Opportunity, MLG Anaheim

On June 11 2011 05:18 Torte de Lini wrote:
When you play for fun, do you talk more, interact while playing?
I notice that when I play with music, I get uncomfortable and agitated, everything annoys me and bothers me.

However when I'm on skype talking to friends and just laughing, I still play horribly, but I don't make the silliest mistakes I usually encounter when I play.

Consider talking and keeping a light-hearted mood :3

On June 11 2011 05:22 Greatness wrote:
http://sc2ranks.com/us/2740397/VPCursed

Playing more ladder is a good tip. I don't see how people can improve if they don't play ladder. I get cheesed and timing rushed so many times, I'm used to it. Except at MLG, people have builds designed to completely kill you at a certain time.

On June 11 2011 05:24 VPCursed wrote:

well like i said, its a mindset issue.. I don't have any issues holding off cheese when i play at my best. It feels as if that when im serious i'm constantly second guessing my self.. as if im unsure what to do... Things just dont "Click" as well and i play much worse.

On June 11 2011 06:58 Whole wrote:
I don't really play, but from what I've picked up by stalking IdrA, is that a lot of progamers make decisions subconsciously.

My best guess is that when you're in your first mindset that you described where winning is everything, you probably think too much. You mentioned that you second guess yourself. Well from what I picked up from stalking IdrA, is that most of your actions should be instant and subconscious. Sometimes it will be the wrong decision, but with enough practice, you'll be able to identify what to do in certain situations so quickly that it would make you a very strong player.

I suppose when you're in the casual mindset, you probably just do the things you know of and practiced with. Since you don't overthink and second guess, you're actions are much more smooth and it makes your overall play much better.

The only way to fix it is to just practice way more to get comfortable with a ton of different situations and to just not overthink things. Just do it and trust yourself and your practice to swiftly make the correct decision. Sometimes you will lose in a stupid way, but it would probably make you a very consistent and strong player. Just look at IdrA for example Since time is everything in SC2, actually stopping to think and second guess yourself is probably worse than actually makiing the wrong decision.

Disclaimer: I'm not a pro player, but I stalk IdrA's interviews and almost everything he says, so I probably have a tiny bit of credibility.

On June 11 2011 06:16 Weird wrote:
You say that you want to be one of the best, what does that mean? Best of people in NA? The world? You brag that you can beat team members who practice for "6+" (gasp) whole hours a day? And you can take games off of Pokebunny and Sheth... Did you watch Columbus? Did you see how badly everyone got mauled by the Koreans? That only Koreans knocked other Koreans out? Did you see Sheth forget to build his spawning pool against MMA? Idra's games against MMA and then the MC rematch meltdown...?

I would suggest you spend a lil more time practicing and thinking about just how much work it is to really be "good" over posting existential thoughts of "mindsets"...