It's been a while since I've written my last blog
I've had problems so I couldn't play for a very long time and couldn't update my blog. But since I've heard that season 3 is to an end. Or at least its locked for the time being. I've decide to try and restart this when season 4 starts.
For all you who have been waiting and looking at my page a big thanks. Well a big thanks for you all.
Thats been said I have great news.
I will attend the Dreamhack Winter in Jönköping on 24-26 of November. These days there will be live Starcraft 2 championships and I will watch them and play a couple of matches.
vrijdag 14 oktober 2011
donderdag 28 juli 2011
Season 3
I play on the EU servers and Season 3 started on 27 July. The first thing I wanted to do is to play my one placement match.
Season 1 ended for me on high Platinum but after that I took a long break and got back near the end of Season 2 which ended on low Platinum. I started to lose almost everything (which I wrote about earlier).
When I started my SCII I was kinda nervous about the league I would go in. I pressed the button and adrenaline floated through my body. I saw my opponent was a Zerg player (my worst match up ever). Earlier this week I saw a Day[9]'s broadcast about Sen's ZvZ and it learned me a few things I thought I would use.
The worse about it was that I went to play without a plan.....
Allright my first match of the day. ZvZ.
Replay here: http://replayfu.com/r/QZxrdq
As you can see my opponent went with a ten pool and I went for my twelve pool when I scouted his base. This way I could get my queen out on time and a couple of zerglings for the first 6 lings. 
This idea I saw in one of the video's earlier mentioned. And even if he didn't attacked with the first 6 lings as he shouldn't do in my opinion (because I can have to much defense for that to work).
This part is the first of which made me proud. My Queen got out RIGHT when his 6 lings got into my base. I micro my queen around my hatchery and I could block the lings from picking off my queen. I lost nothing AND picked of his 6 lings. Right after my lings got out and run it straight up to his base, picked off HIS queen (ooh yeah!) and ran away when I saw his roach warren. Meanwhile I made a baneling nest, which wasn't a good idea since he started to make only roaches, but in this cause it was okay. Made 4 banelings and killed 6 drones.
I transitioned into roaches with +1 attack. Since I had 1 base more and double his drones I found myself in a pretty good position. Keep building roaches and speedlings. I didnt forgot to scout (which sometimes happen).
He blocked his ramp tho with roaches so I didn't got an opportunity to run my lings in his main. Then he tried to expand. but my lings could attack it, Send 1 ling in and BAMN he send all of his roaches (major mistake he made there.) So I could run in ALL my lings in his main and pick off his queen, hatch and roach warren all tough some drones escaped It was a big step for me to win. He only just got his expansion up and couldn't make more roaches so I thought! He MUST attack or he definitely lose.
And my guess was right
Luckily I had 3 spinecrawlers up and moved some of my roaches on the high ground, which he had no vision on and massacred him with my +1 roaches against his +0 roaches.
Clean win you think? Yeah definitely but a major win for me. I thought straight made the right decision and won like a boss.
This is not a master league zerg player but a high gold, it would have gone all different if it was a Master/Diamond league zerg player but hey, I am learning aint I?
Season 1 ended for me on high Platinum but after that I took a long break and got back near the end of Season 2 which ended on low Platinum. I started to lose almost everything (which I wrote about earlier).
When I started my SCII I was kinda nervous about the league I would go in. I pressed the button and adrenaline floated through my body. I saw my opponent was a Zerg player (my worst match up ever). Earlier this week I saw a Day[9]'s broadcast about Sen's ZvZ and it learned me a few things I thought I would use.
The worse about it was that I went to play without a plan.....
Allright my first match of the day. ZvZ.
Replay here: http://replayfu.com/r/QZxrdq
This idea I saw in one of the video's earlier mentioned. And even if he didn't attacked with the first 6 lings as he shouldn't do in my opinion (because I can have to much defense for that to work).This part is the first of which made me proud. My Queen got out RIGHT when his 6 lings got into my base. I micro my queen around my hatchery and I could block the lings from picking off my queen. I lost nothing AND picked of his 6 lings. Right after my lings got out and run it straight up to his base, picked off HIS queen (ooh yeah!) and ran away when I saw his roach warren. Meanwhile I made a baneling nest, which wasn't a good idea since he started to make only roaches, but in this cause it was okay. Made 4 banelings and killed 6 drones.
I transitioned into roaches with +1 attack. Since I had 1 base more and double his drones I found myself in a pretty good position. Keep building roaches and speedlings. I didnt forgot to scout (which sometimes happen).
He blocked his ramp tho with roaches so I didn't got an opportunity to run my lings in his main. Then he tried to expand. but my lings could attack it, Send 1 ling in and BAMN he send all of his roaches (major mistake he made there.) So I could run in ALL my lings in his main and pick off his queen, hatch and roach warren all tough some drones escaped It was a big step for me to win. He only just got his expansion up and couldn't make more roaches so I thought! He MUST attack or he definitely lose.
