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I really do not see this that way.

No one wins forever (see Tennis, Roger Federer has a bad year). BUT

from time to time there are some Players/Sportsmen that can dominate theyr sport for some time. Examples? Federer, Sampras, Rossi, Schumacher, Woods, Ronaldhino, Jordan and so did Boxer, Nada, Savior and now probably Flash does.

Only very few can do it for a VERY longtime (Schumacher, Jordan, Rossi, Federer) but they also got beaten some times. This had nothing to do with psychologie, you just *have* up and downs, nothing is working perfect everytime, sometimes your down and the competition NEVER sleeps.
There is allways that young kid that wants to best you, it's actually just a matter of time until there comes a better player, be it because you got lazy, because he is just better or because you just don't feel good on that day.

The psychical mindset for sure also plays into this, but i don't think ANY of the real top pro gamers got a weak mind. They wouldn't get that far if they would show weaknesses and mental blockades if they play against certain enemys that owned them the last time. If you train SC/BW for X to XX hours a day, you gotta lose 5 times in a row against someone that you should beat. You can't just shut your mindset down in training, this would also *hit* you, but i don't see this happen?


The real thing is just, most of the Top players (until today) had *clear* strenghts. Now this is shaken a bit. To bring another Tennis analogy.. Long time Ago there were:
GOOD Players that relied 90% on theyr service.
GOOD Players that JUST played serve and volley.
GOOD Players that were BAD on Sand (or the other way).

Now what happened?
The sport evolved.
Federer, Nadal (and Djokovic) may still have *theyr thing* but they can play all the other aspects of Tennis to at least the level theyr concurrence can. They are *complete*. While Federer has an extremly strong service, he is way more than that, he's fast (well, not compared to Nadal), he's strong... And so are Nadal and Djokovic.
The Tennissport is better than ever before, why? Because it's no longer dominated by some *Trend*.

Probably this is also happening to SC/BW?
There won't be MR. MACRO which soley on this principle dominates his oponents, there also won't be MR. MICRO that does things people wouldn't even believe and has enough Macro to deliver the killing blow in time. This is basically, atleast i hope that, just the next level of the game.

The game is played more and more perfect, the more players that get into the *reach* of *the perfect game* the faster all of them lose because you just dind't feel good that day.

In Tennis up until now it's just Nadal, Federer and probably Djokovic that can keep up with each other, who will it be in SC/BW?

On February 25 2008 18:37 GHOSTCLAW wrote:
just to make more specific what is mentioned in the forum topic listed above ( you should read it, it's a good pvt guide)
goons are your friend-after the first 2 or so zeals, dragoons with range kill off both tanks and vultures. Depending on how the gameflow is going, instead of pushing with zeals and losing them without doing significant (killing off a vult isn't econ efficient) damage, back up, get an observer, and start pushing out of your base (or have awsome goon micro and own the tanks/vults before they get sieged/lay spidermines)

zeals are used for 2 things in classic (non-cheese) pvt. early early game harass (< 3-4 min) and contain breaks (speedzeals//zeal bombs)

the good news- you have pretty good micro//macro, you just need to work on how you see the matchup.