31,500 Replays - A look at balance in Starcraft II - Page 10

On February 04 2012 23:35 -_- wrote:
Hey Playhem guys. And the guys who run daily tourneys. All of you should get in contact with map makers to test there maps! I see you already were using Cloud Kingdom which is good.

On February 04 2012 20:32 felisconcolori wrote:
People seem to be surprised by the "short" average of the games, but...

Watching various tournaments, it seems that the long "epic" games are less common than we tend to think. I mean, for the top level players, I'm surprised to see games that run for 30+ minutes - even when they are macro games without cheese. Granted, this is just perception and opinion. But players in tournaments shouldn't really be trying to draw games out - they have games to play, and if they can shorten their games leading to the finals they will be better off when the get towards the end of the tournament in terms of game fatigue. (People that slog their way through open brackets to get into the top 8 get props for me, especially when they show up to face "fresher" opponents that only were in pool play or were direct seeds.)

Also, since it's an "average" game length, you have to realize that the time for each game just means that there are more ,or shorter, "quick" games and fewer, or longer, "long" games. As even the pros can tell you, good cheese sometimes is an effective way of just bashing your way up to the point where you're playing opponents that will take all your skill to beat.

(Then again, my average personal game times are pretty short, but I'm faaar lower league and the first push from a 3rax can still end a game outright in 9 minutes.)

On February 04 2012 23:53 magnaflow wrote:
I believe the 10min average is based upon real minutes, not the Blizzard style.

On February 04 2012 23:57 Firkraag8 wrote:

Most definitely real time.

Blizzard needs to get rid of their silly in-game time, I really don't see the point. "Faster" is the default time for ladder so that's not an excuse either.

On February 04 2012 17:27 godulous wrote:


If it makes you feel any better, Protoss have a 100% win rate on Tal'Darim in PvP.

On February 05 2012 00:06 MHT wrote:

Should have done it from the beginning now its too late imo. All our timings and measurements are now in blizzardtime and would throw everyone off if it was changed now. Similar to what happened to APM it was wrong both before and after but now that they changed it, its useless because its not what we've become accustomed to.

And if these charts are in real time then it suddenly becomes hard to figure out how long the games really are because its not in the format we normally see them as.

On February 05 2012 00:28 Gyro_SC2 wrote:
can you put the link for download all the replay ?

On February 05 2012 00:47 Stress wrote:
This is awesome! You should try doing it every month though and see how it changes from month to month.

On February 04 2012 22:58 Mysti_ wrote:
Feels like TvP is more often T favored :o