I have a blunt question. How would you evaluate your progression in SC/SC2 over the years, and competitive weightlifting?
You won WCG USA, which arguably makes you the best american player at the time. Relative to the US competition, when have you perceived yourself to have gotten better/worse? Relative to the US/world competition in SC2, have you gotten better/worse since the beta/release?
In ultimate gamer, you could bench 500 lbs, then i think in another blog post you had a best of 600 or 650, but I *think* a more recent post was 450. What's it now, and over the years when have you been plateauing and going up and down?
And final question, how close are you to the peak of your potential in SC2 skill?
I ask this because I'm a self-evaluating type and these are the type of questions I would tend to ask myself in a competitive activity.
1. Would you say it is safe to 14 hatch/14 Pool vs Terran Now 2. Would you ever only get 2 Zerglings to put at the front of his base and then 3 roach to stop hellion harass/block ramp instead of going lots of glings? what is your opinion on this strategy? 2.5 When getting the desired amount of gas whether it be for speed gling uprade or 3 roaches do you ever pull gas from your first extractor. I.e after you get 100 for zergling upgrade, you take 2 out and once u get 100 gas from just 1 you upgrade your hatch to liar(and then put the previous 2 back this could not be worded anymore poorly sorry.) 3. Are ever going to Korea? 4. What was your best win and worse loss? 5. What changes would you like blizzard to do in the next patch. Do you think zerg is overpowered or do you think Fruit's and Idra's skills are just superior? Because I feel zerg is only OP when your at the very top tier of all players( if they are OP at all). Anything lower I feel zerg is underpowered.
On October 15 2010 07:43 Or-a wrote: On SotG I heard you talk about your colossus -> HT transition. Do you have any games that you're willing to share? I wouldn't expect you to give them before MLG but afterward? =] ___ Edit: Hey man nice effort in MLG really enjoyed your play vs every MU. Just a question about the DT-> HT play vs Kawaii in game 1, when his first push came do you think you could have added just 1 immortal to do quite a bit of significant damage, I don't think you were expecting hellion/M/M but even if it were MM wouldn't one immortal shut down all the marauder bonus damage and also tank a bit more for your stalkers to do additional damage?
The immortal would have helped yeah. I didn't play that game well at all tbh.
On October 15 2010 11:39 a176 wrote: you surprised that tester didn't qualify? i have to be honest, after seeing his performance from gsl1, i have to say i'm not surprised ...
Yes I am completely shocked.
People have bad days. I think one of the things I would like a lot of the new SC2 fans to try and reorganize is how quick they are to judge.. Tester literally crushed EVERYTHING before GSL. He played poorly in that tourney but I think everyone should be shocked about him not qualifying.
On October 15 2010 08:13 D-Lite wrote: Dear iNcontroL.
Have you ever thought about seriously doing stand-up comedy, ive seen every TLA and alot of your offhand clips from casts etc, your ability to think on your feet astounds amazes an cripples me with laughter.
From Teeler who cant pronounce his own name, to artosis the jewey grass-hopper frog/moss ive lost count of the ammount of times ive watched TLA s3e01 due to your relentless ripping on nony, it never gets old.
Second question........Are you baller? the wit is just too similar
Appreciate the kind words my friend. Yes I have wanted/considered doing standup. I think I will eventually get around to giving it a go... I feel like I could be pretty good.
On October 15 2010 14:44 JCpingpong wrote: Dear iNcontroL,
As a 1500 Zerg player how hard do you think it would be to switch race to P? It feels as though P fits my style alot more.
Well tbh if you are on the fence make a choice for yourself right now. Whatever you enjoy most is what you should play. If you don't enjoy the race you will burn out.
On October 15 2010 20:41 igotmyown wrote: Dear incontrol,
I have a blunt question. How would you evaluate your progression in SC/SC2 over the years, and competitive weightlifting?
