Hi there and welcome to my blog! I am Philip van Schalkwyk, but in Starcraft 2 I will be known as PrinsKarnati – 251 on the European server. Feel free to add me! The main purpose of this blog is to document my progress in Starcraft 2. The model of “training” I am going am going to follow was inspired by two Day[9] dailies. I am not 100% sure which one’s they are now, but as soon as I find out I will post them.

Anyway, some more information about my history with Starcraft. I never really played Broodwar, kind of missed that era. When I was at university I played a couple of games, but there wasn’t really a lot of other players playing the game so I never put in too much effort. We mostly played DotA and Counterstrike 😛

When Starcraft 2 was released, I didn’t waste any time in getting it. I spent the first couple of weeks on finishing the campaign and doing the challenges. It was quite a challenge to get them all on gold, but at last I made it. I then took a chance and started playing 1v1 ladder. I got owned a lot, and got placed in Bronze. During season 1 I spent most of my time in Silver, moved up to Gold for a while and then ended up in Silver again. Season 2 I also ended in Silver. My goal for season 3 is to place somewhere in Gold. I know this may not seam like very good, but I think that is what I can manage with my skill level.

Anyway, the two Day[9] dailies my practice is based on was the following two: The first one was a PvP steal this build daily and the second one was one of the dailies on refining a build and improving. The one about refining suggested that you document the following about a game: What went wrong, why did it go wrong and what are you going to do to fix it. This blog is basically the place where I will document these steps.

The build that I “stole” from the daily is:

9 Pylon

10 Gateway

11 Assimilator

14 CyCore

16 Pylon

21 Assimilator

22 Robo

22 Pylon

22 Gateway

This build was “invented” to counter a Protoss 4 gate by having immortals very early. I have found this build to be very effective against Protoss, effective against Terran and very effective against Zerg going mass roaches early.

I know this isn’t the best build in all situations, but I will start adding other builds once I can do this one with my eyes closed and my hands behind my back.

Well, this is all for now, I will post a replay as an example of this build to say good night with:

Example of the build