EPTThis blog will be my adventure into the wonderful starcraft galaxy. I have heard reports that this area has a fondness for a specific dairy product, but I don't like to pay attention to things like that.
Now for some SUPER interesting history, because I'm sure you're all dying to know!
I played Starcraft on and off (mainly off
) for the past few years. Needless to say, I was bad. Actually, bad is being generous, I was atrocious. On PGTour I had something like 2 wins (I don't know how!) and 70 losses. It was at that point I decided that I should move on and try other things. I was and still am a Terran fan.However! SC2 is a whole new game. Auto mining, MBS, mass unit selection. Hooray! I can play without having to focus on 100 things at once.
I bought SC2 on release day and just this minute played my first match. Yeah I know, all this time without playing. There's a reason for that. I get extremely anxious when playing 1v1 competitively. Ladder = competitive for me.
So I thought "Hey, I'll make a blog and it'll give me a good incentive to play some games and let the good folks of TL marvel at my amazing talent"
So here we are, my very first placement match!
Placement #1
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Here we go. The anxiety is kicking in already but I must carry on!
The map is.. erm.. I actually don't know! Well that's an embarrasing start isn't it? >_<
It's the mighty Kanin as Terran against another Terran (although he had a Protoss portrait)
I start off building my scv and sending my workers to the mineral line. Not quite pimpest play material yet, but alas! we're off.
I attempt (keyword) a wall-off with a supply. And then I go to build a barracks
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My barracks is... how can I put this nicely?... super freaking delayed! but nevermind, it got down in the end.
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After a short while I put down a second barracks for no other reason than: Hey you know what I'll do? I'll spam the crap out of marines and marauders!
Take notice of my amazing wall-in skills. Try not to be too jealous.
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An engineering bay goes down next. Why you might ask? Well, that's good question. Because upgrades are, erm, good? That was my reasoning, I'm sure you can think of around 5 billion better options for me to do, but ah well :D
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I move my forces out. Now, I could lie and say that this is an intricate timing attack that I planned meticulously down to the last second. But I'm sure you wouldn't believe that so here is my reasoning for it: "Right, I got some units, let's go shoot things"
Oh yeah, and the massively delayed stim was planned... honest... >_>
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And would you look at that! My plan worked PERFECTLY. I wandered into his base, blew some stuff up and got a GG in the process. Who said you needed high APM to be good in this game?
Here is a replay for anyone (note: insane people) who wants to watch this clash of the titans!
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/80683-1v1-terran-kulas-ravine
And there we have it. First match, first win, who knows where this journey will take me?
Will I be mining for diamonds? or will I be stuck polishing bronze ornaments.
I think we all know the answer to that
