Yeah it really is hilarious I recoomend reading it. TLO streaming right now as EGTLO

Lol TLO's first name is Dario.

I just won a pretty standard ZvT going roach/hydra. After consistently losing badly to Terrans that open with lots of hellions and use them well to control creep + deny a 3rd, I'm starting to think that the build I did (1/1 roach timing off 2 bases, killed his natural + fair number of workers, he basically had widow mines and hellions and a v small number of bio units) and transitioning from there into a 3rd base + hydras (though I guess you can transition to anything really) is pretty good. Obv the first attack has to do lots of damage but I was super far ahead after that and the rest of the game wasn't even close. It feels dirty but I can't help it when every Terran on ladder opens with the same overly greedy build meant to punish ling-centric compositions early on

It's actually kinda funny, I did the roach build because I thought I was matched up against the same guy I just played who did the hellion thing. Sure enough, guy I'm playing opens with the exact same build. Wasn't until the game ended and I looked at my match history that I realized it wasn't even the same player.

Oh and he cried at the end to nerf zerg imba, as if it isn't his own fault for doing a typical brainless greedy Terran build that can apparently be blind countered.

Also funny: when I play ZvZ on ladder, my standard is 15 pool 15 gas 15 hatch and I never, ever get cheesed. Feeling like taking the safe build wasn't doing me any favors, I tried hatch first in two ZvZs. Opponent's builds: 10 pool speedling expand, 6 pool. lol.

not sure why you're surprised that roaches worked, even in pro level, 2/3 base roach prob has a huge winrate vT.

terran has to be greedy early because 90% of the time, zerg is being greedy, they just think its standard to have 4 bases and 80 workers at 10 minutes. T prob loses a bunch if they try to power off of 2 bases cause they cant be cost efficient and will get overrun. its not like they can make 40 marines at a time like zerg can remake units.

i love it when zerg goes roach hydra, means i don't have to micro

You wouldn't like it as much if you only ever opened with units that can be made from a reactored factory tho

*that arent tanks

roach hydra as a composition is a lot different than a 2 base roach open too. roach hydra is still pretty strong for like 4-5 minutes it seems, then its the worst.

cant make tanks from reacth0rs

Tanks can't be made from a reactored factory duh!

Funny thing was my opponent had a tech lab factory later on. Did he make tanks? LOLNO he just wanted to research drilling claws. Clearly he only lost because Blizzard needs to buff widow mines.

looool i read that as ******ed -_-

laddering some atm, dont feel well (see above) so some terran it was. gold atm, gonna see how many games to get to plat, and what kinda winrate ill have in gold (would assume 75%+)

first game was tvt vs some kid who had no clue. he rallied his first marines across the map even after seeing my reaper. then tries a 1 tank 4 marine drop, then basically has nothing and i push with like 80 supply and kill him. not sure if this is par for the course or not.

who's streaming tonight!!!????

Needle are you gonna break down that heartbreaking UCF game film?

I'm going to be streaming, not looking at that game tape, trying to decide wtf to stream. Also drunkenly had to fix xsplit...was a bad look.

Sc2 or mario.

Maybe do 2-4 games of SC2 then hit up Mario. Gonna do a Fletcher Cox/Jurrell Casey breakdown later.

Alright its up, should be good. www.twitch.tv/needle77

You laddering?

Yes...yes I am.

Oh I was gonna say I am down to play teams, I was playing a bit earlier.

But now I'm duoing lol with Karak.

Interview with Taeja, best player in the world:

Such an innocent happy nerd.

Gospy,

Damn son.

Goofy,

Taeja is basically Les Miles.

I have no idea what that analogy means.

Article about the EG gaming house in the NY Times: link

The most shocking part, for me:

Holy crap, really? Are sponsorships that lucrative that they can blow half a million on like, Huk/DeMuslim/Oz/Revival/Alive/Jaedong??? I also find that difficult to square with the fact that I recently read that eSF teams aren't allowed to pay their players salaries or something. If you're, say, Bomber, why would you ever not come to a team like EG that has $$$$$ to spend like this??

Also, lol:

He's British, why does he need help with women??

better question, who is going to help him?

eg has also had like 10 years to grow. i cant think of another team thats older than them (not just counting sc2) but thats more than i would ever have thought.. close to double wht i would have guessed

Only team I can think of is SK gaming, but that is about it. Maybe some other CS teams?

He doesn't with American woman anyway from what I have heard/seen.