Lowko Knows What BRONZE Looks Like And Harstem Is Confused. | Rank Roulette Season 2 NA's Revenge 

4:08 gotta give props to Hamster for making an entire newspaper article only to show it for 2 seconds

Yeah, you totally should do a podcast! About starcraft, live and Dutch things that will be awesome. I'll definitely listen to it!

My theory behind selecting ranks: Bronze: No build order, no timings, trying to figure things out. Silver: Has a build order for the first 3 minutes they can't follow, but is trying. Has no Micro. Gold: Has a build order they can follow, but poor mid-game, bad army comps and untidy Micro. Platinum: Have 1 thing they are good at, one of build order, micro, Army comps or Macro. Everything else it not good (this is my rank). Diamond: Good at most things, but not exceptional at anything OR Exceptional at one thing but not good at anything else. Masters: Is Good at all the things, exceptional at one thing. GM: Is Good at all things, and exceptional at multiple things. Using this formula....I'm very rarely right

"I think we're pretty close" Yes you're both in the Netherlands

if lowko wins another medal like this, you should put that dutch phrase about 'a donkey shouldn't hit its foot on the same rock twice' on the back XD

a Podcast between Harstem, Lowko + another guy I would totally watch that We need the "Trash Taste" of the SC2 community

In game 1, the blue Zerg made spines in the natural in order to lure out drones vs the banelings. The banelings were hidden until the drones got to the natural, which is why red just split the drones and let them stand still.

I feel like this is the closest episode ever in terms of Harsem and his guest thinking the same thing. And finished with only a 1-point difference

Ok, I gotta say that this episode had a very pleasant Vibe. So basically I'm all in for any Lowko/Harstem colab.

Harstem and Lowko have wonderful banter

Such a bromance energy, totally love it! 😂

This was the best content I’ve seen on RU-vid in this community. Lowko and Harstem is the best duo hands down. Lowstem? Harko? Better than every other combo

In 2nd round i quite see my TvT. Things that sell it out: really late bunker on high ground (if it was reactor reapers guy could be dead), really vulnerable starport at low ground which you want to defend (i prefer wall, but at least tank in this case could save him whole trouble of this attack which did nothing) and in the same moment other guy could freely do double drop in mineral lines on natural/main instead of A clicking starport. And my biggest nemesis is F2 whole army which was seen a lot. That can guarantee a lot of mess since no turrets (you cant really afford it) when any drop comes in. Edit: P.S. On second thought biggest nemesis is A click tosses and random TvP in particular but that's another story.

No sarcasm, Blizzard matchmaking is really broken, I recently did my 5 placement matches after not playing since HotS and I'm apparently Master 3 with 2600 MMR (Europe)

As a Terran expert I hereby inform both Lowko and Harstem that your TvT guess was just straight up wrong. First of all the builds: red went for a standard gas 1st 2gas build, whereas blue went Maru style rax gas gas. So far so good, however he kept the 2 reapers at home way too long and arrived on the other side of the map too late and thus got cleaned up by 5 units. He should hit when there are 3 units. Then the bunker was completely useless as 1 cyclone can literally solo kill 2 hellions and 3 reapers. Blue didn't know this and delayed his expansion by a huge amount because of this. Then he went for vikings instead of a raven which makes no sense unless you 1 base all in. This early game alone gave me the upper boundary of master 3. Then the unit control wasn't the greatest, like marines walking into tank range. Also no spotting marines and poor reaction to the counter attack. Therefore I went for D1. Close enough I guess.

You guys should definitely do a podcast you are the two best SC2 streamers and for completely different reasons. Harstem's got the snipe insults expert level execution on those, he also has Grand Master level know how on some of the very esoteric nuanced levels of gameplay at a high level, loco is one of the best at understanding the whole map and everything that's going on knowing what should be going on at what point staying engaged in the analytics and the discussion as the game evolves it would be an interesting development to see how that's applied to a podcast. You have your one guy who's able to hold the floor and evolve the discussion and then the other guy who's able to be the color commentary and you guys work well together you're my two favorites anyway good work

LOL fast reactor on Starport is a Diamond meta. People usually don't build ravens here xD 2 Gateway-Cyber-Nexus also seems to be the meta at low diamond - high plat level,

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Maybe you can make this Nerimah guy your rank roulette Stig. Compare you and guest scores to his each week to determine how well you should have done. Guest gets a special prize if they beat him.

