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[vaned]	HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
[sAs421]	Of course
[vaned]	I trust that guy!
[sAs421]	I will do that!
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	[FLS]prozerran is in hall of fame for Battle Reporting
[[FLS]prozerran]	...
[From MuChO~dInErO]	we will ally you, don't worry bout these other freaks
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	at BattleReports.com
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	gogogo!
[sAs421]	I am goingt o send all my units to be reported by you before they attacj

(perhaps this is what they think battle reporting was)

[MUCHO`MUCHO]	You are scared ??
[vaned]	hahah, me too
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	I understand fear is strong
[vaned]	I have to check in after minerals right?
[From: MuChO~dInErO]	i hope you're getting screen shots of this
[To: MuChO~dInErO:]	hell yes
[sAs421]	and then I will ask the reporter if i can attack or no
[vaned]	why don't i go gt 2 friends to co-battle report?
[[FLS]prozerran]	I could get more ppl
[vaned]	da fuck is this?
[Sp|ne:]	plzplzplzplzplzplzplzplz
[sAs421]	what the fuck it's a scenario map setting u dummy
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	I can remake on mellee
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	I figured you didnt want the loss
[Sp|ne]	okay?
[vaned]	jesus?
[Sp|ne]	yes
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	I dont ally at end
[sAs421]	they are so gone!
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	you are gonna loose bad
[MUCHO`dInErO]	I HAVE A BIGGER PENIS THEN FSLPRZARARAN
[Sp|ne]	i am

Game started.....

[MUCHO`MUCHO]	this map sucks
[sAs421]	???
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	I got a REAL money map
[MUCHO`dInErO]	plans?
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	talk shit
[MUCHO`MUCHO]	win
[vaned]	y is there a CC in my base?
[[FLS]prozerran]	cuz you didn't share vision you dumbshit
[sAs421]	wtf 6v2 huh?
[Sp|ne]	there are 6 people in the game
[Sp|ne]	2+6=6
[Sp|ne]	bgh logic
[[FLS]prozerran]	BGHers owns

Of course Whoop went with his great opening of 5 hatcheries before pool, and owned the experts with 2 sets of queens. Drefsab was doing the similar, but without the foresight of the possibility that his opponent *might* build mutalisks, his queens can only watch the mutas slowly destroying his sporeless base. While I was enjoying Dref's downfall, my floating CC was found and a dozen of hydras were sent to destroy the defenseless structure in the air. Doh! No more reporting for me!

However, I did capture a few shots of the conversation after one guy got killed.

[sAs421]	u suck
[[FLS]prozerran]	why did you kill me?
[[FLS]prozerran]	you homo
[sAs421]	don't piss me off more or i will get violent u cocksucker
[[FLS]prozerran]	do you understand what observing a game mean?
[To: Sp|ne]	heh I'm trashtalking with this guy here now
[sAs421]	don't u understanding what shuttin gyour hole means?
[From: Sp|ne]	get screens
[[FLS]prozerran]	the fact that you suck?
[sAs421]	u suck dicks like all your clan asshole
[[FLS]prozerran]	you're a moron
[sAs421]	sure i suck less than u do fatass
[sAs421]	no u and all your family are
[[FLS]prozerran]	you're a moron who kill an observer and then got killed
[[FLS]prozerran]	dumbass
[[FLS]prozerran]	you're a dumbass
[sAs421]	shut the fuck up
[[FLS]prozerran]	you suck dick!
[sAs421]	why don't you get punched until you cry like a girl homo
[[FLS]prozerran]	did you lose cuz you suck?
[sAs421]	no cause u suck dicks
[[FLS]prozerran]	I bet you're the one cryin huh? LOSER
[sAs421]	that's why i lost
[[FLS]prozerran]	hrm you lost cuz I suck dick... hrm...
[sAs421]	hahahahaha go suck ur mum's dick
[[FLS]prozerran]	you're a dumbass
[sAs421]	HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[sAs421]	shut your hole you homo
[sAs421]	you wish you could play i know i know
[[FLS]prozerran]	rofl you're stupid
[[FLS]prozerran]	have anyone remind you that yet?
[sAs421]	sure i am like you faggot
[sAs421]	no you are the first one weird he
[sAs421]	maybe cause u are a moron?
[[FLS]prozerran]	cuz you suck ass that's why you lost?
[[FLS]prozerran]	tell me why you lose
[[FLS]prozerran]	say it more to yourself that you suck ass

