The match begins with July at the bottom left base, and Rock at the top right. July immediately sends his overlord northward, as Rock begins pumping probes. He builds his first pylon below his ramp, and swiftly retreats his probe back to mining. The first Pylon now finishes and he continues saving up cash for an expansion here, as no scouting has occurred yet. July is now half finished with his spawning pool and has not yet built another hatch. He now sends his drone out. 2nd Nexus goes down at the toss natural, and Rock scouts leftward with that probe. July's expansion now underway at his natural. Forge completes for Rock, just as 6 zerglings fly out of their eggs in July's main base. Two cannons and a gateway to block go down next to the toss expansion.

July seems undaunted by this effort when he realizes that Rock has already expanded and is secured into his natural spot. Main base hatchery for July is now morphing into a Lair.

Now, a cyber core goes down at Rocks' expansion. No warriors yet for Rock. However, Spire begins being built behind July's mineral line and looks like we'll shortly be seing some mutalisks raining down glave wurms on Rock. Rock now with 2 zealots & a stargeate in the making. Citadel also going up for leg enhancements. July moves to expand at the top left, but a scouting probes manages to place a pylon in the way of the zerg attempt, for the moment. Another hatchery goes down in July's main below his Lair. Now, more gates added for Rock, and we finally see mutas en route to Rock's base! They chase a lone corsair, that seems i'll fated...it goes down. Mutas wrapping around to the south of the expo and hitting the probes now! Mutas take down 1 canon and retreat under corsair fire. Rock sends a force of 4 zealots to the top left to stop July's expansion attempt...

...and now scourge rally with the attacking mutalisks. Mutalisks run off in order to try and save the top left, but are too late, as the hatchery falls, July must now rebuild it. Corsairs now coming out of two stargates for Rock, and he moves outward to find scourge patrolling his airpace. Mutalisks move down to the lower right main...

...and take out some cannons that Rock cannot defend very well. He moves his corsairs down to fight the mutas, but they run off, and a group of speelings moves in under them to take down the last cannon & pylon. Hatchery now going up again at the top left main. Corsairs now having fun raping all the overlords in July's main, as another group of zealots heads toward the upper left main. And now, all of a sudden, all zerglings on the map just turned towards that spot! A massive battle ensues and roughtly 25 lings engage the 8 or so zealots, and Rock is able to block the tiny ramp with 1 lot, just in time to allow him to take down the zerg base yet again. Lings all ran off seeing that they could not even get up the ramp. Now Rock expands again to the lower right, building a massive cannon defense before putting down a nexus. Zerglings find it but are unable to do any damage as 8 or so cannons are already warped in. Rock focusing mainly on speedlots with corsair suport, while July still going muta/ling...although most ling at the moment. Lings now flood into the lower right main base...

...and assault the 7 or 8 cannons there, ling after ling goes down, but July is able to take down the base!! Now about 15 zealots head across the map and meet another group from the top left. Another massive ground battle ensues outside the base of July...

...Zealots microing well but being run off by about 30 zerglings. Both players are not allowing the other any chance of expanding, taking down their attempts almost immediately upon finding them. Rock now builds some reavers, and is out of cash in his main, so he is forced to move all of his probes to his natural. Zerglings begin to flood into natural of Rock but scarab bursts erupt...

...and light them all on blue fire. Rock takes the island expansion at the pure 3 o'clock position. July now beginning more of a hyrda/ling build then the previous muta/ling. Rock now utilizing shuttles paired with corsairs in his movements. Roughly 8 sairs and a shuttle of reavers move about the map hunting down hapless zerglings. July expands to the lower right where the massive cannon battle once erupted., and moves many drones in that direction. Rock scouts it out with his sair force but doesnt act on it. Now he moves out with zealots sairs & his reaver shuttle. A Massive Force! The toss warriors are met by hydras from the south and lings from the west & north. He is totally surrounded...

...but he continues fighting, all forces fall and July comes out ahead with about 8 hydras remaining. Very nice play & flank by JulyZerg! Remaining zerg forces head south and find a shuttle of reavers has ravaged the economy there. As the hydras arrive, Rock retreats his shuttle again under scarab eruptions. Rock sets up another base at the 12 o'clock island. and continues with his shuttle/sair strategy. July now has a huge army of hydralisks. Now DT's are coming into play as his sairs are removing the sight of the overlords from the air, leaving the hydras open for warp blade damage. Rock also is attempting some storm drops but unable to land due to July's very nice scouting. A large hydra drop is about the begin...

...but sairs attack in time, and many overlords are destroyed. Mostly lings come out and are dealt with handidly. Very nice play by Rock! Hydras again dropped at the 3 oclock base, but are stopped by a shuttle filled with templar. and 2 reavers. Overlords continue being filled with hydras and lings, and again the 3 o'clock base is hit...

...this time it is raised to the ground by the zerg forces...wait no...reavers are dropped & coules with some intense psi storm, are halted!! Rock saves the nexus in a sick move of micro!!

This is turning into the game of the OSL!! Both players have 4 bases at this point in the game. Massive overlord drop at the 12 oclock base commences...

...and Rock does not arrive in time as the base is almost completely destroyed, but again...the nexus is saved by some great micro!! July hits the 3 base yet again, and for the 3rd time in a row, Rock saves it with storm! This must be getting extremely frustrating for July as none of his attacks are causing any mortal harm. He has severely hurt Rock's economy, but probes are being coninually built form the 4 nexus' that he has. Article is continued onto Page 2 by clicking the below link!!