[Starcraft 2] New Un-borked thread! Maybe the forums could be less of a ass hole?

Sceptre

Why is Starcraft 2 awesome?

This is why Starcraft 2 is awesome.

Rumble in the Bronze II sign-ups!

Do you think you got what it takes to be humiliated in front of thousands of viewers? Does your ego need to be completed flattened by InControl? If so, you've got what it takes to be a player in the second Rumble in the Bronze tournament going down this December. More details to come!

For now, send a PM to @joek and @mncdover if you think you've got what it takes!

Replay(s) of the day!

A noteworthy replay of the day donated by our forum-goers. Make sure to upload your replay submissions to gamereplays.org. And be a pal - mark your replay as ROTD material in your post.

MNC Dover wrote:

But how I craft stars?

Spoiler:

The SC2 thread goes a million miles per hour and will leave you in the dust if you aren't prepared. All things are open to discussion here from build orders, practice partners, race match-ups, tournament talk, and general bizarre Korean stuff. In order to keep up, I highly recommend you check out the following resources:

• General
  • Team Liquid. Team Liquid is the biggest Starcraft related fan site out on the Internet today. They follow everything Starcraft related including the pro scene. Many great articles, forums, and information can be found here. A must bookmark for any Starcraft fan.
  • Wellplayed.org. Starcraft 2 aggregation site from the SCReddit group.
• Talk shows
  • State of the Game podcast. The pillars of the starcraft 2 community --- JP, EGIncontrol, Liquid`Tyler, and Day[9] --- talk (mostly) about current events in the starcraft community every Tuesday.
• Educational
  • Help guides for new players painstakingly created by fellow forum goers. Please read these first before asking questions.
  • The PA location for our ever growing list of guides. Bookmark and contribute today!
  • The Day[9] Daily Live Stream. Sean "Day9" Plott is an 11 year Starcraft veteran, so he knows his shit. He does a live stream Sunday through Thursday that airs 7pm PST/10pm EST. If you miss a stream, you can watch it, and every other streams he's ever done, in his archives. BOOKMARK HIS SITES! You will not be disappointed.
  • Starcraft II Liquipedia. Team Liquid has created a wikipedia site for everything SC2 related. This will be updated as time goes on and all information found here should be legit as possible.
  • Learn from the Pros with Mr. B Mr. Bitter aka Flabulous gets lessons from pros about how to play Starcraft and streams the whole thing for our learnings. He started with 12 weeks of zerg goodness and is now moving onto terran and protoss.
  • Common timings and when they hit. Exactly what it sounds like.
  • CecilSunkure's guide to improving efficiently at 1v1. A very good read if you find yourself in a rut with your improvement in 1v1 or if you don't know where to begin improving your game.

OK that's all cool, but I want to play with some PA people.

Spoiler:

1) Log into Battle.net and join channel PA (on the NA realm). We all hang out there. Chat, 1v1 lobbies, and team shenanigans are always going on!

2) Sign up for a replay site such as gamereplays.org or drop.sc. This is a site where you can upload your replays. The perfect way to share your replays with the thread and get advice on how to get better. Gamereplays lets you post the cool banner that you frequently see on the internets and drop.sc lets you upload replays without having to create a new account.

3) Register with the PA SC2 1v1 Ranking site. Sign up for this awesome site to see where you stand amongst fellow PA members. Remember, this is important in the nurturing and expanding of your e-peen. Add yourself by clicking on [Manage Characters] on the top right side.

4) Sign up for the PA mumble page. Sign up if you want to chat with fellow PA users during games or watching tournaments. Thanks to Exoplasm for hosting the service and providing the step-by-step process for installing mumble.

JK. I like watching Starcraft instead. Where can I watch some good games?

Spoiler:

Major tournaments. Starcraft is e-sports. Follow these major tournaments and you will not be disappoint.

• The GSL. The premiere korean starcraft 2 league. Where the best go to play. Casted by Tastosis, the casting archon.
• The TSL. Team Liquid's major tournament where foreigners stomp koreans and everyone attributes it to lag.
• Major League Gaming. North American e-sports powerhouse now features Starcraft 2 (as long as their stream is online). "tahts halo dont worry".
• North American Star League. The upstart league headed by fan-favorites Incontrol and Gretorp. $400k up for grabs in the first season alone.
• IGN Pro League. Everyone's getting into e-sports, even IGN! 16 of the top players from North America duking it out for fabulous prizes.
  

