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MrLlama
Profile Joined December 2010
United States454 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-05-23 14:40:20
April 16 2013 18:57 GMT
#1
Go sign up for the first SCS $50 Tournament starting in 2 days!: http://starcraft2strategy.com/tournaments

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Team Starcraft2Strategy

A few months ago I set out on a journey to remake team Starcraft2Strategy into a team that could not only compete but could help others with Starcraft 2 as well. As I'm sure some of you know, I have made a lot of guides and videos that focused on teaching others more about the game so this was a key part of my decision making when finding members for the team. After much recruiting and various tryouts I eventually found a solid group of Masters+ players who are not only dedicated to the game and improving but dedicated to the community.

The Team
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Vdeezy[image loading]
Coyote[image loading]
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Community Events:

Free Coaching
The first thing we want to do for the community is provide a way to get Masters+ level coaching that is free and easily accessible. While there is the free coaching thread and every now and then someone who offers up free coaching, in my experience I have found it to be inconsistent and short-lived. Due to this, team SCS now offers free coaching every Sunday - Thursday from 5pm-8pm EST. All you simply have to do is show up in the SCS Twitch chat and say that you need coaching. The stream will be cycling the various players every hour and every day so you can get a variety of coaching from various players or you can follow around your favorite whenever he/she streams.

Tournaments
First tournament!!!!: $50 prize diam-GM: http://starcraft2strategy.com/tournaments

Guides
Leenock's ZvP Opener + Show Spoiler +

Steps:
9 - Overlord
15 - Spawning Pool
16 - Hatchery
15 - Overlord
15- Queen
17 - 2 Zerglings
19 - Extractor
- Metabolic Boost
- Third Queen at Natural
- Overlord Speed
- Lair & Second Gas
7:15~ - Third Base & 3rd/4th Gas
Roach Warren & Evo Chamber ~7:30-8:00
Lair finishes - Hydralisk Den and/or Infestation Pit

Short Description:
This is the build that Leenock used in his games against BabyKnight at the 2013 Winter MLG. This build makes you safe against any Protoss openers with fast Zergling speed to shut down Zealot/Stalker/Mothership Core aggression, a fast third Queen for creep spread, and fast Pneumatized Carapace to make sure you can scout anything the Protoss is doing. The current PvZ meta game is all over the place, so being able to scout whatever the Protoss is doing at pretty much every point of the game is invaluable.

Execution:
Send your first overlord to the Protoss natural in order to scout if they're doing a Forge Fast Expand or a Gateway Expand. What you scout will determine how many Zerglings you make to defend aggression. If the Protoss is doing a gate expand, it increases their aggressive potential exponentially, so you will want a good Speedling count relatively early on in order to shut down that pressure. On the other hand, if the Protoss is doing a Forge Fast Expand, you can get away with only making 4-6 Zerglings and scouting around for proxy Pylons/Tech. Your second overlord's positioning is open for preferential alterations, but you will want it to wind up near his main at around the 6:30-7:30 mark; once overlord speed finishes, send this overlord into his main and see what you can scout. If you scout Robo play, make enough Speedlings to pressure what could be an Immortal Sentry all-in and go for an Infestation Pit for Swarm Hosts when your Lair finishes. If you scout Stargate play, get a Hydralisk Den when your lair finishes and make a Spore crawler at every base, perhaps even making another Queen (up to 4). Continue to scout with your overlord in his main; you should be ducking in and out every minute or so. If you see an unusually fast Robotics Bay, throw down a Spire for Corruptors and move into a Roach/Hydra/Corruptor composition.

Transition:
So, now you're in the midgame. You either have Swarm Hosts or Hydralisks out, having responded to what your fast Overlord Speed scouting has shown you. You should be getting the other tech up (Swarm Host or Hydralisk) and eventually moving into Vipers or Corruptors, followed by Ultras or Brood Lords. Your goal at this point in the game is to prevent the Protoss from getting to their ideal lategame of Skytoss with High Templars. You can do this by going Roach/Hydra/Corruptor and piling on the aggression, eventually going into Brood Lords if you can't finish him off; you can also do this by piling on Hydra/Swarm Host aggression and transitioning into Vipers, eventually getting up a strong economy and Ultralisk army while he's still on ground.

