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Seeing as this is what all the cool kids are doing nowadays, I talked to a guy about a guy and got me a Korean account. Add me on if0r6@hanmail.net if you have one yourself.

I'll talk more about it later, but I will say that Korean bronzies are pretty good.

EDIT- OK, hows about some first impressions?

1) Koreans are unrefined. At least the 'low' level ones are. All they know is how to execute a simple one, or two base, timing and that's it. They execute it ok enough, some decent micro but that is all they can do. The rest of the game is them fumbling because they don't know what to do because the game is supposed to be over after you get some void rays out or your blue flames or whatever. So as long as the game goes for about 10 minutes, I tend to win. So far anyway.

2) There are bugger all Zergs in Korea. I'm tempted to ask them if they speak english and are foreign. But I understand it completely. Zerg is a race that has a bit of trouble executing timing attacks and a lot more troube dealing with timing attacks and the whole server is full of people who execute timing attacks like massive cockheads. Koreans must be weak willed individuals mostly because they would much rather be the cockhead handing out timing attacks then the cockhead who can read it all pretty well and deal with it appropriately. Most of the time.

After about 30 ish games I've played 3 Zergs. One game I disconnected, but felt confident my early hellions had set me up for an easy win. Second game was close spawns metalopolis and he hilariously overmade lings and my cloaked banshees owned. Third game was against a 1300 Masters Zerg who had no sense of how his economy worked except that you must devote 80% of your effort spreading creep. Didn't save his poorly microed units from dying. And seriously, if you saw how he controlled his units you'd choke on your own vomit. Running mutalisks over towers and a-moving banelings into tanks. No clue how he dealt with the thriving Terran population with play like that.

3) Korean Protoss are cheesy fuckers. I've had about 10 TvP so far. Two of them have been what I would classify as a macro game, against an 1100 Masters Protoss (victory! He could not handle my drop) and some high ranked diamond I don't give a shit about because he opened phoenixes and I haven't figured out a strong way to punish that opening with 1 rax reactor expand (grrr!). The rest have been a succession of void ray, gateway, templar all ins that I usually do deal with but still leave me incensed with rage somewhat. I dunno. Protoss is a race that does that.

4) Loads of Terrans. Good tvt practice, especially as I have a new build I want to work through and 2 Terrans coming up next week who I have to prepare some builds against. And I do got some builds.

Most of them play 1/1/1 into either banshees and/or hellions. Blue flame hellion drop openings are very common which is good because I'm good at sniffing those out and getting free wins. I won a game vs a one oGsYAHO because of this. He even spoke a bit of english! HuK/MC Fighting!

5) The general Korean playstyle is very aggressive and forward. As I said, most koreans do timing attack styles but a lot of the time they are aggressively positioning their forces around the map, which does make feeling them out a little easier, and considering that most of the Koreans I've been playing against are the low level scrubs I don't think their micro is very good so yea. That is fun.

Will update with more progress as it comes. So far I am in platinum league and with the ladder locked for a few more days I don't think I'm going to see diamond soon. But that's ok, I think my hidden MMR will carry over and I can get into Masters np np.