Kamanashi goes for the kill

Round two starts. I am up against Ben, and Erik is playing against some random guy we have never seen before. I start off just as the last time mining faster than the probes are probing. I don’t waste time building a defense because I know Ben is going to try his hardest to rush me. Instead I build all the warp gates I can and start with creating a horde of Zealots. I have one large group made and begin on the second. As the second group finishes up I begin a smaller base down in the right corner of the map to mine more minerals. Now that I have a nice army created I begin in attacking Ben. The map is small so he’s basically seven clicks to the left. I find him and start attacking his base as usual people with big forces of killing people do. Only Ben has made a few air units and sends them to my base. I ignore these for some reason and destroy what seems is his only base. By this point I’m covering at least thirty-five percent of the map. Now half of my original base is gone and I still continue looking for Ben to finish him off. I still have all of my units but my base is slowly disappearing. I now cover about seventy-five percent of the map and Ben just killed all of my original base. I begin to panic a little bit but decide to finish looking for Ben and not defend my small base down in the corner. I search the entire map looking for Ben only to find he had done a simple noob trick. Ben has lifted off one of his Terran buildings into an island you can only reach by flying to. Simple yet very wise for someone who hasn’t played in over a couple years. I realize what he has done only to see the sad “You have failed to achieve victory” pop up on my screen. Ben has beaten me, and gotten a pass through the next round meaning he is automatically at least in third place. Erik has won his match also, but he must play for a slot in the last round.

To find out how Erik does on these last rounds go visit his blog.