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schoop
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Finland22 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-22 19:33:09
March 22 2011 19:30 GMT
#1
Howdy!

It's time for my second blog-entry. If you haven't read my first entry you can head here to catch up. Really short version: I'm bronze, I play random and I blog to keep track of my progress and babble about my games.

I've played 48 games after my first blog-entry so I am currently #4 with 297 games, 159 wins (last 10 games are 9-1 for me, hooray) and 53.5% win-ratio which is a slight improvement. Excuses are never fun but I must say that I could have done better (win-ratio-wise) if I hadn't played at saturday and sunday. This game requires quite much all of my attention and if I lack it: disaster happens. And it seems that hangover does affect my focus in a negative way.

During the past week I've noticed a change in my gameplay. Earlier I tried to just build something (I had some buildorders to follow but for some reason I didn't follow them..), scout my opponent and then react accordingly. With lack of knowledge and experience it is easy to see why this lead to some bad decisions. What kind of bad decisions you may ask? Well, decisions like in ZvT: Terran is in 1base-turtle with dozens of siege-tanks so of course I decided to bling-bust! Luckily brood lords saved my butt in that game.

So yes, nowadays I strictly follow buildorders / openings and think twice before transitions / tech-switches. Too bad that this doesn't fix one of my biggest flaws: For some reason I can't "capitalize". Even when my first attack is successful and I know that I have the economical advantage over my opponent, I struggle in mid/late-game.

I have also ditched all the FE-builds and expand when I feel safe. Quite often it is really late but I've lost too many times to 1-base-play when I have tried to FE. Problem with my fast expands is that I have this strange urge to saturate my natural as fast as possible, which of course means that my army is +1k minerals smaller than my 1-basing opponent's. Exception to this is of course Zerg. This is a bit bragging but I'm quite good at executing 7 RoachRush / Expand / Lair -build. With T or P my FE's always fall down to the fact that my army is just too small to defend it and my micro is almost non-existant.

Thing that I dont like about Bronze-league is the amount of cheese I need to eat. If I say that every fourth game I play involves somekind of cheese (all-ins or semi-all-ins) I'm not exaggerating much. It just irritates me when my opponent jquits after his failed cheese-attempt. For example: if protoss tries to cannon-rush and I manage to destroy pylons with workers / early units, he just quits.

It seems I love to produce these walls of text. Oh well, hope you did enjoy reading it. So, 'til next time.

cheers!


*****
Play random or die trying.
winsause
Profile Joined March 2011
United States65 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-22 20:03:35
March 22 2011 19:56 GMT
#2
You can do it!
I just got out of bronze yesterday, it helps a lot of you watch your replays and get some good builds down.
GreatFall
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1061 Posts
March 22 2011 21:10 GMT
#3
Let me know if you need help with ZvT, it's my specialty. PM me if you would like to see my strategy because I don't mind helping people out. I showed my platinum protoss friend how to play zerg and now he can beat diamond players with zerg.

Inventor of the 'Burning Tide' technique to quickly getting Outmatched Crusher achivement :D
dstryr
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States69 Posts
March 22 2011 21:15 GMT
#4
Good job man Keep up the good work. I worked my way up from Bronze too. Although, I would advise you to pick a race to focus on at some point!
schoop
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Finland22 Posts
March 23 2011 06:36 GMT
#5
Thanks for the responses

GreatFall: Thanks for the offer but for some reason ZvZ seems to be quite strong matchup for me. At lower levels 7RR just kicks ass.

dstyr: Golden advice. I know I would get faster to higher leagues just by playing one race but thats not my goal
Play random or die trying.
AnxiousHippo
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Australia1451 Posts
March 23 2011 07:06 GMT
#6
I got promoted a few hours before the season cut-off :D
I applaud you simply upon the basis of playing as a Random. PM me if you'd ever like some 1v1 practice.
An apple a day keeps the Protoss away | TLHF
Deadeight
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United Kingdom1629 Posts
March 23 2011 14:05 GMT
#7
Bronze was so, so much cheese! I learnt quickly though.

To be honest, I am kind of disappointed starcraftarena.net isn't about anymore. I went there with problems that would have just met abuse here on TL (and for good reason don't get me wrong). There were 10 posts a day about defending four gate, but every time there was a core of people who answered reasonably and yeah, it got me out of bronze.

It can actually be hard to find solid advice on defending cheese.
-Primal-
Profile Joined March 2011
United States27 Posts
March 23 2011 18:02 GMT
#8
Bronze is horrible. The amount of cheese is almost unbareable. It's really sad that i sometimes loose to people who do that.
The only thing we have to fear is... 6 pools! Check out my Blog! :) http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=203791
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