amazingxkcd Profile Blog Joined September 2010 GRAND OLD AMERICA 15736 Posts Last Edited: 2013-12-11 20:45:11 #1



Now this is the story all about how the STL coverage got flipped, turned upside down and we'd like to take a minute just write right there, we'll tell you how we became the target of an admin in despair. In Skype Groups chained and enslaved, on the wordpad where we spent most of our days, chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool and all shooting some meme outside of the school, when a couple of guys, they were up to no good, started making trouble in our neighbourhood. This goes out to needless censorship. #CutForNiceLis #FightForYourRight #RadioFreeZerg





Reviews



sas vs AoV



Game 1 was Mad vs Skzlime on Oxide. Both players going for eco builds, with skzlime opting for the 14cc. Mad has quite good muta harrass to delay Skzlime’s push towards Mad’s 3rd. First upgrade that mad gets at hive tech is hydra speed + Show Spoiler [Writer group’s reactions] +



Sas 0-1 AoV



Game 2 featured dsaqwe vs Poetic on Collosseum II. Poetic goes for a BBS in the middle of the map, and Dsaqwe with the starsense scouts it immediately, and throws down a 2nd gateway and a shield battery and forges to get cannons up. Poetic pulls scvs but was super late with his attack, allowing for dsaqwe to easily hold with his zealots and holds. Poetic GGs right after



Sas 1-1 AoV



Game 3 on Outsider, Lumix walkover’ed Mortician







You brought this upon yourself Mortician

You brought this upon yourself Mortician



Sas 2-1 AoV



Game 4 on overwatch was Entaro vs Vorti where Vorti shows us a super gosu pool placement behind the mineral. I’m totally going to steal that. Entaro goes for the greedy forge nexus against Vorti’s overpool, but vorti was able to runby with 2 lings and get some harrass into Entaro’s main. Entaro opts for Sair/DT into storm/reavers on 2 base and does moderate harrass to vorti’s economy with meh storm drops, but really does nothing and Vorti just macro rolls over Entaro.



Sas 3-1 AoV



GAME 5 BEST GAME OF THE SEASON SO FAR, THE MOST EPIC OF TVTS TO EVER BE WITNESSED.











Game 5 featured Brielle vs Non on Tau cross. Both players opted for vulture expand and we already start to see the epicness of this with the vultures of both players dueling with vultures at Brielle’s natural. Command Centers finishes at the same time, and both players go for basically the same build. Siege lines starts to build outside of Brielle’s natural and Non drops an early starport for drops. Brielle attempts to backstab Non through the bottom of the map, but Non gets mines out and some tanks to hold Non’s space around the 3rd, starting the 2nd tank line. Brielle breaks out the first tank line with a wratih and forces non’s tanks to back off. Non now drops 4 tanks onto the ledge of Brielle’s Natural, shutting that down all the while Brielle is taking a ninja expansion at the 6’clock natural. Brielle answered the drop with 2 tanks and 2 goliaths onto the ledge of Non’s natural. Non tries to counter drop it but messes up the micro and Brielle keeps his tanks alive. So both players have their natural shut down, but still have 3rds up and going. Brielle goes for the drop in the main of Non, who loses alot of units to stop the drop. Brielle drops at Non’s 3rd while Non’s goliaths are shooting their own Refinery. Non now only has mining at the natural while Brielle has his 3rd going (both mains are almost mined out). Brielle clears the tanks at Non’s 3rd to stop mining there, while Non drops 4 more tanks at Brielle’s 3rd ledge to stop mining there. Brielle takes his close 3rd and still is yet to retake his natural. He attempts a big attack onto non, but with the dropship battles that ensue, Non was finally able to clear the tanks off of his natural ledge. Non goes for a big drop into Brielle’s main base while Brielle is breaking Non’s naturall with pulled SCVs and tanks. Brielle is forced to lift factories to his close 3rd while Non is forced to lift CC at his natural. At this part, Brielle only has 1.5 mining bases and Non has none, dropping scvs onto tanks to kill them. Non goes for the attack at Brielle’s new main. Tanks trade off, and Non is sieging Brielle’s new main. Non takes a sneaky base at 4, while Brielle drops SCVs to kill the tanks sieging that base. More of Non’s tanks siege at Brielle’s close 3rd, shutting that down. Brielle throws down 2 barracks and starts to pump marines out of it at the ninja expo. Brielle floats his factories to the base outside of Non’s main base. Non sends 2 dropship to Brielle’s faraway expansion but gets scouted by Brielle’s marine medic force. Brielle cleans up the dropships. Brielle cleans up the tanks at the ledge, and Non taps out, having no way to come back now.









MY REACTION TO THAT GLORIOUS TVT





Sas 3-2 AoV



Game 6 was the final game of series, with Mewka going for fudged9/9 proxy gates (he went 10/10)





+ Show Spoiler [messing up 9/9 gate timings] +











in the middle of Fighting spirit, and Zaraki goes 9pool and scouts the gates with his drones right. And that’s all she wrote. Mewka taps out after seeing the 9pool and fudging his 2nd gate timing, giving sas the 4-2 win over AoV





Marwin vs Voddy showmatch



Game 1 started out in true show match fashion on Alternative, with Marwin proxing a barracks inside of Voddy’s main, and building 2 bunkers. Voddy was able to micro well and was able to sustain the losses as Marwin cut scv production hard for this. Then Voddy returned the favor with a bunker inside Marwin’s main base and with a factory proxied at Marwin’s natural pumping vultures, Marwin was unable to take the beating and tapped out.



