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Arcane
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada39 Posts
December 12 2010 03:26 GMT
#1
So I got into starcraft just recently, having played through the beta on my friend's account. It was my first real experpience into RTS games (unless you count DBZ tribby in War3, I was wicked at it), and I was the kinda nooby who was losing to easy computer. It was humbling and annoying and I wanted to get good (at least so I could beat a computer)

Fast forward a few months and I'm playing like nonstop all the way from comp fodder to computer stomping pro gosu. When retail releases I get ranked into gold! :O The highest I've ever been ranked before! I'm super excited and even more motivated to play...but that's until

DUN DUN DUH!!!!

School.

Im a first year in a ridiculously intense program (theatre production, WAY harder then it sounds like), and so I quickly lose all free time to do anything that makes me smile. That includes starcraft Any free time I do have ends up in me doing homework which is a lot less fun then it sounds.

So essentially for the past 2-3 months I've played maybe a handful of ladder matches, a few of the custom maps, and practise with a few friends (including teachy a friend who is completely new to the game as well)

But TODAY! I had some free time. Even more so, I had the will to ladder (which I had been avoiding. The last ladder session I went on was a long losing streak which crippled my confidence).

To make a long story short, I play my first ladder match in what feels like forever and get a terran who surprise surprise goes for a marine scv all in. The game lasts maybe 8 minutes before he says gg and compliments me on my drone micro.

I WON! :O

And the icing on the cake is. With that one game, I got promoted to platinum! :D

Diamond here I come!

...When school doesn't get in the way...

***
"%$%#ING A-BUTTON!" - JP McDaniel
darklordjac
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada2231 Posts
December 12 2010 03:29 GMT
#2
Well congrats on platinum.
Advocado
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Denmark994 Posts
December 12 2010 03:41 GMT
#3
Drone micro! =) Upload!

I play a few matches a day and just encountered a mass marine terran yesterday. Got steamrolled hard.

glhf!
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Servius_Fulvius
Profile Joined August 2009
United States947 Posts
December 12 2010 04:20 GMT
#4
When I did my placement matches I beat a terran with a 5RR. When I was wrecking his scv line he thanked me for being the first person to beat them in a while!

I know what you mean with a busy program. I have a number of friends in the theater program (one in management, one in costume design, and two in musical theater). Needless to say none of them had an ounce of free time during regular semesters.

That's not to say I'm leisurely sitting around either. I just finished my first semester on engineering grad school! I have about 50 games to my name and right around the end I both learned how to macro like a beast AND got demoted to gold. Maybe I'll run into you on the ladder during break
CrazyF1r3f0x
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States2120 Posts
December 12 2010 06:02 GMT
#5
On December 12 2010 12:41 Advocado wrote:
Drone micro! =) Upload!

Yeah, Drone micro sounds gosu.
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9109 Posts
December 12 2010 07:51 GMT
#6
That is pretty cool that on your first game back you got promoted. It's additionally cool that he complimented you for real and wasn't just stalling for his attempted sneaky comeback or something heh.
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