Sean "Day[9]" Plott (the author of the article) is probably the best analytical Starcraft II caster around. His "Day[9] Dailies" cover everything from the absolute fundamentals ("here's how you set up your hotkeys, here's how you keep your money low") to more advanced topics like build orders, expanding, tactics, and micro. He also throws in "Funday Mondays", where beginner and experienced players alike try to win with unorthodox constraints (usually with funny and/or insightful results).
Bronze league matches often end up being a contest of who can win with the first rush or the earliest "cheese", but most pro-level play does end up being a careful balance between aggression, defense, and expansion. The winner is usually the one who can stay just slightly ahead of their opponent until they can seize a clear advantage.
Slightly unrelated but Day9 also had a really good daily on what it is to dedicate yourself to something for a very long time. Great bits and pieces for any entrepreneur and worth watching if you even know anything about starcraft:
I really enjoyed watching that, though not really from the standpoint of an entrepreneur. What I really took from that video was how important a support structure is. It sounds like he wouldn't have gone as far as he did without his brother and mother being behind him 100% for years. Every time he had a failure, there were people there to help him get past it and learn from it instead of getting discouraged. He gained this support structure by being so passionate about his game that he made his mother believe in him.
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Sean "Day[9]" Plott (the author of the article) is probably the best analytical Starcraft II caster around. His "Day[9] Dailies" cover everything from the absolute fundamentals ("here's how you set up your hotkeys, here's how you keep your money low") to more advanced topics like build orders, expanding, tactics, and micro. He also throws in "Funday Mondays", where beginner and experienced players alike try to win with unorthodox constraints (usually with funny and/or insightful results).
Bronze league matches often end up being a contest of who can win with the first rush or the earliest "cheese", but most pro-level play does end up being a careful balance between aggression, defense, and expansion. The winner is usually the one who can stay just slightly ahead of their opponent until they can seize a clear advantage.
Slightly unrelated but Day9 also had a really good daily on what it is to dedicate yourself to something for a very long time. Great bits and pieces for any entrepreneur and worth watching if you even know anything about starcraft:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJztfsXKcPQ
Edit: 0:28:45 - On strategy and execution
I really enjoyed watching that, though not really from the standpoint of an entrepreneur. What I really took from that video was how important a support structure is. It sounds like he wouldn't have gone as far as he did without his brother and mother being behind him 100% for years. Every time he had a failure, there were people there to help him get past it and learn from it instead of getting discouraged. He gained this support structure by being so passionate about his game that he made his mother believe in him.
> Every time he had a failure, there were people there to help him get past it and learn from it instead of getting discouraged.
> being so passionate about <x> that he made <y> believe in him
IMHO, this sounds like two pieces of sage advice for entrepreneurs already :)