EPTSo, what's up everybody? It's been some time actually. I was actually hyped up for the next part after the previous one had over 900 views and so many answers (even though most of the answers were totally off topic), but i finally have the time for it. Actually, i still don't have the time, but because of a few things, I'm going to make this:
1- It's been quite some time.
2- I played a ~45 minute game against AntZ, where I really smoothed out a new 3 queens opening (new to me, well known to the community) that IdrA uses quite often. Although i slipped a lot during that game, it was my best.
3- I joined back to the ESL ladder where I completely got roflstomped by every single opponent I met. You can not get roflstomped enough, can you?
4- I laddered a bit, actually up to the 3rd place of my division. The point gap is huge between me and 2nd place.
First, I want to congratulate TheAntZ for no longer being my most underrated practice partner. He jumped straight to #1 Diamond from #1 Bronze, and he's 2k diamond right now. I couldn't even beat him when he was in bronze. You can easily guess how our practice went.
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Before I start with my ladder progress, I first want to tell another tournament experience of mine. I joined the friday night starcraft tournament of the israeli community 'Zergling' (shoutout to Mari&Noni) and got roflstomped at the first round by a bronze level player (WTF). He played Terran and he made bio aggression from start to finish and I didn't even make a single baneling (ZOMGWTFROFL).
I'll only give 1 screenshot about this game, and include the replay in the pack. You can watch if youare out of your mind want to.
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/812oc.jpg)
And, just because it fits the theme, I'll post this:
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In the ESL ladder, I actually only made 1 match, which makes 2 games. My opponent was Sleeep, who is a ~2.6k diamond player who is 2nd in his division, ex WC3 National Team player from Turkey (he played Orc) and now he plays Protoss in the level of Turkish National Team players (actually I really wonder why he doesn't play for the National Team, sure team has good protoss players but Turkey is 4-1'd by Bulgaria at the last match, 4-0'd in 1v1s and 3 of those 1v1s were 2-0. The only 1v1 game was won by Spartacus, a Terran player. BLooD had to be replaced by a good Protoss player like Sleeep). And guess what happened?
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Only 1 image from this one as well, as this is not worthy of recap either. Who gives a shit tome someone who is shitting all game long and the other player just lols?
Only 1 screenshot, worth everything:
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/uEy6V.jpg)
+ Show Spoiler [Small Translation] +
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Ladder, oh yeah baby! At least something doesn't go wrong here. Actually it kinda does, but who gives a shit to bunker rushers-4gaters-any sort of cheesers like them.
I actually moved up to 1.3k along with 3rd rank in my division with a respectable bonus pool, you can see here:
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/TGjZe.jpg)
I played 13 games in the last 5 days, went 8-5 in those. Those 5 losses include:
1- 2 ZvZs where I couldn't stop shitting all game long.
2- Blistering Sands, blink stalkers, proxy pylon in my main, back entrance usage.
3- 2 rax bunker rush into 2 port cloaked banshees.
4- 4 warpgate that I wasn't able to stop for some stupid reason (probably shitting at macro).
I've been playing with gold players for quite some time actually. At first they were 'slightly favored', but now they are 'even match' against me. And for some reason, most of them are unable to play macro games.
I'll actually recap 2-3 games in this place:
Here goes the first one (Silver10 in replay pack):
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And now, the second (Silver13 in replay pack):
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Speaking of TheAntZ, yeah. I said I had the best game of my life. I'll actually go ahead and give spoilers as well. I lost a 43 minute game where most of the map was mined out. Actually I played very stupidly but,
1- My macro was better than the other games of me against TheAntZ (still worse than my ladder games, I don't know why but I get shakes against my practice partners).
2- I had a very good creep spread in that game (I actually had quite good creep spread against TheAntZ today, which is what I'm working on right now).
3- My control still sucks, but i feel that my multitasking is getting better overall (not on this particular game, but recently).
So, let's go game!
