wc3l vs colorful

After the ngl match vs ToD I had 1 hour to relax and focus on the wc3l war. Ofc I had to eat something because clanwar vs a chinese team = will probably last for hours. They surprised us with the lineup and played with ace. We expected 2 orcs.

I got to begin vs ace on DT, I never played the map vs human before. I tried some aow creeping in private game then I decided to play warden and mass hunts cause I was sure he was going to expand. I crept to lvl 2, backstabbed him when he FE´ed and managed to take down his expansion and finish the game. 2nd game was on MV. He scouted directly in the start and took down my aow with help from the mercs. At this point I got frustrated and I tried to make 2 aows mass hunts with panda and push him. It got way too delayed and he countered it with gryphons/tanks and I couldn't do much else than camp my base and be outplayed. Last map was TM(maybe AI would have been a better choice) the start was bad for me again, I scouted at wrong creepspots and I had a feeling it was not going that great. I pushed with warden, hunts, archers, dryards, glaives trying to finish the game. He did great defending the push with mercs and zeppelin. After backing off I went there again and this time I was able to take down the main base. He had alot of breakers and was building mortars/sorcs/priests so the game was not over.
Then the "lame" part started. The game went over to be a macro/mind game from micro. After 58 mins I could finish him off with some chims and high hero levels. It's definately a replay that I recommend to watch. All reps from the Clanwar can be found here.
Feeling after the game: EXHAUSTED!
I went away from the pc and to take some fresh air and I thought "what if I had lost that game", I would have been so fucking mad.

Thorzain won his solo and the score was 2-0!!

It was time for me and knoff to start the 2on2, played a hu/orc team which we didn't know much about. First game on TM they got exp tome on their AM and could push us very good with level 2 water elementals. We lost the game pretty easy and I think I played very bad. 2nd map was GW and no problems at all, we just avoided the AM from getting any level at all and then pushed them on tier2, gg. 3rd and deciding map was TR which is really good for hu/orc. They can use militias so good on TR and so they did. We didn't have much to chance and had to call GG after really good timing with the attack from their side. Me and knoff really have to shape it up in the 2on2!!

Now we really wanted to go for the 4-1 score. Thorzain had to play ace, and me future. I started playing vs future on AI, I knew he was going to harras me in start and try to kill some wisps, so I hided some of them and was ready to burn his blade when he came up. He didn't get much out of his harras and I had the advantage in the game. Then I waited for 50 pop and took the fight with 2 healscrolls, I fell asleep(more or less) in the fight and lost my tinker/bm and was close to losing my demon twice. I guess the tiredness was getting me cause I felt so weird, my micro sucked. He lost alot too. Both went up to 70 pop or so, after a huge fight I had demon and 40 pop dots left and he around 40 pop. Thanks to elfs ability to walk their main tree to a gold mine when their mine is empty I could win the game. He had to take a fight and he had too few units, I knew he was going to try to snipe down one of my heroes, but with no success from him he had to leave the game abit angry I guess. 2nd map was EI, I got to backstabb him early in the game and got the item from him(better ping I guess). I also got to kill his blade at the next creepcamp and 2-3 grunts. The game was more or less over at this point. He tried to backstabb me when I crept a big spot, it ended up with his BM being surrounded and killed, GG.

Thorzain won vs ace after a crazy game on TM, which I also recommand that u have look at. Score was 4-1 to Raptor!! We felt like "finally a convincing win" and we hope to repeat it in the next clanwar !!


Stay tuned, Raptor fighting!!

Me and knoff after losing the 2on2? It could have been! :).