EPTHow To Get Into Master League Series - Page 3
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MrArarat
Argentina132 Posts
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Jojo131
Brazil1631 Posts
Keep up the good work! | ||
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Thaniri
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Zoia
United States419 Posts
On April 07 2011 14:55 Perscienter wrote: Just watched the first video. It's good for a mechanical 1-dimensional play and will get you to at least diamond. But the enemy was bad. Didn't prevent the scouting of his (non-)expansion, of his unit-composition and wasted troops by walking the path directly beneath your cliff. I'd estimate him to be a platinum player. First video was against a medium computer of course he was bad. The first video was to show you simple mechanics not a good game. | ||
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Zoia
United States419 Posts
On April 07 2011 18:04 Umpteen wrote: It's great to see people putting in so much effort  Hope it's ok if I give some feedback on the first video: - Because you can't rewind to focus on the important bits when you're casting live play, it can be useful to prepare the viewer in advance so he knows what he's looking for, what it is you're trying to teach him, and what isn't part of the lesson. So, for instance, you could have paused the game right at the start and said: If you do something along those lines, your viewers can recognise everything as it happens and slot it into the plan you've laid out for them, rather than frantically trying to absorb everything on the fly. - You talk very quickly, to the point that your words ran together a few times. I think this is mostly because you have a lot of knowledge and were trying to provide helpful commentary on literally everything that happened in the game rather than concentrating on the lesson at hand. If I'm learning to time my buildings and avoid getting supply blocked, I don't need to know that master-level players won't let me see their scouting overlord - I mean, I do need to know that eventually but it's part of a different lesson. Please don't take this criticism the wrong way; I thought there was a lot of good stuff in there and it bodes well for future episodes. I just think they would benefit from slightly cleaner, less cluttered presentation. Thanks for the advice! I'm thinking of doing the next few episodes on zerg droning, apm, and what to look for when you scout your opponent. | ||
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sephroth
United States7 Posts
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bqzg
64 Posts
One small thing to consider is that in a video emphasizing mechanics, your mechanics were kinda subpar. You didn't use hotkeys for tech lab, stim, didn't rally your workers after they finished building, didn't shift-click workers when you selected too many for the refinery, etc. Not the biggest deal, but a player who doesn't know these things may be content just to copy what you're doing. | ||
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SheaR619
United States2399 Posts
On April 07 2011 10:49 Turgid wrote: Cheese defense and matchup-specific scouting guides would probably help a lot of people. Cheese defense is usually nullified by having good macro since the cheesy leagues are usually the lower league. Lower league cheeses tend to come very late or not perfectly timed so with good macro you usually have more than necessary to defend the cheesy even if you dont scout. Of course it varies between the cheese but in general this is how it is from what i have seem | ||
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spacemunkee
United States51 Posts
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TheAlchemist89
160 Posts
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Zoia
United States419 Posts
On April 07 2011 18:11 Sweetness.751 wrote: Oooo cheese defense would be a good one. Many ppl learn this the hard way during ladder.. Uh I'll probably cover cheese in the episode I go over scouting with cheese really isn't that big of a deal if you scout properly On April 08 2011 00:16 Thaniri wrote: I've played icJug with some people with "erg" beginning their names. One was Protoss and the other was Zerg. Well erg was my former clan and since blizzard hasn't put in a paid name change system yet stuck with it. Currently though making a new clan with a bunch of the old erg members so there is that. | ||
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maddogawl
United States63 Posts
Some ideas for new episodes 1. How to handle being contained either by protoss with forcefields or terran with siege tanks. 2. How to handle late game as Terran ( production buildings, expansions, dealing with harrass, etc ) 3. Refining builds, and when to know a build should be ditched. Keep up the good work! | ||
Bourlog
Sweden3 Posts
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Zoia
United States419 Posts
Some ideas for new episodes 1. How to handle being contained either by protoss with forcefields or terran with siege tanks. 2. How to handle late game as Terran ( production buildings, expansions, dealing with harrass, etc ) 3. Refining builds, and when to know a build should be ditched. Keep up the good work! I don't know if I'll be able to make an entire episode about contains and race specific guides wont be out for a little bit longer. I might be able to do a refining build guide we shall see | ||
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Zyusyn
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Big Buddha
12 Posts
I think in order to progress on ladder, cheese defense is a really big issue...maybe do sth. on that?!? | ||
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totalpigeon
United Kingdom162 Posts
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optical630
United Kingdom768 Posts
On April 08 2011 01:46 SheaR619 wrote: Cheese defense is usually nullified by having good macro since the cheesy leagues are usually the lower league. Lower league cheeses tend to come very late or not perfectly timed so with good macro you usually have more than necessary to defend the cheesy even if you dont scout. Of course it varies between the cheese but in general this is how it is from what i have seem hardly, i still get 2 rax'd and 4 gated in master league, even got 6 pool'd recently. | ||
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BinxyBrown
United States230 Posts
I only watched the second video, because I was figuring it would apply to me more, all I saw was really poor 1 base play that only works vs Zerg because you can deny overlord scouts so easily, which your bad opponent didn't even try. No offense but you killed 20+ drones with a very poor 1 base timing attack, all he needed was a second queen at his nat and you would have done NO damage. Also vs a 1 basing terran who you can't scout it's common to make extra queens incase of banshees, they tank lots of hits so they work well vs any other Terran 1 base all in as well. I think you should redo the video vs a competent opponent, maybe a close game which you lose and go over what were good decisions, what could be better decisions and how your thinking was correct/incorrect at the time. Because all I saw was hurr durr hellions, omg they killed 20 drones, so now I made this key decision (do whatever I want because I already won with my 500 mineral investment) to win this game. As a side note I feel like your mech build's expansion timings are way off, but I don't main terran so maybe I'm wrong. | ||
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eatenbyagrue
25 Posts
Day9's videos are good as well, but these are much quicker to the point. I find myself fast forwarding through about 75% of what day9 says, because at least half the time he either is making lame offtopic attempts to be funny, or is just fucking repeating himself for the 10th time. Don't know if he just likes the sound of his own voice or what. Sorry, didnt mean for this to be a day9 rant, but it is great to see instructional videos boiled down to very concise elements. | ||
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