of the Zerg bronze to masters league series. This is game number 1 and today we are going

to be talking a little bit about Zerg versus Protoss. Now, I am probably not going to talk

too much about the match up itself because I think the back to the basics ZvP openings

video pretty much goes through a lot of the stuff that I would normally talk about in

this first episode. But, today I want to focus a little bit more about Zerg, just the general

zerg playstyle. It's a lot different than playing either Tarren or Protoss and I feel

like if you don't have a fully full grasp of how Zerg is supposed to play, playing a

zerg can be very very difficult and you need to have somewhat of a direction of where you

need to go. So, we are going to talk a little bit about that today, as well as, a little

bit of the mechanics, build style, and things you need to be aware of. So, obviously we

are on Frost Ladder Edition, normal stuff, here at the beginning. We are going to be

sending our first overlord out opposite of where our natural is, and the second overlord

is going to be sent to the natural to make sure that there are no shannanigins going

on. In general, all normal stuff. Now, I think in the ZvP opening Back to the Basics, I recommended

going for a 14 pool, 14 extractor, and I have actually started going reverse that. I now

go for a 14 extractor followed by a 14 pool, that gives you the ability to put your drones

in your gas and actually collect up just enough gas that once your pool finishes you can immediately

get speed and get a really really quick speed. Basically what that does is, gives you access

to map control and map control and presence on the map, is one of the key elements that

Zerg players need to focus on especially in the lower leagues because you never know what

you will see, whether it be random void ray all-ins or any other random stuff. And basically,

map presence is going to give you that visibility to go "OK, here is what I think my opponent

is doing, and here is how to counter it." So, as far as Zerg play style goes. I talk

about setting up location hotkeys in either my first or second back to the basics series

games, basically, those are actually very very important as a Zerg player. Not so much

as a Tarren or Protoss player, just because obviously you want to efficiently larva inject

with all of your queens. So setting up your location hotkeys for your main, your natural

is going to be very important because you wanna always go back to those locations to

grab your queen and basically... be very efficient at clicking your unit, clicking the v key

clicking your hatch, going to your natural and doing the same thing, and so on and so

forth. Its very easy to do, you just got to get into the rhythm and make sure that you

understand what you are doing as far as larva injects go. So obviously we can inject go

down here, and see that our queen isn't done and realize that 40 seconds after we hit that

larva inject we always come back to our original hatchery and just go on from there. So, in

this game...I guess I can go ahead and

basically go ahead and see

what we have scouted so far. So, we sent out our initial ling scout.