Currently most of our guides are written for WoL but as we develop more HOTS guides I will post links to them here

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Zenbrez
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada5973 Posts
April 16 2013 18:59 GMT
#2
That's really cool. I might try it out once my exams are done - looking forward
Refer to my post.
MystiC1
Profile Joined January 2012
Canada32 Posts
April 16 2013 19:08 GMT
#3
boooorrringgggggggggggggggggggggggggg

User was warned for this post
poultrypouch
Profile Joined July 2012
United Kingdom33 Posts
April 16 2013 19:21 GMT
#4
sick parody, also unoriginal
Pooch
AnachronisticAnarchy
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States2957 Posts
April 16 2013 19:35 GMT
#5
Really cool of you guys to actually go through all this effort to help other people. I know I'll be using some of your guides.
"How are you?" "I am fine, because it is not normal to scream in pain."
MrLlama
Profile Joined December 2010
United States454 Posts
April 17 2013 16:37 GMT
#6
On April 17 2013 04:35 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
Really cool of you guys to actually go through all this effort to help other people. I know I'll be using some of your guides.


I've always been a fan of helping out the community, I'm just glad I could find a team that agreed.

Coaching for today will be

5-6 Stuzh[image loading]
6-7 Zombiegrub[image loading]
7-8 Tyranus[image loading]

Most players feel pretty comfortable coaching all races up to a plat/diam but if you want to specifically work with your race coach then you should come in around their stream time.
www.youtube.com/mrllamasc << Casting & Analysis Videos
Silencioseu
Profile Joined June 2011
Cyprus493 Posts
April 17 2013 19:33 GMT
#7
Is this only for NA?
i kno i r badass no need to repeat
MasterOfPuppets
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Romania6942 Posts
April 17 2013 20:34 GMT
#8
On April 17 2013 04:21 poultrypouch wrote:
sick parody, also unoriginal


Lol what are you talking about?
"my shaft scares me too" - strenx 2014
dAPhREAk
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Nauru12397 Posts
April 17 2013 20:41 GMT
#9
looks like the EG logo.
MrLlama
Profile Joined December 2010
United States454 Posts
April 18 2013 15:48 GMT
#10
On April 18 2013 04:33 Silencioseu wrote:
Is this only for NA?


The coaching will be done on the NA server but remember Blizz moved to global play now so you can simply go to change region on the start screen and you get your NA account free which you can use when we coach you.
www.youtube.com/mrllamasc << Casting & Analysis Videos
Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
April 18 2013 15:59 GMT
#11
On April 18 2013 05:41 dAPhREAk wrote:
looks like the EG logo.

That it does.

Props for the initiative anyways.
11/5/14 CATACLYSM | The South West's worst Falco main
neozxa
Profile Joined August 2011
Indonesia545 Posts
April 18 2013 16:13 GMT
#12
What goals have you guys set for now, now that you have a solid roster of Masters level players? Do you want this team to be a casual clan or do you want to take it a bit further and make it a progaming team? Or do you simply want to stick with being one of the supporting pillars of the SC2 community? Just curious.
Keep moving forward
MrLlama
Profile Joined December 2010
United States454 Posts
April 18 2013 19:00 GMT
#13
On April 19 2013 01:13 neozxa wrote:
What goals have you guys set for now, now that you have a solid roster of Masters level players? Do you want this team to be a casual clan or do you want to take it a bit further and make it a progaming team? Or do you simply want to stick with being one of the supporting pillars of the SC2 community? Just curious.


Great question!

We have been together for a couple of months now getting everything settled and I'd definitely say we are pushing for beyond a casual clan. Each player of course has differently individual goals but there are a lot of members on the team who are pushing for Grandmasters league and have taken many games off GM players before. I'm not sure if we will be pushing to becoming a pro gaming team that strictly plays SC2 8 hrs/day as a job but we definitely are striving to be a competitive NA team. We are competing in leagues such as the URTL and I'd like to see our team snag a top 8 finish or so.

I think the other goal of the team is to definitely become one of the supporting pillars of the SC2 community. That has always been a personal goal of mine and I know a lot of my team shares that feeling. I think a team that supports the community is also really lacking right now so while we may not be able to beat teams like EG in terms of playing skill, we can beat them in community involvement and gain our support that way.
www.youtube.com/mrllamasc << Casting & Analysis Videos
Garbageman
Profile Joined January 2013
United States2 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-21 20:24:53
April 21 2013 20:23 GMT
#14
looking forward to coaching people tonight at 5pm
"its time to take out the trash!@#"
PiPiGranDe
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada70 Posts
April 24 2013 02:04 GMT
#15
props to the team!
MrLlama
Profile Joined December 2010
United States454 Posts
May 23 2013 14:41 GMT
#16
Just want to update everyone: SCS is hosting it's first tournament (diam-GM) and we are hoping to get a great turn out!

$50 prize

http://starcraft2strategy.com/tournaments
www.youtube.com/mrllamasc << Casting & Analysis Videos
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