[MSL] Club Protoss

Bisu opened with a safe gate-robo-gate while FBH 1-fac expanded, making seven marines with his tank before moving to take his natural. Bisu moved in, and the marines imitated their master: they danced around, failed to kill anything, and eventually died to Protoss units.



Bisu engaged and killed five marines and a tank while only losing his zealot. The early robotics paid off, as the shuttle and reaver arrived at FBH's base before any turrets were even started.



The reaver scored 13 SCVs and 4 marines, but Bisu didn't settle for just that, moving in with six dragoons and his reaver to pick off tanks.



Bisu eventually forced FBH's natural CC to lift, killed a factory, and after picking up a second reaver back home, razed four critical supply depots:



The game had become incredibly lopsided at this point, with Bisu running off three bases and eight gateways while FBH had one base, one factory, and a floating CC.



A minute later, Bisu mercifully ended it with a dragoon-reaver attack.



This game was a rude wake-up call for those expecting an epic five set match.

It was almost as if Bisu had an Annoying Protoss To-do List this game, opening gas steal and manner pylon into proxy gate:



To FBH's credit, he devised an ingenious way to trap Bisu's zealots with supply depots:



After killing the proxy, FBH took his natural. Bisu expanded twice in responses while dragoon harassing the bunker at FBH's bridges. Given the opening I was expecting a DT drop followed by Carriers, but Bisu did not complete the circle of abuse, instead playing safe with a robo and reavers.

At a weird timing, FBH moved out toward Bisu's third base with three tanks supported by a few marines, scvs, and vultures. This mini push was quickly crushed by dragoons and a reaver:



After a long period of macro, FBH slow pushed toward Bisu's third. For some inexplicable reason, Bisu opted to let the nexus die before breaking the push. At this point both players had impressively large armies:







But Bisu had teched to Arbiters, and promptly recalled into FBH's main:



Bisu's recall didn't do a lot of damage, but it did force FBH's army to move out of position, allowing an opening for Bisu to shut down FBH's recently established third base:



FBH cleaned up the recall and moved back out to defend his third. When FBH saw a second arbiter fly into his main to recall again, he just GG'd out:



I suppose you could call this game an improvement, as FBH managed to push out of his natural and even kill a nexus, but Bisu was never really in danger all game.

In games one and two, FBH opened 1-fac expand and got rolled both times. It was almost a sure thing that FBH would open 2-fac this time. However, Bisu is no Tempest. Bisu went 1-gate expand and added two more gates quickly after. Since obs is delayed, this build relies heavily on the P's dragoon micro.

Bisu got a bit lucky when he spotted speed upgraded vultures with a probe, and with the use of a pylon wall, he cleanly deflected FBH's first attack:



Bisu's follow up reaver harass did no damage, but he was already quite ahead after taking no damage from the 2-fac. As a result, Bisu had three gas carriers out before FBH could secure a third base. Bisu methodically targeted tanks with his carriers while dragoons mopped up the goliaths, never allowing FBH to mass a large ball of units:











And just like that, the series was over.

Nada opened two fac and Free went 1-gate robo reaver.



Free deflected the attack by using a zealot to mine drag and kill several marines. Dragoons and a reaver do the clean up.




In his counterattack, Free sniped a tank in the back of Nada's base with a reaver and simultaneously picked off a second tank at the front with dragoons.



Then Free does something I just won't understand. He moves against three spread-sieged tanks and two goliaths with six dragoons, miraculously losing only two while killing two tanks and a goliath.



A double reaver drop officially ended it.



If I were a Terran playing Free, I wouldn't gamble on him screwing up his early game dragoon micro. Siege expand is the way to go, not 2-fac. Nada learned this the hard way and as a result was down 0-1.

Free's probe gets a kill:



Free opened with a single proxy gate at Nada's bridges.



Then Free put on a zealot harass clinic, taking out eleven SCVs and six marines with three zealots rallied from a single gateway.



After taking heavy losses, Nada secured his ramp with four marines, a vulture, and a tank. Free then worked his dragoon magic, somehow killing most of the units up the ramp and forcing his way in with four dragoons.



TWo tank kills and some dragoon dancing ensued, and Nada typed out.





Wow. That game was just brutal. Free's micro is just jaw droppingly good. He takes tier one units and wins fights that nobody else can win. Free makes zealot and dragoon harass seem unfair.

In a stark contrast to the first two games, both players went for conservative, macro-oriented builds. Nada went early armory research with only one factory, which meant he planned to take three bases and push out at close to maxed. Free responded by adding gateways and taking bases.





The first real fight came at the ten minute mark: a horrifying mistake by Nada to siege in a clump with no mines or vulture support, resulting in both armies trading. Any Protoss will take this trade every day of the week, because it meant a great reduction in the T's tank count. Ideally, a Terran wants to trade as many reinforcing vultures as possible for the protoss army. Tanks are valuable because they are not only expensive but take a long time to build and take even longer to get in position. Losing ten tanks so early meant Nada was very, very behind.









The next few minutes had Nada frantically trying to set up a third base. Free would deny him again and again, with the margin of victory of each fight slowly growing. Eventually, Free pushed Nada all the way back up his main ramp.









After losing that initial tank clump, Nada was too far behind to recover.

Kal vs JangBi
Set 1 - Medusa: BALANCED
Set 2 - Destination: BALANCED
Set 3 - Athena 2: BALANCED
Set 4 - Byzantium 2: BALANCED
Set 5 - Medusa: BALANCED

Bisu vs free
Set 1 - Athena 2: BALANCED
Set 2 - Medusa: BALANCED
Set 3 - Destination: BALANCED
Set 4 - Byzantium 2: BALANCED
Set 5 - Athena 2: BALANCED

Player / Matchup / Last 10 / Last 3 Months / Head-to-Head
Kal / PvP / 4-6 / 5-6 / 3-2
JangBi / PvP / 6-4 / 4-1 / 2-3

Stats]Player / Matchup / Last 10 / Last 3 Months / Head-to-Head
Bisu / PvP / 8-2 / 7-2 / 1-3
free / PvP / 4-6 / 2-1 / 3-1

btw, nice map analysis