Prepregame-
Having missed my city's bus to go to my program, I decided to play some broodwar. After booting up my comp I just opened and closed my cd-rom, knowing the bw cd would be in from the night before. After logging on I quickly joined the nh channel. After playing a couple games, I decided to try and find a br. After 2 hours, I finally found 2 admirable people to play, Drefsab and Frost!^^. The map was to be the infamous Lost Temple. Both players randomed, and without further ado, I submit to you, my feature presentation.

Pregame-
Frost!^^ spawned up as purple zerg at 12 while Defsab warped in as red protoss at 3. Immediately they both sent their 4 starting peons to work, but their build order's went way different now, probably having something to do with the fact that they are two different races. Frost!^^ went something like: sent his overlord to scout towards 3, after 8th drone overlord, drone, 11 drones hatch at ramp, pool, gas, then one sunken colony on his cliff in the corner, to his eventual tech of hydras. Meanwhile Drefsab has also been busy, his bo went a little like: 8 pylon then sends the probe that made the pylon to scout towards the 12 base, 11th probe or so gate, another probe, another gate and a pylon in Frost!^^'s natural, forge back at home then pylon (at home).

Post Midgame-
The first 3 zealots that where produced by Dref where sent to attack Frost. At about the same time Frost sends a small band of 6 lings to attack Dref. They meet up just above Dref's mineral only where Frost loses 2 lings in a quick skirmish then retreats the remaining to his cliff when a sunken is about 60% done. Dref stops his band of 3 lots and puts them on hold position at the bottom of the ramp, now knowing about the sunken that is rapidly nearing completion. Dref starts warping in a cannon at Frost's natural. About 10 seconds later the sunken completes and begins spiking one of the zealots that are holding position at the bottom of the ramp. It gets in another hit before Dref notices this and pulls back his zealots. Right as the zealot that has been hit three times almost gets out of range, the sunken sends him back to Aiur.

Midgame-
After 2 cannons where made in the natural Dref retreated his remaining zealots back to his ramp, where a cybernetics core was added, then he began to also harvest gas. Dref then sent a probe down to the 9 base where he warped in a pylon. Then a small assault squad of 6 lings and 2 hydras where sent to try and maybe wreak some havoc at the growing protoss establishment. A group of 5 zealots dealt with this fairly easily, and as this skirmish was happening Dref's first two goons popped out and he quickly dispatched of the overlord standing watch in his base. Then another force from the zerg came and hit, this one containing 7 hydras and 2 lings. 4 lots and 2 goons engaged the army. The zerg slowly tried to fight its way into the protoss base, as a couple hydras and some lings would trickle down from the zerg base to join the fray. Frost kept the forces trickling in, but now with maybe 3 hydras at a time or so. Dref eventually lost his zealots and wasn't producing anymore at the moment, he kept producing goons from his 3 gateways. He barely was holding onto his ramp, but his micro and height advantage finally won him the battle. Frost then proceeded to send a drone to the 9 natural where he started morphing a hatchery, then proceeded to kill the 2 cannons and the pylon in his natural. Shortly before the pylon in Frost's natural fell, Dref morphed in a nexus at the 9 main, which had 2 photon cannons standing guard. Meanwhile, back at Frost's new expansion (9 natural) he added a creep colony, and a spire was about halfway done in Frost's main. Dref started maynarding 6 of his probes to the 9 base just as Frost had the creep turned into a sunken and began morphing 3 hydralisks there. An overlord in the center of the map saw the probes marching in their congo-line type fashion towards the 9 base.
Then they got to the 9 natural, where the sunken had just completed. It managed to kill one probe, then the hydralisks hatched and killed another 2. The remaining 4 made it the new base, where the 3 hydras followed. Somewhere in this time frame a 2nd pylon, a gateway, and a 3rd cannon where added to the expansion. The cannons easily dealt with the three hydras.

Post Endgame-
An army of 2 zealots, 8 dragoons and 2 high templar where quickly sent to dispatch of the zerg expansion. As the army quickly razed the zerg expansion, the zerg sent a counter force to his the protoss main. First, 4 mutas and an overlord flew in and quickly decimated a single photon cannon sitting by the peon line. At about this time a small force of hydras hit the protoss front door, where 4 goons and a templar stood century. As the goons took care of the hydralisks, the mutalisks killed a couple probes. After dispatching the hydralisks with only losing one goon, the other 3 quickly where sent to kill the mutas. The 3 mutas killed one goon before retreating, but they where gone for only a moment before returning with 2 more of their fellow flying brethren. The 5 quickly killed the 2 goons, then headed towards the peon line. The single templar mustered up his energy and released a psionic storm, where with a crackling thunder the storm managed to completely miss all but one of the mutas, and that muta was just barely harmed. The mutas then began kill probes in large quantities. Then they faced another cannon, that managed to kill one of them and they flew away from it, heading towards the ramp. 3 goons waited there and killed off another 2 of the mutas, leaving their numbers down to 1. Then 8 lings sprinted up the ramp and engaged the goons. One goon died and the other 2 tried dancing around while the protoss army at the 9 natural could get back, or where some more goons could finish morphing from Aiur. One goon and one templar popped out, and the ling slowly losing their number continued slowly killing one goon at a time, then the rest of the army came home, and quickly disposed of the threat. The overlord was also quickly killed. Now lets take a quick overlook that's happened so far in the game:

