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Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-31 02:21:39
December 31 2010 02:19 GMT
#1
So in early release because I had beta I did ok as random. Without much BO stuff. Copying builds. Winning as terran, sometimes as toss, and losing as zergie. Then I got demoted. qq

Then I heard some podcast talking about race choosing and about how it's ridiculously difficult to be proficient at everything

Finally, upon deciding upon protoss because

1) NoNy/Tyler is awesome
2) Incontrol is awesome
3) HuK is awesome
4) Response is awesome
5) It's cool

I went to work. Started opening with standard builds. 1 gate fe against terran, and four gate against toss lol. And some sort of undefined build vs zerg

Then along came FragKrag who helped me with all three builds.

So I've only played games when my parents haven't been watching, but I've played a fair few in the last three days. And with qutie a lot of help from FragKrag, I went from playing people in gold league, to people that are around 2k diamond. Still, a day passed and even though my record was going batshit crazy (11-3) I still wouldnt' get promoted. I lost a game, then won a game, and then...

[image loading]

WOOT

I'm quite excited now. Special thanks to FragKrag, Day9 for epic dailies, a zerg that fragkrag got stomped by but at least let me copy a protoss build order, vile gaming for letting me watch some practice games, and incontrol for his coaching vods. (and for tolerating my qqing in blogs)


*
iGrok
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5142 Posts
December 31 2010 02:28 GMT
#2
Congrats Froadac! Glad to see something going right for you. Just build on this success, man - #1 in your division is next!
MOTM | Stim.tv | TL Mafia | Fantasy Fighting! | SNSD
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
December 31 2010 02:31 GMT
#3
On December 31 2010 11:28 iGrok wrote:
Congrats Froadac! Glad to see something going right for you. Just build on this success, man - #1 in your division is next!

Lol. Don't ahve anywhere near the time. Still, thanks
Imbu
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States903 Posts
December 31 2010 02:34 GMT
#4
Congrats! Getting into Diamond was one of my happiest days XD I had been waiting forever to get there and it just never seemed to happen. I remember even going on a 12 game win streak, each time expecting that the next game would surely move me up, but it never came.

I like your quote by the way . If only more people listened to that.
@DreamingBird
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
December 31 2010 03:14 GMT
#5
lol. What quote?
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12247 Posts
December 31 2010 03:18 GMT
#6
You wouldn't happen to know the exact rating you had before and after your promotion, would you?
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Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-31 03:21:23
December 31 2010 03:19 GMT
#7
On December 31 2010 12:18 Excalibur_Z wrote:
You wouldn't happen to know the exact rating you had before and after your promotion, would you?

Yes I would. Let me get it in one sec. I screenshotted before promotion, and i haven't played since.

2330 before, but not 100% sure. Darned close to that though.

2176 exact after
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11563 Posts
December 31 2010 03:20 GMT
#8
excalibur_z straight to bsns

congrats Froadac :>
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12247 Posts
December 31 2010 03:23 GMT
#9
On December 31 2010 12:19 Froadac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2010 12:18 Excalibur_Z wrote:
You wouldn't happen to know the exact rating you had before and after your promotion, would you?

Yes I would. Let me get it in one sec. I screenshotted before promotion, and i haven't played since.

2330 before, but not 100% sure. Darned close to that though.

2176 exact after


You screenshotted before promotion but you're not sure? :O
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Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
December 31 2010 03:28 GMT
#10
On December 31 2010 12:23 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 31 2010 12:19 Froadac wrote:
On December 31 2010 12:18 Excalibur_Z wrote:
You wouldn't happen to know the exact rating you had before and after your promotion, would you?

Yes I would. Let me get it in one sec. I screenshotted before promotion, and i haven't played since.

2330 before, but not 100% sure. Darned close to that though.

2176 exact after


You screenshotted before promotion but you're not sure? :O

A couple games before. I didn't realize this. I lost one, won one. I think it was -13+13.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12247 Posts
December 31 2010 03:28 GMT
#11
Well that's okay, we can use your match history, we just need a starting point from the screenshot.
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Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-12-31 03:38:53
December 31 2010 03:35 GMT
#12
OK. It is in fact not 2330. It went -12 and then +12 when I promoted. SO I would actually imagine it's 2330-12 = 2318 before.

Pretty damn sure.

2318 before, and 2176 exact after.

I'm in samiku pi which is tier E
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12247 Posts
December 31 2010 03:43 GMT
#13
Great! Posted that info in SDream's compilation thread. Thanks, and congrats on your promotion!
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blahman3344
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2015 Posts
December 31 2010 04:17 GMT
#14
congrats on the promotion, man! And it's awesome that you chose toss (since I'm toss, thats an automatic +10 to awesomeness =P). I wish you the best of luck with your future games in diamond league. =D
I like haikus and / I can not lie. You other / brothers can't deny
Z3kk
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4099 Posts
December 31 2010 04:43 GMT
#15
Yayyyy~~ happy

It's awesome that you chose protoss :> Toss forever!!
Failure is not falling down over and over again. Failure is refusing to get back up.
Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
December 31 2010 04:51 GMT
#16
hehe. Still can't use ff for beans :|
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