• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 01:04
CET 07:04
KST 15:04
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
Rongyi Cup S3 - Preview & Info3herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational14SC2 All-Star Invitational: Tournament Preview5RSL Revival - 2025 Season Finals Preview8RSL Season 3 - Playoffs Preview0
Community News
Weekly Cups (Jan 19-25): Bunny, Trigger, MaxPax win0Weekly Cups (Jan 12-18): herO, MaxPax, Solar win0BSL Season 2025 - Full Overview and Conclusion8Weekly Cups (Jan 5-11): Clem wins big offline, Trigger upsets4$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7)25
StarCraft 2
General
Weekly Cups (Jan 19-25): Bunny, Trigger, MaxPax win StarCraft 2 not at the Esports World Cup 2026 herO wins SC2 All-Star Invitational PhD study /w SC2 - help with a survey! Oliveira Would Have Returned If EWC Continued
Tourneys
$21,000 Rongyi Cup Season 3 announced (Jan 22-Feb 7) OSC Season 13 World Championship $70 Prize Pool Ladder Legends Academy Weekly Open! SC2 All-Star Invitational: Jan 17-18 Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament
Strategy
Simple Questions Simple Answers
Custom Maps
[A] Starcraft Sound Mod
External Content
Mutation # 510 Safety Violation Mutation # 509 Doomsday Report Mutation # 508 Violent Night Mutation # 507 Well Trained
Brood War
General
[ASL21] Potential Map Candidates BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Which foreign pros are considered the best? Gypsy to Korea Fantasy's Q&A video
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues Azhi's Colosseum - Season 2 Small VOD Thread 2.0 [BSL21] Non-Korean Championship - Starts Jan 10
Strategy
Current Meta Simple Questions, Simple Answers Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2 Game Theory for Starcraft
Other Games
General Games
Beyond All Reason Nintendo Switch Thread Battle Aces/David Kim RTS Megathread Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Awesome Games Done Quick 2026!
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Lost love spell caster in Spain +27 74 116 2667
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread YouTube Thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread
Fan Clubs
The herO Fan Club! The IdrA Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [Manga] One Piece
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
How Esports Advertising Shap…
TrAiDoS
My 2025 Magic: The Gathering…
DARKING
Life Update and thoughts.
FuDDx
How do archons sleep?
8882
James Bond movies ranking - pa…
Topin
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 2080 users

SC2b: Getting through low level placements matches

Blogs > bconSaberRider
Post a Reply
bconSaberRider
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany47 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-22 22:21:08
April 22 2010 22:18 GMT
#1
Note: This is for really for new RTS gamers and casual gamers. And it is for Aiur =)

If your are new to the beta and real beginner as Toss - this might(!) help.

I love to go fast observers. So I go for Gate => Gas => Core => Robotics-Facility => Observer.
As soon I get the Core I update the warp gate tech. After Robotics I build an obs asap and scout the enemy. This might fail to very early rushes but I wrote this for pure beginners. I think you can do it =)
Against all races I tend to not early expand.

1)vs Terran:
I won most games with void rays. Of course build some stalker & one or two immortals.
Somethimes it comes to an 'elimination race'. Just build pylons and allthebasewillbelongtoyou ^^
I don't like it but it works.
If Zerg goes Hydra go for Collosus =)
Keep the obs around to check for Muta (counter with sentry).

2)vs Zerg:
Beginners like you will go Roaches. So go for 3 Immortals and some stalker. You have an obs from the start. Be cool and take it. You have to mix the amount of immortals and stalkers comparing to Zergs Lings and Roaches.

3) vs Protoss:
hm... I got lucky most times. They wanted to Void Ray me. So I did a timing attack with Stalker/Immortal. Obs ftw! Mirror matches still are strange *^^*/



avilo
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States4100 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-22 22:22:24
April 22 2010 22:21 GMT
#2
watch out for cheese in placement matches it's sorta like iccup when you start out lol.

