Movie Review: King Kong

Movie Review: King Kong

Hahaha, just watched King Kong in the cimena hours ago. It was a nice movie and a worth paying one with those great animation, long intense, good humour, and a 3 hours long show. Have you watch it yet? Yes? No? Ohh well, this movie is hell lot better than Narnia. The only thing less favoured in King Kong were the music (couldn't compare with LOTR and Narnia), and the too-fast-relationship between Naomi Watts and King Kong.

The story however, was undoubtely beautiful. One have to understand that King Kong is a very lonely creature, whereby bizzarely it falls into a beautiful young lady. And this young lady somewhat "understand" the suffering of King Kong and wanted to be its friend... to be its companion, and to protect... but throughout the movie, she failed, she couldn't do anything to protect King Kong. If you ever have a pet (dog, cat, iguana, tiger, lion, bear, etc) that you love, and your family or the government disallow you to have it, you will understand this movie far more better than those who have not experience what you had experienced.

I recommend this movie to everyone here, and hey, take a break in Starcraft and works, hang out with your gf or whoever to watch this movie in the cinema. Its a 100% worth. A rating of 9.2/10.

Best Combination of Races in 3vs3 BGH

We've always heard of opinion that BGH is a Protoss map. Yes, most probably due less-cliffs and wide space of ground, plus the unlimited money you can gather. This context may be true when it applies to a 1on1 scenario. But hey, what about a 3on3?

A new poll have just been setup in this blog (scroll down and you can see, is on your right) to get an overall view from the BGH community on "the best combination of races in 3vs3 BGH".

Make sure you put your vote there carefully as I have limited for each person to have only one vote. Happy voting.

Good Race, Good Position, High APM vs Bad Race. Bad Position, Low APM

Here's a replay I received yesterday from alvin(v)peirong featuring a battle of

TZP at 9, 11, 12 vs TZT at 5, 6, 1.

It has to be state here that none of these players are noobs, and they could play BGH finely with lots of drop, counter, units, and survival skills. The first team TZP which consist of aus.cold (P) posses an APM of 191 with max APM of 353.

From the information you gathered from the above information, the winning could be favoured to the TZP team at 9, 11, 12. But this is not it. In the middle of the game, the TZT team lost the Terran at 6 (though he is not totally dead), and their units are way below TZP team. But in the end of the game, the TZT team won.

It could be concluded here that tactics, teamwork, and intelligents are very much important compared to a good race, good position and high APM. Wouldn't you agree? Yes? No?

See the replay yourself at:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SYAOKC5B

Hydra Glides

Have you ever see Hydralisks that move like a snake? What you will witness soon in this replay are a bunch of Hydralisks that glide and spit together in one same spot. This hack (or perhaps a bug) is known as the Hydra Stack by some community some times ago, but honestly, this is the first time I see it myself.
This bug was presented in the replay by someone called [M]ake7upURS (2041-1289-111) from US East Server. He is using the orange Zerg at 6. Some hints on how the Hydra Gliding works is with the burrow command thingy. Once the Hydra unburrowed from the ground and start moving to a certain spot, the Hydralisk's shadow "GONE". With its shadow gone, these Hydralisk can now started to glide and attack together in one same spot. Most bugs in Starcraft are always connected with the disappearance of unit's shadow.

With the gliding ability, the Zerg Hydralisks are like invisible (of course it you storm it with High Templar, everything gone). It gives advantage not only in attacking power, but also less chances of the same Hydra being hit.

I have uploaded the replay at:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5W7XEM9L

P:S This replay is a contribution of na3r0k (15-700-16) of US East.

SlayerS_`BoxeR` SCV Rush (VOD)

This is an old clip whereby SlayerS_`BoxeR` still posses handsome looking hair (not like the fashion he is having now) playing against [NC]...Yellow.

This game was played in the final of dunno what events in Korea a few years ago. This replay has also being nominated as one of the Pimpest Play in 2003 by SClegacy.

You have to watch this clip to know how happening Starcraft in Korea and why they are the celebrity that earned million of dollars.

Enjoy the video from the link below:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6648934043675888354&q=korean+starcraft

Terran Theme on Piano

Hey, I just found this link from gosugamers.net. There's a guy who post up a video at http://tiny.pl/xncf featuring 4 theme songs from the game The Sims, Starcraft, AOE2, and Warcraft 3. I personally like the Warcraft 3 song pretty much. Hear it yourself, and I am sure every Starcraft or Warcraft fans will enjoy it.

The Zergling Dog

This is Sam, the ugliest dog in the world.

Sam has been voted as the champion of the world ugliest dog 3 times in a roll. He is a 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested owned by Susie Lockheed of Santa Barbara, California. However, Sam had died in November 2005 due to illness.

He resembles a nasty Zergling in Starcraft. There are Sam's fans all over the world and you could search for hundreds of website dedicated to Sam. You can buy his calanders and mugs as well. Simply use Google to search for the keyword "Sam Ugly Dog", and you can get tons of Sam pictures.

If you wanna know more, here's the official blog of the owner and the dog:

http://samugliestdog.typepad.com/blog/

P:S I am a dog lover. I really salute the owner of owning such a dog for so many years and still able to make him a superstar.

A BGH Fans

This is an email I received from a BGH fans today. His name is Hulbert Lee.

Hey I just wanted to say great site. I've been playing SC ever since Battle Chest came out (8 years?) and only BGH games too. I've always tried to search for sites that contribute to BGH and having dreams (sadly) of classrooms of teachers drawing on chalkboard and describing different strategies of how to play the map, like strategies for the vietnam, WW2, or something. It would be cool if you got the experts like Yao_Ming to give advice to novices and average people on the board on how to get better, like what units to use against Zerg in this situation or what not.

