"Coaching" for Noobs..?

[howligH]

hey everyone.

first of all, probably something like this exists already, then forgive me - but if not, it could be an good idea.

im a noob in starcraft.
seriously, i play it since ~7 years but all i play is UMS and fastest maps, and this sucks.

tried some times to play "real" starcraft, but i simply fail very hard every time.

there are much good players around this community, and also i think there are some of my kind, playing the game, loving the game - but just being a noob.

so i wonder if it would be possible that some of the "pro´s" would find some time, to make something like an coaching project.

thought it could work like this...

1. theoretical stuff goes into a forum, most important things, buildorders, how to build your base with sense, what are the most played tactics and how to counter them.

the pro´s will teach serval apprentices...

2. teaching "counters" to the apprentice for different builds to them and trying to improve them while they play these counters against the pro that uses the strat the counter is for.

3. pro´s going into ventrilo(or whatever) with the apprentice who will playing against another apprentices thats also coached by a pro.

all these games could be live streamed, recorded and commented...

its for SC:BW...
would teach new players the game, improve the skills possible find some talents for the future.

also while many people are waiting for betakeys and the final release of SC2, this could be a good thing to use the nonused time.

and sc:bw is nearly the same as sc2, so the players would actually learn for sc2 already..

what do you guys think..? would such a project be possible?

kind regards, howligH - and sorry, i know my english sucks :X

Edit:

Selfhosted Voice-Servers Available:
Ventrilo - 8 Slots (limited due public server version)
Teamspeak3 - Unlimited Slots
Mumble - Unlimited Slots

List of Pro-Teachers:
The_Blade
Skyze (if he gets an sc2 beta key, he teaches both (?))
Hammy

List of Apprentices
howligH
Gritten (?)
KillaKhan

is there any possibility to spread this "project" like a news or something? could grow to a big thing i think.

[Gritten]

This is actually a really good idea.

I have to admit, I'm fairly n00bish myself. Most of my gaming experience was 8 or 9 years ago getting ripped apart in battlenet so I gave up there and moved on to playing alongside my wife in AI games. Lately it's been with my 10 year old daughter on money maps versus a couple of AI's and we usually get wiped lol.

There's a few people here that are MORE than happy to lend some assistance for newbs. I've had people like TheBlade, Tam, and Ernesto watching my games via livestream, and giving me ingame feedback through chat. In fact, Ernesto was SO intent on helping improve my game, we spent about an hour one night attempting to get a Vent server working so he could yell at me through voice what to do and when.

Watching replays and learning from mistakes is a great way to learn. But to have someone actually invest time into you and say do this, do this, you're forgetting to macro, micro that, can't you see that in their base, you need to build x to counter REALLY helps. My game has improved SIGNIFICANTLY in a matter of 3 or 4 days.

We have an awesome community here.

Gritten

[howligH]

nice to hear that you like this idea.

also for things like an ventrilo server or something like that i would be able to use my root server, hosting this stuff is no problem.

hope there are more people liking this, and probably we could start such a project.

[The_Blade]

I shall teach you well...

Lets just get ventrilo and livestream or something.

I'm up to coach anyone at the time... have not played beta yet but if you look closely enough at my sig, you can see the alarming amount of replays I have witnessed.

[howligH]

cool.
lets run this thread for a day or two, and have a look how many people would join this thing.

to the ventrilo thingy..
i just found out that ventrilo has 2 versions of its server..

one public, limited to 8 slots.
one paid, unlimited slots.

im not sure if we would need more than 8 slots at all, but if, this could be a problem. (probably livestream viewers could use it to talk whatever..)

we also could use an Teamspeak3 or Mumble voice server instead, they even have better quality and less delay than ventrilo and are not limited on slots.

[KillaKhan]

I'm up for it. I'm mostly a zerg player, and I'm not bad. I know the basics.
I can't play very well on Battlenet. I have an amazing first game defense strat, but nothing past that.

[howligH]

so you would also be an apprentice, right?

i think i edit that into the firstpost, collecting "pro´s" and apprentices.

[Skyze]

if someone gets me a key I could teach them.. I am experienced with sponsered teams in SC/War3, currently the captain of a team that had some of the best players out of North America for SC/War3, and will soon be atop the SC2 world by release.

[howligH]

if someone gets me a key I could teach them.. I am experienced with sponsered teams in SC/War3, currently the captain of a team that had some of the best players out of North America for SC/War3, and will soon be atop the SC2 world by release.

Starcraft Broodwar, not SC2 Beta.
if you meant a SC:BW Key, well.. its not that much like 2€ in germany. you should be able to find some for not much money..

[The_Blade]

I actually value his experience, and that's what he meant. Not that he wants to coach SC BW alone, but evolve the experience into StarCraft 2.