The SEA server has had low population problems late WoL and also for majority of HotS. The skill level has consistently gone down with time, although for a good reason. The best players opt to go to the Korean or north American ladder, for higher level players and shorter queue times. When the top tier players left, the next tier under then left for better opponents, and so on. The grandmaster league in SEA is essentially dead, with currently only 8 players in it at the time I'm writing this.... [Read More]
After talking to multiple teams since the disbanding of xeria, I've decided that my best option is to go teamless for a while. This is due to multiple reasons which I don't wish to go into detail about in this blog post. I'd simply like to say that I'm no longer searching for a team to join, and I doubt I will be for at least the rest of this year.
I'm going to instead focus purely on improving my skill level. This means getting my ranking a lot higher on ladder, and mass gaming in my spare... [Read More]
If you've scheduled free coaching with me, assume its going to be delayed till a different date unless I contact you and say otherwise beforehand. Sorry for any inconvenience this causes.
Basically to summarise what happened:
Was playing 4v4s with some guys, my computer was going slowly. I decide to restart my computer inbetween games, the computer fails to boot up once. It then undergoes bootup repairs, which take about 45 minutes. I then assume its a virus, make my virus... [Read More]
With my recent failure at the AVCon tournament in Adelaide, I've decided to dedicate myself a lot more to sc2 in order to get my skill level to where I want it to be. I'd like to do well at ACLs in the future, and see how long I can play as a semi-pro or perhaps even pro player in the future. But to do this, I need to be able to support myself. So, I'm thinking of starting paid coaching services.
I'll do free coaching for a week or two, depending on how many are wanting it. It'll be to train... [Read More]
I have gone inactive recently, as I started studying full time in cookery at TAFE. I was trying to mix SC2 practice into my afternoons, but I really don't have the time to keep improving, I'd just be trying to sustain a similar skill level to what I already have. I honestly can't play SC2 much for fun anymore, since I was taking it so seriously for a fair while, and to have to see my skill decline when trying to still dedicate myself to the game would be quite sad. Although, I... [Read More]
This last weekend AVCon was on, which is a large anime and video games convention in Adelaide. A lot of the local sc2 players turned up for the sc2 tournament, expecting an event that was going to be as good as last year's WCG qualifier held at AVCon. Last year's tournament was one of the most memorable tournaments to be held in Adelaide, with Bielsko winning against TAVoices.
I turned up, waited in line for an hour to get my weekend pass for $60, then proceeded almost immediately to... [Read More]
Real Time Tactics #1
Hi everyone! Thought it’d be cool to put together some short blogs on funny stuff that’s happened to me in ladder games. The kind of moments that make me burst out into laughter when I’m trying to play seriously.
Our first game is from the NA ladder, vs a player called “Dali”. I do a roach infestor push when Im almost maxed out, with the rest of my supply going into zerglings rallied to his recently finished 4th base. I was planning to kill the 4th or the army... [Read More]
Alright, so I've been having this problem recently where Im doing my build, going about my own business and then all of a sudden all my drones are dead because my spines weren't in time. Obviously that is something that can be avoided, so I decided to start thinking. There are two obvious solutions:
1. Get a build which is safe against any and all hellion timings
2. Scout better and react to any hellion timings
The first sounds good initially, but you'd have to build the spines pretty... [Read More]
I feel like putting more content into the community, but dont feel like blogging. Most of the time when I've done a blog, it was either short or done really quickly, because it actually does take a fair bit of time and effort to do good blogs. So instead, I think I can just vlog instead.
I've been thinking about what I'd actually be talking about, whether its mainly strategy talk, or my opinions on game changes etc as well as results. But I dont really want to turn it... [Read More]
I've been reluctant to ladder much on NA, because I tend to find their players to be a lot cheesier than other servers, as well as having extremely bad game manners. This blog is just to show what happened in the last game I played...
It was vs a Terran player called TandemFelix. Basically he 1based the entire game, said very early on when I 15hatched that I was overdroning, and just does marine tank drops all game long. Because I didnt have many bases due to him 1basing, I wasn't able to... [Read More]
Does the pending 1.4 update actually change much about the mass contaminate? For those of you who dont know, mass contaminating is when you continually contaminate a building so it cannot actually produce anything.
LETS DO THE MATHS!
So, according to liquipedia 2 (I also checked in sc2 to be sure), "Every unit type has a fixed maximum energy value of 0 or 200 and a natural energy regeneration of 0.5625 energy per game second".
The 0.5625 energy per game second part is relevant to... [Read More]
Now, Im sorry to disappoint some of you, but I don't really want to analyse my games for the community. Why? Im lazy as heck, and it actually takes a surprising amount of time to:
1. Find good replays
2. Go through them, screenshotting as you go
3. Resize the images and put them on an image hosting website
4. Write up a GOOD summary of each game
5. Repeat until you're gosu
So mad props to crAzerk for being a beast in that regard.
But then I asked myself, well what else could I... [Read More]
Why? Because I got accepted into clan SPR, and Zergtastic is a pretty lulzy username imo, not a competitive one. I want one that at least looks more serious.
I've been hesitant to make this blog simply because its just asking for other people's opinions, and I should probably decide for myself. But Im really unsure about it still, so heres some of my better ideas:
For those new to this blog post, it cant be ZergtasticSPR, thats 13 characters. I... [Read More]
I finally got around to reviewing my new mouse/mousepad for those who are interested in what the look like and their features. I finally got fraps (and it works!) so I'll be uploading casts of replays with decent quality in the future, so its now actually worth being a subscriber, unlike before (lol).
Mon, 10th-Nov-2014 7:50 PM
