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This was intended to be a small progress report but my journey to get to bronze was much shorter than expected. No doubt aided by my shortcomings as a player in a few of my placements, it took just over two dozen matches before I was consistently playing bronze players.

This process in itself was a journey of discovery and showed a surprising capacity for build improvement. When I think of delta formation I don't imagine too many players being more experienced at it than me, as when it comes to team games I practically coined the term and strategy. In solo games, though, there are a few differences. When I first started I was in full screen windowed mode and used my first action to construct an additional worker from the HQ building. The second action was to move my workers in the general direction to get them moving, before refining the path to mineral walk to the opponent's base (going close air first in the case of a 4p map). The worker in training would then be added to the convoy as I mineral walk to about a quarter way into their workers and then a-move.

This is what I would call a "high maintenance" delta formation execution and later incarnations of the build involved just sending the first workers on an a-move and not bothering with a 7th warrior. I also went in to windowed mode so I could read about salamanders on wikipedia but still keep an eye on the game when I needed to attack or stop my workers following a scout.

With my build order refined to perfection I went about the messy business of worker rushing game after game, making sure to be weel mannered with gg wp and gl hf. The great thing about the Korean server is you rarely play the same person twice at lower levels and you find games almost instantly. In this fashion I went through 10 games relatively quickly within the hour after completing the first blog with a 2-10 record. It was rough at first with a lot of losses to silver players who could have passed for high platinum on NA or SEA. Despite making no effort to strike up conversation with the players kicking my ass aside from the usual pleasantries, there were a few memorable exchanges.