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Hello gamers and welcome to my blog!
This blog will be outlining my journey from the ultimate StarCraft 2 "noob", hopefully into the realms of real competitive gaming, and will outline how well I am progressing and through methods I find work best.
Before StarCraft 2 I had never really played Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games; I was more of an FPS and MMORPG player - FPS which I had played very competitively at an early age in my life (Medal of Honor: Allied Assault back in the days!)
Before I purchased SC2 I decided to install my copy of SC: Brood War which I have had sitting in a drawer for about 9 years! Needless to say I sucked at even beating the computer AI!!
This lead me to researching pro gaming in StarCraft, and how pro gamers play, their different styles, as well as generally researching the game and its mechanics. I quickly stumbled upon Liquipedia (http://www.liquipedia.net) - an extremely resourceful website ran by Team Liquid.
The site contains an astonishing amount of information about the first StarCraft - ranging from biographys of famous players, to different build orders for different races and different matchups (confused? we'll come onto that in a later post!)
And so this blog has been created - documenting my personal challenge, from being the complete anti-RTS player who really struggles at multi-tasking different units in a game whilst continuing to produce buildings and expand his base - into what hopefully will be a player who will be recognised within the StarCraft 2 community and who competes in various competitive tournaments!
Wish me luck!
  
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GL, but I think you might be underestimating the sequel to the most competitive video game ever so far a little bit. But coming from a competitive FPS game, you're above the normal WoW gamers (but still far behind sc1 players at RTS). I've done both and to me the level of skill and competition between bw and an fps is black and white. BW and soon sc2 are/will be way above anything else in terms of quantity of skilled players and quality of them. Again, good luck, you have a long way to go.
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Good luck man..it's a long, tough road to be a real competitive Starcraft player.
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oufff...from newbie to recognized player...
not impossible but it will take time and sweat
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I'll play and help you out!
I'm a 100 ELO platinum.
But I'm better than most idiots who play anyways.
Yes yes, I am definitely in the top 50% of all SC players.
PM me if you want to help~~
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Lol could this be a repeat of Kolll? little kid who got to B in a month? D: he got better in a month than i could in 5 years. T_T good luck.
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Thanks for the encouragement guys - slightly old post taken from my blogspot, i've decided to move it over to here as it's more active/more traffic!
I'm definitely not one to give up, in terms of dedication, I used to be for example known as close to "korean" for my MMO dedication - often playing 20 hour days with 4 hours sleep on new releases to be ahead of the game - my MMO days were spent mostly playing with KoS (knightsofshadow.org) but MMO doesnt really correlate to SC..
I'm hoping that my dedication can bring me up to speed with RTS pretty quickly, I have already put in ALOT of hours reading / watching / listening to various information sources about the fundamentals of the game, counters, BOs etc etc and now just have to translate this knowledge into execution - the more difficult part I find!
As for a slight background on my FPS time, I spent alot of time 5-6 years ago on medal of honor allied assault, playing on Clanbase, being part of clans regularly winning their Cups and being on top of their ladders - unfortunately there was no real progression from there. This does however show my previous competitive edge, and I hope that can translate into a winning mentality for SC2 :-)
Currently spending many hours at work (hehe :p) playing SC:BW on my MacBook, as I figure getting the fundamentals down on this should aid me with SC2 - and playing SC:BW is imo better than playing no RTS at all - it's also much better than doing my work ^_^
Will keep everyone updated!
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It's actually easier than one may think in order to become pretty good at SC2. I came from no RTS background (WoW + League of Legends), and went straight to platinum in the beta (when plat was the highest league just from watching Day[9] and playing against the AI. Now I'm rated 1000 in diamond and am starting to play against the real players.
Just play a lot, watch most of your own replays, and keep studying VODs. I found it easiest to start with one build for each matchup, then adjust it to account for different things you lost to. From there you learn the basics and can branch out to more and more strategies.
Anyway, good luck.
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