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As part of my conviction to get to a high level in this game I am publicly posting most of my replays and self analysis. I would appreciate high level insight into my replays and conclusions, but it isnt necessary, this is mostly a tool for me to be publicly accountable for my play, the good the bad and the ugly. I am currently mid-low masters on NA and SEA and main on SEA.

My goal is to get GM on SEA this year, and become a strong player. These entries might be interesting for people of all skill levels to read to draw their own conclusions and all feedback will be read and appreciated, even if you call me a retarded noob, (of which I have plentiful moments) I probably wont be posting every game and replay, as I plan to be playing a lot and training hard, mostly on KR once I get everything set up but all my SEA I would like to document

Replays here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0IQ9MIRQ This is my first time doing a blog and attachments were giving me an error, any advice on that would be helpful

Day 1 01/01/2012 (Server: SEA.)


First Game Metalopolis ZvT

Honestly my first reactions to this game were that is was pretty standard/easy and not many issues arose for me. I dealt with bunker pressure pretty well, I let the bunker finish which was bad but I kept cool and stuck to the max 6 lings principle. and the hellion follow up wasnt too scary for me. I got my creep going and the game was essentially won after crushing his first push with ease

He unsieges on creep with my multiprong in wait. I know I have him




GG shortly follows as he has nothing back at home to deal with my reinforcements



Game 1 was a fairly easy win for me and I felt good about it overall. I could have got a queen at the third earlier though and a macro hatch as my money gets high during the fight.


Game 2 ZvT Metalopolis (same opponent lol)

So the same guy on the same map. I was feeling good after our first encounter and confident. He opens with the same bunker pressure, which I fail to deal with as calmly as last game, but dont outright lose to it. The hellion follow up is again uneventful and I get creep out, though he did get a queen kill with his hellions which bugs me, very simple micro task for me that I failed at to keep her alive.

To give my opponent credit, although he did the exact same thing again, he played it a bit better this time and therefore made a 20 minute macro game out of it, he seiged better this time but I just caught him out before it was too late to engage

I was late here but got away with it just about as he wasnt fully seiged



pretty messy for both of us but im clearly ahead now



This left me free to do what i wanted in the game and I was able to do severe damage at his base with muta harass, even when he moved out a second time he wasnt watching as I managed to get all his reinforcements and add-ons making it basically a GG, as I was careful to have enough ling/bling to cover myself at home

Watch yo' shit terrans



Overall Im very happy with my performance this game as it was a very aggressive game which I felt in complete control over. I am not happy to see 11 mutalisks worth of bank at the end though. I also miscontrolled them in the final push by me losing all but 4, gotta look after those space-bats!!


Game 3 ZvP Shakuras Plateau

This was my first loss of the day and a tough one for me, as I was outmacroed and out smarted by a superior player here clearly, in a matchup I generally like. The first and main issue was I dealt with the phoenix harass terribly. I was stupidly slow and greedy in setting up spores and lost lots of queens, drones and eco because of it.

little buggers




This Protoss did a great job of harassing me and keeping me from getting a rhythm going, which allowed him to take an expo where I wasn't expecting

Clever Girl (bonus points if u get the reference!)



I start to unravel as the blink stalkers put me further behind



His harassment and clever blink play into my main really sealed the deal. I just couldn't keep up with him and threw a well deserved gg wp, as I was thoroughly beaten in this game. Feed back on this game would be appreciated, from what I can see I need to break these rocks down every game in these positions to combat this and just need to be less greedy in the face of heavy stargate/phoenix play

Game 4 ZvP Antiga Shipyard

I have omitted a ZvZ in the middle here as it was pretty normal ZvZ fare, securing me a pretty easy victory.

This game starts out normally, with me taking the 3rd in response to an FFE, it gave me a good chance to practice against warp prisms though which I enjoyed as many toss dont bother.

I was lucky to scout his prism with an overseer

things look messy but I have it under control



Overall this is doing ok damage to me. I do manage to clean it up, though Im very annoyed with myself as I yet again displayed poor queen micro under pressure, missing tranfuses and losing both of the girls. I was able to clean up the prism after a second wave of harrasment comes just as my mutas pop

I come out ahead in units lost and feel good at this point, my eco is starting to kick in and my mutas are out



From this point I was free to build my muta flock and harass the hell out of my poor opponent. He hadnt taken his third which was a huge error for him, I had an overlord spewing creep where he wanted to expo and it really slowed him down too much, as he needed to camp on 3 base and get his tech out

I mange to damage his eco, get some free stalkers and prevent him from taking a third. He is going colossus. I build my wall of spines and rush 2-2 on my lings, which im dumping mins into.After being terrorised enough and after losing a colossus to mutas Toss decides enough is enough and goes for an ill fated attack into my spine wall off of 2 bases just as my 2-2 ups finished on my lings. It was not pretty

Not really a good idea for toss, I think he's just given up



Nice to receive a WP, good on you for being manner Redirts!



Overall I was happy with this game. I dealt with some major harass and was able to execute a fairly new strategy fro me, as im not traditionally a muta ling player.

Some issues that struck me here though is a nasty bankroll and not enough larvae. Macro hatches for sure next time. I also didnt remake the drones I built the wall of spines with, but got away with it as I was still ahead on bases/harvesters. Though in future I need to remember to replace my eco in case of a longer game.


So all in all for SEA I am happy with my start to the year with a 4-1 record out of the gate. 5 games isnt very much so im going to ladder some more today, but probably on NA, which is purely a mechanics training ground for me and not a place for analysis such as this.

I hope you enjoyed reading, I tried to make it lighthearted and fair on all players involved. All feedback positive or negative is very welcome and again here are the replays, should you be kind enough to watch them.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0IQ9MIRQ

Peace out, and I look forward to doing more of these, probably not for every ladder game on SEA lets be realistic but maybe once a week or something like that