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Over the weekend of ACL, I recorded a bunch of clips of different days. It's mostly just some fun but especially for those who don't make it out to ACL it might give you an idea of what we get up to. I would have liked to get a bit more, especially from Sunday but I was mostly focused on playing.

Enjoy =D

Recap of day 2 and my future goals. Enjoy!

Did a bunch of recordings throughout today. Hope you enjoy

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So a while back a little zerg called stormz won his first (and only mind you) tournament, the following shots were fired in my direction...

[10/01/2014 3:26:27 PM] Dorothy Tran: wait
[10/01/2014 3:26:32 PM] Dorothy Tran: so stormz just won a small tourney
[10/01/2014 3:26:39 PM] Dorothy Tran: ryan have you ever won anything?

[10/01/2014 3:48:35 PM] Jared Krensel: noob
[10/01/2014 3:48:39 PM] Jared Krensel: Stormz promoted A-team
[10/01/2014 3:48:45 PM] Jared Krensel: nxz u content now[Read More]

2012 ended a great year of StarCraft for our scene. After an excellent WCS final where we saw Australian and New Zealand champions, PiG and JazBas, fall in the Oceanic finals allowing Mafia and mOOnGLaDe to step onto the world stage. 2012 ended with the SC2SEA power ranking placing the players in this order:

1. mOOnGLaDe
2. PiG
3. Mafia
4. tgun
5. Light
6. Ninja
7. Rossi
8. Petraeus
9. Iaguz
10. Jazbas

Since then 2013 has been a year full of ups and downs, whether it be the... [Read More]

Korean server. zvp.

Protoss player blocks his nexus with a pylon then kills it and depowers his gate. Fenner says the following

"If I lose this game Im quitting sc2 forever"

Fenner lost that game.

rip in peace fenner. Good luck in your League of Legends career.

Practicing and playing efficiently.

Ok so, personally I always try to be very efficient in how I play the game of starcraft. However, this doesn't stop me from always falling into old habits and the trap of making the same mistakes time and time again. An example of this would be when HotS was first released. I'm bad at using spell casters. Quite simply, my unit control is one of the weakest parts of my gameplay and when offered units that can't just be added to your main control group and... [Read More]

CM Storm Quickfire Rapid Review!


Text and pictures by Exile5's NXZ


Specifications!
Mechanical Key Switch: CHERRY Blue / Black / Brown / Red
Windows Keys disabled in GAME mode
N Key Rollover: N key in PS/2 mode
Polling Rate: 1000 Hz /1 ms
Interface: USB / PS2
Laser-marked keycaps
Extra Keys: 6 pcs
Keycap Puller: Yes
USB Cable: Removable
Multimedia shortcuts
Rubber coated Keyboard surface
Removable braided USB cable with cable routing
Dimensions: 355(L)x135(W)x35(H) mm[Read More]

Hotkeys.

So for the longest time I've always wanted to be as efficient as possible, looking at potential hotkey set-up that could improve my game. A long time ago I settled with Idra hotkeys (1, 2, 3 for army, 4 for hatches, 5,6,7, etc for queens) and the 55v, 66v inject method. However, the constant lack of screen hotkeys always made me feel less optimal. Now for a while I've been looking at TheCore as an option for hotkeys, however the move to the right side of the keyboard as well as full... [Read More]

Hey guys, I felt like writing a blog about some stuff so here we are xD.

First up let's start with the big news which is that I have joined exile5 which I'm really happy about. Some fantastic people here who have been nothing but helpful for me. On a somewhat related note I also managed to get my hands on a CM Storm Spawn which is a really nice mouse. Previously I had been using a mouse favourable to a palm grip. And to be quite frank, palm grip sucks for RTS, so I had to have a disgusting... [Read More]

Forgive any spelling mistakes I haven't read through it.

Day 1

Ok so I guess I'll just start with walking to the event. I parked somewhere in the vicinity of the venue and on the way in ran into the fray crew. I hadn't met any of them except for fenner so many hands were shaken in short amount of time. Miles led the way as we found our way in and entered the ballroom.

I registered with Norksman (who is an awesome admin/whatever) and then watched the players. Said hi to Nama and... [Read More]

Zeratul is trying as hard as he can to not lag in his SEACL game against Tazerenix, However alpha's brother was moving the xbox. Alpha had the following to say:

Ali_sc: dont know what the hell my bro doing
but >.<
was all good until he started messing with stuff

On behalf of the stream chat i ask you: Will we stand for this injustice? This unjustified attack upon esports?

NO WE WON'T, WE WILL FIGHT BACK!! WE WILL FEEDBACK HIS MEDIVACS! STORM HIS MARINES!

Because we aren't the... [Read More]

The beginning
With Summer holidays coming to an end I thought I'd write a quick recap about what I've achieved and how I got there and etc. So for the holidays I had a goal of getting NA GM as I had time to actually grind out games. I looked up the necessary points and it was 1400+ to get to near gm level. So I started laddering on NA, went up to the 1400 mark not playing tons but some every day. I think around this point was the last wT of the year which i got glade in 2nd round, I got a lead... [Read More]

I wanted to inspire my mates to play sc2 again and refind what made the game fun to them, and ranted on for a bit with them in skype. Here is the chatlog of it. If you don't want to play sc2 just give this a read, maybe it rings true with you maybe it doesn't but like shortizz suggests I'm going to share it with you. Sorry for formatting and perhaps repetition but here you go. EDIT: I am Ryan, Stallion is Thomas, Shortizz is Shortizz. Also note that in no way is this meant to make stallion a... [Read More]

So last night team Benji played in flamga's LoL showmatch thing. Initially we had planned it to be crux reborn in league but cabracan dodging at the last minute meant we had recruit a new member: xGKingBenji. Benji joined our lineup of NXZ, Stallion, strike (stallions brother) and spoon. So with our lineup finalised we decided to hit the normal queue where we proceeded to stomp our competition with our smite utility mastery rumble (oops need to pay more attention next time).

After this win... [Read More]

This is my biased opinion of the who the top 10 zergs right now are. This was a difficult list to compile considering that maybe 19 of the top 20 players right now are Zerg () but hopefully this is a little bit of fun and we get to see who the most baller zergs are right now.

#10: Symbol

I'll be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of symbol. It takes a while for me to become a fan of a player, especially when I rarely get to watch their games. But results speak for themselves. This guy is a... [Read More]

Well I'm sure you guys are familiar with this:

http://www.sc2sea.com/blogs/showentr...2&searchid=892

and

http://www.sc2sea.com/blogs/showentr...ntryuserid=420

BUT PiG HAS REACHED A NEW LEVEL OF POWER:

[7:46:41 PM] Jared Krensel: holy **** holy ****
[7:46:43 PM] Jared Krensel: JUST CAME BACK
[7:46:45 PM] Jared Krensel: from gettying pylon walled
[7:46:48 PM] Jared Krensel: vs a gm toss
[7:46:51 PM] Jared Krensel: SUCK MY DICK U ******

OVER 9000!!!!!!!!


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After reading through CrAzerk's I felt like doing a similar thing of my own would help improve my play. (Note: My writing skills may be subpar haha.) And yes I"m stealing the road to GM idea =P.

Alright so I'm NXZ a 1500 point master zerg. I have been playing sc2 since January and sc1 for a few years before that. Im writing this to help improve my knowlege of the game and have the motivation to look through my replays.


Game 1 - NXZ (Z) vs urps (P)
Tal'Darim Altar



Alright so... [Read More]