All mighty obs:

• T_POA
• :+:SlipKnoT:+:
• curryfreak (me)

Fractal lands at 2:00 as brown Terran

Slings spawns at 8:00 as orange Zerg

Slings scouts counterclockwise with his initial ovie. Sorry, but I'm not reallyattentive when it comes to observing the build orders. After the game I asked Slingswhat his bo was and he told me he improvised as he went along. As for Fractal, well, I couldn't find him afterwards.

Anyway, Fractal ops not to wall-in and goes depot first. Slings ovie finds nothing at 6 and continues building drones sending one to scout 12. The SCV that finishes building the first depot starts to scout counterclockwise also as another SCV builds Fractal's first barracks. Drone that was sent to 12 finds nothing and Slings starts on a 2nd Hatch in his main. Before his first barracks is finished, Fractal starts construction of a second one, maybe for a quick marine rush. Meanwhile, his SCV finds Slings' stationary drone at 12.

A few more lings follow as Slings upgrades his main hatch into a lair, one is sent to camp outside Fractal's base to warn of any attack. A hydralisk den then begins to spawn as Fractal slaps down a comsat. 8 marines begin march to Slings' base and encounters Slings' lone ling. The ling is taken care of but not before warning of an incoming attack.

For prep, Slings stations a few lings near the top of his ramp with more to follow. The hydra den hatches just as Fractal's marines is halfway to its destination followed with addtion of two medics and two more rines or just some slow one from the previous group. An important creep colony is laid down right next to Slings' refinary. As more lings are added to his collection, Slings ops to move his swarm from top of ramp to the top left corner of his base. At this time, Fractal starts on his factory.

His terran troops gather at Slings natural as more fresh meat continue to march across map. Some lings and hydras gather near the sunken that has spawned from the creep next to Slings' refinary as they prepare for an attack. Fractal's M&M force marches up Slings' ramp uncontested and gathers momentarily just out of enemy range. The initial scouting SCV starts work on a offensive bunker off to the side of Slings' base.

M&M's engage Slings' frontline of a sunken, lings and a hydra or two as the lings he hid in the corner attack from a different direction, a sandwich of sorts that splits the attention of the Terran force. Seeing this, Fractal retreats his remaining 6 rines and 2 medics to the bunker that's under construction as more reinforcements arrive. Slings retreats his lings off to the side waiting for more hydras to hatch.

Fractal's factory completes and a machine shop and a ebay is added to his tech. The terran force attacks once again. This time from the right flank. Lings, hydras and sunkens are able to hold off attack quite successfully. The Terran troops are decimated, but enough reinforcements arrive to fill up the bunker.

Slings replenishes his swarm with more lings as Fractal's machine shop add-on is done. Another ling is sent to the outside of Fractal's base to camp. Evolution to lurkers is completed and immediately hydras start to morph.

Meanwhile, Fractal's ebay completes and a turret is hastily thrown up. Another turret starts construction near the top to Fractal's ramp. Just as the first turret is completed, Slings orders his swarm in to rid of Fractal's offensive outpost. Bunker, turret and troops alike are torn apart. During battle a tank has joined the turret at Fractal's cliff as he goes on the defensive.

Wasting little time, Slings orders his victorious troops toward Fractal's base just as another turret is being built near the bottom of Fractal's ramp. As his swarm makes way eastward, Slings expands to his natural.

Fractal starts on a starport as he concentrates on defense building it around his newly built turret at the bottom of the ramp. Some of Fractal's marines that are moved to cover the defensive construction encounters Slings' lone ling and eliminates it thus warning Slings of Fractal's new developement. Immediately he halts his swarm in the mid of the map as Fractal throws down a bunker, a few more tanks and more infantry at his defensive front.

2 drones are ordered to evolve into 2 evo's as another goes to the 12 main starting position. Slings morphs a few more lurks as the few he brought along burrows just outside of Fractal's entrance. A tower is added to the starport and a 2nd CC is under constrution on the edge of Fractal's cliff. Drones are maynared to Slings newly hatched expansion . Not much in terms of defense is present at this expo.

