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theBlues
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
El Salvador638 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-11-03 10:40:02
November 02 2011 07:48 GMT
#1
Tomorrow I will be flying to the Pan American Championship in Brazil in order to represent my country.

You might think I must be good at this game.
I'm not. Not even decent.

I'm just a lucky guy, not even the winner in my country. I was just a runnerup...

The only reason im competing is because the first place couldn't make it...

Now I'm heading to Sao Paulo as the first ever Salvadorian to play starcraft abroad...

I'm nervous, so nervous I can't even open the game...

I'm not a pro, not even an amateur. I'm just a guy who LOVES this game... I'm not a succesful person by any means. But playing Starcraft makes me feel at ease...

I spent most of this year as a diamond player until I could make it to masters with a lot of effort...

It is El Salvador's first time ever playing starcraft 2 in this competition...

We are the clear underdog out of the whole nine countries...

And tonight I find out I'm in the same group as EG.Axslav...

I pretty much don't know what to think...

I don't know if I should be positive, don't know if I should be a pessimist...

I only know, I'm very lucky to have the chance to be there...

And against all odds I will give it my everything, even If I cannot win, I will give everyone great games...

Everyone watching at home...

Everyone who could have been me, and could have had a better shot than me...

Everyone who cares...

Against all odds I will play my best...

And I will make sure I have no regrets...

And even if I can't come home a hero, I will give them hell...


TheBlueDweeb






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Manifesto7
Profile Blog Joined November 2002
Osaka27139 Posts
November 02 2011 07:58 GMT
#2
Go for the experience of meeting other people that love the game as much as you do. That is 90% of live events in my opinion. That and maybe pull off some nice cheese
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LaSt)ChAnCe
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States2179 Posts
November 02 2011 07:59 GMT
#3
step 1: turn gravity in your capsule up to 300x earth gravity
step 2: train for the next 5 episodes
step 3: ???
step 4: profit!

seriously though, 5/5

get to practicing!
Vogin
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Czech Republic926 Posts
November 02 2011 08:51 GMT
#4
I'd love your position, you have nothing to lose, everything to gain and a lot of fun ahead of you.
http://scvrush.com - Your Starcraft Home
Boonbag
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
France3318 Posts
November 02 2011 09:22 GMT
#5
On November 02 2011 16:58 Manifesto7 wrote:
Go for the experience of meeting other people that love the game as much as you do. That is 90% of live events in my opinion. That and maybe pull off some nice cheese


what he said, cheese all these players to death
SnetteL
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Belgium473 Posts
November 02 2011 10:45 GMT
#6
Some of the more well-known players are probably not taking any chances and will only open with supersolid builds, you can also take advantage of that by ECO-cheesing them and hitting them with a nasty timing, good luck!
Caps lock is cruise control for cool.
DJWilma
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada740 Posts
November 02 2011 11:03 GMT
#7
CHEESE BRO! Its an awesome opportunity, and if you can do well that would be great too!
I write stuff on LiquidDota also I own omwproductions.com
nttea
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Sweden4353 Posts
November 02 2011 11:40 GMT
#8
On November 02 2011 19:45 SnetteL wrote:
Some of the more well-known players are probably not taking any chances and will only open with supersolid builds, you can also take advantage of that by ECO-cheesing them and hitting them with a nasty timing, good luck!

this! i would suggest, if you are unknown player they will be guarding alot against cheese, so your best bet is probably a well practiced echo-cheese into timing attack
Tortious_Tortoise
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States944 Posts
November 02 2011 18:08 GMT
#9
You got this shit. I believe, dawg. I believe. Your games should reflect the motto of the New York Nicks:

If we lose, we fight. If we win, we fight.

Keep fighting.
Treating eSports as a social science since 2011; Credo: "The system is never wrong"-- Day9 Daily #400 Part 3
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6592 Posts
November 02 2011 18:21 GMT
#10
Good Luck! kick some ass
LiquidDota Staff
THE_DOMINATOR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States309 Posts
November 02 2011 18:27 GMT
#11
I would troll so hard if I was you ...but I'm self destructive.
DOMINATION
theBlues
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
El Salvador638 Posts
November 02 2011 20:12 GMT
#12
Man, you can always count on teamliquid, thanks everyone for the replies, I literally LOLed at some of the comments, feel a lot more at ease, thanks guys..!
Change a vote, and change the world
forgotten0ne
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States951 Posts
November 02 2011 20:30 GMT
#13
I wanna be, the very best, like no one ever was...


For some reason that popped into my head reading this.
"Well it’s obvious that these Terran gamers are just extremely gifted when it comes to RTS games" -Ret, in regards to the first months of SC2
theBlues
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
El Salvador638 Posts
November 02 2011 21:03 GMT
#14
On November 03 2011 05:30 forgotten0ne wrote:
I wanna be, the very best, like no one ever was...


For some reason that popped into my head reading this.


Progame-on, gotta cheese em all xD
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