Tales from the American Server: Im in Silver!

Intro: Pro gaming is getting bigger and SC2 is a major player. Alot of money , alot of competition and a great game keeps many striving to be the best. Coming from the bottom, with one goal to achieve respect from the Korean gods. This is the journey of a one lolely foreigner growing and learning and trying to achieve greatness. This is a tale from the American server.

Treking through bronze I stumble upon a protoss on Shakuras. I 7 pool protoss and then drone fast ... if they get greedy they loose. Im careful to place

overlords outside my main incase I get cannon rushed to deny my second. So at 18 food I have 10 zergs running towards his front. My queen hatches I spit then attack around the 4 min mark. Im met with a cannon wall up the natural ramp ... crap.I go strait to droning. I get my expand up and a bane nest for defense. I put up the evo and immediately place some spores down because DTs are a common way to lose a game in bronze league. In bronze league unexpected, stupid stuff should be expected. Like random expansions and 8min 40 marine pushes. So I put the spores down because if Im losing im not going to lose to BS.

Back at my base Im getting my lair tech and upgrades; bane speed, 2 attack overlord speed. As Im getting my upgrades I scout the front and notice a pretty weak wall with not many units. I decide that waiting for my speed and 2 attack to finish might cost me this opportunity. So I run about 10 banes adn 30 lings up his ramp taking out 2 pylons , the forge , 2 cannons , and all his units. But also all my units. His tech has been delayed significantly, I decide to use that to my advantage.

Punish forge walls

Back at home base Im trying to get both army and economy up at the same time. He has been greedy taking an expansion and walling off early , all my units were just sacrificed so im pretty vaunerable right now. I get upgrades and expand. I mostly focus on the expanding because I know that if he gets more gateways than I have larva I lose. I start my plus one and get a roach warren. I go into turtle mode spine up almost like my opponent did early in the game. I was hoping that forge snipe would at least allow me the time to defend off his attack.At 15:30 the protoss army begins its attack.Arcons and zealots 2 attack upgrade top my 1 attack. We have exactly the same food , 94. I let him move up the ramp to my natural and then I hit with my whole force.Manauver to dodge his force fields and crush his zealots with a beautiful bane hit. Probably the play of the game.

not enough sentry energy

With a little army left over and my upgrades now finishing I decide its time to take back map control. So I scout his thrid and what do you know. This greedy bastard is expanding after getting maled. This is the kind of stuff that I would lose to in bronze. Just not scouting an easy expansion opportunity. I quickly go for it and take it out. Felling pretty good about making my opponent waste 400 minerals I decide to go for a bust of my own. But I get the same fate as him and we trade armies.During the attack I scout that his main is almost mined out so Im not behind by any means. I also notice his tech switch to immortals.

imortals , hhhhmmmmm .... zergs

Once again I need to make an army quick. So I go strait to turtling even harder putting up 4 spines and making banes. I know I cant go pure roach because of his immortals so I get a god mix of banes, roaches, and zergs. He moves out with a nice mix of his own. I take my roaches and banes down my natural ramp and engage. This probably wasnt the most practical engagement becuase I could of had the highground and I didn get my zergs in the fight at all but my spines were still up and I had infestors ready to pop. My bane roach army got crushed pretty bad and he moved up my ramp. I waited till he got in the range of my spines. I engaged with my zergs exactly as two infestors and 4 roaches pop. I get down 4 infested terrans. Woah that was close.

it always seems like infestors pop at the last minute

To the mini map... my overlord is in perfect position to see production at his 3rd. I take it down again along with a couple of pylons.

To make a long article a little less long ...I keep building and making raoches, he moves out one last time and then he leaves the game. 10 secs later he responds. 'Why do they keep putting me against high silver?' I check my status and see 'rank 4 silver'.....upgrade, sweeeet!