Voddy 1-0 Marwin



Game 2 featured Voddy going for 1 fact build against Marwin’s 14cc. Voddy scouted the 14 cc and threw down another factory, making it a 2 fact build for him. And as we all can imagine, that went well for Marwin, having not enough units in time to defend Voddy's attack



Voddy 2-0 Marwin



Game 3 was on that crazy weird valley map that had only 1 pathway through the middle. Marwin attempted to go for battlecruisers, but Voddy went for a bio army with a stim timing. Marwin was able to get 1 battlecruiser out, but it wasn’t enough for the army size that Voddy had amassed by then



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Voddy 3-0 Marwin





PsB vs. iM)



Game 1 opened with Voddy vs MVP in which MVP goes for a large ling attack but voddy had exceptional micro and was able to hold that off with relative ease. He then was able to transition quite and MVP was economically behind, never quite able to secure a 3rd gas.



We did get to see this though:



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PsB 1-0 iM



Game 2, Modesty played against Dr shrinker on collosseum. Modesty was able to get himself safely onto 3 bases, and to keep shrinker from safely securing his 3rd, but then crumbled to shrinker’s late game harrass while shrinker was stopping Modesty’s attempts to secure a 4th and 5th base.



PsB 2-0 iM



Game 3, Endinglife faced of Splax on Outsider. Splax took the back door mineral only while holding his ramp against Endinglife’s agression, and was able to ride that to a economic victory over Endinglife. Endinglife also never scouted that mineral only so…..



PsB 3-0 iM



Game 4, Fazers faced off against Dragon on Overwatch where Dragon’s good engagements in the late game allowed him to overrun Fazer’s defensive postures.



PsB 4-0 iM





MESSAGE TO IM TEAM

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LIQUIPEDIA LINK

Look 2pac, the liquipedia link in all of its glory and honor!!! (Angels singing in the back ground)



Swedish Brood War Teamleague



E/N: 2pac bothers the writer team about not providing the liquidpedia link in our writeups, so we posted it. Happy, 2pac? Sheesh, I got finals to study for.





Preview: Week 8



Imma let you finish ranting about your team XKCD, but next week gonna feature two of the most important Clan Wars of all time! Even Jaehoon didn't even recall such an intense race for the pivotal qualifying spots and this sentence is really trying so hard it barely makes sense. The eagles currently try to finish the Multi Player like Flash did and they're quite successful doing so. As Exocid pointed out in his interview, their hidden talents v0rti and especially Lumix performed well and now they're holding the first place. For now. But the battle's raging, it'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls!















Currently it seems as if Los Reyes Del Mambo Evolution and the Eagles are relatively safe, they're most likely the first two for the play offs. However, the international Federation of Untouchables, Pealthbunnies / Stain, LaGFree and with outsider chances insanity without Limits have a word to say, too. LaGFree might kick down iwL, screaming this is Machu Picchu, might be iwL decides to finally use their strong players Ramms, Biggus and Ace and be like Respect my Authoritah. We'll see next week. We can assume the players will be playing a race (L_Master wisdoms 4tw).



Los Reyes Del Mambo is safe, iFU not so much, it is known. It is also known that iFU has a lot of over 9000 Russians like Tama, TTF and such, also Marwin, while all LRM has is Zerg. Literally, and with literally I mean figuratively, all they have is Zerg (and Wallace). There's no non Zerg. Et tu Sziky. This shit's going down, seriously, there's a lot of potential right there for mass murder. So far LRM had relatively easy opponents with relatively few skilled players, next week they might run into a wall. There's the minor possibility for a Scan vs Sziky, since both should be around to play in the ICCup Main Event Day 2. You know what really grinds my gears? That this doesn't happen right now.





LR Pictures



We still wait for the day that somebody who is not me or (or one time dRaW) opens a LR himself. You do not have to make it look professional. Be Obama. Yes, you can! I thought, maybe you need resources, additional pylons to help you. Here, have some updated clan logos.



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PaiN/Stealthbunnies





LaGFree





int. Fed. of Unt.





lrm evolutions





the eagles









Eric Quotes



We of the STL writer team decided to take notes of some of the things that Eric said during casts and turn them into inspirational wallpapers for all of you to enjoy. We coin this “Just Eric Quotes”



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Interviews



Interviews





+ Show Spoiler [NinaZerg] +

Hello Nina. Could you please introduce yourself to my audience, who voted five times for me already?



Uh, hi guys. I am NinaZerg, I came up with the ID because my name is Nina and I play Zerg. I was raised by wolves, and was eventually integrated into human society after a long rehabilitation process, although I still sometimes sleep in the woods and kill deers and eat them raw.





What's your impression of the SBWI Teamleague so far?



I think it's a step in the right direction. Obviously, BroodWar is struggling outside of Korea, and I've been telling rich entrepreneurs who want to sponsor BW shit that there should be a new team league for awhile. I like everything the Russians do, but there is a slight cultural disconnect between them and English-speaker because of language and time differences, so I feel like the more the English-speaking community does for itself, the better off they'll be.





What do you have against the Russians? Is it because you're up against yoda in the SBWI Award Votings?



Yoda should win. If I beat him, that would be a travesty. But no, I love Russia. I'm not saying we shouldn't participate in their community and vice-versa. I'm saying what they're doing is good and we should follow their example and make strong fatherland of BroodWar.