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In the end, Whoop and Drefsab broke into the other guy's main base consisting of 34 cannons, 12 templars, 4 archons, around 10 carriers and shield batteries, with the combination of plague, darkswarm, parasite, ensnare, and broodlings.

It was a great shame that I could not observe the entire game. My quest moved on until one day Sp|ne told me to join his channel. There I found 3 NWTR members and 3 other nohunters regulars: 2Gosu4U (Sp|ne), DisgruntledApe, T_Mac, ~LifeIsPeachy~, Bane-The-Feared, and BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa. They were discussing a hideous plan. A plan that no one had ever imagined before. A plan that requires a lot of patience and luck to set up. A plan that would make any other plans shame. The plan, is to find 5 great players playing a chaotic FFA on the ever popular map BGH on the best speed fastest while all selected the imbalanced terrans!

As the countdown ended, I floated my CC and ordered my SCV to terminate their breathen, while Sp|ne, being the other fellow observer, did the same. Soon afterwards we got vision from all other 5 players and this was what I saw:

Now that we've seen their starting location, let's do a small introduction to each of our players:

DisgruntledApe:	A old time NH/NWTR regular who improved himself so much last summer that he was then considered one of the best NWTR players out there. He was a very friendly and skillful player out there, and he was very funny at times too! He had contributed a number of reports during the inception of this site and you can find his reports here.
T_Mac:	I'm sure most people who come to this site regularly would know about T_Mac. Ohhh, our great T_Mac, forever the representation of gayhood! The origin of T_Mac's gay image was started last summer, when T_Mac was known to disconnect over 50% of his games even when he's winning. The exact reason was unknown, but T_Mac blamed it on his crappy computer system and his unstable ISP. He had also been around since this site's birth. View his reports here, although his reports are gay like him.
Bane-The-Feared:	He is a recent frequent report contributor who writes many good reports in a short period of time. He is rather new to the nohunters and BR.com community, but through several interacts with him I find that he is easy-going and talkative. He is very demanding though, as he insisting every one of us raters to spend our valuable SC time to rate his reports.
~LifeIsPeachy~:	He had been around for quite a long time. I had seen him in nohunters for about a year, and his level of skills was among the high end in nohunters. He is usually rather quiet so I didn't get to know him too well.
BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa:	A true nohunters regular (enuf said!)
Sp|nE:	He was recently recognized as one of the best reporter at BR.com. He latest reports are truly masterpiece! I recommend you to check out his reports! Aside from his writings, he was also known for his exceptionally dark eyebrows and his irrationality.

Just as most other FFA, every player started giving out misinformation about their race and comments. T_Mac first threatened other to tell the truth while DisgruntledApe retaliated BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's lies with disturbing cuss... "This is war. No one can trust others. No one can be trusted." ~Anonymous

Now that we have five lying terrans out there battling their way out in Big Game Hunters, we're deemed to see different openings that would make this to be a true FFGay. Let's take a look at everyone's early build:

BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa:	He decided that he will be the biggest turtler and started his first bunker at his choke point while producing marines from one barracks. He slowly added 2 more factories for tanks for siege defenses. He also forgo com-sat and chose nuclear silo as his first addon for his CC.
Bane-The-Feared:	He guessed that everyone will be using the popular TvT tactics, mass wraiths, and decided to build the exact counter early on: marines and goliaths, all from 3 barracks and 3 factories.
~LifeIsPeachy~:	His early build order was risky, as he constructed an additional CC above his original one before his first barracks. However, with the early boost of SCVs trained from 2 CC his early economy was very strong. He jumped directly to wraiths from 3 starports without a single tank.
DisgruntledApe:	His plan was similar to ~LifeIsPeachy~'s, except he construct his CC after his barracks, and build a bunker behind depot at his choke as defenses. His when his second CC was done, he added 2 com-sat on both his CC for better recon. He also went 3 port wraiths, clearly taking the advantage of his opponents' detection problem.
T_Mac:	His early decision could not surpass his nature, that he expanded early to his natural, fortified it with a bunker, tank, and an ass load of medics. Mining from 3 gas node and 25 mineral patches, T_Mac soon constructed 4 stargates and a science facility with physics lab addon. He also had 2 e-bays and 2 armories for upgrades.

Let's take a look at the mass CC in ~LifeIsPeachy~ and DisgruntledApe's base...

Now we have 5 players (and 2 observers) but 10 CC. Only Bane-The-Feared and BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa had 1 CC. They were clearly behind in terms of number of CC. However, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa was happy about his mass tanks/goliath blockade and was content with his single CC at main. Bane-The-Feared was not content with his main base only, and decided to expand to his natural below BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's main base. However, Bane-The-Feared was unable to mine too long as BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa quickly sieged a tank directly above the expansion in his main across from the river, and destroyed several SCV's until Bane-The-Feared moved them away. Bane-The-Feared retaliated by sending a group of marines and medics towards BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's main, only to be met by a fully loaded bunker, 2 goliaths and 4 tanks. The marine force only managed to destroy one tanks that was not well covered by others, and 6 remaining marines hastily retreated from the arclite fire and ran to the unoccupied top left main. BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's tank above his natural expansion still remained and prevented Bane-The-Feared from mining any minerals there.

While BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa and Bane-The-Feared was busy fighting each other at the top, DisgruntledApe took his newly built wraiths (7 of them) and sent them towards ~LifeIsPeachy~'s main, which is still detectionless. Although ~LifeIsPeachy~ had recently built an Engineering Bay, he did not have enough time to erect turrets or comsat for detection. DisgruntledApe's 7 wraiths were having a field day destroying a great number of SCVs until ~LifeIsPeachy~ finally built a turret with 6 SCV repairing to drive off ape's wraiths. ~LifeIsPeachy~ lost around 10 SCV, but he also expanded to his natural with his extra CC in order to compensate the minor economy loss.

Fearing swift revenge from Bane-The-Feared, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa desired a contract with Bane-The-Feared, saying "orange, I won't tank your expansion if you don't attack me for 17 minutes and 32 seconds." BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa was surely a great diplomat and was attempting to utilize his negotiation skills to face less opponents. I didn't know whether Bane-The-Feared secretly agreed to this, but BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's tank above Bane's expansion was removed elsewhere. Bane-The-Feared quickly retook his natural expansion and began the construction of 3 factories and one starport for higher tech units.

While Bane-The-Feared and BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa were having their nice conversation, ~LifeIsPeachy~ decided to use action instead of words, by invading DisgruntledApe's land with 7 wraiths for revenge. However, during DisgruntledApe's previous attack on ~LifeIsPeachy~, he noticed ~LifeIsPeachy~'s wraiths build already and had erected a good number of turrets surrounding his main, and ~LifeIsPeachy~'s aluminum foils were completely destroyed by turrets and wraiths without doing any substantial damage at all.

T_Mac was very happily mining from 2 bases and was proud of his 4 starports and physics lab. However he did not jump to battle cruisers immediately. Instead he constructed 8 wraiths first for scouting missions, killed Bane-The-Feared's detectionless marines at the top left main, and proceeded to ~LifeIsPeachy~'s natural expansion which was fortified by 2 turrets and 4 wraiths and a valkyrie. The battle turned out to be on T_Mac favor, since T_Mac's cloaked wraiths destroyed 3 of ~LifeIsPeachy~'s wraiths before he could react, and 5 wraiths from T_Mac remained while ~LifeIsPeachy~ reinforced with 3 after losing the first 4 wraiths and the turrets. Strangely T_Mac retreated his remaining wraiths and began the construction of another expansion at bottom middle (6 o'clock) beside DisgruntledApe's main and defended it with 5 turrets and a tank. He also stopped wraith production and started building BC's.

