EPTIt means that we have a bunch of elitists, some fake some real.
My background in competative gaming comes from the Pokemon Trading Card game
where i spent 10 great years, winning tournaments and travelling the world to attend world championships.
Recently I retired from that to pursue a new hobby/competative game, obviously SC2.
Also the trading card game can get expensive sometimes if youre missing cards in your deck and so forth, I usually didnt have to buy cards because I won all my cards or borrowed them.
If youre wondering how good was I, I was about the IdrA of pokemon haha, yeah I get emotional to when and if I lose.
Anyway back to the point
So pokemon and SC2 are really similair really.
Build order=deck lists just about
In pokemon TCG we had to really scrutanize the effectiveness of our decklists to play with the metagame and to have the most efficient(consistent) decklist
It is really no different than SC2 build orders other than the fact that luck does come into play when you play any card game, but skill and a good "build order" should overcome the factor of luck I'd say about 90% of the time.
So just like TL we have our Pokemon Hub forum (www.pokegym.net for those interested)
Alot of the times on TL or stream chat or w/e else Starcraft 2 strategy is being talked about anytime a lower league posts a strategy/build order it usually instantly overlooked or they are bashed because they come from the lower leagues.
While most time it is true the stratagies build orders are bad but we shouldn't just disregard in whole. Why you ask?
Cause every strategy thats posted has the ability to grow into something great.
When I played pokemon I played all kinds of styles metagame styles(we called them archetype decks, so a 1-1-1 is a archetype build since its a popular strategy) rouge styles which were personally invented stratagies to counter the metagame. The hardest style to play but the most effective since suprise is the #1 strategy to any strategy game, in my opinion atleast.
Many of the decks(builds) that I won tournaments with, while I did create them myself but it was because of the lower leagues who threw out these bad ideas, which I turned into great ideas
Sometimes I would see a decklist and be like "well hmmmm we could change that, it then would have synergy with that then we could try this" which 80% of the time turned into a build order that couldn't work but it was worth a try.
On Pokegym(the TL of Pokmon) everyone posts their strategies and they dont get scrutinized because to be honest the Pokemon community is actually really nice compared to the other TCG communities.
The SC2 community is to critical.
People are afraid to post things because they are afraid they'll get flammed or whatever since they are lowers.
You know what I say to them
F*** them!
POST YOUR STRATEGIES!
Your builds may suck(lets be honest), but there is a pro, semi-pro out their that will/could turn it into something amazing.
Now some of you may think, now EggY why dont you just think of your own stuff why you have to steal?
When I played pokemon I credited the person that started the base idea, now its not to say I never invented my own builds, sometimes every inventor needs the kick to get the motor running.
By doing this we are helping the game GROW and make the community look a little more awesome.
So if your low league, mid league wood league POST.
None of us may never become a pro, because lets face it its very hard to
but maybe you'll see the base of your strategy on the main stage one day.
Happy Starcrafting
~cheers!
