• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EST 04:00
CET 10:00
KST 18:00
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners10Intel X Team Liquid Seoul event: Showmatches and Meet the Pros10[ASL20] Finals Preview: Arrival13TL.net Map Contest #21: Voting12[ASL20] Ro4 Preview: Descent11
Community News
StarCraft, SC2, HotS, WC3, Returning to Blizzcon!42$5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship7[BSL21] RO32 Group Stage4Weekly Cups (Oct 26-Nov 2): Liquid, Clem, Solar win; LAN in Philly2Weekly Cups (Oct 20-26): MaxPax, Clem, Creator win10
StarCraft 2
General
RotterdaM "Serral is the GOAT, and it's not close" Mech is the composition that needs teleportation t StarCraft, SC2, HotS, WC3, Returning to Blizzcon! TL.net Map Contest #21: Winners Weekly Cups (Oct 20-26): MaxPax, Clem, Creator win
Tourneys
Constellation Cup - Main Event - Stellar Fest $5,000+ WardiTV 2025 Championship Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Merivale 8 Open - LAN - Stellar Fest Sea Duckling Open (Global, Bronze-Diamond)
Strategy
Custom Maps
Map Editor closed ?
External Content
Mutation # 498 Wheel of Misfortune|Cradle of Death Mutation # 497 Battle Haredened Mutation # 496 Endless Infection Mutation # 495 Rest In Peace
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion Where's CardinalAllin/Jukado the mapmaker? [ASL20] Ask the mapmakers — Drop your questions [BSL21] RO32 Group Stage BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/
Tourneys
[ASL20] Grand Finals [BSL21] RO32 Group A - Saturday 21:00 CET [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL21] RO32 Group B - Sunday 21:00 CET
Strategy
Current Meta PvZ map balance How to stay on top of macro? Soma's 9 hatch build from ASL Game 2
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Path of Exile Should offensive tower rushing be viable in RTS games? Dawn of War IV
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread SPIRED by.ASL Mafia {211640}
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine YouTube Thread Dating: How's your luck?
Fan Clubs
White-Ra Fan Club The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! Korean Music Discussion Series you have seen recently...
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion NBA General Discussion MLB/Baseball 2023 TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
SC2 Client Relocalization [Change SC2 Language] Linksys AE2500 USB WIFI keeps disconnecting Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
The Automated Ban List Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Learning my new SC2 hotkey…
Hildegard
Coffee x Performance in Espo…
TrAiDoS
Saturation point
Uldridge
DnB/metal remix FFO Mick Go…
ImbaTosS
Reality "theory" prov…
perfectspheres
Our Last Hope in th…
KrillinFromwales
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1368 users

Climbing up the Ladder- Week 1 recap

Blogs > TG Manny
Post a Reply
TG Manny
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States325 Posts
December 19 2011 18:53 GMT
#1
Hey everyone, as many of you who lurk the forum may have seen my posts this week I decided to take it a little easy on the TL posting and give only weekly updates on the actual progress and have a couple intermediate posts for specific advice or stories I happen to want to tell about the ladder game.

Style:
Strict 2Rax gas-FE into MMM all-game every game. This won't allow me to win as much but get good control of my rax units (ghosts and reapers are allowed) and tear armies into smaller portions that I can take-out via dropping or engageing on my terms.

Issues I have seen within my own gameplay:
Not spending money enough
Sometimes forgetting workers (though not often now)
Not being able to split my MM ball against mass banelings (vZ)
Not taking a third early enough to get good mining from it (and thus supporting better MMM production)
Not knowing when to add gasses to get upgrades rolling from Ebay
Defending against early unit harassment (since marines are pretty squishy vs a stalker or two)


Improvement I know I have seen:
-Worker production, almost never skipping a worker and always being ahead of my opponents in worker count (due to forcing chrono/larva to go to army production)
-Adding production when I can afford it
-Multitasking skill to drop multiple locations and micro them well enough
-Scouting without scanning (running around with my drop to follow workers, reaper scout+harassment, poking the front, looking for a 3rd)
-Microing away from high tech units so they can't be as effective (collosus, templar, infestor) until all their support is gone.


I originally was a low tier Silver player as of this time last week, however I have made a lot of improvement to my macro-mechanics and reading opponents as well as my micro so now I feel like I am playing nearly platinum level. I fall apart when opponents are more active and hit timing attacks, still, but can work through by scouting a push and bunkering or pre-emptive concaving and army distribution while sending a drop to do economic damage to hurt reinforcements to the main push.

