Playing Starcraft at school during an event. The computer science teacher put it in the dropbox so that everyone could play LAN games. There was a massive tournament that lasted 8 hours (we were allowed to stay after school to continue if we wanted). Those that lost could break off into smaller games and continue to play, but those who survived their games moved on. There were a total of 8 games, all with 8 players, all free for all. It was decided that the winners from each game would move onto the final game.
My first game lasted 2 and 1/2 hours because the people in my bracket thought that zerglings and firebats were an effective counter to carriers, scouts, battlecruisers, arbiters, and every other arial unit I unleashed upon them (I was Protoss, hooray Dark Archons). Needless to say I wiped them out (only one of them was competent, but by the time we found and started fighting eachother I had control of every race, so he had no chance).
I move on to the final game. There is no prize, only pride is on the line. I choose Protoss once again, and use my original strategy, expand fast, and expand strong. I quickly move to dominate every free mineral field I can. Then the moment I have Dark Archons available I seach for stray workers to capture. I manage to get a SCV, but the only player who was zerg actually had skill, so I couldn't get any drones.
There were 3 Protoss (one being me), 4 Terran, and one zerg. Sadly for the zerg player he was effectively teamed by 3 of the 4 Terran players. However he lasted a long time, but the chaos still made it impossible to grab a drone. So I gave up on that, and moved towards my normal strat. Hunker down and let the enemies eat up their resources while I raise a massive arial army.
I'm having a blast when Player X (who was my computer science teacher by the way), types that he is going to wipe everyone out. True to his word messages begin popping up that he had defeated every terran player (this took about 1 hour however). The other Protoss player had been left in shambles from the constant Terran shit-storm. So because of this it was just me and my comp-sci teacher. After quickly mopping up the other player he turned his attention to me. He was using a similar strategy to mine, however like me he had been unable to obtain a drone, so the fight was even. I had already maxed my population caps, and had enough carriers, arbiters, and Battlecruisers that I could blot out the map (obvious exageration is obvious).
In an effort to win the match (and to end it in general because I kinda wanted to go home), I made a blind rush to his base with all of my forces, but leave one or two in reserve. The moment my forces are half way accross the map I get the message that my base is being slaughtered. My teacher sends me a message telling me it's all over now. However what he doesn't know is that I had left 3 arbiters in my base, in order to stasis his units. I manage to get most of them, and with only moment to spare one of my arbiters gets enough energy to warp my forces to him. With the combined power of carriers, battlecruisers, missile turret, and photon cannons his forces are quickly ripped to shreds.
It was this single move that won me the match. If I hadn't frozen his forces then my base would have been annihilated before I even reached his. He happily conceded defeat after that because due to the length of the game, and the ammount of strip mining that had ravaged the map there were no more resources for him to rebuild. He simpy watched as I ripped his bases apart, and in the end I stood proud. We shook hands and congradulated eachother on a good match. Meanwhile the zerg player was in a corner, dreading the sound of stim pack injection, "UUUUUHHHH thats the stuff"