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Yeah, and so was my past 5 days in Starcraft 2. Btw, I scored my first ever iccup win in BW (HOLY SHIT). You know how? Let me show:
+ Show Spoiler +![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/nyhuk.jpg)
He's right for every single word.
Replay also included in replay pack.
So, well. I'm (kinda) back. I still have an exam on saturday and a pre-report for my lab project due monday. But I'm blogging. Just for you.
Replay pack: http://www.mediafire.com/?05m6vc2pno72543
Thanks for reading or scrolling down to this part. See ya later.
1- It's been quite some time.
2- I played a ~45 minute game against AntZ, where I really smoothed out a new 3 queens opening (new to me, well known to the community) that IdrA uses quite often. Although i slipped a lot during that game, it was my best.
3- I joined back to the ESL ladder where I completely got roflstomped by every single opponent I met. You can not get roflstomped enough, can you?
4- I laddered a bit, actually up to the 3rd place of my division. The point gap is huge between me and 2nd place.
First, I want to congratulate TheAntZ for no longer being my most underrated practice partner. He jumped straight to #1 Diamond from #1 Bronze, and he's 2k diamond right now. I couldn't even beat him when he was in bronze. You can easily guess how our practice went.
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Before I start with my ladder progress, I first want to tell another tournament experience of mine. I joined the friday night starcraft tournament of the israeli community 'Zergling' (shoutout to Mari&Noni) and got roflstomped at the first round by a bronze level player (WTF). He played Terran and he made bio aggression from start to finish and I didn't even make a single baneling (ZOMGWTFROFL).
I'll only give 1 screenshot about this game, and include the replay in the pack. You can watch if you
+ Show Spoiler +
And, just because it fits the theme, I'll post this:
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In the ESL ladder, I actually only made 1 match, which makes 2 games. My opponent was Sleeep, who is a ~2.6k diamond player who is 2nd in his division, ex WC3 National Team player from Turkey (he played Orc) and now he plays Protoss in the level of Turkish National Team players (actually I really wonder why he doesn't play for the National Team, sure team has good protoss players but Turkey is 4-1'd by Bulgaria at the last match, 4-0'd in 1v1s and 3 of those 1v1s were 2-0. The only 1v1 game was won by Spartacus, a Terran player. BLooD had to be replaced by a good Protoss player like Sleeep). And guess what happened?
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He lol'd me in both games and 2-0'ed without trying.
4 warpgate on first game and 1 base DT rush on second. I feel like shit for losing those games.
4 warpgate on first game and 1 base DT rush on second. I feel like shit for losing those games.
Only 1 image from this one as well, as this is not worthy of recap either. Who gives a shit to
Only 1 screenshot, worth everything:
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+ Show Spoiler [Small Translation] +
Note: "Siktir ordan" means "Fuck off". Jibba can confirm if you want.
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Ladder, oh yeah baby! At least something doesn't go wrong here. Actually it kinda does, but who gives a shit to bunker rushers-4gaters-any sort of cheesers like them.
I actually moved up to 1.3k along with 3rd rank in my division with a respectable bonus pool, you can see here:
+ Show Spoiler +
I played 13 games in the last 5 days, went 8-5 in those. Those 5 losses include:
1- 2 ZvZs where I couldn't stop shitting all game long.
2- Blistering Sands, blink stalkers, proxy pylon in my main, back entrance usage.
3- 2 rax bunker rush into 2 port cloaked banshees.
4- 4 warpgate that I wasn't able to stop for some stupid reason (probably shitting at macro).
I've been playing with gold players for quite some time actually. At first they were 'slightly favored', but now they are 'even match' against me. And for some reason, most of them are unable to play macro games.
I'll actually recap 2-3 games in this place:
Here goes the first one (Silver10 in replay pack):
+ Show Spoiler +
It's me against a silver level Terran player who is below %50 winrate in 80 games. His name is MacMalschman and I'll be calling him so.