Good safe there. Do you have a favourite team? (this includes a why if you have one)



I have a lot of friends on a whole bunch of teams, but I have to go with iFU, those guys are really cool.

eOn, alfio, Pauline, all those guys

So awesome





Alfio is one of my rivals in the Eric Cartman Award poll. Does he deserve his nomination, or do you think that's overdoing it?



All the popularity contests on TL are a sham, it doesn't matter who wins what.





Please elaborate. Eric Cartman Award is not meant to be positive, just by the way.



People love Eric Cartman.





You did not answer why you hate popularity contests!



He's a national treasure. I hate popularity contests because we already have so many things that divide us that it seems frivolous to construct an artifical division for an arbitrary goal. It's like paper money. It has value because people give it value, just like everything else, except that a pure popularity contest is devoid of substance.



Also because I can't win and I'm mad about that.





So, what do you think of our fantastic new maps? Love it? Hate it?



well, which maps?



Oxide and Overwatch



I think they are terrible. Oxide is annoying and ugly. Overwatch is wildly imbalanced, and is like Polaris Rhapsody part 2, and basically is Terran > all. Whoever makes and picks the maps really should go through a wide range of maps before making a selection, otherwise you're going to get shitty maps if you just look at the first one you get and go "Oh, that looks good!" but there's no way to do this so we're all fucked and esports is dead.





I will tell Freakling and NegativeZero then. What was your highlight of the STL so far?



Cute2's amazing drone control

I also liked the pre-season bribery to get Sziky to betray his home country.





Tell us more about your relationship with Eywa and how you managed to lose a Grudge Match against him please : - )



I've beaten him many, many times. That was a long time ago, and I'm a person and player now. I just look to the future, and know that it might be less shitty than the past if I try my hardest not to fuck up at life. Really, losing at StarCraft isn't important in the grand scheme of things, so I just try to keep things in perspective and remind myself that I crushed Eywa like 9 games in a row after that and made him scared for his life so he is hiding from Teamliquid.



Also, he has AIDS.





Super AIDS. That makes him HIV-positive and gay.



It's really the only positive thing about him these days.





Anyhow, let's talk about your ongoing projects. How is the ERTL or ERIT or whatever going and how do you feel about it?



I announced I would start it two days ago and have done nothing, so I feel like it's going well. I came up with the concept knowing that the DRTL was full of C rank players, so I figured the only true way for D players to play D players would be to have an E rank tour. For those unfamiliar with what "E" rank is, it's a special rank introduced by iccup for people who are lower than D-. The reason I didn't start the tour yet is purely a lack of motivation to "organize". Some of my friends offered to help, so I'm gonna take them up on it, but I don't want them to do casts and bash on the D- players. I think it's not the casters' job to point out players' mistakes. It's their job to explain what the fuck is happening in the game and why it's happening.





Is this a hint to all the casters, including hacklemaster, out there? Or is this reserved only for a few?



Well, I don't have anyone in mind to cast yet. Xkcd offered to do it, but I'm not sure about that yet. He is young and inexperienced, and will need a co-caster. I just don't want the casters to bash the players, because the games WILL be full of absolute noobiness if this happens. They would have to come up with a plan of what to be saying when nothing is happening, because D- players play very very very slowly.





Yes, young XKCD seems to do a lot lately. What's your thought about his write ups, given that you have some experience in the field



They're okay. I didn't like the muppet-themed one because it bashed all the players. I mean, foreigner games can have a lot of face-palm and dull moments, but Jesus Christ.

I heard him say he was gonna do a "doge" themed one.





We got some "concerned statements" from 2pac for including memes and half naked women and he was telling us at one point he might be forced to censor. Can you understand that? #nocensorship



Well, memes are funny to like half of internet users and absolutely irritating to the other half, so just from a publicity stand-point, that seems suicidal. Sadly, half-naked women will probably drive viewership up. I won't get naked though. The less naked I am, the better off the world is.





Do you think it's hard to be a girl on TL? Or on Defiler? Since you mentioned the naked pics of you.



I think life is tough, no matter who you are. At least I'm not in Thailand as a sex slave or in Somalia starving.

Also, I could be Kirstie Alley. That would suck too.





Alright. Any famous last words for us?



No, gimme moar questions

This interview should have at least 20 more questions











Since Pauline was so kind to suggest me as Cartman, I should live up to it. What do you think of the term attention whore?

no answer for half a minute

Is this too mean? 8[



lol, nothing is "too mean".





Right, then tell us what the community could do better instead. You're like this vegan hippies telling us to hug trees and stuff, if you're not currently ranting about people like Eywa.



I don't think I'm in a position to tell the community how to conduct themselves, that's their choice entirely. Also, Eywa is old news.

And I eat meat. Because I'm a wolf.





Lately, there seems to be a new demand for Grudge Matches. Apparently, this kid I interviewed last week, MVP, played Sero, whom I never heard of, but who's apparently quite cool. I think the LR was shit. Please write a short tutorial how to do better - now.



I guess people need to realize that every grudgematch thread will go to shit, so if you don't want to read shit, you can do two things: 1) Don't read a thread that has the [Grudgematch] label, 2) Don't read a CharlieMurphy thread. I think it also helps if people know who the fuck the players are. Sero rarely posts on TL, so even I don't know what he's like besides that he has a good sense of humor. He could be a child rapist for all I know. So, make sure the grudgematch thread has quotes from the players so people can decide which one is the douchiest. Preferably, they should both really douchey. Like, do Kiante vs SNM. WAIT NO. Too much douche... that might cause the universe to explode.



