I just have to say that the last two dailies have really helped me a lot. I know there have been previous ones that he said to just focus on just one or two things, but for some reason, this time it clicked.
I was a low-mid silver player, and following these two dailies, I decided to buckle down and focus on just two things: constant SCV production, and keeping my minerals/gas low. And I could kind of tell from the very start just from the feel of the game that this was much better. My economy was very solid very quickly, and when I was attacked, even the first time, I didn't feel like I needed to panic the same way I normally do. I still know that I have a lot more to go to improve, because there are still times when i'm allowing my money to accumulate.
And after I did all of this, I was promoted to gold :D.
I just wanted to say thanks for going back to the basics, Sir Thoughthammer, as it was a huge help to me.
I love Day9, but is he on crack today? He thinks a 10pool 10extractor EXTREMELY fast Baneling build isn't cheese. It even succeeded in killing the majority of Sheth's workers, AND STILL FAILED to win him the game... I'd call that the very definition of a cheesey all-in. If it doesn't end the game right there, you lose.
I understand the new aversion to the word "counter". I understand that we should narrow our definition of "cheese". But at some point you have to call a spade a fucking spade, man.
I just watched #163 and was amazed at how much I learned from his analysis of a gold replay as a high plat/low diamond player. How I'm not in bronze I don't know, as I'm guilty of almost every error he was picking apart in that game.
I'm going to copy his technique of focusing on improving one or two specific things at a time, and because Day[9] is my hero(and maybe I've noticed that I'm horrible at this when things get hectic), I'm focusing on using every last hatchery larvae for a while.
This is kind of a bizarre wish, but I know he's mentioned sometimes his favorite games are when one player absolutely demolishes the other just because of their demonstration of how to/not to execute a given strategy, and I think it'd be great if he did a series of those.
On August 13 2010 11:25 brain_ wrote: I love Day9, but is he on crack today? He thinks a 10pool 10extractor EXTREMELY fast Baneling build isn't cheese. It even succeeded in killing the majority of Sheth's workers, AND STILL FAILED to win him the game... I'd call that the very definition of a cheesey all-in. If it doesn't end the game right there, you lose.
I understand the new aversion to the word "counter". I understand that we should narrow our definition of "cheese". But at some point you have to call a spade a fucking spade, man.
It is not an allin and not so cheesy, u sould have paid attention to what he said:
He said that Sheth overextended himself, if the 6 zerglings( produced after the banelings killed the workers) would have been drones, Sheth would have been in great shape because he would have had a better economy than his opponent. But because he attacked too much he was getting behind.
So the 10 10 build ist not soo cheesy if u can pull it off and know when to stop. You have a great opportunity of damaging ur enemy and a guranteed baneling on his workers. If u know when to stop and proceed in Normal Mode you have an early advantage on ur opponent.
As a noob I find his videos invaluable to my macro & timing - i'm now wondering if someone can perhaps tell me if any of the videos go into detail about micro and how to improve it? I would sit here and watch every video until I maybe stumble across it but i think that might take a bit too long :p
im watching #164 atm and i lold so hard at his deer analogy "Its like if a baby deer was on a highway and you ran over him, and then reversed and ran over him again - its just such a clear advantage... But then...the...deer.... made a a lot of stalkers..."
Right i'm going crazy. I see some posts about his pc's being broken. I do not see any daily updates since 156 on the starting post. Yet still people are watching new dailies. Where?
On August 13 2010 19:18 bull0563 wrote: Right i'm going crazy. I see some posts about his pc's being broken. I do not see any daily updates since 156 on the starting post. Yet still people are watching new dailies. Where?
http://day9tv.blip.tv It will take you to the latest ep, click on episode archive to view previous episodes.
On August 13 2010 20:03 telamascope wrote: Is the chat that he takes questions from an IRC channel? If so, what is it?
Nah I'm 99% positive he takes them from his UStream chat. There are just hundreds of questions that flood in so you probably can't see the one hes looking at without scrolling up a ton.
On August 13 2010 20:03 telamascope wrote: Is the chat that he takes questions from an IRC channel? If so, what is it?
Nah I'm 99% positive he takes them from his UStream chat. There are just hundreds of questions that flood in so you probably can't see the one hes looking at without scrolling up a ton.
Ustream chat is an irc channel. Probably #day9tv, I think the server is c.ustream.tv:6666 or something like that.
On August 13 2010 18:56 CurZed wrote: As a noob I find his videos invaluable to my macro & timing - i'm now wondering if someone can perhaps tell me if any of the videos go into detail about micro and how to improve it? I would sit here and watch every video until I maybe stumble across it but i think that might take a bit too long :p
As far as I can remember he hasn't really gone into micro much. As you've noticed he tends to focus more on (in his own words) "broad strokes rather than cutesy little tricks".
These dailies helped me improve a lot. When i started playing sc2 in the first beta i was loosing to stupid stuff like reapers out of a 12 rax... as a TERRAN myself. Now i'm in plat working my way to diamond.
Really want to THANK YOU day9 for teaching me how to play.
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