On July 06 2010 11:54 Ryuu314 wrote:
Biggest blunder? I must've spent at least the first two weeks of beta thinking that the cybernetics core costs 200 minerals...and getting away with it :D

OMG yes, and assimilator / refinery was 100. Oh man...

terranghost

United States980 Posts

July 06 2010 03:52 GMT

#122

Walling in on the southern base of blisstering sands depo depo starport with tech lab. unfortunately the positioning of the lab meant my factory units could not get out of my base and if I had any production facility attached to the lab then they couldnt get around it to go over the depos either. Ended up having to kill my own lab.

On July 04 2010 14:58 Falling wrote:
I switched from Protoss to Random and for awhile I had a tendency to scan my mineral line rather than MULE it (mixing up hot keys)

I always though it would be amusing to see someone do this. In some big tournament and listen to husky get confused as to why a terran player scanned his mineral line

On July 04 2010 15:55 vertigo5 wrote:
DT in mineral line!

45 Com energy...46..47..48..49..goddamn hurry up!...50..

MULE!

::facepalm::

Now that is funny (has done it too except with supply drop)

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

July 06 2010 03:59 GMT

#123

Well my biggest blunder would be just throwing my MM army into a bunch of zealots on a ramp, basically throwing the game when I had the advantage (early game mis-micro hurts).
(Nothing too extreme... yet)

grevenchile

Chile118 Posts

July 06 2010 04:04 GMT

#124

i had a lot of zerglings and my opponent attacked my third base so i clicked all my lings and press A in the minimap. i killed all my opponents units and my hatchery

BigDatez

Canada434 Posts

July 06 2010 04:07 GMT

#125

Ohh wow. 2 of them here.
One time in a show match, i did an early baneling rush in ZvZ, and had a baneling ina group of 5 HP drones.. now instead of hitting X to blow it up instantly (as they were about to get off the creep) i hit S, and made him stop. i QQed in game as i ended up losing after that..

Also another (less notable) match was a practice match against one of my team-mates, where i had my roaches burrow moving under the P's HT section of the army, and i THOUGH i had my roaches selected, so i hit R to unburrow (little did i know i had my hydras/infestors from behind the bush selected) So then i continue on to quickly select my roaches and unburrow, then i re select my hydra/infestor army (NOT KNOWING they were burrowed) to move in... and nothing. People spectating were all laughing =P it ended up costing me the game when i could have EASILY won.

terranghost

United States980 Posts

July 06 2010 04:09 GMT

#126

Also who has played terran and loaded some of there original scv's into the cc

Kerrdezzy

United States50 Posts

July 06 2010 04:31 GMT

#127

21 more days....

retro-noob

110 Posts

July 06 2010 04:39 GMT

#128

On July 04 2010 16:53 Teogamer wrote:
On one of my first protoss matches it was a PvP on kulas. I went gateway into an expansion after winning an early battle. I thought I had the game won since he hadn't expanded yet. I decide to attack his base and at the same time he sends void rays out to kill mine. It becomes a base race and I'm like, "im gonna win, ill just spend all my money on buildings at my nat." Well we killed each others' mains at about the same time, but he had a probe dropping pylons around the map, meanwhile I have a bunch of probes but no money to make any pylons... Ended up losing with the slower ground army...

I believe that was the last match I played as protoss.

Hey, I think that was me!

Skullflower

United States3779 Posts

July 06 2010 05:44 GMT

#129

Accidentally building reactors instead of tech labs was my most common mistake. Never really did get the T hotkeys down too good :/

SarcasticOne

Australia213 Posts

July 06 2010 06:53 GMT

#130

my favourites,
trying to do a proxy rax rush as a terran, send SCV's to minerals, then send one to opponent's base (1v1 match) get SCV into position, why do i only have 30/36 minerals? turns out i sent my 5 other starting SCV's to a spot BEHIND minerals...

GG'ing to canon rushes when he has nothing in his base, and i could have sent my 3-4 marines over there, plus 6-7 SCV's and won (after losing to this 4 times, have learnt!)

good old planetary fortress not lifting is always good...

xxjondxx

United States89 Posts

July 06 2010 07:00 GMT

#131

for the first week of beta I thought you needed a templar archives to build a dark shrine

gdroxor

United States639 Posts

July 06 2010 07:25 GMT

#132

My biggest blunder?

