_"I would have rather lost playing like myself than playing the highest chance builds...I want to play like an absolute baboon."_ - *uThermal* Amen, brother.

@kvera

7 ай бұрын

Amen.

@Ajamesmith

7 ай бұрын

And this is why we watch. We love Uther-boon

@ujulspins

7 ай бұрын

This is the way

@justinm3117

7 ай бұрын

We are here for it!!!! 👍🏼

@daelrine

7 ай бұрын

New nick spoiler: 'baboon' =>'noobab'

If you start playing silly strats in tournaments the organizers should subsidize you, because I'd definitely watch all your matches just to see the commentators' reactions.

@hendrixj.8356

7 ай бұрын

I’m shocked he didn’t cheese special, he should have

@kaisershen107

7 ай бұрын

Same

@kaisershen107

7 ай бұрын

Thermy should host his own tournaments, cheese only

@IcariumGaming

7 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, he tried to play the tournament like a professional. He has been out of the game way too long and less than a hundred games prior to the tournament, wasn't going to get him anywhere. If he had fun doing it, then it was worth it. I just hope he doesn't take the loss too hard.

@WhatsY0UTUB3

7 ай бұрын

the baboon invitational

For the young fans to learn and the old ones to remember: the mass Queen strategy is called "Dragon Cleavage".

Your analysis of the tournament is really spot on. I was worried about you after that tournament - I'm glad you found your tournament strategy - we all want to see you have fun with it.

20:27 "It's a wash" differs in meaning depending on where you are. In the US, it means that two things cancel out and it ends up in an even situation. In the UK, Canada, and perhaps other places as well, it means that it's a complete wipeout, that one side has completely demolished the other.

@ChezzyKnytt

7 ай бұрын

Yeah now that I think of it, I've used it both ways (NZ here, I guess we're kind of americanised brits)

Playing all the races and with all these unexpected builds could prove to be pretty effective in the tournaments. Would be fun to watch.

@Anzuo

7 ай бұрын

I agree! It also allows him more options to play weird builds, which seems to be how he wins. Also, he's lost in the past by playing the same build over and over but random prevents him from getting stuck.

@CounterGriefZombies

7 ай бұрын

It only works really well until you get a reputation for playing like that. Once the element of surprise is gone if gets harder.

uThermal, the wild card. I'd love to see it in a tournament. Play wild and free and have fun. The result is less important than playing bangers!

loved watching you practice and play the tournament. I looked forward to that tournament video, and I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed it too!

My favourite pro games to watch are always the ones with crazy, creative, unexpected plays like Stephano and TLO used to do. Even if you don't necessarily win as much, people will remember you more, and you'll be the winner in our hearts.

Idea for strategy as Zerg: Use multiple nydusses as force fields, for hindering enemy units from fleeing.

Watching a silly goose sometimes baboon playing tournaments is entertaining to me.

Been watching your recent cheese challenges for a few weeks now. I really vibe with your mindset and reflection post-tournament (against special). You take the wins and the losses in a really mature and classy way. Since trying your 8-ling overlord drops, and trying in my own diamond matches, I’ve had a lot more enjoyable moments playing. Some wins and lots of losses, but it honestly feels way more gratifying to play like a baboon! My “ladder anxiety” has reduced greatly. Thanks for sharing your gift with us!

Your first Protoss opponent should be commended for hanging on as long as they did. Dude lost his opening oracle for no damage, has creep in his main, is getting multi-pronged constantly and still manages to hang on and try to stabilize for over 10 minutes. A lot of the opponents we see on this channel would have dipped out as soon as they lost a few bad trades to the Nydus-Queens in the main.

When you were playing that tournament I was actually thinking - man he should play Random and just embrace the chaos that he thrives in enjoys (obviously I don't know your experience or what's going on in your mind but you seem to really have a lot of fun, AND you're really good at all the races as you have shown). I don't think anyone would ever think you play like an absolute baboon, you are incredibly skilled at multitasking and keeping a cool head amidst the chaos, and also at not being caught up in the heat of battle -and being able to think creatively in moments when others would rely purely on mechanics and memory to get them out of a heated situation. But obviously above all else, do what you want and what makes you happy!

