road to top200 LA update

sekishusai

80 Posts

December 12 2010 20:39 GMT

Ok so here's another update on my journey to the top200 in the LA server. First of all I might say that I met a wall. I was on sick 'run good' beating 2000-2500 rated opponents and my win/loss record was more than good for some time. it was like:

day5 - 23/8
day6 - 31/13
da9 - 42/24

following the pattern you'll notice that it's steadily getting worse. It's currently 43/28, which means that ever since day5 (23/8) I went on a 20/20 win/loss period. Today I'm 1/4 and I called it a day already. Not because of the 1/4, but because I feel mentally drained out. I've been sleeping only 5 hours a day for the past two months. I'm living in a city which I hate and my pastime is surfing the internet/playing sc2 on my spare time. I work 8h/day with civil aviation. So yeah, I feel like most of my losses today came because my mind is on a currently state of numbness. It's like I used some drugs but I obviously didn't. It's a weird feeling and I've never felt this way before, I feel kinda dizzy and definitely slow when doing daily stuff (even playing games). Probably because I've never denied myself so much sleep time for such a long period.

Someone told me I should upload some pics to make the blog more visual, so here it goes:

Also, SC2 ranks statistics (http://sc2ranks.com/team/8430401):

You can see from my graph how slower my progress became after I became diamond. And that's not necessarily because I'm now facing tougher opponents, because I've been facing and beating 2000 diamond players since I was in platinum league. Also, gaming wise, early games from terrans have been bugging me off greatly. I was caught offguard a couple times, then I thought I should counter it with roaches, but the terran followed it up with marines and tanks. He sieged his tanks under my ramp and put walked in with marines and would retreat close to the tanks every time i'd try to hit him. I asked a friend and he advised me to defend hellions with speed lings + cralers. I tried to do this today, but I forgot the crawlers (!) and I was bit late when upgrading the lings. Yeah I still need more matches to figure out the timing for that.

About the wall above mentioned (early in the 1st paragraph), it's because I was on such a good run early in the ladder that my rate is stuck at 600-700. most of the guys I'm meeting are 1500-1800 and I'm favored against them. Sometimes I lose sometimes I win. Same with guys with 2000 rating. So I feel like it will take a loooooong loooooooong time for me to climb up the rankings because any loss will mean losing 15-20 points, whereas some wins will only earn me 8 or 14

Anyway I think now my MMR will drop a bit and then I'll probably be even when I face people who are less favored than me right now.

BTW I noticed a HUGE improvement in my game after I started this run, even after only 71 games. I know the game much more right now, so I can't imagine how much better I'll be after a couple hundred games. I don't have a lot of time for that, though. 2011 will be a bad year for me. I'm gonna have to study soo much, so I'm going to step away from the game. Or play only on weekends, something like that. This is like my final stand (for now), pretty much only to prove to myself that "if I want to, I can do it".

In addition, yesterday I played a brazilian tournament called Fortnightly. I ended up losing in the R8 after passing 3 rounds. My 2nd Round opponent was BlackMaster from SCBW. If you don't know him, he went to WCG in 2004 or 05 and is considered one of the best SC2 brazilian players. He clearly underestimated me in this game and tried to close my ramp with pylons. I denied it and he was way behind. You can download the replay here if you want to:

http://www.mysc2.com.br/index.php?mod=replays&action=view&id=34

Thank you for reading. If you like women, I think you deserve to see this (NSFW - it's just one pic, don't get overexcited)

edit- i found a youtube video! :D:

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I think her name is Mariana Davalos. She has a sister who is as hot as her, so maybe just google Davalos Colombia and maybe you will find more stuff from her and her sister! Jesus she's so hot, take a look at her ass! NHAM NHAM!!