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Maybe certain races have stronger workers if you have perfect micro (e.g. probes w/ shields)

Possible, but I highly doubt the differences are significant enough to make up the deficit. The other side has one or two more workers, which is just an insurmountable material advantage. If you back off to recharge your shields, I return to mining and get the resources for another worker or two (plus, my guys can recharge, regen, or repair too).

I'd argue that with AI level micro, the Protoss probe shield regen advantage would definitely come in play. Shields regen only when out of combat for 10 seconds and they regen at 2/second after that so it just takes 20 seconds to regen 20 shields.[1] This could definitely come into play enough, if micro'd enough, to make a difference, maybe... It'll be exciting to find out.

[1]https://starcraft.fandom.com/wiki/Plasma_shield

20 seconds is pretty long. Your opponent is up 2 workers on you, so assuming perfect micro from both sides, the defender can use one worker to continue to mine minerals and pump out more workers, while microing with the other 11 vs the attacker's 10 workers.

A web search turns up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtqgaJzJP4

It should be noted that this is one of, if not the shortest map to ever have been played in official matches.

Very weird how the zerg somehow got their drones trough the scv line, it looked pretty bad until they got that surround going.

Workers can fade through units (unless they are sieged) when they collecting resources (minerals, vespene). So Idra commanded his drones to mine minerals and canceled the command shortly after.

This is common technique, mostly used to get scouting drone back through a walloff (own unit stands on "hold" in a small choke) or when a mineral line is under siege (e.g. Siege Tank, Liberator), the player can select all his workers to mine a single mineral patch (has to be spammed, otherwise workers redistribute) outside of the siege range until they siege is cleared up.

I thought Idra was notoriously against "cheese" of any kind?

That's why he apologized when he won.

Zerg have faster build time for drones, so they can get a numeric advantage (or at least parity, once you account for travel time).

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