Replay Analyses continue every Friday. October 1 will be the next. 7:00 PM PST
This thread is a teaching resources for Terrans. I will watch your replay and commentate on it in the form of a video lesson via livestream. I think the absolute best way to give advice is "in real time" - point out the mistakes / opportunities for improvements at EXACTLY the time where it can happen. If you're confused as to why you lost (or how you managed to win a super sloppy game with room to improve) and would like my insight on which parts of your game you need to most improve upon, go ahead and post your replay in the thread!
I am a ~1700 point diamond player and have watched replays of all skill levels. Due to time constraints, I will only take games from Diamond ranked players.
Guidelines:
Your need to be a TERRAN player.
Diamond Rank only.
One replay per post.
Strictly 1v1 replays.
First come first serve. I'll be doing the replays in order posted.
I'll do an individual youtube video response to each replay and post it attached to your replay.
Reviewing your OWN Replays:
Most players lose because of macro. If I were to watch your replay, I'd immediately hone in on one of three things with your submitted replay:
Your build order is subpar. Try starting with 10 supply, 12 barracks, 13 refinery, 15 orbital command.
You're not building SCVs constantly. You're not expanding fast enough.
Your buildings are idle. They're not building units.
Watch your own replay and if this isn't the main reason for your loss and your loss falls into the "didn't scout / prepare a good countermixarmy / micro / bad attack planning / etc" I'll commentate on that. I've just found that 95% of the time, it's because of as simple a reason as one of those listed above. As a rough guide of how many SCVs you should have at certain game times assuming CONSTANT production of SCVs and starting construction of a command centers at certain times (the green shade) I've attached an image.
Posting your Replay: Please keep your replay in this format when you make your post!
First thing in your post: Upload your replay to http://www.gamereplays.org/starcraft2/replays.php?game=33 - you'll have to register on the website first. After you've uploaded your replay, copy the EMBED CODE link and post it in your post. Doing this SHOULD list the matchup in a nice picture form.
List that you're Diamond League and how many points you have.
Give a brief overview of your strategy vs his strategy (i.e. "MMM v 4-Gate", "1/1/1 v Mass Muta")
Give a sentence or two about what YOU think you did wrong.
Example Format:
90ish ranked platinum.
This replay is a 9 min terran vs protoss match. I started out with a somewhat normal M/M push-- not perfect by any means-- and ran into his massive zealot (with added stalkers and sentries) army. They had charge and raped my marine/marauder army.
I can think of 2 reasons why I lost, one being that at a few points in the game I had a bigger army than him and should have attacked much earlier than I did; and the second being that my micro was absolutely horrid in the main battle. My macro probably wasn't the best, too... and build orders.
Resources:
Demo of easy starting build order vs all races - 3 barracks marauder/marine push. requirement: 30 APM. Recommended for any player with a "bad" build order as a place to start or anybody considering switching to Terran.
You can see all the replays reviewed on my youtube channel at:
Wow. Thats really nice of you. I started playin RTS with Starcraft2, so I was sent to bronze league. Atm I´m trying to get used to the macro-orientated technical stuff but I´m quite sure I will ask for help when it comes to strategical problems.
I hope you´ll have plenty of fun doin these casts and this offer will still be existing in a couple of weeks.
I would like to post a replay. I don't know this upload site.. but all I get when I try to upload a replay is a white screen. Any ideas on what to do? Maybe it's just the site that's having troubles atm.
- List your league (Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze) and Rank. diamond rank 25 - i think i got outplayed? lmao i went for standart build i saw fe proceed to bunker him, he destroyed it a lil bit after, went for hellion harrass, got some drones n lings banshees after, forgot about cloak and after that it all went downhill.
Hi, im Diamond currently 176 rating rank 26, My game is a TvT on Lost Temple, replay shows it as a 2v2 or something but its just bugged, i am RadioMars in it and my opponent is JMARTIN.
I was attempting to do a 10 rax reaper into marauder and tank early push to either win right out or to contain and that was about as far as i was thinking as i don't have much experience with TvT and am still trying to figure things out beyond this opening. In this game i was generally trying to contain him to 2 bases while taking the gold inbetween our bases and then hopefully overpower him with stuff once he attempted to break out or does break out.
I think i could have been more aggressive with my opening particularly i could have picked at him with my starting reaper and definitely could have attacked better with my push, which i think was my main mistake as i think i could have won by pulling some of his forces back from the ramp with my reapers attacking his workers and then pushing up the ramp with siege. And then after i contained i think i mainly lost cause my macro slipped hard as i didn't really know what to do.
What id like to know is if my assumptions are correct and if my build looks viable, what could i potentially do/work on as the game progresses beyond my contain in this type of situation.
This is so awesome! I saw you commentate on 2 replays this afternoon but had to go to work after, too bad o'course, almost made me call in sick ;0 I think I can learn a lot from this by just watching you commentate on replays from others.
Is there any place that we can review them on demand? Im not really in the same time zone as you. I'm not a very common Livestream visitor yet so maybe I'm just missing things there.
If someone could hint me that'd be awesome.
p.s. Trump already became my new favourite livestreamer, this makes it even better haha
Hey Trump! I really appreciate you making this thread. I'm pretty new to Starcraft 2, only got my beta key 2 weeks ago (and its already ending =\) but i feel like I am learning pretty quickly. Currently I'm Rank 1 Gold and I feel like my game needs some improvement. This replay is a win, but I feel like it is sloppy and could use a LOT of work.
I decided to go 9rax reapers and scout him early and hopefully get him in a paranoid/defensive mind state, then transition into the typical rines tanks and vikings and push and contain. He opened with banshees and continued to produce them and mass rines. I felt like I could have finished him off faster than I did so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Trump, i've to register, it's been too long since i read this forum.
I just want to thank you man, it's really nice, i think i'm a fan now. I really enjoyed your stream, nice and soft, never rage, always calm even with some smooth music. Much more enjoyable than those speed kid full of redbull. :p I don't know how you manage to be so cool with that game really. Keep it up, i'll stay tune for sure.
Indeed very true, I'm no classical music fan or anything like that, but your comments and music, makes me relax and learn after a day of hard work Thumbs up!
This is a really good idea, and also very nice of you ^^ .... I wish we'd get similar offers for Z & P (from some1 willing to do the same as u are doing since u specifically marked down u'd do this for T).
Rank : On and Off, around 25 usually, lower if I don't play for a day or two. Main problem : Let too many units idle for WAY too long. (iirc, haven't re-watched it)
My reaction here was to add more raxxes vs a 4gate + twilight protoss (i usually go the techlab + reactor rax with ghosts and transition into siege / air later). I won the early battles with ghost marine but im not sure what i did wrong in the transition
Fucked up badly with emps vs templars around midgame, i did hit e but i think i had something else selected, was weird
This is super cool. Will you still be doing this when the game officially releases? I'm a protoss player as of now, but I want to eventually switch to random, and having this here will be immensely helpful.
On May 28 2010 00:07 Zotahr wrote: Is there any place that we can review them on demand? Im not really in the same time zone as you. I'm not a very common Livestream visitor yet so maybe I'm just missing things there.
My plan is going to be putting them up individually so that each one can be reviewed on demand.
Still new to livestream-ish so hopefully I get it right the first time around. Think it can work though.
Gonna be starting in ~1 hour, probably can cover a couuuppple more replays than the ones posted so far.
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