A brief overview of viable openings in GvI

[captainmeme]

Just in time for the GvI Showdown! The article can be found here.

[Ezio]

High quality content!

[President Eden]

Great job with these posts, meme. You're doing God's work for the 1v1 metagame.

[Octavious]

You're confusing God with the Devil again, Eden.

[President Eden]

One day I'm going to make you play 1v1 and you'll enjoy it, Oct.

[Octavious]

I have and I did. The thing is the enjoyable bit is working out how everything works and what to do. Having a big list of other people's ideas is like baking with a shop bought premade mixture, or making a curry by pouring a jar of sauce over some meat. Where's the fun in that?

[TrPrado]

I mean, the specifics of the midgame are always going to be different and are a much bigger part of knowing how to play 1v1.

[eturnage]

Thanks for the write ups. I would like to hear your analysis of the mid game.

[President Eden]

I have and I did. The thing is the enjoyable bit is working out how everything works and what to do. Having a big list of other people's ideas is like baking with a shop bought premade mixture, or making a curry by pouring a jar of sauce over some meat. Where's the fun in that?

I hear ya Oct, but I think this is closer to researching the Internet to determine that you're getting the best ingredients.
A poor opening, like choosing poor ingredients for a dish, dooms the game to failure before you've even started. There's a great deal more to 1v1 than just openings, but a bad opening will ensure that the "great deal more" doesn't matter.
And certainly, you can find room to innovate with new ingredients. Systematizing the most common and successful ones gives cooks a framework to experiment.