Day[9] Daily #463 – Closest 2v2s of all time – Funday Monday

In today’s Funday Monday we examine the absolute closest 2v2s of all time! Many of these games will look somewhat reasonable. Some will be trollish. All will be outrageously awesome .

… Especially parts 2 and 3. Seriously no joke these games are amazing <3

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Day[9] Daily #462 – LastShadow choose your own adventure!

Per expectation, for the remainder of the week, we’ll be doing an impromptu daily for the day where we take massive user interaction, directing the show based upon your needs and wishes!

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Day[9] Daily #461 – White-rA vs LiquidTLO!

Moar choose your own adventure!

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Part 1 – the reasoning when we start things

Part 2 – the basic response against Protoss air

Part 3 – conditional options as Zerg in the late game

Q&A With Day[9]

-This is not how Stephano often deals with air, he often sacrifices a bunch of roaches to pin the Protoss back in his base first.
-Do you ever feel bad when you lose a zealot because you know he is mainly an attacking meatshield with laser spike
-How do you feel about the new patch notes?
-How do you hold off a zealot-archon mixture as zerg?
-Is there a pro game in which the phoenix upgrade has been utilized and it actually worked?

Day[9] Daily #460 – LiquidRet choose your own adventure!

So, I ran out of steam. Try as I might, I couldn’t pull together a topic for today. However, the show MUST go on. Teamliquid just released a replay pack of LiquidRet over at www.teamliquidpro.com. We’re going to have you select which game you wanna see and what you wanna hear talked about! It’s gonna be ALL ABOUT YOU!

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Q&A With Day[9]

-You mentioned mixing in ultras in the late game mix rather than infestor/bloodlord, is there other good zerg unit late game compositions like maybe going ultra/hydra or other tactics?
-What is the best way to kill a big broodlord army as a Terran?
-Have you seen the GLHF magazine and what are your thoughts on it?

Day[9] Daily #459 – Only Air Funday Monday!

In today’s Funday Monday, you may ONLY build air units! Zergy buddies are permitted to build 1 queen per hatchery, but other than this, you must rely ONLY on buildings for early game defense! We’ll see some fun filled wubulous solutions provided by the beautiful, sexy, gorgeous, handsome, and all around delightful viewership of the Day[9] Daily

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For Next Week’s Funday Monday

The closest team games of all time (2v2, 3v3, 4v4) -the whole game has to be close. Submit your games to monday@day9.tv

Day[9] Daily #458 – Current TvP Part 1: The Midgame

In this two part special, we’re going to examine TvP from the Terran point of view a la Blizzard’s recent writeup of the TvP matchup: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=334748

I think Blizzard is spot on in their analysis of the matchup, but that doesn’t make it easy! In Part 1 we’ll be examining how Terran needs to take advantage of the incredible protoss weakness in the midgame: what we can get away with, how to exploit the Toss, and the importance of getting into an advantageous position!

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Q&A With Day[9]

-You never showed any games versus a Parting style gateway attack at 8 minutes. How does a 1 raxs FE scout for this and deal with this effective?
-As a Master’s Terran, I’m finding it hard in the mid game to do damage to my opponent usually there’s stalkers to defend in the main and a good number of sentries to hold at the front. What should I do in the mid game if I’m unable to do damage?

Day[9] Daily #457 – A fun TvZ Mech opening!

LastShadow returns again with a set of stunning replays of him defeating top korean GM players with a fun and aggressive mech opening! We got the chance to examine general mech techniques with the recent EGDeMusliM vs IMNestea game. Today, we’ll see a strategy executed start to finish in a number of different situations. That way, you can steal it and go use it on the ladder!

Moreover, because I think LastShadow is awesome and because I’ve had so many requests, here’s a link to LastShadow’s e-mail for coaching:

nicholas.a.decesare@gmail.com

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Part 1 – proxy reaper that transitions into bashee; going into Bio

Part 2 – long mid game, changing composition into a raven force

Part 3 – When things don’t quite work out and how to respond

Q&A With Day[9]

-From the Zerg player perspective, that Mech Thor army seems simply unstoppable, specially after that beastly early pressure with reapers/bunkers. How should a Zerg go about this?
-Would an ultralisk transition after having all of the ravens and vikings up be difficult to deal with?

Day[9] Daily #456 – dSeleCT vs vileState

In a typical game, the goal is to have a better build order and win with a nice timing attack or the better composition. However, oftentimes both players effectively defend aggression from the opponent and neither is clearly ahead. Today’s daily is an extremely long TvP where both players essentially get up the “money mix” of units. In the process, we’ll examine how to position an army for defense, dropping, attacks etc in order to get a seemingly invisible edge!

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Part 1 – Identifying the “big plays” -getting an edge against your opponent

Part 2 – how army movements relate to expanding and attacking

Part 3 – positioning in the late game

Q&A With Day[9]

-In MTG what is your favorite color / combo of colors or which do you play the most?
-The concept of positioning you discuss in this game can be applied to any matchup?
-You said noob protoss have a hard time holding off the 10-12 minute terran push, how would we hold that off better?
-What is your favorite setup for dominion?

Day[9] Daily #455 – Funday Monday – Cannon pushing!

HAPPY MONDAY ! In today’s episode, we examine the highs and lows of trying to kill your opponent with buildings in the most classic form of scrubbie play: the CANNON RUSH! . However, we do not simply look at the idea of doing the cannon rush. Rather, we extend this to cannon pushing, cannon dropping, cannon offensives from start to finish.

Can you win with cannons at the 30 minute mark? In today’s daily we’ll find out that most of you can’t LOL.

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For Next Week’s Funday Monday

In 1v1 – the only attacking unit you make build are air units – only one queen per hatch. Submit your games to monday@day9.tv

Day[9] Daily #454 – Leenock vs Parting!

From both sides, the ZvP matchup has looked fairly stagnant as of late. Protosses early expand and do some mixture of blink stalker + colossus + sentry while eventually teching to mothership. Likewise, Zergs tend to triple expo, mass up ‘dem roaches + infestors and transition to a late game hive mixture (lulz broodlords).

In today’s games, we see fairly unorthodox play from both sides and, in particular, admire the brilliant transitioning and openings of Leenock! Who goes mass baneling roach anyways?

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Part 1

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Q&A With Day[9]

-Can you show a game with a carrier transition into ‘Toss?
-As a Protoss wouldn’t making colossi force the opponent make corruptors faster?
-In the last game, why is it right for Leenock to stop the attack in the main and go scout for other bases during the base trade?