Played vs Pig and it didn't end well
Somebody in the SG discord said Pig was casting Stormgate briefly for the RTS fest so I jumped over there and saw he was breezing through a game of normal Coop. He bemoaned that it was too easy to be fun and flat out didn't believe me when I told him you can solo coop for a unique challenge.
I suggested he try versus because I knew that queue is quick despite the player count. On the spur of the moment, worrying he would meet Mixu or Jayxp123 and get discouraged and tell his viewers 'don't play this game', I hit the matchmaker at the same time and we got matched up.
I'm a 30+ year rts veteran and play for fun. I make up all my own builds, always go random, and at <150 apm, only rarely reach diamond in SC2. It was exciting to be matched up with Pig but I had no business being in a versus with him. Here's the match.
Unfortunately I drew Celestial, my worst race by far. I hoped he would get a quick win and move on to a few more games with the high level RTS guys that are the bulk of our playerbase.
Pig played conservative/macro instead of aggressive, so I lasted about 13 minutes. The game was very fun because it was Stormgate. He seemed to enjoy stomping the hell out of my argents and politely shit talking the whole time. I went in too deep every battle :(
When the game was over, Pig said he used to ladder SG and had some of the best mid-game engagements that he ever had in RTS. He expressed hopefulness for the future. But then he told everyone not to play it! Arrgh! And he didn't queue up again! D'oh!
I mean, yes, we look forward to future patches and feature implementations, but jesus man throw a fun game a bone and let some of those people come versus with us. Sheesh!
*edit- I personally have the opinion that its ok for noobs to queue versus in SG, but this post is in no way a slight against Pig, he did a great stream and I linked to it so what