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Holy crap, I beat someone?

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Fenneth
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia354 Posts
December 02 2009 16:24 GMT
#1
Hi everyone. I've been an on again/off again Starcraft fan for a fairly long time now, but I haven't ever really tried to play the game for myself (besides one abortive attempt). I'm now motivated to really try to learn the game and get at least moderately good.. hopefully getting to C- on iccup by the end of the year (reasonable goal?)

So I started today, watched a couple of replays to get a vague idea of build orders and then jumped in.. and got crushed, obviously.

But after a few games getting warmed up I actually beat a D+ player and felt like I wasn't completely helpless for the first time, which is nice. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could give the replay a quick look and tell me which areas of my game I need to work on most urgently.

http://www.repdepot.net/replay.php?id=25563

Thanks :-)

win8282
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)454 Posts
December 02 2009 16:29 GMT
#2
Mmm.. if you want advice on strategy and BOs, this is not the right forum.

However, contratz! It feels good to be on the W column,eh?
Fenneth
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia354 Posts
December 02 2009 16:33 GMT
#3
On December 03 2009 01:29 win8282 wrote:
Mmm.. if you want advice on strategy and BOs, this is not the right forum.

However, contratz! It feels good to be on the W column,eh?


Well, it was more of a lame brag than anything, and I didn't think it would be appreciated in a strategy forum. But it would be nice if someone could have a look anyway Hope it's not too rude to ask.

And thanks :-)
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
December 02 2009 16:34 GMT
#4
It always feels good beating that guy higher ranked than you
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
StarN
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2587 Posts
December 02 2009 16:36 GMT
#5
*Make your gate at 10 not 11

Keep trying man, don't be satisfied with this victory. I hope you get C-
Retired BW Noob
ilovezil
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States4143 Posts
December 02 2009 16:42 GMT
#6
Do what works best for you. Starcraft, like any other activity, involves a rigorous learning process. If you learn well by watching replays and mimicking a particular player's style, go for it. I personally learned using this method and I was able to climb up to C- pretty fast (with a 10+ pt difference to C) on pgtour back in the days. I even randomed instead of sticking to a specific race; if you choose one out of the three paths, you'll learn much faster and more efficiently.

konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66359 Posts
December 02 2009 16:45 GMT
#7
i thought this blog was going to be about you beating someone up after getting drunk at a bar and finding it out much later after the cops arrive at your house
POGGERS
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
December 02 2009 16:47 GMT
#8
Just keep at it... I wouldn't get overzealous with this, just keep working at it and check out the livestreams of people playing on here all the time. Gl and hope you get C-
ToyotaDemon
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia150 Posts
December 02 2009 16:49 GMT
#9
Just take a look at liquipedia and check out the various builds and stuff for protoss, practice them until you can execute them easily and then head onto iccup and own it up to C- EZ ;D

The biggest problem with D level players is almost always macro so yeah just work on that (comes with practicing the builds) and you'll be C- within a month or 2 i reckon.

Also that guy could of killed you while you were waiting for your reaver to build but instead he camped and expanded for some reason on 4 gates, very interesting build dt > 4 gates > robo > expo :s guess he wanted a bit of everything ;D guess you got lucky as well = ] but thats all part of the game.
rawr
win8282
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Korea (South)454 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-02 16:59:30
December 02 2009 16:58 GMT
#10
On December 03 2009 01:45 konadora wrote:
i thought this blog was going to be about you beating someone up after getting drunk at a bar and finding it out much later after the cops arrive at your house


You have a tendency for violence kona
eXigent.
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada2419 Posts
December 02 2009 17:04 GMT
#11
Wow that D+ player only had 78APM rofl. Goes to show how slow a protoss can be and still gain victories haha
BloodDrunK
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bangladesh2767 Posts
December 02 2009 17:14 GMT
#12
On December 03 2009 02:04 eXigent. wrote:
Wow that D+ player only had 78APM rofl. Goes to show how slow a protoss can be and still gain victories haha

you really don't need to be that fast as a D+ player especially as a protoss.
You have the power to create your own destiny.
FuDDx *
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States5015 Posts
December 02 2009 18:38 GMT
#13
I am slow as slime and hover around d+ of course I suck but I love the game.

It wasnt of you beating me was it haha its possible.
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