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Ketroc provides a useful data point.

Ketroc plays Master level Terran SC2. His APM is poor, he sometimes gets supply blocked, his micro isn't great. But his strategic understanding is excellent. Ketroc grasps exactly what's going on, and also how other players are paying the game, which leads to him winning at Masters level (not pro but very good) where most competitors have high APM.

Ketroc was famous in early SC2 for "that blue block is moving" a phrase from commentary of a game in which his opponent takes Ketroc's base but Ketroc's superior strategic understanding leads to an unconventional win.




Do you have a link to that game?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mPGYeuU2Oc is the "When Cheese Fails" commentary of the 2011 game I mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbfIVf49zXA&t=530s is Day9 commentating on Ketroc doing something similar, but now aggressively, for a "FunDay Monday" (Day9 fans are tasked to play SC2 in some particular way, partly as training mostly as amusement).





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