TvP: 10:00 – 12:00

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One barrack expand in TvP is the most commonly used build now. Although there are different variations (e.g. Bomber’s delay refinery build), they still generally converge back to three barracks, one starport and one engineering bay by 9:30. By 10:00, Terran should be outside of the Protoss’s natural with marines, marauders and two medivacs. However, this timing is so typical that both Terran and Protoss know what to expect from each other. Then, what is the objective of Terran at this time frame?

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Flash’s economical build in TvP

Flash played his first broadcasted game in GSL yesterday against Killer, and won as many had expected. With no experience with BW, I have no idea what’s the style of Flash. Apparently, his style is usually command centre first according to the comments on Team Liquid forum. He indeed often opens up with command centre first in TvP, and he again showed off his style of TvP against Killer yesterday.

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TvP late game phenomenon: an empirical perspective

TvP is arguably the most frequently discussed match up in the current metagame. At a point, it was said that the match up is imbalance and favors Protoss. The current understanding is that Protoss has an advantage in the late game, while Terran has to leverage their strength in the early and mid game.

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