I'd like to coach, I know I am at least B- as that's what I got when I played a bit of 1v1 about a month ago (45-9, but mostly vs foreigners). But I can't give any proof account, cause I gave the stats to a D/D+ friend who wanted to see what it was like to play people at B- and it's gone (I quit SC for the last month to concentrate on school). My PvP, TvP, TvZ, ZvT are all pretty even and my "best," I play ZvZ, TvT, PvT pretty well, and I am worst at PvZ and ZvP .

However, I don't know if I'd make a GOOD coach because I don't play with any sort of build order, or game plan, or anything. I don't really analyze games the way that people in the strat forum do, counting pop, counting pylon, etc. It's like all intuition for me or whatever, which is my big weakness (since I have very strong mechanics but a much weaker "hard" knowledge of maps, build orders, etc).

I would gladly take a co-coach of any level who has a good knowledge of that kind of stuff. If we watched a game I could say things like "you should expand now" or "you should have pushed here" or "should have added X factories here" but I think I'd have a lot of trouble explaining why.

I'd still be interested though if anyone wanted me to participate.

edit: shit, Sarens is coaching? He's gonna be the best coach by a long shot unless someone of comparable level steps up. Aerials too. I want Sarens to be my co-coach, damn.

Appendix

Sweden979 Posts

December 04 2009 20:30 GMT

#203

I think any coach is welcome. You can just call your team "the spirit team".

The teams should be divided somewhat by timezones, so teams have an easier time finding practice hours.

nbtnbt5

232 Posts

December 04 2009 20:35 GMT

#204

I'd like to participate as a pupil, I'm a D/D+ Zerg.

Shiva_Chandra

Denmark341 Posts

December 04 2009 20:37 GMT

#205

I'd be interested in helping with some co-coaching of sorts, as I don't think I have the time to do it on my own.

AlienAlias

United States324 Posts

December 04 2009 20:40 GMT

#206

I would be possibly interested in this, as a 1300 max (ever) player, but how much time investment are we speaking? I don't mind putting some effort into this, but I usually don't have much spare time monday - thursday.

edit: but now I play as terran rather than zerg, which I'm really more of a D-.

sixduck

United States301 Posts

December 04 2009 20:49 GMT

#207

I'm down, D/D+ Zerg. My ICCUP id is the same as my tl name.

LordWeird

United States3411 Posts

December 04 2009 20:51 GMT

#208

I'll play!

D----- Terran!

bludragen88

United States527 Posts

December 04 2009 21:06 GMT

#209

I think this is a brilliant idea - especially with the one strike and then done policy. If you make each team bigger with the assumption that a certain percentage will drop out (like 8 people/coach, assuming 4 will drop), then it should work out. If some teams have 6 and some have 2 you can even it out at that point.
I'm willing to play also, D- protoss (D- everything probably).

Qikz

United Kingdom12021 Posts

December 04 2009 21:08 GMT

#210

There's a hell of a lot of D- Terrans including me, is Terran one of the harder races to get properly into or something?

banana

Netherlands1189 Posts

December 04 2009 21:11 GMT

#211

Interested in participating with this event. Secretly been waiting ages for an chance to actually learn to play the game with guidance and possibly show of the progress.

D-, interested in learning Terran or Zerg.

Have not yet activly participated on ICCUP duo to just beeing really bad and having difficulty to find people to play/practice with and set goals for improvement, this seems like an awesome oppertunity to get better.

Loads of spare time(~6+h/day) and willingness to play alot to improve. If there is a required set of games needed to be eligible for a 'coach' I'd be happy to play them on ICCUP (tsl or normal) before this starts.

RaptorX

Germany646 Posts

December 04 2009 21:29 GMT

#212

I am on for playing, and when not playing I can be of help for streaming / recording games that are live at the moment that i am connected.

I think that while teaching 3-5 people is little hard if done properly it can work, of course not everybody has the talent or patience to teach so it can be kind of hard.

Trimming the pupils to 2 per coach isnt going to work because then we would need too many coaches and I dont think they will be enough.

I think we should use ventrilo for coaching. Maybe a channel per group?
if the TL server is not enough we can think for people that has good upload speed to host a temporal server or find one free on the net for that purpose.

for those without mic, it would be nice to at least hear the coach talking.

EsX_Raptor

United States2801 Posts

December 04 2009 21:52 GMT

#213

http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=107136

RaptorX

Germany646 Posts

December 04 2009 21:54 GMT

#214

nice...
funny sig. xD

SkepTicAL

Canada872 Posts

December 04 2009 23:11 GMT

#215

On December 05 2009 05:37 Shiva_Chandra wrote:
I'd be interested in helping with some co-coaching of sorts, as I don't think I have the time to do it on my own.

K you're coaching with me then avi ^^. (its paul)

Radiomouse

Netherlands209 Posts

December 05 2009 11:51 GMT

#216

edit: bah, just read that the idea is to begin in january.

Methinks i should cancel my 1 month vacation to play in this! (but not really, though i would've killed to play in this, awesome initiative! hopefully it'll be a succes warranting a repeat!)

Skeggaba

Korea (South)1556 Posts

December 08 2009 18:09 GMT

#217

Would love to participate!
D+ (sometimes C-) zerg - ID Skeggaba.

Nice initiative