starcraft 2

[rtil]

for the last week every day i've gone 50/50 in my win/loss ratio. i usually lose to cheese

[Fuzz]

I'm not sure why, but I've lost every game in the platinum league, but somehow, I went up a spot.  

[psi43]

I'm not sure why, but I've lost every game in the platinum league, but somehow, I went up a spot.  

cause people above you drop

[rtil]

it could also indicate a new player entering the league. you always start at the bottom if you're coming straight out of your ranked matches

[Fuzz]

Ahh that would make sense. Any ideas what the whole "Favored" or "Slightly Favored" things indicate? Because... I've looked into and nobody can seem to figure it out.

I've gone up against Diamond leaguers while in the Bronze league, and they're only "slightly Favored". I don't get it.

[rtil]

when i was kicked out of platinum to silver, i went from having 6 points to having 120 points. they're not equal in each division. bad higher league players might be being re-evaluated by the ladder system and being pitted against players it thinks it's matched more appropriately against.

[psi43]

Ahh that would make sense. Any ideas what the whole "Favored" or "Slightly Favored" things indicate? Because... I've looked into and nobody can seem to figure it out.

I've gone up against Diamond leaguers while in the Bronze league, and they're only "slightly Favored". I don't get it.

um isn't that obvious
favored = player in the higher league/higher rank in the same league
slightly favored = player just a few ranks above you

n00b

[Fuzz]

Ahh that would make sense. Any ideas what the whole "Favored" or "Slightly Favored" things indicate? Because... I've looked into and nobody can seem to figure it out.

I've gone up against Diamond leaguers while in the Bronze league, and they're only "slightly Favored". I don't get it.

um isn't that obvious
favored = player in the higher league/higher rank in the same league
slightly favored = player just a few ranks above you

n00b

I've gone up against Diamond leaguers while in the Bronze league, and they're only "slightly Favored".

[psi43]

Ahh that would make sense. Any ideas what the whole "Favored" or "Slightly Favored" things indicate? Because... I've looked into and nobody can seem to figure it out.

I've gone up against Diamond leaguers while in the Bronze league, and they're only "slightly Favored". I don't get it.

um isn't that obvious
favored = player in the higher league/higher rank in the same league
slightly favored = player just a few ranks above you

n00b

I've gone up against Diamond leaguers while in the Bronze league, and they're only "slightly Favored".

they're only slightly favored because they aren't REALLY in diamond anymore. They lost so many games that they're actually in bronze or silver, it just didn't update them yet. That's what happened to me in gold.

[rtil]

i think i'm getting the hang of zerg. i've won my last 6 ranked matches in a row. i love how the zerg play, very fast paced and lots of things to do. i do best when i'm busy

one thing to take advantage of, at least in my silver league, is that no matter what race someone plays, they always seem to spend a ton of resources walling off and making their main impenetrable with pc/mt/sc. this allows you the freedom to build up a much larger army, deny expansions, expand yourself, and defend against their waves until their resources run dry. at that point, you just have to widdle them down until they realize there's nothing they can do except watch their buildings slowly die.

[Ashington]

That was some fun SC2 playing the other night, first time i've played properly in a while, that video clip of the best moment is golden too who's the awesome guy marine blobbing his shit?  

[Fuzz]

I love you Ash.

[rtil]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-elIkhVhU

i almost quit zerg yesterday but i changed my build and i'm playing zerg again.

my issue is early pressure from terrans and protoss. but this build gets a roach army up fast enough to fight them. hell, you can even have hydras up before they come.

15 pool
14 gas
15 hatch
18 roach warren

and that's pretty much it. with your main fully saturated, set up defenses at the natural. hydras are important if they decide to go air harass

[Ashington]

http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/94...oolio.SC2Replay

First time doing FFA, kinda annoyed he left early cause from the end game stats i could tell i could've broken down his Battlecruiser/Thor mob very easily with a little more time.

[rtil]

http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/download.php?f=2830
weirdest terran i've ever played against.

[rtil]

woo went 4-0 tonight, but lost a 2v2

2 good come from behind replays as zerg

zvt - hydras and overseers save my ass
http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/1/...20cfb.SC2Replay

zvt - banelings save my ass
http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/1/...react.SC2Replay

and here's a bad 2v2 replay with my bad teammate whose response to everything is mass vikings
http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/1/...0suck.SC2Replay

[Ashington]

Wow that 2v2 was pretty bad, you maybe should've used more roaches against those stalkers but your teammate was a complete retard, constantly sending in aircraft against a mob that's pretty much shot them down with little to no trouble.



Also i played Protoss for the first time giving them a practice spin in a FFA game, i pretty much winged it and i think against competent opponents i'd have died quickly, but i managed to pull a win out my ass somehow.

http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/94...0yeah.SC2Replay

[rtil]

there was no way i couldve won that game i was basically fighting by my own at the end. at least he acknowledged that he was sucking. he's probably one of those players that does the same thing over and over again even if it doesn't work. the 1v1 games are way better

when you said "protoss" and "practice spin" in the same sentence, for a second i thought you were talking about practicing making probes spin around on the ground.

[Ashington]

Kind of dumb when you consider the terrans are largely about being adaptive. If he'd been good you'd probably have won considering you guys expanded quicker and had a larger force sooner.

also i completely forgot to try that out, will have to do that next protoss game i play!

[rtil]

yeah i would say that terrans can change their build faster than any other race. all those resources he spent on vikings should have gone to teched up marauders.