I remember sclegacy.com having a similar competition like this. I'm pretty sure old school bw players would remember. The goal was to max 200 on an LT map any way you can. I think terran was the fastest with about 9-10 minute mark because of the price and production speed of vultures.

I kinda remember doing something like this in a very small scale too. Fastest way to launch a nuke. I remember cutting a second every 3-4 tries and having it done around 4:42 which was a crazy fast time.

CreatureSC2

United States156 Posts

December 30 2011 16:13 GMT

#123

11:13
Diamond Protoss
http://drop.sc/81523
http://www.sc2ranks.com/us/281567/TheCreature

dani`

Netherlands2402 Posts

December 30 2011 16:18 GMT

#124

10:56 with Zerg. I'm Master Protoss.
+ Show Spoiler [screenshot] +

I hope other people who try with Zerg do comply with this rule:

For Zerg, you may only build one queen at each hatchery, and pre-building queens with other hatcheries is not allowed.

Pre-building Queens with other Hatches would speed things up quite a lot I'd imagine.

machination

United States175 Posts

December 30 2011 16:29 GMT

#125

11:11 Platinum Zerg

StrikeNova

Canada47 Posts

December 30 2011 16:36 GMT

#126

I can only get around 12:50 after several tries as terran. How are others getting just over 12 minutes?
Diamond Terran

Re-did it a couple of times, best time was 12:37...
[Edit] Finally did 12:15 but no idea how others get times below 12 minutes as terran.

lichter

1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts

December 30 2011 17:04 GMT

#127

Diamond Zerg.

Am I allowed to build macro hatches? How many hatches can I build? How many bases can I take? 5 base +1 macro hatch, I max out at 11:23. Tried going for more macro hatches earlier and still on 5 base but still get around the same mark

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

December 30 2011 17:25 GMT

#128

11:50 platinum terran.

I think this is the right rep: http://drop.sc/81540

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

December 30 2011 17:32 GMT

#129

On December 30 2011 17:22 Mr. Black wrote:
This is weird -- earlier this evening I downloaded the most recent Pokebunny replay pack and posted a video of a similar macro exercise here.

Somehow, despite inhabiting opposite ends of the skill spectrum, Pokebunny and I inhabit a strange synchronicity this evening.

Part of my inspiration. Been meaning to post this for a long time, but I often search my id in content search on TL, so I found your post, and remembered I wanted to do this.

Blasterion

China10272 Posts

December 30 2011 17:42 GMT

#130

12:42 Platinum Terran =/
http://drop.sc/81544

Pokebunny

United States10654 Posts

December 30 2011 17:44 GMT

#131

More macro hatches doesn't always help, because if they don't finish in time to produce out of them, you lose a supply.

Koshi

Belgium38799 Posts

December 30 2011 18:55 GMT

#132

Terribad 13:00 first try. Got 11:10 on second try. Screwed up on third try. Not willing to try a fourth time.

Zerg. Unranked atm. S4 Master.

Sero

United States692 Posts

December 30 2011 19:14 GMT

#133

I tried a couple more times and was able to get down to 11:26. (Master Terran.) I think 11:20 might be possible, but would take some effort lol
http://i.imgur.com/MWXD3.jpg

Cephiro

Finland1934 Posts

December 30 2011 19:27 GMT

#134

Random Silver (S4) Silver S5 too (did placement), will try this on every race. (Used to main as terran though 2 from season 1-3, so that may affect the results a bit.)

These are all first tries.

Terran: 12:32
Protoss: 11:55
Zerg: 11:56 -> 11:46 (Was disappointed on the first try, and the second try was bad as well.

)

Tendou

United States54 Posts

December 30 2011 22:03 GMT

#135

I tried it again and I got 10:45. Masters z. I did 5 hatch before pool ^^. The link for the rep is here http://www.sctemple.com/replay/146134/

NGeX

Canada72 Posts

December 30 2011 22:08 GMT

#136

Bronze zerg player. My best is 13 minutes flat. I'm thinking I'm either not moving fast enough or I lack macro hatches. I had up 4 bases and no macros. Perhaps I should try 3 base 2 macro...since there is a cap on queens.

EDIT: Went 15 Hatch 16 pool with 3 bases and 2 macro. Got my time down to 11:56. Wow. Epic exercise Pokebunny.

willz22912

United States255 Posts

December 30 2011 22:16 GMT

#137

So I read through the thread to see if anyone asked this, so Terrans are not allowed to make OCs at all? Or are you just not counting any replays with them, I know in your OP you said it wasn't going to help but I think it would, any clarification on this?

Cephiro

Finland1934 Posts

December 30 2011 22:18 GMT

#138

On December 31 2011 07:16 willz22912 wrote:
So I read through the thread to see if anyone asked this, so Terrans are not allowed to make OCs at all? Or are you just not counting any replays with them, I know in your OP you said it wasn't going to help but I think it would, any clarification on this?

Afaik, if you take part in the challenge, it's preferable you won't. Try it a few times and see if you still think OC's would help. It is very easy to keep yourself not supply capped w/ terran since you end up making so many macro CC's too, and you won't need the extra income from mules.

E: Fun fact, edited this post three times for ridiculous typos. And there's probably still some.

willz22912

United States255 Posts

December 30 2011 22:21 GMT

#139

Edit: Nevermind on this post.

scribe123456

United States43 Posts

December 30 2011 23:37 GMT

#140

Diamond Zerg, 11:20 ish on both shattered and megaton.

What I found interesting was that even if I did this on megaton and took the gold bases asap, I still came up with the same time of around 11:20... makes me have to stop and think about this for a bit. (ok re-did, 11:10 with taking all he golds, lol)