Having a game 100% in the bag PvP on desert oasis. Main and natural of my opponent was destroyed. I had a 200/200 ground army from warp gates and robos. While I searched for hidden expansions, it never occured to me that he could be on one of the island expos. He takes a warp prism and 4 probes, rebuilds in about 5 minutes because he was stockpiling resources. By the time I figured out what he was doing, I got a few void rays out, but he completely kills me with an army of 20+ void rays and a mothership.

I felt like this after the match --> =/

Champi

1422 Posts

July 06 2010 07:46 GMT

#133

I proxy 2 gated beneath the opponents natural mineral line on blistering sands and hilariously poor pylon placements accidentally trapped 3 zealots, costing me the game lol

GhOsT.osd

Sweden16 Posts

July 06 2010 08:08 GMT

#134

My funniest blunder was in a ZvT, im playing zerg, its going quite well I macro and defend for a while, and get hydras up. Suddenly 5 hellions roll into my base going for the mineral line, I see this and a move my hydras to the mineral line or so I thought, because of the "3d effect" i clicked on my hive, the hive goes down, and im like, wth how did those hellions get it down so fast. I proceed to kill of the hellions and move to his base, when he ggs out. So I check the replay and notice my mistake. And think to myself, hmm maybe my opponent saw that, and thought I was totaly crazy and just said, this guys nuts im out of here, he even kills his own Hives, hes gotta be psycho =)

Dakk

Sweden572 Posts

July 06 2010 08:17 GMT

#135

Well, i guess everyone has those moments when they panic or simply give up

I remember that it used to happend to me alot that when the enemies had annihilated all of your units exept your woorkers, i would attempt a rambo thing and kill them with my measly 12 woorkers instead of trying to sneak one out and restart ..

It happened me once where i accidently flew my command center over an un-touched enemie base.. We had shared until control , and i dont know why he did it, but he set my CC to get to the far "island-base" in the Enemies side on 4v4.

ZomgTossRush

United States1041 Posts

July 06 2010 08:27 GMT

#136

I know for like 3-4 games in a row i kept letting out scouting probes/drones/scvs with my supply depot lowering. I don't know why.

Me0w

Sweden52 Posts

July 06 2010 08:41 GMT

#137

I guess I was not the only one who didn't check the overlords twice in the beginning. Needless to say I raged when, no matter how many overlords I brought, I could still not see that damn banshee blasting away at my workers.

NeoLearner

Belgium1847 Posts

July 06 2010 08:45 GMT

#138

I was macroing up hydra/roach reinforcements to my natural while attacking his expansion. I loose my attacking army and he comes over to counter-attack my natural.
I'm all:" Aha, that's not going to work, I didn't forget my macro while attacking and by now I have a bigger force than you!". Few seconds later he levels my natural and I'm left wondering where my units are at. Seems my evo chambers, hydra den and roach warren had made a nice wall-in...

And I was thinking I was all baller for doing a tight SIM city...

DarQraven

Netherlands553 Posts

July 06 2010 10:36 GMT

#139

On July 06 2010 12:12 SiNiquity wrote:

Show nested quote +

OMG yes, and assimilator / refinery was 100. Oh man...

Same, same. That mistake prompted me to actually read all the unit/building stats thoroughly.

The worst I encountered was during one my countless placement matches. Incineration zone, PvZ.
Knowing that most matches at that level would involve rushes/cheese of some sort, I prepared for an 8 pool or backdoor bust - by accidentally completely walling off my ramp.

The best part: I had forgot to set my rally point, so the Zealot I built spawned on the wrong side of the Gateway+Pylon.
From there on, it was a matter of watching 4 lone zerglings eating away at my gateway and pylon without me being able to attack at all.

Once Z saw that, it was a matter of spawning buttloads of zerglings. It was a very short match.

Wonderballs

Canada253 Posts

July 06 2010 10:44 GMT

#140

On July 04 2010 14:29 Chronopolis wrote:
I scouted a 6 rax reaper on metalopolis as Protoss and proceeded to forget my second pylon. Noticed it ~ 5-10 seconds after, then sent a probe to build it with what i thought was a que command back to the minerals, and then went back to my scouting probe in his base. It wasn't a que command. Yikes.

It would have been better if you queued the pylon in his base by mistake.... lol

Personally, I have never made a mistake, ever in any game.