However, before T_Mac could mine at his new expansion, DisgruntledApe spotted his expansion with a flying CC, and he sent a huge fleet of wraiths and valkyries to destroy the already fortified expansion. A grand total of about 20 wraiths and 3 valkyries were sent against 5 turrets and 5 wraiths. The battle did not end prettily as T_Mac drew off DisgruntledApe's wraiths after losing 4 turrets and 4 wraiths, but destroyed all but 4 of DisgruntledApe's wraiths. DisgruntledApe repaired his wraiths and reinforced with 3 more, to a total of 7 wraiths, and quickly destroyed T_Mac's remaining turret and lone wraith. At this time, T_Mac had finally finished 4 BC, but decided not to show their face for the surprise element.

DisgruntledApe floated his CC over and set up his first expansion. He was confident that his expansion will be not attacked and forgo any defenses there, except turrets. After the fall of his expansion at 6, T_Mac was not discouraged and constructed another expansion at the middle left starting location (8 o'clock) undetected, and built 4 barracks pumping mass marines to counter DisgruntledApe's wraiths.

While T_Mac and DisgruntledApe were battling at the bottom, Bane-The-Feared happily took another expansion which was directly below BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's main since he said he won't tank his expansion. Despite BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's 8 tanks standing beside Bane-The-Feared's new expansion, he did not dare to break his promise to attack it, and Bane-The-Feared fortified the expansion with 12 assorted infantry and 2 tanks, and happily mined from 3 bases.

Let's pause a while to summarize some information about the players:

Player	Upgrades	Army choice	Base count
BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa:	1/2 for vehicles	tank/goliath/nuke	1
Bane-The-Feared:	none	marine/tank/goliath	3
~LifeIsPeachy~:	1/1 air	wraith/valk/vessel	2
DisgruntledApe:	none	wraith/valk/BC	2
T_Mac:	1/1 air and infantry	BC/marine	2

Now that Bane-The-Feared had successfully establish 3 mining bases, he grew weary of BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's threat of 8 tanks sieged about a screen away from his expansion. He sent 2 cloaked wraiths against the defenseless tanks, and you can move your mouse on top of the picture to see what happened.

At this time, T_Mac grew tired of the turtling and powering opponents at the top, and launched his attack with 8 BC at Bane-The-Feared's new expansion at the middle top location. The BC easily overpowered Bane-The-Feared's few marines, but a fearful message threaten the BC to retreat: "Nuclear Launch Detected"

Nuke is the most threatening attack a terran has in late game. It can potentially kill a mining base, a fleet of tanks, goliaths, wraith, and even slightly damaged BC. Launched by a cloaking ghost, it was very difficult to locate the ghost in time to stop the nuke from falling. Especially as terrans, sieged tanks sometimes cannot reach the ghost even when it is detected, and a medium sized wraith force cannot take down a matrixed ghost in time before the nuke exploded. It is surely a deadly weapon in a terran FFA game, since no one can tell who launch the nuke, and everyone will freak out looking for the red dot after hearing "Nuclear Launch Detected." T_Mac, surely did not want to risk losing his fleet of BC that he spent most of his time building, withdrew his force to safety, and let the nuke fell on Bane-The-Feared's new expansion. It was later found out that BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa launched that nuke, since he did not dare to break his promise that he would not tank Bane-The-Feared's expansions. After the nuke, he took the natural expansion above T_Mac's main and began mass goliath production.

