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//: NA starcraft II tournamanet
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MisterAnderson
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Flux here. Strafe when is a good day/time for you?
EscapingJail
Member
GG's
Frustrated_me
Member
Played like ass, escape killed it. GG was fun =) too bad I'm out so quick, enjoy guys.
So, tonsillitis has struck me this week and I havent had the mental health to play any games let alone SC2, so I am going to makes someones weekend and give up my spot to whoever is first in line on the backup list, although I'm not sure who that would be...?
enjoy being a practice match for Alumnus :lol
DreadTheUnDead
Member
Datwheezy said:
COWARD! LOSE WITH HONOR! :lol
:lol :lolDreadTheUnDead said:COWARD! LOSE WITH HONOR! :lol
Sort of on topic, but Wednesday night because of the tonsillitis I had a 102 degree fever and flu symptoms. When I was trying to go to sleep I was vaguely delusional, and kept having these erratic dreams were I was an SCV, and had to run around and build all buildings in my base with a perfect build order, and every time I messed up I would dart awake, which was literally every 10-15 mins all night long. Needless to say it was the worst night of my life and I almost swore off SC forever :lol
thanks for letting us know. hope you get better and can take part in the next NA tourney.Datwheezy said:
i'd also 'fall down the stairs' if i had to face alumnus first.
edit: joel has accepted the avilable slot and will be taking your place.
the new matchup is alumnus.249 vs Joelseph.473
valenti said:First three maps will alaways be steppes, blistering, and lost. Player may opt out any of them one time, so if they do, the next map will be chosen. After lost temple, mm..im guessing they can pick what map they want?
I thought it was loser picks each time, but the first match is always on Steppes, or blistering/lost depending on what maps are voted down.
I beat Trasher 3-1. Is this the only Round 1 match with two Diamond Players? I went Random, he was Protoss for every game.
Great games. Some of them were really damn scary.
Game 3:
General advice:
Great games. Some of them were really damn scary.
Game 3:
I should have switched to something other than zerglings sooner (mass hydras or roaches would have been awesome), and harassed his main mineral line with the mutalisks rather than going for his expansion. Either would have won me the game, I think.
General advice:
Don't try to cannon all the time. It just doesn't work all that often against good players.
Orangepeel
Member
Yay exciting games to watch later, thanks for playing guys!
You would be surprised actually how many platinum/diamond games I've pulled that off in haha. But yeah, I generally don't do it all that often. I was just hoping to catch you in that one game so you couldn't fast expand. I always get nervous in tournament games like this and do stupid stuff like that. :lol I'm still not very comfortable with my build orders and transitioning for counters. Good games though. Wish I coulda made it to the fifth game at least. Felt like I didn't give you a good enough challenge in the first couple matches. Started playing a little better in the last two. My first game was just plain awful. I'll practice up more next time.Yaweee said:
I had my stalkers camped at my mineral line waiting for that. But you probably could have flung your mutas at my main's mineral line and then rushed your lings at my expansion at the same time. And yeah, roaches would have probably worked better there than the lings.Yaweee said:
Are we really the only Diamond vs Diamond match-up in the first round?
@Valenti: I was the underdog! Yaweee is good dude!
MisterAnderson
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Any word from strafe? I'd like to schedule a time to play him this weekend.
Orangepeel
Member
Yaweee said:
I dunoooo ehm, spoilered I guess in case anyone doesn't want to know how the game played out
@ yaweee
Seeing as how trasher only really had the stalkers zerglings (with mutas) was faaar and beyond the best unit composition to have at most points. Unfortunately the terrain was somewhat to your disadvantage in most of the fights you two engaged in with narrowness being slight downfalls.
@trasher
maaan you should really try and learn to take advantage of blink since stalkers seem to be your unit of choice xD. But really, even mediocre blink micro would have saved you tons of stalkers in game 3
Seeing as how trasher only really had the stalkers zerglings (with mutas) was faaar and beyond the best unit composition to have at most points. Unfortunately the terrain was somewhat to your disadvantage in most of the fights you two engaged in with narrowness being slight downfalls.
