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bee_rider ◴[17 Jan 25 18:16 UTC] No.42741488[source]▶
Dumb question from someone who only played money-maps as a kid:

What do the numbers in front of the building mean? 12 Hatcheries seems like… well, 12 seems like a possible but implausible number of hatcheries to build (hypothetically it is possible of course). And 12 spawning pools is obviously not useful. So that makes me think it is the position in the build order list. But, they list other builds, like:

> The second is the 12 Hatch, 12 Pool, 12 Gas

Which doesn’t make a ton of sense in with that parsing. I mean it must not be a straight list. Maybe it is a tree, and 12 is the depth for this building? But that seems late, I can’t think of 11 buildings to build before gas. Maybe they include units too? Or maybe just drones/overlords?

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1. gs17 ◴[17 Jan 25 20:18 UTC] No.42742831[source]▶
> And 12 spawning pools is obviously not useful.

I vaguely remember a Husky video where he actually did a "9 pool" with building 9 spawning pools.

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2. bee_rider ◴[17 Jan 25 21:10 UTC] No.42743264[source]▶
That would be just a flex or a joke or something, right?
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3. TulliusCicero ◴[17 Jan 25 21:13 UTC] No.42743306[source]▶
Correct. You can also find the same joke about "6 pool" around 1:38 in this classic music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU2mD02HWnk
4. moefh ◴[17 Jan 25 22:33 UTC] No.42743981[source]▶
There might be a video where this happens, but I think it's more likely that you're misremembering it; there was a somewhat famous game cast by Husky where Cella[1] (a professional player) was joking around on the Internet playing 2v2 (2 teams of 2 players each).

He asked his partner what strategy he should use, the person responded with "13 gate" (meaning: keep building probes until you have 13, then build your first warpgate). Cella pretended to misunderstand and instead built 13 warpgates, which is a horrible strategy, but they still won the game. They only won because his partner could barely defend him in early game while he was building the warpgates. After surviving early game, it wasn't a fair fight even with a horrible strategy, because it's a professional against "normal" people on the Internet.

I don't think the video exists anymore, Husky famously removed his whole channel with a lot of StarCraft 2 early history, but I found this Reddit thread[2] talking about the game (WeRRa was Cella's team at the time, that's why they call him CellaWeRRa).

[1] https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/Cella

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/dyjk9/cellawerra...

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5. BlueTemplar ◴[18 Jan 25 01:10 UTC] No.42744873[source]▶
I like this one (from low level SC2)... I'll not saywhat it is about exactly for spoilers' sake (avoid the comments) :

https://youtu.be/gLVJq2MHHmk

6. gs17 ◴[18 Jan 25 01:45 UTC] No.42745035[source]▶
Yeah, I think I merged the 13 gate Cella video with the 6 pool gag from the music video. It's sadly been a long time.