Playing it safe, Fractal sets up some defense in the heart of his main as he comtemplates a drop. Slings' lurkers are burrowed in such a way that it covers the wide pathway leading to and out of Fractal's entrance (plz, no sick thoughts.) Fractal begins to float his CC to his natural as the drone at 12 starts another hatch. Whispers of whoring circles the crowd. =)

The lurkers burrowed outside of Fractal's entrance are unable to eliminate the terran force as they march towards the 12 main, but it warns Slings of the advacing force as he sends a few hydras, hoping to reach there in time.

A 3rd barracks is added. Meanwhile a dropship comes online and loads some troops as Slings sends another drone, this time to the 12 natural. The rines reach the 12 main and forces Slings to cancel his hatch, the drone is not spared. The troops then station themselves at the top of the ramp not realizing Slings' new expo inches away (on my screen, that is). Fractal's dropship makes it way to the cliff overlooking Slings' natural. The dropship encounters a ovie in its way that delays his drop as he waits for reinforcements. Fractal begins a sci facility for mobile detection and maybe some irradiating.

The hydras that Slings sent earlier finally arrive, but are slaughtered as they march up the ramp. More lurkers are morphed at Slings main and he loads 4 of them into two ovies to head towards the cliff overlooking Fractal's natural expo.

Fractal adds another dropship of troops to his awaiting one and both unload at different ends of the cliff. They proceed to drive off the ovie. Meanwhile, another hatch is started at Slings' min only and a drone is sent to the main at 6 and the min only at 12.

The ovies reach their destination but float gayly idle. Harassment from tanks forces Slings to maynard the gathering drones to his expo at the 12 natural as Fractal shoves a quick turbo newbie up a pretty unprepared ass, ouch! Slings tries to retaliate by dropping some hydras on the other side of the cliff, but is no match for Fractal's offensive manuever.

Yet another hatch is started at the 6 main as a sci vessel comes online for Fractal. Hmm...could the momentum change? Terran reinforcements come to help out Fractal's outpost upon the cliff as the surviving tank unseiges and seiges to get within blasting radius of the hatch below.

A second factory is constructed for faster tank construction. Another dropship of troops is ferried to the cliff overlooking the 12 natural's mins and soon arclite fire fills the air. Meanwhile, the hatch at 6 is completed and Slings loads some ovies full of hydras which head towards the terran main. Zerg reinforcements try to halt the terran attacks at the 12 natural, but fail, miserably I might add.

Please follow along with above image:

A. The idle ovies stationed to the south of Fractal's natural finally come to life as one of them unloads its sacs of two lurkers who dance around merrily. As the other ovies hovers outside Fractal's main, Slings orders the other ovie to release its package within the expo itself.

B. This only serves as a distraction as a shitload of ovies(5 total =]) drop 20 hydras within Fractal's main. Terran troops are immediately sent to engage the swarm.

C. Suddenly the hydras stop spitting and start morphing into lurkers! Meanwhile, the hatch at the 12 natural falls and Fractal's cc from his expo floats back to his main.

D. 4 lurkers miraculously evolve and burrow giving Fractal a sharp pain in his groins as he has to deal with them pesky thorn thingees from the ground. The 2 surviving lurkers from the first engagements are added to the picture as they are dropped on the other side of Fractal's main.

E. However, quick reflexes with tanks and comsats save the day with the lost of a factory Seeing this, Slings decides to send in the two hands full of units he had stationed outside Fractal's base as his ovies return home. Slings is successful in taking out the blockade at the bottom of Fractal's ramp but at the cost of all his units

F. He decides to send in another handful of hydras, but Fractal has already begun adding to his defense at the top of his ramp. Unmoved, Slings starts a hatch at the 12 min only. The hydras attempt to march up Fractal's ramp but is only able to take out one tank.

