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Lately I've been trying to figure out ways to make Starcraft 2 more appealing to community members that have difficulties with mechanics and such (myself included, lol). I've sponsored some showmatches, tried to hype the idea of a TL league (which for organizational reasons proved unlikely to happen anytime soon)
One thing that's really useful is being coached by a progamer, that can help a lot when you don't have as much time as the others to invest in figuring things out by yourself, or just parts of the game seem too daunting after #TryHardMode. So I just thought of this - how about starting a system where a randomly chosen member of TL gets coached by a progamer; I know a few progamers that offer coaching and are really good at it, so I think this could be good to try.
- this can be monthly or semimonthly, will see how/if it works + feedback - i need ideas on which criteria to choose the one that is coached - i will handle the progamer's payment - maybe streamed? - due to language barrier reasons, this will most probably happen with non-Korean progamers only - coaching for any level (excluding GM of course)
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Personally I'd kinda like to see someone who's never played the game being coached if it were even semi-public. I don't know if many of them are on the site (people who have been purely spectators but would like to try playing), but if so I think it would be an interesting exercise to see how a pro would teach the game from scratch, and how a player would develop with pro coaching.
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Doesn't sound like a bad idea at all. Hope this gets the support it deserves.
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On December 29 2014 03:42 Quincel wrote: Personally I'd kinda like to see someone who's never played the game being coached if it were even semi-public. I don't know if many of them are on the site (people who have been purely spectators but would like to try playing), but if so I think it would be an interesting exercise to see how a pro would teach the game from scratch, and how a player would develop with pro coaching.
Probably not many of them on this site, but if you wanted to go that direction, it could be some progamers family member or something, that might even add value to it being streamed.
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On December 29 2014 03:48 Jarcraft wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2014 03:42 Quincel wrote: Personally I'd kinda like to see someone who's never played the game being coached if it were even semi-public. I don't know if many of them are on the site (people who have been purely spectators but would like to try playing), but if so I think it would be an interesting exercise to see how a pro would teach the game from scratch, and how a player would develop with pro coaching. Probably not many of them on this site, but if you wanted to go that direction, it could be some progamers family member or something, that might even add value to it being streamed.
That would indeed make it even more watchable. Nice thought.
EDIT: I meant that sincerely, but it reads really rude. Apologies.
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Wasn't there a service called GosuCoaching where NA progamers would coach people for a fee? I used to see their ads on NASL. Presumably though since pros were doing this for money there was no thought to streaming these to the public.
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On December 29 2014 04:28 Yakikorosu wrote: Wasn't there a service called GosuCoaching where NA progamers would coach people for a fee? I used to see their ads on NASL. Presumably though since pros were doing this for money there was no thought to streaming these to the public. Yep there was. They had some EU players like Ret too IIRC.
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On December 29 2014 04:48 TR wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2014 04:28 Yakikorosu wrote: Wasn't there a service called GosuCoaching where NA progamers would coach people for a fee? I used to see their ads on NASL. Presumably though since pros were doing this for money there was no thought to streaming these to the public. Yep there was. They had some EU players like Ret too IIRC.
Nerdupgrades is still a functioning website that worked really well for outlining and describing the coaching purposes. I think in general though most people who want coaching now and days just do it for a certain person's time, such as a streamer. Maybe it will make a most public resurgence during lotv when everyone is trying to learn but everyone has to keep in mind the reason people like koreans/top foreigners don't often coach is because they have a schedule and need to practice, plus of course, their own free time.
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On December 29 2014 03:42 Quincel wrote: Personally I'd kinda like to see someone who's never played the game being coached if it were even semi-public. I don't know if many of them are on the site (people who have been purely spectators but would like to try playing), but if so I think it would be an interesting exercise to see how a pro would teach the game from scratch, and how a player would develop with pro coaching. I never played the game. I used to watch Broowar with moletrap. And now I'm studying computer science and I always watch Sc2 to relax. I watch Pro League with Bradon/Artosis/Tastless/Wolf. I watch Dreamhacks, its kinda like my meditation to watch those keyboardwarriors beatdown on Keyboards lol.
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- coaching for any level (excluding GM of course)
Why would you exclude GM? People who are that dedicated to the game and still at least worse than pros in some aspects probably want in, too
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On December 29 2014 05:44 Cyro wrote:Why would you exclude GM? People who are that dedicated to the game and still at least worse than pros in some aspects probably want in, too Harstem got coaching from a guy who was a high master cannon rusher. There's never too late to learn!
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