Missplacing My Nexus | Beating GrandMasters With Stupid Stuff

In todays episode we purposely missplace my nexus. We missplace it more the more we win.
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[@andyandisabellabear]

I found out for the boys. Normally with 16 workers, it's 950. one hex off is 900, two hex 850, three hex 790, four hex around the same as three... then I gave up.

[@diareaexplosiva]

Well done captain

[@silentmethodgaming7048]

FOR SCIENCE!!!

[@Maarrk]

Did you go only in one direction? Because I think if you go two to the side, and two up/down like Harstem it seems like going 3 horizontally (two times square root of two is 2.82). Thank you for your service for knowledge

[@dmustakasjr]

Because.... #Math

[@andyandisabellabear]

@@Maarrk Only one direction yes :)

[@CyRxJustin]

This continuous giggling over the thought of misplacing a building by 1 hex is something I didn't know I was missing in my life.

[@adhillA97]

I couldn't stop laughing in the third game when the red guy started talking. He seemed absolutely convinced that this was part of some terrifying new kind of cheese strategy 😂

[@dmustakasjr]

"This guy's gonna think I'm an idiot... Oh no, I forgot my second pylon I AM AN IDIOT!"... #QuotableHarstem

[@GregTourville]

*Builds Nexus in the correct location* "Oh, I built it in the wrong location!"

[@Jo-qz9ou]

imagine if the opponent watched the replay and saw him cancelling the correctly placed nexus and rebuilding it a hex off^^

[@menelik6652]

"Im gonnq keep playing until I lose a game" 52 minutes long video

[@generic8891]

I've got strong hopes for the later games.

[@patrickcampbell957]

proceeds to lose repeatedly

[@Dusk-MTG]

Beating pro players with stupid stuff. Yeah, but he's off-race. Yeah, but I'm off-centered.

[@Kriogenic_PixelMan]

Now we know Harstem is a true Protoss player. He forgot his second pylon.

[@nikolajchristov7590]

i literally forget it 1/3 of my games and i hate that :D

[@bookworm8415]

“Hes gonna think im an idiot. I forgot my second pylon. I am an idiot!”

[@arx5693]

Twenty-one Pylon, Where's your second Pylon, You need a second Pylon, BUILD A FUCKING PYLON

[@IgnatRemizov]

Don't need a second pylon (at 23 supply) if you open nexus first :)

[@brycelayton3177]

I wonder what Denver was thinking when he forced the cancel on Harstem's fourth, then he proceeded to misplace it right in front of his face...

[@awimachinegun]

At 37:00 the rocks shift upwards when he places his cyber core.

[@Aluxinos]

awimachinegun happens all the time... no idea why...

[@xoby]

Harstem earthbender confirmed

[@drtony1000]

"Everytime I see red I"m like, oh I need to pull stuff out. No pulling out here boys, we keep em in"

[@jbosssenpai3266]

Most famouse sentance this video: "He must think im just such an idiot" -Harstem

[@BK557SC]

Immediately followed by “i am such an idiot”

[@jbosssenpai3266]

@@BK557SC so true xD

[@friendofjim]

Two things. 1) this is the most wholesome BM I have ever seen. 2) "I wonder what he is thinking" my opponent is drunk.

[@probablynotabigtoe9407]

I'm excited this is gonna be good... What a Wonderful corner of the internet we have found ourselves in.

[@avveb9644]

Amen

[@oruchkin]

Amen

[@BillyViBritannia]

Amen

[@666mandrake]

Amen

[@malenkas3]

2:35 imagine his opponent studying the reply and seeing that moment

[@PsychokoreUndergroundRap]

Reminds me of an olddd Husky Starcraft video.. where he flew his CC 5 or 6 tiles back and tried to win like that. Kinda funny when you see 7 scv's on 1 gas. He won by the way.. lol

[@The_Salt_Dealer]

This was my favorite challenge yet! I have a few ideas based around buildings that this gave me, some are much much harder than others. 1) Each building can only be powered by a single pylon. Artosis bases. 2) Every base needs a wall off. 3) 3rd before 2nd. You must take your 3rd base location before you take your natural. 4) Pylons OR creep, you must have every pylon "powered' by another pylon. That way new pylons can only be placed next to each other.

