Season 3

Season 3 of the Starcraft 2 ladder is up and I'm happy to say that I advanced to Gold league!
but of course with progression comes the realization that things only get tougher the closer to the top you get.

I realized right away that at this skill level of the game you must be extremely well at multi-tasking.

playing a few matches I was outplayed by people who were crazy good at dividing my attention. by this  I mean like attacking my army or buildings then suddenly attacking me somewhere else so I would have to react fast to defend.

very effective and hard to pull off,


It's going to be rough but I plan to begin trying to over whelm my opponent and eventually wear them out so much that they submit and give up.  

I'll be trying to write more off, things have just been crazy and I gotta put more effort into writing

Season 2 ending?

Its been a long time since I wrote in this. and since last time I am proud to say I'm very close to jumping leagues to gold league :]


I had no idea but the ladders were locked around June 15th marking the nearing end of season 2.

what this means is that players can no longer advance in leagues only in the ladders they are in. I guess in a sense its a good thing but it really does trap people who are trying to jump up in higher leagues.

I've played more than a 100 games since season 2 started and I've noticed the weakness of a particular build I would always do in every ladder game. It allows me to get higher tech at a faster rate, but in return I have to give up any early game unit presence.

I managed to win a majority of games using this build but I noticed that as I played more strong opponents they would pretty much auto win with early game pressure. 

so what did I end up doing?

adjusting my play style of course!

adapt or die, so rightfully relevant in this case

I'm still fine tuning a build I'm making but eventually I believe that I'll be able to play protoss in a way that no one has every done before.


so much more I would like to say, but my time is short and I have to run

Korean pros

I was watching the NASL yesterday, for those of you who don't know what that is its the North American star league.
Simply put, its the North American eSport version of basketball play offs or a football conference. the match in question was between two Protoss, VTKiwiKaki and oGsmc.

these two guys are well known for being incredibly good at playing their races in their respective home countries (mc -Korean KiwiKaki- Canada) however last nights match was a slaughter. mc completely had KiwiKaki on edge through out both games.


It was really frustrating to see someone like mc advance and possibly win the NASL. foreigners never have much luck in the GSL. That being the Korean equivalent of the NASL.

Watching a game like that really made me think about how big the skill difference is in the world.

Eyyy

New day moar ladderin!

at 9am I already got my 5 wins done, for awhile I was on a winning streak. I think I'm getting the hang of my build, just minor things I have to do get used to following it under pressure.

I took yesterday off so that means that I have an extra 5 wins that I have to make up :/
all this playing made me respect pro gamers more, I know that everybody seems to think their doing something they love, or that its easy to do what they do. But in actuality having to doing this day after day hour after hour would be bound to increase someones dislike for something.

It wouldn't be something they like anymore, I played for 2 hours won 5 games but lost 4 in the process and I already am going to take a break for a couple of hours.
mad props to those guys.  

Sliver leaguing

First step I decided to make towards getting better at SC2 is win a mandatory 5 games a day. so far I've been keeping in check with this and actually haven't taken it that hard when I lose.

It used to get me so pissed whenever I lost, I'd shout IMBA or thats a pretty nice race whenever I'd lose but recently I've learned to take it in stride.

I figure every loss I get just helps me learn more, each match shows me a little something more that I can improve on.
Like Duckload-ra says

"No GG = no Skill" 

manners...

NEW ISH

Been awhile since I've posted in this thing! time to change direction a bit and talk about something else I've really been meaning to do.

I've decided that since I already spend so much time playing SC2 that I might as well try to make some money off it and thats what I'll do!

I already signed up for a tourney just to gauge where I'm at, from now on I'mma talk about SC2 Strategy and some things that really irk me about the game in general.

ambiguous

Its been a whole semester since I've been written in this. The semester flew blew, lots of memories were made, good ones as well as bad ones. I've recently started talking to someone whose made me want to do more with my life.

I notice that the more we talk, the more and more I want to do so I can share that with her.
Recently though we've gotten more and more close, and I feel like shes suddenly starting to pull away.

I don't know how to feel, I understand her point of view but I don't want to lose everything we've built up to now.

She's an amazing person, and without a doubt I know its my insecurities that are most likely making me see more into this situation than there really is.



all I know is, I have to complete this list of goals for myself

Complete a summer EMT program
volunteer at a Hospital
work as a patient transporter 


time will tell what happens with me and her, but I won't let go