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Anyhow, as my first blog, I would like to introduce (or reacquaint!) these 2 awesome individuals who you might or might now know of. One of them is of this community. The other is an amazing personality that warrants just as much praise!
First off:
Peter aka Legionnaire aka Wink Toss ~.^
I was skimming through some old thread that got bumped recently and I ran into this:
![[image loading]](http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b13/InSenG/PetervsJuly.jpg)
Oh my what an amazing image. Leg in the oh so imposing "zealot pose" also used quite fashionably by Rock LOL.
I don't know much of him, as I wasn't ever involved in TL as to even give a damn and register, but I do remember watching old replays of him, as well as those ever so intriguing clips of him in Korea. I remember reading his post on how he positions his hand on his keyboard and which fingers he uses to press each key, which laughably I still remember and use to this day. (I used to be so keen on little details and still am)
To those who don't know him at all, he used to play in Korea in those early days where people were still wearing freaking power ranger suits during games HAHA.
Heres the legend himself and his infamous wink in a game against [oops]cloud on R-point :
I believe he still holds the record of the most kills on a reaver, 57?
The complete game is in the first portion of the video in spoilers
+ Show Spoiler +
Finally for all you little nerdlings below masters, heres a little tip from the great leg himself pulled from a thread by the australian SoMuchBetter:
On August 03 2008 11:56 Legionnaire wrote:
For D level players there is not much you need to think about. Just do the basics well.
Steps 1-4 are the most important for all beginners.
1 - Load up a replay of yourself. Click on the nexus/CC (harder with Z - but click on hatchery and watch the larvae / minerals) and just watch the probe production. The nexus should never stop building. It should always have 1 queued. Particularly early -mid game. If you need to ask 'when do i stop building them' you aren't at the stage in skill to EVER stop!
2 - Hotkey buildings. more improtantly, hotkey Production buildings. and learn the unit production keys.
3 - Watch your mineral count. If it gets high, utilize step 1 and 2!
4 - Scout. i always scouted late, but i pretty much knew what most ppl would do. You do not. You must scout. Scouting provides information, and information provides counters to builds. So many people build canons, or build things just for the sake of doing it. Why waste lots of money building something you dont need? When you can build something you do need!
For beginners, just learn the 2-3 most common strats that your opponsition race uses. And scout for it. If you see 1 fact or 2, your basic build should switch over to a better counter. etc. The counter doesn't need to be 'huge' it just needs to take advantage of what you've learnt. If you see a 2nd upgrade going at a fact, you can expect vulture/mines soon! Get goons! etc etc
5 - When you get an advantage, expand.
6 - Learn early game builds. Late game doesn't matter, early game is where it counts. This used to mean a lot more until everyone became replay whores, but the point still stands.
7 - Macro well. this is all hotkeys, mineral expenditure, and expanding.
For D level players there is not much you need to think about. Just do the basics well.
Steps 1-4 are the most important for all beginners.
1 - Load up a replay of yourself. Click on the nexus/CC (harder with Z - but click on hatchery and watch the larvae / minerals) and just watch the probe production. The nexus should never stop building. It should always have 1 queued. Particularly early -mid game. If you need to ask 'when do i stop building them' you aren't at the stage in skill to EVER stop!
2 - Hotkey buildings. more improtantly, hotkey Production buildings. and learn the unit production keys.
3 - Watch your mineral count. If it gets high, utilize step 1 and 2!
4 - Scout. i always scouted late, but i pretty much knew what most ppl would do. You do not. You must scout. Scouting provides information, and information provides counters to builds. So many people build canons, or build things just for the sake of doing it. Why waste lots of money building something you dont need? When you can build something you do need!
For beginners, just learn the 2-3 most common strats that your opponsition race uses. And scout for it. If you see 1 fact or 2, your basic build should switch over to a better counter. etc. The counter doesn't need to be 'huge' it just needs to take advantage of what you've learnt. If you see a 2nd upgrade going at a fact, you can expect vulture/mines soon! Get goons! etc etc
5 - When you get an advantage, expand.
6 - Learn early game builds. Late game doesn't matter, early game is where it counts. This used to mean a lot more until everyone became replay whores, but the point still stands.
7 - Macro well. this is all hotkeys, mineral expenditure, and expanding.
Peter guarantees a C rank with this. And we all know what C rank means...+ Show Spoiler +
I haven't seen any of his posts for quite some time, don't know whats up or if he just got tired of TL, but hats off to him..what a gentleman
p.s. This blog turned out larger than I expected with all the images I linked...ill post a second part about mystery person #2 in some other blog
Cheers
