1. I over-saturate my main base. I don't want to stop making probes and his push is coming at around the time that I want to expand. I don't feel comfortable expanding with the push coming so I delay it to make sure I have more units. Is this a problem? Should I be cutting probes to avoid oversaturation? Should I expand earlier (hard with the backdoor entrance to the main base on this map). I get a huge boost when my expansion comes up but am playing pretty inefficiently until it does.

2. After the first confrontation I decide not to counter attack immediately but wait for another colossus. Is this good/bad? Looking at the replay it's not obvious. I give him time to regroup, rebuild and possibly get some vikings out but the extra Colossus makes a big difference to my army.

3. I'm pretty proud of my forcefield usage to get the expansion snipe - I guess the game is pretty much over at that point. Forcefields are good! Probably didn't need to use two though.

4. I built a couple of colossi and left them idling in my base..... 600m400g worth of army that I just forget about. Oh well.

5. I have absolutely no idea when a good time to warp in a forge is. I tend to just do it when I remember and feel I can spare the 150 minerals.

6. I don't like my Robotics Bay/Forge placement - banshees might be able to snipe either and that would be annoying.

7. I would have benefited from hiding a few pylons around the map. It's always annoying to have to bring a probe along with a push and wait for the pylon to finish before you can reinforce locally.

8. I think I need to work on getting generally faster (I was so panicked that game (needed to remember to breathe again after it finished) and thought I was frantically clicking much faster than usual - but turns out I was playing slightly slower). I also probably should start trying to micro a bit in battles, I generally just ignore them and focus more on macro. Anything else I should work on?

gg, I love any PvT where bioball + EMPs lose. I thought it was interesting you didn't transition out of Colossis and kept making them despite seeing the Vikings, most Protoss players I've seen either make a quick transition from Colossis to HTs (so they don't get more than 2 - 3 Colossis) or just skip Colossis entirely and go for HTs. Then again, iirc the Twilight Council was never put up so I'm guessing you felt kind of committed?

1. I thought your expo timing was fine.

2. The Colossus was pretty important, so it looked good to wait.

3. I was surprised you didn't kill the 3 units that got stuck when you threw that second FF? Seems like it was pretty much free kills.

5. Sticking a forge into a standard BO like your 2 gate 1 robo is hard, I agree. When I watch high-level replays, it seems they also vary a lot on when they put up that forge in such a case as well. I also tend to get them rather late except in PvZ, where the +1 attack matters more for lots.

6. I thought it was more unusual that your buildings were so compact and close to the Nexus. I think spreading them out, even just a little bit, is better in PvT because they will get less information per scan. Furthermore, it can create choke points and cause a bit of problem for any enemy army that funnels through them.

8. Unlike WC3, in the mid to late game, micro matters less I think so it's not too problematic.

I've always complained that PvP is a very dry matchup that's usually a giant Colossi laser show unless an all-in like a 4-gate stops one side before it happens. But this game gave me a lot of hope for the future of PvP. Void Ray juggling is just soooooo cool and, like the casters said, in a few years people will get very good at this highly APM-intensive play. I thought it was pretty sick how InCa managed to comeback in that game as well, probably one of the biggest comebacks in the GSL, second to TLO's comeback against Hyperdub in game 1. Anyways, I'll definitely be trying this Starport build and working with VRs in PvP for a bit, should be fun.

I didn't understand it at all. How did InCa come back? The only thing I saw happening was that he was on the ropes so he stopped making void rays, his opponent continued to suicide in void rays one at a time and so soon InCa was ahead. It makes me wonder if the correct response once noticing the opponent was also going void rays was to stop void ray production and switch to mass stalkers in the first place. It seems that they are only cost effective once you have 3 or more (unless just harassing with them) sending them in one at a time was a huge loss.

I think he just overestimated the power of a fully charged VR, tbh. Yeah a fully charged VR is sweet and wreaks havoc, but it's not invincible-mode either.