It had an aroma of fast units meta, but for the early mace. Hover always logically concludes in macewar so you get half a pass on that.

What really went down is UG played bad, trying to secure his forward flats and going nowhere instead of expanding east safely with his already available mace. He didn't dagger raid at all. So this was more the "free naked expand" rare delicacy game.

Now if we had seen dagger swarm after dagger swarm ala thornford, maybe, maybe.