[ZachFreeman]

I feel like learning to execute a really tight timing when you are a lower league player will help you a lot more than learning how to properly macro / scouting / counters will. You will win a lot more games and can gradually sneak in a few macro games here and there.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by ZachFreeman

I feel like learning to execute a really tight timing when you are a lower league player will help you a lot more than learning how to properly macro / scouting / counters will. You will win a lot more games and can gradually sneak in a few macro games here and there.

I disagree with this 100%. Winning games does not necessitate improvement.

Focusing on macro is by far the best thing you can do up to and probably beyond if your goal is to improve as quickly and efficiently as possible. You cannot execute a proper timing with poor macro, and often times with cheeses it's the constant reinforcing stream of units that decides the game - you are playing on a razor's edge with army size so early in the game. Especially at low levels of the play it is really easy to hold cheese that is inevitably poorly executed. In Bronze, sure, it can be frustrating facing cheesers and feeling helpless. But once you get your macro down to the point where you are always in a reasonable position to defend said cheese, it becomes really really easy, until much later when players have better unit control, make better decisions about what their units need to be attacking, etc

Cheese has its place in tournament play, and I recommend that even if you are a BSG player, you learn a cheese build if you are entering say, a BSG Open. But use them intelligently - only if you make it to the Bo3 stage, and only if you have a plan ("I want my opponent to know I'm prepared to cheese them so (s)he plays scared" or "I'm going to play super greedy game 1 then cheese game 2 when (s)he feels comfortable"). Cheese needs to be deployed with strategy, not "coz quick games LOL". The reason being, it can help you get wins against people at your level of play. It won't help you increase your level of play by anywhere near the amount that a macro game will.