[@Arkain89]

I also had that idea of the "pylons must power each new pylon" too, but I think it'd be very easy on its own. So I call it the "Simcity" challenge: first pylon must be in range of the first nexus, then every additional pylon in range of another pylon, and then any additional nexus must be in range of an already built pylon. Also Harstem has to take alteast three bases or the game doesn't count as a win, if he wins.

[@TheAirborneKite]

1) each pylon can only be built inside another pylon's field. 2) you can only build a nexus inside one of your pylons' field 3) you can only attack structures which are inside one of your pylons' field 4) if the pylon chain to your starting position is broken, it must be repaired immediately In order to attack the enemy, you must build a "pylon highway" from your base to theirs

[@Pyladin]

The fun in this is to hear Harstem laugh like a little girl so many times over those nexuses :) Harstem, keep up the great work. Really like what you do.

[@disconsolator]

I love how much joy you get out of something so simple yet goofy. This is why we're here

[@ManicDominator]

Brilliant, one of my favourite so far. Love these challenges where it's obvious to the opponent they are being trolled.

[@holdenclark1181]

This is some really good stuff chief I laughed out loud multiple times haha what a challenge!

[@octaviusaugustus7205]

"it's okay, I forget things all the time.... WAIT I DIDN'T BUILD IT IN THE WRONG LOCATION!"

[@enumaelish8247]

Now the Zerg sends this to "Is it imba, or do I suck." "My opponent was a complete idiot, he built his nexus off center, he took the wrong base at one point, but he just went carriers and won for free".

[@MrDFensos]

My Idea for BGWSS: Not without my mommy! You have to build a mothership and are not allowed any other stargate units. Also you are only allowed to attack when your mothership is with your army. The moment it dies, you have to retreat and wait until a new one is ready. You may defend your bases without one tough. Keep up the great work!

[@Felixphaeton]

Challenge: Beat Grandmasters with a Macro Nexus in main.

[@artexartexartex]

Yes I love the idea of macro Nexi, as well as offensive proxy Nexi for recalls. Maybe the challenge could be for each Nexus you build to expand, you have to build another for either Macro or offensive proxy. It'd be hilarious

[@ScrapDMX]

Put one in your wall too for good measure

[@tooManyMidgets]

Play, but every time you want to warp units in, you have to type the first letter in chat. ZSA=zealot stalker adept. Advanced: if its too easy, buildings. If two names are interchangeable, you must type first two letters Caps, then lowercase.

[@minorantagonist7090]

Barcode Zerg: "I'm going to do a roach rush on your natural and destroy his economy" Harstem: "I have no economy to destroy, therefore I win"

[@BlackLabel2021]

This is the best shit posting starcraft 2 content one can find. I love you, Harstem. Thank you for this series

[@Inbal_Feuchtwanger]

I can see why it ended since its 52 minutes long but now we need to see you do 3 hex away. We need misplacing nexus pt.2.

[@Hallfar]

From all the things that hurt my eyes in this video, the double 's' in the word misplaced in the title hurt the most

[@RossRadikSherman]

He's going with the theme

[@ZDarabos]

"I built in the wrong location" - when building on the perfect spot is engraved in the unconscious

[@jlyons5356]

Your content is fantastically wholesome. Also the pulling out joke 😂 @8:50

[@ЕрмаковЕвгений-к5в]

I dont think Harstem pulls out though, once he's in, he goes all the way. No homo.

[@Xerpadon]

AHHAAHAH

[@AntiDoctor-cx2jd]

there are 2 types of BGMWSS. One where you just do a weird unexpected strategy like mothership rush, and then the other is really beating grandmasters with handicaps.

[@dr.onderkul]

Hey Harstem nice to see you ! I told you this idea a month ago, wrote it casually explained named post’s comments. Glad to see it happening

[@logado_diff]

Goed bezig! =) Inspired by your third/fourth nexus I propose a challenge: double every building! For each structure you must always order 2 simultaneously and (ideally) place them next to each other. XD

[@timlewis5707]

Brilliant vid as always Kev, so enjoyable watching you having fun with these. (was a bit early for me to enjoy watching with my dinner though...)

