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A lot of times strategies have transition units: footmen, archers, ghouls. Specifically I want to comment on Undead versus Night Elf, starting with ghouls and switching to fiends or even ghouls to gargs. Speaking generally, I think with ghouls it is important to trade units with your opponent. I have not gotten it all figured out, but it appears that pro Undeads will have two “trading” periods: immediately at tier 2, leaving perhaps four ghouls behind, and soon after tier 3, this time perhaps with all but two ghouls. This behavior of exchanging units at tier 3 when possibly disadvantaged and underleveled is quite topsy-turvy for a human player. For humans (at least this one), tier 3 is when you want to use your tech advantage and creep your underleveled heroes.

Anyway, I hope it goes without saying that anything I write should be taken with a grain of salt.

During this transition, I’ll be changing a couple big things. First, I have set my Warcraft to a lower resolution. I wanted to make the in-game screen size smaller as well (I have a 19″ monitor) but my ATI control panel settings are not cooperating, so I don’t know if my mouse accuracy will improve at all =\

Second, I will be using less control groups and better utilize subgroup order modifier key. For example, instead of having

Group 1: DK + fiends
Group 2: DK
Group 3: fiends

and selecting group 3 if I want to only move my fiends, I will tab to fiends in group 1 and use subgroup order modifier key (ctrl, SGOMK is Blizzard’s term) to issue a command only to the fiends. The benefits of using less groups are obvious I think. 12 unit limit is a minor annoyance I hope to get used to. Removing units from groups should be easier now, adding them was never a big problems since I discovered shift-adding.

For those unfamiliar with subgroup order modifier key, I guess I’ll cover it briefly. First you need to enable it in Warcraft’s gameplay options. After it is enabled, you can use the ctrl key to issue commands only to the active subgroup. Examples:

Situation: You have a group of DK and fiends selected. DK is the default active subgroup.

To move DK using right click, hold ctrl and right click on the map.
To attack a target with fiends using right click, hit tab once to select the fiends subgroup, hold ctrl and right click on the target.
To move fiends using move-click, hit tab once to select the fiends subgroup, hit either the on-screen move button or the key for move, hold ctrl and left click to target location.

Hope this helps someone.

Checked out some of the exhibits.. interesting 3D stuff.. special monitor/glasses/infrared (or something) signal thing.

What else. Sky lost to WhO in the final, was kind of expecting it though. I think that MK stuff is pretty weak and Blademaster is kind of strong. Not enough footmen/militia? IDK.. beside the point anyway.

I meant to take more pictures, but I didn’t so too bad I guess. Got SonKiE, ToD, WhO, TH000, and Sky sort of.

Raihn and I got pictures with Moon. I guess I look less shitty in this one so I won’t box myself out :D

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ESWC was fun too bad it’s over =[ BACK TO TRAINING POKER PRO I GUESS

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SaSe had pretty nice shoes

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I think I gave Cassandra and Grubby wrong directions the day before.. how embarassing haha. Think I told them to go the wrong way down the street tt..

A lot of the pros, particularly the Asians play with low resolution.. guess it’s for mouse? Yane of course has to one up them and plays not only with low resolution but low graphics settings, no shadows, etc. First time seeing him in person as well; he does look a bit like KiWiKaKi :P

10am, start matches. Moon arrives. Organization was a little chaotic at the start. We referees didn’t assign matches to be in charge of.

Needless to say, seeing all the pros was pretty cool. I got a picture with Moon :D

Moon didn’t advance which is pretty depressing. After Sky lost to WhO I feared he would lose to Grubby as well.. I really think that MK expo tech air stuff is strategically weak.. but who am I to say :P

Long day with a lot of matches but it went by quickly.

IDK what else.. I’m sure Wind or PpG or someone else will do better ‘coverage’ (or whatever the proper term is). I probably should’ve taken more photos; a picture is worth ten thousand of my words.

PpG (does she even go by this anymore?) and Grubby were asking about some place to get food afterwards. Hope the taco place I gave them was still open, if they even found the place given my directions (hah)

I guess that’s all.

The place is large, setup seems quite nice. Maybe some light problems from main stage area, but whatever that’s uninteresting.

Saw Grubby and PpG checking in.

Opening ceremony at night. See more pros. First the Korean team sans moon. Lyn, Soju, couldn’t recognize WhO but he was probably amongst them.

Saw SaSe.

Team China arrives next. Sky, TeD and th000. Sky chatted with us for quite a bit of time. Got a picture with him but I look fugly in it so I’ll try again tomorrow or Tuesday.

Sky says Moon missed his transfer or something at LA. Went out of the terminal area and has problems with security? IDK. Hope everything got worked out.

Poker poker~ Week before wcg I stopped playing to ‘train’ a little bit. I had like a $1 SNG break through before that, came back and it was gone. I’ll get it back though. Gonna play $1 SNGs up to like $100 and switch to cash games. It has been a month and a few days since I made my initial deposit of $50 and I am at $66 right now.. so could be worse.

PokerStars has this nice find PokerStars pro feature.. I’ve started obsing the pros now and then haha. Sometimes there are other obs also doing the same thing I guess and they sit there flaming the pro :D