I love the idea of you playing random in tourneys. You're not as harmonious when you're tryharding. You play best when you're playing for fun and constantly adapting. I think it's much harder to play against.

Creep only challenge. You can only move your units within your creep & must grow your creep all the way to your opponents base in order to attack him.

@Karma0917

6 ай бұрын

Does using a nydus worm count? Cus it generates creep wherever u place it

Zerg cheese series might be over but random gives us so much Zerg content anyway. Fantastic!

definitely happy to hear that you want to play tournaments in your style. glad you are having lots of fun, tournament or not!

36:01 - "These roaches are gonna be getting CHOMPED!" -uThermal 2023

You learned one of the hardest and most important life lessons there is imo. Being true to yourself is so much more fulfilling than chasing some societal version of what is right.

Keep Playing uThermal. Very enjoyable watching you play. Diamond player talks here, but I have not played SC since I watch it on YT.

Glad you had your tournament epiphany ! Can't wait to see you play the next one. Bang On !

Totally support your announcement. I think that's what we'd all like to see. And I think you'll find great success with some of those unpredictable cheeses!

Awesome episode! Marc your reflections on the tournament make so much sense. Tournament play feels like a game of greedy chicken. It was exciting to see the adrenaline kicking in for you. And it would be amazing to see you play like yourself during tournaments (I was secretly hoping for "screw it, we're doing planetary rush" 😂).

I agree with your semi-announcement. After leaving tournament play you are much wiser when it comes to your outlook on the game. You have that big picture. You know what it takes to keep up with the meta, and grind tournament level strats and you know you don't enjoy that. Playing random is a great way to approach it, it throws of your opponent but keeps you in a space you are comfortable with. And you have your community, and we're not here because you win tournaments, we're here because we love your content, sure it helps that you're a world level player I don't want to push that aside when your skill level is incredible. but no matter how many tournaments you loose we'll still be here :)

Loved seeing you practice and play in the tournament, looking forward to the next one! My noob impression of your games against SpeCial was that you were too timid; more harassment and cheese next time please

It's like they beat the first stage of the final boss, but now he's coming back harder, faster, stronger, and random.

I'm really glad you feel like you want to move forward playing the way YOU want to. I think it would be a great strat in the way that others in the tourney would have any clue as how to counter you or when to time their build to even counter.

Glad you will play future tourneys using silly goose mindset and strats. I’m sure many of us were surprised you didn’t play this way in the past tourney. We love you for your creativity and fun vibes!

The day Queens can use their ability and move fast outside creep is gonna glorious. All I can see at that point is Zerg spamming Queens and Terran spamming Ghost.

"I have 50 drones, I can stop at any time" says the mineral addicted zerg.

Thermy, in future tournaments i think if you played all races with a mix if builds i genuinely think you could win anything as you will be super unpredictable and hard to play against. Next time please play this crazy and unpredictable play styles in a tournament i would love to see it!

Love the announcement Marc! Good for you. I know it's so cheesy but, one time I was struggling at work and my boss pulled me aside and told me to stop worrying about what everyone else thinks and just be you. It was the best advice I ever had so simple yet powerful. Glad you found this as well!

Love the tournament play as well as your usual uploads. Missed you for a while you’re an important part of my day. I fell behind on vids just so I can binge a bit. Love the content thanks for everything.

32:58 You know your opponent doesn't have enough anti air, you could have gone for the cluster of overlords right there after you killed his queens and supply blocked him. Between the queen losses and the supply block his ability to build and maintain meaningful army numbers would have been harmed for a good while.

@ujulspins

7 ай бұрын

I was salivating the whole game at the sight of this delicious blob of ovies and managed to come up with several ways I wanted to kill them. Yammy

Would love to see some more of you castings yourself playing tournament games!

