“Worker Rush: Descent to Bronze”, 2011-10-03 (; backlinks; similar):
[First in a famous series of posts about trolling StarCraft 2 players (2/3/4/5/6/7/8/9/10/11). In a sudden fit of perversity, the author, Gheed, decides to test players in the lowest-ranked group of players (‘bronze’).
His test is to, at the start of every game, use the ‘worker rush’ strategy: immediately send all of your initial units (workers) over to the enemy to attack them. A worker rush is one of the best-known & easiest strategies in all of SC to defeat: all the opponent has to do is literally a single keyboard command (‘A’ then mouse click, to instruct their workers to counter-attack), which is taught in the tutorial, and victory is guaranteed.
His (already limited) faith in humanity is undermined as he is appalled to discover that this works a considerable fraction of the time, that losing players employ spastic actions and inexplicable ‘strategies’ which do not and could never work, that players get really angry when they lose to it despite it being their fault because worker rushes are trivially defeated, that it works on the same players multiple times, that it works on players who Gheed informs how to defeat it and also players who he had tutored to some degree, on players that claim to spend many hours watching e-sports SC matches and reading SC forums (and know the relevant jargon), and it even works on players who the online Battle.net statistics show have played thousands of games or come from higher leagues.]