I waited for the Lowko episode so much

The Intro of Hamster was golden

wen dutch stream

I actually beat both players today! First time for everything. Slightly beat Lowko with my personal best score of 10. Huge comeback from last week where I think I got 21. Maybe next week I can get single digits. . . . R1: D1 - 2 points. Like Harstem, I was debating between D1 and M3. R2: D3 - 2 points. I was way underestimating this one and was going to guess Platinum. They talked me into moving up a league with all of their compliments. R3: S2 - 4 points. R4: P1 - 2 points.

it's good you are keeping the lowko connection active so other people will talk to you

The second round, I knew they were overestimating the rank. Really good micro, they were quite accurate in that it was master and GM level plays, but they’re Terran, so you still lose to Gold Zerg and Silver Protoss a-moving their armies.

Having rewatched the video again. I can see how the guess in the second round could be lower than Masters because there was a lot of Janky camera movement through the clip it's just that the game play seemed better than the last one.

@10:45 That harstem face is priceless, can i get a T-shirt of that face instead?

I thought the thumbnail was just two harstems

11:22 tbh that might be the case. My highest rank ever was Diamond 3 (I stopped playing sc2 after that for over a year). But recently after coming back and playing a few games like an absolute bot and still somehow winning I got Master 3 with 3800 MMR. That's like low D3 mmr.

Not guessing every week means a lower score, doesn't it? It seems the best way to win would be to make only 1 guess.

My prediction vs the result. Round 1: Gold 1. Result: Master 3. Round 2: Dia 1. Result: Dia 2. Round 3: Gold 1. Result: Gold 2. Round 4: Plat 1. Result: Plat 2. The first round of early ling bane rush is really tough. The red player makes me feel the micro is a bit weird and not high level enough. Rest is close but consistently higher one tier. But I think my instinct is correct here.

Previous episode #3: Gold 2 & Silver 1, actually Bronze 1 (but actually actually Gold 1) - "Whoa, that was bronze? Well. Sure, I guess." This episode #2: Master 1 & Master 1, actually Diamond 2 - "IMPOSSIBLE! Blizzard or Hamster obviously must be wrong."

I am the guy from the second replay. Yeah for some reason I can't seem to get out of Diamond 2 😂

Two of my favorite youtubers!! Love you both.

the crossover we all have been waiting for

Yes!!! Please do a starcraft Podcast! I would listen the shit out of that.

you two absolutely should do a sc2 podcast!

I'd listen to a lowko harstem podcast. Sounds awesome

Gotta love harstems disappointment face when he realized lowko won by 1 point hahaha

nice.

Can we see the entire replay of the round 2 TvT in order to figure out why it is so misleading?

19:02 Guy shoots his own cannon

I had a bug with the reclassification of my Terran race on the EU server, I went from platinum 1 to bronze 1, and the worst is that I continue to play opponents as strong as before. On the other hand in Protoss and Zerg I am always diamond. Does anyone know why? I saw a clip of a Korean bronze 1 pro, is it the same thing that happened to him?

Instead of direct at camera turn it at an angle an you could see the engraving

lol. For the guess, I think I’m the Zerg opponent, and I’m Diamond 2

Harstem. I think you need to play a few gold, platinum and diamond players to remind yourself what our level is. The other good thing about it is you'll basically get a 5min no rush kind of game.

wait so for the scores its only adding +1 point if you are wrong 1 league. Interesting!

How do you send a replay btw?

That game 1 was such a doozy.

Yes do a podcast.

Lowko’s voice has some INSANE bass boosting🤘🎸

For Harstem vs the World what score did you give the people in the top 4 for the weeks that they did not participate? If it's ignored, basically 0, then wouldn't that give an advantage to someone who doesn't guess every week? Great series as always a blast to watch :)

What's the punishment for not guessing for a week? Is it 1 or 2 points? Just thuinking that it might be a good idea to make sure that it's not a strategy to avoid guessing if it's a confusing game.

Honestly that would be an awsome podcast.

10:59 Did they miss the first game was NA? :)

terran dia2+ in eu they quite strong

last game D2

A LOWKO AND HAMSTER HOURLONG PODCAST AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

18:25 wp speed in the upgrade tab lol

What format?

15:00 it’s very known

Allright. Can you two be the next Tastosis?

I want to know what's behind the blanket covering the picture on the wall 😶

please podcast!

OOOH HAMSTER WE'VE GOT MORE THAN 8. Hell yeah.

Lowko and Harstem.. oh man it's a great synergy!

