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I think you sort of have to suck it up and just play 50ish games. Those first 50-100 games you'll be so out of control of the situation that whether or not you win or lose will depend almost entirely on the mistakes of your opponent, but once you get consistent enough with your play you'll find that you can fairly accurately judge if your opponent is better than you or not. For me, I only am upset when I lose to a player who I feel is inferior to me. If I lose to a player who outplayed me, then it is simply to be expected and exposure to their style will help improve my game. I play a lot of practice games with my friend who is in masters (I'm in diamond) and I rarely win, but when I do it feels like I really earned it, whereas a loss just feels like what I was expecting. Adjusting your expectations that way helps cope with losses I think.
Another good way to motivate yourself to play more 1v1's is instead of playing for the win, to just play for the awesome. The excitement of hoping the marines walk over my burrowed banelings is enough to make me keep playing regardless of whether or not the terran ends up beating me.
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I feel exactly the same way when I lose, I HATE IT so much, and right now I'm trying not to care as much, and think that might be my way into 1v1 again.
After watching Day[9] Daily #269 - Newbie Tuesday: How to get into SC2! (http://day9tv.blip.tv/file/4890848/) I feel sort of enlightened that you should force yourself to have fun. If you try a silly build, and lose, it's much easier to say to yourself that it was of that exact reason you lost the game. If you win though, you might get some sort of boost after feeling you have thought out something smart and extraordinary.
Another thing helping me is playing with RL friends 1v1 private matches, while on skype the whole time. You can still talk, and hear your friends missery when you banebust his contain and kill him. Of course you lose here too, but it's much easier to cope with once you know you are good friends and you feel you still make progress none the less.
To sum it up, play enjoyable games with friends, and try not to care about losses. It's a healthy sign you want to perform brilliantly every single time, but even champions of GSL have lost 800 times, so everybody does sometimes - Don't feel ashamed or embarressed, it's a part of it all.
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Why dont you try and find friends either here on teamliquid, or in the sc2 chat channels, rather than doing RT 2v2. Odds are you can find someone close to your skill level who is also super eager to start playing some teamgames.
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Maybe 1v1 just isn't for you? There isn't anything wrong in just playing team games if that is what you enjoy.
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The answer is that you're a casual gamer. You don't like losing and you take it really personally, so you try to play games where there isn't as much of a stigma to losing.
If you played with a friend, you'd probably find 1v1 a lot more fun, given that losing is less stigmatized with friends.
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There are way too many good games out there to sit around and play a game you don't enjoy. I think you like the idea of the game more than the game itself.
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Hey Nuke, you are actually one of the reasons i got hooked on starcraft in the first place. I used to watch all of your broodwar vods! 
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Just don't make Starcraft that serious! Play for fun. All my master league friends were very casual players looking to have a good time and ended up being quite decent players. ^.^
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A lot of people are like this. Personally I was only playing 1v1 to get the shiny Master badge.
I enjoy teaming because I find it less stressful when I lose, like it doesn't matter. Also you can have many different teams (2v2, 2v2R, 3v3 etc) and you can switch between them. With 1v1 you have only 1 account so when you play you are always trying to 'preserve' it, play your best to keep up your rank and record, making the game more pressure-filled, exhausting and stressful.
If I make a mistake in a team game I'm just like "w/e just a team game".
If I make the same mistake in a 1v1 it's like "shit now I have to win a game to even out that loss"
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