00:00Hey, hey everybody! Thanks for tuning in to the second game in the best of five grand finals match
00:20series between Demaga of Team Mortal Teamwork against his opponent Stefano, Team Millennium,
00:26up here on the top right. Now there's of course the token Stefano catchphrase at the beginning of the
00:31game. This is game number two. Right now Demaga is currently up 1-0 against Stefano. If you haven't
00:38already watched the previous game, definitely go check that out. I guess I kind of spoiled it for
00:42you, but I'm assuming if you're watching game number two, you probably found your way here
00:46or already haven't watched game number one. So we'll just look at the map real quick. We do have
00:50Zilnaga Caverns. This is actually a very fun map, very balanced actually. Pretty big main base area,
00:57kind of expands down here towards the middle, leads towards a natural expansion which is actually
01:01pretty hard to defend, especially in the early game. So a lot of times you'll see players Zerg open up
01:08with a kind of conservative gas pool and then expanding when you got a couple Zerglings. But
01:13I don't know, we'll just have to wait and see. We got two Zerglings, or two Zerg players, so two chances
01:18to see what kind of exciting strategies we're going to see employed today here in the Champions
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02:09bring these games to you guys. All right, Stefano here. It looks like he is just about ready,
02:14possibly for the Zergling speed upgrade. He did go with, uh, he did go with a pretty interesting
02:19opener here. Got the gas in the pool around the same time, actually. So we might act, we might see
02:24a little bit of early aggression. I think he's not going for that first expansion like Tamaga did.
02:30You could see he's actually going with the same build. Like I said before, that's kind of a risky
02:33thing to do on this map, mainly because there's four distinct entry points, one right here,
02:39one right here. And here, of course, here's a set of destructible rocks, which does lead down to
02:44another expansion, but you can access it once you destroy that. And then a fourth entrance back
02:48here. Of course, immediately around the expansion, plenty of open space. So I'm kind of wondering if
02:54Stefano is going to come down here, scout that out. I think he actually may have spotted that with the
02:58Overlord. Yes, indeed he did. So he knows that he is in a very good spot right now to put some early
03:03pressure on Tamaga. Tamaga down here, you know, what he could hope to do, he did, he will have the
03:09superior production capability. Once he's got this queen out, you know, once he's got, you can see
03:15the hatchery is now complete. So that additional larva is really going to help him out. But we'll see
03:20if it's actually comes up in time. Stefano already has a couple of Zerglings down here. And this isn't
03:26so much an aggressive play as it is just kind of scouting out saying, you know what, man, I see that
03:31expansion and you better watch out because as your overlords are telling you, I'm definitely looking to take
03:37that out and take game number two. But will he be able to do it? There are a number of Banelings
03:42already being morphed in right now. And Tamaga does not have the Zergling speed upgrade just yet.
03:46You can see it definitely had a delay in comparison to his opponent. So he is very much going to
03:52actually need that or at least try to engage on the creep here. But it looks like he's actually
03:56going to try to fight him before the Banelings pop out. There we go. All of the Banelings exploding
03:59except for the two reinforcements that are coming down here. And now Stefano has a superior
04:04Zergling army catching a couple of Tamaga Zerglings as they're running to the top of the ramp,
04:08hoping to get a better position to fight at. But here comes two Banelings and it looks like
04:12they might actually run directly into the mineral line and take a chunk out of the drones. Oh,
04:16one of them goes down there and he's going to try to send the second one maybe to a better spot.
04:20I don't know. Oh, that'd be perfect right there. Took out all of those drones and the Zerglings.
04:26And now we can see the result of that. Look at the workers killed nine to nothing.
04:30Zerglings still running around. Tamaga finally able to recuperate. But at what cost? We could
04:35see 14 to 33 and here come even more Zerglings for Stefano. Tamaga tried to keep them out of his
04:42base, but will he really be able to? I mean, he's running circles around him and now he's going in
04:47to kill even more drones. And you see there's only a few of them left over. So even if Stefano just
04:52sacrifices these Zerglings, picks off a couple drones at a time, it is going to just decimate Tamaga's
04:58economy even more than what we've already seen now. Tamaga does have a couple banglings,
05:04but will it be enough? Looking at the army size right now, 34 to 14 in terms of economy,
05:1015 to 4. Looks like, oh wow, so many Zerglings just died. Stefano taking game number two and a
05:17very brief match on Zelnaga Caverns. Let's go on to game number three now that we're one
05:22in one and see what happens next.
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