A friend of Lunch-chan, Dingle, and myself invited us and a few other people over last night (the 28th) to play some StarCraft, LAN style. The three of us who play regularly were pretty positive the other players, who were all fairly new, would find themselves in deeper than they could imagine.
Had we actually played [...]
“Another thing to consider is this: The more time you spend watching your commands being executed the less time you’ll have to give new commands. The efficient player will always be giving commands but will never be watching them being executed. It’s a matter of trusting yourself with being able to give commands without missclicking [...]
Had another match against Lunch, his Zerg versus my Protoss. He 9 pooled into fast Mutas then rushed to Hive tech. Since he didn’t pressure with his 9 pool, I was a little confused at first. Perhaps after his lings killed my scout he wanted to keep them there to kill any further scouts. Since [...]
Played with Lunch and Dingle today. Honestly, and I suppose to my discredit, I expected to win every game against Dingle; however, he bested me Terran vs. Terran. Admittedly, I’ve played Terran the least of the 3 races, but he straight up had a counter build to mine and I ignored that fact, thinking that [...]
Played more against Lunch’s Zerg today, three matches.
First was a bumbling example of my ineptitude with Protoss. My build order was shabby, bad macro, accidentally built two Cybernetics Cores, pretty much stinked it up. However, it was to my credit that neiher myself nor Lunch knew the map, because it ended up delaying his early [...]
Okay, doing this one in retrospective. Not quite the precedent I want to set, but I’ll take it. On the suggestion of Professor Boling, I’m going to try to start tracking my progress with StarCraft in order to see what sort of insights I could pull to inform, perhaps…. the problem space of a capstone [...]