And my guess was right
Luckily I had 3 spinecrawlers up and moved some of my roaches on the high ground, which he had no vision on and massacred him with my +1 roaches against his +0 roaches.
Clean win you think? Yeah definitely but a major win for me. I thought straight made the right decision and won like a boss.
This is not a master league zerg player but a high gold, it would have gone all different if it was a Master/Diamond league zerg player but hey, I am learning aint I?
vrijdag 22 juli 2011
zondag 17 juli 2011
Holiday
I won't be able to post anything next week since I am going on a short holiday to Paris.
After I am back I shall play more and keep you guys updated on my progress.
For that time being, Keep on playing.
After I am back I shall play more and keep you guys updated on my progress.
For that time being, Keep on playing.
vrijdag 15 juli 2011
First matches
So Yesterday I played a couple of matches! 5 total because I didn't had much time unfortunately.
Those matches went HORRIBLE! What can I say, Everything went wrong EVERYTHING!. When I am not playing I think, yeah I should do this and do that to counter this. But when I play I am like. wut?
Anyway my first match was against a Zerg player on Scrap Station, so ZvZ which I hate the most. So I started all right building my pool on 14, gas on 14 and right after pool I build my queen and pack of lings. Right after 100 vespene gas I started to get my Zergling speed. Okay so far, scouted him, not getting supply blocked and got my Roach Warren pretty fast. Then I saw his roach count and I though "Hey a long rush distance so why not trow in an expension (which he didnt had cause I scouted that with my Overlord). But when he attacked me, I forgot everything. My first attack upgrade was nearly finished and I saw that his roaches had +1 attack already. I couldn't build roaches cause I forgot to build Overlords.
At the end I lost cause I had LOADS of drones where build and a little roach count.
Okay and after that it went worse to worse. Lost to a lower level Terran player (My Macro rocked but I never attacked because I was scared or what?) Anyway I lost to a four gate and my net fall out twice (great)
I promised I would upload my matches but I somehow got problems with the upload site, if it is uploaded I can't find it under my account. www.sc2replayed.com. If any of you know how to fix the problem leave a comment please.
Today I play some more matches and I hope that I can win some, yesterday was just devastating to my manlyhood.
Those matches went HORRIBLE! What can I say, Everything went wrong EVERYTHING!. When I am not playing I think, yeah I should do this and do that to counter this. But when I play I am like. wut?
Anyway my first match was against a Zerg player on Scrap Station, so ZvZ which I hate the most. So I started all right building my pool on 14, gas on 14 and right after pool I build my queen and pack of lings. Right after 100 vespene gas I started to get my Zergling speed. Okay so far, scouted him, not getting supply blocked and got my Roach Warren pretty fast. Then I saw his roach count and I though "Hey a long rush distance so why not trow in an expension (which he didnt had cause I scouted that with my Overlord). But when he attacked me, I forgot everything. My first attack upgrade was nearly finished and I saw that his roaches had +1 attack already. I couldn't build roaches cause I forgot to build Overlords.
At the end I lost cause I had LOADS of drones where build and a little roach count.
Okay and after that it went worse to worse. Lost to a lower level Terran player (My Macro rocked but I never attacked because I was scared or what?) Anyway I lost to a four gate and my net fall out twice (great)
I promised I would upload my matches but I somehow got problems with the upload site, if it is uploaded I can't find it under my account. www.sc2replayed.com. If any of you know how to fix the problem leave a comment please.
Today I play some more matches and I hope that I can win some, yesterday was just devastating to my manlyhood.
maandag 11 juli 2011
On my way
This week I start my trip to become a better player! Since this season is almost at its end (and I heard its even locked now, so no demotion or promotion) I think I might jump up the ladder a bit.
I hope when season 3 starts I can once again start from bronze and work my way up.
Since I did a few matches with my brother I felt like I lost it all. My macro slipped, I got pawned by early rushes because of droning to much..
Anyway we did some matches against A.I and I played random. First random I was Protoss and I digged into my memory and all those learning lessons from Day[9] and HuskyStarcraft I felt like I did pretty awesome. My money stayed low, didn't got supply blocked and my 4gate pawned (lol yeah easy Build Order I know but still).
Then the second match I became a Terran player and look at that I pwned again! Low money. No supply block and I just blew everything away. I had the luck of getting Protoss and Terran a couple times in a row and I felt really comfortable with it and pawned every 2vs2 and 2vs A.I with my brother.
But then I got Zerg again and I dropped on macro again, DAMNIT the overdroning! I hate that, one thing I can improve on.
So this week I hope I can see something better on my drone count.
Wish me luck and keep an eye open this week for my first couple of matches.
I hope when season 3 starts I can once again start from bronze and work my way up.
Since I did a few matches with my brother I felt like I lost it all. My macro slipped, I got pawned by early rushes because of droning to much..
Anyway we did some matches against A.I and I played random. First random I was Protoss and I digged into my memory and all those learning lessons from Day[9] and HuskyStarcraft I felt like I did pretty awesome. My money stayed low, didn't got supply blocked and my 4gate pawned (lol yeah easy Build Order I know but still).
