Montaro vs. Sindread: Best of 3

Players: Montaro vs. Sindread

Type: 1on1

Map: Lost Temple

Game: Starcraft: Brood Wars  

Both the players shouldn't need much introduction: Montaro, a regular in clan -x17 whom had just turned down the opportunity to represent US in Korea at the WCGC Olympics, but turned it down cause of "school". Sindread on the other hand is going to the games to represent US because he placed 4th in the tournament. Both players ARE good friends and there is no grudge's (none that I know of at least) in this game.

Sindread felt confident and decided to pick his race, he chose to spawn in as zerg, but Montaro was the opposite he chose to go random and take his chances, he was stationed as Terran. Sindread was orange at the 6 o'clock position and Montaro Brown at 9 o'clock.

Sindread immediately sent his overlord scouting to the 9 o'clock position, to find none other then, yep you guessed it Montaro's Base. The zerg player immediately made his overlord fall back because he saw that Montaro was getting his barrack at 8 control rather then his supply depot. Now both players knew what they were going to have to do and when.

Sindread then sent a drone to early expand in hopes of getting his economy up high so he could win the game. But Montaro had sent a SCV scouting and saw the early expansion and started a bunker right above the hatchery. This was nothing knew to me since I've had it happen to me and seen it happen to other people before. It has a 50/50 chance a working. Sindread's spawning pool finished a little bit later but he immediately started to make some zerglings to try to stop the rush, he also sent two drones down to also try to kill the SCV, but it was to late a marine was already there and ready to get in the bunker. Montaro managed to sneak another bunker beneath the hatchery right before the hatchery finished. So with the 2 drones that came down Sindread started a Creep Colony to the right of the hatchery. The drones continued attacking the SCV and managed to kill it but there was already about 2 marines in both of the bunkers, plus more marines coming.

The marines that had just arrived attacked the sunken colony that was now being morphed. So, all the marines were attacking, plus the bunkers, but Sindread had continuous zerglings coming out trying to attack the bunker that was being made and the one that had been made. Montaro also sent about 8 marines to Sindread's main to see what was going on there. Unfortunately the fire power at the expansion was to much and the sunken colony and hatchery were killed.

Back at the main bases, Montaro had started a academy and a second Command Center at his expansion, and Sindread had started a Lair and Hydralisk Den. 

The marines that were ordered to go to the main base killed a bunch of zerglings and the sunken colony that was there, but the micro + drones of Sindread was to much and the marines were killed and all that remained was a stain of red in the ground at Sindread's Base. 

Montaro now stopped the Steady Movement of marines to Sindread's Base and was massing his marines to try to finish him off. Montaro now had medics and his expo was nearly done.

But Sindread had not given up yet! He was still trying to stay in this thing by making Hydralisks, which would probably be morphed into lurkers soon! Montaro went and scouted the base with a marine that was in the bunker, and saw that lurkers were being made. So he decided it was now or never. He sent all his marines to the base. Since there were some at his expo he sent them to. The ones from the expo arrived first and started to attack the hydralisks and a creep colony that was being made. 

Some hydras that had just come out were morphed into lurkers fast, well some other hydralisks attacked the marine threat. Unfortunately the backup marines had just arrived and they also had medics to accompany them. The lurkers finished but were useless because Montaro spread his units and attacked the lurkers before they had time to get into the ground, and once they got into the ground they only had enough time to let one spine travel through the ground since Montaro had comstat and the marines were getting heavy fire power on them.

This was to much for Sindread and he gave a well deserved GG to Montaro, and Montaro returned it.

Overview	Units	Structures	Resources	Total Score
	7250	3470	7250	17970
	4300	1290	4546	10136
Units	Produced	Killed	Lost	Total Score
	62	43	12	7250
	61	12	43	4300

Elapsed Time: 9:16

When I looked at the scores I found that Montaro had to do pretty damn good to out produce Sindread in units, seeing as how Sindread was zerg. Something cool that I didn't know: Sindread's been playing for 4 years. WHAT A GEEK!!! lol jk man. Also I'd like to thank the players for such a well fought game and well played game.

The 2nd game should be up in about 2-5 days or so. The 3rd one hasn't been played yet =/