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duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
November 23 2009 23:14 GMT
#1
Man I know this accomplishment is really trivial for a lot of people but I am really happy to finally hit C-!

Last season I got to 2800 or 2900 three or four times but hit losing streaks a few times and ended the season at like 2400 or something. Terran is really punishing! Started off this season with a teeerrible record and thought I was in big trouble even getting a steady D+...
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/dthoms.html

So then I started playing on my [pu] account (gogo Princeton team) and the major difference was instead of playing to win I started playing to get better. I learned a few things:

1) At the low levels, your best bet at getting better is to play a robust build order and get the build and timings closer and closer to perfect...this is easier to do on a csl team than on iccup =).

2) Playing cheesy or risky build orders screws you in a lot of ways. For one, your macro is not going to get as much exercise so if the game goes to late game, you will be in worse shape. It's also bad practice to place the outcome of the game on one moment of micro (hello 2fac)...very frustrating when you lose, you don't get better when you win. aaalso, if you have to play a boX at a lan or something, you want multiple solid openings, or amazing standard play.

3) Gretorp is a God of Starcraft. =) <3

Here's the big news:
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/[pu]dthoms.html

Big thanks to luckyfool for your advice, gretorp for the practice sessions and map analysis, and [pu]daisy and [pu]agony for really helping me get my TvP and TvZ down.
Oh and petzergling's TvZ guide was huge for me. Thanks!

funky squaredance funky squaredance funky squaredance
[DUF]MethodMan
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany1716 Posts
November 23 2009 23:20 GMT
#2
thats a lot of games
kOre
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada3642 Posts
November 23 2009 23:22 GMT
#3
Hey you beat PsyonicReaver ... he was once a B- lol

Nice work on the C-, I'm 1 game away from it too! :D
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duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
November 23 2009 23:27 GMT
#4
On November 24 2009 08:22 kOre wrote:
Hey you beat PsyonicReaver ... he was once a B- lol

lolol i didnt know that...we've played two games on the ladder, both on blue storm
first is on my dthoms acct, tvt and he says "i'm trying out terran for a while" and then inbase 2raxes me >.<
so naturally when i see him in a game on blue storm i proxybbs his protoss, and since he went with a 2gate proxy himself it was instant win =D
funky squaredance funky squaredance funky squaredance
KP_CollectoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States744 Posts
November 23 2009 23:29 GMT
#5
Congrats, can you give a but more info on breaking into C- as Terran? I've only done it once so any help would be greatly appreciated...
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YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
November 23 2009 23:33 GMT
#6
On November 24 2009 08:22 kOre wrote:
Hey you beat PsyonicReaver ... he was once a B- lol

impossible, someone must of played on his account.
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
November 23 2009 23:34 GMT
#7
congrats mate!
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
kOre
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada3642 Posts
November 23 2009 23:35 GMT
#8
Sorry, he was a B in Season 11. He's practicing Terran a lot lately but his main is Protoss.
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duckett
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States589 Posts
November 23 2009 23:43 GMT
#9
On November 24 2009 08:29 KP_CollectoR wrote:
Congrats, can you give a but more info on breaking into C- as Terran? I've only done it once so any help would be greatly appreciated...


I played a lot of D+ T games where I would be a little bitch and not play people who were 2800 or 2900 and play people who made D/D+ games who were D, etcetc, basically not having the stones to play better players more often. Once I got over that and started playing D+ games and not dodging (except for my game against psyonic), I got better faster.

Also, playing a friend when both of you basically know each other's build orders and just refine your timings and macro is very helpful. This is what I did with daisy and agony at princeton csl practice a lot =D. I'm the only terran >.<

Single player is also highly advisable but really boring =/
funky squaredance funky squaredance funky squaredance
Chaos
Profile Joined July 2009
United States772 Posts
November 24 2009 01:21 GMT
#10
Nice work! :D
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EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2801 Posts
November 24 2009 02:42 GMT
#11
wow man congrats
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
November 24 2009 02:56 GMT
#12
hahah Duckett u played a couple games vs Brent? (psyonicreaver) Hehehe sounds like a couple cheesy good ones.

gratz on C-
d3_crescentia
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States4054 Posts
November 24 2009 03:37 GMT
#13
congratulations!

I just hit D+ too but I don't know if I can keep it for very long ^_^
once, not long ago, there was a moon here
hazelynut
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States2195 Posts
November 24 2009 03:51 GMT
#14
congrats!

you gonna lead the csl team when we're all in the real world, right right?
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