[@cpilling51]

"Microbial shroud is also called the 'storm here zone.'" i love this man

[@tico5602]

his opponent might be playing “beating grand master with stupid stuff(microbial shroud)” as well

[@tenooky]

Challenge: Pretend like you are playing brood war. storm drops reaver (disruptor) drops carrier rush vs Terran corsair reaver (phoenix for hunting overlords, disruptor) or corsair dt vs zerg No adepts, collosi, immortals, tempest, void ray, oracle allowed

[@MattFreemanPhD]

“Oh no he’s ALSO been doing drugs”

[@gerbenrampaart8042]

Beating GM with stupid stuff. Challenge "abandonment issues". Beat a GM by completely abandoning the main. There is no other building in the main, it's not even being mined from because you immediately retreat all probes to the natural once it is done. And there it will stay until the end of the game. No drones, no buildings. Just a lone nexus questioning it's existence.

[@vladimirviktorovichivanov7577]

37:00 Rocks moved when you place CC on your naturals lol)

[@snuffsonic23]

this one is legendary already lmfao 2:30 LOLOL

[@TheQsanity]

New challenge. Roll a 6 sided die each time you want to expand and each number represents how many hexes left, right, up or down of the optimal mineral patch you have to place off. Roll a 6 and you get to place it at optimal. :D

[@viktorkazinec]

Very entertaining video, thanks Harstem! Challenge idea: use probes instead of zealots for runbys :)

[@zackdenkers3820]

quote of the day "no pulling out ever" - harstem

[@vinaynagaraj4638]

Bunker countered. Misplaced nexus op

[@jeremysawa7075]

Challenge: use a nexus as part of your wall off at the natural. Use it for chronoboost energy or shield overcharge, and make extra probes as necessary....use it as see fit, but must go down before 3rd base. Bonus points if you put it down before 2nd base.

[@MorNin88]

Suggestion: Send half of your probes at the beginning of the game to attack the opponent. Micro your heart out!!

[@Parkanian]

Probe movement speed is 3.94. With some trig, since most of the probes are crossing each hex at an angle, and they have to go both ways, and averaging across maps, is 2.915 hexes. Since the dropoff & mine times aren't affected, it's just the travel time impact. SO: an extra 0.74 seconds per probe works out to about 47.4 minerals per second less, per extra hex off. Lines up nicely with what Brock Watson found empirically. Gas mining is affected differently and harder to calculate because the angle of travel goes from being near-perpendicular with minor losses on the 3rd probe to angled, but with less lost-gathering time because the "3rd" worker isn't interrupted like standard locations. I will leave that math as an exercise for the reader.

[@Mykulveli]

I thought ive been genuinely enjoying your content for about a year and now ive come to find out you've just been clickbaiting me the whole time?! I cant be mad, I already clicked...

[@megatroniker]

This is finally such a ridiculous brilliant idea. Love it! xD I am also happy to see that you have more and more subscribers. You've earned it. Great content!

[@stanislavcervenka423]

Really good one, was hoping it will not slow down so much mining :D please play again wrong race, right build order, best one for me. Listen I was thinking you should also play this: 1. Every expansion you can either use for mining minerals or gas only. Cant be both except main base. 2. One base all Ins forbidden Could be really funny when your opponent does a drop or run by realizing why he is he mining only gas and manage to kill 2-3 workers instead of 5-10 :D On the other can realize it is some kind of challenge

[@jarrodswords3729]

YOLO challenge: Once an army/unit of yours leaves your base, it must kill the opponent or die trying. No retreating from engagements, no backward blinks, and no backwards prism micro.

[@timfennis91]

It's amazing to me that you didn't realize that building it off by 2 hexes in both directions is so much worse then doing it by 2 in just 1 direction. 🤣

[@tylerpalef540]

Loving this series, good stuff! Here's silly suggestion based on BW for the series. No control groups larger than 12 units, no rallying base to resources, and only make units that were also in BW maybe?

