Day[9] Fan Club - Page 131

Chargelot:
I've been seeing other people ask this question in your stream chat: Will you pick a specific race? Or will you stay random? A lot of people are saying you should pick a specific race and master it; do you have a counter argument?

Day[9]:
Let me first note the thing about the playing, in terms of the playing full time, I guess it's a little hard to get a full grasp on what that means. Because, in a sense there's a lot of players who play like 16 hours a day... and are bad. And there's a couple players who play 2 or 3 hours a day but they're really really good. I think a better way to describe it is that I'm devoting time now to actually playing competitively, and actually studying the game from a competitor's stand point, to do those really subtle things like "given this strategy, when should I be scouting? Should I be scouting at 13 or 14 or 15?" that's like a really high detailed question that a player would really need to know but that an observer may not necessarily need to know to be able to get a full appreciation of the game. So I've been doing a lot more of that.

Now, people who are asking about the specific race and think that I should pick one race and master it, I would actually favor their argument better -- the more you can scope down on what you're trying to work on the better you can become. Depth beats breadth every day of the week. If I was pretty good with all three races, I'm a pretty good player. But if I'm excellent with one race, I'm an excellent player. That said, I'm probably not going to pick a race! I really enjoy playing all three quite a bit. I also feel that as a commentator, and as someone who is trying to be an educator for the game I think that it's important that I have a reasonable skill level with all three. Regardless I think it's whatever I end up choosing to do, I may very well just stick to one race, just because I end up sticking to one race. But at this point, the answer is "I haven't really decided on anything specific".

But with whatever I do, I'll try to approach with that idea of "scoping down is important". Like for instance, yesterday I wanted to play some games with my friend and we only played zerg vs. terran for 15 games and I had a lot better of an understanding upon finishing those 15 games where I was only up against a terran all the time. Then, of course, when I went to go ladder immediately when I choose zerg the first person I roll against is a Protoss so it's just like that was dumb. But yeah, I'm trying to really hone down. I guess the only counter argument that I'd have other then " well I can play all three" is that it's a little bit easier to manage the interface in StarCraft II, so you can have a bit of an easier time bouncing between them. Whereas in Brood War I can play zerg at an A+ level, and when I would go and play Terran it would be like C- because I had no idea how to even control my marines properly.