Again like you, I give up a lot of my life to play Starcraft like pursuing woman, hanging out with friends, going out, and basically almost all of social life. To me it SC cools my mind down, just like tacos, alchohol, vodka or a smoke. I've grown a habbit of yelling at my parents when they tell me to come eat dinner and it's 3v1 and you just have to finish the game so your pride isn't destroyed or you worked hard for that 1 win to boost your record. I have a japanese girlfriend with A breasts, but it is like I hide this part of my life (SC) from her and the rest of the world. I tell people I play computer games for fun, but it is hard decribing them that I only play a specific 3V3 BGH instead of Halo, Half Life, CS, etc. Just the map Big Game Hunters has so much to offer; it requires so much in a human being: agreeble skill, unlimited strategy, preceptive quickness, dedicated passion, infatuated love, brains, effective and efficient timing, etc. I could go on but it is really infinite.

Also, I believe that 3v3 BGH relates to many parts of life like going against the odds, dealing with idiots, handling your emotions like anxiety and fear, and overall getting better. Anyways, I just wanted to say thanks so much for making a website because I don't feel alone anymore and a nerd because I can relate to a community like you guys that shares this experience that only we can understand and not others. I'm glad that this game bonds so many races together, from viets to whites, to chinese and blacks, to candadians, australians to japs; we should rebel and make a banner in our colleges (I'm from UCR) to highlight our glory and patriotism for this game.

I am proud to say that BGH community is still very much living and hasn't fade a bit even with new games coming out everyday. A celebrity doesn't required quantity of fans, but quality of fans that are willing to sacrifice.

News Will Be Up and Away Again

Hello guys, I am back, and thats mean news for BGHers will be up again. Its been Christmas holiday since then, and the number of visitors have been decreasing for the past 4 days. I am sure everyone have enjoy a good holiday and will be back hitting the keyboard playing Starcraft again. You are sure missing those tanks, hydra and goons.

Christmas end, and New Year is coming. So it will be another holiday for everyone. So where are you guys going on 31st of 2005 and 1st of 2006? Does the countdown matters to you? Or perhaps it's better you sit down microing your 6 little zerglings on the New Year Eve? Tell us more what you gonna do on the countdown day.

Merry Christmas

I will be having a 4 days break until Monday, and probably will not be going to post anything in the blog or replying anyone in the email as I will be having a small vacation at my girlfriend hometown at Penang, Malaysia tomorrow. Hopefully, the contributors can keep the good work to post interesting news and keeping the community happy.

Till then, I wish you all a joyful and fun Christmas day. May you received another Brood War CD from Santa Clause (just kidding). See you guys again.

Cobo on BGH

Just a moment ago, while I was playing a public game with no one, Cobo joined the game. Who the heck is Cobo? Ohh well, Cobo is a Malaysian Starcraft gamer, and he is the two time WCG Malaysia 1st Runner up this and last year.

Talking about real gosu, Cobo is probably one of them. He is going to be 18 soon and wouldn't quit Starcraft just yet. Probably, you will see him in WCG Grand Final next year. His race, Protoss. And his Protoss is argueably no1 and no2 in Malaysia. I wonder if BGHer kOOlam can beat him? This is really an interesting one if they both met.

If you are interested more about him, how handsome he is, what's his hobbies, and of course what's his view for Starcraft, here's an interview made by Mygozone with Cobo early this year. Follow the link http://www.mygozone.com/content.php?article.69

And of course, I managed to have a game and two with him. The reps? Nothing interesting about it, but if you insisted to see some of his skills, then download it from the links below.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=V16I2R8J
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=KJWZ36M5

Open Blog for all BGHers

After some considerations and thoughts, I have made up my mind to open this blog to everyone. With that, you can now become a contributor to this blog and start posting your very own BGH news. This blog has currently granted with an average of over 100 unique visitors and a page load of over 300 per day.

However, there are rules and regulations to be obeyed such as below:

1. Only quality news can be posted.

2. Posting should be less personal, and should not always contains personal rants.

3. No swearing. E.g: Don't keep using the word fuck and shit. Others? Think of yourself.

4. Reporting a hacker name is good, but must be accompanied with evidence. Else, don't post.

5. Try to have less-grammatical and spelling-error in your post. This also includes using capital letters for new sentences, and please use full stop and comma correctly.

6. Another important thing is that you must always keep the blog clean, tidy and professional-looking. This includes texts and pictures alligment, text coloring, write full-Battle.net-name (with bold) and information of which server they are playing, page linking when refering to other websites, and of course, capital letter for the title.

7. I am still the admin for this blog, and I can remove you as the contributor without prior notice if I am (or the others) not happy with your attitudes, or things that you did wrong.

8. Remember, this is not your personal blog, but a quality blog for everyone to share, talk, and have fun.

For those who wish to become a contributor to this blog, kindly write me an email at lousy.robot@gmail.com with your Battle.net name, age, sex, country, and the server you are playing at. I will try to send you an invitation back to your email as soon as I get your request.

Until then, you will always be welcome as a contributor, not a sucker.

P:S Please use your Battle.net name to register as a blogger once the invitition email is sent to you.

Who's Hacking?

