ferf said i should add a search and that was a good enough excuse to work on the site so 2nd version of demon hunter reps is up. changes: sort by site, event, matchup, map as well as a search. i guess i’ll stop deleting old database records so that the search is more useful.

oh yeah… izireps (the replay database most commonly used) has some really fucking weird code for the page numbers.. didn’t even notice til i rewrote a lot of stuff today. here’s what it had:

$tmpsum = ($all_num_of_rows / $REPSPROSEITE) + 1.0;
if ($tmpsum == ((floor($all_num_of_rows / $REPSPROSEITE + 1.0)))) $tmpsum–;
for ($i=1; $i<(floor($tmpsum)+1); $i++){
 if ($i == $seite){
  echo $i.’ | ‘;
 }elseif (!empty($show)){
  echo’<a href=”‘.$replaypath.’file=show_replays&show=’.$show.’&seite=’.$i.’” >’.$i.’</a> | ‘;
    }else{
  echo’<a href=”‘.$replaypath.’file=show_replays&seite=’.$i.’”">’.$i.’</a> | ‘;
 }
}

dunno where the guy came up with that.. it’s even worse cause in the for loop it’s going to calculate floor($tmpsum)+1 every single time. the value never changes so you don’t want to do that

broke my losing streak in clan wars against cruncher today in wcip quals. replays: lost temple - terenas stand

so let’s see today is sunday the 23rd. after i wake up i’ll work on something for this blog :D dunno how it will turn out though i might decide it sucks while doing it. next few days i absolutely have to finish this other project i’ve been doing i’ve already wasted about 20 fucking days away “working on it”… battle tanks games take like 1 hour +.. dota is around there too…

want to make my own blog template for this site.. that’s going to take a good few hours of work. that will come LATER though so i best not even think about it. it’s when i think too much i end up doing nothing

so i guess i’ll put this on this blog instead of my personal one. i got around to reading this ebook i should have read a million years ago and that’s really why i could just work and finish version 2 of demonreps in a few consecutive hours. i’ll just quote a little bit

“do you know how to tell a successful person from a[n] unsuccessful one? the easiest way is by the language they use. when you talk to a successful person about his goals, he’ll tell you what he plans to do and when it will be done. when an unsuccessful person talks about his goals (assuming he even has one), you’ll hear something along the lines of, ‘i hope to do this someday.’ here’s a clue for all you losers out there; someday never comes.”

so DO IT. DO IT NOW.

So I’ve been getting this a bit especially lately.. people asking me “how do I get better,” so here’s basically what I would suggest doing.

1. Watch a lot of replays of the best players, and ONLY the best players. Pick the top two players of your race and get all of their replays and don’t watch anyone else.

2. Copy what the pros do. Just mass ladder so you can adapt to different kinds of playstyles and situations. When you lose, figure out how you lost and work on not making the same mistake. When you have something specific you want to work on is when it’s useful to find a practice partner.

Continuously losing the exact same way over and over again is the biggest way to waste a lot of time. Try something a few times and if it still doesn’t work, change it. “Insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.” You have to play smarter, not harder.

More on watching replays: Excluding the replays I watch for entertainment, I would say I watch half of the replays more than once. The first time I watch a replay I will usually have it around 4-6x speed. What I try to do is first get an overall idea of the game and decide if it’s worth studying. Make mental notes of any parts you’ll want to slow down at and pay attention to. The second time through I’ll have the speed down to 1-3x and maybe 1/2x during battles. I’ve occasionally turned off fog of war and watched from a players point of view, although I haven’t found this very beneficial.

Yeah, if you follow this I guarantee you’ll see improvement. Just DON’T COPY 2ND-RATE PLAYERS even if they’re still pros; this slows you down so much.

a lot of times when laddering or something like that, i think it helps to just purposely play differently than the way everyone else is at the moment. e.g. if people are all tier 1 fast expanding against ud. maybe use a tier 2 expo with mk and hawks.

and when you match the same person again, use another strategy.

stay unpredictable!

another reason elf is the superior race: they can do anything and win. mass hunts, mass dryads, mass talons.

bah humbug!

