I think that whole video was staged, but it was still funny.

Ever since I got into the Gold league, I've lost every single match. So yeah, "I'll do fine" my ass.

I caved in and bought the game... Downloading as we speak. I'm on the EU region (hopefully they will merge the regions in the future...).

Funny contrast. I've heard some people are already hacking the game to get ahead. (One thread here.)

Once everyone gets the hang of the game, we should organize a fun tournament or two.

Yeah, it's related to smurfing. Sam idea behind it.

EDIT: Also, Blizzard are apparently working on cross-region multiplayer at the moment. It seems to be mainly technical reasons that made them want to divide people.

EDIT2: Okay, someone just tell me what the fuck I'm doing wrong. My economy is great, and the post-game graphs reflect that. I'm not falling behind the curve at all. And yet, about 10-20 minutes in, the enemy shows up with 10 carriers and I have no way to stop him. Promptly destroys me. I even build the appropriate counters (vikings), but it doesn't help. [i]AT ALL.[/i]

OH GOD PHOTON CANNONS

(Ghosts have EMP. I built Ghosts. It didn't help. I'm not even sure if they hit air or if they just suck.)

If you swarmed a bunch of EMP'ed Carriers and lost, you were either vastly outnumbered, drunk, not focusing fire, or getting hit by something else (like Psionic Storm or Archons). Do you have a replay?

20 minutes is a long-ass time. I have Zerglings in 3 minutes, and they're partying in your mineral field in 4. And that's not intentionally rushing; that's just my normal build order. It's fairly routine for a 2v2 round to end in 15 minutes in my experience. In 20 minutes the heavy air is out, so you and I clearly have different definitions of "rushing". The worst thing you can do in a fight against Protoss is leave them to their own devices.

Anyway, I agree air is important in this game. I was surprised when I realized that Zerg only have one ground unit (Hydralisk) that can even hit air. Since I realized that, I've been making my Spire before my Hydra Den. Other races get more anti-air options, but even then it's only like 3 units. I never ever neglect my Spore Crawlers for base defense anymore; between that and a small group of Mutalisks for backup I stuff Void Ray rushes pretty easily now. And then my Mutas go check your Cannon layouts.

PS: The replay files are tiny as hell; feel free to attach some of this fail so we can all laug^H^H^H^Hcritique it.

When I start the fighting, I get fucked by ramp walls. A pack of marines cannot get past a walled-off ramp, when it's flanked by either enemy marines or photon cannons. Air becomes your only alternative. Besides, I get outnumbered about 10 minutes in as it is.

Also, I just won. Guess what strategy I used?

If you haven't already, I recommend checking out Day9's daily. It's probably the best source of SC2-education available, and it's entertaining to boot. Here's a link to his Blip account. It should be fairly easy to get into lower diamond if you watch and learn from those videos.

Edit:
Also, those complaining about rushing obviously don't have the experience to scout and shut down an all-in. But you need to know what your opponent is doing. Always.

Yeah I just can't build up an army, pay attention to scouts, memorize where all the other players are, what they are doing, and build a defense while resource hunting, in 2-5 minutes. just can't do it.

If I get attacked before say 5-10 minutes its a bloody rush

If I have air or drop ships or siege tanks, it's not harassing early anymore. Then it's at the 20 minute mark.

Besides, even siege tanks cannot see up hills.