In a 3v3 inhouse marlboro game consisting of:

Gly, Lovebrance, ChinaJapanKorea (me)
vs.
sckingx, killer[a]nt, (i forget third)

I could not save the replay. That means someone hacks. TM_Glycerine can vouch that someone hacks also, who is it? We don't know. Beware when playing vs. sckingx and killer[a]nt. I vaguely remember replay-save crashing in the past when I played vs. sckingx. Honestly, compared to marlboro players, I'm a n00b. My record as of today is like 725-701. I lose a lot, and I know that I'm not great, so I have no motive for accusing someone of hacking just because I am being a sore loser.

The Mad clan from US West

Back in the years, the Mad clan from US West had built a decent reputation for themselves and expanded their colony to over 30 members. And back in those years, whoever who played with the Mad clan had no happy ending. Everyone feared them, but probably not now... as the noobs are not noobs today anymore.

The boss [Mad][Dondon] had turned himself into a legend (aka Mad[legend.don]) after his empire begin to subside in the recent years. Hardly you see the underlings of Mad[legend.don] crawling on the streets, bullying everyone they see anymore. Most have left the clan and started new life. However, Mad[legend.don] is still a "legend" to remember, and he still owning with his ultra-low APM of 50 these days together with his subordinate Mad[Winner].

Probably, not many of you came to know the existence of the Mad clan, but they do have an official website. What can I say? Is a good site, at least for the rare BGH website we have today. The website contains lot of information including the history, members list, replays, music and other stuff that matters to Mad clan and is good if you could pay them a visit. But hey, the last update for the website is way back in 2003... and damn... that really lack of endurance compared to me.

All and all, I still salute Mad[legend.don] for the clan that he had built in all these years, BGH community had burgeon into a more interesting community with them around. The website, the clan, and the dignity is all hardwork from the clan and I wish BGH community will have more interesting clan like this. Until then, sayonara.

2vs2 BGH US West Tourney RESULTS

Below is the battle reports I received from the tourney organizer himself.

The tournament was held this weekend and I think it went ok. 14 Teamsshowed up which was more than the 8 I was expecting.

On the top of the red bracket Chuck Norris steam rolled over theircompetition to get to the semi finals. Meanwhile on the bottom Team Peeredmanaged to go the first 2 rounds with a 4-0 record. When they met both teams were undefeated. First game Team Peered nearly killed Vietnam_0i with dts leaving them with a 2v1. A 2v1... nate and wimp vs Night]v[ares. I thought there was no way Team Peered could lose this game but in the endNight]v[ares killed them both by himself hahaha. Chuck Norris won the second game easily and went on to the championship with a 6-0 record againstthe Yellow Group champion.

On the top of the yellow bracket fan favorite X-men (with something like 40%of the votes to win) got a first round bye. Team Alberto made the upset ofthe tournament by winning their very first game against Team gogogo. Team gogogo won the next 2, however, and went on to meat x-men in the quarterfinals. X-men came out on top 2-1 to advance to the semi-finals. on the bottom Team FTW and ThaiMaNia played in the 2nd round and had a really tough2nd game (50 minutes) both teams had to go to carriers but in the end FTWwon and also took the 3rd game to meet X-men in the semis. FTW came out ontop to advance to the championship against Chuck Norris

Championship game 1: Chuck Norris wins tp vs tp
Championship game 2: Team FTW wins tp vs tp
Who won the deciding game 3? if u dont know download the replay and find outfor yourself. It was one of the best games of the tournament

http://rapidshare.de/files/9426199/TOURNEYchuckvsftw3.rep.html

BGHWest

I haven't see the replay uploaded on top myself (was in a rush to complete this report). Yeah, and by the way, BGHWest wanted to thank all the teams for coming out and playing. Lastly he also wanted to thanks BGHWest_OBS, BGHWest_OBS2, BGHWwest_OBS3, and BGHWwest_OBS5 for their big help. And he hope everyone had fun.

Hmm, I havent received anything other than this from BGHWest and there is no further reports nor replays found in BGHWest official website yet. Hopefully more replays will be released soon as I think there is a great demands for it. That's all for now, and is time for me to see the final replay myself... hihi.

SCV Rush

When you have 3 Terrans on your team... what do you do? If executed properly (which we almost did) it would be devastating to the opponents. I'm still practicing SCV rushing, but check out the replay here: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jontsai/files/triple_scv_rush.rep. Yes, I ended up losing the game because the 3rd player did not execute correctly.

[ReD]Nada's Defensive Matrixed 4 Dropships

Yet, another great replay from [ReD]Nada killing the Zerg with his "smarties" and flying-barrels (Science Vessels). This replay is fun to watch and you can find another unique or rather rare technique whereby [ReD]Nada tried to kill 4 Zerg expansions in different part of the map with its 4 dropship that goes asynchoronously in the same second. The 4 dropships managed to reach the expansions unhurt though the whole map are filled with Hydras. This is due to the help of defensive matrixs posses by all the dropships.

Check the replay yourself at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9425194/nadadropship.rep.html

P:S This replay is a contribution of Marlb0r0 (the guy himself, not the channel)

We Are Finally Crawled

The two screenshots below have been taken today. Thanks Google and MSN.



After nearly a month since the first published of BGHers.blogspot.com, we have finally crawled by Google and MSN (but not Yahoo). If you search for the keyword "Starcraft BGHers" or "BGHers", BGHers.blogspot.com is in the No1 and No2 ranking for both Google and MSN. Hope to have more Starcraft gamers found us through Google and MSN, and with that, I don't need to put "advertisement" in Battle.net anymore. Haha...