Oh, and btw, I am pretty sure whatever algorithm blizz uses for the placement matches, it takes into account your unspent resources, apm, unit kill to death ratio, game length, skill of opponent, mini-map usage, hotkey usage, and many other things.

so even if you lose some placement matches, you'll still be put into the league where you should be.
I remember going like 6-4, 7-3 when there were x10 placement matches, and I always was placed into platinum league.

It never has failed yet, so if you simply execute a build order very good, and macro perfectly, you will be placed where you should be to your level of play.

edit: this is by no means "officially" how it places you, but I suspect their algorithm takes into account a lot of those things, just judging from how many placement games I have lost before and still been placed into platinum (that's just my level, is diff for everyone ofc).
Sup
Chill
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
Calgary25991 Posts
April 22 2010 22:25 GMT
#3
I see no reason to play the placement matches any differently than a normal game. Why are people so hung up on the placement matches?
Moderator
bconSaberRider
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany47 Posts
April 22 2010 22:28 GMT
#4
@chill
I got my beta key 2 days ago. For some reasons I don't know, I only can play those =)
Before I got my one, I played some 2v2 with a friend on his brother's account. Was very different from what I expected in the 1v1 placement matchups.
avilo
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States4100 Posts
April 22 2010 22:32 GMT
#5
On April 23 2010 07:25 Chill wrote:
I see no reason to play the placement matches any differently than a normal game. Why are people so hung up on the placement matches?


cause they dun wanna get put into bronze league lol
Sup
ZoW
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3983 Posts
April 22 2010 22:36 GMT
#6
lol after I got my key from gamestop today I was walking home all excited and remembered we have to play placement matches, the voice in my head went "oh crap I don't know anything about all the new stuff, I'm gonna get owned so bad" to "oh wait i can just proxy 2 gate every game"
the courage to be a lazy bum
spoolinoveryou
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States503 Posts
April 22 2010 22:38 GMT
#7
On April 23 2010 07:25 Chill wrote:
I see no reason to play the placement matches any differently than a normal game. Why are people so hung up on the placement matches?


i agreeee.

don't people want to play at their own level? so dumb..
whats good?
andeh
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States904 Posts
April 22 2010 23:29 GMT
#8
lose your placement matches so you can smurf
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
OSC
00:00
OSC Elite Rising Star #17.5
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
WinterStarcraft518
StarCraft: Brood War
Pusan 95
Dewaltoss 92
ZergMaN 78
Noble 71
Hm[arnc] 57
Shuttle 55
HiyA 29
Icarus 12
Bale 12
Dota 2
NeuroSwarm146
febbydoto19
League of Legends
JimRising 820
C9.Mang0335
Counter-Strike
m0e_tv401
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox585
Other Games
summit1g10891
KnowMe447
RuFF_SC280
Mew2King57
kaitlyn23
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick966
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 18 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH249
• practicex 24
• IndyKCrew
• sooper7s
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• Migwel
• intothetv
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Kozan
StarCraft: Brood War
• Diggity4
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Rush1274
• Scarra1182
• Lourlo965
• Stunt449
Other Games
• Shiphtur171
Upcoming Events
Replay Cast
2h 57m
RongYI Cup
4h 57m
Clem vs TriGGeR
Maru vs Creator
WardiTV Invitational
7h 57m
PiGosaur Cup
18h 57m
Replay Cast
1d 2h
RongYI Cup
1d 4h
herO vs Solar
WardiTV Invitational
1d 7h
The PondCast
2 days
HomeStory Cup
3 days
Korean StarCraft League
3 days
[ Show More ]
HomeStory Cup
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
HomeStory Cup
5 days
Replay Cast
5 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Proleague 2026-01-26
OSC Championship Season 13
Underdog Cup #3

Ongoing

CSL 2025 WINTER (S19)
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 1
Acropolis #4 - TS4
Rongyi Cup S3
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026
BLAST Bounty Winter Qual
eXTREMESLAND 2025
SL Budapest Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S1: W6
Escore Tournament S1: W7
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Bellum Gens Elite Stara Zagora 2026
LiuLi Cup: 2025 Grand Finals
HSC XXVIII
Nations Cup 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League Season 23
ESL Pro League Season 23
PGL Cluj-Napoca 2026
IEM Kraków 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.