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Hey guys. So as in my previous blog awhile ago I said I took a month off to cool off. Well since then I started playing like 6 or so hours a day starting on january 20'th about I would say. I have literally only played korean ladder (with customs with friends on NA a bit).
Before I used to only play 2 hours a day and would get GM on NA easily and beat some known pro's/lose etc but I never really played a lot. Will the past 2 weeks my MMR has shot through the roof and I am really seeing lots of improvement in my play in terms of decision making, macro and micro and just everything has improved a ton for me and I am playing 6 or so hours a day most of the time.
couple days ago I went 16-1 on the KR ladder beating high masters and some low GM players which shot my MMR through the roof as today I faced a few well known pro's on the ladder 2-0'ing one (He was off racing as protoss though) and getting kinda beat badly by the other (it was clide so bm to beat me like he did with his aggressive expand and attack tactics). I do wish I could read korean as I have no idea if I have played any other known players I just know about clide because a friend told me when I was streaming 
Something I realized when laddering on there is the fact there terrans I play I feel I get to that "level" where they can't get much better then I hit this next tier and they play a lot better then the tier before. Of course its not as easy to see the skill jump in zvz, and zvp has more or less been the same forge fe, all in or forge fe stargate take bases macro game.
I will say while zvp is still my worst match up it has finally improved to where I am not losing in it as much as I used to (which used to be every game) still my worst match up, zvz I used to be so confident in but after the break its meh and zvt which has always been my favorite and best match up is still my best and favorite match up and keeps improving all the time due to them terrans exploiting weaknesses in my builds sometimes that I refine ^_^.
I say tier because almost every terran I play has gosu splitting, multi tasking and macro. But when I think I have hit for the most part he average terran players skill it just increases 10 fold in the next set once my mmr gets there (aka mid masters to high masters was a bit of a jump in terran players). Facing a few top 100 gm's though made me feel good knowing my MMR was finally good enough to play them (and get raped xD).
Why am I writing this? Will I am bored, wanted to kind of post and am looking forward to seeing how all this practicing does in tournaments which I shall find out next week when I start playing more and more like the playhems and hopefully the IPL4 qualifier :D
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hi there. I watched your stream yesterday and really liked what I saw. Beating lucky twice (he played toss, but who cares  ) and playing versus strong korean terrans was fun to watch. I will certainly tune in again. stay strong zergling =)
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please please PLEASE make a replay pack!
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On February 04 2012 21:20 SixSongs wrote:
What is MMR pls?
match making rating. or Im other words your skill rating.
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Old saying: sucess come from hard work. I hope you keep working and improving. ^^
GL HF GG.
ps. keep smashing some korean nerd skulls in KR server :D
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Italy12246 Posts
Damn that's pretty impressive, congratulations.
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really nice! I knew you were always good, but not that good =O
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i know you were talented when you won 1 map against RevivaL
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Really impressive, keep working hard and having fun and you should improve even more.
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On February 05 2012 00:35 dragonborn wrote:i know you were talented when you won 1 map against RevivaL
He trained hard != talent
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Nice job blade, congratulations and good luck in the future!
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On February 04 2012 20:06 eu.exodus wrote:
please please PLEASE make a replay pack!
I do every month of all my replays.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=187981
I released my last replay pack 5 days ago? The games from january 24'th on are the best just because thats when I really started playing a lot.
My goal is to hopefully be gm in 2 seasons :D
Thanks for the nice comments guys ^^.
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I like you because you were the only member of sPs I've talked to that wasn't a rage bot. Hopefully you start breaking through into the pros
What would you say are other significant skill tiers for Terran. This is something I'm thinking about a lot as I'm laddering and its neat to read someone else has put some thought into it.
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What do you think of Zenio's ZvP showcased in Day[9]'s daily? Basically, one gets hydra + ling + macro hatch tech at the same time as spire, allowing for perfect reactionary defense/offense/economy.
Heavy roaches, the traditional ZvP style, feels much too one dimensional and supply heavy, making it easy to counter and hard to transition out of.
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On February 05 2012 05:41 AKomrade wrote:I like you because you were the only member of sPs I've talked to that wasn't a rage bot. Hopefully you start breaking through into the pros What would you say are other significant skill tiers for Terran. This is something I'm thinking about a lot as I'm laddering and its neat to read someone else has put some thought into it.
Well its like while they all have solid micro/macro multi tasking it just seems as I face better terran they macro up even a bigger army faster and micro even better which when seeing split marines you think "wow thats good micro don't see how you could do better then that" but they do. Kind of hard to explain in detail other then the lame they macro even better with micro and decision making and a lot harder to catch their army unsieged.
On February 05 2012 05:57 DeltruS wrote:
What do you think of Zenio's ZvP showcased in Day[9]'s daily? Basically, one gets hydra + ling + macro hatch tech at the same time as spire, allowing for perfect reactionary defense/offense/economy.
Heavy roaches, the traditional ZvP style, feels much too one dimensional and supply heavy, making it easy to counter and hard to transition out of.
To be honest I haven't watched as much day 9 daily's now of days so I don't really know the style. I do a somewhat similar thing to where I will add hydra's to my roach army if I see a 6 gate all in or an immortal bust (by scouting of course) and then transitioning into either mutalisks or infestors and go hive to get broodlords.
I prefer heavy roach style still because its more mobile and cheaper on the gas.
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