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Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2433 Posts
December 19 2009 06:33 GMT
#21
Define " Cheese "
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horang3
Profile Joined November 2009
United States261 Posts
December 19 2009 07:03 GMT
#22
I would suppose it would have to do with where you build the rax. If it's in a proxy location it would be hard to defend if your initial attack doesn't work, but if you build it in your base it's not cheese at all.
Do great work
SkepTicAL
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada872 Posts
December 19 2009 07:05 GMT
#23
8 rax is a build order, not a cheese. Cheese is something that you can't recover from if it fails. 8 rax you can transition to mech or fe carrying on the game from there.
AeriALsLighT @AerialsLight
Mortality
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States4790 Posts
December 19 2009 07:11 GMT
#24
1. It's not cheese.
2. It's pretty standard.
3. It's not "more standard" than it is because it's more easily defended than you might think (at least on most maps).
Even though this Proleague bullshit has been completely bogus, I really, really, really do not see how Khan can lose this. I swear I will kill myself if they do. - nesix before KHAN lost to eNature
Avidkeystamper
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States8554 Posts
December 19 2009 07:12 GMT
#25
On December 19 2009 16:05 SkepTicAL wrote:
8 rax is a build order, not a cheese. Cheese is something that you can't recover from if it fails. 8 rax you can transition to mech or fe carrying on the game from there.

That's not a very good definition. It's hard to recover from anything if it fails.
I would consider cheese more something that would never work if your opponent knew it was coming.
Jaedong
SkepTicAL
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada872 Posts
December 19 2009 07:14 GMT
#26
On December 19 2009 16:12 Avidkeystamper wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 19 2009 16:05 SkepTicAL wrote:
8 rax is a build order, not a cheese. Cheese is something that you can't recover from if it fails. 8 rax you can transition to mech or fe carrying on the game from there.

That's not a very good definition. It's hard to recover from anything if it fails.
I would consider cheese more something that would never work if your opponent knew it was coming.

Thats not true either then lol, you can see a cannon rush coming and still lose. Cheese is something completely all-in imo, bunker rush(unless you send every worker you have) isn't all-in.
AeriALsLighT @AerialsLight
CynanMachae
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Canada1459 Posts
December 19 2009 07:16 GMT
#27
Well, obviously it's "knew it was coming before it's too late". If you know beforehand you are gonna get cannon rushed there really isn't any reason it should work
Jang Yoon Chul hwaiting!
Weryeery
Profile Joined June 2008
288 Posts
December 19 2009 07:25 GMT
#28
8 rax is not a cheese. its just an illustration of the imbalance of the match up.

Its a game winning opening if its not defended properly, and even if its perfectly defended you're still ahead.

So dont be suprised if some Z players get pissed at you if you use 8 rax
Postaljester
Profile Joined December 2002
United States128 Posts
December 19 2009 07:55 GMT
#29
"cheese" is just someones way of writing off the fact that they lost.
If you cant do something well, learn to enjoy doing it poorly
HiHiByeBye
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada365 Posts
December 19 2009 08:05 GMT
#30
Proxy DTs is cheese? it is allin?

Cannon rush is cheese? it is allin?

I define cheese to be a build that sets u behind slightly and it is devastating if not scouted but easily countered when scouted.
SuperArc
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Austria7781 Posts
December 19 2009 08:11 GMT
#31
On December 19 2009 16:05 SkepTicAL wrote:
8 rax is a build order, not a cheese. Cheese is something that you can't recover from if it fails. 8 rax you can transition to mech or fe carrying on the game from there.


which means the build Skyhigh did vs Jaedong on Destination was not cheesy (floating hidden rax into main)?
Snow - future of protoss! :) Nada = baller
Camlito
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
Australia4040 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-19 08:13:14
December 19 2009 08:12 GMT
#32
wrong thread
sAviOr...
Chen
Profile Joined June 2009
United States6344 Posts
December 19 2009 08:20 GMT
#33
On December 19 2009 17:05 HiHiByeBye wrote:
Proxy DTs is cheese? it is allin?

Cannon rush is cheese? it is allin?

I define cheese to be a build that sets u behind slightly and it is devastating if not scouted but easily countered when scouted.

by your definition 2-fact is cheese.
cgrinker
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States3824 Posts
December 19 2009 08:32 GMT
#34
Sup!

Put your build into Liquipedia

-Cg
pat965
Profile Joined April 2009
Canada274 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-19 08:40:13
December 19 2009 08:39 GMT
#35
I too would like to know more about 8 rax into mech
hi
Always
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States376 Posts
December 19 2009 08:40 GMT
#36
eh. -i'd say not cheese, but I can definitely see a zerg getting pissed off after he 12-hatches
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Speake
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States494 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-19 08:48:08
December 19 2009 08:45 GMT
#37
if zerg goes 9 pool or even overpool you basically lose as a terran player, which is why it is considered cheese; you are assuming the zerg 12hatches without even scouting which makes it mostly a luck based build
and with the recent influx of 8rax / proxy factory based builds because fantasy loves them overpool is becoming more common anyway
tQ.Speake
Mortician
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Bulgaria2332 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-19 09:19:05
December 19 2009 09:16 GMT
#38
Everything that can help you win the game is cheese, and if you don't cheese, "you win by doing retarded shit" as IdrA said. Damn you with all these threads...

SRSLY:
8 Rax is a great opening that puts you in an advantage and you can transition into anything. It is like saying 3 hatch spire, 5 hatch hydra is a cheese, because it is easy executable and wins you a lot of games

On December 19 2009 17:45 unSpeake wrote:
if zerg goes 9 pool or even overpool you basically lose as a terran player, which is why it is considered cheese; you are assuming the zerg 12hatches without even scouting which makes it mostly a luck based build
and with the recent influx of 8rax / proxy factory based builds because fantasy loves them overpool is becoming more common anyway


Yeah, cuz zergs go 9/Overpool every game... The new maps have big rush distances ('cept Match Point) so even if the Zerg opens with early pool and you open 8 rax, you can stil defend pretty easily
"If anything, the skill cap in sc2 is higher [than sc1] because there are a lot more things you can do at one given time. " darmousseh
Tuke
Profile Joined January 2009
Finland1666 Posts
December 19 2009 09:29 GMT
#39
On December 19 2009 14:02 lazz wrote:
8 rax isnt cheese.

bbs or proxy rax is cheese

Agreed, 8rax is more like 14cc and 14nexus, little bit off standard, but still not cheese like bbs, 3hatch speedling all-in, etc.
TeamLiquid CJ Entusman #42
HaXXspetten
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Sweden15718 Posts
December 19 2009 09:31 GMT
#40
Its hard to define cheese.


Ehh... expensive but delicious?
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