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I've noticed something strange lately. When I play against Zerg - especially as Terran but also as Protoss - the opponents surrender really fast, even when they have a good change of winning.

Now I might understand if someone tries to cheese or do a Zergling rush, fails to come past my wall and then quits. But most of the time they are playing more 'legitimate' strategies, and still quit at the slightest resistance.

Last time, the enemy had roaches in my base, and Broodlords and who-knows-what in front of it, and was killing all my workers. I had recently engaged with his troops, so I had no units lefts except for some Reapers. I was about to give up, and just for fun sent my ~6 Reapers to his exe. The moment I started attacking him, he left!?

In some other games, it was sufficient to send 2-3 banshees over to make the opponent freak out and quit.

I never experienced that aginst T or P. Its really unsatisfying that I rarely get into endgame against Z. I barely even remember the last time I actually destroyed a lair or hive.

Why is this? Do you so easily get into a position from which you cannot win as Zerg? Or are Zerg players just more easily frustrated? ;-) (This is upper bronze / lower silver btw..)

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The premise of this question is subjective and can only be answered anecdotally. Try asking it on quora.com were questions seeking opinions are encouraged. – BBz Jun 14 '12 at 15:29
I'd disagree. All game strategy questions are to a degree about experience and common opinion. I could imagine a couple of good answers to this question (just examples): "Zerg is extremely dependent on early-game macro. Take a hit there and it is universally accepted among top players that you have no chance." or "if you already have banshees and the zerg no sporecrawlers, a good player knows that he cannot win since you can push out more air units than he anti-air." or "It is a well known and discussed problem that there are many unexperienced zerg players who cheese in bronze league" etc. – jdm Jun 14 '12 at 17:54
I agree that the opinions of better players are helpful. But those answer would be very situational. I think it'd be extremely hard to prove that the game mechanics in SC2 hinder Zerg more than other races when they're behind. And StackExchange is mainly a community that loves to collect facts - known things - just made more readily available here. We can discuss this further by asking a question in meta. – BBz Jun 14 '12 at 18:10
Also, I think you'd get some high quality answers (or critiques) on Quora, so again I recommend www.quora.com – BBz Jun 14 '12 at 18:11

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"The opponents surrender really fast, even when they have a good change of winning." There is only one good explanation for this. Your opponents are new or unskilled. That's why they are bronze/silver.

As to why this is more frequent with zerg opponents, I can make a guess. Zerg is the least common race at bronze level, and its the only one not taught during the single player campaign. Not only that, Zerg has what I think are the most difficult mechanics to learn initially, which is why they are underplayed at bronze/silver.

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