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Rowen
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States76 Posts
January 01 2011 11:14 GMT
#1
http://www.sc2replayed.com/replays/122573-1v1-terran-protoss-blistering-sands

PvT on Blistering Sands and my Stalker heavy 3gate push finds several Marauders out of 3rax (2tech, 1reactor) and hangs around WAY too long and I lose a lot of food (10 food at the 10 minute mark is not a good sign).

Basically, I make a strong push that I've been working on for several days and has won literally every PvT since I got out of the build tester, and I encounter the absolute worst unit comp I could imagine. I've hit everything from 2rax to FE to fast siege tech to fast cloak banshees and never done worse than a complete gut of their base before being held off. I've NEVER been held off before.

At this point I'm scrambling, but I dropped my expo on time, dropped the robo, kept up my probes'n'pylons, and kept on keeping on. Terran pushes back as my natural finish (luckily just before I maynard), obliterate my forces due to poor micro (guardian shield amplifies damage taken that's why I didn't use it, I swear). and I'm a dozen food behind with units in my base.

Seven minutes later I push into his base, do significant damage, equalize in food, and two minutes after that he GG's out.

Two weeks ago I would have fallen apart after my push failed. Last week I wouldn't have been able to keep up macro while he pushed back and raped my base. Five days ago I would have been too scared to counter through his backdoor. Three days ago I wouldn't have known when to pull out. Yesterday I would have forgotten to take my gold and pressure his final push. Today, I get one more win than I would have otherwise.

It's an amazing feeling to improve. My play is by no means perfect, and I acknowledge that. My play isn't even really "good," but I've won my last 11 games, am on a roll, constantly wanna hit that "Find Match" button and I finally feel like I know what I'm doing. Having fun playing video games is a good feeling

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VonLego
Profile Joined June 2010
United States519 Posts
January 01 2011 11:27 GMT
#2
Congrats man, inspirational for all of us who don't get to play as much as we would like and end up feeling "too rusty to play."

Gotta hit that button some time. Really cool that you were able to focus on improvement so hard and see so much success.
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9027 Posts
January 01 2011 12:40 GMT
#3
I feel you man. It was great beating Plat players when you're Gold...
[Agony]x90
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States853 Posts
January 01 2011 14:08 GMT
#4
If you were having sex without a condom three days ago, hope that you didn't get her pregnant ^^
JF dodger since 2009
StorkHwaiting
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3465 Posts
January 01 2011 17:30 GMT
#5
When I play, I feel like a champion. Then I run into a 3k diamond player, get completely face-raped and outplayed, and then I go watch porno.
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