New year

     Its been awhile since I've written in this. To be honest the reason I've been so hesitant about using this blog again is because quite frankly I haven't been playing star craft 2 for some time now.


     The only reason I haven't been is because my computer can't handle it anymore :/
It lags and drops frames whenever big engagements happen. I know that I can be a lot better if I could actually micro my units instead of having a glitched image on my screen followed by a 40-90 supply loss.

Its pretty infuriating, aside from that I have to say that I've been having a rough couple of months deciding if being a doctor is what I really want to do. For the most part it is but when I talk to friends whom once wanted to do that as well they've changed their minds, mainly just because the sheer amount of school and time it takes.

I've come to realize that after really thinking about it, its what I really want. no matter how long it takes I know that if I give up without trying I'll always be asking what if.



Onto more star craft related stuff!

I'm going to completely remove what I don't need from my computer and try to figure out solutions as to how to fix it. I want to play SC2 at a high level to show others that people on the NA server aren't complete trash players.

november november

Things have been pretty hectic lately!

Just made it through the bulk of my classes and with winter coming up I'm spending more time laddering than I have in awhile.

First off a new season of ladder is out
I took my placement match and was disheartened when I was placed in

Silver league
I guess I expected to place lower, and it was kind of disappointing.

(I remember thinking to myself while playing that I should be doing so much more :/)

still motivated to keep going! I want to keep growing and I'm going to seriously put time into this game and try to get better.

It'll be nice to get sponsored....

but to do that I have to put out some results first.

I'm going to focus on this build until I feel like I can perform it at a high level.

   9 Pylon
    12 Gate
    14 Gas
    16 Pylon
    17 Core
    19 Zealot
    21 Gas
    23 Pylon
    @100% Core --> Sentry + WG (Chrono)
    Continue chronoboosting probes and making sentries
    27 2x Gateway
    @100% WG --> Expo
You should have about 4-5 sentries and 1 zealot.

we'll see where this takes me.

Thanks for reading guys!

Quartz

Hey guys!

I've been keeping up with what I said and for the most part played some games pretty frequently.

Sadly my MMR is so low that I'm getting placed against high level silver players :/

but never the less I feel like I'm making some progress!
for those of you who don't know MMR is the match making algorithm that the computer uses to place you against players around your level. From what I know it is highly unstable the more matches you win. Meaning, it doesn't really know where to place you...

So I guess this is good news? ha ha

for the most part I've been working on my mechanics, I'm trying to not let my chronoboost get too high (use it as soon as I can) and constantly make probes.

From what I've seen there are really 3 time periods you should expo (make expansions) at the 7:00, then 11 or 12 min mark. This of course relies on if you feel safe doing so, I've been rushed so many times trying to take an expansion that its just aggravates me.

Let me explain this last part more clearly, in Starcraft 2 resources that you use to make units/ buildings are limited. You have to eventually make new bases and mine them in order to fuel your war. a lot of times lesser players or players or want to end the game quickly do what they can to mass units up quickly and rush over to destroy your base.

If the attack fails, their pretty much screwed the rest of the game, if it works obviously they'll win the game. It's been really hard for me to be a good sport about this because I feel like it takes no skill and shows that the people doing this is a lesser player....

although I guess if I was a better player I would be able to scout around and tell that something like this is heading my way.

Just something else to keep in mind as I play, alright take care guys takes for reading!

Endurance

Hey guys!

I know I haven't been too faithful to this, but I'm making sure that I allot some time every other day for a post.

So big news Stephano won the IPL3! Huge upset because everyone expected the Korean players to take the tourney. mainly just because they are notoriously good players. 



For those of yous who don't know what that its a tournament that was was hosted at Caesars Atlantic City, USA. The total prize pool was worth $100,000 with the following break down.

1st place: $30,000
2nd place: $12,000
3rd place: 8,000
4th place: 6,000
5th-8th place: $3,000
9th-16th place: $2,000
17th-32nd place: $1,000

a lot of high level players were invited and as you can see high finishers left with some amount of prize money.


Watching a few of the games motivated me to start playing again and I'm happy to say that I made myself play 5 games today. even though I went 1-4 and I'm still motivated to keep on going and trying to improve.

I decided that I'm going to make myself play 5 games each day. [rather than win 5]
and make myself improve and focus on mechanics more than anything else.

what I mean by mechanics is constantly scouting, making probes, spending money, building units.
all together and keeping a cool head while doing it.

It's natural to get upset and want to let someone have it when they won doing stupid things (got cannon rushed twice - _ -)

but when I really thought about it I should have scouted him and followed his probe, looking out for proxy pylons.

I'm not going to let it get to me and just chalk it up as something to improve on!

thanks for reading guys. I'll try to cover events in more depth and details, still trying to figure out what voice to take when writing this ha ha.

if you guys want more info about the IPL go to their main site! IPL3

1 month in

How's it going guys,
Its been one month since school started and as I taking a break from studying for my exam today I wanted to write a quick update.

So far I've been playing SC2 very little, (sad) but this is only because school is taking a lot of my time. I noticed that when I do have free time I either watch streams or random shows. Mainly because of bad luck in the few games that I do play (Went 0-5 once). I'm surprised I haven't been demoted out of gold, its pretty hard to advance I have to admit.

I wanted to let you guys know about a cool documentary that's being made,


Star Nation



I have to admit this trailer made me very hopeful for E-sports as a whole. whether you know whats going on or not its pretty crazy to see something that many people consider "just a game" to invoke such a huge response.


The interviews are what got to me, I have high hopes for this film and hope that the scene keeps growing.


Thanks for reading guys and have a good day!

End of august

It's the last day of august and I'm back in school ready to finish off my last year.

So of course that means I'm having a hard time deciding if I should even continue playing SC2 or focus on school for the most part. The way I see it as long as I finish everything on time and am prepared for every test/ exam then I'll be fine,

but to do that would be asking a lot haha.

It's been awhile since I've updated! I'm going to start posting at least a couple times a weeks from now on, just to have this space to vent since I'm only two weeks in and the work pile is already growing haha

On another note, I've been beating myself up about things that I can't control

from this moment on I won't let myself do that

enough said

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