[GSL] EG.IdrA / Liquid`HayprO Foreigner Special

GanZI opted for a one barracks expand, daringly flying his first barracks from his main to wall off, using a bunker feint with a single marine to delay Haypro’s zerglings long enough to complete the wall off with a couple more barracks.

A reaper finished and killed off the ling pressure as both players macroed up, GanZI threw down a factory and Haypro continued droning while getting a fast +1 melee. GanZI moved out with a well executed siege / stim timing push, loading 8 marines into a medivac to drop the main while the remaining army approached the front. Haypro’s lings were able to chase off the drop with neither side taking any damage, but this ploy was simply a decoy while GanZI elevator dropped his main force onto the high ground at Haypro’s natural.

Haypro morphed banelings and charged up to repel the threat, but a couple constructing bunkers seemed to disrupt the baneling pathing AI, costing Haypro additional zerglings to clean it up.

Haypro’s mutalisks seized map control, but was unable to do much harass. Meanwhile, another marine drop from GanZI was able to take out the baneling nest before being chased off. Haypro started a somewhat late third at the gold expansion as GanZI set up his marine tank force around the middle watch tower. By sweeping his army through the further gold expansion Haypro was able to avoid the majority of the terran army, canceling the CC constructing at the normal third location as he ran by. When he reached GanZI’s front however the barracks wall was well defended by the most recent production wave, and Haypro found his army caught between a rock and a hard place.

With the clear advantage GanZI moved forward, again elevator dropping marines onto the natural high ground. Haypro seemingly cleaned up the disorganized push with ease, but a couple well positioned tanks and a slip in muta control cost Haypro quite a few units.

GanZI’s attack had again been two pronged. The camera had followed a cost efficient but ultimately unsuccessful attack at the front, while simultaneously a large marine drop in the main had been wreaking havoc. Having lost most of his ground forces to the tanks Haypro was forced to use his muta ball to defend it.

Terran reinforcements streamed to the gold expansion, taking it out before Haypro was able to macro up a force of his own to defend it. The uninterrupted economy of the Terran army was now apparent; GanZI was content to establish his own third and turtle up. Feeling the pressure, Haypro opened up the destructible rock pathway, but thanks to impressive marine control the zerg army was unable to do significant damage and a small terran force was able to once again shut down Haypro’s attempt at the gold third.

Down a base and an army, things looked dire for the home team hero, but Haypro managed to pick off three medivacs carrying marines with his remaining muta flock. This relief was short lived as 4 more medivacs full of marines dropped the main.

Haypro again managed to find the units to clean up the unrelenting assault, but both player’s mains and naturals mined out. Haypro managed to secure the standard third, but GanZI moved out with another marine tank force, and Haypro did not have the army necessary to defend his only mining hatchery. Confident in his advantage GanZI retreated to his third, Haypro had no option but to attack, quickly typing out gg as his army quickly disappeared.

GanZI embraced the size of Terminus RE, opting for a command center before barracks, but a drone scout informed Haypro of this quite quickly, allowing zerg to open 2 hatches before pool. As both players were macroing up GanZI moved out first with 8 marines and scanned the front of the zerg base specifically to snipe creep tumors.

Speedlings overtook the marines as they attempted to return home, and once again the game entered a macro lull, GanZI even opting to take his third as both players teched to their standard unit compositions and began upgrades. A two medivac drop reached the zerg third, but it was easily deflected by speedlings. With three base vs three base economies kicking in Haypro attempted to double expand, but great terran army positioning intimidated Haypro into sacking a recently completed hatchery and not being able to cancel the other before it was killed by a few marines.


Haypro was unable to engage GanZI’s army directly as it retreated back, nor was he using the mutalisks to do any significant harass. Again zerg attempted to claim a fourth, but as GanZI’s full force came over Haypro was forced to cancel. What followed was an interesting rendition of whack a mole, Haypro continued to try and establish a 4th base, but GanZI’s incredible awareness allowed him to repeatedly cancel or take out two more attempted hatcheries before Haypro felt comfortable to engage the terran army, narrowly saving a hatchery with red health and wiping out the main marine tank ball that had been giving him so much trouble.


Haypro didn’t have time to catch his breath however, GanZI had set up a 4th of his own fueling an incredible amount of production. The surviving mutalisk ball was unable to use the opportunity to harass, instead only being able to clean up a few stray medivacs and a drop in the main before another fearsome marine tank army pushed out. Haypro’s 4th was still in the red when the push arrived, and a few marines easily sniped it while tanks established a strong aggressive position.


Down a base and under immense pressure Haypro was forced to pull himself back into the game, deciding to use his massive muta force to harass GanZI’s main. Without hesitation the terran ball moved forward despite the trouble in his main, and was able to snipe yet another morphing hatchery as Haypro desperately pulled back his mutas to help defend.


Without Mutalisks ravaging the main GanZI again simply withdrew to a stronger defensive position as Haypro continued to desparately try and re-establish a 4th. Haypro tried to harass again, but was met with turrets and marines forcing him to withdraw. GanZI aware of the location of the muta flock took a group of marines and sniped yet another hatchery that had not begun mining yet, but this time Haypro’s army prevented the marines' retreat, killing off far more than 300 minerals worth of marines.


In response GanZI moved towards the recently finished hatchery at the original 4th location, but Haypro had anticipated it well and was able to wipe out the terran army. GanZI used this opportunity to take another base and remain one ahead. Haypro capitalized and was able to take it out, and meanwhile setting up a fifth sixth and seventh, stetching into the other starting locations. Having added thors to his army GanZI again pushed Haypro’s 4th, killing off the hatchery and re-establishing his fifth but losing his army in the process.


Haypro was unable to turn the muta ball into a meaningful advantage after the victory, but Hive tech was complete and the greater spire morphed. GanZI set up for another push, now aware of Haypro’s bases at the top main. Broodlords were making their way to the front as GanZI set up a brilliant positioning maneuver, elevator lifting the majority of his army into the 12 o’clock main and seiging up in position to defend the ramp.


From here GanZI easily took out the 6th and was working on the 5th. Haypro frantically attempted to use the Broodlords to break the position, but by taking the wrong angle he had them in range of the marines and lost them, and with them the game.



Haypro’s army made an impressive final stand, but without a single mining base GanZI had once again starved the zerg and all that remained was the anticlimactic cleanup of a truly epic game.