EPTSo my first opponent was a Zerg, and of course i 2 rax him, which went very successful. My next opponent was against a terran, who went for a marine tank composition while i went for a blue flame opening. You know what happens when scvs and marines face blue flame hellions. So another game in the bag and i'm thinking this is going to be a breeze.
Two quick bo1s and now i'm in the ro8 winners bracket. I will be facing another zerg so of course, i 2 raxed the first game and won. The second game, i went for a marine tank with a sprinkle of hellions and it turned out to be more effective than i imagined. (NOTE: I didn't have a specific build order for it, so i just innovated at the moment and got the win) Another quick victory, and i'm sitting here thinking am i really just THAT good compared to other fellow platinum players. Now i'm in the round of 4 winners bracket and i'm faced with a protoss. Even though the games were not too long ago, i have no recollection of the games. It's probably because the match wasn't very exciting.
This is where the real challenge starts. The quarter finals of the whole tournament and i'm faced again with another protoss. I was thinking maybe he isn't all that good because of the last match ,so i walked into the match pretty confident. I won the first game and he won the second game but the last game was where things started to spice up. My opponent, Snow, went for a dt rush and i barely held it off. I had to make a wall with my marines and marauders while my turret was building and thank goodness i managed to hold. After that stage, it was a tug of war. Our armies clashed continuously for a few minutes until i got a raven and shut down his Dts for good now.
Now im in the finals, alone, waiting for the other players to fight each other for the other spot. Guess who won? Snow won and now i have to face him again. This time i have the upper hand because if i win 1 bo3, i'm crowned champion and he has to win 2 bo3.( this is because it was a double elimination tournament and i haven't dropped a match yet) I lost the first bo3, 0-2, and i felt pretty bad after that. I haven't dropped a match yet till then. Now into the second bo3, the first game was a standard macro game where i won because his early push failed. The second game involved a proxy stargate and i didn't have enough marines to hold it off so the voidrays killed off my whole base. A proxy stargate was the last thing i expected so i got pretty frustrated and maybe tilted. Now it is the last game, it will decide who will be named champion. I don't know what to do so i just tried cheesing him with 3 rax and...... it fails. I didn't manage to take the tournament but instead got second place. I know it's not bad but i strive for the best. I hate being the one left behind. I felt useless and all my energy was drained out, probably from the loss and all those games i had to play through. I managed to keep my cool after and decided to take a nice shower to relax. Now i'm here i am writing my first blog about my first tournament experience.
During that 5 hours, i probably went to the bathroom 10 times because i was that nervous. If this was a offline tournament, i'd probably have nerve issues.
this is the brackets http://daywalker.challonge.com/daywalker3
dont flame at me for being a bad writer. i know i am but i tried my best.
Maybe a few less "wall of text's"
