GH - StarCraft II: HotS/LotV players

[Johan]

Suppy got too greedy the last game vs hyun, he would have had a much better chance of holding had not got the 4th and made the spines sooner. I've played the muta into broodlord style a lot, generally if you are up one base and your broods haven't popped yet they can kill you.

[Sifo]

took shots with him last night at our hotel lol I hope I can still function today since I'm Asian lightweight

[Johan]

40 mins early after being drunk. How the **** did that happen?!

[Johan]

Sifo, I'm impressed. Obsing game two of polt and san must have been ridiculously hard. I would have no idea on what to look at.

[Sifo]

Sifo, I'm impressed. Obsing game two of polt and san must have been ridiculously hard. I would have no idea on what to look at.

it's been hard dude especially with low caster audio (crowd too loud, no headphones). I have a speaker in my face

[Candyflip]

Solid observing Sifo 

[Sifo]

http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/2ek38g/my_weekend_as_the_rbbg_observer/

Made a little blog. Overall had fun, I think you guys might be seeing me in DC as well. Most important part is bolded as Excuses, give that a read if you watched this weekend.

[baldgye]

Well looks like I'm done with SC2 for a while. PvT used to be my best match up with a 90% w/l give or take. Now nothing I do works and everything T does works, it's literally the most retarded **** on the planet.

Like T builds are the best builds and openings in the game;

-reaper 1st, scout any all in
-marine 1st, defend any all in
-cc 1st, can almost defend anything
-widow mine rush, pot luck... now you only need one wm hit to win the game, oh and you defend every all in
-proxy rax, dw fly that **** home if it dsnt work
-marauder rush, win if its not scouted if not, fly that **** home
-stim push, force cannon and units... p can't do anything else while T can get an early 3rd


Literally the dumbest **** in the ****ing world...

[LechnerDE]

you forgot proxy mines and scv pulls

[baldgye]

you forgot proxy mines and scv pulls

That **** too though, SCV pulls that **** is so easy to deal with

[Johan]

How are you having a hard time defending, are you sure you're making the mommacore? Kappa.

[LechnerDE]

I don't man, well executed scv pulls that hit right before storm is finished used to kill me all the time.

I am so eager to play again though. 6 more weeks and I can finally ladder again.

After almost 7 month of not playing I will suck so much. But I guess it's fun to start all over and do your 5 placement matches again.

Gold league here I come 

[baldgye]

might swtich to terran so i can try about balanace while my race continues to win every sc2 event since sc2 launched

[Johan]

Bbbut turran players a-aare always much bbbetter and outplay their opponents.

[baldgye]

I don't know about that, Zerg are pretty sick at a-moving.. terran players have to do hard **** like stim there whole army all the time

[Johan]

I tried to switch to terran at hots release. I would 8-8-8-8 every zerg and if the game continued I would mass mines with a few marrines+medivacs. Holy **** anyone who thought mines were balanced just because "zerg players just need to micro and split more" was probably braindead. I was clueless as to what todo in the other matcups, mines don't do well vs colossus or tanks ;_;

[baldgye]

I tried to switch to terran at hots release. I would 8-8-8-8 every zerg and if the game continued I would mass mines with a few marrines+medivacs. Holy **** anyone who thought mines were balanced just because "zerg players just need to micro and split more" was probably braindead. I was clueless as to what todo in the other matcups, mines don't do well vs colossus or tanks ;_;

Good thing they put mines back to how they where... and made them stronger vs protoss

[Johan]

Hah, not quite as good as they were at release. Now I only have issues with their targeting, its so inconsistent. You run forward 4 lings, they stand there for like 3 seconds and then they fire.

[baldgye]

its almost like they are better if you control them...

[Johan]

Jupp, I would need neural-parasite for that though.

[IPT]

those protoss tears....so delicious

[Johan]

those protoss tears....so delicious

My first thought awell

[jterp7]

I don't know about that, Zerg are pretty sick at a-moving.. terran players have to do hard **** like stim there whole army all the time

as a fellow toss player, zerg is much easier to switch to. As terran I find myself not making the right decisions after that initial early/mid game aka beyond mmm.

[baldgye]

I don't know about that, Zerg are pretty sick at a-moving.. terran players have to do hard **** like stim there whole army all the time

as a fellow toss player, zerg is much easier to switch to. As terran I find myself not making the right decisions after that initial early/mid game aka beyond mmm.

Only thing I struggle with when I switch to Terran is macro'ing because you need to constantly manage your hotkeys and make sure you constantly pumping out units etc... becasue with Z you can pretty much pick an army type and with a few inject cycles you have your army and with protoss you have your main production (gateways) pre-hotkey'd...