This first nuke had shaken everyone in the game. Under the mushroom cloud there remained a burning CC. All tanks, scv, marines and turrets were destroyed by one single nuke. T_Mac was clearly wiping his ass after he shit in his pants for almost losing his BC fleet, and moved all his BC back to his main for repair. Nonetheless, T_Mac was no other cowardy StarCraft player. He noticed BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's new expansion and decided to terminate it with his BC; however, T_Mac's pure BC strat encountered BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's pure goliath strat. Pounded by about 20 Hellfire Missiles every second, T_Mac's BC quickly retreated back to his main, but not before BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's CC was reduced to merely 200 hp. T_Mac tried to yamato the CC from a distance, but 8 SCV frantically repairing the CC saved it from the blast. Although T_Mac did not lose any BC, all his BC were badly damaged and sent back home for repair. At this time, T_Mac constructed 4 barracks at the bottom left starting location and established his 3rd base there. His infantry upgrade reached 2/2 already while his BC were 2/2 as well.

Not being touched for quite a while, ~LifeIsPeachy~ was finally able to build up his economy and his choice of fleet: mass vessels. I'm not quite sure why he wanted to do that, but I think he just wanted to be cute and build the same amount of vessels as his wraiths, which numbered to around 20 before he launched his attack on Bane-The-Feared. About 20 matrixed wraiths were sent to Bane-The-Feared's natural expansion, where Bane-The-Feared defended with mainly goliaths and bunker. Wraiths did 9 damage per shot while goliaths were doing 20, and wraiths and goliaths had roughly the same hit-points. This wraiths vs goliath battle reminded me of this newbie fact: goliaths owns wraiths, matrixed or not.

For you smart people out there, you have probably noticed the fearful message appeared on the screen again while Bane-The-Feared and ~LifeIsPeachy~ were battling it out. "Nuclear Launch Detected" Could it be BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa again? Or had the silent DisgruntledApe teched to nukes yet? Or ~LifeIsPeachy~ used his matrixed wraiths as decoy for a successful nuke? No one but the launcher knew where the dot were, including the puzzled observers, Sp|ne and yours truly. Nevertheless, I did not miss the nuke, since my main attention was there at that time. That's right. The nuke hit Bane-The-Feared's natural expansion when ~LifeIsPeachy~'s last wraith exploded in the air, destroying at least 20 SCVs, a group of goliaths, other structures but the CC immediately. After the nuke landed, I finally located BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's ghost located above Bane-The-Feared's expansion happily reported his successful nuke on poor Bane-The-Feared.

While a pathetic wraith vs goliath war was taking place at the top, T_Mac's 4 barracks at the bottom had gathered around 20 pure marines and were sent to attack DisgruntledApe's new expansion at 6. At that time, DisgruntledApe constructed 7 barracks there and began marine production when T_Mac's infantry arrived. T_Mac's marines quickly defeated DisgruntledApe's low number of wraiths via com-sat, but DisgruntledApe trained more marines very quickly with 7 barracks and finally fought off the marines while losing 2 barracks and several turrets.

This was not T_Mac's main offensive though. After getting rid of , DisgruntledApe's wraiths and turrets, his BC charged the expansion, and two full control groups of marines do not do too well to almost a control group of BCs. The BC quickly destroy the barracks, turrets, and DisgruntledApe's CC there. Without much anti-BC, DisgruntledApe was forced to erect as many turrets as he could in his main base, and continued building wraiths to counter the BCs.

At the same time, Bane-The-Feared was surely pissed off by the nuke killing off half of his mineral intake, but since he did not know who launch the nuke, and blamed it on ~LifeIsPeachy~ who had a great sense of efficiency attacking him with wraiths. Over 20 goliaths, a few firebats, and a couple of science vessels were sent towards ~LifeIsPeachy~'s expansion then his main, plundering everything in sight. ~LifeIsPeachy~ had a few wraiths and ghosts, but without a force of m&m or tanks, his forces were quickly destroyed despite his vessel's casting matrix over and over again on one wraith when it was facing 20 goliath. Go wraith go matrix!