And make a banner. It should be a picture of an epic battle from history with some generic text on it. None of this stupid MS paint-drawn words. That's so unfunny that it hurts. Use fonts.





You're also known to write a lot of sarcastic nonsense posts. Then you surprise everyone by publishing a giant ass ZvP Guide. How and why the guide?



hm, good question...



Well, I felt like there wasn't any up-to-date ZvP shit on LP, so I worked with some other guys to create a build order on Liquipedia. I also had some friends working on ZvP, and it seems like in general, most people who are new to Zerg have a lot of difficulty with the match-up. I found myself explaining the same shit over and over to different people, so I figured I'd just put all the stuff into a guide. I don't really consider it like a "how-to" guide, but more like general advice, because you can play however the hell you want, and it's mostly a long-game advice guide... also I linked a bunch of other Zerg shit at the bottom, because I'm not the supreme authority on strategy by any stretch of the imagination.



When's that one coming?



Dunno really, I also like the idea of doing some stuff for Terran versus Zerg and vice-versa, and PvT

I really like writing, so that part won't be hard, but I have a morbid fear of posting inaccurate information and being totally wrong, then ruining someone's SC run.



Like if I say "Never try to go up a ramp with marine/medic if there are lurkers up at the top" then some kid sees 1 lurker on top of a ramp and goes "Nope, I can't do that, the guide said not to." and loses an easy game.





Do you think that's the main reason of people not contributing? For the fear of being wrong?



I would say most people feel the same way as me, and don't want to put out information if they're noobs, but I also think there are other people who are just self-conscious about their English, and then lazy people, and then people who just figure that "other people will do it". One thing that I guess I can give myself credit for is being thoughtful about what I'm doing. I'm not pretending to be expert, and just give the best advice I can with the limited knowledge I have.



But I also test this shit out, so if I find something that works, then maybe it's worth sharing.





Did you ever consider adding it to LiquiDpedia? If no, why not?



Because "other people will do it"... I'm guilty of it too



Also, I would feel weird adding stuff and then referencing myself, it seems arrogant as hell.





I do that all the time and nobody seems to mind. Then again, nobody reads my edits. Do you have students as well, or do you only do strategy threads?



I don't consider people I help "students" per se, I just try to help them as much as I can, and whatever they win, I let them get the credit, because they put in 99% of the work anyhow





About taking credit, people didn't really recognize your work for the first edition of GGEsports. Do you plan to make something similar to it in the near future?



Eh, it's fine. I'm not wildly obsessed with getting credit for stuff. But yeah, I've been thinking about that, just the ESPORTS news moves really quickly, so I'd have to write it up and then publish it really fast, and I tend to be bad at that sort of thing. It'd be nice if my writing staff actually existed. Except for Karen. She's a bitch.



Also, GGeS3 would have a "Scarlett nude pics leaked" article. It'd have to happen. But anyhow...





Ok, name the three most positive and the three most negative things you were involved with in the BW scene!



Positive things - probably just all the friends I've made, ZvP guide, and my favorite clans to be in: aG, [wOk], iFU, sGs - really great people!



Negative things - The worst thing I did was release the ISL1 replays to the public. That was like pouring gasoline on a fire and I wish I'd never done that. Also, every time I've entered Clan X17 channel, it scarred me for life.

... hm

I wish I could get along with people better and just not be such a bitch. It's not my job to point out everything that I think is stupid/wrong that is said. And not to be so angry when I lose that I can't congratulate the other player for the effort they put into playing the game. I have been trying hard to be better and I'm slowly getting there I guess.





We could do a RA group - Ragers Anonymous. Me, you, Alfio, eOn, Justice, Julia...



How does that work? What kind of therapy would it involve?





I don't know, you're the better writer. Tell me?



I don't think you give yourself enough credit. You write like whole books about the history of broodwar and I just write like 4 paragraphs of nonsense like "Shove a giraffe up your navel if you think white tigers aren't the best animal ever, bitch"





But I'm really, really bored. Anyhow, seriously now, we should quit. Any last words?



I knew once I got all emotional, this would get too boring to continue on. I didn't sleep last night, so that's why. But I would just like to say that I wish that I could release the dolphins and then hunt them from a helicopter, holding a harpoon and a frying pan and saying "We gon' eat good tonight!"



And uh yeah, everyone else, give Gecko some interviews so he doesn't have to be forced to interview me and put up with this shit.



Thanks for the interview!

