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seanisgrand
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1039 Posts
November 02 2010 13:38 GMT
#21
My one friend who is decent in comparison to the others has made platinum. When he has issues he asks me what he should do so I try and advise him to use liquipedia and watch replays (his own and high-level ones) and watch Day9. Needless to say he never does any of these things and then whines when he gets stomped by players with actual gameplans.

The other day he asked me what to do in TvP and I suggested he try using ghosts. 20 minutes later he comes back and tells me that ghosts were crap and he has no idea why I would suggest them. The problem was.....HE MASSED GHOSTS.

FML
This is well below quality expected of a post in any forum. -Empyrean
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32157 Posts
November 02 2010 13:52 GMT
#22
On November 02 2010 17:44 heyoka wrote:
I suspect everyone who consistently spends time on TL has this problem.

Pretty much. I don't mind doing it every now and then, but lordy would I like a privacy mode so I can just ignore people and play
PROFESSIONAL GAMER - SEND ME OFFERS TO JOIN YOUR TEAM - USA USA USA
Scorcher2k
Profile Joined November 2009
United States802 Posts
November 02 2010 14:02 GMT
#23
So do some 1v1s between you guys while the others watch and they can learn.
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
November 02 2010 14:54 GMT
#24
On November 02 2010 17:44 heyoka wrote:
I suspect everyone who consistently spends time on TL has this problem.

Why did I not understood this earlier?
Now I get it LOL and look back at the time of my previous post. Epic fail understanding on my part :D

But I did try to give the same point although I worded it in another way :p
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
TryThis
Profile Joined February 2007
Canada1522 Posts
November 02 2010 14:57 GMT
#25
Im the same way. Everyone i know IRL is god awful. Except my one buddy who's fairly high plat. He gets really frustrated though. Especially when we 1v1 and i beat him with my off races. Even in 2v2 which i just play for fun, but since he and i got into diamond he takes it seriously.
Ive met one person outside of LAN events who was better then me at brood war. He told me at a party or was A- iccup and in ToT. Naturally i knew he was full of shit. I never called him on it, looking back i kinda wish i had, its not like i talked with him much anyways
Dwell
NukeTheBunnys
Profile Joined July 2010
United States1004 Posts
November 02 2010 15:23 GMT
#26
My real life friends arn't bad, but their friends are fucking god awful. When ever they are on they want to do 3s and 4s and it makes me cry. Simple solution, I just refuse to play anything but 1s and 2 arranged 2s.
When you play the game of drones you win or you die.
jjun212
Profile Joined December 2004
Canada2208 Posts
November 02 2010 15:33 GMT
#27
lol

i remember when i used to spend days watching FPVOD, replays and reading strategies on broodwar and staying up late to play with koreans on west server to be good.

i even learned korean to join a korean clan. i managed to get into 2. [M2M] and BaDa)

[M2M] disbanded before 2 of our members went on to be progamers. you may know one of them as u-238[gnh]. he joined [gnh] after m2m disbanded.

i wasn't the BEST player around but i managed to hold my own against the higher end korean players on west server.

long story short.

my friend who used to play money maps on broodwar is 2-0 against me in sc2 lolllllll

i dont know. i just cant beat him. but thats probably because i haven't read a single strategy or watched a single replay or FPVOD or watched a day9 daily.

i'm just playing off intuition. i'm diamond in everything except 1v1 which is silver!

to be fair though; i guess my life has more important priorities when you get older and when my aim is "not" to become a competitive gamer.
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
November 02 2010 15:57 GMT
#28
Just tell them that they're bad and you don't really want to play ranked games with them. That's what I do. If you play unranked games with your friends, though, it's still fun and it's also extremely easy. I've played 3v3s and 4v4s in customs where I basically killed all four opponents by myself.
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Enervate
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1769 Posts
November 02 2010 16:08 GMT
#29
Eventually, you should get placed into a low league. I have a bunch of bronze-gold friends and I just offrace and try funny strats with them in the lower leagues. Basicallly the entire time, I just talk with them and sometimes the other team. Don't take the games too seriously and just pretend like you're hanging out with them. Losing really shouldn't matter as your points are separate for each team. I play 2v2 on a much higher level with another diamond friend, and I appreciate both.

But if you don't really like them irl, just dodge lol.
seanisgrand
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1039 Posts
November 02 2010 16:38 GMT
#30
On November 03 2010 00:33 jjun212 wrote:
lol

i remember when i used to spend days watching FPVOD, replays and reading strategies on broodwar and staying up late to play with koreans on west server to be good.

i even learned korean to join a korean clan. i managed to get into 2. [M2M] and BaDa)

[M2M] disbanded before 2 of our members went on to be progamers. you may know one of them as u-238[gnh]. he joined [gnh] after m2m disbanded.

i wasn't the BEST player around but i managed to hold my own against the higher end korean players on west server.

long story short.

my friend who used to play money maps on broodwar is 2-0 against me in sc2 lolllllll

i dont know. i just cant beat him. but thats probably because i haven't read a single strategy or watched a single replay or FPVOD or watched a day9 daily.

i'm just playing off intuition. i'm diamond in everything except 1v1 which is silver!

to be fair though; i guess my life has more important priorities when you get older and when my aim is "not" to become a competitive gamer.


Read the bolded, then read your sig. Perfect.

This is well below quality expected of a post in any forum. -Empyrean
Leeferickson
Profile Joined May 2010
United States20 Posts
November 02 2010 16:39 GMT
#31
I was introduced to BW by my highschool friends, and went to a few LANs at my friends house. Theres a group of about 5 of us who play Gold and above, myself im usually up top 20 in Gold, my friend is plat, another mid gold, mid gold, and one just bought the game and he played in beta with us. I graduated this last year and am attending a community college, but i have an old friend whos going to Brown, and he has a Korean roommate....FFFUUUUUUU is he good lol.
DT's are totally better than cloaked Banshee's.... not
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-11-02 17:23:59
November 02 2010 17:23 GMT
#32
Scrubicane

My roommate (who has been a good friend of mine for 8+ years) and another friend play sc2 and are actually pretty decent. Both high gold...could probably hit plat if they laddered 1's more but they both like 2v2/3v3/4v4 more which is fine. Proudest moments in recent history is both of them linking me tl threads on separate occasions...seeing www.teamliquid.net... in a link from a friend...so much happiness.

Edit: also hurricane is a scrub.
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