While Bane-The-Feared launched his all out offensive on ~LifeIsPeachy~, he attempted to delay other players by launching his own nuke at BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's choke point. The nuke aimed at 8 sieged tanks that were covered by about 10 goliaths and Bane-The-Feared used his CC as a distraction and float it towards BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's goliaths to attract fire. Let's see what happened after the nuke:

BOOM!! Did I mention that nuke was the greatest anti-turtle tool? Bane-The-Feared's nuke brought down at least 8 tanks, 10 goliaths, and 6 ghosts as well as a science vessel. Bane-The-Feared had not only stall a possible offensive on him by BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa, but also had destroyed a large force that was threatening his 3rd expansion. Sweet revenge made for BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's two nukes that landed on two of Bane-The-Feared's expansions earlier. This sudden huge loss of troops outraged BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa, and he started to accuse Bane-The-Feared for attacking him and spoke in Swahili:

To retaliate, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa quickly deployed a matrixed ghost above Bane's main across the water to launch another nuke on Bane-The-Feared's burning CC, decimated it despite its attempt to float away. At the same time, T_Mac also sent his newly enlisted marines to attack Bane-The-Feared's 3rd expansion in the top middle location, successfully destroyed the bunker defense and the CC, but were stopped by Bane-The-Feared's reinforcement consisting of 3 siege tanks and several goliaths.

Back in the south, where DisgruntledApe was battling T_Mac's BC. T_Mac had successfully removed DisgruntledApe's expansion and proceeded to his main. However, DisgruntledApe reacted in an unusual way as a good player that he is, erected over 12 turrets covering his choke and minerals. T_Mac was only able to destroy a number of DisgruntledApe's depots that his massive turret fleet could not reach. It seems like DisgruntledApe was hopeless to save himself from mass BC, but then a message saved him.

DisgruntledApe knew it was not him. T_Mac knew it was not himself as well, but he decided to play safe and retreated his BC from DisgruntledApe's main back to the bottom middle of the map where no one had anything. However, it soon turned out to be BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's nuke, when he admitted to nuke Bane-The-Feared again. The sad Bane-The-Feared frantically unsieged all his tanks and moved all his troops away, but he could not find the dot. A few seconds later, the nuke landed, not at Bane-The-Feared, but at T_Mac's natural expansion! Sneaky BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa... The nuke blasted every single SCVs and turrets stood at the expansion.

T_Mac probably was having a great time though, since he was actually happy that BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa had nuked him to free up his supply so that he could build more marines and BC. He stopped his offense again to train more units; but Bane-The-Feared did not allow that. I'm sure that he was pissed off at T_Mac for destroying one of his expansion, and targeted a nuke at T_Mac's sexy medics in the entrance of his natural expansion. T_Mac found the dot before the nuke landed, but his tanks could not reach the ghost and he could not move his units away in time, and his frontal defense consisting of a bunker and a tank was decimated. This time T_Mac was not happy anymore. One side note, ~LifeIsPeachy~'s main was finally leveled by Bane-The-Feared's goliaths and Bane-The-Feared also took his main base as an expansion while ~LifeIsPeachy~ entered observing mode with his last science facility left in the air.

Since he was nuked by BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa earlier, T_Mac assumed it was BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa who nuked him the second time. Scanning all locations at the top, he found that BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa had not only expanded to his natural expansion, but also the top left starting location, pumping goliaths like a madman! T_Mac commented on BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's expansions and asked everyone to attack BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa because he had 3 bases while no one else had more then 2.

Bane-The-Feared, however, did not listen to T_Mac. Instead, he pulled back his goliaths that decimated ~LifeIsPeachy~'s main and attacked T_Mac after clearing his frontal defense from the front with the nuke. T_Mac had about 10 BC and a handful of marines at his bottom left expansion, but for some reason he decided to let his main go while reconstructing 3 starports and more barracks at his bottom left expansion, concentrating on mass marines now. He was not idle despite his main was falling, and attacked BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa with his BC and marines. It was fairly successful since many goliaths were destroyed by Bane-The-Feared's previous nuke, and BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's goliaths were only able to take down 3 BC with them. BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's natural expansion were quickly destroyed by marines and BC, but BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa pulled out Heartcutter's micromanagement handbook and learned to lockdown 2 BC while his tanks and goliaths eliminated the marines quickly. During the time when T_Mac's BC were engaging BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's new set of goliaths, Bane-The-Feared noticed the war and launched a nuke on a lockdowned BC. Although he could not see the dot, T_Mac figured the nuke will be on the lockdown BC, and moved his remaining 4 BC away while the nuke killed one BC while badly damaged the other. T_Mac's remaining BC charged at BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa again, but without marine support, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's massive number of goliaths overpowered the four BC while losing only about five goliaths.

