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BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
August 29 2009 14:33 GMT
#1
I am proud to say that I am ICCup's newest D+. To be honest I thought it would have been a lot harder to get there, mostly because I've been playing a lot of "1v1 play/obs" on U.S. East and D+ seemed like pro gamer level according to some people...

I'm not playing that well. This LAN latency is really messing me up, I can't even micro goons, they just don't fire because I'm not used to the timing. My splits are terrible, but that's not incredibly important. The main thing screwing me over is this chair that has annoyingly high and wide arm rests. I would use a different chair, but this one is very comfortable and I'm not taking starcraft that seriously.

Not quite sure why I am playing Iccup, maybe I'm just curious to see how high I could get.

P.S. does anyone know how the minerals in maps like Destination work? Where there are patches blocking a ramp and it says "0" minerals. I've broking through them before with a worker or 2 just mining but anyone know specifics on how long it takes to mine through and if it is faster if I put multiple workers on it?



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DamageControL
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States4222 Posts
August 29 2009 14:40 GMT
#2
D+ at the end and D+ at beginning are very different things. Although both of them, to me, are noteworthy congrats.
It's faster I believe, because there are many minerals
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inertinept
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
Bangladesh1195 Posts
August 29 2009 14:48 GMT
#3
nice job
With a gust of wind, perhaps.
ilistis
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States828 Posts
August 29 2009 14:52 GMT
#4
Don't feel bad if you lose right back to D. It will surely happen but you'll climb right back to D+, The D+ players are after all, on a different level.

Congrats!
"The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."-William Faulkner *_*_*_Kolll FAN_*_*_*
fast ball player
Profile Joined December 2008
206 Posts
August 29 2009 14:54 GMT
#5
the patch with 0 on destination.. basically you can mine it like a normal patch but each time the peon finishes the mining animation, he is still empty-handed. it takes like 25 seconds or 8-9 mining animations is my rough estimate, to eliminate the patch.
Live free or die
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-29 15:04:13
August 29 2009 15:01 GMT
#6
Aren't you they guy who beat FA during his prime for liquibition showmatch ?

Although D+ rank is getting hardcore nowadays that shouldn't be too hard for you to achieve.

If i remember you were a T / P player. Your only only real problems should be PvZ or TvZ because PvT / TvP / PvP / TvT are still somewhat the same mus for ages.
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
ghostWriter
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3302 Posts
August 29 2009 15:15 GMT
#7
Season ends in like 4 days lmao.
Sullifam
Jawa~
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States291 Posts
August 29 2009 15:25 GMT
#8
THe mineral patches are stacked - it's a bunch of 0 mineral patches. I don't know how many it is but it's probably about 10-15 or so. It is much faster to use multiple peons, but usually 2-3 is fine to get it done in ~15 seconds or so
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-08-29 15:55:40
August 29 2009 15:54 GMT
#9
On August 30 2009 00:15 ghostWriter wrote:
Season ends in like 4 days lmao.

More than enough to reach your true level. Just play like Lz, and you're set.
EDIT: I mean in how often, not how well. You aren't going to hit B+/A- in four days from D+.
food
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1951 Posts
August 29 2009 15:55 GMT
#10
lmao
blackjack can get B- in his current form no problem, i dotn know if he can go further or not, depends what hours he plays and if he keeps offracing or not
Can someone ban this guy please? FA?
739
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29903 Posts
August 29 2009 15:59 GMT
#11
Yeah it is faster to mine those mineral patches if You use multiple worker :}
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LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
August 29 2009 16:09 GMT
#12
Gratz on D+ next season shoot for C-!
foeffa
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
Belgium2115 Posts
August 29 2009 16:25 GMT
#13
Gratz.
觀過斯知仁矣.
decafchicken
Profile Blog Joined January 2005
United States20143 Posts
August 29 2009 17:10 GMT
#14
roflmao @ blackjack congradulating himself on D+

c'mon
how reasonable is it to eat off wood instead of your tummy?
jimminy_kriket
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada5525 Posts
August 29 2009 17:24 GMT
#15
@ Op, whats your east ID?
life of lively to live to life of full life thx to shield battery
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24753 Posts
August 29 2009 17:28 GMT
#16
Oh I got d+ last night also. Would have been a bit quicker if I dodged the 1 or 2 koreans lol (beat another one <3)
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
August 29 2009 17:41 GMT
#17
Bj why didn't you show to the miami lan? >.> you live right there from zero ping -.- and btw congrats. The game now is different than when we played :|
Life?
StarN
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2587 Posts
August 29 2009 19:04 GMT
#18
lol BJ weren't you a Liquibition winner?
Grats on getting D+

(p.s. I can't really take this blogpost seriously lol)
Retired BW Noob
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
August 29 2009 19:14 GMT
#19
I played a bunch of 1v1 play/obs on b.net and got told that too(before I started iccup), so when I went on iccup I was like "A- ezpz" but only got D+
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
August 29 2009 20:33 GMT
#20
it's amazing...so amazing
leMaj24
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States262 Posts
August 29 2009 21:12 GMT
#21
lol this really made me laugh, i'm sure some people didnt know that blackjack was one of the US's better players and consistently won cw's for 88)/USA-A. but anyways, its good to see you playing again :D
BlackJack
Profile Blog Joined June 2003
United States10574 Posts
August 30 2009 07:31 GMT
#22
Well I must have been misinformed because I thought B- was like top tier foreigner level and C+ was like really really good. And yes, as some have recognized, this isn't a very serious blog. It's more about playing starcraft again in over 3 years than about hitting D+

@shockeyy, I'm actually in Gainesville atm
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28739 Posts
August 30 2009 14:15 GMT
#23
a- / a is top tier foreigner level
actually even getting a- isn't too tough now, especially with tournaments.
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