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Criteria for having a zerg build order contest?

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guitarizt
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States1492 Posts
February 07 2016 23:11 GMT
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Everyone keeps talking about whether 13ov or 14ov is best, let alone talking about extractor tricks and how many. I've tested this a lot myself, and there's a clear winner, but I wanted to see if anyone else can do it better.

What do you think is the best way to setup the contest? I've been doing 17h/18g/17p/18ov on dusk towers, taking the forward third as my second, and then pausing the game at 2:00 to get a mineral and gas count. It's surprisingly enough time to get a discrepancy between 13ov and 14ov and every extractor trick in between.

I chose that to test because it's enough for me as one person to run through a ton of builds a lot of times since it only takes 2m, yet it still hits all the points I care about like having a hatch and pool in a timely matter for reaper and ling defense zvt and zvz. Is there any other criteria everyone would like better?

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” - Hemingway
NoSoldier
Profile Joined March 2012
Germany84 Posts
February 08 2016 16:05 GMT
#2
Depending on enemy BO i go 17h/gasless / 17h/18g/18pool/20overlord
If i only had a clue on how to have a clue... life could be sooo easy. :D
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