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hnQ
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
113 Posts
August 18 2011 18:17 GMT
#1
Hey hey TL, as you probably figured out, I'm a new SC2 player, hell I'm even new to RTS' itself but before everything let me introduce myself.

My name's Henrique from Portugal, 19 and currently I'm studying at an university. My ingame alias for SC2 is flashmob. I've been wandering around the SC2 scene for about a year now due to a DreamHack stream I believe that was passed to me by a team mate of my CS:S team, which I currently compete with, so I'm not new to e-Sports. He gave me that stream by pure chance because he doesn't even follow it, he thought it was a Source stream but I ended up watching it and it really intrigued me. After that game I was so curious I bought the game almost immediatly and started playing a bit of Campaign wondering why wasn't I aware RTS could be so much fun.

However when I played my first 1v1's online on the practice league I kinda felt bad, I never got owned so badly before in a game since I first started FPS gaming and I kinda stopped playing it until I found about day9's dailies, I started watching them quite a bit and I started understanding why and how would players do A, B or C and when I re-started playing those practice league matches I was placed on Silver! I'd say I'm a Bronze level player because I never ever played this genre and I simply don't feel anywhere near confident in my game when I play Silver league matches, my wins have been few and they were always base trades.

So, to the point, I finally decided I wanted to learn this game with the purpose of being the best player I could possibly be, competing or not. So I re-watched some of the day9 videos and I kinda followed his advice of coming here to find SC2 buddies! I tried to have my CS:S team to play this and my friends but they're not that interested in starting it or spending the money so I came to you (:.

I finally set that I want to go Zerg, atm I'm silver league in S3 so yeah, if you fancy playing, improving together, chatting about how bad I am or maybe grabbing an apprentice xd I can speak english and portuguese so if you speak any of those feel free to add:

EU
flashmob - 399

cheers!

MassHysteria
Profile Joined October 2010
United States3678 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 18:23:38
August 18 2011 18:23 GMT
#2
Good luck and have fun man I am on NA server or would have loved to help you out!

edit:clarity
"Just ban all the J's...even jinklejoes" --unnamed source
hnQ
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
113 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 18:34:01
August 18 2011 18:33 GMT
#3
had I posted this about an FPS game I'd been flamed to that, gotta love this community lool

cheers!

edit: on an another forums obv xd
ComaDose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Canada10357 Posts
August 18 2011 18:40 GMT
#4
This is a good story!
Pretty much exactly what we want to hear.
I am on NA server but if that's where you play then feel free to pm me and add me online.

All you can do is practice for a while. RTS games have that transferable skill that FPS games have that will make you better than the average joe at all of them once you have developed it.
Master probes/pylons (scvs/depots aka macro) as it is kind of the skeleton of RTS games.

The Recommended SC2 Stratagy Threads is a very good thing to read. Even the races you don't play becuase you need to know what they are doing.
BW pros training sc2 is like kiss making a dub step album.
OpticalShot
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada6330 Posts
August 18 2011 18:51 GMT
#5
Welcome to TL!

Stay clear of banhammer's wrath (reviewing the TL Ten Commands will help) and enjoy the rich content and community here.
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Plutonik
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada329 Posts
August 18 2011 19:59 GMT
#6
some advice is to join lots of tournaments early, on they are both fun and you can learn some things from the games you play
kedo
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Germany3 Posts
August 18 2011 23:13 GMT
#7
Hey Henrique

I would like to buddy up with you on improving SC2 skills. I sent you a PM.

kedo
hnQ
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
113 Posts
August 19 2011 00:44 GMT
#8
cheers for the tips! keep adding :D
Orome
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Switzerland11984 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-19 01:35:59
August 19 2011 01:35 GMT
#9
What university are you studying at? I'll be heading to Coimbra for a year in a little over a week. I'll coach you as much as you want, although it would be nice if you could teach me a little Portuguese in return.

Just add me under troete.630. I'm a masters Zerg.

On a purely personal note, I'd like to show Yellow the beauty of infinitely repeating Starcraft 2 bunkers. -Boxer
hnQ
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
113 Posts
August 19 2011 02:03 GMT
#10
I'm studying in Lisbon but Coimbra is so so nice, our major student city, lucky guy! I'm planning on going there for some student traditions someday XD. I'll add you :D
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