{"id":83,"date":"2012-02-14T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starcraft.kevinleung.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2013-03-17T13:35:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T20:35:07","slug":"back-in-diamond-for-season-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Back in Diamond for Season 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/drop.sc\/112164\">Replay 1<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/drop.sc\/112163\">Replay 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Season 6 of ladder play has begun, and so have I. I just played 2 quick games, both of which went pretty well. The first ZvZ went along smoothly without any Zergling\/Baneling play at the beginning. Transitioned into Roach\/Infestor and rode that to victory. The second game was ZvT, where he tried some elevator play with Marines and Hellions, but I had plenty of Zerglings to deal with it. He made a few other mistakes (leaving Tanks unsieged and undefended), and a large flock of Mutas convinced him to tap out.<\/p>\n<p>Watching the replays, my macro was not very good in either of them. Now that I&#8217;ve learned about the macro hatch, I&#8217;m getting a lot of larva, but I&#8217;m also not spending them. This happens sometimes from being supply blocked, but in general, I&#8217;m just not checking them often enough, so my supply and money go up and down, roughly in sync with when I&#8217;m injecting. Day[9] talks about the <a href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/day9tv\/day-9-daily-132-back-to-the-basics-the-mental-checklist-3751430\">mental checklist<\/a> of &#8220;making pylons, making probes&#8221;. I guess without specific production buildings, I need to do a better job constantly keeping my money low and building things.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s pretty popular for Zergs to want to work on never missing an inject: I think I might get to that only after I remember to use the larva I already have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replay 1 Replay 2 Season 6 of ladder play has begun, and so have I. I just played 2 quick games, both of which went pretty well. The first ZvZ went along smoothly without any Zergling\/Baneling play at the beginning. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/?p=83\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-games","tag-practicing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.spawningtool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}