Uh, hi guys. I am NinaZerg, I came up with the ID because my name is Nina and I play Zerg. I was raised by wolves, and was eventually integrated into human society after a long rehabilitation process, although I still sometimes sleep in the woods and kill deers and eat them raw.I think it's a step in the right direction. Obviously, BroodWar is struggling outside of Korea, and I've been telling rich entrepreneurs who want to sponsor BW shit that there should be a new team league for awhile. I like everything the Russians do, but there is a slight cultural disconnect between them and English-speaker because of language and time differences, so I feel like the more the English-speaking community does for itself, the better off they'll be.Yoda should win. If I beat him, that would be a travesty. But no, I love Russia. I'm not saying we shouldn't participate in their community and vice-versa. I'm saying what they're doing is good and we should follow their example and make strong fatherland of BroodWar.I have a lot of friends on a whole bunch of teams, but I have to go with iFU, those guys are really cool.eOn, alfio, Pauline, all those guysSo awesomeAll the popularity contests on TL are a sham, it doesn't matter who wins what.People love Eric Cartman.He's a national treasure. I hate popularity contests because we already have so many things that divide us that it seems frivolous to construct an artifical division for an arbitrary goal. It's like paper money. It has value because people give it value, just like everything else, except that a pure popularity contest is devoid of substance.Also because I can't win and I'm mad about that.well, which maps?I think they are terrible. Oxide is annoying and ugly. Overwatch is wildly imbalanced, and is like Polaris Rhapsody part 2, and basically is Terran > all. Whoever makes and picks the maps really should go through a wide range of maps before making a selection, otherwise you're going to get shitty maps if you just look at the first one you get and go "Oh, that looks good!" but there's no way to do this so we're all fucked and esports is dead.Cute2's amazing drone controlI also liked the pre-season bribery to get Sziky to betray his home country.I've beaten him many, many times. That was a long time ago, and I'm a person and player now. I just look to the future, and know that it might be less shitty than the past if I try my hardest not to fuck up at life. Really, losing at StarCraft isn't important in the grand scheme of things, so I just try to keep things in perspective and remind myself that I crushed Eywa like 9 games in a row after that and made him scared for his life so he is hiding from Teamliquid.Also, he has AIDS.It's really the only positive thing about him these days.I announced I would start it two days ago and have done nothing, so I feel like it's going well. I came up with the concept knowing that the DRTL was full of C rank players, so I figured the only true way for D players to play D players would be to have an E rank tour. For those unfamiliar with what "E" rank is, it's a special rank introduced by iccup for people who are lower than D-. The reason I didn't start the tour yet is purely a lack of motivation to "organize". Some of my friends offered to help, so I'm gonna take them up on it, but I don't want them to do casts and bash on the D- players. I think it's not the casters' job to point out players' mistakes. It's their job to explain what the fuck is happening in the game and why it's happening.Well, I don't have anyone in mind to cast yet. Xkcd offered to do it, but I'm not sure about that yet. He is young and inexperienced, and will need a co-caster. I just don't want the casters to bash the players, because the games WILL be full of absolute noobiness if this happens. They would have to come up with a plan of what to be saying when nothing is happening, because D- players play very very very slowly.They're okay. I didn't like the muppet-themed one because it bashed all the players. I mean, foreigner games can have a lot of face-palm and dull moments, but Jesus Christ.I heard him say he was gonna do a "doge" themed one.Well, memes are funny to like half of internet users and absolutely irritating to the other half, so just from a publicity stand-point, that seems suicidal. Sadly, half-naked women will probably drive viewership up. I won't get naked though. The less naked I am, the better off the world is.I think life is tough, no matter who you are. At least I'm not in Thailand as a sex slave or in Somalia starving.Also, I could be Kirstie Alley. That would suck too.No, gimme moar questionsThis interview should have at least 20 more questionslol, nothing is "too mean".I don't think I'm in a position to tell the community how to conduct themselves, that's their choice entirely. Also, Eywa is old news.And I eat meat. Because I'm a wolf.I guess people need to realize that every grudgematch thread will go to shit, so if you don't want to read shit, you can do two things: 1) Don't read a thread that has the [Grudgematch] label, 2) Don't read a CharlieMurphy thread. I think it also helps if people know who the fuck the players are. Sero rarely posts on TL, so even I don't know what he's like besides that he has a good sense of humor. He could be a child rapist for all I know. So, make sure the grudgematch thread has quotes from the players so people can decide which one is the douchiest. Preferably, they should both really douchey. Like, do Kiante vs SNM. WAIT NO. Too much douche... that might cause the universe to explode.And make a banner. It should be a picture of an epic battle from history with some generic text on it. None of this stupid MS paint-drawn words. That's so unfunny that it hurts. Use fonts.hm, good question...Well, I felt like there wasn't any up-to-date ZvP shit on LP, so I worked with some other guys to create a build order on Liquipedia. I also had some friends working on ZvP, and it seems like in general, most people who are new to Zerg have a lot of difficulty with the match-up. I found myself explaining the same shit over and over to different people, so I figured I'd just put all the stuff into a guide. I don't really consider it like a "how-to" guide, but more like general advice, because you can play however the hell you want, and it's mostly a long-game advice guide... also I linked a bunch of other Zerg shit at the bottom, because I'm not the supreme authority on strategy by any stretch of the imagination.Dunno really, I also like the idea of doing some stuff for Terran versus Zerg and vice-versa, and PvTI really like writing, so that part won't be hard, but I have a morbid fear of posting inaccurate information and being totally wrong, then ruining someone's SC run.Like if I say "Never try to go up a ramp with marine/medic if there are lurkers up at the top" then some kid sees 1 lurker on top of a ramp and goes "Nope, I can't do that, the guide said not to." and loses an easy game.I would say most people feel the same way as me, and don't want to put out information if they're noobs, but I also think there are other people who are just self-conscious about their English, and then lazy people, and then people who just figure that "other people will do it". One thing that I guess I can give myself credit for is being thoughtful about what I'm doing. I'm not pretending to be expert, and just give the best advice I can with the limited knowledge I have.But I also test this shit out, so if I find something that works, then maybe it's worth sharing.Because "other people will do it"... I'm guilty of it tooAlso, I would feel weird adding stuff and then referencing myself, it seems arrogant as hell.I don't consider people I help "students" per se, I just try to help them as much as I can, and whatever they win, I let them get the credit, because they put in 99% of the work anyhowEh, it's fine. I'm not wildly obsessed with getting credit for stuff. But yeah, I've been thinking about that, just the ESPORTS news moves really quickly, so I'd have to write it up and then publish it really fast, and I tend to be bad at that sort of thing. It'd be nice if my writing staff actually existed. Except for Karen. She's a bitch.Also, GGeS3 would have a "Scarlett nude pics leaked" article. It'd have to happen. But anyhow...Positive things - probably just all the friends I've made, ZvP guide, and my favorite clans to be in: aG, [wOk], iFU, sGs - really great people!Negative things - The worst thing I did was release the ISL1 replays to the public. That was like pouring gasoline on a fire and I wish I'd never done that. Also, every time I've entered Clan X17 channel, it scarred me for life.... hmI wish I could get along with people better and just not be such a bitch. It's not my job to point out everything that I think is stupid/wrong that is said. And not to be so angry when I lose that I can't congratulate the other player for the effort they put into playing the game. I have been trying hard to be better and I'm slowly getting there I guess.How does that work? What kind of therapy would it involve?I don't think you give yourself enough credit. You write like whole books about the history of broodwar and I just write like 4 paragraphs of nonsense like "Shove a giraffe up your navel if you think white tigers aren't the best animal ever, bitch"I knew once I got all emotional, this would get too boring to continue on. I didn't sleep last night, so that's why. But I would just like to say that I wish that I could release the dolphins and then hunt them from a helicopter, holding a harpoon and a frying pan and saying "We gon' eat good tonight!"And uh yeah, everyone else, give Gecko some interviews so he doesn't have to be forced to interview me and put up with this shit.



