Ya I did botch that up a bit, glad you liked my anti stargate cannons though! Nerves really got the best of me that game.

Once you think they are essentially dead, you need to kill the nexus before all the gateways to get them revealed sooner to save time on scouting

As a guy who tried wall lowground I literally forgot that I playing against toss🤠, Still was awesome experience, learned usefull info, and it was really cool, hope to see similar events in a future🤩

I love how Marc intends to look for hidden zerg buildings despite the reveal message on the screen)

Winning build for survivors: Normal rax, then 4 marines Workers nonstop till saturation Bunker (immidiatelly after the first rax) Gas, PF Send workers to hidden place and build CC (away from minerals). When completed - build like 5 workers there. Spread them across the map. Turn second CC into PF. Stop mining gas. Now, when your first base is destroyed and the second is under attack - build CC to 99%. When your CC under construction is discovered - start next CC and cancel the cc that is attacked (you only lose 100 minerals on this operation). uThermal will have to find like ten CC under construction of yours. This should slow uThermal's progress a lot. > Why cc and not refinaries? So that you are not revealed.

“So many plans” Mike Tyson: “everyone has a plan til they get punched in the face”

It's like the LockpingLawyer on SC2

Marc is the final boss for these players... "7 minutes, 7 minutes is all I can spare to play with you". :D

Hi Marc. I'm the first Terran opponent. First thing I did was send out an SCV just to hide it so I could expand after I was safer. But I was completely taken off guard by you building in my wall so quickly. I think it might have to do with the map being so small, but also I'm probably a little slow. My fatal error was building a gass refinery up top first, because my SVC then mined some gas and tried to return home, completely throwing me off. And I never finished my wall, which I should have. But I am super glad you had fun, and I didn't get the worst time, so yay!

the word you are looking for is "hoarse" when you mentioned your throat

If possible some of these should be sent to Rank Roulette, they would be so confusing to guess.

Your voice is “going hoarse.” The community response is awesome. So proud of everybody.

Loved the nydus zerg that ran around building extractors. Good strat.

These are really fun! Hope they do well and everyone seems to be having fun, so it would be great to see more. If it goes well you could do 2-4 seasons a year. The strategies are really intriguing.

Thank you for the game Marc! I will be practicing my butt off for the finals ;P

How about a reverse hold out challenge where there is 6 of them and you can't take more bases or attack only defend.

cannons, cannons, cannons(around your probes/nexus, and your wall. think like a TowerDefense),,,,then spread out a few probes(early enough to sneak out), and do the spread out thing (that zerg did with the Nidas) with any extra money.

I just cheesed some folks last night so I'm excited to see this 😂

Yay I love watching thermie while covering myself in Nutella and sliding around on the floor like a slug while my friends throw beer bottles at me.

I like these challenge videos where uthermal deviates from his standard climbing on the ladder, keep up the good work marc

"What is your favorite Protoss unit?" ... it's a contest? Probe, obviously.

I'm just a casual observer but for this challenge alone, I think the ideal play would be to saturate base up front and wall off immediately but send a scv/probe/drone out to the wild and to begin a second base somewhere separately, then repeat it across the bigger maps! I think it would take a lot of time to stay on top of the constant moving bases. I'm actually surprised at how much further ahead you are on average compared to most of the players you are going against!

imagine a pro mma fighter having this challenge with his fans

I would think spines with as many queens as possible is the way to go with some drones out on the map too... for Terran, pull 3 SCVs to build and protect against the probe... might be good to go Planetary for home base too. If you let the probe in your base you're in big trouble.

Such good content!

Nice community video thermy!

popcorn ready

Good job everyone. It's crazy to see just how good a professional is against regular guys. That early game micro can be everything

I believe the optimal strategy for this challenge would be to play zerg, gas-less and army-less. I would go 3 hatch before pool, go up to 48 drones (3 bases mineral saturation) if possible and then build 2 hidden hatches on each corner of the map and just keep droning. When the attack arrives, I'd pull all my drones and build extractors on as many bases as I can. With 500 HP for a 25 minerals cost, extractors have by far the best HP/mineral ratio of zerg (20 HP per mineral). After all the gas geysers are taken, if I had any drones left, I would split them on my 2 hidden hatcheries and try mining again and make spine forests with any remaining minerals to delay Marc's push. The beauty of this strategy is that pretty much anyone could execute it without skills, yet you're still building 10,000 HP worth of buildings scattered around the map which takes forever to kill no matter how good Marc is 😈

I was expecting every player to spam cannons. Maybe I should join that discord lol

