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babolatt
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada312 Posts
November 21 2010 19:38 GMT
#1
I'll start with a few dumb ones I make:

- Forget my orbital command. There's nothing worse than getting to about 50 food and wondering why you have so few minerals.

- Forgetting to check the destructible rocks to my base

- Forgetting a key upgrade. (STIM!)

- Sometimes if I place my buildings differently than usual for whatever reason, I forget my second supply depot.

**
"Alright, Lets poop out a daily" Day9
Archas
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6531 Posts
November 21 2010 19:43 GMT
#2
Since I'm garbage at StarCraft, pretty much everything I do is a mistake. Probably the worst one I've made is accidentally Psi Storming my own Zealots when my mouse slipped and put the cursor right over my army. =(

There are a few pretty "OMG"-worthy screwups I've seen in high-end games, though. Like blocking your own expansion while Forge fast-expanding, consistently forgetting to research Extended Thermal Lance. Stuff like that makes me cringe.
The room is ripe with the stench of bitches!
Attican
Profile Joined October 2010
Denmark531 Posts
November 21 2010 19:44 GMT
#3
I get supply blocked fairly often. That and forgetting to keep up worker production is probably the most common mistakes I make.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44300 Posts
November 21 2010 19:46 GMT
#4
Everything in the previous posts and...

When I use a chono boost on the wrong building -.-'

When I accidentally let speedlings slip into my base x.x
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Uranium
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1077 Posts
November 21 2010 19:49 GMT
#5
Really, just forgetting to start my lair in time and getting owned by Banshees/Void Rays. This only happens to me 1/20 games but it still makes me rage every time.

Oh and making 8 Drones when I see the guy's army is pushing to my base. ........... Stupid greedy Zerg.
"Sentry imba! You see? YOU SEE??!!" - Sen | "Marauder die die!" - oGsMC | "Oh my god, she texted me back!" - Day[9]
Metalwing
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Turkey1038 Posts
November 21 2010 19:51 GMT
#6
Hey, you're the guy who wrote about how to get ranked in the IT industry, it was a nice blog and among my bookmarks.

My stupid noob mistakes:

1- Don't transition out of mutas. Yes, sometimes I don't. But i can still win. I'm silver.
2- Have over 9000 minerals and literally 0 gas. This has some kind of reason but I don't know it yet.
3- Not exploding burrowed banelings when a big group of marines are on it.
4- Not giving a shit to evo chamber upgrades.
5- Not spreading creep at all.
6- Getting supply blocked with 20 excess larvae before the 8th minute.
#1 CheckPrime fan // Terrans gonna Terran
emperorchampion
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9496 Posts
November 21 2010 19:51 GMT
#7
Stopping workers when spamming at the beginning :|
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Conversion
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3308 Posts
November 21 2010 19:51 GMT
#8
when going 2 hatch lurk all in with zerg in bw and successfully containing a terran

... then I realize I forgot to rerally my shit and i have OLs + drones sniped by marines

QQ
babolatt
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada312 Posts
November 21 2010 19:52 GMT
#9
On November 22 2010 04:44 Attican wrote:
I get supply blocked fairly often. That and forgetting to keep up worker production is probably the most common mistakes I make.


One thing I did that really helped with this was to play against the computer (or ladder if you want), do your normal thing and then check the replays. At the 10 minute mark you should have a MINIMUM of 30 SCV's (if you're Terran, the number is a bit different for other races but still a decent benchmark). Ideally you're 35+ workers.
"Alright, Lets poop out a daily" Day9
blahman3344
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2015 Posts
November 21 2010 19:53 GMT
#10
For me, it's usually supply blocks or forgetting to macro. Whenever this happens, I usually try to go into qxc's practice map and just crank out the build over until I get it right.
I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9756 Posts
November 21 2010 19:56 GMT
#11
On November 22 2010 04:51 emperorchampion wrote:
Stopping workers when spamming at the beginning :|

>.<

also i keep selecting multiple workers to build shit, and when i build stuff i always move towards the site before building, so pretty much half my workers go HEY LETS GO TO THAT RANDOM LOCATION. pretty much lose 100-200 minerals of mining time doing this =\
boomer hands
babolatt
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada312 Posts
November 21 2010 19:56 GMT
#12
On November 22 2010 04:51 Metalwing wrote:
Hey, you're the guy who wrote about how to get ranked in the IT industry, it was a nice blog and among my bookmarks.


Thanks man! I still have a part 2 planned!
"Alright, Lets poop out a daily" Day9
canucks12
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada812 Posts
November 21 2010 20:01 GMT
#13
I tend to forget important things at my house and only remember them when I'm already halfway to my bus stop. It forces me to sprint back home and then sprint to the bus stop. I've done this countless times with my wallet.
Typho0n
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada276 Posts
November 21 2010 20:02 GMT
#14
- having all my peons selected and hitting s by accident
- forgetting warpgate tech
- forgetting stim
- forgetting to make a queen

playing random (at least for me) you forget to do a lot of simple stuff lol
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-21 20:10:11
November 21 2010 20:07 GMT
#15
I forget zergling speed like every 5th game, it is the most annoying thing ever.

"Hm, why does my army feel so slow...where are the wings...why don't my fucking zerglings have wings...ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Edit:

Also, I sometimes accidently hotkey my first 3 larvae instead of my hatchery at the start of the game. (split workers at start, click on hatchery and hit sd to make drone, then forget to click back to hatchery before ctrl+5) Usually it is no big deal, but sometimes I end up hitting 5sd without realizing it and boom, idle drone.
N.geNuity
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States5112 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-21 20:10:31
November 21 2010 20:09 GMT
#16
Well, for sc2 the main mistake I make that makes me rage is when I actually scout cheese and don't respond. Often times I have 1 reaper to scout in tvt or tvp, and if I....

Actually spot a dark shrine building? MULE UP.
See a stargate for a void ray? MARINE MARAUDER UP.
See them with a starport and tech lab? MULE UP.

I actually play right and see what they are doing, then use my scans for mules and go "oh yeah! I forgot they were going cloaked stuff!" or play as I normally do instead of actually using the scouting info.
iu, seungah, yura, taeyeon, hyosung, lizzy, suji, sojin, jia, ji eun, eunji, soya, younha, jiyeon, fiestar, sinb, jung myung hoon godtier. BW FOREVERR
DorF
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden961 Posts
November 21 2010 20:09 GMT
#17
I make mutas , forget they're not BW mutas , become dissapoint , tries to sell the game in vane T_T
BW for life !
Bibbit
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada5377 Posts
November 21 2010 20:11 GMT
#18
Not only food capping myself but then chrono boosting a unit that I dont have enough food for. >_>
lyAsakura
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1414 Posts
November 21 2010 20:14 GMT
#19
On November 22 2010 04:51 emperorchampion wrote:
Stopping workers when spamming at the beginning :|


The bane of all terran players.
WeMade FOX would be a deadly SC2 team.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
November 21 2010 20:16 GMT
#20
When offracing as protoss I waste chronoboosts on like the last 2 seconds of warpgate upgrade all the time.
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