Honestly i have had such a cool time hanging out at my lecturers house for the last three days. If you read my last post you will have seen the pics of the place, just green fields and horses all around. The best thing of all is that the Internet connection here seems to have sorted itself out so finally could get battle.net and GOMtv to work! :)
In amongst all this lovely chilling out and getting back on the Starcraft horse i also managed to finish my final major project for the Media degree i am doing. Well hang on that's wrong: the degree i have now officially finished! Woop Woop!!! Anyway i wont bore you all with any more context, lets get down to the game.
Six games on the ladder all in all. Three won and three lost. Not a bad ratio but i am not happy with myself at all! Completely failed to pull of the build orders i am trying to learn and that's what lost me the games. Two of the wins came down to just doing that 3Rax semi-all-in build order that is doing the rounds, the other two wins were pure luck. In these games i went for variations of the 1/1/1 and just got lucky. I didn't scout effectively but neither did my opponent so it came down to games like: I go fast siege tank, they go roach, I win... Boring and not games that i feel good about. Maybe I'm being hard on myself but you've got to be if you want to get better at something.
Ratings to this Protoss player i came up against by the way. Can't remember his tag off the top of my head and stupidly i didn't save the reply, which is something i need to get in the habit of! He was the only person i played today who held off the 3Rax semi-all-in and went for a crazy counter. So the game went like this:
I get to the point of pushing with the 3Rax build and go for it with about 7 SCVs set on attack command at the tip of my army. Rax are rallied and all looks good. I get to his base and see he has an expansion up, a cannon to defend and not many units on the map. But whats that tucked behind his mineral line at the expo??? A forge!
Now this guy knows his micro far better than me so i do some silly miss-clicking and lose my army. I manage to take out the expo but stupidly leave the forge. At this point i just didn't think what seeing that forge could mean for his unit composition later game.
I'm back at home with a pretty undefended expo up and hiding behind my wall like a scared rabbit in the headlights. Here it comes, his push: Just a few zealots so nothing to worry about, one or two stalkers but something seems off. Then i notice units are dieing all over the place! DTs!!! S**T!!!
Then the High Templars come, storms are going off and bang goes my defense! GG :(
After this OK but bitter feeling day session on the ladder i got to watch the MarineKing games from the GSL Super Tournament. Wicked stuff, there is so much to learn from watching him about how to exploit the strengths of Terran > I love that guys and just check out the last game in this match -->
MarineKing vs Revival
Got to be one of the best win celebrations in the history of Starcaft!
And also a big shout out to BitCrusher Records for the amazing free music. I urge everyone to check them out and donate a little cash if you like what you find!
Anyway. Good to see all you pretty people. see you on the ladder :)
Peace out peeps
JC
