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So today I get on with 98 wins as zerg, 2 away from the next emblem of course.
I play my first game. It's a protoss. ZvP is probably my strongest matchup(Every gold/plat protoss does the same push shenanigans and I learned to stop it pretty fast...), so I fear not.
He goes in for a 4gate and I've already expanded and have 2 spines and a few roaches, easily defended, and then I outmacro him from there. The only shot he had left was his miniature death ball, but I convinced his army to chase a group of a dozen lings off then sniped the colossus chilling out at his front door with roaches.
An easy victory in my eyes.
I took a break for a few hours and came back. First game, ZvP on slag pits. I get quickly off-my-game and outplayed. I didn't really commit to roaches or speedlings so I was really boned when he pushed in.
Played another game immediately after. It's a ZvZ. ZvZ is easily my worst match up, I never have a plan. I just do random shit and hope it works out. I do a 14pool with some early ling aggression, take out a few drones but he has some lings at the same time so it didn't do much. I get some roaches and block my ramp while expanding, then do a roach push. He's just getting roaches so I kill his entire expos mineral line and about half of his mains with 15ish roaches, but lose all of them. During this time he was making a wave of roaches, he pushes and I lose.
99 wins. Just lost 2 games in a row. Nothing puts me down like 2 consecutive losses. I convince myself to play until I get that last win. I knew I was close to platinum. I had played 27 platinum players in a row, I had to be close to platinum. But I wanted that win. In the back of my mind I hoped the 100th win and the platinum promotion would result from the same game, however I chose not to fancy the dream.
The game starts. It's ZvP on shattered temple. I do a 9 scout for close positions(if P is there I normally 14 pool instead of 14 hatch). He isn't there. My overlord didn't see him close air.
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Cross positions... perfect for my macro style I enjoy... I think to keep my drone at the watch tower and assume he's doing a forge FE when he scouts cross pos or the typical herpderp timing push. Something tells me that its stupid to not scout. I shift-queue the drone to go to the top of the ramp and return to the bottom.
The drone hits the top of the ramp as I change to it's camera.
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That's odd... we are around 20-25 supply and all he has at his ramp is the typical zealot-gateway-cyber wall...
I mineral path past the zealot.
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Stargate is building.
1 Gateway, 1 zealot, 1 stargate making a unit.
Immediately I drop a gas and a roach warren and research lingspeed while spamming lings. The roach warren finishes and I make 4 roaches. I approach his ramp with 4 roaches, ~20 speedlings, and an erection.
This is the day that I learned that a Phoenix and 3 Zealots is not the hard counter to a roach-speedling push.
![[image loading]](http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/7397/64107055.png)
He quits the game after his first zealot dies.
The promotion window explodes onto my screen similar to the way an obese man explodes through the double-doors at the local asian buffet.
Not only did I get possibly one of the easiest wins of my life, I also got the 100 wins as zerg and the promotion to platinum.
Today was a good day.
(On a side note, a strong coincidence, when I was promoted to Gold it was a Protoss player who rushed air on close-air positions metalopolis. It just so happens that the 2 times I've been air rushed on ladder, I get promoted. I like this pattern. Diamond next time? I can only hope.)
Thanks for reading. If you didn't read, I don't really care. If you don't really care, well you made it this far so you must care xD
As a wise man once told me, "Bitches will be bitches."
Take that to your grave.
 
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Really fun to read your promotion and achievement mate! xD
Who knows, maybe you are right about the coincidental way you were promoted to Gold and then Platinum! 
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gz!! sounds good! 
your gamehistory still looking as awesome as in your "road to masters" piece?
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On June 07 2011 06:59 xaeiu wrote:gz!! sounds good! your gamehistory still looking as awesome as in your "road to masters" piece?
Not nearly as awesome My win rate against the last 25-30 Platinum players was about 60-70%. So it's good. Normally my goal is if you go to my match history for 1v1(you can only see 10 games without scrolling down) to only see 4 losses or less. If I have half losses I'm normally not happy with that. And that's why I hate losing 2 games in a row so much! :D
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2 games is honestly nothing to lose. Just go look at some of the pro players. Lose up to 8 games in a row when they aren't playing their best. When I got demoted to Platinum from diamond I played all day and went 4 wins and 20 loses, one of my loss streaks was 13. Don't get discouraged and keep playing. Grats on the promotion.
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gratz on the promotion!!! maybe pictures would be nice in the battle report, but all-in-all, very nice! expecting one when you hit diamond.
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On June 07 2011 07:19 FlaShFTW wrote:
gratz on the promotion!!! maybe pictures would be nice in the battle report, but all-in-all, very nice! expecting one when you hit diamond.
Very good idea! Updating in a few minutes when I get the screenshots
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On June 07 2011 06:38 FacetiousQ wrote:
The promotion window explodes onto my screen similar to the way an obese man explodes through the double-doors at the local asian buffet.
This is where I started laughing for the rest of the post.
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did you use the dreaded dual roach warren speed + burrow movement play? LOL congrats Face
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On June 07 2011 07:32 FacetiousQ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2011 07:26 OmniEulogy wrote:did you use the dreaded dual roach warren speed + burrow movement play? LOL congrats Face How was I supposed to know I accidentally hit B R twice instead of B V... the keys are SOOOOOO close You are just jealous of the overwhelming speed at which I upgraded burrow movement and roach speed! (Pictures uploading then updating, don't judge me but speed actually hadn't finished when I pushed. Was a mis-step in my story telling )
Is that mistake in the story before or after the fat man at the asian buffet gave you an erect... now I'm reading it wrong. Sorry face  lol but seriously gz, next step is diamond Your drone production is already there most of the times atleast... now its just keeping you from saving your child's college fund during a game  lol
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Woot grats. I love reading these battle reports.
