**** Original Starcraft 2 Thread ****

MikeHunt79 said:
Bah, I would if I was still at Uni... :( Are graduates allowed to enter?
I sometimes watch Husky vids but I prefer TotalBiscuit and BrotherMack myself.
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don't think so. :D

I actually found out quite late from some mates. Just searched for the info:

ESports in the UK is beginning to grow and I believe a way to help its expansion would be the introduction of more online tourniments to compliment our growing number of LANs and communities, such as UKStarcraft, also found on irc.quakenet.org #ukstarcraft.

Be sure to check out our sponsor, Cynical Brit, over at http://CynicalBrit.com

The UTL is being officialy cast by UnitLost, please check out their YouTube channel and subscribe to them here - http://www.youtube.com/user/unitlosttube

Also check out our livecaster Vequeth and follow him on JTV so you know when we go live!

NA already has their own take on this, and after browsing the forums I could not find anything similar so I decided to take it upon myself and set up a UK tournament open to university students. This is also open to colleges and 6th forms within the UK.


Brackets:
Yon can view the full bracket here - http://utl.ukstarcraft.net/brackets/

Donations and Prize pool:
The prize pool will be formed completely of donations this league is to receive. The winning team will receive a 70% cut of the final pool, while second receives a 30% cut.

The prizepool currently stands at £500

Dates:
The first games are to be played at 6PM BST (GMT+1) on Saturday 30th April. If you cannot make that day please refer to our rules page at http://utl.ukstarcraft.net/rules/

Teams Registered:
Aberdeen University
Aston university
Barnwell School Sixth Form
Belfast Royal Academy
Bournside 6th Form Team
Bristol University Team
Broxbourne Mandem
Durham University
Edinburgh Napier
Falmouth Sixth Form
Open university
Queen's University Belfast
Sir Joseph Williamsons Mathematical School
St James Independent School for Senior Boys
Staffordshire University
Thames Valley University
The University of York
University of Central Lancashire
University of Hull
University of Leeds
University of Leicester
University of Manchester
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Portsmouth
University of Sheffield
University of Southampton
University of Surrey
University of Warwick
University of London 1
University of London 2
 
Cheers, I think I may just watch the games.

In fact I probably wouldn't do very well, as I seem to watch more SC2 than play it right now, so it would be nice to see more UK tourneys as the US and Korean games are always on at some crazy hour!
 
same as me really, I'm just following the unitlost youtube page at the moment as I can't follow it live since I need to study for exams. Brilliant commentary on it anyway, brings some great lols
 
MikeHunt79 said:
In fact I probably wouldn't do very well, as I seem to watch more SC2 than play it right now, so it would be nice to see more UK tourneys as the US and Korean games are always on at some crazy hour!
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same here watch loads of vid as well at the moment. Kind of going thru a "meeehhhh" phase at the moment with SC2 as i've just fed up of what seems to be never ending rushes in 1 v 1 these days.

Don't get me wrong, i can defend them but I hardly seem to get passed marines production these days and games tend to last under 10 mins either way.

Also been messing about with a double factory build for mass thor which works well if I hold off the initial rush.
 
Oh dear 2 weeks off from this and it seems iv completely lost my groove, the new patch hasn't helped matters at all.

seems not a lot of people here are talking about the new patch - is that bc nothings really changed? are 4gates still happening in pvp? just later now?with heavy sentry backup i presume? or has it disappeared making pvp last 10+ mins for once?
 
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Milkybk said:
Split your army in to a nice curve, it can all attack at once while the EMPs hit hardly anything (there won't normally be that many ghosts in a Terran army anyway). You attack as one solid army with your Zealots tanking damage.

I never said HT counter ghosts. You're saying that. I hate HT and always push for Colossus tech, it's much more effective in my opinion.

By the time a Terran has enough ghosts for them to be effective with clocking you should easily have detection.

You've very obviously done something wrong at some point, I'm guessing you're macro slipped totally during battles. Gateway units can easily defeat Terran Rax units if used correctly, they are simply better.
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Watching the replay back again, yeah it was kind of my fault... 2 EMPs hit pretty much my whole army and immortals were shooting marines instead of maurauders and I had 5 stalkers not even shooting...
In summary, I was having a frustrating losing streak and didn't fancy blaming myself, and ghosts seemed the best excuse :p
Any my macro always slips - I'm still in platinum.

Anyway, on an unrelated topic, been trying zerg and terran recently... Zerg seems pretty easy to adapt, but terran I'm having a nightmare with the macro :-/ I'm kind of bored of trying them now though, so having lost hundreds of points, I now fancy just going back to protoss and hopefully improving
 
iamtheoneneo said:
Oh dear 2 weeks off from this and it seems iv completely lost my groove, the new patch hasn't helped matters at all.

seems not a lot of people here are talking about the new patch - is that bc nothings really changed? are 4gates still happening in pvp? just later now?with heavy sentry backup i presume? or has it disappeared making pvp last 10+ mins for once?
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Patch has only really changed PvP so can't comment on that as I'm T. All the rest were just tweaks around the edges to be honest - 75 vs 100 mineral return on bunker salvage isn't going to change the world! And maybe at the masters+ level changing things like ghost gas cost matters, but not to lowly players like me.

On that note, I've hit a wall with this game. Been stuck around rank 10 diamond since start of season 2 pretty much, winning 50/50. Can't really see how I can improve to be honest as I know its my inability to avoid supply block and to remember to add more production facilities when I expand, but with the randomness of ladder match ups its impossible to focus on this as I'm dealing with 3 possible races and everything from total passive play to 1 base rushes.
 
iamtheoneneo said:
Oh dear 2 weeks off from this and it seems iv completely lost my groove, the new patch hasn't helped matters at all.

seems not a lot of people here are talking about the new patch - is that bc nothings really changed? are 4gates still happening in pvp? just later now?with heavy sentry backup i presume? or has it disappeared making pvp last 10+ mins for once?
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In my experience, 4gate still works fine, although i guess 3gate robo is far more common now... Archons are way more common as well with their buff meaning that you don't need collosus to beat FFs... Still hard as ever to expand, so macro games aren't too common.
 
frankmcg said:
On that note, I've hit a wall with this game. Been stuck around rank 10 diamond since start of season 2 pretty much, winning 50/50. Can't really see how I can improve to be honest as I know its my inability to avoid supply block and to remember to add more production facilities when I expand, but with the randomness of ladder match ups its impossible to focus on this as I'm dealing with 3 possible races and everything from total passive play to 1 base rushes.
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I'm gonna be starting to play again after next thursday, so if you're up for it we can just blitz through a whole load of custom games so you can focus on macro and race-specifics :) (i dont think i'll be much use in TvT though). I'm going to need the practice anyway.
 
Alex74 said:
I'm gonna be starting to play again after next thursday, so if you're up for it we can just blitz through a whole load of custom games so you can focus on macro and race-specifics :) (i dont think i'll be much use in TvT though). I'm going to need the practice anyway.
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Cool, thanks for the offer. I'm on most nights - have noticed a distinct lack of OCUK members in the channel recently, guess you're all busy studying :)
 
starmanwarz said:
Every toss opens DT's these days..Seriously I played against 10-15 toss these last few days and 90% of them went DT allin,I losta lot of games :(
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I remember nerusy talking a few times about a banshee/raven opening which pretty much 'hard counters' DT openings as it were. iirc the banshee/raven opening was pretty stable all-round so it's not just a reactionary build :).

I suppose either way if you can scout the gas expenditure then you're in a pretty good position either way with engibay or saved scans..
 
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