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Could you please introduce yourself to the audience?



Hi I'm Epoxide. According to the SBWI thread I'm head of PR and I don't know why. I do write-ups for SOSPA related stuff on teamliquid among other things

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I have liked L_Master's casting since forever and now it's on a much more accessible time for me. Usually he casts at like 3 am. Games have been pretty interesting so far.



What was the most pretty interesting one so far?



Also Lumix won

well take that

as the answer

for that one





Which one? Grammar fuck-up

I feel so rushed by the go next



Lumix winning

for sas

ah

no because

I write in like

sentences

and then enter

I just say go next

when I'm done

with the question



so my answer for What was the most pretty interesting one so far?

is

Lumix winning for sas

3 times

okay now you can go next

and you don't have to feel rushed

I got all time in the world







E/N: I'll format it, I do have mercy...



You mentioned L_Master. L_Master gets a special this week - thanks - and we could need quotes. Any favourite/memorable quotes stuck with you?



Welp. I can't think of any T_T; What a lame answer. I suck

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Do I understand you correctly that you root for sas? Or do you have another favourite in the league?



No. I root for iFU. Lumix is my favourite player, and Marwin too.





What's your take on the new maps? Or the new teams?



LaGFree is such a nice team, Except for winning against iFU

Can I ask you a question? Has Scan played yet?



No



Well then without Scan playing PsB is pretty boring :[

oops





You don't like DragOn or Arcneon? Especially A R C N E O N? (This is being completely ignored)



Scan isn't even on PsB what am I on. I mixed him and Fengzi up. Protoss can all go to hell. Except for dRaW and :fsmust:

Also I have to love Oxide right? It's in my name. Also Fighting Spirit is in the map pool. FS#1 map. It is known.



wow what a long answer. You can tell I was born to write.





Yes, Khaleesi. What's the most interesting story line of the season so far for you? You should know, you're a PR expert.



What the fuck is Khaleesi? The most interesting story line is Lumix being undefeated champion. 3-0 baby. If Lumix doesn't bring in the viewers I don't know what would.





Where's the Lumix favouritism coming from?



He is Terran and the best player on sas. I have so much respect for him not taking Sziky's spotlight when sas was dominating Gambit's Cup. It wouldn't be fair to the other teams, you know?





Tell us a bit about the SBWI meetings. Were you at some? How are the people? Are they as weird as you?



I have been to most of them since I joined. Jaevlaterran is a true viking that's for sure.We had a meet up for the TLS 1 final. But it was during easter and none came. So we were only three there. After the finals finished we stayed up and watched Brood War until like 8 am the next morning. It was really nice.





SBWI seems to be heartwarming people - your pyjama party, Marwin and vOddy having a bromance. Why does nobody ever take pictures?



We are too busy watching Brood War and discussing the ridiculous translations of Brood War units & buildings into Swedish. I think I took a picture at the SSL8 final meet-up :3 Jaevlaterran has many good stories to tell too.





You're also a puzzle piece man aka. liquiDpedia contributor - what do you do for Liquipedia?



I used to do a lot of stuff revolving around the Korean scene like tournaments, player pages etc. I also did the switch infobox switch on all the players. I really do a little bit of everything. I haven't done anything lately though. Too much studying





What does the PR Man say about our write-ups? Good? Bad? What's your adivce?



They are hilarious. I tend to write more boring, serious, and tedious stuff with too much statistics. The comedy fits a lot more to the team league style. You guys should totally get more rivalry into it though. pls no drama ;;





I don't understand. What kind of rivalry do you mean? Should I rap battle XKCD or what?



