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[Guide] Map Analysis - Forming a Plan by Gretorp

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Gretorp
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States586 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-05 17:12:12
November 19 2009 00:17 GMT
#1
December 5th, 2009
Update!!!!

I apologize for the long delay, but after 4 reformats, 2 trojans, looking for my cd key, going through 3 different wireless usb(i know they're bad TT don't yell at me!), and a lot of cryihng due to my inadequacy in anything computer related, I finally(XXfingers) got everything to work!

That being said I will be streaming this lesson tonight at 8pm EST or 10am KST. Please tune in if you get the chance to as I will be going over why we should analyze maps and actually analyzing maps! I might open up questions afterwards and have a day8esk style, stealing some format from the legend himself!

That being said I hope to see you all tonight/tomorrow morning. It will be on demand so no worries if you msis it :-) Love you all!


//-----------------


Hello everybody! This is Andre aka Gretorp aka Pr0terg and I'm here to share with you all my methods of map analysis and the formation of Plans. First off let me thank everyone that donated me and supported me going to IEF. I appreciate it so much. Now let me tell you all a bit before you go ahead and look at what I have done.

Currently, I have made a document of what I plan to teach. This will be your theoretical text book, or I at least hope to have it that way. In my opinion, learning is best when we have some learning material to base things off of, hence liquidpedia. Learning by mass gaming is quite inefficient, and I hope that as you learn to plan and analyze maps this will help immensely.

I plan on teaching and lecturing on this subject where I will discuss what the document says plus I will explain things more in detail.

The lecture will be up online as soon as I fix my internet so I can stream the lecture and have it saved, but currently, my internet has been so bad that I can't even stream anything without immense lag.

So why even learn Map analysis and forming plans? Having a goal oriented mindset will give you purpose while playing, and allows you to think how to optomize your actions to achieve the specific goal. For example, if you were just told to build, you woulnd't know what to do. Do I make SCVs or do I just make Battle Cruisers? When I tell you that you must kill the opposing player, now we start to prioritize what we make. This concept explains how a goal oriented mindset improves your play.

Due to the sheer mass of the subject on Map analysis, I will also be splitting it up into parts. I originally had this lecture as one of my lessons I would teach for Terran vs Protoss, however I need to expand it to more match ups for it to be more applicable to the community. This is Part 1.

I also use one example and try to generalize. This is logically is fundamentally incorrect, but by chance the logic does retain for most maps in my opinion.

I will keep you posted on when the lecture will happen.

Here is a link where you can get the document. Please read it over if you get the chance. That will probably help more when I lecture.

http://www.teampandemic.net/features/149

Comments, criticism, questions, concerns are always welcome!

Thank you all again.

Sincerely,
Andre
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KP_CollectoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States744 Posts
November 19 2009 00:59 GMT
#2
Great work - will use the suggestions to analyze the TSL maps, and hoping for you to tackle some of those in your lecture. Take care.
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kingjames01
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada1603 Posts
November 19 2009 01:29 GMT
#3
This is great! Will you be giving any lessons for analyzing maps from a Zerg point of view as well?
Thanks again!
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Gretorp
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States586 Posts
November 19 2009 01:31 GMT
#4
I plan on doing TvP PvZ and ZvT. It will take a lot of time however, so please be patient :-)
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kingjames01
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada1603 Posts
November 19 2009 01:37 GMT
#5
Nice! I'm really looking forward to those too.
Thanks for putting all of this work together!
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Radfield
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada2720 Posts
November 19 2009 01:40 GMT
#6
great stuff Gretorp. I'm looking forward to checking this out.
Holgerius
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden16951 Posts
November 19 2009 01:50 GMT
#7
Wow, that's fucking massive! Thanks!
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fbog2
Profile Joined November 2009
United States15 Posts
November 19 2009 02:38 GMT
#8
rh3 suckors but looks kewl
da_head
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada3350 Posts
November 19 2009 02:44 GMT
#9
awesome thanks
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MrHickoryHam54
Profile Joined January 2009
United States208 Posts
November 19 2009 02:53 GMT
#10
thanks man
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alphafuzard
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1610 Posts
November 19 2009 02:55 GMT
#11
Finished reading, its brilliant.
Very indepth, and the diagrams are extremely helpful.
Big thanks
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Gretorp
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States586 Posts
November 19 2009 04:46 GMT
#12
Thank you. I realize that I couldn't talk about EVERYTHING in the text, but rest assured that I will in the lecture :-)
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Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
November 19 2009 05:21 GMT
#13
Look at this sexy beast
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LOcDowN
Profile Joined February 2003
United States1015 Posts
November 19 2009 08:49 GMT
#14
Thank you, I've just read this guide. Definitely helpful and a good read. Once again, thanks.
cascades
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Singapore6122 Posts
November 19 2009 11:10 GMT
#15
For all those who doubted him giving back to the community, the evidence is staring back at you.
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Qikz
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United Kingdom12049 Posts
November 19 2009 11:59 GMT
#16
Thanks! I'll give this a read over later. :>
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alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
November 19 2009 12:50 GMT
#17
wow sweet writeup, looks really interestin i read a few pages :D:D

thanks!
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Magneus
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada65 Posts
November 19 2009 14:22 GMT
#18
Very nice. Glad my donation is going to some use.

Keep them coming, Andre!
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JiYan
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3668 Posts
November 19 2009 19:39 GMT
#19
great article andre :D
Boundz(DarKo)
Profile Joined March 2009
5311 Posts
November 19 2009 20:02 GMT
#20
Nice article, thanks for sharing!
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