Beyond All Reason

[Cakedaddy]

I'm watching a 1v1 tournament on the BeyondAllReasonOfficial twitch channel. Pretty interesting. The players will ban two maps, and pick two maps. I missed how they decide the actual map though.

I caught the final game before the championship round. And now I'm watching the top two battle for the number one spot. OS's are 58 and 60. Final might be a 2 out of 3 situation.

[Troy]

I'm watching a 1v1 tournament on the BeyondAllReasonOfficial twitch channel. Pretty interesting. The players will ban two maps, and pick two maps. I missed how they decide the actual map though.

I caught the final game before the championship round. And now I'm watching the top two battle for the number one spot. OS's are 58 and 60. Final might be a 2 out of 3 situation.

Watched a little of the tournament, seemed pretty cool. 1v1 does seem like it's something I could get into, but the collab team aspect is way more fun, imo.

[Cakedaddy]

Having a good run lately. Pushing 16 OS now. More often than not, I'm pretty relevant. Just played a supreme game, and my front partner and I had a very good push early game (just before T2). I opened the door, and he played clean up. My commander was eating up the metal getting me to T2. Kept the push going and going. Then our north sea player tilted to the point we banned him. North sea was lost and we lost all northern bases in short order. Including mine. . . I had stuff behind the mountain, so I started rebuilding. Didn't get far before the flagship took that out. Built a tiny base behind the south side of the mountain, made rez bots and was rez'ing T3 units to fight with. I was pretty irrelevant though once I lost my main base. HOWEVER, I was still credited as being key to our eventual victory with my early game pressure.

Although, to be honest, I don't know what I did that was all that special. I did make it into the south front base and took a lot of that out. But I felt like it was a team effort as there were other people participating. But, I'll take being called GOAT at the end of that game!

[Troy]

Nice dude!

I'm the silver chev level now - I think a lot from me just leaving my computer on to watch games I don't play when doing boring work day stuff.

I'm 31 OSish now. My biggest struggle is that I feel my front OS is probably higher, if I'm against a red/blue 50 OS on the front, it's a 50/50 shot I actually win that matchup.

But I also sea alot, and will step up to those spots when my team knows the other teams best players will be there. Going against a true 50 OS sea player I DO NOT feel like my OS should be higher. I still get crushed in 10-15m. I've been playing more geo sea just because you can survive getting crushed their easier - if you know the other team is stacked on sea - geo sea is the way to go. Regular sea sucks if you lose, nothing is safe.

[Cakedaddy]

18 OS. I guess I'm going to go pro soon.

I won't be able to ride the "20 OS Max" lobby train much longer.

[Cakedaddy]

Just had my best game on Supreme as the front/tech player. Front held well, so I could do a lot of eco at the beginning. Then pushed towards T3. I probably could have gotten there sooner, but I pumped out a bunch of T2 to help hold the front. Enemy strategy appeared to be to turtle. Lots of bubbles and artillery, no real push. Once we got some T3 spiders at the front, any units they had there were pushed back or destroyed. Then spammed the amphibious units and me and the other front/tech player pushed their back line via the north sea which seemed to be holding 75% of the sea. Let us get all the way back there unmolested. Our first push took out a LOT of their back line eco. They countered with a massive front line push. But at that point, our front line was soaking up the metal at the front and feeding me and the other tech guy. So I had a massive pile of amphibious units at the front and was able to easily counter their T3 push. My guys would just surround their heavier hitters getting the flanking damage going. It was just a matter of cleaning things up which pretty much everyone participated in.

[Cakedaddy]

I watched NotReal watch your game earlier. You were on the front line. Looks like you did your job! I couldn't focus on what you were doing of course, cause I was watching him watch your game. But, your team won, so well done!!

[Troy]

Thanks! Have been catching a game or two a day as best I can between helping with feeds and getting peed on by the boy.

That game I feel like I stalled for a while, and was the only one on our front with spam and a lil eco. Had 30ish rez bots sitting around when our geo wanted to push, so I made tank assault troops, and then told my rez bots to eat behind the waves as we sent them in. In practice, it turned into endless stream of light tanks to go with everyone else's stuff. Effective!

