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Ssin
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States88 Posts
January 30 2011 01:45 GMT
#1
To start this off, a small introduction. I have been "playing" StarCraft: Brood War since about 2000. I was never any good at the the game and stuck mostly to UMS, BGH, and the like. I never had the willpower to progress any further than that.

This brings us to today(ish), I picked up StarCraft 2 on release, and have found a new love for the competitiveness of laddering (well, in general). I have since decided to focus on Brood War for getting better. This nostalgia I feel playing this game, and the thrill of being slaughtered over and over again makes playing fun.

I never really kept up with the proscene in Korea, looking back on that now it was a mistake. So much excitement, drama, HYPE! that it just seems criminal now to not have done such. I am slowly going back watching old VODs of the greats, and the not-so-greats and am intrigued at how much the game changed over the years.

So in light of my discovery of competition and my rediscovery of a great game, I am going to attempt to document my progress as a budding Protoss player. My ultimate goal is to try and update this once a week, but it may not happen (final year as a Physics undergrad may make this hard, but we'll see).

The mechanics in this game are hard to get the hang of at first; it requires amazing hand speed to keep up with all that is going on. Things I need to work on:

1. Build Orders - Mostly smoothing things out. Also reading opponent and tailoring builds to what I see/interpret. Liquidpedia helped a ton here. <3 <3

2. Macro - Lord is this terrible. I can keep up with 2 base macroing for a short period of time, but as soon as I get many production facilities / upgrade facilities running everything falls behind.

3. Micro - No comment on this yet. Not going to try and work on this until my macro is up to what I deem par.

As a final thought, anyone on iCCup that is willing to stomp me into the ground a few times? Haha

That is it for this brief entry, I wish you all best of luck in your endeavours~

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Monkeyshark
Profile Joined April 2010
United States406 Posts
January 30 2011 02:17 GMT
#2
I am in the same situation as you >.< I just played like 6+ just now and I'm still horrible on macro/micro

I'm playing right now so msg Tenhou on iccup if you want a game.
endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
January 30 2011 02:57 GMT
#3
There's been a lot of similar discussion already.
People good at brood war are good at sc2 because they have a good decision making and solid mechanics.
But if you want to improve at sc2, just play sc2.
Anyway, I'm glad that you're interested in BW again. Try op teamliquid on iCCup. There is also a practice partner thread in the BW General forum.
GL HF !
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Monkeyshark
Profile Joined April 2010
United States406 Posts
January 30 2011 03:32 GMT
#4
I hope you have more fun in the future

Just practice on building placement and build order and you'll beat me in D >.<
Ssin
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States88 Posts
January 30 2011 03:40 GMT
#5
haha, I appreciate stomping me around. I learned quite a bit in our little skirmishes.

Also Endy, I realized that. I felt like I needed to start a blog in order to force myself to actually do commit to doing this as I tend to let my mind wander. For example, I will play more in my head than I will in game, which is good for strategy, but bad for becoming mechanically sufficient. Thanks too for the thread references. I will cruise around them and look for something!

By the way, I am Valkalis on iCCup in case anyway wants to bash me into the ground.
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