Let me tell you a story of a little adventure i just had.But be warned: I'm no writer and mi inglish is maybe nod so gud sometaims. So, i'm in diamond league with a winratio of... oh wait i don't know, thanks blizzard. :D I was in masters every season pre season 3, then i stoped playing for a while to get through exams and such. Then season 3 hit and i played my placement match, got into diamond... things even got worse when i went about 3-10 after that.
No more 1on1 for some time after that. Alot of 2on2's later i decided to make my way into masters again. Last week i beat my first season 3 masters player; he was offracing (damn ^^).
Fast forward to today, i finally get to play some master players that are not offracing, and to my surprise i even win most of the games. So I'm 8-5 when this happens:
The Game:
The map is Shattered Temple and we spawn in close ground positions. The fact that there are close positions on this map eludes me and i make my way across the map after placing a pylon in my natural. FFE all the way!
9 pylon
12 forge
from here it depends on scouting; this game:
15 cannon
16 pylon
20 nexus
22 gate
23 gas gas
from now on there are no more fixed numbers, i just chrono my probes as much as i can and build -> core right after gateway -> twilight council right after core etc. 2 chronos are used on warp and 2 on blink
12 forge
from here it depends on scouting; this game:
15 cannon
16 pylon
20 nexus
22 gate
23 gas gas
from now on there are no more fixed numbers, i just chrono my probes as much as i can and build -> core right after gateway -> twilight council right after core etc. 2 chronos are used on warp and 2 on blink
When i finaly arrive at my opponents base i see that he went for a 14pool 15 hatch build but the pool is almost done so i send little proberto out of dronaldos base to scout for a possible 3rd hatch ( all the way across the map again ^^) No 3rd, so back to the zergs base, because my core just started and i want to see if i can get some usefull information (allins).
To my surprise i see a spinecrawler at the zergs natural (normaly people try to roach allin at this point, especially in this positions), so in my head there are 2 scenarios unfolding: A) he actually wants to play a macro game or B) he is totaly scared of an attack that is not even possible.
So i go and send a probe to build some pylons on the map for eventual attacks on 3rd or 4th bases but still get a cannon on my highground, i don't want him to march in with his roaches he built to defend a non existing attack.
My 5gates, warp and blink all finish at the same time (at least they should, not so tight macro this game but hey, i'm not even masters) so its time to move out a little and bait him into making units. Robo is building cause i want to scout his base asap and get rid of some creep.
While i catch a queen in between our bases, i warp in some zealots at his 3rd and kill 2 just started crawlers and the hatch after that. My fake push turned into a pretty real one when i realize i did in fact not turn around... getting owned by the units you wanted him to make so you could be AHEAD sucks quite a bit. At least we are on even bases (what i dont know is, i'm also 10 workers ahead of him)
At this point i resume macroing, kinda forgott about that - getting up to 1500mins. I usually expand behind my "fake push", and try to get some more gates and some colossi. At least +3 attack is on the way. Leaving my previously built observer and warpprism idle for some time, I build some gates and blink under some mutas as they try to kill a pylon. Finally i get around to move that observer I see him teching to a hive.
With no chance of getting a 3rd up anytime soon, i stop probe production and chrono my gates like a madman. 2 warp-ins and 1 colossus, ready to break down the rocks connecting our naturals. At this point i lost the sense for the game and just hoped that he teched to fast and got no units.
with a 15 food advantage (7 probes ahead at this point in time) i engage his army consisting of only a few mutas and a 2-2 upgraded lingcloud. No match for my 3-0 upgraded units the zerglings go up in flames. He pulles back and i follow him into his natural. Just as i FINALLY find my warpprism again, that provides some energy to warp in 5 zealots, instructed to kill the spire and later the infestor-thingy, he runs out of larvae and has to gg.
He leaves and i take my hands of keyboard/mouse to think about the game, shake my head over how i lost track of the game and drink some water. Time to watch the replay i guess. Hit the 's' button and bam!
you got promoted! throwing my fist in the air like HasuObs likes to do. Finally i am back. pre seasons 3 i took it for granted that i am in masters (silly me), but now i actually had to make up some builds and work on them.
1000th
I read a lot of "i got to D+" blogs, so i thought why not a "i got to masters" blog for a change (never made it to D+, my best was like 1700 with a mix of P and Z) - oh and i also needed a 1000th post. Hope it wasn't too bad. shout out to the ADT, i stalkt that thread regularly and got a lot of got animes out of it (damn you for 2 and a half episodes of school days though!)
On the off chance someone has a question about the build or wants more replays, feel free to ask.
Have a good day Team Liquid <3
link to the replay: http://sc2r.me/4e8h