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Glaucoma
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Taiwan13 Posts
January 15 2012 18:44 GMT
#1
After entering the ladder I decided to play 3 games a day for a week to get a feel for things. I focused on the 3-Rax build recently posted by Khazidhea I practiced a week against the computer buiding up my speed so I can hit his benchmarks. For my ladder games I was most concerned with hitting my benchmarks and winning a third of my games. I have no midgame plan or emphasis on apm. The ultimate benchmarks being 7 marauders and 13 marines ready to attack at 7:30 and 30 scvs by 8:00. Here is my self-given benchmark grade system:
Time to get Army ___#scvs by 8 minutes__Grade
by 7:30____________30______________A
7:31-7:40__________29______________B
7:41-7:50__________28______________C
after 7:50__________less than 28_______F

An A on army but a C on scvs would round to a B on the 3-Rax open benchmarks.

Game 6, 16 min, Antiga Shipyard
Player _____________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)_________________44__22_______F
Eurymachus (W) Zerg #5 Silver____55__31
___I destroyed his expansion but later he out expanded me and dropped into my base with better army.

Game 7, 30 min, Antiga Shipyard
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)____________________6___18_______F
Starkwando (W) Protoss #20 Silver___43___29
___I attacked his cannons and structures while his army killed me. I failed to damage his expansion. He expanded more and build a lot of stuff. I didn't.

Game 8, 14 min, Metalopolis
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)___________________47__18_____F
double D (L) Protoss #76 Bronze____19___15
___He had no army in base when I attacked and 6 zealots scouting.

Game 9, 10 min, Xelnaga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)____________________68__19_____D
MunchBR (W) Zerg #30 Silver_______51___38
___I destroyed his just started expansion, but his lings and banelings broke through my walls and killed all my scvs.

Game 10, 13 min, Antiga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)____________________6_____7__17_____D
TShirt (W) Protoss #2 Bronze________46__51
___I mis-scouted his base and had to use my army to find it. Very late attack. I did good damage to his base and army but by 10:00 he had more DTs than I had scans. Killed my army in his base and destroyed my base at the same time.

Game 11, 1 min, Metalapolis
Player ___________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)__________________________________
anarkos (L) Terran #49 Bronze______________________
___He quit in the first minute. I won 30 points by forfeit.

Game 12, 8 min, Metalopolis
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)____________________79__15_____Inc
MENASH (W) #30 Bronze__________97__23
___He had a faster 3 rax and cut scvs. At 6:00, he attacked with 15 marines to my 3 marauder/1 marine (with one working rax). With my micro, I never had a chance.

Game 13, 1 min, Antiga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)_______________________________________
ALLCAPSGUY (L) #2 Silver_____________________________
___He quit in the first minute. I won by forfeit again.

Game 14, 25 min, Xelnaga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)___________________38__19______F
Jopok (L) Zerg #16 Bronze_________54___92
___I attacked to late and army was too small. He massively expanded 4 bases to 1. Eventually he came to kill me and his supply was 141 to 13. Then he quit just seconds before I did. I don't understand that.

Game 15, 12 min, Arid Plateau
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)___________________67__21_____D
IrocZ (L) Zerg #35 Silver___________33__14
___While I killed off his only hatchery, he killed off my scvs with mutas. His mutas came back to kill my army in his base and when he flew back to my base I had enough marines to kill his only army.

Game 16, 2 min, Antiga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)_______________________________________
Yourmother (L)_______________________________________
__She? quit after 2 minutes. Sorry mom.

Game 17, 10 min, Entombed Valley
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)__________________74___21_____F
kabao (L) Zerg #5 Silver__________56___23
___I killed his expansion but didn't expand, instead used the extra minerals to reinforce my army and killed his main.

Game 18, 10 min, Xelnaga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)__________________73__22______C+ (best ever)
Mark (L) Protoss #1 Bronze________56__31
___I killed his expansion and supply blocked him. Used reinforcements to kill the main.