Best duo on the internet

24:13 Harstem: "Oh, the sweet taste if victory, my boys 😌" Also Harstem: 👁👄👁

Playing along! Round 1: Locked Masters 3, 0 points, woo! Round 2: Thought halfway through, "This **looks** like masters, but diamond can look like masters when the game is super standard and there's nothing to provoke mistakes." Locked Masters 1 anyhow, should have gone with my gut; 4 points. Oof. Round 3: Locked Plat 2. The screen scrolling is deceptive; even if a player does a quick edgescroll flick, replays will show it as a slow pan to try to make it more viewable. Still overestimated though... 3 points. Round 4: Weeeiiirrrd mix of high level and low level skills; strikes me as players who have watched pro players and studied how the game is supposed to be played, but not practiced enough to actually execute, which in starcraft tends to be all you need to get to plat. Locked plat 3: 1 point Final score 8... not bad if I do say so myself... not that anyone is going to believe me, I suppose.

M3 first game, nailed it :'v

Is this the fabled Lowko Connection?

High Not Sure! I'm Fritos.

You spelt denying wrong the description (not deniing) xD

I WANT that T-shirt!

There is always the possibility that some good players that are at a lower mmr that they should be are there because they just droped by doing 30 loses in a row to farm the ladder .

Absolutely guessed that gold 2

If I win I refuse to wear a t-shirt on which there is written "NA's revenge" ! Outrageous !

10:00 how is it?

gotta give it to you that's a nice shirt

I'm so sad, I was doing so well, I was in third place, and then I guessed Diamond 2 on the last episode and blew it, oh well, I still did really good up to that point, maybe next time.

10:41 its absolutely was like i was playing tvt and i am a diamond 2 Terran xD kiesiew 😂

Please do a podcast together

For next season, the best community guesser should be invited! Also, how do you handle if someone doesn't guess in a week? Do they get a few points?

Wait. Are you telling me they aren’t the same person??

aaah, Rank Roulette, my favourite content :)

What score gets entered if you didn't vote that week? The community average guess?

A big problem here are the weird mmr in Europe With the same MMR you can be in different leagues, something there is completely wrong

DAMN I WANT THE SHIRT😭😭😭

Okay, so giving average points for no guess is all kinds of bad. 1. We're measuring individual skill. Obviously, when you measure ones skill (or luck if you think there's no skill to it) you measure the actual data with the participant involved and do not involve the average stats. When you measure how far someone can jump, you don't pull up the average jump for every jump they didn't take. That's bonkers. You still need to assign some value to that jump not taken, but it mustn't be an average jump. You could add a multiplier to their score, you could add a lowest score, or their average score multiplied by some amount. You can think of how to do it, but taking an average score of everyone else participating is not the way, especially with a system like this. 2. This discourages guessing. I mean it. Imagine a situation: you encounter a hard guess and you're pretty sure, that you can't guess this one correctly - then by not taking a guess you would be close to a good score, BUT since the more difficult the case is, the more people could resort to not taking a guess, which leads to only a handfull of guesses being made, which in turn lessens the score the World in Harstem vs the World will get, since less guesses mean less consistent rounding. For example when rounding 10 guesses a deviation of one guess by 10 points would sway the rounding much more, that if there's 100 guesses. I'm pretty sure there are more problems with this, that I don't see at the moment. Maybe other viewers can get some input on that one as well. Thanks

On top of the world

How did they rank the guy doing disruptor + storm + observer micro + solid macro in platinum!!??

Agree with Lowko, you should totally do a Podcast!!

20:30 'this is a tough one, it's soo hard' seconds later: one of us is right, it has to be

Dam; now i am sorry i didn't play Harstem vs the world. In the last 5 games i only got 3 points so i would probably get the shirt, but at the beginning of the season i thought i had no chance.

Please do a podcast together. It can be about anything. Just do it

I hope this isn't mean, but if harstem did the intro it would be better. I'm recalling how much he nailed the intro to starcraft 2day

Imagine that one guy that got almost all 0 and made 1 huge mistake.

You have DeMuslim as the guest in the description of the video

Its so weird to hear Hamster without the voice distortion on, i legit freaked out a little bit xD Also shouldn't nit participating for a week be punished at least with one point? Or is this already accounted for and i missed it? Would be a shame for these who participate weekly and get good hit, but never would beat the slackers who get lucky once or twice.

In a tie, the one where Harstem had the highest score should win, because it suggests a harder video