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Diamond.....Again!!!

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Tollhouse1
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States80 Posts
October 08 2012 03:25 GMT
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So, about a year ago, actually 10 months ago, I wrote a similar blog with my excitement about being promoted. Here I am once again after a 5 month break from actually playing SC2 and only watching tournaments and other such SC related things. I am back in Diamond, Now for me this is a big deal not only because I got back into diamond on a new account, but because I did it after such a long hiatus now to be honest it did take me about 1 month to get back into diamond, after being placed in bronze, the point remains. I am super proud of myself and feel obligated to let the TL community get in the know, since I am just a lurker on TL, I made a promise to myself that every promotion will be followed by a blog post and here it is. Nothing to special but I feel that it is something to keep working towards. So hopefully, the next promotion in a couple of months is masters and i'll be able to come back to the blog post and be all giddy again.

Now I would like a bit of feedback with my matchups as I have always done in my blog posts.(AKA crowd source anyone who reads this and get some info on stuff) Now my weakest at the moment is TvZ. I have no idea what to do past early game. Marine tank, MMM, Mech, ect. I don't know which build i want to go. I have been just going marine tank after reactor hellion. This has been fine so far since the players I have been facing have been bad at macro and all I have to do is build up get safe to 3 base build MARINE till dead. Seriously, 10 Rax with 9 reactor can pump some fucking marines. This pretty much killed all Zergs in the lower leagues. Now I am going to hit the wall where people just grow a brain and bust my shit all over the place with infestors and banes. So from anyone reading what build should I start going I am leaning more towards wanting to try Meching again. I have tried to Mech for about 50-60 games back when I was playing previously though haven't tried it since. Is it viable, back when I was trying it, Mech had some really gaping problems and the such and I am still pretty bad at the game so that doesn't help. Any feedback would be appreciated here.

TvP is my next weakest. I have troubles with HT collosi. Also, I am terrible with dealing with early game pressure since I really am liking my 1 rax expo. Should I try another build that is more aggressive to limit early pressure or just say fuck that and work on my micro to just help me use what I've got. I am wanting to just go micro due to being lazy and not wanting to work out a different build with a two rax expo instead.

TvT.......well, Mech Mech Mech Mech Mech Mech its the future and I'm sticking to my guns on that. I fucking LOVE Mech its so good. So powerful and pretty easy to execute, if you don't mind taking your time. Very good in TvT.

Anyway, thanks for reading my rant hope you enjoyed and hopefully see some of you diamonds on the ladder. :D :D :D

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