Sweden's best Protoss and Germany's best Zerg player! Battling off in GosuGamers StarLeague tonight. Here's the post-game battle report.



Players
Qpad.datoby
ToT)Mondragon(The second round in Group H gave us one of Europe's best Zerg players versus one of Europe's best Protoss players. Both players came out victorious in the first round, with Mondragon defeating NonY and datoby winning over Artosis.

Game 1 :: BattleGrounds (19m55s)


datoby starts in left upper corner, Mondragon in right lower corner. Mondragon starts out with Overlord at 9 and a Spawning Pool right after, and goes for Speedlings and expansion, while datoby goes 2 gates near his expansion pumping Zealots. After scouting Mondragon's intentions, datoby stays defensively with his Zealots, but unfortunately he lets 5 of Mondragon's 6 Zerglings inside his base.

wtf, how did those lings get in there?
From this point the game is normal with Zerglings against Zealots. datoby gets into Mondragon's base by the back door, while Mondragon starts researching Lurker aspect. Mondragon's fights off the Zealots, also the ones which later attacks his expansions. With Lurkers Mondragon uses the same back door as datoby, just at datoby's start place of course. Mondragon succeeds by planting a lurker supported with Zerglings, which kills off part of datoby's main base, while also throwing two lurkers on the cliff behind datoby's expansion. This hurts datoby's economy very hard, because he has to go observer before his income is up and running again.

datoby gets his main again, but his economy is so bad, that Mondragon's easily destroys it again. With only one mining spot, it is very hard for datoby to do anything, because of Mondragon's continues to drop lurkers at his mineral line. GG, 1-0 for Mondragon.

Game 2 :: Longinus (12m32s)


datoby starts out with a fast expansion at 6 o'clock, while Mondragon goes three hatch before pool at 11 o'clock. So with the strong economy from both, datoby keeps sending Zealots, and Mondragon goes for 5 hatch, with Queens and mass Zerglings, his next step goes towards Cracklings.

Queen in action!
Unfortunately for Mondragon, the time he reaches that level, datoby has now two expansions and with Zealots and Archons. Mondragon barely gets the chance to do anything and gets finished off. GG, 1-1.

Game 3 :: Avatar (3m25s)


The last game was quick. Mondragon's goes 9 pool, and beats datoby's canons before they are ready, even though datoby tried to avoid it by defending with Probes.

gg?

Season 2 Group H PlayerMWL%PePts Mondragon220100-6
datoby21150-3
Artosis101--0
NonY101--0
(Exported 2007-09-07 23:55:48) Source

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