It didn't take too long for Bane-The-Feared to level T_Mac's defenseless main base, and he headed for DisgruntledApe with his victorious goliaths and marines while reexpanded to his natural again. To show his frustrating about his supplies, he yelled:

So far DisgruntledApe seemed to be at a give up mode, since he had not been building anything useful yet. He rebuilt 5 CC at his main with nuclear silos and started jumping ghosts. His front defense consisting of a single bunker behind a depot that he constructed in the beginning of the game proved to be fairly successful. Well, successful enough for DisgruntledApe to launch a nuke at Bane-The-Feared's troops that were clogging at DisgruntledApe's troops! I could not believe my eyes when the nuke landed on over 12 goliaths, 24 or so infantry, and a vessel. It was a fugly nuke that truly deserved another animated GIF!

Right before DisgruntledApe's nuke landed, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa pointed a red dot at Bane-The-Feared's natural expansion again. This time he positioned his ghost beside Bane-The-Feared's tanks that did not have detection, and the nuke hit the edge of expansion, bringing down about 12 marines and several goliaths, as well as several SCV that were mining with their fullest effort. This set path for T_Mac's instant retaliation of a 50 marine march on Bane-The-Feared right after the nuke fell. The co-ordination was so great that it almost made me suspect T_Mac consulted with BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa with this surprise attack! With only 2 tanks remaining in the defense line, Bane-The-Feared could not hold 50 marines after the loss of over 40 supply of troops at DisgruntledApe's base and another 20 at his own natural. T_Mac's marines plundered through his small defenses and eventually made into his main. At this time BNet began to play game with ~LifeIsPeachy~ and forced us to drop him, and dropping Bane-The-Feared in the process. It didn't matter though, since his remaining goliaths at DisgruntledApe's main was just getting nuked again and Bane-The-Feared did not have any more defense at his main. T_Mac razed Bane-The-Feared's main to the ground for points. =P T_Mac also expanded to the 6 o'clock position that he and DisgruntledApe had battled for a long time. Also, here is what Bane-The-Feared had to say after he logged back on BNet:

While T_Mac was busy razing Bane-The-Feared's base, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa FINALLY pull out his main force consisting mainly of tanks and goliaths, sieged up in the middle and covered every choke point there under tank fire. When T_Mac sent more marines to BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa in a good manner single file line, he found himself some marine soup because BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's tanks blasted the marines with complete impunity. The marines returning from Bane-The-Feared's main faced the same fate. Lesson learned: marines vs tanks/goliath=rine group.

While T_Mac was supplying unlimited rine soup to BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa, DisgruntledApe suddenly went nuts and expanded naked all over in the map: to his natural, ~LifeIsPeachy~'s main and natural, and Bane-The-Feared's main; however, only the one at ~LifeIsPeachy~'s natural was spotted by BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa, and several goliaths were send to terminate the defenseless CC.

At this point DisgruntledApe was frustrated since BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa destroyed his CC. He then proposed a alliance with T_Mac, hoping to take out BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa together:

T_Mac again sent around 30 marines towards BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's fortified fire camp in the middle, only to be turned to another pool of rine soup. Let's restate one StarCraft formula again:

T_Mac was successful in destroying exactly one turret and one goliath during this battle.

DisgruntledApe decided to be smarter then T_Mac. He moved a cloaked ghost to the left side of the middle (that led to T_Mac's old main) and launch another nuke at one of BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's ghost. Despite his numerous sneaky nuking experience, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa could not find the ghost until the nuke started falling. An desperate attempt to irradiate the ghost was proven futile as the nuke landed before the ghost was dead. Move your mouse to the image to check out the nuke!

