Hi!I'm gaulzi, an Icelandic protoss player playing for the Icelandic team GEGT1337. I started playing SC2 in february 2011 with absolutely no RTS experience behind me (except for C&C in the year 1995!). I started out in bronze league the first season and managed to move up one league every season since then, except for GM which I reached roughly a year after reaching masters.I'm not sure when exactly, but when I was around gold level I started cannon rushing every PvP. I think it was after I got cannon rushed in a 2v2 game and later on saw MC cannon rush in the GSL, when I fell in love with that strategy. What a crazy troll build where you can win a game without making a single unit (except for probes)!Here's a little review of the year 2012 which surprisingly turned out to be a little different than I expected.Here's when my MMR got decent. I did stupid things like streamsniping known streamers like orb, MaximusBlack and TubbyTheFat (please note that streamsniping is not the same as streamcheating!). Although I was a total douchebag by doing that to these guys, I feel like I actually did them a favor by giving them a practice against cannon rushes!My MMR kept skyrocketing, partly because of my techniques developing and on the other hand players not being experienced against it. By the end of that month I had already played against and beaten oGsVINES who was rank 1 GM on the NA server at that time.Here's when my stream got famous. After the orb fiasco and having sniped MaximusBlack quite often, people started knowing me. I started streaming with the stream title "high level cannon rushing! :D". I was so happy one day when I peaked at 70 viewers! Later that day, me and my friends had rented a house with a 100Mbit fiber connection and invited ~20 people to come and play starcraft over the weekend. I decided to have the stream running while laddering at the LAN and suddenly realized I had 1200 viewers watching me cannon rushing every game on ladder!In the end of the month I got featured on Day[9]'s funday monday episode #455. That was awesome. Youtube:

These months were pretty quiet. In the beginning of may I spent all my time on preparing for and taking exams. The day after my last exam I went on a 3 week graduation trip with my friends from school (although I wont graduate until may this year!). June, July and the first 2 weeks of august I just worked 12+ hours a day almost every day of the week, driving a tourist bus around Iceland, so there was very little time for StarCraft.After working like a mad man all summer I decided to make a dream come true. I bought a plane ticket to Raleigh, booked a hotel and rented a Ford Crown Victoria sofa on wheels. Me and my friend/teammate Majesty went there and competed in the 2012 MLG Summer Championship. After we had been traveling since 8am GMT to around mightnight EST (20 hours) we finally arrived at the hotel on wednesday night. At the hotel we met a bunch of cool people, including MaximusBlack, desRow and my awesome friends from SMD clan!In the tournament I managed to get to LB round 6, notably beating RemarK a high GM protoss on the NA server and taking a map off EGDeMusliM in my last match.After spending 5 days in Raleigh, we drove down to Florida, spent a night in Jacksonville, 4 nights in Orlando and 1 night in Fort Lauderdoodle. These 12 days in USA were probably the most fun I've had in my life.After I ended up in the top 88 at MLG Raleigh, I got an invite into an invite-only online qualifier for MLG Dallas.I was put up against desRow in the first game but his internet connection died when we were about to start our games so I ended up getting a free win over him.In the second game I met Grubby. The series started with me winning the first map on Entombed Valley. The second map was Daybreak and now Grubby was a little bit better prepared for the cannons. I still managed to get up some cannons and almost killed his nexus. Had the game in my hands but somehow managed to throw it away after being 21 probes vs 11! The third map was Ohana and this time Grubby opened up with a forge and forced me into a standard game which he won pretty easily.After getting knocked down to the losers bracket by Grubby I met ESC Daisy. He made his gateways at 10 supply both games and chronoboosted out stalkers, which is one of the best counters to a cannon rush. After he beat me 0-2 I was completely knocked out of that qualifier.In the beginning of november I flew out to Dallas to compete in the 2012 MLG Fall Championship. I got seeded straight into WB round 5 thanks to my performance at MLG Raleigh.In the first game I was up against LiquidRet who 8pooled me twice in a row, forcing me into a standard game which he won pretty easily.In the second game I was up against coLSasquatch. The series started with me taking the lead 1-0 after a successful cannon rush on Daybreak. Map 2 was Ohana where I did a proxy 2gate coinflip. He spotted one of my gateways with his overlord and reacted immediately by making lings, queens and spines. Map 3 was Antiga Shipyard where he opened up with 10 pool to prevent the cannon rush. I was forced into a standard game where I tried to do some kind of an immortal sentry push. He went mutas and crushed me pretty easily. I might have had a chance in the last game if I wasn't supply blocked 50% of the game.By losing both my games I still ended up in top 57-72 thanks to my seed! xDIn the beginning of of december, one of my awesome viewers gave me fresh accounts on SEA and KR/TW server. I reached GM on SEA server in 6 hours (VOD: http://www.twitch.tv/gaulzi/b/344274463 ) and Master league on KR/TW server with 38 games played.Was busy for the rest of the month with exams and spending time with my brother who came for a visit from Denmark over the christmas. Played on my EU barcode account off stream and got really high MMR and finally got what I've been working on for all this time. Grandmaster on EU server (VOD: http://www.twitch.tv/gaulzi/b/355568275?t=24m40s ).Download link: https://notendur.hi.is/gua25/GEGTgaulzi2012replaypack.zip Download link: https://notendur.hi.is/gua25/GEGTgaulzi2013gmreplaypack.zip



* Spend a lot of time on my studies so I can graduate with B.Sc in mechanical engineering this spring.* Work on my standard play and see if I can actually get good at the game.* Promote my team and the Icelandic scene* Try to spend more of my free time on streaming!Reached GM on SEA server in 6 hours from placement matches. Link: http://www.twitch.tv/gaulzi/b/344274463 Reached Master league on KR/TW server.Reached GM on EU server with cannon rushing after playing the games for 2 years with no RTS experience. Link to promotion game: http://www.twitch.tv/gaulzi/b/355568275?t=24m40s Got featured on Day[9]'s funday monday. Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMLo7s7sbZU Competed in 2 MLGs, got to top 73-88 at MLG Raleigh 2012 and top 57-72 at MLG Dallas 2012My stream: http://www.twitch.tv/gaulzi My Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/GEGTgaulzi My Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/GEGTgaulzi In the end I want to thank all of my wonderful streamviewers for supporting me! <3