EPTAnyway, the games I had to go trough today were just so bad.
So I started at 980'ish or so, with the bonus pool not working I had to basicly get 2 wins in a row.
First game, ZvT on metal.
Banshee rush into hellion/tank/marine push, just stomped completely over him, since all these T's below 1k haven't realized yet that you need to expand before you are mined out in your main.
I don't even know anymore why the matchmaker lets me play these people, it aren't fun games for them, they aren't fun for me, and I learn nothing more then how to attackmove over a terran who is completely behind.
Second game, ZvP on Xel'naga caverns.
So I open up as usual, but for some reason there is just no drone-scout to be seen at all, so I decide to just go ahead and 14 pool 15 hatch since he won't be blocking it.
I get ling speed and +1 as usual
I kept my drone alive for a very long time, I basicly saw gate -> core -> delayed second gas (so my fast 4 gate alarm went off), -> gate -> twilight council.
So ye by that point I see him take his other gas, and a stalker kills off my drone.
So I kinda expect some 3gate push with a possibility of blink into a expo for the toss.
I mass up my lings, try to hunt stray drones/pylons, see nothing unusual with my OL.
But then suddenly he moves, tons and tons and tons of zealot with .... charge.
All I could think to myself was how the fuck did this happen. Turns out he just added a gate and all-in-ed me.
Like I couldn't get over how stupid it was, like why would anyone do something like that when they scout absolutely nothing nothing at all, and keeping in mind the zealot/wg nerf.
I can see it making some sense against like very fast hydra builds.
So i stall him a bit, to get even more lings out by that point, but ye his lot numbers were just to big (didn't even realize you could get that many mins on 1 base -_-)
So okay whatever, my lings decide to not help me at all and just wiggle around for the most part.
I leave, I predicted it wrong and I lost, but I just still had this typical feeling off
'how the fuck did I lose to that'
Next game:
ZvP on blistering sands.
I open up as usual, I see his drone coming in, but it doesn't move into my main, so I immediatly send out 2 drones to stop any pylon/cannon crap on my ramp.
I meanwhile my drone gets in his base, and yes yes a forge that is building.
So he decides to put a pylon in that small gap next to my ramp and cannon it. (dear god I hate probes, no matter what you do you just can't catch them ;_;)
He get's 2 cannons up, but ye, comes into my main, and I can't kill off his probe anymore because of the cannon's, so he starts pushing with cannon's/pylons
So I add spine crawlers, some roaches, stop him with 2 queens + a transfusion or 2 and expo.
So ofcourse he has put like 3 cannons in his choke + walled it with pylons and 2 cannons on his rocks.
Okay, let's start macro'ing it up.
a moment later, 2 voidrays come in, all I could think was Seriously?
I hold off his voidrays, get hydra's up, he tries to sneak expo's everywhere, I deny him the expo's, and then at the end just overrun him.
And then he types "Bg" and leaves.
Seriously? Like why wouldn't you even say that? Because you can't win by just cheesing and if that doesn't work try to surprise him with voidrays?
If your reading this, maybe actually try to win games by actuall skill, or if you do that don't go running around saying that it was a bad game, because it's your own fault.
And then I finally got 1k points, and it left me wondering what it actually means to finally reach that.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, in the past 30 or so ladder games I haven't learned anything special, I haven't improved a lot, I was "lucky" enough to just mainly get opponents who just do retarded stuff and I either crushed them, or I lost because I made a mistake
(and yes you could say that atleast now I won't lose to all that random/stupid stuff again)
To close this off, I really hope that the matchmaker starts giving me actuall games so I can really start working on good fundamentals and start working on the other bigger holes in my play.
Anyway, I was kinda happy to see the 4digit points for the first time, but I couldn't help but think how dissapointed I have been in my overall ladder games the last couple of days.
It almost felt like back when I was starting on iccup for the first time (learning the game for the first time) and all I ran into was all these crazy random stuff that d- players tend to do.
So I guess that by now if you had to compare the ranks, a d- on iccup would probably be 1k points by now.
