Friday, August 12, 2011

NA Blizzard Invitational Kwiwikaki vs Sheth

About 10 minutes away.  Note I have a clock at top of Blog that shows current PDT time.
 Yeah!  Game 1 is about to start.  Go Kiwikaki!!!

Spoiler Alert



Game 1   Kiwikaki opens with forge fast expand.   Sheth opens with a ninja Hatch at far 3rd location to avoid Toss harassment of getting hatch down.

Looks like Kiwi is going for 6 gate + 1 attack push or something similar to that. Sheth is going Roach Speedling.  Turns out it is 7 Gate push with one gas.

WOW!  Sheth holds 3rd, food at end of the push ~60 for Kiwi vs ~90 for Sheth.

Sheth pushes with his roaches.  Takes down pair of cannons at the wall of Kiwikaki's at the natural.  Then pulls back while teching to Infestors.  While Kiwi techs towards Colossus.  Also gets Warp Prism while Robo Support bay warping in.  Big battle near Kiwi's bases.  ABout even trade.

Kiwi follows up with Warp Prism to Sheth's 4th to warp in Zealots for a harass.

Sheth is maxed at the 20:00 mark with Roach Infestor, ling.  Clear supply lead but Warp Prism harassment of 4th ends up taking Sheth's 4th down.

Sheth keeps pushing at Kiwi's 3rd, has some baller Neural Parasites on Colossus & takes out Kiwi's army & 3rd base.  Sheth follows up by taking down the natural, Kiwi forced to GG.

Game 2  Kiwikaki opens forge on 17 fast expand no gateway.  Sheth opens gas before pool.  So Kiwi will actually have his natural ahead of the Zerg Sheth!!

Kiwikai again using two cannon for defense.  Sheth actually starts 3rd hatch before Kiwi builds a single gateway unit.

Kiwi gets 4 gas all at once, almost like a Protoss version of the Spanishiwa/Icefisher build.
Kiwi's 3rd gets sniped.

Kiwikaki attacks Sheth's 3rd, but Sheth crushes Kiwi's army.  Kiwikaki "GG WP"

Sheth takes series 2-0!  Not what I was expecting,


Game 3

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