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Despite its effectiveness, this build order wasn’t known to the SC2 community. It’s quickly become labelled as a “cheese build”

Ooo, how dare you intelligently work within the confines of the game and discover superior strategies that take the metagame to a new level! That is so cheap.

Cheese builds in Starcraft are bizarre, unusual, or very meta builds that are designed for the sole purpose of being incredibly difficult to counter to a player that isn't aware they're being used, such as rushing the enemy base with SCVs as Terrans, which can be devastating against newer players who haven't posted scouts to let them know about incoming foes.

They're also usually builds designed to win the game very quickly and sacrifice an initial grace period in favor of a relatively rapid start that can either secure victory if successful, or ensure defeat if the enemy was prepared and crushes the attacker.

Although people complain about a lot of builds being "cheese builds" just because they lose to them, there are truthfully a lot of frightfully irritating builds that more or less force the enemy to counter them with another specific type of build. This kind of rock-paper-scissors meta can sap the fun out of the game very quickly for many players, and it doesn't help when they're lumped into the crowd of players who cry foul at everything they lose to by people who don't take the time to examine the argument.