And those are only the major ones! Follow the Team Liquid Tournament Tracker for more competitive goodness.

Streams. Perhaps you prefer something more intimate. Maybe watching starcraft 2 like it's Being John Malkovich? Thanks to the power of the Internet, there are infinity streams available for your voyeuristic pleasure. Here are our favorites.

• General commentary
  • Seguer. Aussie protoss currently casting the Taiwan Clan League.
  • The Wood League Allstars. A bunch of PA people streaming for your enjoyment.
  • The Day[9] Daily Live Stream.
  • HD Starcraft.
  • HuskyStarcraft.
  • TotalBiscuit.
• Terran
  • Liquid`TLO
  • Trump
  • Hashe
  • ROOTDrewbie
  • Liquid`Jinro
• Protoss
  • Lemming
  • Hill (Zombie Monkey)
  • EGIncontrol
  • Grubby
  • Liquid`Tyler
  • Liquid`HuK
  • TtWhiteRa
• Zerg
  • EGIdra
  • ROOTDestiny
  • MrBitter
  • Spanishiwa
  • Sheth

Want more streams? Check out Teamliquid's live video stream page for more goodness.

And last but certainly not least!

I am king of SC2.

Lemming Smells.

PantsB

SC2 threads are just OP and the forums can't take it

Sage v Bomber w00t

kedinik

Good thread title.

How did that ZvT with bomber go?

I did not think the high-econ banelings would work.

PantsB

kedinik wrote:

Good thread title.

How did that ZvT with bomber go?

I did not think the high-econ banelings would work.

Well it did no help when he made a 2nd infestation pit instead of ultralisk den but that probably wasn't the deciding factor

kedinik

p.s., why have they been talking about "you know big mistake by sage, he should have chased, except he could not have done that without warping in stalkers instead of sentries, and of course he didn't have money for stalkers, and stalkers would not have worked, and bomber lost a few units but he could have been ok and really he's in a weak position where IF THE HYPOTHETICAL CHASE HAD HAPPENED he would have been dead and needed a bunker, except he did need a bunker any ways, although really he's ok" for the last 5 minutes.

stimtokolos

I have lost games by making a second infestation pit instead of ultra caverns before.
I am therefor just as good as that pro.

PantsB

kedinik wrote:

p.s., why have they been talking about "you know big mistake by sage, he should have chased, except he could not have done that without warping in stalkers instead of sentries, and of course he didn't have money for stalkers, and stalkers would not have worked, and bomber lost a few units but he could have been ok and really he's in a weak position where IF THE HYPOTHETICAL CHASE HAD HAPPENED he would have been dead and needed a bunker, except he did need a bunker any ways, although really he's ok" for the last 5 minutes.

Because Wolf doesn't know what he's talking about, especially in PvT? He constantly misreads the situation and Doa goes along.

Like in the end there. Sage catches Bombers army out and kills it almost for free and counter attacks. Bomber kills the natural, they assume Sage is dead but instead he's about to kill the main and natural of Bomber

Sceptre

I have won games by making two twilight councils by mistake. My blink + charge timing push was the best.

Dhalphir

Wolf doesn't know what he's talking about, he says "like" even more than the most braindead of teenage idiot girls, he raises his voice at the end of every sentence like he's constantly asking questions, he CONSTANTLY tries to make random off-the-wall remarks and jokes, blatantly and pathetically trying to emulate Tastosis, except they aren't ever funny, not even occasionally funny the way Tastosis are.

And while Doa is okay himself, when paired with Wolf he looks awful because he goes along with everything Wolf says. In short, Wolf is a terrible caster, and ruins other casters along with him.

redraptor

I wish they would get a good caster on the GSL like HD.

Euphemon

Code A really needs a good analytical caster. Moletrap is just...Moletrappy. Wolf used to be a lot better, but now he's all of the things Dhal has already said. Doa and Khaldor are good, maybe even great, play by play casters, but they need someone good that they can be paired with. Someone like Apollo.

Lemming

Noooo my thread ;-;

stimtokolos

It is ok, Dover doesn't have it.

Henroid

Not to sink anyones battleship but are you sure the Daylight Savings nonsense didn't fool you? Apparently posts are being inserted in chronological order.

Sceptre

Noooo my thread ;-;