Let's discuss everything that is SC2 cause it's been a decade and Starcraft is awesome.

For instance, did you know world famous DJ and co-host of "A State of Trance", Ruben De Ronde, was a teamliquid fan?

Polls:
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Poll: Which Team are you on?

Team Sarah Kerrigan - Terran(Ghost) (6)

55%

Team Queen of Blades - Zerg (Something) (5)

45%

11 total votes

Your vote: Which Team are you on?

(Vote): Team Sarah Kerrigan - Terran(Ghost)
(Vote): Team Queen of Blades - Zerg (Something)

Poll: Based on their whole career, who is better?

Serral (32)

59%

Taeja (22)

41%

54 total votes

Your vote: Based on their whole career, who is better?

(Vote): Taeja
(Vote): Serral

BisuDagger

Bisutopia19299 Posts

July 08 2020 11:50 GMT

Poll: Based on their whole career, who is better?

Serral (32)

59%

Taeja (22)

41%

54 total votes

Your vote: Based on their whole career, who is better?

(Vote): Taeja
(Vote): Serral

sudete

Singapore3054 Posts

July 08 2020 12:24 GMT

On July 08 2020 20:50 BisuDagger wrote:

Poll: Based on their whole career, who is better?

Serral (32)

59%

Taeja (22)

41%

54 total votes

Your vote: Based on their whole career, who is better?

(Vote): Taeja
(Vote): Serral

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dbRic1203

Germany2655 Posts

July 14 2020 12:54 GMT

Main Page
Look at "this day in SC2"
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2018 WCS Valencia won by Serral
2019 WCS Summer won by Reynor

RandomPlayer416

84 Posts

July 14 2020 18:22 GMT

The NA ladder is so messed up.

At Diamond 1 there are so many Masters players who tanked their MMR down to 4k just to play easy games. Its so frustrating and annoying.

Paljas

Germany6926 Posts

July 14 2020 23:07 GMT

On July 08 2020 20:50 BisuDagger wrote:

Poll: Based on their whole career, who is better?

Serral (32)

59%

Taeja (22)

41%

54 total votes

Your vote: Based on their whole career, who is better?

(Vote): Taeja
(Vote): Serral

Its Serral, he actually managed to win a tournament in Korea. And a god damn Blizzcon.

greenturtle23

86 Posts

July 14 2020 23:28 GMT

My game has been freezing for 5 seconds every few seconds. It is unplayable. Internet is super fast. Playing on a 2015 macbook pro. All lowest settings. Never had this problem until recently. Maybe is Catalina? If anyone has any ideas lmk.

greenturtle23

86 Posts

July 14 2020 23:32 GMT

On July 15 2020 03:22 RandomPlayer416 wrote:
The NA ladder is so messed up.

At Diamond 1 there are so many Masters players who tanked their MMR down to 4k just to play easy games. Its so frustrating and annoying.

Lol yup. Gm players playing with weird strats do it too. Hmm 350 apm going mass widowmines and you are in diamond... checks out. Should not be accepted by the community.

Xain0n

Italy3963 Posts

July 15 2020 00:16 GMT

On July 08 2020 21:24 sudete wrote:

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Hello sir! Do you have a minute to speak of our lord and savior, Serral?

Jan1997

Norway671 Posts

July 15 2020 11:23 GMT

#10

Have you guys heard of or know the 51% WL ratio trick to get high mmr consistently per season? The idea is that as long as you have a wl ratio of above 50% you can gain as much mmr per season as you want, the only catch is that you have to play a gazillion games but over time your mmr will grow.

If you are 15W-14L your mmr will probably only have increased by 25 or so points but if you are 670W-645L all the sudden you have gained 400 mmr...

Waxangel

United States33487 Posts

July 15 2020 11:25 GMT

#11

On July 08 2020 20:50 BisuDagger wrote:

Poll: Based on their whole career, who is better?

Serral (32)

59%

Taeja (22)

41%

54 total votes

Your vote: Based on their whole career, who is better?

(Vote): Taeja
(Vote): Serral

this is pretty low-level trolling

you should have picked serral vs rogue, where rogue is obviously the winner

greenturtle23

86 Posts

July 15 2020 22:55 GMT

#12

Have both forgg and special's streams open. Realize they are playing each other :D

ZigguratOfUr

Iraq16955 Posts

July 21 2020 01:18 GMT

#13

I randomly thought of what the game would be like if shield batteries could raise and lower like supply depots, and even though it sounds kinda dumb maybe the idea has some merits?

The main benefit would be for PvP, where you could full wall-off your main with a shield battery and not randomly lose the game to a few adepts squeezing in before you can react. In PvZ I guess it would help against ling runbys (though players would undoubtedly forget to raise them just like depots from time to time), and avoid scenarios where your zealot is slightly misplaced and all the lings squeeze in. In PvT it probably doesn't do much other than the fact that you could place shield batteries in the middle of your mineral line rather than on the side and lower them to avoid hindering your economy too much. I don't think there's too many ways to abuse it either (raising and lowering pylons would be cannon rush nightmares).

So yeah random showerthought about shield batteries.

Cyro

United Kingdom20321 Posts

July 21 2020 02:31 GMT

#14

On July 15 2020 20:23 Jan1997 wrote:
Have you guys heard of or know the 51% WL ratio trick to get high mmr consistently per season? The idea is that as long as you have a wl ratio of above 50% you can gain as much mmr per season as you want, the only catch is that you have to play a gazillion games but over time your mmr will grow.

If you are 15W-14L your mmr will probably only have increased by 25 or so points but if you are 670W-645L all the sudden you have gained 400 mmr...

This will work to a small extent but only if you're under-rated to begin with for lack of games.

If you're not the best on the ladder, you'll start to hit people of a higher MMR and won't maintain >50% winrate.

If you keep playing against people of a specific MMR - say if there's a shortage of people with equal or better MMR to match against - then every win against those weaker opponents will give you less MMR gain than the one before it. The more MMR that you gain in this fashion, the more you'll lose when you do drop a game.

Basically these kind of systems expect you to win a certain percentage of your games based on your rating and your opponents rating. If you're not winning more than that percentage then you won't gain rating. In extremes you can win almost every game but lose MMR or you can lose almost every game but gain MMR because those wins and losses happened against people with the right ratings.

WombaT

Northern Ireland26036 Posts

July 21 2020 03:22 GMT

#15

On July 21 2020 10:18 ZigguratOfUr wrote:
I randomly thought of what the game would be like if shield batteries could raise and lower like supply depots, and even though it sounds kinda dumb maybe the idea has some merits?

The main benefit would be for PvP, where you could full wall-off your main with a shield battery and not randomly lose the game to a few adepts squeezing in before you can react. In PvZ I guess it would help against ling runbys (though players would undoubtedly forget to raise them just like depots from time to time), and avoid scenarios where your zealot is slightly misplaced and all the lings squeeze in. In PvT it probably doesn't do much other than the fact that you could place shield batteries in the middle of your mineral line rather than on the side and lower them to avoid hindering your economy too much. I don't think there's too many ways to abuse it either (raising and lowering pylons would be cannon rush nightmares).

So yeah random showerthought about shield batteries.

I quite like it, it’s not as if you have tons of the things around and it would open up some options for Protoss early game.

Can’t say exactly what it would open, but little windows could be found in PvZ. Say you could send one extra adept early doors and full wall behind it.

The kind of change that would open little options for really good players and be an interesting quality of life change for us mere plebs.

I’d assume the battery doesn’t actually recharge shields when it’s retracted underground in this idea?