The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe

I had just watched Narnia in the cinema yesterday. Wait, what the heck? This is not BGH or Starcraft, why is Narnia doing here? Man, we are all gamers, and all gamers are human, human watch movie. So, as a gamer, you watch Narnia as well. Enough of that, let's carry on with the movie Narnia.

Even before the movie was screened, I had a feeling that this ain't going to be anyway near LOTR or Harry Potter. Look at all the advertisement around you, those faces don't seems likeable, I mean, those kids and the big head lion, Aslan (a Malay name?) don't seems that favour to my taste. However, the White Witch is perfect. The way she dressed, walked, moved, and talked are undoubtely a witch. Yes, she looked perfect... as a witch.

You know, when you carry on with a movie, that have characters of lion, centurians, two-legged... deer, unmatured kids, orc, wolf, leopard, beaver, witch, and some cow-headed guy, it all begin to messed up. You definately doesn't want to watch a talking lion vs a witch. IT JUST DOESN"T MATCH!! One is four-legged, and the other is two, and they are both boss... and at the end (a spoiler here, skip it if you haven't watch the movie) the lion "eat" the witch.

Animation wise, it's normal. You can see animations like these in all movies today. However, the background music in Narnia is good. Story? This ain't a story for the kids nor adults. I don't know how to categorize it, but it won't suit any kid taste nor any adult favour. If you have ever read Doraemon manga long story, then you will find Narnia has the same kind.

I give a rating of 6.8/10 to Narnia. And hopefully to watch a better movie next week. Yes, and definately it is going to be the big gorilla - King Kong.

kOOlam, Al_Bundy vs ShOoTiNg_SpElLs, kde

Here's a replay from kOOlam and Al_Bundy beating ShOoTiNg_SpElLs and an unknown guy kde. 3 straight wins for kOOlam team in this. Perhaps, ShOoTiNg_SpElLs ain't that "legend" like what I have said a week ago. However, ShOoTiNg_SpElLs doesn't has a pro in his side as partner... so it's still a doubt on how well does ShOoTiNg_SpElLs can go.

The three reps uploaded below are Protoss Bashes battle. I bash u, u bash me, I shoot you, you hit me, run, run, back back, chase chase, and faster faster kill. Is BGH a Protoss map afterall?

http://rapidshare.de/files/9331462/0601_AL_Bun_kOOlam_ShOoTi_k.rep.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9331493/0602_ShOoTi_kde_AL_Bun_kOOl.rep.html
http://rapidshare.de/files/9331519/0603_kOOlam_AL_Bun_kde_ShOo.rep.html

69DoggyStyle Statement about Craft Team

hey lousy,

here is a replay that where you can see bic[craft] and player in action. i was just gettin sick of them saying that they can beat kOOlam's crew. this is me and 58freestyle vs craft. i know kOOlam is much better than me... and if craft cant beat us, i dont think they stand a chance vs kOOlam

later

Above is an email I received from 69DoggyStyle. Yeah, probably 69DoggyStyle is correct... and I believed everyone will agree that kOOlam and his crew are in a higher level of skills compared to craft. However, this is only my opinion towards this... yours might be different... and I am not interested in arguement about this until I received some new replays that can prove otherwise.

Download the replay at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9326297/69n58_vs_craft.rep.html

P:S Currently all these guys are in US West and partly in US East

A Replay with Rating of 11/10

Guys, this is a must see replay for all of you. Two very interesting matters happened in this replay. First is the game itself, crazy micro and unreal comeback from Red[Nada]. Red[Nada] did something really really really amazing with its Science Vessels when he is out of units. And hey, the other guy who is using Zerg was not weak. Amazing things always happened around big name, just like Jordan, Magic, Ronaldo, Zidane, Tiger, and many more. I salute Red[Nada] for this one, and I am sure he will become a legend one day, just like Boxer. Thanks to 145557 aka newbie_mas for recommending me this replay.

Ok, that's the first interesting thing that happened in the game. Now, the second one. In minutes 26:01, there were two marines that run with the speed of light in the middle of the map. Probably a bug or something, but that's really something you have to check out by yourself to believe it. Like what Ripleys always said, "Unbelieveable? Believe it!!"

The replay can be found at:

http://sc.gosugamers.net/replays.php?id=4888
(WARNING: This replay contains jaw-dropping effects. For those who have a weak jaw, you are advise NOT to see this replay)

A lot of thanks to GosuGamers.net for it.
Oh, and by the way, I gave a rating of 11/10 because this is the best replay among all others recommended replays by GosuGamers.

P:S Red[Nada] is a Korean professional Starcraft player who have earned over hundred of thousands just by playing Starcraft. It's his job anyway.
P:S 145557 aka newbie_mas is a friend of mine in Malaysia. He hangout mostly at Marlboro US West. And finally I wanted to congratulate him for his wedding that is coming very soon. May your marriage be blessed with happiness, wealth, and health.

X-MeN-RaiN vs to.ash

For X-MeN-RaiN and to.ash fans out there, here's a packed replays for you. However, this is not a BGH game. For those who are on their route to professional gaming... err... I mean low-map gaming (just like LadSy), then these 4 replays are good for you, as a reference or tutorial.

And hey, if you are none X-MeN-RaiN or to.ash fans, quit this one. You ain't gonna get any fun from these replays. Trust me. But the other replay I uploaded on the next post, is a MUST SEE replay.

X-MeN-RaiN vs to.ash replay package can be downloaded at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9252743/xmenAsh.zip.html

Spammers Problem

Hours ago, Marlboro channel in US West is having difficulties to talk. A gay (yeah, I mean he is a gay, or else he won't do that) goes by the nickname of MarlboroSux, and two others gay nicks spamming the Marlboro channel with lots of "@".

