You think you are good?

Memnoch

Hi,
Well since this is a forum for strategy game lovers, and i'm sure a lot of us think we are pretty damn good, but compared to say a professional korean SC player we are nothing.

These guys play at up to 300-400 APM (actions per minute) and it's just shocking that despite playing at such a break neck pace they still maintain wonderous control over their "macro" game i.e. the over all strategy of position attack and defence.

For anyone needing proof check out any of the video's on this site. These torrents are mostly of live matches played at the highest level.

The best players to watch are Julyzerg, Boxer, Oov, Pusan etc. Some seriously heavy skill involved to say the least.

If you want to watch them actually play from their own perspective, as in you see their screen then download one of the First person vods of which there are pleanty around.

Some of the older vods are harder to download as there are no seeders for them but new ones are constantly popping up... anyways, here is the URL, enjoy TRUE RTS mastery like you have never seen it before.

http://teamliquid.net/tracker/?page=0

Pugsley

Great link, always wanted to see how its done properly

Will get a dozen or so of these when I get home tomorrow, I have to say Im more than a little curious.

Pugsley

Watched a good few of them matchs, some damn impressive playing, of the onces I have seen the best is probably 'Oov vs Casy - First 3 games', its Terran vs Terran, and it goes into FoV sometimes too, damn they really do play at a million mile per hour, havent a clue whats goin on when its FoV, but it IS impressive

btw, what does '12' mean, commentator's mention it at certain points in the game, I know it means 12 minutes, but in some games it will also be mentioned within the first 4 or 5 minutes of the game, any light on this? and why is it so important?

Memnoch

err not sure what you are referring to tbh, I think it might be a reference to a players position on the map based on a clock.. so 12 'o'clock position would be top middle, 6 'o' clock would be bottom middle and so on

Pugsley

Nope found out, turns out its 12 food (population).