Season 3 Ladder Retrospective

I opt for igniter hellion -> starport -> CC. He goes 1rax gas CC Fac Port. He gets a quick double factory, I take my natural about a minute later than he does.

He gets a quick third factory and starts his third CC, whereas I get an armory and +1 before i start my third factory and fourth factory. Now I have to deal damage and deny his third or risk falling very behind. Unfortunately he's got a pretty nice tank line in the middle.

He starts his fourth, but makes a crucial mistake and sieges up in range of my tanks.

This lets me push in and force a lift at his third, but I take a lot of damage and lose two thors to his landed high ground vikings.

I contain him, but my tank line is horrifically positioned, which let him break out with ease. Now I'm real screwed, my third is lifted, his 6th is started, and i'm down 30 supply.

He pulls back a bit, I reland my CC, and then I'm forced to lift it again a minute later. Then he makes a mistake that puts me back in control. I push out a little and catch 3 thors off guard. He then sends in his army piecemeal and quickly loses 40 supply for none of mine.

I then use this opportunity to siege up his third and fourth, and then push all the way into his main. His battle cruisers pop in time to force all my tanks out of his main, but I've already killed all his factories.

He rebuilds all his starports in bottom right, floats to 12 and 6, but I deny those expansions with landed vikings. I don't have enough antair though, when I try to take out his bottom right, and his battlecruisers clean up everything and start camping my factories.

However, 3 thors pop out at once, finish off his last BC, and he's forced to GG out. Definitely my most memorable game, since Painuser is fairly well known, and this was probably the last straight-up macro TvT I've played in the last 2 months. I actually thought this was a smurf because he had pretty low apm, but looking at the hotkeys and having team games with Ret I'm pretty sure this was the real painuser. It's pretty clear that he was extremely rusty when this game was played, though.