Then the second match I became a Terran player and look at that I pwned again! Low money. No supply block and I just blew everything away. I had the luck of getting Protoss and Terran a couple times in a row and I felt really comfortable with it and pawned every 2vs2 and 2vs A.I with my brother.
But then I got Zerg again and I dropped on macro again, DAMNIT the overdroning! I hate that, one thing I can improve on.
So this week I hope I can see something better on my drone count.
Wish me luck and keep an eye open this week for my first couple of matches.
woensdag 6 juli 2011
Day[9] and HuskyStarcraft
Most of you guys are well known with these 2 Starcraft casters. I personally love these 2 casters and I enjoy watching their cast very much.
But there is a different between these two kind of casters. I find Day[9] more educative when to learn things about Starcraft, not that Huskey don't give us good tips, but Day[9] just goes deeper into them. A good example is the "Newbie Tuesday". On those cast he talks about things you can learn. (He is such a good teacher, way better then any of my teachers could)
Day[9] cast everyday different kind of games, Monday he focus his cast on "Monday Funday" and Tuesday its "Newbie Tuesday".
Day[9] also cast big leagues, which he recently did Dreamhack in Sweden, go watch it, trust me it was awesome.
When I played in the early days of SC2 I lacked a lot of skill, didn't played any RTS before (except for Red Alert 1, 2 and a little Generals) but I never thought about tactics. I knew it was needed but really didn't know how to.
Then I start to watch youtube about SC2 and I finally met Day[9]. After a couple of games I start to feel I needed to watch more for my improvement on SC2.
Thats when I saw it, Day[9] The Mental Checklist I watched the whole 1hour 40 min cast TWICE! yeah twice it was that good (and think about it I NEVER watch something twice because I don't have really the patience for it). I recommended it to everyone I knew who played SC and some of them took the advice and some of them, well they aren't really the gamers, skipped it.
There are many more video's from Day[9] cast. I really recommend you to watch those cast if you want to improve your game play and to have some fun.
Here are some links to Day[9]:
HuskyStarcraft, this man is hilarious awesome cool SC caster. He made me laugh a zillion times! THOR IS HERE! and ofc PYLO etc etc all these things made me want to watch more and more! I subscribed to him after the first cast I saw.
If you love SC 2 and want to see some epic battles watch Huskystarcraft.
He mostly cast from his house in LA (use to be Oregon) he done some live cast but not as much as Day[9] (I think) but Currently Husky and Day[9] are casting GSPA at the moment, make sure to watch it, Pro's playing but also none pro players where able to sign up.
There are many more casters but these 2 are the one I watched most although I heard that Ahnaris is quite the man too, but I don't have that much of a time to watch them all. Go and find your favorite caster and enjoy those Starcraft casts!
But there is a different between these two kind of casters. I find Day[9] more educative when to learn things about Starcraft, not that Huskey don't give us good tips, but Day[9] just goes deeper into them. A good example is the "Newbie Tuesday". On those cast he talks about things you can learn. (He is such a good teacher, way better then any of my teachers could)
Day[9] cast everyday different kind of games, Monday he focus his cast on "Monday Funday" and Tuesday its "Newbie Tuesday".
Day[9] also cast big leagues, which he recently did Dreamhack in Sweden, go watch it, trust me it was awesome.
When I played in the early days of SC2 I lacked a lot of skill, didn't played any RTS before (except for Red Alert 1, 2 and a little Generals) but I never thought about tactics. I knew it was needed but really didn't know how to.
Then I start to watch youtube about SC2 and I finally met Day[9]. After a couple of games I start to feel I needed to watch more for my improvement on SC2.
Thats when I saw it, Day[9] The Mental Checklist I watched the whole 1hour 40 min cast TWICE! yeah twice it was that good (and think about it I NEVER watch something twice because I don't have really the patience for it). I recommended it to everyone I knew who played SC and some of them took the advice and some of them, well they aren't really the gamers, skipped it.
There are many more video's from Day[9] cast. I really recommend you to watch those cast if you want to improve your game play and to have some fun.
Here are some links to Day[9]:
- Cast about a good way to improve your macro, very useful for players that just start
- Day[9]'s website
- Emotional Day[9], made me appreciate things more
HuskyStarcraft, this man is hilarious awesome cool SC caster. He made me laugh a zillion times! THOR IS HERE! and ofc PYLO etc etc all these things made me want to watch more and more! I subscribed to him after the first cast I saw.
If you love SC 2 and want to see some epic battles watch Huskystarcraft.
He mostly cast from his house in LA (use to be Oregon) he done some live cast but not as much as Day[9] (I think) but Currently Husky and Day[9] are casting GSPA at the moment, make sure to watch it, Pro's playing but also none pro players where able to sign up.
There are many more casters but these 2 are the one I watched most although I heard that Ahnaris is quite the man too, but I don't have that much of a time to watch them all. Go and find your favorite caster and enjoy those Starcraft casts!
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