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Playing the right way
 

Too often I hear people say 'You should have done this,' or 'if you added this into your composition, it would be far better.' Not to say they're wrong. A lot of advice will come from players equal, or higher than you. To someone like me who is in Masters, you listen to what they have to say since they're in GM. Recently FaDe had a clan war, and I was singled out as having a terrible playstyle that is stupid/useless/crap/trash in a TvZ by the streamer/caster. Not a nice chap. Needless to say, I laughed at the comments from that person. He was a very good GM. But enough about that. We don't care about that.

SC2 is a competitive game, people practice hours on end to get better at it. However, it's also a game, which was made for fun. Never let anyone dictate how YOU WANT to play. It doesn't matter if your style is cheesing every single game, if that's how you want to play it, then do so. If you enjoy turtle mech, then play turtle mech. And that's the beauty of Starcraft 2. There is no right way to play the game. There are variations on how to play the game, perhaps more efficiently but there is no definition of playing the right way except for one way. Which is why you see all the pros with variations. Old metagame, ST_Bomber in TvZ would get just tanks, medivacs and marines. Others would just mech every single time like Panzer General Goody.

All this leads to the point of this blog. I chose to play the way I do because I want to. I won't change for anyone but myself. Some of you guys out there might be pressured to change your playstyle. You cheese every game, and you're terrible in a macro game. Or perhaps you play gimmicky and thorship every game. Don't give into pressure and start playing more standard because everyone is telling you to, do it because you want to (and to improve). If you want to cheese to GM, then go right ahead, and fill your cup with the nerd tears on the way to quench your thirst. There is no right way to play SC2, except for the way you want to play it. That's the right way.