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Edmon
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom259 Posts
May 29 2011 16:41 GMT
#1
It starts with a italicised and almost certainly unread disclaimer: This article is not the official position of Team Liquid, The Readers, The Author, The Players or Your Mother. Though your mothers official positions are almost as excellent, this article is not them.

Your mother aside, the article has begun. Your eyes are distracted by the banner that will inevitably be placed below this first paragraph, so the article will ensure to open with something unimportant but cleverly related to the subject matter at hand. This paragraph was edited 5 times, but now it is finalised.

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Related image to subject matter in the usual place, with a witty underwrite.

Now. The Question. If you had 5 Zerglings and then you built a hatch at a natural and the game was 5 minutes long, but you lost 3 Zerglings to a rush which was deflected by the 7 Zerglings that you brought in from the main when you saw the 6 Zerglings the rush contained that were defeated and yet caused you to make another 5 Zerglings to add to the 4 that your ally has built down the other end of the map which have been added to the 7 that followed after a 2nd attack where 8 were lost but you held with 2 extra from the natural added to 6 more that you ally has added as he took his 3rd which was under attack by 14 Zerglings made by the 4th player who is also Zergling and made 20 Zerglings 8 minutes in after you made the 2nd hatch but these were not the Zerglings that featured in the 1st or 2nd attack and came later after the 5 Zerglings you added to the 4 that your ally built 7 or so lines ago and came in to do serious damage to your mineral line that cost you 8 Zerglings and cost your ally 6 more Zerglings, will you now continue to need to make Zerglings or not especially when you know that the 3rd player is added 20 Zerglings and you already have another 15 on the way?

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But wait, the question has another angle. Queue injection that brings new light to the old or commonly known question above. The article then refers to 9 days of painful research where the author was grubbing around for answers, barely in control and wondering if he should remove that tasteless disclaimer he started the article with. The decision is made that he simply needs to chill out and carry on with analysing the question. Settled, he visits total to get some biscuits and on reflection decides to leave the anecdote in to show that he is human after all and hope that some of the insight will help in the conclusion.

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Also, Artosis.

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A selection of objects in a room. Do you have Zerglings to add, prominently, in the centre?

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Awesome article. I'll be sure to read it all later...

The conclusion is this, if you had 10 Zerglings instead of the 5 that you built at the hatch in the natural then you could have gotten 8 more and run by the ram with the 18 excluding the 3 that you lost because you were poor in controlling 7 of the 10 in the 1st attack in which you will later but not yet add 15 to the 30 or so your ally had irrespective of the 7 that your ally has built and the 3 that the 4th enemy has but not the 2 that the 3rd has though he added 8 when he was the 15 that the 3 were lost from when the 7 were badly controlled, we will find that we have enough Zerglings to conclude the article though perhaps not the game if the conclusion has been scouted.

Final note that the author has been doing z to y for z years and that your mother may or may not have been involved, but if she was it was good for esports and good for the future of the Starcraft 2 Community..
MyRealityQ
Profile Joined March 2011
England39 Posts
May 29 2011 16:43 GMT
#2
what is this I don't even
Zavior
Profile Joined August 2009
Finland753 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-29 16:45:12
May 29 2011 16:45 GMT
#3
Most excellent article. I agree on all points.
cOoLiD
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada168 Posts
May 29 2011 16:45 GMT
#4
Im so confused as to what I just read...
Clearout
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Norway1060 Posts
May 29 2011 16:46 GMT
#5
I have no idea what this is lol
really?
Wesso
Profile Joined August 2010
Netherlands1245 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-29 16:47:41
May 29 2011 16:47 GMT
#6
awesome article. I'll be sure to read it later

(pretty funny)
rawrjaaaaay
Profile Joined March 2011
United States426 Posts
May 29 2011 16:47 GMT
#7
Can this even be considered an article?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bkennedy
Profile Joined April 2011
United States266 Posts
May 29 2011 16:48 GMT
#8
I can't believe I almost started to read this.
Bobster
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany3075 Posts
May 29 2011 16:48 GMT
#9
I get it.
MajorityofOne
Profile Joined December 2010
Canada2506 Posts
May 29 2011 16:48 GMT
#10
On May 30 2011 01:48 XenocideFTW wrote:
I can't believe I almost started to read this.


I can't believe I read this
stormchaser
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada1009 Posts
May 29 2011 16:48 GMT
#11
Haha This is so clever.
Surth
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Germany456 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-29 16:50:58
May 29 2011 16:50 GMT
#12
A selection of objects in a room. Do you have Zerglings to add, prominently, in the centre?

best part right there.

Excellently written


edit: reminds me of this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/24/1
i believe your actions dishonour Starcraft 2 LotV cybersport!
Motat
Profile Joined November 2010
315 Posts
May 29 2011 16:50 GMT
#13
To answer OPs question, yes, I would continue making zerglings as if the opponent was taking a third and making 20 zerglings.
PM me for coaching. I'm a mid masters zerg player.
FrostOtter
Profile Joined September 2010
United States537 Posts
May 29 2011 16:50 GMT
#14
How very postmodern.
DOMINOSC
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada345 Posts
May 29 2011 16:50 GMT
#15
ummmmm ok then thats a good read i guess.
Sen Fighting!!! / JulyZerg Fighting!!! / Ret Fighting!!! / Reach Fighting!!! / well intentioned people of average intelligence
MaxField
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States2386 Posts
May 29 2011 16:50 GMT
#16
There is no doubt that the number of zerglings produced by the 3rd ally during part 3 of the second round of attacks should have been 4, but besides this i think it was a quality writeup. Artosis brought up some interesting points as well.
"Zerg, so bad it loses to hydras" IdrA.
UsainBolt
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada12 Posts
May 29 2011 16:51 GMT
#17
Awesome
FuRRyChoBo
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States218 Posts
May 29 2011 16:51 GMT
#18
On May 30 2011 01:47 Wesso wrote:
awesome article. I'll be sure to read it later

(pretty funny)


when i read your post i was like fuuuuuuuuuu i wanted to do that T_T xD
DestroManiak
Profile Joined December 2010
257 Posts
May 29 2011 16:53 GMT
#19
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Diks
Profile Joined January 2010
Belgium1880 Posts
May 29 2011 16:55 GMT
#20
I finally understand my mother.
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