4 placement matches to go, let's see if I can do better.
This one I won. TvZ on Daybreak, first time on this map as well I believe. He was super passive which gave me all day long to get comfortable. I pushed out a few times and had medium success. Lost more troops early than I should have because I got over agressive.
He never did a good job of out mining me though, or really teching too much. Just did roach / hydra / infestor which was effective enough but eventually he fell to my endless supply of Marines.
Anyway a win is a win, helps to get the rust off. 3 placement matches to go!
http://drop.sc/197521
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Computer crashed...again
This time was pretty straight forwardly my fault. I spilled water onto the desktop. Anyway, once I got the PC working again Season 7 was ending so I just waited for Season 8 to begin.
Aka, today.
Because I missed all of Season 7, I have to go through my 5 Placement Matches. Let's get them out of the way!
Anyway, I just got rolled. Protoss who went 2 base on Ohana LE (first time for me, new this Season or last maybe?) and just massed Colossus. For some reason I *wasn't* prepared for this. Stupid =)
4 Placement Matches to go!
http://drop.sc/196621
Aka, today.
Because I missed all of Season 7, I have to go through my 5 Placement Matches. Let's get them out of the way!
Anyway, I just got rolled. Protoss who went 2 base on Ohana LE (first time for me, new this Season or last maybe?) and just massed Colossus. For some reason I *wasn't* prepared for this. Stupid =)
4 Placement Matches to go!
http://drop.sc/196621
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Something else I'm working on..
...is numbing myself to playing a lot of SC2 games. Coming back to play it feels exhausting to play one game, much less two or three. So I figure the more I play the easier it'll be to play.
Another PvP win. And I never even left my base. He made 19 Probes in 15 minutes. I made 52.
He opened double Gateway and just started chronoboosting out Zealots. I finished my Warp Gate Tech at 5:40. I had a 21 Probes, 1 Zealot, 2 Stalkers and 1 of each on the way. He had 17 Probes, 8 Zealots and we both had 2 Gateways.
When he supply blocked himself a minute later at 11 Zealots, he rolled out. I was throwing up my expand at the time. I quickly cancelled because I was sure I wouldn't hold that low ground and retreated to the bottle neck entrance of my base. For the next 90 seconds while I destroyed his Zealots he stopped all production.
He threw a few more small waves of Zealots at me. Then he started doing a few Void Rays at the back of my base while putting Zealots at the front of my expansion. After a couple of tries and fails, he quit.
+ 28 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 37, Remaining Bonus Pool 217
http://drop.sc/147938
Another PvP win. And I never even left my base. He made 19 Probes in 15 minutes. I made 52.
He opened double Gateway and just started chronoboosting out Zealots. I finished my Warp Gate Tech at 5:40. I had a 21 Probes, 1 Zealot, 2 Stalkers and 1 of each on the way. He had 17 Probes, 8 Zealots and we both had 2 Gateways.
When he supply blocked himself a minute later at 11 Zealots, he rolled out. I was throwing up my expand at the time. I quickly cancelled because I was sure I wouldn't hold that low ground and retreated to the bottle neck entrance of my base. For the next 90 seconds while I destroyed his Zealots he stopped all production.
He threw a few more small waves of Zealots at me. Then he started doing a few Void Rays at the back of my base while putting Zealots at the front of my expansion. After a couple of tries and fails, he quit.
+ 28 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 37, Remaining Bonus Pool 217
http://drop.sc/147938
I didn't use to blog every game...
But I feel like I'm playing so many less now a days that it feels like I should?
PvP cross positions on The Shattered Temple. You'd think I would have lost that straight out of the gate.
We both did Gateway heavy builds. I just out macro'd him a bit and went for Blink Stalkers where he went for Charge Zealots. Blink > Charge and I won.
It was a good practice game for focusing on my macro. Making sure I build more buildings when it was time, and constantly built out of them. Using my chrono boost when I meant to. Keeping up probe production and going back to use my warp gates even when I was trying to use my units in his base.
+ 30 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 43, Remaining Bonus Pool 231
http://drop.sc/147922
PvP cross positions on The Shattered Temple. You'd think I would have lost that straight out of the gate.
We both did Gateway heavy builds. I just out macro'd him a bit and went for Blink Stalkers where he went for Charge Zealots. Blink > Charge and I won.