Now that I am home for Holliday from university I hope to ladder more and be able to possibly get a stream going (when bandwidth is available in the house) so I can have you guys watch and give me some suggestions I always like to learn, and I am sure some of you sadistic lurkers love to see 40 supply of marines get eaten by 30 banelings in two seconds too

Goals for this week: Incoorperate more reaper (Scout!!) and ghost play (vP!!!) into my performance. I end up winning a lot against Protoss because their army isn't as mobile as mine and drops during pushes tend to make them make bad decisions.

I'd also like to try and take a 3rd whenever I drop and am microing like crazy. I tend to keep up production but not add any extra which can be a problem.

Hope you like reading this guys, I'll be in touch,
Manny signing off.

Singularity is at hand...
GreEny K
Profile Joined February 2008
Germany7312 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-12-19 21:12:41
December 19 2011 19:24 GMT
#2
If you need help practicing, I'm willing to help. tQInHale.253, shoot me a message if you wanna take me up on that.

EDIT: Mid Masters Protoss, btw
Why would you ever choose failure, when success is an option.
Flipside
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States141 Posts
December 19 2011 20:30 GMT
#3
I'm mid Gold Protoss if you want to add for practice Trippy.978 NA/Snooze.704 TW/KR. I will be gone for the week after this but when I get back I will be available like everyday.
ShatterZer0
Profile Joined November 2010
United States1843 Posts
December 19 2011 20:41 GMT
#4
Diamond/Plat Protoss, hit me up

ShatterZero.502
A time to live.
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 1h
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft: Brood War
Zeus 537
Larva 367
actioN 243
PianO 109
Sharp 61
Soma 25
NotJumperer 22
Noble 11
NaDa 10
Dota 2
Gorgc4108
NeuroSwarm95
League of Legends
JimRising 1136
Counter-Strike
fl0m2453
Stewie2K612
Heroes of the Storm
Khaldor143
Other Games
summit1g11719
Happy230
XaKoH 71
goatrope42
Organizations
Counter-Strike
PGL92
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 15 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH176
• LUISG 13
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• lizZardDota231
League of Legends
• Lourlo4070
• Jankos3121
Upcoming Events
Sparkling Tuna Cup
1h
WardiTV Korean Royale
3h
LAN Event
6h
ByuN vs Zoun
TBD vs TriGGeR
Clem vs TBD
IPSL
9h
JDConan vs WIZARD
WolFix vs Cross
BSL 21
11h
spx vs rasowy
HBO vs KameZerg
Cross vs Razz
dxtr13 vs ZZZero
Replay Cast
1d
Wardi Open
1d 3h
WardiTV Korean Royale
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Kung Fu Cup
3 days
Classic vs Solar
herO vs Cure
Reynor vs GuMiho
ByuN vs ShoWTimE
[ Show More ]
Tenacious Turtle Tussle
3 days
The PondCast
4 days
RSL Revival
4 days
Solar vs Zoun
MaxPax vs Bunny
Kung Fu Cup
4 days
WardiTV Korean Royale
4 days
RSL Revival
5 days
Classic vs Creator
Cure vs TriGGeR
Kung Fu Cup
5 days
CranKy Ducklings
6 days
RSL Revival
6 days
herO vs Gerald
ByuN vs SHIN
Kung Fu Cup
6 days
BSL 21
6 days
Tarson vs Julia
Doodle vs OldBoy
eOnzErG vs WolFix
StRyKeR vs Aeternum
Liquipedia Results

Completed

BSL 21 Points
SC4ALL: StarCraft II
Eternal Conflict S1

Ongoing

C-Race Season 1
IPSL Winter 2025-26
KCM Race Survival 2025 Season 4
SOOP Univ League 2025
YSL S2
BSL Season 21
Stellar Fest: Constellation Cup
IEM Chengdu 2025
PGL Masters Bucharest 2025
Thunderpick World Champ.
CS Asia Championships 2025
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual

Upcoming

SLON Tour Season 2
BSL 21 Non-Korean Championship
Acropolis #4
IPSL Spring 2026
HSC XXVIII
RSL Offline Finals
WardiTV 2025
RSL Revival: Season 3
META Madness #9
BLAST Bounty Winter 2026: Closed Qualifier
eXTREMESLAND 2025
ESL Impact League Season 8
SL Budapest Major 2025
BLAST Rivals Fall 2025
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.