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Oh silver league, you're just as funny as bronze

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Mick-a-nator
Profile Blog Joined July 2013
United Kingdom14 Posts
August 16 2013 19:38 GMT
#1
So the other day I was promoted to Silver league (yay!). In my mind I thought this would mean I was going to have to be a bit more serious about the game. Not like intense and competitive, but at least focused. Well the game I just played proved that I probably don't have to be quite so stern... You can watch it yourself if you want, but here's a brief synopsis:
I, the blue protoss, go for a "oh crap I'm not paying attention" Gateway expand into a FFE-style wall-off. The random, who for this game was the red zerg, seems to go for a 10/10-pool zergling all-in, followed by a "oh crap that didn't work" roach all-in with a "not enough roaches?" follow-up timing, ending with a "WHY WONT YOU DIE!" hydra defence.
For maximum enjoyment, stick the production tab up, follow the zerg's cam and relax. Some things to keep an eye out for are the holding of production hotkeys and the wonderful over-compensation-surprise this leads to at 28 mins.
The scary part is that I could have very easily died during either of the first two attacks. :/
OK, so now that you've watched that, it probably wasn't that funny, and aspects of my play in that game are doubtlessly just as ludicrous, but it had me giggling, so I had to share.

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Gnusnu
Profile Joined December 2009
United States118 Posts
August 16 2013 20:03 GMT
#2
Fair enough. What makes me giggle is running into protoss on the ladder that still try to 4gate. I always think "is this guy serious?"
aisight
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States145 Posts
August 16 2013 20:05 GMT
#3
I like Silver! I can experiment with strategies such as mass Tempest. And by that I mean no transition, just straight up building into the "composition".
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
August 16 2013 20:31 GMT
#4
How can you follow an "all-in" with another "all-in" and then follow that with something else?
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Mick-a-nator
Profile Blog Joined July 2013
United Kingdom14 Posts
August 16 2013 21:44 GMT
#5
On August 17 2013 05:31 ninazerg wrote:
How can you follow an "all-in" with another "all-in" and then follow that with something else?

Exactly. It just looked like he tried a different "composition" (does one thing count as a composition?) after his zergling all-in failed, but was still on one base for quite a while.
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
August 16 2013 23:14 GMT
#6
On August 17 2013 06:44 Mick-a-nator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 17 2013 05:31 ninazerg wrote:
How can you follow an "all-in" with another "all-in" and then follow that with something else?

Exactly. It just looked like he tried a different "composition" (does one thing count as a composition?) after his zergling all-in failed, but was still on one base for quite a while.


If you do an all-in, and it fails, you lose. That's why it's an all-in.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Aveng3r
Profile Joined February 2012
United States2411 Posts
August 16 2013 23:15 GMT
#7
I think until you reach a certain point an "all in" is just a "1 base attack" because as you said there is a follow up to it
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Mick-a-nator
Profile Blog Joined July 2013
United Kingdom14 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-16 23:43:34
August 16 2013 23:43 GMT
#8
Well the whole "all-in" joke bombed and turning into a discussion on terminology...
OK, so here's why I did that bad joke. The first attack was (in my opinion) an all-in because he made no plans to bolster his econ behind the attack. He made no drones (until after) and he didn't expand (until WAY after). Virtually everything he did looked like a panic response to me in the replay. The only reason he didn't then die is because I was also an idiot and didn't attack.
I was just trying to share my amusement, not get knee-deep in semantics.
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