A queen's nest is added to Slings evolutionary process for hive evolution purposes. Fractal refloats his cc back to his natural and sends some troops down the ramp to protect it. Another dropship is loaded and heads towards the 6 main, but is spotted by Slings' lings outside of Fractal's base. Fractal's expo comes online again as Slings prepares for another drop again.

The fire begins to rain down on Slings' min only, but he can only send the drones to mine the min only at 12 for he has more important matters to concentrate on.

The hydras in Fractal's base start attacking which lure the terran troops guarding the entrance back up the ramp to engage the zerg threat. Unluckily for Fractal, another caravan of zergs sandwich his existing troops from the opposite side as they enter his base via ramp. As his expo falls, Fractal can only float all the buildings he can salvage towards the 12 main and desperately construct some defense at the top of the ramp.

The remaining stationary buildings are destroyed and some hydras are sent to follow the fleeing buildings, but Fractal manages to handle it without further complications. Slings pauses for a moment as he builds up troops again and throws down , among other things, a ULTRALISK CAVERN, a nydus canal, and a spire. Oh yeah, the expansion whore has also added a hatch at the min only at 6 and the min only at 3 AND a little later on, one at Fractal's old natural. Fractal on the other hand goes through another painful rebuilding of his base.

Slings, trying to be the pimp he is drops a drone at the edge of Fractal's base in hopes of building a offensive hatch. No doubt praying to his god that he'd be able to use the first nydus canal ever in his life (plz, it's called exageration, do not flame). The party becomes stale as 2 rines forces the cancellation. Bummer.

The swarm grows with each passing second.

A few ultralisk adds to the excitement as we count down to the end. Slings tries a pathetic 3 ovie drop, but goes over a speed bump of sorts (the turbo newbie still at the top of cliff overlooking his natural) and manages only a 2 ovie drop of hydras and lings. Boring, next.

With a surviving hydra, he morphs an unattractive lurker, which is luckily put to sleep by some rines. Oh yeah, upgrade alerts....I know, a little late, but stfu cause this is my report. =]

Hydras = 3/3

Lurkers = 3

Marines = 1/2

Ultralisks = 5/1(yikes!)

Fractal asks for vision right before two ultras greet him at his front door! Helloooooo ladies! 2 ultras with 5 armor > a shitload of terran units. Of course, Fractal ain't that happy with fate. Hydras join the party and a sci vessel puts a defensive matrix on each of the ultras. Why, how very cute!

Well, more fuxing lurkers are morphed and Fractal is history. But not before an UNORIGIONAL drone drop of doom (the DDD) from Slings!! >=] Fractal starts a round of gg's and leaves as the game empties out.

I feel so lucky to have been able to watch this exciting matchup. It wasn't heavily one-sided, but Slings pretty much had everything under control most of the time. Why Fractal didn't make much use of his sci-vessels, I do not know...or probably overlooked. Fractal, plz flame me in forum. Both macro and micro were consistent on both parties who played a great game while also conversing with each other and the other obs. Sorry, I didn't talk much cause I have never really taken SS's for a br before so I was panicking on what to take and what not to take. I ended up with 250+ pics. Anyway, thanks to players and thanks to the other observers.

Top 10 reasons why I should get a 10 for this!

10. Copyrighted and trade-marked players and observers....well, except me. =(

9. Cause it my first fuxing br!

8. Flashy Flash intro(if it shows up).

7. Will probably cause uncountable amounts of server crashes due to the shitload of time it takes to load.

6. Cause I have the balls to use the words "shitload" tm, and "coolios" tm.

5. I got cheese! i.e. offensive bunker, turbo newbie, offensive hatch

4. D-matrixed ultras! Hell, ultras alone should get me 10's!

3. I have no life cause I sold it to StarCraft for a losing record on b.net. aka ownMEplease!

2. Big pimping expansion whore draws big crowds.

1. And the number one reason is......*drumroll* you made it all the way here! +I'm smiling pretty gayly right now. =D Thx for reading, hope you enjoyed.

Signing out,