Hello my friends and foes it has been a while. Its me the one and only stodd who made the infamous PvZ Zerg is op blog post a few years back. Ive taken a huge break from starcraft about close to a years worth. Every now and again during hots id play like team games but 1v1 i had stopped grinding since i gotten into CS:GO back in early 2014. With the release of LOTV i felt that i needed to purchase the expansion for the sake of finishing off the starcraft 2 campaign (which btw if you havent... [Read More]
Hi I'm Stodd a protoss player. Some of you may know me for my 1 base shenanigans on ladder or for my rant blog on how broken zerg is. Today however i have important question to ask to the community of today.
First off a statement that will lead to my question. You see, i've been playing this game since early WoL days where warping on the high ground was possible and zerg's broodlord infestor was practically unbeatable once it hit late game. Long ago i used to hang out with these GM's in a... [Read More]
Yes this is a rant and yes i am mad bro so dont ask...
Clan IMI, aka clan immortal is a new clan to have risen into the NA scene. They have some pretty decent plays and are quite competitive in their clan wars. They also like to help one another. Sounds like a bunch of cool guys eh? Well i thought the same as well.
About a few months ago, when i was about top diamond at the time on NA (currently mid diamond :P) i notice IMI was taking in diamond players and thought "oh cool i have heard... [Read More]
Ok, so i have lost 5 games in a row recently on ladder (nothing spechial people have been on longer losing streaks) but what grinds my gears if the fact that 3 of those 5 losses were due to battle.net dropping me midway into the game and its not my internet of computer its the server itself (on NA). Like, what the hell battle.net I wanna move up the ladder not down... Get your crap togethour.
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"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would... [Read More]
Im gonna try and push myself to ladder more and to get better. By the end of the year (when its holidays and i finish schooling) im going to push to become a better player more then ever. I wanna achieve professional status. I want to be up there with players like moonglade, pet, iaguz, light, satu and all the other SEA pro's and other pro's in general. Whether anyone would wanna join me in this journey is up to you.
I wanna have the chance to show some pro players (not going to name them)... [Read More]
It saddens me, SEA GM has hit
lowest of lows
(currently 44 as i have made this blog) can at times take a bit to find a game, bearly no one in public chats and with chats like (yes this is in a way a shout out) mgg and noobschool the only major active chats i know of (that I KNOW of there might be more) that seem to be somewhat active.
Theres comes a point where a game as a community or as the game itself comes to a dying end and it saddens me it comes so soon for SEA and slowly for... [Read More]
Ok this isnt a QQ with balance but its something i'm sure almost every sc2 player on ladder has experienced and its quite frustrating.
WHEN TERRANS FLOAT THERE BASE AND FORCE A TIE
This has happened to me way too many times where i think a game is won where i smash the terran and he forces a base race and floats his barracks and/or cc or starport etc... this has also happened to Mafia when he versed a terran on ladder in ZvT and mafia destroys this Terran but then the terran finds a... [Read More]
As some may know, I'm currently a diamond level Protoss player and wants to know the secret/s to extending ones knowledge for the game in order to break into GM for any server.
So i ask other Grandmaster players or former Grandmaster players out there what did they do to achieve Grandmaster the first time they did and there journey to get there. Also some advice whether flat out ladder games or just constant prac vs GM and even master players will get me to achieve this goal quicker.... [Read More]
For the past week i have been on tilt like never before, losing 70% of my games (estimate) and things were looking bad, as the new season opened up i did my placement and demoted to platinum, which was sadly expected. Me in shock i laddered for like 8 games, lost 6 of them and was worried. So i decided to redo my placement (bad mistake) lost to a silver zerg (which btw he seemed better then some diamond zergs i have played but w/e) and then demoted AGAIN to gold league. That was the last straw,... [Read More]
Basically i wanna hear what kind of macro builds other protoss players around players do verses terran. Willing to try new stuff because i find all ins are good to a point where i need macro to beat the higher league players. :P
Hello there, its QEDStodd here (also known as the QQ zerg guy -_-) here to ask a simple question, has HOTS done what it was ment to do? Other then keep a epic campaign on a roll to bring back and make the game StarCraft 2 back stronger then ever?
Im my opinion i can't really say because... well i don't own hots quite yet so i wanted to hear your opinions and what would you do to improve HOTS if needed?... [Read More]
Ok i thought this had to be pointed out, as i write this blog there is currently only about 100 GM's on SEA and i wouldn't be lying if about 30% of them aren't even active enough to stay as GM. A lot of our pro's (who i won't mention for confidential reasons) have purposely or accidentally dropped out of GM or don't ladder to GM for reasons like...
1. i heard GM's say stuff like you can win like 2-8 points but then lose 20-30 on the ladder which makes spending the bonus pool difficult.
Before i start my rant, i know zerg isn't totally impossible but i just feel that its a race that leans on the OP side and needs to be discussed.
Zerg is legit a pain to verse, everytime i see a PvZ on ladder i cant help but cringe and feel a little fustrated already knowing theres a 94% chance i've lost this game. I try EVERYTHING. The immortal sentry, 1 base 4 gate +1, 1 base dt, 2 base blink +2 push even just standered macro, but nothing works. No matter how hard i dare try i just lose to... [Read More]
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