You won WCG USA, which arguably makes you the best american player at the time. Relative to the US competition, when have you perceived yourself to have gotten better/worse? Relative to the US/world competition in SC2, have you gotten better/worse since the beta/release?
In ultimate gamer, you could bench 500 lbs, then i think in another blog post you had a best of 600 or 650, but I *think* a more recent post was 450. What's it now, and over the years when have you been plateauing and going up and down?
And final question, how close are you to the peak of your potential in SC2 skill?
I ask this because I'm a self-evaluating type and these are the type of questions I would tend to ask myself in a competitive activity.
1. There are (like with anything) huge explosions of improvement and also stages of stagnation. It would look like a fairly continual progression of improvement but there are definitely periods of decline. I don't know how to describe it beyond that... I am playing SC2 now better than ever and my SC2 skill has been a constant incline if I might say so myself.
2. Right now (I haven't maxed in a bit) I feel confident I could do 500lbs. I am work setting 335 for 5 fairly easily and a shirt does a lot.
3. No way to say. Hopefully not very close at all. I plan on playing this game as long as it is feasible. I want to always get better!
if boxer misspelled your name while playing against him, how would you respond? would you crush him or glee like a schoolgirl because he said your name?
On October 18 2010 05:21 Russhh wrote: 1. Would you say it is safe to 14 hatch/14 Pool vs Terran Now 2. Would you ever only get 2 Zerglings to put at the front of his base and then 3 roach to stop hellion harass/block ramp instead of going lots of glings? what is your opinion on this strategy? 2.5 When getting the desired amount of gas whether it be for speed gling uprade or 3 roaches do you ever pull gas from your first extractor. I.e after you get 100 for zergling upgrade, you take 2 out and once u get 100 gas from just 1 you upgrade your hatch to liar(and then put the previous 2 back this could not be worded anymore poorly sorry.) 3. Are ever going to Korea? 4. What was your best win and worse loss? 5. What changes would you like blizzard to do in the next patch. Do you think zerg is overpowered or do you think Fruit's and Idra's skills are just superior? Because I feel zerg is only OP when your at the very top tier of all players( if they are OP at all). Anything lower I feel zerg is underpowered.
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1. Yes but you need the 2nd ovie to look for a bunker -> reaper. 2. Lings are so fast and easy that I would make them reactionary. If I saw hellions at around 3+ I would have 8+ lings handy with roaches on the way. If I saw any kind of wall in 1 base I wouldn't be so concerned with lings. Roaches should be minimized early as a safety tech though. 2.5 Yes. I usually gas before pool and pull at 100 then put back on as needed or earlier if I detect the need for roaches. But with recent patch hatch first or later pool into hatch is better so in these scenarios I don't recommend pulling gas unless you misjudged and started an early 2nd or 3rd gas and you actually need more miners for minerals. 3. Yes. 4. Best win was beating Nyoken for the 2007 WCG USA championship or beating Jaedong/Flash for By. clan tryout. My worst loss was to Reason at WCG Pan American Championship 2008 (or 7) where I had a HUGE lead and lost... ended up costing me 400$ or something bad like that 5. Chat channels. LAN support. revert back zeal build time and gateway cool down. Don't feel like this was enough of an issue to remove.. with Z / T fixes I think this can be reinstated. If not WG cooldown then at least zeal build time so I don't have to 3 gate expand or forge first.
On October 19 2010 08:01 javy925 wrote: if boxer misspelled your name while playing against him, how would you respond? would you crush him or glee like a schoolgirl because he said your name?
Hey, fun meeting you again! So whats your prediction on who gets the worst bracket? What are your chances of not facing an EG member for at least 3 rounds? Will you buy dinner for machine if you knock him out at the next mlg?
How'd I do the game we played on ladder earlier? I'm kinda struggling with TvP, any chance I could play you a bit more or do you have much better constant practice partners?
EPT
Machine is a great guy he never pulls pranks on people.
