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Meapak_Ziphh
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States6786 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-03 20:37:34
October 03 2010 20:36 GMT
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I’d like to start my blog today with a brief rant. So about three weeks ago a real life and I friend decided to play some 2v2. To our surprise we went four and one in our placement matches. However this is what had happened, our first game we won because our opponents sucked bad enough that I was able to carry my friend pretty much the entire game. The next two games our opponents discd, our fourth game we got killed by people who were WAY better than us, and our fifth game we both zealot rushed just to get it over with. Now comes the weird stuff, we’re place in the gold league even though I’m in silver and he’s in bronze. Our record is four and one which puts us in the top ten percent of the division we’re in. We proceed to drop the next twenty some games in a row, we lose when we were favored, we lose when we were not favored, we lose when teams were even. We are NOT good enough for gold league; it’s almost comical in a way. At first we didn’t really mind, but after losing so many games in a row it starts to get frustrating. We don’t care about our rank but we just wanna win sometimes. Nothing would make us feel better than to get demoted, but the cruel world must enjoy our suffering because no matter how badly we do we’re still in gold. We’ve even thought about just entering games and gging to try and get demoted but all we wanna do is play the game, we don’t want to resort to gimmicks to get into a more appropriate league. TL I’m sorry if this didn’t make much sense but for my friend and I it’s as frustrating as hell.

Anyway yesterday I downloaded ICCup, I don’t really know what prompted me but I’m glad I did. I’m just gonna talk briefly about my ICCup experience. I have NO idea how ICCup works so I just went in and joined a game. I’ll pause briefly now to remind everyone of my BW experience, I got it about a year ago at the urging of my friends, I pretty quickly got better than them simply by massing carriers (a good skill toi have) after playing sc2 beta I realized that massing units was not a really good strategy so I became even more deadly against my friends because I would beat them with real strategy.
Fast forward to last night and my first ICCup game. I was totally out classed, every single aspect of the game I was beaten handily. But you know what? I LOVED every single second of it, the game lasted about 30 minutes, I got up to three bases, multiple battles occurred (as opposed to sc2 where you have one big battle and it’s over). Since my computer could handle the graphics I was able to micro just a little bit, I made sure not to trap my zealots behind my dragoons, I found my opponents army and tried to do a pincer attack (which failed). I killed an expansion (he killed multiple expansions). He reaver dropped me several times, but you know what, even as my probes were dying all I could think was “man this is FANTASTIC”. After the game I opened up the replay analyzer, man oh man I was in heaven. The sheer amount of information was amazing. Unlike sc2 replays, I could clearly see how and why my opponent had beaten me. I spent thirty or forty minutes pouring over every single stat. Watching the replay and looking at the analysis I realized something quite amazing, if I played like this in sc2 I’d be in gold easy, the skill level difference is astounding, my opponent averaged 117 VAPM, he’d probably be in platinum if he played sc2. Speaking of apm, mine almost doubled from sc2; I went from thirty ish to almost sixty. To sum up my ICCup experience I now understand why people hold BW in such high regard, overnight BW went from an outstanding game to a form of art.
Now for some random bloggy stuff. I played portal for the first time at a friend’s house, it’s actually I really good game. Normally I suck at puzzle games but portal kept me entertained for a while. Playing portal reminded me of this funny video, if you're at work I'd put some headphones in before watching as the language might get rough depending on your boss


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FC.Strike
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States621 Posts
October 03 2010 20:44 GMT
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Addressing your concern with demotion (or reclassification as Blizzard calls it) you won't actually be demoted until your win/loss ratio begins to stabilize a little bit.

I was curious as to how the promotion/demotion system worked, so I chain lost games on my Diamond account. Turns out after losing 40+ in a row, the system demoted me directly from diamond to bronze.

If you think you're way WAY outmatched, it might be a good idea to join and leave like 5-10 games just to get more evenly matched opponents.
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Impervious
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada4199 Posts
October 03 2010 21:01 GMT
#3
I'm not a great BW player by any means. TBH, I'm not even sure if I could hit C- right now..... But during my placement games, I was fucking with my opponents (lol at about 20 nukes in one TvP). And I was disappointed when I was placed in platinum (considering one of the games was against a plat player). It took like 20 games to get moved up, and I went something like 17-3 before that happened.....

Then I switched to Z, and now I'm back with a 50% win ratio..... Still diamond, but yea.....

BW is a piece of art. And the skill difference required in the two games is astounding.
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