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Westy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England808 Posts
April 05 2011 23:46 GMT
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Hey guys

So here is the newly created Blog and its first post. I will use this one to quickly explain who I am and what the purpose of this blog is.
I started Starcraft 2 a week or two after the beta was released. It was my first ever RTS, and I was determined to master it. Now only a few hours ago I finally made it into Masters league! Now I know this technically isn't "Mastering the game", but its still a pretty good achievement!
So now that I have made it this far, I am determined to go the distance and make it into the grandmasters league! (Or close enough!)
Whilst on this journey I wish to use this blog as a way of helping other Protoss players get through the same stuff I did.
I will dedicate my first few posts on how to get from Bronze to high Diamond, and then after that I will focus on the troubles and improvements to be made as a low Masters player, and what methods I use to overcome them.
I know this has probably been done to death, but more people willing to help each other out can only be a good thing, right?
Hopefully when I get a decent internet connection I will also be able to stream my practices, but that wont be for a while as I cannot afford to splash out on a High speed connection right now!

If you have any questions, would like any help, please don't hesitate to ask. The whole point of this blog is to help people who are taking the same Starcraft journey that I took. So I will do what ever I can to help any Protoss players out there needing advice.

Thanks for reading!

Binky1842
Profile Blog Joined July 2004
United States2599 Posts
April 05 2011 23:56 GMT
#2
when you first started out did you have any idea at how complex RTS/SC2 was going to be?
how many games did it take you while you were in each league?
"The zoo could not confirm that Binky was the attacker, but only Binky had blood on his face following the incident"
starcraftian
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
62 Posts
April 06 2011 00:01 GMT
#3
i read yours can you read mine and congrats!
Westy
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
England808 Posts
April 06 2011 00:11 GMT
#4
On April 06 2011 08:56 Binky1842 wrote:
when you first started out did you have any idea at how complex RTS/SC2 was going to be?
how many games did it take you while you were in each league?


I kind of had an idea how complex it would be. Before the beta came out I would read SC2 fan sites, and the hype that people were creating kept me reading them. Until one day I saw Husky and HDStarcraft post on there saying they would create videos of the beta when it was released. So I subscribed to them. During the 2/3 months of wait for the beta, I would watch their Starcraft:BW videos, and that basically prepared me for the about of stuff that I would have to learn in order to be a reasonable player.

I started off in the beta as a Copper level player. After reading some threads giving advice to new players I spent the whole beta practicing my macro and multitasking, as I figured these would be the best things to learn first. But because I did this on my own on custom maps, I didn't really know how much of an effect it was having. Once the game got released I started playing the 1v1 ladder, and got placed in silver. After about 100 games I got promoted... Straight to platinum! I think after that I got scared of being demoted so I only practised in team games, but eventually I got my nerve back to play in one versus ones, and got promoted to diamond. I don't know for sure but I would say that this took roughly a total of 1000 games, split up between 1v1 and team games.
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