Imaging being the opponent rewatching these games and remembering how you thought you had a good chance, but then Marc starts to talk in present perfect tense: "this has been an absolutely beautiful game" 😂

I can tell you’re truly enjoying yourself and It’s contagious:)

To be honest, I missed the banshees, mines and battleships in the tournament. Still liked the games and big fan of your content. I think your creativity and thinking on the fly is your even better than your micro and macro. Don't underestimate how good you are with zerg, you are really good at adapting to your opponents, I think that MMR is not just a stroke of luck:).

11:55 your nydus worms build definitely hit a lot harder than mine despite the eccentricity boss! 🤣😁😁

Haha that last match felt like you were playing with your food a bit. Poor guy never had a chance.

This episode has been awesome!! Love every game, super cool moves with the nydus. Can't wait to see this in tournaments haha

When you put 10 zerglings in a nydus, the loaves and fishes rule allows 15 to come out at the other end.

Thanks for the content thermy, hurtin rn and ur stuff chills me out thanks man

11:50 - it's almost like having a follow up is important! LOL

"Perfect excuse to save queen energy" - Proceeds to not transfuse a single queen.

Yeesss. You must find the fun and pleasure of Turney, and do it in the way you find that relaxed and focused "in the zone" not stressing! And Random! so they can hardly prepare, and even if they do, you'll always have that edge. Uthermal for first random world champ!:) looking forward to the evolution.

Clearly this episode is the spiritual successor to the Zerg cheese series, the SC2 gods are helping you honor what you said about another episode

I think you were looking for the phrase "absolute sweep!" Yes, a "wash" would mean you evenly traded and aren't ahead in the end.

I’m sure am looking forward to see you in more tournaments in the future!!

I'd say just go and play in tournaments as random, make them people nervous, just treat it like playing a ladder, nothing to loose, some amazing content to gain. I think its a really good idea :). I think a lot of the community was eagerly waiting for you to decide exactly that :D. Just go wild and crazy I do not think people really care to much about win/loss we just want to see some crazy stuff. and if it does not fit the schedule... laddering as random and cheesing people is something I could watch for months to come either way. Its probably the best content yet. very varied and full of crazy stuff. Cheers!

I love that you want to play Tournaments again but honestly I'd watch anything of yours man. When you have fun I have fun.

I was hoping you were going to do that last tournament random, your biggest strength is your on the spot creativity.

oooh the Dragon Cleavage build! I'm surprised you haven't done this one sooner.

I think this might have been one of my favorite episodes yet. What a great few games.

"To be honest he's not paying attention right now, dont try this psycho move at home because i am silly goose" -uthermal

Alot of pro gamers could learn a great deal from you. Many people begin playing a game they love competitively and push themselves to the point to where they end up hating it. Forget the metas, and play the way you enjoy. You rock man! Keep spreading those positive vibes.

I TOO would like to see you do crazy stuff in a tournament, its so stupid it just might work, or hold my beer kinda stuff, your wack-a-roach is amazing, i was sooo inspired to try it annnnnd welll its nothing like what u was doing LUL

I'm in love with the mineral-count of Thermy after the first round

I'd love to see a "Wild Card Tournament Challenge", where you meme on ppl while going random at tournaments. We wont care if you win or lose, but i think you'd have more fun with it.

I was hoping you would play the tournament like an absolute baboon! Baboon all the way, Thermy! Do it for the memes. Do it for your fans. Do it for your true baboon-self!

I absolutely stand behind your baboon philosophy--life is already so restrictive, lets not find more ways to stress ourselves by not being ourselves. Hopefully this helps some others feel more free, haha, the Dao of SC2.

I dont know if u read ur comments homie but you playing starcraft as the absolute babboon u are is one of the only things that keeps me loving this game; never stop being u king

It never occurred to me queens would use their AA attack against colossus. Obligatory zerg OP!

Simultaneous burrowed roach attacks in all bases, using a roach elevator to get into the main

i feel kinda sad with your performance in the recent tournament attempt, with the painful lost against special. but i like that you have rediscover the fun to play in a tournament. all the best uthermal. stay positive. stay fun.

i enjoy watching you play so much, especially as Zerg Sometimes it feels like you were always meant to be a Zerg player, those cheeses are truly a thing of beauty my friend

Marc you Play in the tournament faster and Multitasking than usual. Perfect to watch.