I can out control and out multi-task pretty much any Terran I've played (bar the GM players I've randomly been raped by)... but when they decide enough is enough and just spam your army with emp's you can get 1-2 storms off big deal... they just raped your whole ground army lol

[Johan]

I stared playing in the PTR version today. It doesn't like hybrid settings.
http://i.imgur.com/aP7QpA5.png

[baldgye]

I stared playing in the PTR version today. It doesn't like hybrid settings.
http://i.imgur.com/aP7QpA5.png

one of the new space maps

[Johan]

I'm 6-0 now, Seems like there aren't a lot of people playing. Link for anyone curious:http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/15381552
I'm a little confused, by level 5 do they just mean getting my account to level five, or do I need to get a race up to level 5?

[Johan]

I think the winner of flash and taeja takes the tournament. Or Life, Life is really good too.

[baldgye]

Flash Vs Taeja is going to be epic

[jterp7]

Flash Vs Taeja is going to be epic

Yes. Still feel so bad for snute. Sigh so close.

[baldgye]

Flash Vs Taeja is going to be epic

Yes. Still feel so bad for snute. Sigh so close.

He played a great series, nothing for him to feel bad about. He took God to game 5.

[Johan]

IESF is having their finals in Azerbajdzjan. Where is that even?

[Sifo]

[baldgye]

who's fluss?


:3

[Sifo]

wtf did i just watch

[Johan]

I'd like to think that First saw the spores at the third+nat and main and thought "cute, I have carriers lol, OH **** INTERCEPTORS COST MONEY?!"

[Sifo]

pls remove interceptor cost blizzard...

[baldgye]

I feel like the base race wasn't something First needed to do... he could have recalled back and turtled up and then death pushed out with probes etc...

[Johan]

I'm hoping for an MLG rematch, I wouldn't mind flash vs zest either. Watching Life play is really fun though!

[Sifo]

flash zest e ****ing z

[baldgye]

Red Bull and Destiny 1 running at 60fps makes sauce IEM look lame

[Novus]

Let's turn SC2 into flash vs jaedong.
Also nerf protoss more.
thanks

[Johan]

And Flash takes it, I kinda called it.

[TLSC.wipeOut]

FLASHHHHHH

[yomammary]

I don't play much anymore but I enjoyed watching Flash win IEM.

[baldgye]

I managed to find a super dumb all-in which seems to work a-ok vs diamond terrans... 8gate robo all in... chrono out 3 immortals and then a warp prism, warp in 8 zelots into the main FF out the army kill natural loooooooooooooooooooooooooool gg

[Johan]

I managed to find a super dumb all-in which seems to work a-ok vs diamond terrans... 8gate robo all in... chrono out 3 immortals and then a warp prism, warp in 8 zelots into the main FF out the army kill natural loooooooooooooooooooooooooool gg

You should do the proxy oracle into two voidray 3/4gate all in, carried Maximusblacks into gm, and seems too be keeping him at top masters, despite his gold league mechanics.

[baldgye]

I managed to find a super dumb all-in which seems to work a-ok vs diamond terrans... 8gate robo all in... chrono out 3 immortals and then a warp prism, warp in 8 zelots into the main FF out the army kill natural loooooooooooooooooooooooooool gg

You should do the proxy oracle into two voidray 3/4gate all in, carried Maximusblacks into gm, and seems too be keeping him at top masters, despite his gold league mechanics.

Yeah I've seen his stream. I don't want to get into Masters like that... I just played a bunch of 2v2's and got put vs MarineLord QQ and some other GM's and ****... its like they are playing a totally different game.. and **** really makes me wish I would just spend all my free time grinding out games to get good enough for masters or some **** lol ....

[jacobolus]

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Let's turn SC2 into flash vs jaedong.

No way jaedong can keep up with the top s-class players these days. But I do wish SC2 were a better spectator game. Still hasn’t been anything even remotely close in SC2 to the kind of amazing games seen in e.g. the elimination brackets of the 2010 Bigfile MSL. That Flash vs. Fantasy semifinal series, damn. Oh well.

Anyway..

Does anyone know what KeSPA (or other tournament organizers’) requirements are for keyboards? As a silly example, would a player be allowed to use a Nostromo for a keyboard, assuming each key was set up to only emit one keystroke when pressed?

[Johan]

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Let's turn SC2 into flash vs jaedong.

No way jaedong can keep up with the top s-class players these days. But I do wish SC2 were a better spectator game. Still hasn’t been anything even remotely close in SC2 to the kind of amazing games seen in e.g. the elimination brackets of the 2010 Bigfile MSL. That Flash vs. Fantasy semifinal series, damn. Oh well.

Anyway..

Does anyone know what KeSPA (or other tournament organizers’) requirements are for keyboards? As a silly example, would a player be allowed to use a Nostromo for a keyboard, assuming each key was set up to only emit one keystroke when pressed?

I might be wrong here, but I don't think you're allowed to install drivers, so while they can use any keypad device, the nostromo/orbweaver wouldn't work due to the lack of synapse.