It was a good practice game for focusing on my macro. Making sure I build more buildings when it was time, and constantly built out of them. Using my chrono boost when I meant to. Keeping up probe production and going back to use my warp gates even when I was trying to use my units in his base.
+ 30 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 43, Remaining Bonus Pool 231
http://drop.sc/147922
ZvT =(
I just can't seem to win this matchup recently. About 10 minutes in I just get slaughtered by this army of Marine Marauder Medivac. He had some Hellions with the crew this time.
Again I had all day to see it coming and prepare. Had my mutas up this time and good macro and injects and base harass and a lot more Speedlings and he still just ripped through me.
Do I *have* to go Banelings? Is that the only answer? I hate the idea that I *must* do a particular build to deal with something and refuse to believe that's the only answer but in multiple games now I've done as well as I can do with other strategies and it just hasn't been good enough.
- 10 Points, Platinum Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 246
http://drop.sc/147918
Again I had all day to see it coming and prepare. Had my mutas up this time and good macro and injects and base harass and a lot more Speedlings and he still just ripped through me.
Do I *have* to go Banelings? Is that the only answer? I hate the idea that I *must* do a particular build to deal with something and refuse to believe that's the only answer but in multiple games now I've done as well as I can do with other strategies and it just hasn't been good enough.
- 10 Points, Platinum Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 246
http://drop.sc/147918
Solo Protoss 25 Wins!
TvP on Metalopolis. I got Marine rushed hard early and wasn't quite ready for it. I managed to hold but just barely. Just kept myself from being supply blocked, kept building my units and just slowly fighting back.
Once I rebounded he just didn't have the end-game to be ready. I expanded and he was throwing down missile turrets everywhere (anti-DT I guess?). So I just kept expanding and building more stalkers and zealots and getting upgrades and won =)
I think it's telling to my track record as Protoss that I just got my 25th 1v1 Protoss win and have over 100 Random 1v1 wins.
+ 30 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 245
http://drop.sc/147914
Once I rebounded he just didn't have the end-game to be ready. I expanded and he was throwing down missile turrets everywhere (anti-DT I guess?). So I just kept expanding and building more stalkers and zealots and getting upgrades and won =)
I think it's telling to my track record as Protoss that I just got my 25th 1v1 Protoss win and have over 100 Random 1v1 wins.
+ 30 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 245
http://drop.sc/147914
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Just one game tonight
Long day at work, home after 9...tired. I logged in to play...just going to play one game.
Just a reminder for myself, focus on the macro. Build workers, build out of my buildings, keep from being supply blocked, everything else will take care of itself.
I got rolled, no contest. I ZvT I went for Muta-Ling. At 8 minutes he dropped 3 medivacs into my base. I saw them coming, but my mutas weren't up yet. He had a tank and a few stim'd marines and they slaughtered my Speedlings despite my good surround and that they were in place before they dropped. He dropped into a surround and just slaughtered them.
So...uhh....lesson. Next time move my Queens into positions to help repel the medivacs and...what? No idea.
Never got supply blocked. Thought I did a good job of macro'ing. Of course I had twice the harvesters on twice the bases and he had the same income so hooray for MULEs. Guess I'll just have to try again next time.
Lost 6 of my last 7 games. Epic =)
- 10 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 254
http://drop.sc/145943
Just a reminder for myself, focus on the macro. Build workers, build out of my buildings, keep from being supply blocked, everything else will take care of itself.
I got rolled, no contest. I ZvT I went for Muta-Ling. At 8 minutes he dropped 3 medivacs into my base. I saw them coming, but my mutas weren't up yet. He had a tank and a few stim'd marines and they slaughtered my Speedlings despite my good surround and that they were in place before they dropped. He dropped into a surround and just slaughtered them.
So...uhh....lesson. Next time move my Queens into positions to help repel the medivacs and...what? No idea.
Never got supply blocked. Thought I did a good job of macro'ing. Of course I had twice the harvesters on twice the bases and he had the same income so hooray for MULEs. Guess I'll just have to try again next time.
Lost 6 of my last 7 games. Epic =)
- 10 Points, Platinum League Division Rank 46, Remaining Bonus Pool 254
http://drop.sc/145943
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