Game 19, 22 min, Antiga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)___________________43__20_____F
tavo (W) Terran #25 Silver_________38__29
___3 reapers hit my base at 6:22 and killed 13 scv. I responded too slowly. I attacked his base but his bunker held me off. Later he attacked and my defense was poor. I tried to build tanks with the "T" buttion rather than the "S" button and wondered why I didn't have any tanks when he attacked.

Game 20, 36 min, Entombed Valley
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)____________________21__17______F
Penguin (W) Zerg #29 Silver________45___43
___Zerg Rush at 4:00, Zerg Rush at 5:40, Zerg Rush at 6:00. 7 scvs left idle. Eventually he killed me with hundreds of banelings and a score of muta.

Game 21, 26 min, Antiga
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)___________________31__21______F
AUBIE (W) Protoss #53 Silver______42__31
___My first attack killed his army and damaged his expansion. Our income and bases were equal. But he out expanded me and defeated me with a bigger army later.

Game 22, 29 min, Arid Plateau
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)___________________34__19_____F
Vespa Drone (W) Terran #23 Silver___33__43
___My army was very late. He was outside my main by 8:55. I killed his army, but he out-expanded me and made a bigger army, then killed me.

Game 23, 17 min, Arid Plateau
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)___________________39__16_____F
jvroblero (W) Terran #17 Bronze_____64__25
___I was really late getting my army ready. He came to my base early and bunkered my natural, followed by tanks and vikings. I never got out of my first base.

Game 24, 10 min, Entombed Valley
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)__________________80__19_____C
DrRockso (L) Zerg #5 Bronze______60__32
___Good attack time, left my base at 7:30, arrived at his base with twice his army. That's the way this attack is supposed to work.

Game 25, 10 min, Entombed Valley
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (W)__________________80__19_____C
Ros (L) Terran #59 Silver__________5____1
___ Ros must have been busy watching GSL. He hadn't even finished his first rax when I attacked.

Game 26, 28 min, Entombed Valley
Player ________________________SQ APM Benchmark Grade
Glaucoma (L)___________________30__20______D-
JumpmanJ? (W) Zerg #12 Silver____56__54
___My first attack broke even be he out-expanded me 5 base to 2 base. He won.

So in 21 games I had:
10 wins (6 early game, 3 forfeits, 1 late game that was really a loss)
11 losses (3 early game, 8 mid-late game)

I started at #100 Silver and finished at #33 Silver. But I'm still terrible.
Goals for next week: improve opening benchmarks and practice the midgame against the computer. After a week of computer practice I hope to begin laddering again to judge my progress.

It's very late, so I'll edit mistakes tomorrow.

****
I don't know how to play.
Sated
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
England4983 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-15 18:59:03
January 15 2012 18:55 GMT
#2
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nikj
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada669 Posts
January 15 2012 20:15 GMT
#3
Good blog, thinking of doing something like this myself.

Even if many people don't read it at least you are making a conscience effort on improving. Keep updating and analyzing, GL HF!
Y'know sometimes people ask me y'know like "What's your religion and stuff?" And I'm like "y' know it's like RTS." Uh, and they're like, "What's that?" And I'm like, "Y'know it's kinda like, kinda like Buddism."
Br3ezy
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States720 Posts
January 15 2012 22:21 GMT
#4
that is a very good overview of how your ladder went very detailed
Check out my guide to mechanics http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=319876
Hoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Brazil891 Posts
January 16 2012 02:31 GMT
#5
You can use [ code ] [ / code ] for those tables, man:

Time to get Army #scvs by 8 minutes Grade
by 7:30 30 A
7:31-7:40 29 B
7:41-7:50 28 C
after 7:50 less than 28 F

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Glaucoma
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Taiwan13 Posts
January 16 2012 04:24 GMT
#6
Sated and Hoon,

Thanks for the formatting advice. I do that next time.
I don't know how to play.
Hoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Brazil891 Posts
January 16 2012 17:43 GMT
#7
On January 16 2012 13:24 Glaucoma wrote:
Sated and Hoon,

Thanks for the formatting advice. I do that next time.

Awesome, man!
Keep on owning noobs!
Gogo get a promotion by the end of the month!
SEn Fanclub: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=170834
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