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Indeed, I had the time of life. Even though I didn’t do too well in the tournament it was just a mind blowing experience. Blizzcon is amazing and I think it was really important for me to be there.I think I might have lost my fire for a while since I didn’t have many tournaments in Korea and things didn’t go too well but since Blizzcon and switching to Zerg, I have a smile on my face while playing again.Haha, I feel stupid for having played Terran for so long now, even though a while ago I said Terran is the race that suits me best. Apparently, I was wrong. I didn’t see the endless options and unused potential Zerg had back then. In many situation as a Terran I felt like I couldn’t really do anything, while as Zerg you can basically never play perfect in my opinion. I don’t think having 500 apm as Zerg would be enough, and you know what? That sounds a lot like supreme commander to me!Hmmm, I couldn’t really play Zerg a lot before Blizzcon because of GSL, and it’s really only now that I can fully embrace it and I must say it’s awesome. I come up with new styles and builds every day and some of them actually seem to work. I do quite okay in ranking games in house. Obviously my win rate is a lot lower than as a Terran still but I must say for 3 days of full Zerg practice and maybe 2 weeks of playing it a little, I am doing better than expected.What I just said - I am under constant strain when I play Zerg. You can never rest, no matter what is happening. There are always things to be done - spread creep, gain mapcontrol, fly overlords, harrass with a couple of overseers, burrow baneling, annoy with infestors, inject larva, heal units with queens, burrow units to heal. It’s sick!Hellions and nukes. ^^I definitely understand the match a lot better than the other too, as I obviously know the weaknesses and timings very well. Well, at least some of them - my TvZ style was not very mainstream so Bio sometimes catches me off guard.I still think it’s not really necessary, at least not 4. I was hoping for a 3.5 and thought that would be more than adequate.I usually aim for the late game in ZvZ, early game can be a hard sometimes but I thinkling/bling can be dealt with via roach+bling and some simcity quite effectively.Hmmm, it’s usually a healthy mix of Roaches/infestors Zerglings and some blings and a bunch of queens.Well I didn't expect to do so well yet since it was a quite new experience to play Zerg again. However I should have had won those games, and it was small stupid mistakes that cost me in the end. In the first game vs Sen I had a pretty nice sim city set and then just got my roaches out of position without any reason to do it. The 2nd game I had ultralisks ready and was on equal bases I think, but instead of waiting for more infestors and ultras I attacked too early into his roach only which cost me the game.Lets just say it makes it a lot easier for me to switch now. Playing zerg is not that hard right now so I can get into the race a little bit more comfortably again I am counting on a new patching changing things a little bit pretty soon, but I don't think its gonna make my playstyle impossible^^No not really, it felt pretty much the same to me to be honest.Being at an event at which tens of thousands of people who share the same passion! However, Blizzcon itself was nothing compared to the TL party! There are so many things I will remember from that weekend that it’s hard to even to try to make a list. It’s always a pleasure to hang with your fellow foreign progamers, and it’s really amazing how everyone gets along so well. Overall it was an overwhelming experience for me. Of course, next year the TL party will be bigger than Blizzcon itself so that’s what I am looking forward to the most!