1st) Dref placed 2 cannons in Frost's natural, good for some kills and recon.
2nd) Frost kept applying pressure in the game early on to Dref.
3rd) Both players expanded AWAY from their natural, and when Dref was maynarding drones Frost and Dref's expansions where revealed to one another.
4th) Dref sent a large army to destroy Frost's expansion, while in return Frost hit Dref's base, killing most of the drones there.

So now Dref is just slowing getting ahead in econ, seeing as how neither of his bases are running at full capacity yet, but slowly his peons are building up. Frost meanwhile is down to just his main with a large amount of drones harvesting gas and mining minerals. Just before the zerglings where killed in Dref's base, Frost had started morphing 6 lurkers. He had noticed that the only detection that Dref had was cannons and those where only in the very heart of his main.

So the lurkers ran up and spread themselves evenly out in front of the ramp so that a single storm could only kill one at a time. At a time when 5 of them where burrowed, Dref started sending his army out for an attack. Noticing the subterranean spikes hitting his men, he quickly pulled them back. Then Frost slowly began creeping the lurkers up the ramp, and also expanded to his natural. At one point he had 2 lurkers on the ramp, which a storm easily dealt with. But the lurkers continued up, getting up onto the cliff, being joined by a handful of hydras. After they had all entered his base, goons began exploding pouring their goopy blue insides out. One lurker made a b-line for the peons and made it. He quickly burrowed, and began making the probes explode. The lurker managed to kill about 9 peons before a storm ended its life. Frost then started expanding to his mineral only. While the few remaining lurkers where holding Dref's main at bay, Frost sent a small army of lings and hydras to the protoss expansion. With only 3 cannons and a small number of goons for defense, the expansion was slowly being killed off.

During the time that it took for the lurkers to contain Dref and for his expansion to be attack, Dref was teching for observers. When his expansion was about 1/4 razed he began killing off the lurkers. The constant pumping of dragoons from the single gateway at his expansion and the probes ended the threat from the zerg forces. Dref then sent the forces from his main base to the center of the map. An army of 10 dragoons and 2 archons, who had discovered the mineral only attempt via a wondering dragoon (I think) mercilessly destroyed the hatchery and the couple drones mining. Now the biggest battle of the game ensued. Dref had his forces, which consisted of 10 dragoons, 4 high templar, and 2 archons, gathered at his mineral only. He also had an observer sitting in the choke made by the bottom-left side of Frost's base and the right side of Dref's base, watching for any movement. Then it came...

Frost!^^ had morphed a large army of zerglings and hydralisk, accompanied by a few speed upgraded overlords, barreling towards Drefsab's expansion. Unfortunately for Frost, Dref picked the best time to attack these forces, right in the middle. He sent his large army right into the line of hydralings. After a few well placed storms, the majority of the army that had hit into the fight or turned around to fight where massacred, with Drefsab only losing one archon and 225 energy. Then Dref immediately attacked Frost. A sunken on Frost's cliff, a sunken at his natural and a lurker where the only things standing guard. One storm later the lurker was dead, but one hydralisk and 4 lings had joined into the fray. After disposing of them, the army moved deeper into the natural, killing the single sunken there. Frost began retreating his some of his drones into his main, as freshly morphed hydralisks joined into the battle. Soon the goons where dead, then the archon, leaving only 3 templar. The 2 hydralisks that where left began spitting out spines at one of the templar before their lives where ended short with a crackling thunder. Then 2 of the templar began morphing into an archon. 2 more hydralisks came and began firing upon the morphing archon. Blue lightning began dancing on them and then they turned into a bloody mess. The single archon managed to get 19 kills between drones and zerglings. Having no money left and no army, Frost conceded the game.

This was a very exciting game to watch. I thought zerg was gonna win early on with Frost's quick succession of rushes, then I thought Drefsab would win after killing Frost's expansion. After Frost came back and killed most of Dref's probes, I didn't know who would win until the final battle. GG to both players, and here are the scores:

This has been as1utty br