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Wayto put pressure on me to catch up :/
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On June 07 2011 07:50 Juliette wrote:
Wayto put pressure on me to catch up :/
Haha all you ninja's finding my blog post You can do it Juliette I BELIEVE IN YOU! You 4-3'd me! Even though the last game was a tvp... and well that just made no sense for either of us...
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Congrats Q , First Plat of T2? or did sam and akiro get there yet
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On June 07 2011 07:56 Pittski wrote:Congrats Q , First Plat of T2? or did sam and akiro get there yet
Nononono, Akiro is mid-gold at best and Sam is high-silver/low gold at best xD
I'm mid-to-high plat(based on the players I'm playing).
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On June 07 2011 07:52 FacetiousQ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2011 07:50 Juliette wrote:
Wayto put pressure on me to catch up :/ Haha all you ninja's finding my blog post You can do it Juliette I BELIEVE IN YOU! You 4-3'd me! Even though the last game was a tvp... and well that just made no sense for either of us...
Haha im sorry :p. I no life TL
Haha ty and grats to you, ill get there ajd we can bo7 again hahahah
That tvp was so silly but it was the best game ive ever played LOL
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On June 07 2011 07:57 Juliette wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2011 07:52 FacetiousQ wrote:On June 07 2011 07:50 Juliette wrote:
Wayto put pressure on me to catch up :/ Haha all you ninja's finding my blog post You can do it Juliette I BELIEVE IN YOU! You 4-3'd me! Even though the last game was a tvp... and well that just made no sense for either of us... Haha im sorry :p. I no life TL Haha ty and grats to you, ill get there ajd we can bo7 again hahahah That tvp was so silly but it was the best game ive ever played LOL
The best game you ever played was a 3rax all in that got stopped by fast cannons so you backed off and mass marined?
Oh.
Hahahaha
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On June 07 2011 08:02 FacetiousQ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2011 07:57 Juliette wrote:On June 07 2011 07:52 FacetiousQ wrote:On June 07 2011 07:50 Juliette wrote:
Wayto put pressure on me to catch up :/ Haha all you ninja's finding my blog post You can do it Juliette I BELIEVE IN YOU! You 4-3'd me! Even though the last game was a tvp... and well that just made no sense for either of us... Haha im sorry :p. I no life TL Haha ty and grats to you, ill get there ajd we can bo7 again hahahah That tvp was so silly but it was the best game ive ever played LOL The best game you ever played was a 3rax all in that got stopped by fast cannons so you backed off and mass marined? Oh. Hahahaha
To counter your mass VR/DT that scared the crap out of me
Maybe the mood made it amazing hhahaa. Next time i play Z
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On June 07 2011 08:04 Juliette wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2011 08:02 FacetiousQ wrote:On June 07 2011 07:57 Juliette wrote:On June 07 2011 07:52 FacetiousQ wrote:On June 07 2011 07:50 Juliette wrote:
Wayto put pressure on me to catch up :/ Haha all you ninja's finding my blog post You can do it Juliette I BELIEVE IN YOU! You 4-3'd me! Even though the last game was a tvp... and well that just made no sense for either of us... Haha im sorry :p. I no life TL Haha ty and grats to you, ill get there ajd we can bo7 again hahahah That tvp was so silly but it was the best game ive ever played LOL The best game you ever played was a 3rax all in that got stopped by fast cannons so you backed off and mass marined? Oh. Hahahaha To counter your mass VR/DT that scared the crap out of me Maybe the mood made it amazing hhahaa. Next time i play Z
Mass VR/DT is the build of champions. MC does it like every other game, so you know it's a top-tier build
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So good.
How long did it take you to get to platinum?
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On June 07 2011 08:32 jjhchsc2 wrote:
So good.
How long did it take you to get to platinum?
I started on release, but only did 2v2 until about January. I was placed in silver on release but when I started doing 1v1 seriously in January I was probably low-gold in ability. Now I am about mid-high plat based on what I'm matched against. 2v2 helped me learn the game I'm sure, but I started 1v1 at high-silver in January and I'm plat now in June. Only got 100 wins in that time-span so you get the idea
Goal is Diamond by end of summer and Masters by end of 2011
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On June 07 2011 08:38 FacetiousQ wrote:Show nested quote +On June 07 2011 08:32 jjhchsc2 wrote:
So good.
How long did it take you to get to platinum? I started on release, but only did 2v2 until about January. I was placed in silver on release but when I started doing 1v1 seriously in January I was probably low-gold in ability. Now I am about mid-high plat based on what I'm matched against. 2v2 helped me learn the game I'm sure, but I started 1v1 at high-silver in January and I'm plat now in June. Only got 100 wins in that time-span so you get the idea Goal is Diamond by end of summer and Masters by end of 2011
oh come on man, masters during summer and then you win anaheim ^^
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On June 07 2011 06:38 FacetiousQ wrote:
As a wise man once told me, "Bitches will be bitches."
Take that to your grave.
"Once a bitch, always a bitch, what I say."
~ Jason Compson, from The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner.
Couldn't help it, immediately made me think of that
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Nicely done, I love how you wrote "I approach his ramp with 4 roaches, ~20 speedlings, and an erection." Congratulations on your promotion and thanks for sharing
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