Need coaching? Pick your race!

On April 17 2011 09:36 Lea wrote:

It makes sense because the player of your race knows exactly how to deal with what the zerg can toss at you. A zerg player may know how a toss can counter, but cannot explain to you in detail why like timings on build order and so on, placement of proxies on map etc. Only a toss can do that.

For example, when I was watching the European ESL tournament earlier this week, one caster didn't know much at all about zerg, so the other caster had to keep correct him, especially in ZvZ match ups this caster, being a toss player, obviously had little to no experience of at all. He had basic knowledge of zerg, we all should or we can't play against them, but he lacked that in depth knowledge the other caster had, and this is why you need coaching of someone who plays your race. Tough luck if you play random, though.


And this is why you won't grow. If you've decided you won't grow you simply will not. Playing Starcraft is equally much of training the mind as it is practicing your finger dexterity. Obviously, if a child sits stubbornly on the floor and says "I don't want to!", nothing is going to happen. Having a personal coach can simplify your experience a lot. Just look at the Day9 stream when Day9 coaches djWheat and he basically improves drastically in the course of a couple of games, because Day9 forces Wheat outside his own comfort zone of play which can be very hard to break out of if you are not consciously trying to do that (and sometimes a lot of games simply just won't allow you to do it).

You are entitled your opinion, but your post reveals a lot why you are still in bronze and not in master league.

Practicing doesn't do much if you are practicing the wrong things. Yes, I say that as a guitar player. And no, one mistake in a song does not necessarily ruin the song. The key to being a good performer is how you HIDE your mistakes. I've seen big artists do mistakes LIVE, but people won't notice because 1) most listeners will not know they are there and thus not being aware that it is in fact a mistake and 2) a good musician makes the mistake a part of their play, their performance, so the audience goes "aha, that was a cool trick!".

Missing a macro moment or a micro moment in SC2 CAN make you lose the game, though, but not necessarily, because perfect execution is simply very hard. You think the pros play perfectly? Think again. The reason why they are pros is not because they play perfect, but because the dedication they put into reducing their imperfection. If you are in a mirror match up, the amount of units you have can make a big difference, even if the difference is that you are 2 units less than your opponent. If your opponent and you are equally skilled in micro and have the same upgrades and unit composition and the battle position does not favor either player, then you will loose simply due to poor macro. If you have less units but you won the battle, then you won because the opponent had poor micro.

Again, you speak of things you do not seem to know of well and your attitude yet again reveals why you are "mere" bronze and not in master league. Watching streams and so on help, but all this can be tossed through the window when you have to put things into practice. Theory is always simple and it's simple to sit here on the forums to say "Day9 taught me how to macro through his stream", when what really matters is how you can use that knowledge in practice. My guess is, seeing you claim that you are a bronze player, is that you do not do this very well (yet).

Most people can repeat a build order and their specific timing windows, but do they do this when they play?