Thanks for that announcement. I commeted under your tournament Video that I was dissapppointed because it felt like its not the Real uthermal playing there. I feel so heard right now. You in tournaments playing random will be asolutly great!!!❤

Tourney Thermie playing Random : AS THE PROPHECY FORETOLD!

you had me scared for a moment there with your announcement of the announcement...

Appreciate the content brother

after the tourney i knew you needed to play like a baboon too. I think its good reflection and apparent to your watchers, cheers mark

Got to say i like the plan of doing more tournaments, myself i dont play sc2 but like watching your vids.

May the wheel of cheese be with you.

that ultralisk timing was nutty. my favorite unit

Wow I don't know if you read my last comment on the 500k tournament but I'm so happy you listened to me 😂 I can't wait to see you cheese those pros next time.

im curious, will be queens in overlord are good idea as support for ultras? Never seen something like this before..

Baboon strats on the world stage! Thermy UNLEASHED

We got a bonus zerg cheese episode!

I’d love to see you play more tournaments! ❤

I watched your games to some Goa Progressive - Liquid Soul and somehow it matched....

do muta's "bounce attack" increases with spire attack upgrade?

Already looking forward to that tournament

Every single time the Ultras come out, a huge smile comes across my face! 😁

Would love to see videos of you playing like a baboon in the ESL weekly cups!

Great video!

wow that last game was absolute insanity

We don't care if you lost, we're just glad you had fun. Embrace your inner baboon, let it shine, we will be here to cheer you on - win or lose.

QUeens for their cost is madness. So not my favourite thing, but Ling Queen, you endless produce queens until you get twelve.. Save all vespene, but your mostly mining minerals.. constantly expand, since your aggresive with your creep spread and injects... once you ahve twelve its nydus network time... and double nydus is better... but yeah, queens for their cost and spell cast heal, their hp pool is madness and their damage is low, but early game its massive... If you concentrate on queen ling attack... you save the vespene to follow it up with massive mutas or hydars or roaches depending on what is needed. So once your attack begins you start macroing more, 4rth base/ 5th base even at the same time, drone up and tech up... shoudl have a great income... this is if you defended well... should be fairly safe.. of course if your opponent is very active typicalyl have ot adjust yourself.

Marc, I do think you would have levelled the playing field against Special if you had played crazy. So many different cheeses, every game a new curve ball Edit: When they ask your race, just say Xel'naga.

8:07 I cannot figure out how he transfused that queen. It doesn’t look like he clicked anything? Is there a hot key or mechanic I’m not aware of?

20:34 Absolute massacre

I think a main switch would really be good for you! Your Zerg is the most fun to watch in my opinion.

xtreme entertaining series!

A wash means it ends up being equal. Perhaps, "a very one-sided victory"?

I can't wait for the next tournament now!!

needa get that overlord creep spread turned on 100% of the time, no point in not having one with your army at the front right to give the queens transfuse

If you have 3 cheeses per matchup and you can execute them well, you can absolutely go far in tournaments. It would be honestly smart for pro players to hire you on consult to refine their defensive strategies while remaining as greedy as possible.

Mark taking a step back so you can take 2 steps forward is the definition of self-reflection and self-improvement. I think you should play tournaments weekly ESL's or whatever so long as you are just having fun with it. I think it would be also cool if you could just drop high ranking pros with shit like hydra drops too. Also there is an argument to be had that if the pro is putting in reps to go to 4-6 bases long games etc.... Just to have the attitude of a quick game is a good game here is my proxy all in either you die sub 7 minutes or I die. If you get your reps in playing a style that you enjoy that also directly counters the kind of game your opponent wants to play or build to that this anti-meta approach could be good. Lord knows Has, Gumi and Byun made that shit work. Also if you cheese from all 3 races how will an opponent prepare for you specifically?