By luck if you are visiting this blog at this hour, simply type

/ignore the_guy_name_who_spam

and you can be set free from these spammings.

Last Call for 2vs2 BGH Tournament

The 2vs2 BGH Tournament organized by BGH West are calling all BGHers for the last time to participate before the due date - thursday 11pm (24 hours before the tournament starts). The final rules and bracket will also be posted at that time.
http://www.freewebs.com/bghwest/BGHWest.htm

The Departure of LadSy

Below is an email from LadSy to me...

Hi,
Since, i'm not going to be posting on your blog again, I was wondeinrg if you could draw up an article about my 2 games vsing InErKinG. These replays although not on bgh, clearly show that brains and tactical "stratergy" is much more important than senseless actions per minute. I am not sure if InErKing has a reputation as being good, but his APM was over double mine. We had 2 matches PvT, I won the first and he won the second. It is obvious that he is far more skilled than me, but the first replay makes my argument clear.
Its been good lousy, but your bgh forum is far too competitive for my taste. I think i might still play with a few of my friends in bgh, but i want to play more low money maps and 1v1/2v2ing. BGH althoguh fun.. offers little enjoyment now, i'm supprised we havn't moved to better maps or new ones.
I would appreciate you doing this very much, and hope to talk to you on bnet in the future. Hope the community goes well. If you see BGHwest tell him, i forfeit. I've got much better things to do than play in some stupid tourney.
I'll also include a few other replays including a long 3v3 bgh, and also a 2v2 with 58 and some other dude. The 2v2 was fun and i topped apm ;). However this was the second and again they both chose toss, which i find lazy and kind of pathetic. But then again, they probably wanted to win it more and were smart because toss has a definate advantage. They asked me to get another partner to vs them in lost temple, and hopefully i will with mongo[training].
Cya then lousy.
Cya later lousy.

These were the last few words from LadSy for this blog. I was sad that our BGH community had lost LadSy as he will move himself to a more professional gaming scene. And I hope one day after his departure to low-money-map gaming, he will return back to our BGH community as one of the most recognizable player ever... with IQ of 180 and APM of 450 - argueably, intelligent + speed mean rule everything.

I hope you guys could give some respects to LadSy, and don't fuck with him, because one day he gonna came back and OWN you all. HAHAHAHA...

I have follow his order and present you guys the 4 replays in the zip file below. Please give these replays an honour in your replay folders.

http://rapidshare.de/files/9171176/ladsy.zip.html

I wish LadSy all the best not only in Starcraft, but also everything in life. Good luck, LadSy, you're the best.

A BGH replay by X-MeN-RaiN

X-MeN-RaiN has posted me a replay from US West and it's a pretty good one. Nice zergling run from VivaLdi. Take a look at yourself on the replays.

X-MeN-RaiN (T) APM=306
187[X-Men] (P) APM=123
Treacherous (P) APM=118
VS
VivaLdi (Z) APM=278
Bic[Craft] (T) APM=147
acer00 (P) APM=83

I have to say again that VivaLdi zergling run was very interesting and intuitive to me. Just wonder how well will VivaLdi do with other races.

Replays can be downloaded at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/9150282/Rain187TreachvsVivBicAcer.rep.html

A Mirror of US West Marlboro - the US East Motel

Every BGHers in the US West might be familiar with the famous channel Marlboro. Most of them are very active, talkative, cocky, humble, nice, lagless, expert, noobs, and probably a few of them are hackers. If you need a 3rd for BGH, basically you would just need to shout out, and someone there will try to intercept you. A nice channel I suppose. And everyone there (I guess everyone) plays BGH in Marlboro. So if you are a BGH kakis (kakis in Malaysian mean legs, we use that often to resemblence a group of people that do the same thing), Marlboro US West is a perfect place for you.

What about the East? In US East we have the Motel channel. Motel channel is the mirror of the Marlboro channel. There are the same - very active, talkative, cocky, humble, nice, lagless, expert, noobs, and probably a few of them are hackers.

If you are from the US West server, you might wanna visit the Motel channel to know more and have some great games with them. Haha, I am like a Tourism Minister. And for the Eastern Motel kakis, come... visit the Marlboro at US West, exchange some of your skills so that everyone could improve, and impress.

That's it for this one. And can someone tell us what's the BGHers channel for Asia and Europe?

Unsettlement

Yesterday, I invited kOOlam and VivaLdi from US East (Motel channel) to play some "friendly" game with US West (Marlboro channel). However, they (kOOlam and VivaLdi) do not get "warmth" welcome by the Marlborians. Some are like expecting this to be a deathmatch and wasn't that ready to play with the East comers.

Anyway, I manage to get a game for them in some 10 minutes discussion session. The game was played by:

VivaLdi (Z) APM=260 MaxAPM=431
kOOlam (P) APM=148 MaxAPM=256
lousy_robot (T) aPM=119 MaxAPM=151
VS
DarkTemplarBoy (T) APM=195 MaxAPM=510
LJ.LiverpoolFC (P) APM=127 MaxAPM=171
LadSy (P) APM=118 MaxAPM=186

This game however, was not settle with DarkTemplarBoy disconnected crashed by SC from the game. DarkTemplarBoy please check previous post on how to fix an SC crash thingy. Though that happened, I believe there is already a conclusion of who is winning. No 2nd game was played basically due to reason of a must have extra high latency from me. Sorry for that. And hopefully, I hope I can have more games like this in future without the EHL.

