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Mystogun
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States392 Posts
September 08 2011 00:22 GMT
#1
This is just a random blog so that I can vent my frustrations. It's not about anything in particular. I lead a pretty boring life to be honest. But I just wanted somewhere I could post whatever and feel better about myself.

Anyways, I've been trying to get myself back into laddering a lot in SC2. I remember how excited I was to finally get a beta key, and I couldn't help but get really fired up and I played a lot back then. I played a little bit of Brood War but I never really got into the competitive scene. I started out in copper division, which I didn't really feel ashamed about until I found teamliquid. I didn't realize how high the ladder went I guess. I just played 2v2s with my friend mostly and I learned how to DT rush.

SC2 WoL finally came out and I DT rushed my way to Gold. I was pretty proud of myself to be honest. I kept playing and then I eventually made my way into diamond after about 40 or so games. I was really happy with the progress that I had made.

However, school started and I've been really busy with trying to find internships (which seems to be impossible for me, I don't really know why) and getting involved with my schools dragon boat team. That didn't leave a lot of room for Starcraft, but its okay, you gotta do what you gotta do. By the end of season one I had maybe 220 games played and I was in the top 8 of my diamond division.

I got sort of involved but not really in our schools starcraft club. I went to an NASL screening but that was about it, its tough for me to go to any meetings since I'm a commuter and i schedule my classes to avoid traffic and such. Anyway, seeing more people passionate about starcraft drove me to finally make the push to Masters.

Second season starts, I lose my first placement match but I get into masters anyway. I was pretty happy about that. However, more time constraints and i go on a really long losing streak (30 games in a row), where i finally get bumped back down into diamond. I was pretty pissed that all the hard work I had done in season one kind of just fell to shit after not playing for a few weeks.

I didn't get to play much for season two, and season three began a while ago and I just started picking up laddering again. I've already lost like five games in a row after being placed back into diamond. I'm starting to think that MMR carrying over isn't so great. I feel like the ladder is improving a lot faster than I am. Restarting MMR completely would probably suck for a lot of people though. It'd be nice if they just gave you an option to reset your MMR if you haven't played for a really long time. I've fallen behind quite a bit.

Anyway, school is about to start soon so I won't be able to really get into starcraft laddering again -.- I'm thinking I could probably try to squeeze in maybe 2-3 games every day but I'm pretty sure that's not enough to get me back into Masters.

This feels really whiny -.- oh well.

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GigaFlop
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
September 08 2011 00:38 GMT
#2
sc2 can be annoying to get back into, but not as much as Red Orchestra 2. Oh god... So many deaths...
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Xyik
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada728 Posts
September 08 2011 02:46 GMT
#3
Same problem here, they need an mmr reset if players are inactive ... it doesn't make sense for a season 1 top 10 diamond to still be season 3 top 10 master if they havn't been keeping up with builds / practice / etc.
CooDu
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Australia899 Posts
September 08 2011 03:02 GMT
#4
On September 08 2011 09:38 GigaFlop wrote:
sc2 can be annoying to get back into, but not as much as Red Orchestra 2. Oh god... So many deaths...


Man, ain't that the truth LOL!

OT: It's a bit of a tricky situation to get out of. I stopped playing for probably a month or so due to RL stuff and found it terribly hard to get back into.

I remedied this by continuing to watch streams and tournaments as often as possible so I can still "keep up" I guess in a sense with the current metagame.

When Im taxed for time I can still usually fit in a game or two a night which is good as well, at least keeps you in the game/practicing.
Just a simple guy, going wherever this journey takes me.
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