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**inFeZa** · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 5:14 PM

Theres no wrong way to play the game.
Theres no right way to play the game.
Theres only Two outcomes. - Win or Lose.
Choose 1.

Inb4 stalemate (I'm talking about tournaments ya foggots)

Flaunt · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 5:35 PM

how to use criticism to fail 101.

NvJazBas · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 5:39 PM

There is no right way to play this game.

There is a right way to improve this game though.

TASlowHands · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 5:51 PM

People still do pants on head retarded shit in GM. So long as it works who cares?

**PiG** · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 6:45 PM

Haha yeah it's a nice sentiment! Do whatever makes you happy. When I cast I try to point out little errors people make and such but I try to focus more on the potential of what they're doing and trying to make it exciting looking at whether or not they pull off their strategy rather than saying "this is wrong".

Even leenock in ZvT hasn't changed his style in 1 year. It's not working so well for him atm but hey, the kid likes his burrowed banelings so let him have his fun

Zealo · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 6:58 PM

probably the same caster who my team mates got really angry at for calling me terrible once. i watched the vod and learned some stuff from his comments (i'm still terrible though)

Meatex · Thu, 28th-Jun-2012, 10:58 PM

pretty sure I know the caster to whom you refer and frankly until he can beat all the top korean pros that play similar style 100% of the time as zerg he can bugger off
I hate your style and so do many of the FaDe zergs at least so you gotta be onto something :P

breadfan · Fri, 29th-Jun-2012, 7:46 AM

I'm not at that level obviously, but I can understand that SC2, like just about any other sport or strategy game (e.g. chess) is open to stylistic preference. There are examples in every major tournament and league.

Also, not sure who the caster is (no clue) but to me, that's poor form. How often do you hear any real caster berating players, having a go at them for build orders, etc. Even if you completely disagree with a particular player's choices, you are casting for your audience, not yourself. You can express things in a different way, for example, instead of "what a noobtard, this is totally dumb", something like "play X making the choice to do this, which is really vulnerable to this sort of play, which we're likely to see from his opponent. It's a low percentage play". I would suggest to them to try to cast to their audience, rather than to make themselves feel superior.

FsDronesInJail · Fri, 29th-Jun-2012, 2:29 PM

+1 breadfan

knowing how pro casters roll!

AxS.Sorathez · Fri, 29th-Jun-2012, 6:00 PM

Will Rico, remember, if all else fails... MAKE MARINES

On topic:
Good blog ! +1

AxSGRiM · Fri, 29th-Jun-2012, 6:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xGKingJazBas

There is no right way to play this game.

There is a right way to improve this game though.

Agreed, but what about Stephano?

EveMassacrisM · Fri, 29th-Jun-2012, 8:25 PM

The rage is strong with this one.

I agree that casters should never bash players though.

Fairyking · Sat, 30th-Jun-2012, 2:50 PM

I really like this post ^_^, generally when I am helping lower league players I say nothing about what they actually build, I just try and get them to never get supply blocked and always spend their money with some efficiency, I like playing the more standard way but I just cant help but use DT's in almost every match up, just because they are so beast and Zeratul is a boss.

Fairyking · Sat, 30th-Jun-2012, 2:51 PM

Also Nerd tears taste nice :P

YurickHarmon · Sun, 1st-Jul-2012, 6:36 PM

On a similar note, i was recently talked down about by a GM zerg (whos name i did not ever learn, his cocaster kept referring to him by saying 'what do you feel as a high level zerg about what yurick is doing?') on a stream for a diamond level tournament. I found the experience of rewatching the stream to see what they said extremely disheartening and hard to do, but at the end of it found many areas in which i needed to improve. Do I think I played badly? Sure, to a point. Do I think my overall idea was horrible? Not so much.

I just wanted to agree with your sentiment on playing how you want to, this 'gm zerg' seemed to think that I was doing terrible things by inefficiently trading roaches against a meching terran, and yes, it eventually failed, but to say that the strategy is invalid just because of my poor execution seems pretty silly.

On the other side of the coin, had I not had such a critical caster of my game, I don't think I would have gone to the efforts I have to shore up my Zerg vs Mech playstyle and decision making, as i was thoroughly embarassed by my performance.