The replay of this game has been uploaded on the below link.

http://rapidshare.de/files/9076919/00007_East_vs_West_1.rep.html

P:S By the way, I am not from US East.

A Demand for ShOoTINg_SpElLs Replays

There has been arguement or perhaps, questions lately on the ability of ShOoTINg_SpElLs in BGH map. Personally, I do not know at all who is ShOoTINg_SpElLs until the guy in our comments (rush) kept promoting him. And coincidentely, another guy (kOOlam) send me a replay featuring himself defeating ShOoTINg_SpElLs in a 2vs2 battle. From my experience, ShOoTINg_SpElLs DO HAVE notable skills although he lost the game to kOOlam.

Does anybody (except rush) right here in this blog know who is ShOoTINg_SpElLs? Have you encounter him before? Are you a friend of him? Or maybe you are his mum? We definately need more information about him so that those guys that think he is decent may now shut up - yes, shut up only if ShOoTINg_SpElLs is really that awesome, and if otherwise you can continue with your instinct telling youself that you are better or perhaps someone else is better. For those who admire ShOoTINg_SpElLs, please prove it (sending me replays) to support your claims, or perhaps invite him to appear more often in the Battle.net so we can have a game or two with him to know the truth.

For my side, I was really hoping to know more about ShOoTINg_SpElLs skills, creativity, and things that only he can do. I am hoping that you (whoever you are) can send me the replays of ShOoTINg_SpElLs to my email (lousy.robot@gmail.com) if you have it. Looking forward to that attaching with many thanks.

Too Much of Protoss

kOOlam had sent me a great replay of himself featuring a 2vs2 BGH battle with a guy who is believed to be one of the BEST BGHers out there - ShOoTINg_SpElLs. This game was played in US East. From the replay, I could see kOOlam posses some really amazing skills, while ShOoTINg_SpElLs has some new (its new to me) formation of Gateway positioning which actually very creative.

kOOlam (T) APM=131 Stats=1591-211-31
AL_Bundy (Z) APM=173 Stats=2215-743-101
VS
oonth_sr. (P) APM=79 Stats=44-42-1
ShOoTINg_SpElLs (P) APM=172 Stats=0-109-3

This is a must see replay for all BGHers. Will the toss rules in BGH? Or will the combination of Terran and Zerg deadlier? Download the replay at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/8985738/0027_kOOlam_ShOoTi_AL_Bun_o.rep.html

P:S Many thanks to kOOlam for sharing this great replay. Hopefully we could get more of this in future. Send in your favourite replays to my email, lousy.robot@gmail.com - so that you could share it with everyone here (with the condition that it must be really good).

LadSy said...

LadSy said...
I've made up my mind.. apm of over 110 in bgh = extra clicking.. thats all it is... there is no practical reason you need an apm of over 110.
December 11, 2005 6:51 AM

The above comment can be found back on last Friday in European Gosus Replay blog. I think what LadSy said... wasn't that correct. There is no such thing as extra clicking because clicks or keyboard press that have not actually produce, operate, or command something will be NOT be consider as part of the APM. It will be reduced out, and these extra clicking are represent as null. You can find the null value inside bwchart.

However, I believe that wasn't what LadSy trying to say about extra clicking. In LadSy opinion, we just don't need an APM of over 110 because an APM of 110 is enough - especially in a map like BGH. Frankly speaking, I disagree 100%. APM means action per minutes. You could not get a high apm by "simply clicking" without good objectives. Good objectives mean commanding your units and buildings in some really "useful way". You also needs handspeeds, reflexes, and eye coordinations in order to achieve a high APM.

I have played with some of the best Malaysian Starcraft gamers in BGH map. These are not decent gamers, and they were participating in WCG every year. My APM is about 110. Their APM varies from 200 - 250. Look, these are NOT extra clicking. These actually mean that they did twice as much as I can do. These mean they are able to command, build, and produce twice as effective as I can. I am using shortcuts of 1-3, while they are using 1-10. And amazingly, they could use only their left hand to type 1a2a3a4a5a6a7a8a9a0a in between 1-2 seconds. Playing with them in BGH maps are like nightmares.

No BGHers newbies have APM of above 100. And according to some contrary, your APM will begin to drop and hardy increase when you get pass 21 years old.

ses[Eugene]love Is a Gay Hacker - reported by not.much.here.

not.much.here. (1745-1616-163) reported that ses[Eugene]love (103-70-19) had hacked him using the same money-hack with strange rock formation in a laddar game. He was annoyed and couldn't help it.

The replay of ses[Eugene]love using the money-hack can be downloaded from the link below and hopefully the name of the culprit will be known worldwide. Many thanks to not.much.here.

http://rapidshare.de/files/8927109/lost_ladder_to_a_hacker.rep.html

P.S: not.much.here. and ses[Eugene]love is in US West.

A 2vs2 BGH Tournament in US West

A 2vs2 BGH Tournament will be held probably on December 16th at 11PM pacific time (7 AM battle.net time) in US West. A maximum of 8 teams will be competiting. This is a single elimination in a best of 3 series. The tournament is organized by BGHWest and you can find their websites at http://www.freewebs.com/bghwest/BGHWest.htm.

Currently 4 teams has joined, and I am wondering if BGHWest could another get 4 soon. However, I only recognized Ladsy and heartlessnoob from the participation list. Hopefully, they could make some achievement out of it.

