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The EPM is particularly worrying as AlphaStar can focus on multiple areas of the map at a single time.

A common strategy in GM is to attack on one front with your main army and drop a small amount of units into the back of their base. The opposition has to decide between spending their focus on the main battle or the dropped units.

AlphaStar doesn't have to worry about this - there's no gap between focusing on the front and the back at anything similar to a human.

Players usually use add hotkeys for camera positions to allow them to move around the map fairly fast. We can imagine a human player in this scenario responding by going

* Some actions to move army/setup * Use pre-existing camera hotkey to go back to base, view situation * Setup a new unit group * Move unit group to base to head off attack * Move workers to avoid economy loss * Go back to battle * Setup camera hotkey for battle * Flick between two battles as needed * Move workers back

If AlphaStar can view the two locations without that lag or without setting up new camera hotkeys for movement, there's a definite and sizeable advantage before we get into the amount of EPM involved. An action that is setting up a hotkey is significantly less valuable than one using a spell/moving a unit/attacking.