Players: Lof.Lyn 
, Rainbow (SentimentaL) 
Map: Lost Temple
This game features two of Kalimdor's many professional players: Park "Lof.Lyn" June and Kim "NiP-Rainbow (playing under SentimentaL this game)" Tae Ein. Lyn recently took the runner-up spot in the first MBC Warcraft League and participated in the prestigious Warcraft 3 Champions League Season VIII. Rainbow also played in season VIII for the WC3L and is particularly known for his jaw dropping mouse speed (400+ APM in some games!).
The game begins with Lyn spawns at the southern 6 o'clock position and Rainbow at the eastern 3 o'clock spot. The spawning points play in favor for Lyn, as he is given the choices of either asserting control of the middle complex and beefing up his hero or heading over to Rainbow's easily-accessible natural expansion (being that the natural is sandwiched between the two players' starting positions) in anticipation of an early militia-assisted creep camp clearing and possible Town Hall creation.
Lyn takes the latter option and sends his Blademaster and grunts to Rainbow's natural, where he is guessing that Rainbow is doing his initial creeping. His suspicion is confirmed, as Rainbow is in the midst of clearing out the troll/ogre camp with his force of footmen, militia and Archmage. Luckily for Rainbow, a sentry ward is dropped just as Lyn's hero arrives, rendering the Blademaster's wind walking capabilities useless and negates any form of harass by the Orc player. Not only does Rainbow erect a Town Hall to give himself the economic advantage, but he also pulls off surrounds on a stray grunt and Blademaster (forcing Lyn to burn a scroll of town portal) to further solidify his clench on the early game.
Rainbow takes his force of footmen and Archmage down to Lyn's natural expansion, where a Tauren Chieftan and the rest of Lyn's grunts have just cleared out the creep camp and a Great Hall is in the midst of being constructed. The two forces fight it for a moment before Rainbow switches priorities and focuses his damage output onto Lyn's Great Hall, forcing it to cancel. In keeping Lyn's economic inferiority in check, he is forced to sacrifice nearly all of his footmen, giving Lyn the upper hand in unit count (combat units, that is; Rainbow still has more food than Lyn, but most of it consists of peasants). During the skirmish at Lyn's natural, Rainbow had very slyly cleared out and set up another expansion at the 1 o'clock gold mine with just two footmen and five peasants. Lyn rebuilds his Great Hall, and now the gold mine count is 2 to 3, still in favor of Rainbow.
The two players' armies evolve into very diverse unit mixes. Lyn continues on pumping out grunts as the mainstay of his army, supplementing his force with raiders, demolishers and kodo beasts. Rainbow hires himself a Mountain King and opts for the seldom-seen rifleman/sorceress combination. Rainbow's retroactive unit mix doesn't hold up well against Lyn's heavy-hitting Orc army and produces dismal results in a fight right outside of his main, killing few and losing lots.
With the lack of an adequate army to match up against Lyn's, Rainbow is forced to relinquish his 1 o'clock expansion. Perhaps in an act of desperation, Rainbow brings his tattered force of heroes and riflemen to Lyn's base to try and make something happen, but Lyn teleports in and nets even more rifleman kills as the Human army flees. Lyn gets a little reckless in his pursuit for Human flesh and doesn't make much of an attempt to micro hurt units back to his base. The results: grunts and raiders are systematically picked off by Rainbow, and he is even able to nab himself a Blademaster kill before finally being forced to teleport out.
"It's hammer time!" No, that isn't Lyn dancing in victory to an Emcee Hammer song. That is the war cry of freshly-trained gryphon riders shaking the screen the second Rainbow teleports his heroes back into his base. His unit count had been conspicuously low, but for a reason - his stockpile of resources had been reserved to fund a triple Gryphon Aviary-produced aerial fleet of gryphon riders and dragonhawks.
Rainbow's dynamic, always-changing gameplay this game allows him to catch his adversary with his pants down. With his army not properly equipped to fend off Rainbow's gryphons and no scroll of teleportation to retreat with, Lyn's units are leisurely picked off by Rainbow as they scramble to get back home. "Can't touch this" - Rainbow's thoughts as he issues out a clinic of pain unto Lyn's army.
An attempt to accumulate a counter force of headhunters and bat riders is made by Lyn, but it's no use - even after the ten or so bat riders sacrifice themselves for the horde, Rainbow's aerial fleet is left still very intact. Without any resources to fund his army as opposed to Rainbow mining from two gold mines, and up against the Human hero trifecta and masses of air units, Lyn sees no hope in pulling a win out of this one and concedes with a 'gg.'