This is a great effort by BGHWest in truly "visualizing" the best team in US West. However, a knock-out series like this is not able to REALLY perceive the best of the best in our BGH community. I suppose a league would do - and this tournament is somewhat a good beginning of it (if we have enough demands for this).

XpressPost is another HACKER of today

Had a game with a noob hacker, and his name was Xpresspost. He was using money hack again with his base formated with strange rock (as a side effect of the hack). However, he was still killed by me when he was too happy in "guardianing" me, and had totally forgetting to defense his base. A noob hacker I suppose. This guy was equiped with a handsome of hacks, and was still staying alive though he was eliminated. Unfortunately the replay of this was coruppted just like what we always experienced when someone hacked - but I still manage to screen capture the hack he used.

Please take notice that he may strike again with other nicks. Let's pray for the God so that he will have a car crash today and was not able to play Starcraft anymore. Amen. (I am serious)

P:S XpressPost can be seen appearing in US West recently. And I wonder what's his other nick, probably TNT something. By the way, about the car crash thingy, you can find one example of how I wish the incident could be at the link below.

http://www.break.com/articles/vipervsferrari.html?t=4422

European Gosus Replay

kOOlam akas kural sent me a replay featuring a furious 3vs3 battle on BGH. This game was played in the European Server and have gotten my attention due to the high APMs they posses. Their teamworks, micros, and macros are superb (and I don't think by any chance - Lame, Twins, and Mad clan can do anything to it). Perhaps these were the real gosus in the BGH scene, where you hardly see on US West.

LeeJet APM=194 Stats=499-180-9
FastBack APM=181 Stats=583-576-32
WitzALF APM=170 Stats=2769-1386-125
Merf APM=162 Stats=1116-299-8
kural APM=131 Stats=404-105-3
vatos[locos]og APM=120 Stats=7382-3750-280

This replay was however contains "less art". A battle of 3 Protoss vs 3 Protoss for nearly an hour with non-stop actions was a bit... boring. Yes, it contains "less art". And personally I think BGHers who play too much Protoss contains "less art" if compare to a Zerg or Terran player. And honestly, when is the last time you saw Lame, Twins, or Mad clan had ever played without a Protoss in their team?

Download this replay on:
http://rapidshare.de/files/8856662/gg_long.rep.html

Pit-BuLL_19 FOUND AS HACKER (brought to you courtesy of YaO_MinG)

Pit-BuLL_19 with a record of 2961-383-122 (as of today) is indeed impressive. However, yes, however, he hack.

An evidence (a replay) was sent to me today showing a strong evidence of the hack. Pit-BuLL_19 was using map-hack on an undated match and was found killing himself and left the game as soon as it happened (this is a shameful scenario, yes that's awfully shameful). The reason he was self-destructing was due to PenguinPlug, a program used by other players in the same game to counter-hack the hacker who use map-hack. The counter-hack will be activated in between 4 to 5 minutes after the game started, and it will lead to self-unallied for only hackers.

Just for a small thought and curiosity, why do you hack? Now your name is here, so please change your name so nobody will know you are still Pit-Bull_19 and hopefully you could lead a better life with or without hacking. Don't blame me on posting this up, as the demands for this is undoubtely great.

The replay of the hack had been uploaded into the link below. Is my pleasure to let everyone view it. Enjoy!!!

http://rapidshare.de/files/8854094/Pitantihacked2.rep.html

P:S Pit-Bull_19 is still actively playing BGH in US West.
P:S PenguinPlug's counter map-hack feature is not working anymore for Patch 1.13. However the replay above can replay nicely under 1.13.

A YaO_MinG's Tanks Drop Mechanic

A few weeks back, I was discussing about tanks drop at 1 and 7. Somebody told me the trick... and today someone else (YaO_MinG) told me an even more suprising trick about dropping tanks at 1 and 7.

Take a look at the screenshots taken below.

A total of 6 tanks was drop at 7, and a double tanks drop at 1. NOW, that's something I did not know before. However, from the replay I get from Yao_MinG, there is actually something that YaO_MinG did whereby I don't think many of you would know how to do it - "a rotating dropship". Before these tanks were dropped, these dropships were all rotating repeatly on a spot until the tanks were completely drop. I guess this was the real trick behind dropping tanks on a narrow gap.

Download this replay at the link below. Many thanks to YaO_MinG and you can find him at Marlboro, US West.

http://rapidshare.de/files/8819982/tank_drop_mechanicz.rep.html

YaO_MinG said...

This is a comment I found back in my previous post (The Greatest BGH Player of All Time), and I believe it raise some interesting "point".

YaO_MinG said...
ryosuke sucks and hacks. I.play.for.food is good but not a legend. I myself game with akao87 and am better than him. Orphy9 is good but i dont know very well. Twins) Clan range from very good to kinda noobie, but never play without each other. And Pit_Bull19's opinion doenst matter because he hacks. I have rep back when PenguinPlug made hackers kill themselves. Ask YaO_MinG for rep. Quality players in my opinion are Chacal_Nitrus papas_fritas, evilnugget, hasu-gosu and many others. Although "The best" probably dont play anymore. Happy gaming...

Personally, I myself played some games with YaO_MinG long ago, and he was really someone who got my respect. Scary and massive offence, with tough and stuborn defence, YaO_MinG is undoubtely good, though I still don't know much about him in person.

Ok, back to the topic we are discussing now. YaO_Ming said... Pit_Bull19 hacks, and he posses the replays of the "self-unallied" of Pit_Bull19. This is very interesting. I would greatly love to post this replay up for everyone viewing. And hopefully you (YaO_MinG) could send me the replays to my email (lousy.robot@gmail.com) or find me at Marlboro, US West. Thank you if I got the replay!!!

