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mordek
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States12705 Posts
April 05 2011 21:46 GMT
#241
Awesome guide. very insightful and with great perspective!
It is vanity to love what passes quickly and not to look ahead where eternal joy abides. Tiberius77 | Mordek #1881 "I took a mint!"
xzumiex
Profile Joined September 2010
Belgium100 Posts
April 05 2011 22:17 GMT
#242
WOW what a guide, 10+++ will read it slowly tomorrow, off to bed for now :D
Loomies
Profile Joined July 2010
United States645 Posts
April 05 2011 22:18 GMT
#243
So will anxiety always persist no matter how many games you play?
Neosta2
Profile Joined March 2010
China117 Posts
April 05 2011 22:29 GMT
#244
Can you also comment on the graphic settings?

I know many pros play on lowest settings - however I found it hard to spot cloak units and also force fields on lowest setting
My country is the world and my religion is to do good. - Thomas Paine
CecilSunkure
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2829 Posts
April 05 2011 23:17 GMT
#245
On April 06 2011 07:29 Neosta2 wrote:
Can you also comment on the graphic settings?

I know many pros play on lowest settings - however I found it hard to spot cloak units and also force fields on lowest setting

I play with everyone on lowest! :O
oGm`REM
Profile Joined March 2011
United States870 Posts
April 05 2011 23:19 GMT
#246
Wow, great read. I can tell it took awhile to create this.
Keep it up ~~
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BisuDagger
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Bisutopia19299 Posts
April 05 2011 23:29 GMT
#247
Minerals being mined... Great article. Thanks for putting in all the effort. I hope this will help lots of people including myself. There is always so much to learn.
ModeratorFormer Afreeca Starleague Caster: http://afreeca.tv/ASL2ENG2
ChineseWife
Profile Joined August 2010
United States373 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-06 01:58:50
April 05 2011 23:30 GMT
#248
I only wish this guide had been written in September (lol)! I started in platinum and hit diamond after two months of intense perseverance, and shortly got to master ending season 1 above 3k. I have very few games played compared to you (around 300ish wins on ladder, who knows how many customs ^^) so I felt as though really analyzing every game and truly learning from my losses and victories really helped me become a better player. I was truly fortunate to have better players to look up to and just grind out games with. Anyway, great job Cecil. I imagine those who take this to heart will become MUCH better players.

<3

TL;DR - It took me about 6 months (since release) of hard work to learn this stuff, so all you noobies and aspiring gosus please thank Cecile for condensing his knowledge and sharing it with the community!

Oops I made no units
BenKen
Profile Joined August 2009
United States860 Posts
April 05 2011 23:35 GMT
#249
On April 06 2011 05:37 CecilSunkure wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2011 05:27 RoachyRoach wrote:
On April 06 2011 04:47 Canadium wrote:
I feel like this could all be summed up in a few words. Watch the Day9 Daily Sunday through Thursday @ 7pm PST..... It's an adequate write at best.



I find Day9 extremly annoying. His stream is informative, if your willing to sit through 2 hours of retarded banter and him constantly switching to his webcam view to see his reaction faces and whatnot.

Sometimes he can be fun and knowledgable, but I always find myself screaming at the screen "GET TO THE F-ING POINT!"

edit: More on topic. Cecil, I loved this read. I read the whole thing on my blackberry on my way home from work and it seriously puts you in a good mindset for starting to grow as a player.

Still on my way home, my fingers are twitching 1a2a3a...i need SC2 NOW

Yeah I feel the same way :/

He does too much goofing off, and I just don't have time to watch 30 minutes of teaching and 30 minutes of goofing off.


Well Day 9 did something similar to this for BW, but now it's kinda obvious he's milking his show for all it's worth these days. I mean, it's not like anyone has 300+ hours worth of unique and useful knowledge to dish out all the time. I'm not trying to bash Day 9 though, I still love the guy. Day 9's old BW podcasts on improving really were can't miss stuff though.

More importantly, THANK YOU so much CecilSunkure! I've seen most of this information in bits and pieces over the past year or so (including in Day 9 dailies) but to have it all in one well written document is solid gold.
I deadlift for Aiur
ChineseWife
Profile Joined August 2010
United States373 Posts
April 05 2011 23:38 GMT
#250
Yeah day9 is great and all but everytime he cuts away from the game/analysis and to his face, i feel like he is wasting my time
Oops I made no units
Leeoku
Profile Joined May 2010
1617 Posts
April 06 2011 00:45 GMT
#251
great guide gona read more througly later =)
Ursadon-n-Pals
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States928 Posts
April 06 2011 02:08 GMT
#252
Learned so much! Thanks for writing this Cecil :D !
Nothing worth having comes easy.
Irave
Profile Joined October 2010
United States9965 Posts
April 06 2011 02:30 GMT
#253
Fantastic write up, thanks for taking the time to write this, learning quite a lot.
SpiritAshura
Profile Joined March 2007
United States1271 Posts
April 06 2011 03:09 GMT
#254
I usually don't post on things like this but this deserves it you put a lot of good work into it. I'm a high diamond player currently and I found that I was mostly on the right track I already did a lot of the things you mention, but learning about YABOT and a few other key factors should help me progress Very nice and detailed guide sir, I imagine anyone diamond and below could follow this and make large strides in their play quickly!
FrodaN
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
754 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-06 03:31:39
April 06 2011 03:29 GMT
#255
To all the people ragging on Day[9] for cutting to his face, blabbering about w/e, etc: get this straight. The Daily is a TV show. It's a television SHOW. Day[9] needs to be educational as well as entertaining. I feel like 30 minutes of education and 30 minutes of "nonsense" is actually a perfect balance.

Give Day[9] a break, especially considering how much content people demand out of him with how young SC2 is. After all, Sean had 10 years of BW to talk about in his dailies.

As for the OP, great post and guide. You are contributing a ton to the community by doing this and I hope you will be rewarded one day.
Minzy
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia387 Posts
April 06 2011 03:49 GMT
#256
On April 06 2011 08:17 CecilSunkure wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 06 2011 07:29 Neosta2 wrote:
Can you also comment on the graphic settings?

I know many pros play on lowest settings - however I found it hard to spot cloak units and also force fields on lowest setting

I play with everyone on lowest! :O


i play with everything on low, but textures on extreme or high, whatever is the highest, its very easy to spot cloak like this i think.
Huh...
Tiazi
Profile Joined February 2010
Netherlands761 Posts
April 06 2011 05:49 GMT
#257
Wow! Thanks
"A brilliant yet deluded man once said, 'Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.' Gumiho is that agent of chaos." -monk
zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15355 Posts
April 06 2011 06:03 GMT
#258
So much <3 . You just made a worn mod happy :-)
ModeratorI know Teamliquid is known as a massive building
Mintastic
Profile Joined October 2010
United States166 Posts
April 06 2011 06:19 GMT
#259
Epic OP, my hats off to you.
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Maieu_san
Profile Joined November 2010
Belgium6 Posts
April 06 2011 07:26 GMT
#260
very very nice guide!
I'm only a low level Bronze player, trying to get better. And this guide is going to help me greatly with that!

Thanks a million for this! Allready made a pdf of this for myself
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