No the teams dumbass :3





I'll play Varys then and set the houses up against each other in rival interviews?



What's Varys?





It is recommended you only use the phrases of things you know. It is known, Khaleesi. So, Dany, who do you think will win the STL? We're already half way done.



I don't watch Game of Thrones /Ü\



I figured



Everyone thinks LRM is gonna win, but now that Sziky is not on sas anymore, sas is forced to field Lumix and that's not gonna be fun for the other teams. Lumix will crush Sziky easily. With that in mind I think iFU will bounce back and take the title





Princess, who is sexier, Marwin, Lancerx or Alfio?



:fsmust:







Fighting Spirit background and everything



Yes I did. I'm sad that I wasn't nominated.





Want to explain your votes or some of them?



Well Lumix wasn't on the list for anything. Which is atrocious. So I had to pick Sziky for player and Zerg, there isn't much discussion there: 3 TLS championships, taking games off of Koreans. Too stronk.



Marwin for Terran because he is the only one that can win against Sziky. I can't remember who I picked for Protoss but they are all pretty bad right now /Ü\.



2Pacalypse- got the community award because he does pretty much everything. No 2pac no tls. No 2Pac barely any coverage of any bw at all



What was the last award? I don't remember the rest /Ü\



It's ok. Any last words?



I realised today, that getting interviewed is really hard. I really suck at this.Thanks to my sponsor SBWI.



Thanks for the interview!

Hi I'm Epoxide. According to the SBWI thread I'm head of PR and I don't know why. I do write-ups for SOSPA related stuff on teamliquid among other thingsgo nextI have liked L_Master's casting since forever and now it's on a much more accessible time for me. Usually he casts at like 3 am. Games have been pretty interesting so far.Also Lumix wonwell take thatas the answerfor that oneLumix winningfor sasahno becauseI write in likesentencesand then enterI just say go nextwhen I'm donewith the questionso my answer for





Ermagerd, don't forget to vote for the SBWI Awards!





