First Video Status Update!

As promised in my last post introducing baby Caleb, here is an update on where things are at on this blog and my YouTube channel and my plans for the next few months - especially given my new nighttime schedule!

And for those of you that would rather read than watch, here's the summary:

• I have cast both showmatches, Ethereal511's 2v2 submission, and all 10 games played in Season 6 of the Blizzard 1v1 Ladder (2012 Season 1). (Special blog note: I do plan on doing blog posts for each of these. If you can't wait, check out the YouTube channel - otherwise, be assured they will trickle in!)
• I have also cast all 4 games from Season 7 and my single game from Season 8. These games haven't been produced/encoded yet, but I hope to upload them in the next week.
• For the next 4-6 weeks, I'll be playing SC2 with baby Caleb in the very early morning with only the mouse - and will be trying 1v1 in addition to 4v4!
• I might do some videos of a game I just bought with the kids - X-COM Enemy Unknown!
• After Caleb starts sleeping longer and I get time in the evening to cast, I still hope to cast all of the games played by the Colorado School of Mines in Season 5 of the Collegiate StarLeague (CSL). (I'll actually cast less than the 66 mentioned in the video - not all the replays were available.)
• Season 6 of the CSL will start in November, but it's not clear yet what opportunities community casters like me will have... now that they have a big, international sponsor!

Well, it's past my bedtime - see you guys in the next blog post!

Interesting Graphs of High-Level Balance

Last week I saw this really interesting post on TeamLiquid. As you may (or may not) know, TeamLiquid is one of the most well-known community hubs for SC2 (and SC1) players. (But watch out, their forums are known for not being necessarily casual friendly ;-)

But getting back to the post - it's a set of graphs showing the win rates for each race and each match-up. But these graphs only include high-level tournaments, cups, and leagues - so the idea is that they represent the competitive scene (outside the Blizzard online ladder which has a large amount of casual players).

(Big thanks to twitter.com/SC2Statistics)

I was surprised to see Terrans having a lower win rate overall, and that some of the match ups were so lop-sided. Protoss has recently become dominant over Terran - not sure if that's a fluke in November or if the Terrans have just not adjusted to the recent nerf to EMP radius. Zerg vs Terran is at least kind of getting even.

The puzzling one for me is Zerg vs. Protoss. According to the colors, it looks like Zerg has been dominant since last April - but I'm wondering if the colors are just backwards? I've heard many times that the match-up is so much in the favor of Protoss that some Protoss players don't even bother practicing vs. Zerg when preparing for tournaments... but perhaps that wisdom is outdated?