[Cakedaddy]

Had a really good Supreme game last night. I took the back, front position (the one that boosts front). Our font was holding really well, so I was able to concentrate on my eco. I would send units every once in a while to boost them, but didn't have to keep a constant stream running. I got big pretty quick (for me). I was pretty even with our back main eco guy. Since the front was holding, I sent amphib units into the north sea as we totally lost that. I was able to get some stuff into their back lines and put a dent in the economies of a couple of them. Also, our back line hit three of their bases with nukes. Just kept launching them and they came up. The 4th one was finally blocked. So, front line holding and landing 3 nukes helped with my ability to eco scale. But anyway, I was at about 500 metal output when they came in with a fleet of dragons. Which I warned our air about!!! Their fighters wiped out ours so the dragons we free to roam. He came for me. At this point, I had been harassing with groups of marauders as well. I had a constant presence in their rear, I mean back bases. So when he popped some of my AFUSes, he says in all chat "FUCK YOU RED". I don't know if he didn't like me cause I was killing stuff, or just cause he happened to pop my stuff. Luckily, I'm not that good at building bases, so that was only about 35% of my eco that I lost. I was able to quickly rebuild it and continue. We eventually wore them down and won. I had the second highest eco on the map. So, I'm getting better at eco. . .

[Cakedaddy]

Just had another good game in the same spot. I saw you spectating at the very beginning, not sure if you came back. Again, the front held well, but I did send a few more units as back up, but no constant stream again. Really allows you to scale. I think we were the first to show T3. They had some LRP guns hitting us pretty good, but my marauders and our air were able to hunt them down and kill them. Their dragons proved to be a pain again. They made it to my base and took out my BP. I stalled pretty good until I could get that back up. That was about the time where their T3 pushes started. It was pretty hairy for a second with them knocking on my front door again. But our front, with some back support just held them off. Then our air really ramped up and I think he was the one that ended it for us. My units would do damage, but not enough to really hurt their bases. But he did a massive bombing run and took out some eco farms. Then it was over.

[Cakedaddy]

Just got a "Doing Everything"! However, it wasn't deserved. Glitters, and I was back corner opposite canyon. Guy in front of me pushed into the canyon early and held it for a minute stalling them. Basically, our corner held strong. Hell, the person in front of me had way better eco than me. I got "DE" because I had 5 titans that made it deep into the canyon, after red cleared it, then walked along their back line destroying base after base. So ALL of my damage, etc was done in the last 90 seconds of the game. But holy shit did I take out some eco. It's fun when you are the one that pops them.

[Troy]

lol nice!!! Sounds like you are doing really well on the economy front.

[Cakedaddy]

I feel like I haven't really been tested. The above games, the front did their job well.

[Troy]

Eco is probably my weakest side. I have yet to play that role despite being a silver chev, I tend to make just enough e to keep me going on whatever front I’m on but hate to transition to sitting back and building fusions.

[Cakedaddy]

Just had another good eco game. Glitters, corner opposite the canyon. While I did reinforce the front, I was able to concentrate on eco. At 30 minutes, my damage dealt started climbing (from hardly any) to end the game in second. Was at the top for damage taken. While it was our air that won the game, us ground guys did some good as well. End of the game, I had produced the most resources.

Early game, ya, eco is kind of. . . unrewarding, because your micro is making sure stuff is building instead of killing. But end game, you get to be the hammer that knocks them down. I wouldn't say its boring, because you are pretty busy with the micro. But ya, not blowing stuff up is not as fun as blowing stuff up.

I normally give my front line the units I send to front to micro, so I can keep focusing on my base.

[Cakedaddy]

[01:25] Cakedaddy: $whoami
[01:25] Coordinator: ---------------------------
[01:25] Coordinator: You are Cakedaddy
[01:25] Coordinator: 432 total hours (254 h playing, 52 h spectating, 41 h in lobby)
[01:25] Coordinator: Profile link: https://server4.beyondallreason.info/profile/63038
[01:25] Coordinator: Chevron level: 5
[01:25] Coordinator: Skill ratings:
[01:25] Coordinator: Large Team > Game: 18.61, Leaderboard: 10.99
[01:25] Coordinator: Small Team > Game: 13.42, Leaderboard: 3.46
[01:25] Coordinator: Team > Game: 11.72, Leaderboard: 1.72

[Troy]

30+ OS game just now in the OP lobby, a well known player nuked his own backline, the top 3 players, including himself, that had been ecoing for a while on Isthmus.

Game was way over in the other teams direction, they were the last 3 players unscathed. He says he didn't mean too, other 2 players are probably going to report him for banning

The drama is excellent.