EPTAnyways, 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.