[@Maarrk]

Those are not HEXes, chief. SC2 is on squares Great video, the challenge is genius

[@matrixfan566]

23:24 That was the biggest disruptor shot i've seen in my whole life !

[@Dusk-MTG]

Harstem missplacing nexi vs a zerg using microbial shroud. But who is the real troll here?

[@missbelled6700]

this is true big brain stuff though. when you put the nexus further away, then more probes can be mining before it's saturated. more probes = more economy GG EZ no re

[@HanLee-j1c]

Lol great challenge. Try one where you put a pylon and 2 canons infront of mineral line next time. Lmao my older brother always did this and it became my pet peeve.

[@Skamba]

Harstem giggling makes this video

[@NoOne-tg3xb]

Next time you have to kill your main base Nexus and missplace it too

[@joaopadua7134]

Next challenge build every tech building twice I always feel like and idiot when I do this so i guess it would be a nice challenge

[@james-ty8ce]

Harstem "The Poop Man" Riseth!!

[@MrNothinguploaded]

your opponent must have thought you are drunk

[@shavais33]

re The win at the end.. 5930 is not 6.3k? Who did he think believe the opponent was? Why did he think so? Still, 5930 is Grand Master level, at least, and Harstem beat him with Stupid Off location Nexi! =D I think the click bait joke was cute and more than worth it.

[@notadolphin9995]

"We're not gonna pull out, boys!" -Harstem 2020

[@whateverppl1229]

i Love the doubt, "it's off, isn't it?"

[@carbumb4229]

Even if they lost it is nice to see someone use hyderlysk.

[@dus10dnd]

Why are you not warping in with the pylon near his base?

[@ThePeacemaker848]

This seems like an effective way to impose a handicap.

[@mewingcat22]

Finally an excuse to put 30 probes on mins

[@GG-pc8kc]

Kev, what about some games with build orders from 2011? (forge expand vs zerg...)

[@ekhionjr]

"Ohh, I need to pull some stuff out, you know? ... No pullin' out here boys" - Harstem

[@CannibalSheepQc]

-400/-400 @49:10

[@loraxak]

Always expand at least one set of mineral patches away from any of your existing bases. Get up to three base at least before killing your opponent.

[@libetop]

if i was a pro player and i see this shit, i would know it's harstem doing one of his vids

[@SeriousApache]

If you do it with terran you must also reposition your initial CC.

[@coulliebleu3422]

Challenge: Playing with BroodWar controls like no auto mining rally, one building per control group, etc.

[@Elfcheg]

This stuff reminds me of good old Funday Mondays. I miss Day Jay's laugh.

[@MapleBlade30]

BGMWSS: All production is in main only

[@samuelmote8903]

Challenge:. Beat an opponent without attacking until you have at least one of every unit in your army.

[@whirlwind872]

Kevin your hand looks deformed in the thumbnail, your finger is sticking out horizontally and the other fingers are just missing. How do you play Starcraft with such a deformity

[@IYPITWL]

39:26 the moment Harstem's subconscious was done with this challenge

[@eth5632]

Tested mineral mining per probe approximately on 'Golden wall': Results 0 hex off (normal mining): 56.8 minerals a minute per drone (100%) 1 hex off: 54.3 minerals a minute per drone (95.6%) 2 hex off: 47.8 minerals a minute per drone (84.2%) 3 hex off: 45.1 minerals a minute per drone (79.5%) 4 hex off: 41.4 minerals a minute per drone (72.9%)

[@leok6138]

Stupid stuff ideas: 1.) All buildings you construct must be in pairs or more, and built next to each other (including Nexus when you expand). Buildings must be constructed back to back, so it must be "pylon->pylon->gateway->gateway" rather than "pylon->gateway->pylon->gateway" 2.) You can only mine from one gas geyser the whole game

[@multicrogamer]

Ideas for future , some of them are stupid , but that's point , right? 1. Build nexus at 2nd base in a wall position and long distance mine from it 2. Never attack opponents not even harrasment 3. Hero colossus , you aren't allowed to attack if your colossus has less than : 50 kills vs Zerg , 25 vs Terran , 12 vs protoss. You can have 1 colossus and build only zealots for anti ground and pheonix for anti air. 4. Zerg specific , pretend creep is Lava and that you can only go on creep with air units. 5. You are allowed to kill workers and buildings on attack only. I mean A moving is not allowed but units will do that eventually so don't be hard on yourself. 6. Before attacking you need to have at least 1 of all units type in amry , excluding mothership , can add that one if you want. 7. You must execute all units which have took HP damage , no weaklings allowed. 8. Pokeball challange , You can't attack to kill your opponent before your 3rd base. Only harrasment option is disruptor.

