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I get bad anxiety before and during any (1v1 ranked in specific) games in SC2. 
It'll take me days to get "prepared" mentally to play a Stacraft 2 game, and when I eventually play it, my heart rate will shoot through the roof, my hands will shake, and if I play any more then a few games I start to feel real sick.
I'm not a terrible player either who gets face-rolled (I'm in the platinum league), I just cant bring myself to play enough games, and when I do, I'm too busy racing mentally to focus on what's even going on. I'll end up forgetting basic build-order stuff and supply-block myself way too many times; stuff I normally don't forget when I'm playing against a friend/computer.
I know there was a thread on the battle.net forums about this(here), though I thought about posting it here to see if anyone had similar experiences to me, or any suggestions.
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Did it happen in BW?
Don't take it so seriously. It's only beta...
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On April 18 2010 10:23 Atom Cannister wrote:
Did it happen in BW?
Don't take it so seriously. It's only beta...
Nope, didn't really play BW much other then casual games with friends. I try not to take it seriously, though it all comes rushing back as soon as I eventually get into a game.
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Haha. that's weird. it's the complete opposite with me!
I got nervous before any SCBW games but i'm completely calm before any SC2 game.
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do u have an anxiety disorder or anything? this sounds pretty unnatural.
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Dunno my anxiety went way down compared to BW, especially in TvT and TvZ, since SC2 is so much less demanding mechanically, I'm able to beat players that would have raped me silly on Iccup with strategy and good game sense.
Before I'd feel anxiety when my fingers didn't have the speed to do everything I needed (as terran), but now I can pretty much do 99% of what I want, so I feel more confident. That means when I lose, it's because I got outplayed by a better player and not by some twitchy asian 14 year old or a 1a2a3a toss.
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If you lose you are learning the game. If you win all the time, you are playing the wrong people. Just chill out, drink a beer and enjoy life/the game. Its fun, if you don't take it too serious, you will get better etc :-)!
Check me out, I'm playing for mTw Mindfactory and well, I'm doing gaming professional so I take the game really serious, but its just troublesome if you can't relax. Try to have fun and be focussed 
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On April 18 2010 10:29 FyRe_DragOn wrote:
do u have an anxiety disorder or anything? this sounds pretty unnatural.
Not that I know of. Only time this ever occurs is before games, though it used to happen me to a lesser effect before soccer games when I used to play.
On April 18 2010 10:31 G.s)NarutO wrote:
If you lose you are learning the game. If you win all the time, you are playing the wrong people. Just chill out, drink a beer and enjoy life/the game. Its fun, if you don't take it too serious, you will get better etc :-)!
Yeah, it's just frustrating sometimes because I feel at least a portion of my losses are a result of me forgetting something like getting supply blocked 3 times in a row or forgetting about stim until 15-minutes late in a TvT. The effect seems to gradually get worse the more games I play, and the outcome of the games doesn't really have a huge impact on me.
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On April 18 2010 10:30 Sadistx wrote:
Dunno my anxiety went way down compared to BW, especially in TvT and TvZ, since SC2 is so much less demanding mechanically, I'm able to beat players that would have raped me silly on Iccup with strategy and good game sense.
Before I'd feel anxiety when my fingers didn't have the speed to do everything I needed (as terran), but now I can pretty much do 99% of what I want, so I feel more confident. That means when I lose, it's because I got outplayed by a better player and not by some twitchy asian 14 year old or a 1a2a3a toss.
?? Herro
Edit: On a seriosu note, I've played games just shaking the entireeee time, it's pretty weird. Feer~~~
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I remember I use to get really nervous when playing iccup, but in sc2 I like to screw around a lot so I'm a lot calmer.
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On April 18 2010 10:30 Sadistx wrote:
Dunno my anxiety went way down compared to BW, especially in TvT and TvZ, since SC2 is so much less demanding mechanically, I'm able to beat players that would have raped me silly on Iccup with strategy and good game sense.
Before I'd feel anxiety when my fingers didn't have the speed to do everything I needed (as terran), but now I can pretty much do 99% of what I want, so I feel more confident. That means when I lose, it's because I got outplayed by a better player and not by some twitchy asian 14 year old or a 1a2a3a toss.
I feel the same way. Whenever I played bw it felt like there was some crazy sense of urgency with the game. In SC2 i dont feel that at all and feel like i can react to all the stuff i see
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On April 18 2010 10:29 b3h47pte wrote:
Haha. that's weird. it's the complete opposite with me!
I got nervous before any SCBW games but i'm completely calm before any SC2 game.
Well since OP never played BW on a high competitive level, I guess it's normal. OP is not yet "Spartan" enough to kick ass in online ladder.
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Doesn't sound like you really have fun playing. I sort of recently accepted that although SC/SC2 is really interesting and I like watching it, playing it really isn't fun to me. Not saying this is how you feel but if you're not having fun bottom line, why play it.
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On April 18 2010 10:49 lolaloc wrote:
Well since OP never played BW on a high competitive level, I guess it's normal. OP is not yet "Spartan" enough to kick ass in online ladder.
Indeed I am far from "Spartan" haha.
On April 18 2010 10:50 Bebop07 wrote:
Doesn't sound like you really have fun playing. I sort of recently accepted that although SC/SC2 is really interesting and I like watching it, playing it really isn't fun to me. Not saying this is how you feel but if you're not having fun bottom line, why play it.
Well I took a week~ break from playing any matches (couldn't really bring myself to play any), and I figured I'd have a lot more fun once my friends got beta keys. However, none of them (except me) have yet to get any and I while do enjoy playing the game, the anxiety just makes it a lot less fun.
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omg this used to happen to me in brood war all the time. then i started playing alot more and now i can usually play just fine. my heartbeat still goes up a little bit though.
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I'm kind of the same way. My hands definitely don't shake but I find playing mentally taxing, and I find it hard to chain more than a few games at a time. This halts my improvement by a really really really really huge amount - I have a good amount of time to play SC2, but mentally I just can't take it. Even when I get way ahead in a game that i can't possibly lose and my opponent should probably GG, i'm still anxious as fuck thinking i'll find some way to lose.
I suppose that this game can do that to people just goes to show how amazingly deep it is.
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I cant say that I've ever been nervous, except when Im playing in a streamed tournament or something, even then I stay pretty even keeled...
The only thing I can say to relate to this is sometimes when I play a really heated awesomely epic game, I notice I sweat, which is a good thing because everytime I've checked the reps where I sweat, I play amazingly well... I wish I knew how to just flip the switch but I cant T_T
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I used to get chills when I first ventured into learning 1v1s in like 1999, lol way back when. Especially when you came from 2v2 or whatever you were playing b4 that, it was scary being on your own, relying on yourself. It's normal flight or flight.
Relax and realize once you get good, you're gonna be thinking, "in what way will I destroy the fuck out of this guy?"
just focus on improving something every game, not so much worrying about winning.
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i think day[9] said it best. play against the race not the player. do your build order and execute it.
if you do that it takes a lot of pressure off the games.
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