@trasher
maaan you should really try and learn to take advantage of blink since stalkers seem to be your unit of choice xD. But really, even mediocre blink micro would have saved you tons of stalkers in game 3
just watched game 4, again with blink, just think if you'd had it during your waltz into trasher's main you could have simply blinked down the cliff and off to fight a battle more towards your terms after dealing a decent amount of damage to his infrastructure.
valenti said:First three maps will alaways be steppes, blistering, and lost. Player may opt out any of them one time, so if they do, the next map will be chosen. After lost temple, mm..im guessing they can pick what map they want?
actually we did it wrong, first map is always steppes, blistering, OR lost. first map is always steppes, unless a player vetos it. then it defaults to blistering, unless the other player vetos it. then it defaults to lost.
if first map is steppes, then the loser picks xel naga for 2nd map, the other player can veto it and the loser has to choose a different map.
thats how it was explained early i do so beliiiiiiieve. the only thing that isnt clear is whether you have to veto your maps before you start playing, or whether you can do it once your opponent proposes a map...
That may have delayed me too much at that point and given him the chance to get his expo fully saturated. I pushed because I had the economic advantage to go and overwhelm right then. But I do generally get blink. Just hadn't planned on using stalkers so heavily. The problem was I hadn't properly scouted him and didn't know what to expect exactly, so I didn't really have much of a plan haha.Orangepeel said:
Chainfire99
Banned
Just finally realizing how awesome well micro'd hellions are (especially w/ the upgrade) during early game rush vs a zergling/zealot army...could of used this tactic vs orangepeel....early hellion rush to take out your lings... (before you started pumping out roaches i believe) and drones...sigh live and learn lol
Orangepeel
Member
the reason I didn't finish the banelin bust i was planning was you had that one or two helions just behind your depot, yah they can be pretty vicious to paltry light armor'd lings.Chainfire99 said:
DreadTheUnDead
Member
Chainfire99 said:
Helions are great vs. lings, but against zealots, MM with with stimpack and concussive is amazing if micro'd.
I'm but a lowly bronze player, but the first time I pulled that off correctly I was giddy with excitement. A short replay (that I already posted in the OT) of it:
Chainfire99
Banned
Orangepeel said:
I have been doing MM drops as my only early harass option...sometimes fast cloaked banshees...but hellion rush attack vs zerg and toss is usually the best option. Been practicing micro'ing them and I'm starting to rack up wins vs zerg at a much better clip. I apologize for the bm and the forfeiture..i would of lost the 2nd game badly no doubt. I am not ready for tourny play...well against good players.
Chainfire99
Banned
DreadTheUnDead said:Helions are great vs. lings, but against zealots, MM with with stimpack and concussive is amazing if micro'd.
I'm but a lowly bronze player, but the first time I pulled that off correctly I was giddy with excitement. A short replay (that I already posted in the OT) of it:
Yes, stimmed and concussive MM is good vs zealots...(and stalkers)...that's the bulk of my army usually. But i am talking about using hellions at the start as a quick econ attack on the toss mineral line. I want to be far ahead in the macro department.
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
DreadTheUnDead said:
Upgraded hellions are more than good against zerglings, they wipe them out with no losses, it's not even close.
OptimoPeach
Banned
Me vs iamblades/expiration
I won 3-0.
I didn't play particularly well in any of these. Lots of small mistakes, late factory in game 1, some indecision in game 2, me just fucking up all over the place in game 3, poor macro throughout, etc. Still, a win is a win, and in my defense I was stoned lol
I didn't play particularly well in any of these. Lots of small mistakes, late factory in game 1, some indecision in game 2, me just fucking up all over the place in game 3, poor macro throughout, etc. Still, a win is a win, and in my defense I was stoned lol
Procarbine
Forever Platinum
Ugh, the sc2 OT is flooded with people arguing about things they don't know about -_-
DreadTheUnDead
Member
Procarbine said:
Which is why this is now the official OT.
But no really, first time I hear this ChronicleX guy making such a big deal out of something. Again, just a lowly bronze player here... but it seems to me that well micro'd roaches could easily handle some zealots. Chargelots with a sentry though I'm not so sure.
Orangepeel
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For those that missed it
Pandaman said:
watervengeance
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MaritalWheat
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Watervengeance/water won our series 3-0 quickly and easily, watching the replays if they get posted: highly unrecommended. :lol
Edit: See above.
Edit: See above.
FromTheFuture
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Ro32 - Joelseph vs Alumnus
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Alumnus 3:0
FromTheFuture
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Panda, you're gonna have to clear up something about the map picks here. It's a bit fuzzy in the OP. You didn't state how the next map would be chosen, is it loser's pick? It seems my partner and a few other players in this tournament figured it was a set map sequence (Steppes - Blistering - Temple) because of this statement in the OP:
Some clarification would really help out here.
However I noticed you didn't play it out that way (unless those were vetoed?).Pandaman said:
Some clarification would really help out here.