We were on Blistering Sands, I spawned on 1 o'clock and he spawned on 7. I opened 14pool-14gas and expanded on 21, had a baneling nest. After expansion was done, I threw 2 spine crawlers and morphed 5 banelings. Right before my banelings and spine crawlers finished, he came with a small force to attack, so I moved my banelings into him.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/DjLGa.jpg)
Come on MacMalschman, you can do it, you only need to ctrl-click marines and move them back! Do it, move your marines, do it, do it!!!
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/n1msC.jpg)
Ooooooh... oh... oh no...
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/yjy8D.jpg)
MacMalschman, MacMalschman, what did you do? Why didn't you move your marines back? Oh...
Right after that, my first 3 mutas popped out and cleaned the remaining marauders.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/fcx8J.jpg)
At the end, I baneling'd his expansion CC and he gg'd right after that.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/ugGTz.jpg)
We were on Blistering Sands, I spawned on 1 o'clock and he spawned on 7. I opened 14pool-14gas and expanded on 21, had a baneling nest. After expansion was done, I threw 2 spine crawlers and morphed 5 banelings. Right before my banelings and spine crawlers finished, he came with a small force to attack, so I moved my banelings into him.
Come on MacMalschman, you can do it, you only need to ctrl-click marines and move them back! Do it, move your marines, do it, do it!!!
Ooooooh... oh... oh no...
MacMalschman, MacMalschman, what did you do? Why didn't you move your marines back? Oh...
Right after that, my first 3 mutas popped out and cleaned the remaining marauders.
At the end, I baneling'd his expansion CC and he gg'd right after that.
And now, the second (Silver13 in replay pack):
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This was me against sharpcut, who is 1.9k Gold level player, who I would expect to be much better than me. But, this was a much different story.
The game started, I was at the 8 o'clock position and he was at 6 o'clock. I started with hatch first and he opened with a lol3GateRobo.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/dU4Qd.jpg)
He proxy pylon'd near the Xel'Naga tower, warped in 1 round of units, but when I saw this and decided to poke a little bit, i saw that he actually has nothing, so I decided to get him.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/XIhrX.jpg)
He had so little, his immortal was way out of position, my attack timing was just dead on. And I cleaned up everything while having a respectable force left.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/51nys.jpg)
Right after this engagement (it may not be right after, but he had nothing at that time), my mutas popped out. And I learned one thing in this game, at the end of the recap I'll tell.
My mutas popped out, he had little to no stalkers, I went in and raped everything. He tried to zealot counterattack me, but nothing happened as well. I won convincingly.
But, in this game, I learned 2 things:
1- If you click right behind enemy army with your lings and click S when 2 lings are next to each other right behind enemy army, you can surround your enemy.
2- If you have a good number of mutas at a moment and he has very little number of stalkers, you win instantly. It was not only this game that ended in this manner, but all ZvPs i won. At a moment, I had 7-8 mutas, he had 2 stalkers, I won. That's the 2nd lesson, which will cost me games against TheAntZ later on.
The game started, I was at the 8 o'clock position and he was at 6 o'clock. I started with hatch first and he opened with a lol3GateRobo.
He proxy pylon'd near the Xel'Naga tower, warped in 1 round of units, but when I saw this and decided to poke a little bit, i saw that he actually has nothing, so I decided to get him.
He had so little, his immortal was way out of position, my attack timing was just dead on. And I cleaned up everything while having a respectable force left.
Right after this engagement (it may not be right after, but he had nothing at that time), my mutas popped out. And I learned one thing in this game, at the end of the recap I'll tell.
My mutas popped out, he had little to no stalkers, I went in and raped everything. He tried to zealot counterattack me, but nothing happened as well. I won convincingly.
But, in this game, I learned 2 things:
1- If you click right behind enemy army with your lings and click S when 2 lings are next to each other right behind enemy army, you can surround your enemy.
