Anyone up for some KOTH tonight around 945 or so?

lol just played a toss who was using hallucinated stalkers in his mineral lines to try to scare my muta harass away.

was pretty nice tactic till i just clicked on one to try to snipe it and saw it dissolve in a puff of smoke.

this has to be so frustrating to play against

http://drop.sc/127557

i got super scared when 4 hellions didnt poke my ramp and started getting skittish of a marauder/hellion all-in...

marauder/hellion close position entombed is VERY strong... but then he was just taking a 3rd and i got behind as a result

DOESNT

MATTA

i think "slightly favored" under my name reads to me as "this guy is probably significantly worse than you and you are only playing him cause it's late at night, so play completely non-standard, do something you've never done before and take a MASSIVE point loss as a result. playing standard definitely wont beat him!"

get out this is my blog

This is how we dooo ittt....

Since reading this sentence in Narwhal's post, my ZvP has improved significantly. I'm not even kidding. I've won ~70% of my ZvPs since then I believe!

replays:

http://drop.sc/127589

In this game he gets his 3rd up, and I am unable to deny it. I definitely should have been more active with my roaches at first. As soon as he sees the mutas, he takes his 3(ish, his 3rd was just getting saturated, but it's the gases that are important) base army to attack me. I almost certainly can't beat this army in a straight up fight, so I build 28348234 spines and counter attack.

http://drop.sc/127588

In this game I open with a 6 pool (no, I wasn't tilting at the time) and then go into a pretty quick 3 base economy after holding off his 1 base pressure. I feel very safe from any 1 base attacks on this map due to the narrow choke and strength of spinecrawlers. I'm very fortunate to kill 8 workers with my 6 pool when he makes a critical mistake, which prob had a lot to do with me winning the game. My lings make him feel very uncomfortable sitting outside his base, so he's holed up for a while.

I then going into a multi-tasking war between the 3rd and the main. He's using hallucinations to trick me, but I catch on pretty quick. There is like 0 chance that's actually a colossus lol and the stalkers blue puff was a dead give away.

http://drop.sc/127587

In this game I go for really standard play with the quick 3rd. I meant to take that gas just to build my queen, but in my fear of my 3rd getting cannon rushed I forgot to cancel it. I guess I went on autopilot and just saturated a gas I saw finishing lol but I pulled them off and played normal from there.

He goes for DTs which I actually don't anticipate, but I get my lair so fast these days off 3 base that I never really worry about them too much. I knew he was making something with all that gas, but I really thought he was hiding stargates. My OL died the second his building twilight came into view, and I wasn't unable to click on it. Thankfully, spores are good vs DTs too! They do some damage, but I honestly don't think it's worth it, esp since he had one die on my 3rd for free.

I think I have 80 drones by the 12:30 mark? lol

I then multi-task and micro really bad, but it doesn't matter cause I am so far ahead. I also take my 4th way too late. Once he goes to attack me, I make lots of spines at my nat and base trade. I actually played rather poorly in this game and was fortunate to win it.

http://drop.sc/127586

This game is lol. I'm not providing any explanation. It's a complete cluster**** by both players. It's pretty amazing, though.

Woooooooooooo back in diamond baby!

finally went to play and it appears bnet is having problems. ugh.

im losing to ******ed terran **** just fine here

cause honestly close positino antiga with a gold he can take w/ planetary is really fair

decided winning 68% ZvT wasnt good enough. had to change things up a bit. tweak my build. make it better. try new builds.

yeah ive lost a ton of ZvTs tonight i dont know why i do **** like that.

well watching the replay perhaps it wasn't as bad as i thought. it seems that making 95 drones off 3 base at the 12:30 mark vs terran is not conducive to victory. i dont know why i did that. lol.

Nice! Congrats.

I want gold now .

rofl spawning anything but long spawn antiga is so fair vs terran

close position? they just slow crawl take dat gold with a planetary.

close 3rd to their main? ROFL tanks from their main CAN HIT YOUR ****ING 3RD BASE

CANNOT HONESTLY THINK OF BETTER MAP DESIGN

veto...

lololol yeah man that's easy for a T player to say (altho u play team games so i dunno). u realize there's other races i can play on that map that dont have the ability to just completely abuse terrain right? i dont have a choice but to play it and roll the dice. at least it's a lot better than having to deal with close position metal or ST. if blizzard wants to have their map pool be like tournaments then they either need to stop designing maps where merely the location of your spawn plays a huge role in who wins the game (like how ******ed do you have to be to think that non-symmetrical maps are even remotely fair?) or adopt GSL versions where it's long spawn only. like even in ZVZ or ZVP the guy who gets the 3rd close to the main is at a MASSIVE disadvantage, while the guy who gets the 3rd away from the main gets a HUGE advantage. it's ridiculous.


and gold bases are also very unfair to protoss players in zvp and everyone who isnt terran in any match up involving terran. it makes no sense to have them. if i did gold base baneling bust vs every toss ffe on metal and antiga i'd never lose a game on there. but it's a really dumb way to play.

all that said im pretty sure ive completely forgotten how to play the game. you guys saw the leads i blew tonight. i have no idea what's wrong with me.

lol needle on snitz not noticign the roach blocking his 3rd

"maybe when you play karak the fail just becomes part of the game"

i agree that map can be stupid when its not cross positions, all I'm saying is if it bothers you so much you can just veto. are there 3 worse maps that you already have vetoed? it's obviously sick terran imba close positions + gold minerals. if was a zerg i would veto because games can be stupid on that map.

fwiw ,as a terran player i would always veto terran imba maps. i think playing matches where you can win/lose games easier because the map is ****ty is a waste of time

you guys realize terran doesnt get an advantage on gold anymore since the mule nerf right?

Terran has plenty of problems too, like not being able to 1 rax expand vs P on metalopolis because of wide natural. Or all these ridiculous new maps that seem designed just so zerg can ling counterattack.

tears taste so good

Lol clearly mules were the only advantage. It doesn't matter if it's gold or blue. Being gold is just an extra luxury.

If its an extra luxury it matters by definition...

better map design would be just like daybreak. why do you think the 4th on daybreak doesnt have full minerals and 2 gas?

also, i dont think it qualifies as tears when it's really silly in every match up, including mirrors, to have an asymmetrical map.

well since that doesn't count as tears, here's some tears for you.

If anyone sees a tournament level tvp where t wins past the 20 min mark, send me a link. I went through all mlg winter arena and there was one, but it had some strange stuff in the beginning so wasn't really representative.