I’m starting to realize that I play like utter shit when I don’t warm up with a game or two or three beforehand. I guess it’s hard to just start playing and play well.

 You’d think I would have known something so simple sooner.

do u c wut i did thar ^^?

So I was thinking.. after you drop a map in like bo3 or bo5 or whatever I think you should always take a break. Like 5 minutes to just get up or watch the replay or something, so that with the next map you can focus on the game you’re playing, instead of still thinking about last game.

Conversely, if it suits your manner, after you win a map perhaps it would be advantageous to try to get the next one played right away. HMM =\

I think this mental game is something ToD is bad at, whereas maybe Sky and Moon don’t have this weakness. You can see how ToD just has horrible series and you’re thinking “wtf?” while some players can make every game amazing even after losing an unfortunate game.

In other news, if you play elf or whatever don’t miss Jaeho vs ToD series in wc3l

TS - Moon uses a sort of “counter-strategy” that won’t always work against everything (like DH LOL). Creeps Warden to 3 with Ancient of Wars. level 1 shadow strike & level 2 fan of knives. Staff of teleportation into ToD’s main which has no arcane tower. 2 FoK kill almost all peasants. ToD’s main is completely closed btw, something I’ve been advocating and using myself for a long time. =) Something that might be worth mentioning: Moon got level 3 shadow strike at level 5.

TR - Close spawn. ToD abuses it. If you play elf, you should definitely watch this to see how moon handles it. He got evasion first on DH if you don’t catch that.

A very common question people ask is, “How can I improve my micro?” To be honest, generally you just have to try harder and practice; however, one thing you can control to help your micro is to have well-designed groupings.

Speed is most important. Can you move quickly? Focus fire easily? Can you access the units you need quickly? Are you able to unselect weak units in few clicks(my groupings are weak in this point)?

As a rule of thumb, you want units that are going to move together and attack the same thing in one group. I also have individual unit types sub-grouped in other numbers, so that I can access the specific unit type I want in one click without having to tab through groups or click them on the screen. Consequently, when I remove units I have to remove them from more than one group but I haven’t had a big problem with this after a bit of practice.

For example, with orc at tier 2, I’ll have:
   1. Tauren Chieftain, grunts, spiritwalkers, and maybe kodos
   2. Blademaster, raiders
   3. spirit walkers
   4. raiders
   5. kodos
   6. any siege, following TC

If I have bats or wyverns, they would go with another unit depending on what they’re going to focus fire or if there is an unused group then it will go there. Another example, with say human vs orc, I group summons in number 2 with casters, so they can focus fire wyvern together. Also I might have summons subgrouped on 3 so they can run into his base to remove healing salve or chase a unit.

So WMC finals against eX didn’t go so well today. Caff lost first game, and later on I lost to Renan(elf) on LT when it was my map pick.. I don’t really get too mad/sad when I lose in this game anymore but after game I was like ARGH I played so stupid  I should have known how to beat that. But next time I won’t lose to it again. I think when you lose games that aren’t completely cookie cutter you should always think about why you lost.. and maybe even if it was cookie cutter to some extent. Yeah kind of reminds me of when I lost to longwalk and quit SkyZ over a year ago. I never did lose the same way again as I wall off my base now. Yeah so there’s my first tip for success!

xLocup today at noon.. hopefully I’ll win a few games, haha. I actually might be able to win a headset depending on the brackets. Here’s the original top 16:
1. nGtFastClick
2. SquiRReL
3. KiWiKaKi
4. aNmBlaCk
5. LagWizard
6. Matt
7. Gandalfr
8. Stan
9. p1nke
10. R_ai_N
11. OwMyGroin
12. Shad
13. Magistrat
14. PLaZMaTiC
15. MJ-Lubber
16. Stealth

but squirrel, rain, shad, and magistrat won’t be playing so. You can see the preview here

My human may be getting worse, but my random sure is improving! Here’re some replays:

Orc vs Clutch on TR
UD vs feRf on SV
and check out this elf imba if you haven’t seen this game already ^^