Team Micro Arena is a Use Map Settings-based genre of Starcraft gameplay, one where you play the game differently but never the less with at a very high level of skill. Many veteran SC players will be well aware of this, since TMA has been around in one form or another for over five years. With its focus upon micro over macro management, tactics and team play it has remained a strong minority community within the larger Starcraft scene. That is, until now...

Very recently, the guys over at www.team-micro-arena.net with VeNoM5 at the forefront have taken a major step towards popularizing TMA for a larger audience. These days, you got to have video to have any chance, and so they have built a massive and growing library of TMA tutorial videos - all available on Youtube.

In my opinion, content like that is absolutely essential for a community like ours to flourish and grow. Starcraft is, I would argue, the most competitive RTS ever made - but for people who do not already know and appreciates its magic, that can be hard to see. The graphics are from the past millennium, and for that reason extra effort is required to sell the concept.

Team Micro Arena do just that, and they do it well. Their tutorials are good, informative and straight to the point - making it easy for newcomers (such as myself, I shall admit) to start playing and owning. Not only that, playing TMA will undoubtedly also make you a lot better at microing in general - climbing the ladder at iCCup just got easier.


Head over here to check out their extensive Youtube-library

Click here to check out the official website of this veteran community

Also, for a longer introduction to why TMA rocks and why their initiative is so inspirational, click here to read the original article over at polygonrevue.com


PS. Exciting things are happening on the interview front, stay tuned....