[@LuvyStylesOfficial]

Great video man

[@bleuwizard2193]

Challenge: Have to click everything. Can't use hotkeys

[@fredrikprantare9663]

Suggestion: Tower defense. You are only allowed to build buildings adjacent (wall-to-wall) to other buildings. (Nexus and assimilators are exempted from this rule.)

[@silvergreydragon]

BGWSS suggestions: All the micro: Units with some form of active ability only. That means no colossus or archons, but zealots, stalkers and high templars are allowed. Optional hard mode: For units whose abilities need to be researched (like blink for stalkers), only use the unit after its ability is researched. Disruptor only: Try to only build and use disruptors. Using warp prisms for transport is allowed. Building a minimum of other units is allowed to survive early game, but after that, only disruptors.

[@pizzamannetje79]

@Harstem you miSSpelled the title. Unless you place your base on a miss ;-) It's misplaced with one S.

[@evgeniyguziy1822]

What about this one. Challenge: You cannot build anything army wise or buildings wise - before you are floating 100 minerals or more(you choose a start point). Probes are allowed to build any time. For example, in case you want to build a pylon, you need 200 minerals etc. Any win you add 50 or 100 more to a start point.

[@tylerehlert4998]

Hey Harstem, I got a thought. Why not play protoss as if you are another race. All building placement has to correlate with terran or zerg building placement. Here is the catch if you pick zerg/terran as your choice then you must play as if you are that race. Zealots - zerglings marines - adepts etc. Creativity allowed. Thought you might like it. Thanks for the videos and good humor.

[@EstrellaViajeViajero]

Stupid Stuff Suggestions: 1. Every building requiring a pylon must have two before it can be placed. (Will completely mess up early game build orders) 2. Each pylon is allowed to power only one building.

[@dieselp87]

Love your videos. What about an all unit challenge? Once you start a push/attack, you have to have every protoss unit in that army at least once. (Including 1 probe) If it turns out to be too hard, then you may ignore the mothership ;) HF & GL

[@BasilWallace]

BGMWSS: Trick opponent into thinking you're going 4 gate, but actually it's proxy robo. You're only allowed to use 2 warp ins from your 4 gate

[@МихаилЧалый-щ3ж]

Okay, I have a challenge based on this one :) You are not allowed to build ANY structures on existing bases. So if you need pilons/gateways/whatever you need to proxy them/build on your next taken base but when you place nexus there you can't build structures there anymore. If this is too hard you can loosen it a bit and are allowed to rebuild what enemy destroys.

[@rauliciii]

One of this days I was playing ladder in Platinum and I managed to do dmg early to my opponent, I was sure I was in a good spot and then.. I tried an all-in that partly worked.. And I was so confused the rest of the game.. Why I keep having not enough money and I lost. Watching the replay was the stupidest moment of my s2 life. I miss placed my natural nexus and I didn't even notice till the replay. Harsteam is so good.. He can to this to GM

[@surrenderhealing5579]

harstem you're my new fav sc2 guy to watch, because you're really good, knowledgeable, but most important your manner of speaking is very laid back!

[@vegetasaijan6052]

Maybe thats the reason why the early Alphastar kept oversaturating the mineral lines in the demo games vs TLO and Mana. When it learned playing it first misplaced the Nexus and learned that 22 Probes mined more then 16. It eventually learned the correct placement of the bases, but it never unlearned the information that 22 Probes are better then 16.

[@Half-timeHero]

Stupid stuff suggestion: Industrial Miner - The goal is to win by mining as close to all the resources on the map as possible. Minimal aggression to prevent gg-ing. A late game Mapwide contain.