P:S For those who does not know what is the PenguinPlug, it is a 3rd party utilities made to counter someone who use Map-Hack. The guy who use Map-Hack will unallied himself leading to self-destruction. However, the PenguinPlug only work back in Patch 1.12. According to the creator of PenguinPlug, it is impossible to made another one for Patch 1.13 and please don't ask why.

P:S For those who does not know the players I mentioned above, they are regular 3vs3 BGH players in US West.

The Twins Clan (Girl Power)

I was able to grab a chance to have a short interview with Twins)Geraldine and Twins)Candy of the Twins Clan yesterday. Both are 19 and 22 years old if I am not mistaken and they were both from China and California, USA.
We have the interview in Twins private channel (however they claim that it was a public channel), op)twins of US West server.

For those who does not know about the Twins clan, here is a short introduction.
They were playing in a regular basis of 3vs3 BGH in US West and have been winning a high ratio of games... of about 100 wins to 10 losts. Their popularity begin to stock up when their superb team play suprise even to some experience BGHers out there.
The Twins Clan started out with 4 members, and the leader was Twins)Charlene. Today, they have manage to recruit up to 17 members. However, something that really suprise me was that the Twins Clan consists of mostly female - 90% of them. This is what they claimed, and whether it is true or false, its up to you. If they are really females, then it would be sweet, and if they were males, then probably these were the kind of gays community that we often seen.

Asked on how could they become so good at gaming, they said it was mostly from their boyfriend and self-learning. I was told by another friend of mine, so_easy that he (so_easy) was once a member of the Twins clan. And I do asked Twins)Charlene and Twins)Candy whether it was true... and Twins)Candy replies furiously saying that it was not true and so_easy was a pervert!!! OMG!

Ok, that's about it. And both the Twins are bored and were about to start the game, and I manage to have a game and two with them. Replays are uploaded on the below.

http://rapidshare.de/files/8758995/00003_twins.rep.html

http://rapidshare.de/files/8759012/00004_twins.rep.html

Allied Cheat

I can't help myself but have to post this up - as it was so hilarious!
Today while hosting a 3vs3 game, a Korean join my game!!!
He was on my team and he can't speak a lot of English, but was enough to deliver the message ........... until the game started.
The conversation happened to be as below.

Korean guy: Allied cheat
Me (lousy_robot): Allied cheat? Who is cheating?
Korean guy: Allied cheat
Me (lousy_robot): What? Do you mean they are hacking?
Korean guy: No, errr... I think is allied cheat

Allied cheat? Guys, it took me some time to get what he exactly mean! Do you guys get it? Post in the comments if you guys know what he meant.

P:S: No offend on the Korean guy, and I had a good game with him! I just love these Koreans!

High Score, Unit lost + Structure lost = 0 and a 10 Minutes game

The other day, I was playing 2vs2 with cHaOs_pk against another 2 guys - Jailbird4169 and vlastilin. We finished the game in 9:30 minutes, and we got them both surrender. Nothing to shout about, but obtaining highscore without a single unit and structure lost is a rare scene - tanks drop is indeed devastating.

I have uploaded the replays at:
http://rapidshare.de/files/8699364/0001_Unit_lost_equal_0.rep.html

TosSGirL Video-on-Demand

Want to see TosSGirl in video? Find the download links at:

http://rapidshare.de/files/8634744/big3special_0413_2r_5b_ToSsGirL_Vs_Navy.wmv.html
(40mb)
http://rapidshare.de/files/8636547/big3special_0413_2r_6b_ToSsGirL_Vs_Navy.wmv.html
(16mb)

Amazing Replay

This amazing replay features how a Terran player beats a Zerg with his amazing trick. The Terran player also known as [Red]Nada beat NC_Yellow in less than 6 minutes without even a single dropship - though this map may required a dropship to reach the enemy base.

For anyone who does not know the infamous [Red]Nada and NC_Yellow, they are both top Terran and Zerg player in the world.

You have to see this replay to believe it - that you newbie (just kidding) are just another..... hmm..... less pro gamers who have not played enough game.

Download this at http://rapidshare.de/files/8600257/nada_yellow.rep.html
Enjoy!!!

ToSsGirL

Guys, guys, guys..... this is ToSsGirl.
She is the infamous and the best Korean Starcraft female player ever!!! Not to mention she is also the ONLY beauty female Starcraft player... ughh... I mean she is the most beautiful there is in Korean (or maybe in the whole world), of cuz there are still others, but she is the favourite out there.

Ok, let'us get into the details, she is 19 years, a Terran player (though her aka was TosS, but she is actually a Terran player) and she is one of the player from team SouL, Korea. Standing at 160cm and 44kg, she is absolutely gorgeous and outstanding.

Fans all over the whole are crazy about her and there are tons of websites dedicated to her. Google for it if you wanna know more.

For those who might wanna see her VOD (video of demand), be sure to check this site more often cuz we will upload it soon.

www.BGH4ever.com

I just found a website today dedicated to Big Game Hunters - www.bgh4ever.com. The website were made by the Germans which is designed for 2vs2 and 3vs3 battle arrangement... if I am not mistaken. However, most of the website content are in German. I am having some difficulties in translating the content into English (though I use Google Translate).

The website is quite active and the latest post was in 28/11/2005. I am pretty glad that there are still website that is dedicated to BGH... and hopefully there could be more in the future.

For anyone who knows more website dedicated to BGH, please post in the comments below.