2- If you have a good number of mutas at a moment and he has very little number of stalkers, you win instantly. It was not only this game that ended in this manner, but all ZvPs i won. At a moment, I had 7-8 mutas, he had 2 stalkers, I won. That's the 2nd lesson, which will cost me games against TheAntZ later on.
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Speaking of TheAntZ, yeah. I said I had the best game of my life. I'll actually go ahead and give spoilers as well. I lost a 43 minute game where most of the map was mined out. Actually I played very stupidly but,
1- My macro was better than the other games of me against TheAntZ (still worse than my ladder games, I don't know why but I get shakes against my practice partners).
2- I had a very good creep spread in that game (I actually had quite good creep spread against TheAntZ today, which is what I'm working on right now).
3- My control still sucks, but i feel that my multitasking is getting better overall (not on this particular game, but recently).
So, let's go game!
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(Replay AntZ6) Here we are, in Metalopolis. I spawned in 6 o'clock, and he spawned in 8. I opened with 14 hatch-14 pool-14 gas (@100 gas, pool 2 guys off gas, so i can have another 100 for lair right at the time when my 3rd queen finishes, and there I go creep spread).
We actually had no engagement before 13th minute mark. And, i win the first engagement with a much bigger army.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/hy5hz.jpg)
Oh, what did I say about my macro? Forget it, my macro sucks. But not my creep spread. It looks OK.
Around the 15th minute mark, I actually had a good timing. I had +60 food advantage and he had almost no army compared to mine (50+ roaches compared with an archon, 14 stalkers and some more shit).
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/hyABS.jpg)
Holy crap! Nice creep, nice army, nice timing. Go for it!
I could win the game if I attacked head on. But what did I do instead?
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/JOIkg.jpg)
YOU NOOB SHIT!!!
It's literally the most efficient way to suicide an army. I drew free fire, I went next to cannons, I didn't even attack for quite some time. So, I missed a possible win here.
The game went back&forth for quite some time. When he goes on creep, I clean him up. When I do something decisive, I lose my whole fucking army.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/baae6.jpg)
Actually a good number of roaches were here 15-20 seconds ago
The game went back&forth for quite a good time, until this happened.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/RgOEp.jpg)
I really know what those colossi feel right now. I felt that a LOT. Not the best storm btw.
But, after we got halfmaps, he just overwhelmed me with colossi-archons and I had nothing to do. GG.
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/dJWNK.jpg)
We actually had no engagement before 13th minute mark. And, i win the first engagement with a much bigger army.
Oh, what did I say about my macro? Forget it, my macro sucks. But not my creep spread. It looks OK.
Around the 15th minute mark, I actually had a good timing. I had +60 food advantage and he had almost no army compared to mine (50+ roaches compared with an archon, 14 stalkers and some more shit).
Holy crap! Nice creep, nice army, nice timing. Go for it!
I could win the game if I attacked head on. But what did I do instead?
YOU NOOB SHIT!!!
It's literally the most efficient way to suicide an army. I drew free fire, I went next to cannons, I didn't even attack for quite some time. So, I missed a possible win here.
The game went back&forth for quite some time. When he goes on creep, I clean him up. When I do something decisive, I lose my whole fucking army.
Actually a good number of roaches were here 15-20 seconds ago
The game went back&forth for quite a good time, until this happened.
I really know what those colossi feel right now. I felt that a LOT. Not the best storm btw.
But, after we got halfmaps, he just overwhelmed me with colossi-archons and I had nothing to do. GG.
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Yeah, and so was my past 5 days in Starcraft 2. Btw, I scored my first ever iccup win in BW (HOLY SHIT). You know how? Let me show:
+ Show Spoiler +
He's right for every single word.
Replay also included in replay pack.
So, well. I'm (kinda) back. I still have an exam on saturday and a pre-report for my lab project due monday. But I'm blogging. Just for you.
Replay pack: http://www.mediafire.com/?05m6vc2pno72543
Thanks for reading or scrolling down to this part. See ya later.
