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Played some Zerg

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BEARDiaguz
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Australia2362 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-12-19 11:40:22
December 19 2017 11:37 GMT
#1
I’ve been getting asked this a lot lately so I guess now’s as good a time and place to answer it once and for all. Hopefully after writing all this nobody will ever enquire again and I can get through life without having to repeat the same lines all the time. Because that’s how reality works, right? Anyway, yes I switched my race to Zerg. The reason why is basically because Terran got agonisingly horrible to play. I had a lot of difficulty adjusting to Legacy of the Void’s take on Terran play and the last few years have felt like smashing my head against a skill barrier I just couldn’t seem to break for whatever reason. A proper day’s practice just got harder and harder to complete, all the niggling insecurities and annoyances kept piling on each other, there's only so far one can trudge through bullshit and I guess I found my limit. On a whim I started offracing Zerg and the more I did the more I felt a strange sensation would come over me, one that I hadn’t felt for a long time. It was actually fun. Fun with Starcraft after 7 years? Who’d have thought. I’ve not been this invigorated with Starcraft for quite some time and you’ll never improve at something you can’t stand, right?

So for the last three months or so I’ve pretty much just been grinding out Zerg games almost nonstop. It’s kind of why my writing output has suffered of late, improving my Zerg skill has been far more engrossing than all sorts of alternate digital distractions. I’m not quite as good with Zerg as my Terran was but I’m getting there, it shouldn’t take too much longer. It was either switch to Zerg or throw the game down a fucking bin and get a real job. I had a real job once and it was fucking awful, so time to throw in my lot with the gribbly swarming creep spreaders and see what comes about. Perhaps it’s my Neeb moment, whereupon I become a godlike destroyer of man, or my Classic moment, whereupon I do pretty damn well for meself, my TLO moment, whereupon I do sort of ok but easily could have just stuck with Terran anyway and done roughly about as well, or my Morrow moment whereupon I flounder about for a few months before fading into obscurity, known only as someone who beat a far superior player with bullshit Reaper builds like once or something. Excitement abounds, I daresay.



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Lambertus
Profile Joined February 2010
South Africa966 Posts
December 19 2017 11:44 GMT
#2
Your style of writing is very nice! Like your switch as well, Thanks for explaining!
The only known Reverend on TL playing SC2 and BW (http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=409226)
ChadMann
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia128 Posts
December 19 2017 12:37 GMT
#3
Good luck with the swarm gimli.

I'm sure your presence with the swarm will be warmly met. Plus it will be great to have Zerg win something in Australia again! (bloody Probe, amirite?)

Good luck, keen to see how far you can take Zerg before perhaps a switch to Protoss?
#1 ANZ SC2 Team Manager https://twitter.com/ChadMannSC2
TT1
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada9997 Posts
December 19 2017 15:41 GMT
#4
ur my fav aussie
ab = tl(i) + tl(pc), the grand answer to every tl.net debate
Kevin_Sorbo
Profile Joined November 2011
Canada3217 Posts
December 19 2017 17:04 GMT
#5
On December 20 2017 00:41 TT1 wrote:
ur my fav aussie

easy pick!!


Sucks you are not terran anymore, but it's cool to see you will hang around!! Hope you can kick ass on the WCS circuit in 2018!!
The mind is like a parachute, it doesnt work unless its open. - Zappa
feardragon
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States970 Posts
December 19 2017 17:29 GMT
#6
Good luck man! I hope it leads to more happiness for you in general but still the same level of amazingness on your twitter.
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ROOTCatZ
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Peru1226 Posts
December 19 2017 17:34 GMT
#7
Ethan you are and have always been fabulous. In fact I'd rate you 3rd after Kili and Fili, but only slightly above Bofur
Progamerwww.root-gaming.com
Musicus
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany23576 Posts
December 19 2017 17:45 GMT
#8
Best of luck man, will be interesting to follow you transition!
Maru and Serral are probably top 5.
Tyrhanius
Profile Joined April 2011
France947 Posts
December 19 2017 19:10 GMT
#9
I was wondering for a long time, who is BEARD ?

Well good luck, iaguz
FFW_Rude
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
France10201 Posts
December 22 2017 21:12 GMT
#10
The real question.

How do you feal facing Has as Zerg ?
#1 KT Rolster fanboy. KT BEST KT ! Hail to KT playoffs Zergs ! Unofficial french translator for SlayerS_`Boxer` biography "Crazy as me".
DSK
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
England1110 Posts
December 24 2017 12:27 GMT
#11
Fair enough, you do you beard guy. Perhaps you can unleash the power of Zerg cheese upon Has for all of the Dark Lord of Cheese's transgressions against you.
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Saechiis
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands4989 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-12-29 19:41:18
December 29 2017 19:40 GMT
#12
I played some Zerg and I liked it
The rush of lings on my creep highway
I played some Zerg just to try it
I hope TY doesn't mind it
It felt so Dark
It felt Solar
I guess I'm building drones tonight
I played some Zerg and I liked it
I liked it

Welcome to the club, may your hatcheries ever overflow with larvae.
I think esports is pretty nice.
Ciaus_Dronu
Profile Joined June 2017
South Africa1848 Posts
January 01 2018 22:47 GMT
#13
On December 30 2017 04:40 Saechiis wrote:
I played some Zerg and I liked it
The rush of lings on my creep highway
I played some Zerg just to try it
I hope TY doesn't mind it
It felt so Dark
It felt Solar
I guess I'm building drones tonight
I played some Zerg and I liked it
I liked it

Welcome to the club, may your hatcheries ever overflow with larvae.


Do you ever feel, like a lost Terran
Playing these games
That you never win

Do you ever feel, that you're spread so thin
Like your marines
Have been overstimmed

Do you ever feel, that your units suck
Didn't see those banes
Now you're outta luck

Do you know that there's still a race for you
Cause there's some Zerg in you

You just gotta go make some banes
And creep highway
Just own the map
Like it's all your base

'Cause baby you're now playing Zerg
Hit injects for all you're worth
Make those eggs go pop-pop-pop
And hit em with a ling drop-drop-drop

Baby you're now playing Zerg
And you always hit 200 first
Make those roaches go ree-ree-ree
As your opponent types gee-gee-gee
---------------------------------

@Iaguz, GL HF with Zerg hey!
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