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The newest season of ICCup just started tonight. Oh boy. Here's gonna be my daily blog about my thoughts, games, etc. of the new ICCup season, with replays and comments thrown in.
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Day 1
Hmmzors. My first game of the season is against an offracing Metal[x] on Python. I get absolutely demolished
...PvZ on Python cross positions, I notice his lings hanging out at the back of my expo. So what do I do? Nothing. I let them run all the way up my ramp and wreck stuff. I then get owned by 1 hat mutas ...the probe I sometimes sneak inside the other person's base was pretty useless because I wasn't expecting mutas so early. I definitely needed more scouting. After my main gets raped it's pretty much ten minutes of waiting for the inevitable.
Highlights of this game: 105 APM and 5% hotkey usage.
Link: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=8226&name=empyrean vs PewPewPrincess.rep
But wait! We played on a melee setting! So this means I still haven't fallen below 1000 points (and Metal doesn't ruin his pristine 1v1 record)! Hoorayzors!
I just joined one of Kwark's games but he banned me because I wasn't D+ :[ Still 1000 at 0-0.
Rated game one:I also ended up losing my first rated game of the season against some random Zerg player. Macro fest that I eventually lost because I have shitty macro (and no Templar when I need it) on Destination. Hmm, I know I needed to have expanded since both my bases ran out of money. I also should've macroed more (lol@four digit resources) and included Templar in my midgame army instead of desperately making them at the end. Also I should've gotten more gates. Neither of us played very well, me especially. If I keep playing like this I don't know how I'll ever make it past D+.
Link: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=8250&name=bubbadub vs empyrean.rep
Rated game two:The second rated game I played today was against a user from TL.net who recognized my aka! Hoorays...It was against DREAM-JOY, who was wearing an SCL tag for use on SC2GG's Starleague. Boring PvT on Python with sloppy play from both sides. My resources climb pretty high this game as well, but it's still not as awful as the first game. Watch my resources hilarious reach 1000+ as I micro my failure Reaver drop. lulz. Also watch for my first failure storm drop. I stay on two gates for the longest time (need to start adding gates!) And the entire game I never get past six gates. That's one of my biggest problems, I think, adding gateways. Somehow I end up winning this game ...just watch, it's probably the more interesting of the rated games (though my first loss against Metal[x] is pretty entertaining), although I will admit it was pretty one-sided.
Link: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=8251&name=empyrean vs SCL-Deano.rep
If anyone would mind watching some of the replays and giving me some advice, it would be appreciated. This isn't a strategy forum thread, so I'm ok doing that, right?
Hmmzors. My first game of the season is against an offracing Metal[x] on Python. I get absolutely demolished
...PvZ on Python cross positions, I notice his lings hanging out at the back of my expo. So what do I do? Nothing. I let them run all the way up my ramp and wreck stuff. I then get owned by 1 hat mutas ...the probe I sometimes sneak inside the other person's base was pretty useless because I wasn't expecting mutas so early. I definitely needed more scouting. After my main gets raped it's pretty much ten minutes of waiting for the inevitable.Highlights of this game: 105 APM and 5% hotkey usage.
Link: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=8226&name=empyrean vs PewPewPrincess.rep
But wait! We played on a melee setting! So this means I still haven't fallen below 1000 points (and Metal doesn't ruin his pristine 1v1 record)! Hoorayzors!
I just joined one of Kwark's games but he banned me because I wasn't D+ :[ Still 1000 at 0-0.
Rated game one:I also ended up losing my first rated game of the season against some random Zerg player. Macro fest that I eventually lost because I have shitty macro (and no Templar when I need it) on Destination. Hmm, I know I needed to have expanded since both my bases ran out of money. I also should've macroed more (lol@four digit resources) and included Templar in my midgame army instead of desperately making them at the end. Also I should've gotten more gates. Neither of us played very well, me especially. If I keep playing like this I don't know how I'll ever make it past D+.
Link: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=8250&name=bubbadub vs empyrean.rep
Rated game two:The second rated game I played today was against a user from TL.net who recognized my aka! Hoorays
...It was against DREAM-JOY, who was wearing an SCL tag for use on SC2GG's Starleague. Boring PvT on Python with sloppy play from both sides. My resources climb pretty high this game as well, but it's still not as awful as the first game. Watch my resources hilarious reach 1000+ as I micro my failure Reaver drop. lulz. Also watch for my first failure storm drop. I stay on two gates for the longest time (need to start adding gates!) And the entire game I never get past six gates. That's one of my biggest problems, I think, adding gateways. Somehow I end up winning this game ...just watch, it's probably the more interesting of the rated games (though my first loss against Metal[x] is pretty entertaining), although I will admit it was pretty one-sided.Link: http://repdepot.net/download.php?type=rep&id=8251&name=empyrean vs SCL-Deano.rep
If anyone would mind watching some of the replays and giving me some advice, it would be appreciated. This isn't a strategy forum thread, so I'm ok doing that, right?
Day 2!
...but really overflow from Day 1. Or at least, the six or so games I played from 3-4AM with Metal[x] that were basically lots of games of me getting raped when he offraces. They're packed in a .rar and contain such goodies as me getting owned by fast Lurker drops, me getting owned by proxy facs, me desperately trying to lose a game I pretty much had won (I succeeded, btw. In losing), etc. There's also one game where I win! Hoorays!...but really it's because neither of us macroed very well and he was probably getting tired as well. It was four AM for both of us. Oh, and he offraced. Again. These replays are fun if you like seeing one sided rapes. Except for the last game! Which I somehow won! lulz.
Link: http://rapidshare.de/files/45813542/lotsoflosses.rar.html
Ok, here are the real games from Day 2 of my ICCup adventure. I maintain around a 100-110 APM average, with 5%, 1%, and 2% hotkey usage. I should really get that up, it would probably help with my macro. Which sucks in all three games.
Game 1: Boring PvZ where I waste cannons on cannoning his cliff at his third (doesn't actually do anything and really, it just sets me behind). This Zerg was pretty mediocre, no offense, but you kind of have to be when you lose to my shitty PvZ.
Game 2: I get lucky with a scout, take his gas, and delay everything. He can't react. PvT.
Game 3: Same person, this time I proxy robo which throws him off some more. I think one of my awful awful trends is to get complacent when I have an advantage. For example, I pretty much suicide six Dragoons into mines and Tanks, gaining nothing out of it. I need to stop doing stupid things like that and just start consolidating my advantages. Also my macro is shit.
Links for those who are interested (but really, who the fuck wants to see a D level Protoss beating even worse Zergs or Terrans?):
Also, repdepot is messing up and keeps on saying my replays are over ten megabytes each. Which they're not. So I'm using rapidshare instead.
Game 1: http://rapidshare.de/files/45813619/0610_empyreanP_KuunAgueroZ.rep.html
Game 2: http://rapidshare.de/files/45813599/0611_juyeonT_empyreanP.rep.html
Game 3: http://rapidshare.de/files/45813614/0612_empyreanP_juyeonT.rep.html
Somehow I'm at 4-1, although I played some pretty awful people today. Expect my ranking and score to go way down soon. 1470 [D].
