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Bloodmysts 2 Week Bootcamp!
 

Yup, since I have 2 weeks holidays starting next week I have decided to see how much I can improve over a 2 week period. Since I'm not going anywhere for holidays (trying to save money), I may as well stay at home, relax and try to improve my SC2 game.

Oh, nearly forgot. I should probably introduce myself to those who may not know of me (probably all of you! ahaha). I am a top 8 Gold Terran on SEA who just came back to SC2 from a month and a half break, due to work commitments Just recently I competed in my first SEABSG Weekly and finished as a semi-finalist (3rd to 4th place) qualifing for this weeks SEABSG Cup. I might add here I was quite happy with my placing considering I didn't really utilise a specific build with proper timings, but rather just took rough timings in my head from watching pro streams and tried to execute it in tournament play.

Also, shoutouts to my new team QED! They are a bunch of cool dudes and have made me feel welcome in the team. Lovin' the peep mode nights too guys

Now the question is, how should I plan out these 2 weeks? Well after my performance in last weeks BSG weekly, I felt I could have produced a much better reusult if I had practiced and refined some builds. So to fix this, welcome to the "2 week Bloodmyst Boot Camp!"

Moving along......

Now I don't want to spend 2 weeks doing one build for each match up. So what I'm going to do is allocate myself 2 builds for each match up and focus on these only.

So far, builds I will be working on for each match up is;

T v T - 1 Rax FE and 1 Rax Reaper FE, really only a minor difference in builds, but I hope to improve my understandings of each opening. I feel both are very strong builds and in my own experience, I have been defending pretty much most of the 1 base Terran plays I have played against. Not only that, but I have not refined the builds, guessed the timings of when buildings should go down and at times not even bothered scouting my opponent (maybe this is a sign of me being too over confident?). Yet, despite my lack of motivation to refine these builds, my win rate has jumped up 20% on ladder. I aim to refine these builds and execute them to the best of my ability!

T v P - 1 Rax FE and 2 Rax pressure transitioning into a 1-1-1 all-in (Copying the build from SlayerSTaeJa). I'm assuming the all-in trasition should do OK considering many Terrans atm usually go for the 2 rax pressure and transition in the macro game (expand). After studying the SlayerSTaeJa replay last night, I actually find this build quiet interesting and wish to learn more about it.

T v Z - Reactor Hellion FE and I am still yet to decide on what 2nd Build I should focus on. I'm still debating on wether or not if I should even focus on a second build here as I think the reactor hellion opening is rather difficult to execute properly! Hellions are like little babies you need to baby sit >< Thinking I should focus all my efforts on the one build tbh. This particular match up has me really frustrated atm as before I took my break, I was able to go toe to toe with Diamond Zergs and take wins off them. Now since coming back, my quality of play and macro has been thrown out the window and I am struggling with top gold/low plat zergs. So this is a personal one for me which I feel the need to redeem myself in this Match up.

Now it's always good to have goals to aim for, for those who do not know me. I am very much a goal orientated person, but just this once I simply wish to learn the above builds inside out and execute them to the best of my ability.

Starting next Monday, this is my schedule and I will be writing a daily blog keeping you guys updated with my progress. I will also upload replay packs each day to give you guys loads of things to criticise me on. At the end of this 2 week bootcamp I will upload my first replay of each build and compare it with my last replay of each build so we/I can see the amount of improvment one can have in a short amount of time. Hey, it's likely I may not even improve at all! Haha.


Wish me luck guys!

PS - Readers discretion is advised, Bloodmyst is known to rage about Protoss quite a bit. LOL.

EDIT: Thought I'd add that I will be using SC2Gears to analyse my replays and statistics. Just wanted to write this down to remind myself that the tool is there and to UTILISE IT!