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The Drought - It feels bad to play bad

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red_hq
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada450 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-28 03:28:59
October 28 2010 01:08 GMT
#1
So being burried in paper work since the start of the school year, I havent been able to fit in any ladder matches for a LONG time. So recently I've been 2v2ing with my buddy helping me dust the rust off (youd be suprised how hardf it is to play after you havent in nearly 2 months). After gaining some confidence that I was back to at least 500+ diamond range I played some games. Going 2-4

I dusted it off and thought well what do I excpect Ive been away for two months, I excpected to lose. Then today something dreadful happened, I was demoted T_T. all the games I played today I felt what is was like to play half decent and what I was playing was not half decent a big 0-9 your demoted to platinum message. Some of the games I was just steam rolled with superior macro, others I psy blocked myself more than twice and I knew what I was doing wrong as I did it, It felt awful.

The most three recent games stuck with me the most. PvP on Xel'naga. He early FE I new I should have chroned zealots and threw up more gates for pressure rather than just sitting back and teching, but even though I knew I suposed to pressure, I didn't. I was stomped I couldn't match his army numbers. Also and aside a pure stalker immortal army takes for ever to kill probes, I noticed this as I died.


Then it was ZvP on LT, fearting the zerg macro monster I ignorantly threw up a FE without a thinking to forge and cannon first, and then came the ling roach army. If I had thrown up a cannon in my front with a robo bay I would have been fine. (I scouted the roach warren). I cancled my nexus as the army approached just as warp tech finished, I was psy blocked. I threw up 2 pylons as fast as I could not thinking of my placement kicking myself a moment later for not putting them near the front. The zealots and sentries fought vialently against the ling roach army my pylon finished I warped in 2 stalkers and 2 sentrie enough to hold out and beofre they finished the pylon on the low ground collapsed andf so did my army of 4. GG

The final most humiliating one was TvP on the new map that is like metalopolis and twighlight fortress combined. Mass marine I socuted it and went sentry zealot. And then came the banshees. I held them off my obs finished and saw more on the way. And what did I make instead of phoenix? More stalkers, I just couldn't compete. GG


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Zvendetta
Profile Joined July 2010
United States321 Posts
October 28 2010 01:30 GMT
#2
Its ironic that the very thing preventing you from laddering has taken away your train of thought on TL
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24756 Posts
October 28 2010 02:04 GMT
#3
Getting demoted is no big deal. As you warmup again you'll go back up. It doesn't matter.

After a few wins it will start matching you up with diamond people even if you are in platinum anyway.
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