Only ate half the rice last night because of fatigue. Used the remaining rice to make porridge this morning and ate it with this jar of pickled cucumber. Only used about a quarter and I need to store this in a fridge if I want to leave it for another week.
Since I have no fridge, I shall have to finish it today, ie, eat porridge with pickled cucumber for all meals today and maybe tomorrow. Woohoo!
Watching Round 2 of the finals between Jaedong and Flash in the Averatec-Intel Classic tournament (the biggest Starcraft tournament in S. Korea) while eating. Round 1 was amazing. Even though Flash practically outclassed everyone in the past, even in the semi-finals, Jaedong did the same to him in that first round. Right from the start, Flash lost map control when his scouting SCV was killed by 6 zerglings sent by Jaedong. He lost his "eye" then. Then Jaedong seemingly created Mutalisks with magic and sent those flying units to harass Flash who still had not expanded (which is normal for Terrans because Zergs can expand faster) and only had some Marines to defend.
Flash, using his godlike skills, managed to pushed them off, built some Turrets and began to build a Starport for some Science Vessels (which has Irradiate, an ability that's fucking good against Zergs). Jaedong saw that with his Mutalisks during one of the next few raids and destroyed first the turrets with his Beyond-Godlike skills and Mutalisks and went on to destroy the SCV building the Starport.
The SCV was killed and the Starport was heavily damaged and incomplete when he was finally pushed back again. Flash then sent an SCV to complete it while sneakily began the construction of yet another Starport deeper in his base. But alas, those Mutalisks, after destroying the first Starport, did not turn back and regroup. Instead, they went on in and explored the rest of Flash's base.
The Starport exploded and Jaedong retreated to regroup with more reinforcement. In his next attack, Flash finally couldn't take it anymore and decided to push all his Marines and Medics out. All or nothing. There was a short and desperate battle but how can a bunch of these 30 puny Terrans defeat about 15 Mutalisks which were so well controlled they were stacked into 1 single pile and looked as if there was only 1 Mutalisk attacking really fast?
Stacking Mutalisks like that help to reduce the area that can be attacked and also makes it easier to run away from the enemies' range without leaving stragglers. Also hides the numbers.
Flash lost. Owned. Right from the beginning.
Shall now watch Round 2.
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Round 2 was shorter then Round 1. Flash didn't even managed to push away the Mutalisks this time. He did manage to defend against some early Zerglings, but he waas unable to clear them away from the site he wanted to expand to. So he couldn't expand while Jaedong did.
When the Mutalisks came, it was fast. A few seconds into the battle, Flash lost ALL his Marines and was totally unable to defend againsts anything. His SCVs were then killed and the Mutalisks were sent to the Barracks where the new Marines got picked out one by one. That was when Flash typed," GG" and left the game.
That was fast! We haven't seen even a single Science Vessel so far! Never managed to reach that point.
Will watch Round 3 later.
Making my second pot of porridge. These 3 meals just used up half the rice I bought! Need to bring more next week.
3rd round was yet another one-sided game. Jaedong, this time, didn't rush with Mutalisks and instead played a long game with Ultralisks, the biggest Zerg unit. He built only small raiding groups of Zerglings and had tried to use an fleet of Guardians. The Zerglings were always successful suicide raiders, but the Guardians were rather ineffective. In the end, the Science Vessels arrived and Irradiated them all.
But then that was when the Ultralisks arrived. And Defilers. The Defilers' Dark Swarms were amazing because of how accurate Jaedong was. Dark Swarm causes a small area to be covered by an orange fog in which allied Zerg units cannot be attacked. This is used in battle and thrown onto wherever the enemies are standing so that the Zergs can attack while the enemies can't retaliate.
As for the Science Vessels, Jaedong sent in some Scourges, which are flying anti-air kamikaze units. He threw Dark Swarms right onto where the Vessels were moving into and the Scourges followed. BOOM! ONE DOWN! TWO DOWN! THREE! OMFG FOUR DOWN! Suddenly all Vessels were down, while the Ultralisks safely raped all the Marines and Medics.
In less than 10 minutes, Jaedong owned 3/4 of the map and Flash was just waiting for the final blow. He tried to shuttle in some Marines to Jaedong's base and managed to destroy the Defilers' Mound, but this final gasp for revenge didn't matter. And when he saw the Dark Swarms appearing near his main Command Center and the Ultralisks' arrival, he typed," GG" and left the game.
Total pwnage.
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