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Junior Starleague · Season 1 · Round of 256 · Bo1 · Week 4
⋆·°ʚ🧸ɞ°‧⋆ Closely
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Vulcanizer
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0:07 Vulcanizer spawns at s4 in Yellow while Closely spawns at s1 in Blue.We're underway — Vulcanizer spawns at s4, Closely answers from s1.
0:55 Vulcanizer gets 12 Hatch against Closely's Forge Fast Expand.Vulcanizer shows 12 Hatch — Closely has gone Forge Fast Expand. The clock starts on who blinks first.
— The early game —
1:26 Vulcanizer places down a hatchery.Quietly, Vulcanizer adds a base. These are the moves that decide long games.
1:58 Closely warps in a nexus.More workers, more money: Closely expands.
2:28 Vulcanizer is bringing his speedlings out for a walk and maybe decide to kill enemy units on the way.Vulcanizer goes early — pressure before either side is ready.
🎙 Even footing again — the tension builds.
3:15 Closely's zealots and dragoon mixture is rolling across the map.No patience from Closely: the first units are already marching.
3:51 As both armies meet, they soon start exchanging fires!Contact in the middle of the map. Everything is committed.
4:28 Vulcanizer lost all of his zerglings to Closely's zealots and dragoons!The early pressure works — Closely breaks Vulcanizer's front door.
4:53 About half of Vulcanizer's army has been decimated in that battle.Half of Closely's force stays on that battlefield.
5:38 Losing only less than half of his army, Closely seems to be fine.A cheap fight for Vulcanizer — the losses are light.
6:20 Vulcanizer's speedlings rapidly push out across the map.Vulcanizer tests the door early. Is anyone home?
6:44 Closely moves out with his armies.Here it comes: Closely crosses the map with everything.
7:21 Vulcanizer places down a hatchery.More workers, more money: Vulcanizer expands.
— The mid game —
8:06 Closely warps in a nexus.Quietly, Closely adds a base. These are the moves that decide long games.
🎙 The armies trade evenly; this one is still anyone's game.
8:30 As both armies meet, they soon start exchanging fires!The armies collide — this is the fight both of them wanted.
9:15 Vulcanizer's mismicro cost him his zerglings and probably this game! Closely continues pressuring with his zealots and dragoons!The early pressure works — Closely breaks Vulcanizer's front door.
9:38 About half of Vulcanizer's army has been decimated in that battle.Closely pays for that trade with about half his army.
10:27 Losing only less than half of his army, Closely seems to be fine.A cheap fight for Vulcanizer — the losses are light.
11:05 Closely is putting some early pressure on with his dragoons.Closely goes early — pressure before either side is ready.
11:43 At the moment, Closely seems to have more units than Vulcanizer.Closely's army is visibly the bigger one — Vulcanizer should not take this fight.
12:13 The two armies meet and a large battle starts to engage!Here it comes: two full armies, one engagement.
12:44 Closely kills off Vulcanizer's speedlings with his zealots and dragoons!The early pressure works — Closely breaks Vulcanizer's front door.
13:20 Vulcanizer lost about half of his army in that battle.Closely pays for that trade with about half his army.
🎙 Closely's force dwarfs what Vulcanizer has left on the field.
— The late game —
14:02 With excellent skills and micro, Closely managed to fend off Vulcanizer while losing less than half of his army.A cheap fight for Vulcanizer — the losses are light.
14:27 Closely is pushing out with his zealots.No patience from Closely: the first units are already marching.
15:04 The two armies meet and a large battle starts to engage!Both players push to the middle of the map, and a large fight breaks out.
15:42 Closely kills off Vulcanizer's speedlings with his zealots and dragoons!Vulcanizer wasn't ready. Closely's early aggression takes the lead.
16:16 Vulcanizer seems to lose most of his army in that battle.That fight gutted Closely — more than half the force is gone.
16:49 Losing only less than half of his army, Closely seems to be fine.A cheap fight for Vulcanizer — the losses are light.
17:35 Closely is pushing out with his zealots.No patience from Closely: the first units are already marching.
18:15 Looking at the opponent's overwhelming forces, Vulcanizer GGs!That's it. Vulcanizer looks at the field one last time and concedes.
GG. Closely closes it out over Vulcanizer.