starcraft players blog their thoughts en 60 images/styles/Arena/misc/rss.jpg /blogs/showentry.php?e=122 /blogs/showentry.php?e=122 It has been quite the while since I wrote part 5 of this journey. Why is this? It's because I have recently started a company with my friend and despite being new, we have quite a few jobs already! For those interested, it is a software engineering company that sets up and creates tools specifically for small businesses.

ANYWAY! On top of that, I am at heart a professional Quake player, and my last ever CTF tournament final was coming up (I'm transferring to SC2, yay!) so I had to... [Read More]]]> Sun, 14 Aug 2011 16:36:40 Member Blogs Member Blogs elimzke en /blogs/showentry.php?e=82 /blogs/showentry.php?e=82 I've been pretty inactive over the past couple of weeks due to the remainder of uni (as explained by my 230+ bonus pool o_o) but now I'm back and completely active for a whole month! ^_^

To cap over the past couple of weeks, I was in a little bit of a slump due to lack of practice. Moreso against Terran (IMBAAAHHHHHHHHHHH :P) because my micro is shocking and simple decisions such as splitting my army in half and attacking from two directions just seem bypass my limited brain at the... [Read More]]]> Thu, 30 Jun 2011 07:58:24 Member Blogs Member Blogs elimzke en /blogs/showentry.php?e=63 /blogs/showentry.php?e=63 Let's start of with a quick recap over my last blog.

So last time I blogged about my recent promotion to gold, my ZvZ troubles being solved and my ZvT troubles beginning to blossom. Well to sum it up I have sorted out ZvT with a couple of standard builds that lead straight into the mid-game most of the time.

Now! Some of you may or may not know, but I recently had the pleasure of playing against one of my real life best mates Solis in the grand final... [Read More]]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:56:13 Member Blogs Member Blogs elimzke en /blogs/showentry.php?e=51 /blogs/showentry.php?e=51 I would like to start off by saying that my sudden spike in improvement when I was in Bronze league has indeed stopped here. I have started winning very few games in a row and taking a lot of losses.
Why?

TERRAN IMBAAAAAHHHHRRHHRGGGHHHHh /nani

Nah on a serious note though, I have been trying many home-made strategies against Terran which have all been stomped repeatedly... by Marines (funnily enough).

My usual openings... [Read More]]]> Sat, 4 Jun 2011 06:27:03 Member Blogs Member Blogs elimzke en /blogs/showentry.php?e=38 /blogs/showentry.php?e=38 My issue is micro. I am a Gold level player through above-average macro and mechanics, but my micro and decision making is horrible. Of course, ZvZ for the first 6 - 10 minutes (all opinion, feel free to post yours) is intense micro if there's any sort of rush. I kept failing miserably since I would attempt 15 hatch, and then could not hold any rushes whatsoever. I eventually knuckled... [Read More]]]> Tue, 24 May 2011 09:41:53 Member Blogs Member Blogs elimzke en /blogs/showentry.php?e=10 /blogs/showentry.php?e=10 In the past 2 weeks, I have gone from losing 8 games in a row to winning every ZvT and ZvP in bronze and silver that has been unfortunate to cross my (fast expanding) path.

However, this is not the case for ZvZ. When I play against another zerg, whether they be Bronze #1 or fresh out of practice league, I am always doomed to lose. If I go speedlings first I get hit headon with banelings. If I... [Read More]]]> Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:59:36 Member Blogs Member Blogs elimzke en