Writers: amazingxkcd, GeckoXP Now this is the story all about how the STL coverage got flipped, turned upside down and we'd like to take a minute just write right there, we'll tell you how we became the target of an admin in despair. In Skype Groups chained and enslaved, on the wordpad where we spent most of our days, chilling out, maxing, relaxing all cool and all shooting some meme outside of the school, when a couple of guys, they were up to no good, started making trouble in our neighbourhood. This goes out to needless censorship. #CutForNiceLis #FightForYourRight #RadioFreeZergGame 1 was Mad vs Skzlime on Oxide. Both players going for eco builds, with skzlime opting for the 14cc. Mad has quite good muta harrass to delay Skzlime’s push towards Mad’s 3rd. First upgrade that mad gets at hive tech is. Skzlime was unable to secure his 3rd (that 4 patch base doesnt count) and Mad wins with Hydras.Sas 0-1 AoVGame 2 featured dsaqwe vs Poetic on Collosseum II. Poetic goes for a BBS in the middle of the map, and Dsaqwe with the starsense scouts it immediately, and throws down a 2nd gateway and a shield battery and forges to get cannons up. Poetic pulls scvs but was super late with his attack, allowing for dsaqwe to easily hold with his zealots and holds. Poetic GGs right afterSas 1-1 AoVGame 3 on Outsider, Lumix walkover’ed MorticianSas 2-1 AoVGame 4 on overwatch was Entaro vs Vorti where Vorti shows us a super gosu pool placement behind the mineral. I’m totally going to steal that. Entaro goes for the greedy forge nexus against Vorti’s overpool, but vorti was able to runby with 2 lings and get some harrass into Entaro’s main. Entaro opts for Sair/DT into storm/reavers on 2 base and does moderate harrass to vorti’s economy with meh storm drops, but really does nothing and Vorti just macro rolls over Entaro.Sas 3-1 AoVGAME 5 BEST GAME OF THE SEASON SO FAR, THE MOST EPIC OF TVTS TO EVER BE WITNESSED.Game 5 featured Brielle vs Non on Tau cross. Both players opted for vulture expand and we already start to see the epicness of this with the vultures of both players dueling with vultures at Brielle’s natural. Command Centers finishes at the same time, and both players go for basically the same build. Siege lines starts to build outside of Brielle’s natural and Non drops an early starport for drops. Brielle attempts to backstab Non through the bottom of the map, but Non gets mines out and some tanks to hold Non’s space around the 3rd, starting the 2nd tank line. Brielle breaks out the first tank line with a wratih and forces non’s tanks to back off. Non now drops 4 tanks onto the ledge of Brielle’s Natural, shutting that down all the while Brielle is taking a ninja expansion at the 6’clock natural. Brielle answered the drop with 2 tanks and 2 goliaths onto the ledge of Non’s natural. Non tries to counter drop it but messes up the micro and Brielle keeps his tanks alive. So both players have their natural shut down, but still have 3rds up and going. Brielle goes for the drop in the main of Non, who loses alot of units to stop the drop. Brielle drops at Non’s 3rd while Non’s goliaths are shooting their own Refinery. Non now only has mining at the natural while Brielle has his 3rd going (both mains are almost mined out). Brielle clears the tanks at Non’s 3rd to stop mining there, while Non drops 4 more tanks at Brielle’s 3rd ledge to stop mining there. Brielle takes his close 3rd and still is yet to retake his natural. He attempts a big attack onto non, but with the dropship battles that ensue, Non was finally able to clear the tanks off of his natural ledge. Non goes for a big drop into Brielle’s main base while Brielle is breaking Non’s naturall with pulled SCVs and tanks. Brielle is forced to lift factories to his close 3rd while Non is forced to lift CC at his natural. At this part, Brielle only has 1.5 mining bases and Non has none, dropping scvs onto tanks to kill them. Non goes for the attack at Brielle’s new main. Tanks trade off, and Non is sieging Brielle’s new main. Non takes a sneaky base at 4, while Brielle drops SCVs to kill the tanks sieging that base. More of Non’s tanks siege at Brielle’s close 3rd, shutting that down. Brielle throws down 2 barracks and starts to pump marines out of it at the ninja expo. Brielle floats his factories to the base outside of Non’s main base. Non sends 2 dropship to Brielle’s faraway expansion but gets scouted by Brielle’s marine medic force. Brielle cleans up the dropships. Brielle cleans up the tanks at the ledge, and Non taps out, having no way to come back now.Sas 3-2 AoVGame 6 was the final game of series, with Mewka going for fudged9/9 proxy gates (he went 10/10)in the middle of Fighting spirit, and Zaraki goes 9pool and scouts the gates with his drones right. And that’s all she wrote. Mewka taps out after seeing the 9pool and fudging his 2nd gate timing, giving sas the 4-2 win over AoVGame 1 started out in true show match fashion on Alternative, with Marwin proxing a barracks inside of Voddy’s main, and building 2 bunkers. Voddy was able to micro well and was able to sustain the losses as Marwin cut scv production hard for this. Then Voddy returned the favor with a bunker inside Marwin’s main base and with a factory proxied at Marwin’s natural pumping vultures, Marwin was unable to take the beating and tapped out.Voddy 1-0 MarwinGame 2 featured Voddy going for 1 fact build against Marwin’s 14cc. Voddy scouted the 14 cc and threw down another factory, making it a 2 fact build for him. And as we all can imagine, that went well for Marwin, having not enough units in time to defend Voddy's attackVoddy 2-0 MarwinGame 3 was on that crazy weird valley map that had only 1 pathway through the middle. Marwin attempted to go for battlecruisers, but Voddy went for a bio army with a stim timing. Marwin was able to get 1 battlecruiser out, but it wasn’t enough for the army size that Voddy had amassed by thenVoddy 3-0 MarwinGame 1 opened with Voddy vs MVP in which MVP goes for a large ling attack but voddy had exceptional micro and was able to hold that off with relative ease. He then was able to transition quite and MVP was economically behind, never quite able to secure a 3rd gas.We did get to see this though:PsB 1-0 iMGame 2, Modesty played against Dr shrinker on collosseum. Modesty was able to get himself safely onto 3 bases, and to keep shrinker from safely securing his 3rd, but then crumbled to shrinker’s late game harrass while shrinker was stopping Modesty’s attempts to secure a 4th and 5th base.PsB 2-0 iMGame 3, Endinglife faced of Splax on Outsider. Splax took the back door mineral only while holding his ramp against Endinglife’s agression, and was able to ride that to a economic victory over Endinglife. Endinglife also never scouted that mineral only so…..PsB 3-0 iMGame 4, Fazers faced off against Dragon on Overwatch where Dragon’s good engagements in the late game allowed him to overrun Fazer’s defensive postures.PsB 4-0 iMLook 2pac, the liquipedia link in all of its glory and honor!!! (Angels singing in the back ground)Imma let you finish ranting about your team XKCD, but next week gonna feature two ofEven Jaehoon didn't even recall such an intense race for the pivotal qualifying spots and this sentence is really trying so hard it barely makes sense. The eagles currently try to finish the Multi Player like Flash did and they're quite successful doing so. As Exocid pointed out in his interview, their hidden talents v0rti and especially Lumix performed well and now they're holding the first place. For now. But the battle's raging, it'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls!Currently it seems as if Los Reyes Del Mambo Evolution and the Eagles are relatively safe, they're most likely the first two for the play offs. However, the international Federation of Untouchables, Pealthbunnies / Stain, LaGFree and with outsider chances insanity without Limits have a word to say, too. LaGFree might kick down iwL, screaming this is Machu Picchu, might be iwL decides to finally use their strong players Ramms, Biggus and Ace and be like Respect my Authoritah. We'll see next week. We can assume the players will be playing a race (L_Master wisdoms 4tw).Los Reyes Del Mambo is safe, iFU not so much, it is known. It is also known that iFU has a lot of over 9000 Russians like Tama, TTF and such, also Marwin, while all LRM has is Zerg. Literally, and with literally I mean figuratively, all they have is Zerg (and Wallace). There's no non Zerg. Et tu Sziky. This shit's going down, seriously, there's a lot of potential right there for mass murder. So far LRM had relatively easy opponents with relatively few skilled players, next week they might run into a wall. There's the minor possibility for a Scan vs Sziky, since both should be around to play in the ICCup Main Event Day 2. You know what really grinds my gears? That this doesn't happen right now.We still wait for the day that somebody who is not me or (or one time dRaW) opens a LR himself. You do not have to make it look professional. Be Obama. Yes, you can! I thought, maybe you need resources, additional pylons to help you. Here, have some updated clan logos.We of the STL writer team decided to take notes of some of the things that Eric said during casts and turn them into inspirational wallpapers for all of you to enjoy. We coin this “Just Eric Quotes”amazingxkcd, GeckoXP

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