I bet DisgruntledApe was very happy about his nuke, and decided to launch another shortly afterwards. This time it was on the backside of BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's tanks, but this time BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa had learned his lesson and frantically scan literally everywhere close to his troops, and killed DisgruntledApe's ghost in time. At this time, T_Mac broke out with 4 BC and approximately 40 marines and charged the middle. Most goliaths focused fire on the BC while the marines only took potshots from tanks and destroyed the tanks quickly when they got in range. The BC started running when the goliaths followed, only to be slaughtered by marines under the BCs. T_Mac's forces overwhelmed 4 tanks and 16 goliaths and he headed to BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's main with his remaining BCs and marines. However his BC was not covered by his marines this time, but separated by the river at BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's natural. BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's reinforcing goliaths took down T_Mac's BC first, then his wraiths and marines that lost the BC support.

While T_Mac was busy managing his BC and marines fighting for the middle, he dispatched a group of wraiths towards DisgruntledApe's natural expansion despite his term of alliance. T_Mac ignored DisgruntledApe's protest because of the high level of intense concentration needed in the middle, and his wraiths leveled DisgruntledApe's natural expansion with impunity. DisgruntledApe was surely not happy about this, and seek his revenge by dropping three ghosts at T_Mac's 6 o'clock expansion and launched a double nuke on one of his ghost at the center of T_Mac's base. T_Mac found the ghosts with 5 marines, but they could not take down the ghosts fast enough before 2 nuclear warhead dropped. 3 starports, one factory and a number of turrets exploded immediately, and his CC and another starport was burning in red. T_Mac, however, did not lose any troops but 5 marines to this nuke. He quickly seek revenge on DisgruntledApe by sending 8 wraiths towards Ape's every expansion at ~LifeIsPeachy~'s main and Bane-The-Feared's main, destroying them without any return fire since DisgruntledApe did not build any defense at all. Instead, DisgruntledApe redecorated his main base layout so that it looked like this:

And then "Nu-Nu-Nu-Nu-Nuclear launch detected"

Place your bets now. Yup, 5 nukes at the same time. Look what's up with those nukes:

That's right. DisgruntledApe was so bored that he nuked himself with 5 nukes. He also provided us with great entertainment as we were all puzzled at his strange move. YEAH GO NUKE YOURSELF GOGOGOGOGOGO GOOD MANNER!

Not only that, DisgruntledApe asked everyone who launched the nuke. T_Mac had no idea, while BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa guessed it was T_Mac and started mocking DisgruntledApe. T_Mac was smarter then BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa though, and with deduction he finally figured that DisgruntledApe was nuking himself. He also recognized BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's threat as BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa sent more and more goliaths and tanks to fortify the middle again. Now T_Mac was seriously considering an true alliance with DisgruntledApe in order to survive from BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa's mass tank/goliath strategy. It was all too late, however, when BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa launched his attack consisting of over 16 goliaths and tanks on T_Mac's expansions at 6, and about 12 goliaths on DisgruntledApe's main. DisgruntledApe, however, was able to launch one more nuke on some tanks in the middle at random spots, but his main was burning in flames soon.

T_Mac realized the situation was hopeless, and proceeded to kill himself with marines. Unfortunately, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa did not allow the glory of the self-destruction, killed off the marines and destroyed the buildings himself, despite my desperate attempt to repair T_Mac's CC.

Victory to the great turtler+nuke rusher, BLeSs~mE~uLTiMa!

Now let's hear what the victor of our FFGay had to say:

^^

Final scores here:

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My secret BGH screenshoots:

*Mass* carriers (120 carriers, my carriers are under the interceptors!)
Overlord invasion! (~200 overlords)
Art of macromangement

This is a [FLS]prozerran­­© production. Thank you for reading and hoped you had enjoyed yourself. If you didn't I can quite frankly tell you to go to hell. Anyways, this will be my last report for the summer, and I hope to see you all after the summer!