[WL] Race for the Prize

Flash starts off at 7 o'clock, while Kal starts at 5 o'clock. Kal is looking to avenge his fellow Protoss teammate, Shuttle, who was just dismantled by Flash. Both players seem to start off standard, Flash going FD and Kal going 1 gate core expansion. Flash moves out with 1 tank, 1 vulture, and a few marines while taking his natural, but it is denied by Kal's goons, forcing him to retreat while laying a few mines.

Kal then quickly techs to templars while adding a second gateway. He throws zealots at the mines and even kills a mine with some slick dark templar micro. Kal is able to kill a few SCVs before Flash builds a turret, making any more harassment impossible. Flash eventually feels confident enough after blocking the harassment to take a 3rd base at 9 o'clock, and Kal techs to arbiters while increasing his gateway count.





The game turns into a game of multitasking as both players divert the other's attention while harassing various places at once. Kal also takes his 3rd expansion at 3 o'clock while preparing his 4th at the top right. Flash notices that Kal divided his goons into groups of 5, and sends about 15 vultures to kill them with mines at 1 o'clock. Kal was completely prepared, however, and micros the dragoons while trapping the vultures with more goons from the bottom.



Flash then moves out, seeing that Kal had sent most of his army to 1 o'clock to kill his vultures, putting mines in the path of the dragoons coming down. Kal loses quite a lot of goons to mines, but is able to clear out half of Flash's army without losing too much with a mine drag. Flash now sees that Kal's attention is focused on the center, and sends vultures to 1 o'clock again. In the meantime, Kal attempts to counter at Flash's 3rd expansion with a few goons. Flash brings his units back to defend 9 and Kal is forced to cancel his 1 o'clock expansion but he is able to clear out the mines in the center since Flash's army retreated to protect his 3rd expansion.



The game slows down for a few seconds as Flash builds up a large number of vultures and Kal refills his army with a lot of zealots. Flash takes the 11 o'clock expansion and Kal restores his 1 o'clock expansion. The first attempted recall is denied by an EMP, and Flash tries to thin down Kal's army using 3 control group of vultures. They do minimal damage and are forced to retreat.

Kal then attempts a second recall, using his EMPed arbiter as a bait, and at the same time takes the 6 o'clock expansion. Flash reacts quickly and kills all of the recalled units with few losses. Kal also attacks Flash's 11 o'clock expansion with a few goons, forcing Flash to lift. Instead of trying to defend his expansion, Flash decides to push towards Kal's main instead. Kal fights in a bad position with no stasis and loses almost half his dragoons and all of his zealots.



Following this, Flash moves into Kal's natural and destroys all of the probes. Kal tries to attack Flash's 9 o'clock expansion but fails to do any significant damage. However, Kal has 5 mining bases and macros a large enough army to push Flash's army back and saves his natural nexus. Flash manages to barely take out the 3 o'clock nexus before all of his tanks are cleared out. Flash then takes both 11 o'clock and 11 o'clock natural at the same time to compensate for his economic disadvantage.



The players now constantly fight over the center. Kal first clears the center using stasis, but Flash follows up with reinforcements and kills Kal's army right as the units come out of stasis. Flash then pushes towards Kal's 1 o'clock expansion, but it is quickly killed by Kal's reinforcements. Kal sends his arbiter to 11 o'clock for a recall, but Flash responds immediately by floating his command center and saving all of his scvs. Kal realizes that the recall will now be useless, and moves down to recall Flash's 11 o'clock natural expansion, but an EMP hits before he is able to. This move was critical as Protoss would have been able to easily outmacro the Terran had that recall went through.



Kal rebuilds his 3 o'clock expansion, and the map is now divided exactly in half. The two players move their units up and down as the commentators ramble on about how that recall would have completely destroyed the Terran. The two players play very passively for the next few minutes with Kal trying to take the 12 o'clock expansion but being denied, and sacrificing a few zealots to make room for more arbiters.

Knowing that he can't win against a Terran splitting the map in half, Kal techs to carrier. Flash scans the two cores right away, and realizes that Kal is going carriers. Kal knows he needs to do something and attempts to recall 1 o'clock, but the vessel EMP's the arbiter. He tries again right away, but this time loses his arbiter to turrets before he can recall. He tries for the third time, recalling as the arbiter died to the turrets only to find Flash's army standing there, ready to take out Kal's recalled army.



Kal continues to delay Flash from taking the 12 o'clock expansion with a recall on top of Flash's army. After trading units in a fight, Kal refills his army with carriers, and Flash, with goliaths. Flash uses the timing window while Kal builds up his carrier army to take out Kal's natural expansion and his 11 o'clock natural expansion. Kal, to buy time, recalls his remaining ground force to 12 o'clock and cancels Flash's command center.

Flash clears out the recalled army, and moves out to the center while taking the center expansion. Kal now finally moves his carriers towards Flash's main base. He also probe rushes Flash's 11 o'clock main expansion, taking out every SCV. Kal has built up more than 1 control group of carriers and he tries to wear down the turrets and goliaths at Flash's natural. Kal knows killing the factories is his only chance, but Flash has too many goliaths and only targets interceptors knowing Kal is low in money.



The first person view shows Kal with 3 digit minerals, quickly decreasing and Flash with over 4000 minerals and gas. Kal tries to break Flash's natural again with psionic storms, arbiters and carriers, but Flash has too many goliaths. Kal uses recalls to bring the carriers to 12 and 6, constantly harassing both top and the bottom. However, Flash is prepared with turrets and goliaths, and Kal, after losing all of his interceptors and with no money to replace them, types in the gg and leaves the game.