Steamhammer-Microwave rivalry

The round robin phase of the annual SSCAIT tournament is nearly over.

Steamhammer was ahead of Xiao Yi by one loss when Steamhammer’s final game came up—versus Microwave. Even with bugs that keep it out of contention, Microwave is still Steamhammer’s rival. Xiao Yi had unplayed games left, and in any case Steamhammer defeated Xiao Yi 2-0 so in the worst case it would place ahead on tiebreak. Nevertheless it was a tense pairing. The game was a long and difficult hive tech ZvZ that neither bot could play particularly well. Notice Microwave’s use of overlords to discover and eliminate burrowed drones. The mutas and devourers were all plagued, but too late....

Another difficult Steamhammer game was versus Ecgberht.

Addendum: BetaStar and BananaBrain will likely end up tied for #2-#3. They scored 1-1 against each other. Will the seeding order for the elimination phase be decided arbitrarily, or what?

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Jay Scott on Monday, January 11. 2021:

While I’m recommending games, NiteKat-Proxy was a close one with a base race.

http://www.openbw.com/replay-viewer/?rep=https://sscaitournament.com/Replays/PROXY/3033-Prox_Nite-ZvT.rep

Jay Scott on Monday, January 11. 2021:

As it happens, Xiao Yi later lost games against Proxy and UAlbertaBot by Dave Churchill, so Steamhammer safely holds its position at #11 with a margin.

MicroDK on Monday, January 11. 2021:

I am happy that Microwave could contribute to the fight between positions even it performed purely overall because of bugs.

MicroDK on Monday, January 11. 2021:

Just watched the long ZvZ game. The devourers did not seem to do much except for attacking SH's overlords. Must be a bug somewhere. And Microwave made too many of them...
Also, Microwave's overlords are not actively seeking hidden units like burrowed drones. They are attached to the squads and will follow the squad units where ever they go if Microwave detects the enemy uses burrowed or invisible units.

Jay Scott on Monday, January 11. 2021:

Agreed, the devourers were not effective. Neither was Steamhammer’s ultralisk cavern.

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