Idk if its a good idea bc I dont actually play starcraft I just watch it.... but what if you were to forgo building units all together.... you make nothing but drones burrow them in every base location and just wait till Marc comes and looks for a hidden building then after he leaves unburrow and make something 😆... split all the drones so all your mining is even that way when you loose a base it's not so much impact... hide drones as much as you can since you dont even need to win

If I was playing, I'd try different approaches: For Terran: Proxy a barrack and lift it in uThermal's base, he never scouts there. Also build a supply depot somewhere near minerals but stop it right away so it doesn't look like a depot. You can also try to go with the no gas 5-6 barracks and pump marine as much as you can. For Zerg: use the hatchery trick to build spine crawler anywhere and unburrow it, move it to hide. Get Burrow as first 100 gas and hide drones around the map, make the last stand buildings at the very last moment. For Protoss: Just saturate on one base, no gas, and build as many gateway or cybernetic core as possible, it cost only 150 and has alot of HP. You can even wall off your mineral line entirely after sending few probes on the map.

I keep saying PiG and uThermal would be a good match up.

I love watching these holdout challenges. I'm waiting for the one day he gets a zerg player that finishes burrow.

I wonder how well a strategy would work where you just completely ignore home defense and spend all your minerals building assimilators around the map.

Batteries plus cannons, and then try to transition to Tempests if you survive that long might be a good holdout strategy.

Woooop woooop

guys. as terran, to fight against early probe harassment, build a depo next to the barracks to complete the wall quickly! keep the probes on the low ground, and that way you can build double gas and go for siege tank tech quickly

I have a cheese I only use on my kids. Not sure Marc would be prepared.

Super nice video, how Can WE participe to this concept ?

The word for your voice getting tired that you were looking for is hoarce, Marc :)

these videos are super cool

Refresh gang!

this video is the perfect tutorial on how to All-in as protoss hahaha

uThermal: turning mistakes into new strategies since 2011 🙂

Hmmm I should make my sarcasm a lot more visible I guess, to not look desperate after Skillous situation 😂😂😂

Let's go!

it would be fun to see a terran turtle up like campaign mission terrans

These guys... haha, the best defense is a good offense! I guess going up against a high GM it might not be but idk, I feel like they would've been better off making army over anything else.

HYPE

BEST SERISS EVER@@!@@@@@ ...... so good I didnt correct my spelling.

Or... Terran... and build many many planetary fortresses, lol

If you dont think you can win... play zerg, build dropper lords... get ov speed, and send them with drones around the map... cycle build hatacheries before they get attacked, adn try to get an OV in the center also.. This way you can cycle hatcheries around the entire map... or just play terran and go mass tanks with mass turrets.. goal would be like 15-20 tanks nad 30 turrets... and then the rest is just battel cruisers if possible wit hyomato... but you will probably be out of cash... you also have to survive an early push.. so walling off early can be helpful... or watch a few unthermal videos and mimic his early common starts... which is terran and rocket boys, lol

Actually Zealots have a higher dps than Stalkers and they're cheaper too, so it would be good to warp those at the end when you basically won already.

51:00 "CRACKING" voice. My voice is cracking/cracked. When you are losing your voice, you can also say it is cracking. I assume english uses this word because your voice will randomly stop(go quiet). You'll miss words randomly, like a hole/crack in the sentence.

JFC I'm so tilted just watching these games. Probes like these are why I just full wall immediately.

24:00 cute probes kissing

GET CHEESED BUD GET CHEEEESED

I really think someone should proxy a base inside Marc's main base. He never checks there!!

is flying cc in the corner of the map not allowed ? i think tha't's a huge delay

👀🙏🥰

Do they not see the other players games? The Terrans shoulda been walking off asap

Video Idea: Tell silver players your strategy before you play them.

I'm curious if me and my friend and I could play verse you like the 2v AI Archon.

If you wanna win you have to beat him using his tactics. Hyper aggression is key .

BRO ARE U HEARING PPL TO SAY "SILENCE IS Gold" ?

1 million seconds is 11,5 days 😆😆

these are painful lol

Surprised no one is trying gasless mass spines

I Feel sooo sorry for the silver players :(

hoark on my diarrhea #cloggedtoilet yeah im protoss

hey Uthermal, I want to play. I am from Peru.

Your throat got 'hoarse'. Pronounced 🐎.

Marc your the best but all them portraits to me look so shit, I really don’t see what nice you see about them, ( personal opinion) mind you I’m a big fan of you, I’m just saying, when you say that portraits so nice I be like 🫣

Let's go!