough to expand.
Slings finds Myst's expansion with his muta's and is driven off by the defending Hydra's, however Slings knows that he can't let Myst have this expansion if he wants to win, so he loads up like 8 Overlords with tons of hydra's and lurkers and attacks from all 3 sides of the small expansion island as well as attacks with his Muta's. The attack was orcestrated beautifully and Myst's forces are completely overwhelmed.

With his only expansion destroyed and his main dry Myst concedes the game in defeat, gg. Yeah Slings!

Ah yes, the 3rd and final game, who will be the victor, and leave with his pride held high? And who will be scorned for all eternity? Only time will tell, or how fast your connection is. But either way, I'm here to report it all to you live and in person from the Lost Temple stadium in.... um... yeh right never mind.

Okee, as you can see Slings started out as Zerg in the Middle East position while Myst started out as Protoss in the Middle West position. Both players chose their race rather than randoming.

As for build orders, Slings finally builds an early hatchery at his choke after running his little drone around back and forth between his main and natural (obviously a little flustered). Then he builds a Spawning Pool at his main (*gasp!*) and a Sunken at his Choke once the Hatchery gets done morphing. Myst builds a pylon on 7, followed by 2 gateways, then an Accimilator for gas.

Myst builds a Cy Core and starts building Dragoons while Slings expands to his Natural and puts down two evo chambers and a hydra den. Myst puts down a Robotics Facility and then sends in 4 Zealots that are appearantly going to go attack Slings, or that's at least what Slings thinks when his overlord see's the 4 zealots heading for his base. I see him preparing for the little assualt by moving his Lings and such to the front of his base. However, what Slings doesn't know is that Myst stopped his Zealots short of Slings's base and has a shuttle on the way to drop the Zealots past Slings's defences and into the back of his base. Tricky maneuver, it allowed him to do a lot more damage than he wouldve if he'd have come in from the front.

Slings was able to run most of his Drones away before Myst's Zealots could do too much damage. Myst continued to pump Goons like no tomorrow, and even mixed in some Revears. He now had a huge force sitting at his Choke. He then took the liberty to expand to his Natural and put down a few cannons on the ridge overlooking Slings's Expansion. However Slings didn't even notice it until the end anyway ^_^. Slings then sent out some lings to retaliate but met up with Myst's huge force that was on it's way to his main. He immediately retreated and was preparing for the soon to come assualt.
Slings did manage to get Cracklings with the Upgraded Adrenaline gland, which would prove to put up a good fight against the not-so upgraded dragoons and revears, but Myst had already powered to much and had an absolute shit load of dragoons. Myst then attacked with his whole army, and put his revears in shuttles so they could get to the action in time. Slings also managed to get some Muta's and started morphing them into Gaurdians. But it wasn't quite fast enough.

Well looks like Myst will now be hailed as the Starcraft Champion of the Universe!!! I don't know about you guys, but I'm still going to hail Slings, no matter how much he loses!!

- Slings still owns everybody ^_^
- um..... right, Lessons learned... um.... how about "Slings owns you", hows that?
- Don't forget to expand =)
- Be nice to thine neighbor, be nice to thine cat.... ok never mind, that was stupid.
- Watz is da Ladies Man!

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