How long can regular players LAST vs HARSTEM? (Part 2) | Holdout Challenge - StarCraft 2 

If you enjoy Holdout Challenges check out the playlist with other challengers such as Scarlett, Reynor and Dark! Part 1 of Harstem's challenge is in there too :) ru-vid.com/group/PLFUDU8AOevUeFDpQtPEfczemYCea_nT3j

aaaah. Pig talking about Harstem's killer instincts, and how he would bite children in pre-school, and right after this Harstem is contemplating which race should he has picked to kill that silver player even faster... Amazing stuff!

42:00, agree with PiG here, I think most players joined here didnt embrace the concept of HOLDOUT challenge, they actually trying to outplay/beat a pro-players doing standard stuff. I was expecting a lot of 1 base turtling into more turtling, lots of Tanks/Libs/Bunkers for Terran, lots of Spine and Queens for Zerg, and lots of Cannon/Battery for Protoss.

this was incredible to watch but maaan... Harstem doesn't look like he's having any fun. He's just like "let's kill this noob and get it over with"

Dude I love these holdout challenges! I know they must be costly compared to the other vods you make yourself. But these always make me crack up. Thanks for doing this for us!

I started playing starcraft like 3 days ago, been researching and practicing a bunch and can confirm its hilarious that I know a lot of detail about certain things but little to nothing about others. But I understand its a proccess and I should just have fun while learning so i'm doing a bit of campeign in between.

It's only negative micro if he lost that game to Harstem. If he won, the move was purely a flex implying he never needed the minerals 😎

I just found this sc2 series which is Holdout Challenge, and I am amazed how much it shows the contrast between micro of a pro-player and lower ranked players. It looks like a normal human being is trying to outpace a machine, it's great

on match history having tons of wins - I had a similar experience a couple of years back as i was busy in real life with a new kid so was playing

Anyone else check how much time was left when Pig said he was going to anoint Harstem if he got it under 8:30?

As a finale between the top contestants (of the pro gamers), I'd like if THEY had to go head to head in this survival mode. Say for example Reynor and Harstem had the two best times. Next they have to to the same against each other. One is the survivor, that just have to survive for as long as possible (i.e no attacking!). Then they change attacker. The one with the best time wins the finale =D

Harstem said he did the best overall, and he did have the shortest max time, however Scarlett had the shortest average time (6min58s vs 7min9s for Harstem) and the shortest median time (6min44s vs 6min48s for Harstem).

That first game started out as a complete disaster for Harstem! If only that gold player didn't let those drones mine out all the minerals he would have held and be in a FANTASTIC position! Just turtle from there and Harstem would have had a horribly salty time to start his eco from there.

6:29 Did I do this in my sleep? This sounds like me lol.

"I'm a huge campaign fan, but I haven't completed it." haha

There will be one player that will reign supreme in this Holdout Challenge and he's Bly. Get him to play here and behold the godlike insanity and destruction!

For the last guy, scouting the build is the best. It's like playing rock paper scissors on protoss. it used to be 4 gate loses to 3gate robo loses to 3gate port loses to 4 gate. Could do forge fast expand with shield batteries and stalkers. Could cheese with dts (though he has robo). If he gets a wp and you forge fast expo, you lose though. Stalkers suck bad against immo, your best bet is chargelot 4 gate with a couple stalkers and sentry for ff. If you see 3 gates, find the robo/port. If it's a robo, cut workers, drop 4th gate, pump units and pray. Keep production up and counter attack/expo+upgrades. I haven't played since 2013 when I was in mid diamond high plat, dunno what that translates to now adays, but generally speaking, if you have more units in protoss, you win. Especially if you dont see twilight (For fear of dts). pvp is a wild and weird matchup. I started off with terran in WOL with the strange tank viking battles, that was super 1d, whereas protoss vs protoss is wildly different every game.

It would be such a troll for the progamer if you got like an actual pro to smurf vs the progamer

why the immediate strike with hellions? has this setup proven to be effective ?

Backdoor adventures :D

Quite a fun game

Nami sounds familiar. Was he on IODIS or Florencio files or something?

You talking about the range of skills of Gold league players makes me wonder: Which league do you think has the greatest range of skill? Is it Gold? Maybe Platinum? I think there's a serious case to be made that it's actually Grandmaster, considering how hard the top GM players can dominate even mid GM players. Is MMR range an accurate representation of skill range? (I would argue it is not, as I don't think player skill is normally distributed).

gogo cowboy, pewpew like a BAMTrucker!

If Harry Potter was written today, I don't think Harry would be turning grand-wizardship down... Assuming J.K. is still writing it.

would floating a CC to the corner (so no reveal) and hiding depots around the map count though? Edit: ...Nevermind... I just got to 46:30. Question answered...

Harstem is officially the Grand Garbage Wizard!

Haven't you already uploaded this? I feel like I've seen at least the first game before

I miss this map always looks like a old man .......like one of the kings in cards.

didnt we just see the nami harstem match yesterday

I completely skipped gold league by just getting a bunch of wins with proxy 2 racks marines lmao, you can definitely say i have no good understanding of the game

amatuer, next time you are in sweden go buy a couple of packs of djungelvrål and get on the hype train viking style or maybe force maxpax to some offline event and make him bring some. djungelvrål is the best candy ever. edit. you have to try your first live on stream

PiG, what if the noob is set up on gold minerals/unlimited?

Where is part 1

crazy harstem did better than raynor

How can I put my name down for these challenges? They look fun! I'm protoss.

Funny, I have only played 1 match in PvP ever (I won). I think I would have done better than half of those guys with my 40 APM

EAT MY ENTIRE VIEW AND COMMENT UTOOB SPIRITS!

Just wanted to make a comment on PiG's assessment of Gold league players based on my recent experience. It wasn't that long ago that I started doing ladder games, and had to make my way through gold league. To be clear, he is not completely wrong in what he is saying. There genuinely are people like that in gold league. However I think he would be surprised by the amount of people that are actually a lot better than he thinks. Not to say they are super good or anything, but when I would compare the types of gold league players he would face in his B2GM series to my experience going through the rank it was honestly no where near the same. Maybe it's just MMR doing what it was supposed to do, but I would consistently go against players that were better than some of the Plat level players that he was facing in the same series. I was even using his builds from the plat section of his documentation because I started needing a different build for each matchup. All I'm really trying to say is that I think people are just getting overall better at the game, and gold league isn't quite the same as it was back then. Either that or I was playing against smurfs almost every game, but I find this to be highly unlikely.

How do you say Harsem terran is D1??? No he GM 5200-5500MMR

I'm a bit curious. Do you pay the grand garbage wizard and less talented pros to be in the holdout challenges, or is this a thing they agree to do just for fun?

I bet Nami keeps leaving his league

Game 2 is fake diamond. More like low gold.

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I'm nothing. Not even silver😂😂😂 I know I could last longer.. Why does no one turtle up turrets tanks! Nothing else! Why do players always try and get fancy.. My only issue would be my 3 apm

I am diamond and I guarantee I could set a new record. Or I'll donate $