[Kappuru]

I'm going to throw down the gauntlet and pretty much say I can beat anyone from SB 1-v-1.
I was high gold to high platinum/diamond in the SC2 beta.
I used to play SC1 obsessively, to the point of wanting to go pro when I was 14.
My parents wouldn't let me. Wise choice, but I sometimes still wonder what could have been.
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Ok, I'm in a tournament the day after tomorrow and need a bit of practice. I'm up for some games tomorrow night if SBers want to oblige.
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I can tell you in starcraft 1 I never lost a match because my framerate slowed to 5FPS when there were too many zerglings onscreen. I couldn't micro and lost most of my units.

Time for a new video card.
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[Kappuru]

[Kappuru]

I'd be glad to teach whoever. I played a DOTA-ish match (i think? never played DOTA since I suck at WCIII), then decided to ladder match for the fuck of it. Right before early-dropping marines/marauders in opponents base, decided to chatmsg him "YO I AM DRUNK".

Opponent says "wut", then LOL 2 hellions and 8 marines/2 marauders drop in his mineral line. Game was over at that point. Great fun.

Anyway even if you're bronze/silver level I can teach you how to PERFECT my 11gate walloff build order, so you can cheese initally, and then timing push motherfuckers. It's great fun.
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PS if peeps want the replay / rapelay of me being drunk and my APM being below 100, I can post it.
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[Kappuru]

Ok, this isn't about me being better than you, because honestly I'm not as good at SCII as I thought I'd be. I'm having trouble with mid to late game macro, this game is so more macro oriented than 1.

It's about 6pooling and zergling rushes being an outmoded strategy in this era of SCII, mainly due to the fact that workers can be pulled off the line and hold pretty well. once you've committed to the rush, you're now at a severe econ disadvantage. 2 marauders and 2 marines later and the game is over.

It's not a viable strategy.
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M-M-M is fairly easy to deal with mid-to late game if you've done your scouting and have a couple colossi - always remember as well that high templar can feedback medivacs for a 1-shot kill.

Edit : seriously guys, i'm sorry. not trying to come off as an internet-hero dbag here.
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[Kappuru]

Well.. it's 2v2s. There aren't really going to be any 2v2s beyond showmatches I think. The strategy you describe is interesting, but it's so easy to repel the initial push and take out one of the players with early banshees that I can't see this being very viable.

Pro/high level play is so weird and different though. I was recently in a tournament at a lan center in ktown, (4th place :/) and the experience was SO much different than playing on bnet.
I'm not saying they're pro level, but most of the players were high level and never really had to worry about 6/pool or reaper harass, i saw those strategies get shut down HARD in the round robin stage and it was pretty interesting to see everyone kind of take notice and go towards more advanced harass/timing push style of play.
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[Kappuru]

I'm down to play sometime!
I really need to play a couple more ladder games to get back into diamond, though..


PS:

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[Kappuru]

Checking in here to say hi haters : http://i.imgur.com/SFG1S.jpg

USA is such EZ mode. I play on KOR servers now, but haven't played in some time... for some reason SCII just never felt as 'tight' as SC1 and the looseness in unit control / macro plus me getting older has just resulted in me not being as addicted.

I'll reup for HotS, most likely.
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So basically, SC2 lacks the stickiness of SC1 for me. Maybe I've just grown up, and I'd like to critique it without using words like "friction" and "mechanics", but until I get to high masters/low grandmasters, the game consists of just being faster than my opponent and picking a/b/c branching strategies. There's no ebb and flow like the original game where I truly feel I can come back by making better strategic decisions.

I'm not pro level, but I am pretty decent and on my last little binge with the game got into masters in korea, so i like to think i have some faint clue of what I'm talking about.

The game is fun, sure, but it's not the masterpiece of emergent gameplay and metagame that the original was. It's not even close.

I hope this doesn't sound too haughty or condescending, I just feel like the game is missing part of it's soul. Maybe I'm just too cynical, but I shouldn't be able to continually 4gate my way into masters every season, and I wish they wouldn't nerf my wonderfully creative terran builds.

Any thoughts, SB?
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