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Obviously, the game was on The "Lost" Temple. The combatants are Candle and [ToJ]Newbie. I watched. Yay! Instead of telling you where the players started and what race they got, I'll just show you a map.

Both players started mining those annoying minerals you have to get to buy stuff. Candle decided to send his overlord to 9 o'clock to see if Newbie decided he wanted to start there. Surprisingly, Candle found Newbie there!

Newbie countered that move by sending a probe of his to 6 o'clock to see what Candle was up to.

Newbie opened the game with a pylon, double-gate while Candle powered early building a hatchery at his natural expansion followed by a spawning pool and another hatchery at his natural.

The probe reached Candle's base and passed by the morphing hatchery and proceeded to the main. After seeing the morphing spawning pool, Newbie, satisfied with his findings (or not satisfied) decides to attack the hatchery at the expansion with... *drum roll* a probe!

Newbie follows up his probe with a brand new Zealot from Auir that starts the long walk over to the hatcheries at the 6 o'clock natural. At around the same time, Newbie added an assimilator and a cybernetics core to gain access to the higher tech facilities.

Before the zealot could arrive to the Zerg infestation, 2 drones engaged the monstrous probe. What followed was a bloody battle where the probe attacked the 3rd hatchery while the drones attacked the probe.

The zealot ran into the expansion to find that the probe was nowhere to be seen. The zealot raged with fury and attacked a creep colony morphing to a sunken while it was vulnerable. Before the soon-to-become-sunken was at 75% hp, a horde of zerglings hatched and disposed of the deadly zealot with the help of the bleeding sunken.

After gathering a few more zerglings, Candle sent a counter strike against Newbie's main.

The 12 zerglings ran into 3 zealots at the top of the Protoss entrance. Candle ran the zerglings back in hopes of luring the zealots down with it. Newbie was not to be easily fooled. The zealots were on hold position and didn't follow the zerglings down. Knowing the attack would be hopeless, Candle ordered the zerglings back to the 6 o'clock expansion to resume its defending duties.

Neither players were idle during the preparation and duration of the skirmish. Newbie added a forge while Candle morphed a extractor at his main.

At this time, both players decide it's time to tech up a little and Newbie warps a robotics facility followed by a support bay while Candle morphs a hydralisk den and begins upgrading to lair.

Soon afterwards, Newbie adds a citadel and starts warping in a nexus, pylon, and assimilator at his natural while Candle sends a ling to the 12 main to check for a possible Protoss expansion and starts morphing lurkers.

Newbie's only cannon is next to his forge near his Nexus, his expansion and most of his base are free from detectors (foreshadowing).

Newbie decides to be safe and builds a pylon and cannon above his ramp and another cannon at the expansion. Newbie also finished construction on his shuttle and reavers and loads them up. At the same time, Candle starts rallying his forces outside Newbie's base. Now let's take a break for an update.

So far there are not attack or armor upgrades.

Newbie's reavers arrive first. I'll let the pretty picture tell you what happened.

The reavers destroyed most of the drones at the Candle's main. Candle was able to save 4 or 5 drones by running them to his expansion, but the rest were blown up by the fat reavers. Hydras come in and keeping them spread out, the reavers went down with minimal casualties (aside from all those drones that blew up in the same manner as those in the top left picture).

At about the same time as the reaver drop, Candle launches his attack on Newbie's expansion. Again, I'll let the pretty pictures do the talking.

Basically, Newbie got owned. The only defense at the expansion was the cannon. Obviously, hydras/lings > cannon/nexus. Newbie saw the lurkers and put up 3 cannons hastily above his ramp to make sure he had detection if the lurkers attacked.

Candle also decides to expand at the 9 o'clock mineral only. Yes, that's correct, the 9 o'clock mineral only. From the pic you can also see that the reavers are still in Candle's base.

Candle starts building sunkens at his new expansion for protection AND offensive purposes. At this time, Newbie tries to bust out from his containment.

The zealots draw the hydras into the cannons and Newbie gets the advantage by having cannons. Candle, not wanting Newbie to win it this easily, runs away into his lurkers and the tables are turned. The attack is easily eliminated. After this battle, Candle pulls out his hydras (or maybe they were killed?) Either way, only the lurkers were left to guard the natural.

Thinking the threat was gone, attempted to expand back to the natural, but a lurker attacked the nexus while warping and Newbie is forced to cancel. He tries again, but to no avail. Candle expands again to his mineral only. Newbie at this time makes a comment on the game.

Newbie starts warping cannons at the right side of his ledge in an attempt to get some free shots at the buildings below. Candle morphs some sunkens at about the same time, and a battle ensues.

With the help from some hydras, Candle's 2 sunkens defeat Newbie's 2 cannons on the ledge. Newbie starts warping cannons again at the same spot.

Newbie loads up a probe into a shuttle and sends it to the upper left island. Candle expands to the 3 o'clock main and natural.

An overlord floats towards the warping cannons on the cliff and the sunkens engage at the vulnerable buildings. Newbie cancels the 2 cannons knowing he couldn't win. One of the sunkens gets a few free shots on the templars that were standing too close.

An overlord discovers the new attempt at an expansion while Candle sends a hydralisk patrols between the 12 main and natural.

Newbie again comments on his hopelessness:

It's time again for a....

Let's take a peek into Newbie's base.

Yup. 3 Stargates. Count them, 3. And a Fleet Beacon. LAME! Not to mention

Anyway, Candle decides letting Newbie keep the island expansion would be pretty stupid so he loads up an overlord with hydras and drops the island.

With absolutely no defense, the hydralisks have an easy time taking down the nexus and assimilator.

Corsairs. They make that annoying high-pitched noise when they attack. That's about all they do. Except for that D-Web stuff. Not to mention Newbie wasted his money on making 3 stargates. It's not like they're gonna help much... or are they? Newbie decides to make his final move. Now you get to look at that huge pretty picture. For those of you who are graphically disabled, I'll describe the events.

With the help of an observer, the reaver starts taking shots at the lurkers at Newbie's natural. After those are gone, Newbie fires his scarabs on the sunkens. Once the first sunken is down to about 5 HP, Newbie does an extremely smart thing and has the reaver attack the sunken behind the first so that the splash damage kills the sunken and thereby saving a scarab.

Candle has a bunch of queens armed with broodling and as soon as Newbie starts attacking with his last remaining units, Candle broodlings them. The 'sairs try to kill the queens, but Candle pulls them back into his hydras and his single muta and the 'sairs are slaughtered. Candle then broodlings the rest of the Protoss force. Newbie resigns knowing he can't win.

Scores:

The end.

Now for a bonus pic

I made it in my free time and use it as my background. It ain't that great, but you can d/l it by clicking on it (640x480 .bmp file) and use it if you want.