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The Impact a Good Attitude Can Have

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JMC4
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States261 Posts
August 19 2011 03:10 GMT
#1
So today I come to the TL blog section with a story.

Season 3 had just started up and I was placed into diamond league as I had been in the past season. Now in Season 2 I was a top 8 diamond protoss. I was getting matched up against masters players occasionally (not regularly) so I was getting close to my ultimate SC2 goal of making it into masters league. However in the start of season 3 I started to slump. I figured this is just a bad day for me it'll pass. However, it continued. For a good week or two. I was struggling to get above 0 points. I was sitting around 70th in my league and I was frustrated. I know ladder doesn't really matter for anything but it's like my way of competing in SC2 since I have planned not to enter into any tournaments until I am in masters league. So I take the 1v1 ladder somewhat seriously.

Now I continued to play and for the life of me couldnt' figure out why my play quality had gotten so bad. I was losing to stupid things and making dumb mistakes I knew what I was doing wrong but for some reason I couldn't fix it. It got to the point where I was not playing platinum players and losing and this made me mad. I want to get to masters not fall back to platinum, I was drifting farther away from my goal. Then came the one day that changed it all. I played a guy on ladder. He was a zerg player and the game was on shattered temple and we spawned in close positions. I did a 5 gate rush because of the spawn positions and I ended up winning that game. My opponents closing words were

"Nice 5 Gate.
gg"

I messaged the player after and asked him if he was being serious or just being a sore loser. His explanation to me was that he was serious and that it was his own fault that he lost. Whatever build that can beat him is only helping him to iron out the weaknesses in his own play. I thought to myself at that point. This guy is just enjoying playing the game and not so much playing to win and only to win. He was having fun with it and perhaps that's what I should do too.

I went directly into another ladder game and it was against a different zerg player on Tal' Darim. I absolutly demolished him. I was playing at a level that I hadn't played at since season 2. Since that day I have gotten up to 270 points and am currently in 21st place in my division, am on a 5 game winning streak, and i'm improving daily. I'm still playing a couple of platinum players here and there but I slumped really bad so i'm picking myself up now. However, I learned that having a possitive attitude while playing starcraft is crucial (atleast for me). This player changed my experience in Starcraft 2 and reminded me to have fun with it. I still play to win and am competitive with this game but I enjoy it and have fun doing what i'm doing.

Anyways the point of this blog is just to share with all of you the great change just someone being nice made for me. Some of you might not care but I feel like niceness that helps someone like that in a world of angry video gamers should not go unnoticed.

***
Diamond Protoss ~
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
August 19 2011 03:17 GMT
#2
100% agree, you gotta have a positive attitude and stay perseverant in anything that you do whether it's in SCII or IRL. GJ and keep laddering! :D
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Darclite
Profile Joined January 2011
United States1021 Posts
August 19 2011 03:26 GMT
#3
Nah, I'll just quit.

But for you, nice anecdote about the guy who said that to you and I'm glad you're doing well

Hope you get to masters!
They're fools. You should eat them.
GhostKorean
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2330 Posts
August 19 2011 03:36 GMT
#4
It's tough holding that attitude, props to him. It's so much easier to ragequit but bming someone is just over the top imo.
unit
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2621 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-19 06:48:42
August 19 2011 06:48 GMT
#5
it is hard to have that attitude as for many it is so easy simply to rage, the attitude described is my personal ideal sc2 (or anything really) attitude to do things with

i keep getting inspired by stuff today lol :3

5/5 for the record


edit: im on NA server PM if you want a midmasters level practice partner whenever you want :D
JMC4
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States261 Posts
August 19 2011 20:27 GMT
#6
On August 19 2011 12:36 GhostKorean wrote:
It's tough holding that attitude, props to him. It's so much easier to ragequit but bming someone is just over the top imo.


I don't mind when people quit with no gg but when you insult someones play and then quit that's a bit much. If you lost then you're not in any position to be insulting someones play.
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