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psp219
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States315 Posts
November 07 2011 06:17 GMT
#1
Hey guys. Some of you guys may know me around Teamliquid. My name is Kai and I've been playing Starcraft 2 for over a year now(since release). I first started using zerg and then switched to terran in January. I've been massing and massing games and I am currently where I am at... Low/Mid Masters.

Ever since I've been growing up. I've always needed a schedule or practice regimen of some sort to follow. Since I've just recently finished a lot of college applications, I'm very serious about improving and taking my game to the next level. For the last couple of months, I've been grinding and grinding away ladder games with a fluctuation. For 2-3 days I'll play like a boss and be owning mid-high masters and the next week I'll be losing to diamond nobodies. Through my replays, I've noticed that one week I'll improve to the point that everything would be pretty good such as my supply depot placement, but the next week it would turn to shit.

My plan was to create a practice schedule for myself that I could follow and maybe I could get your feedback/critique on this kind of thing. I feel as if my mass grinding games is currently not that effective anymore for the level I am at. I wish to include physical exercise as well because that seems to be very important for the mental part so it doesn't slow down my thinking.





Currently My Schedule:

Monday-Friday. School from 8AM-2PM
Thursday- Piano Lesson until 7 PM.
Friday-7:30-9:30PM Party.
Sunday 9AM-12AM Community Service.

Everyday I do around 2 hours of homework and 1 hour of practicing piano. After that I'm pretty much free.

Now I've been thinking of scheduling practice after dinner every day but how can I hold myself accountable? I'm going to need some sort of calender kind of thing to make sure I DO practice so I don't cheat myself out of practice time. How can I make this practice effective? Where will I get the time to watch and analyze replays? Also, where will physical activity come into play with a schedule like this?

I wish to follow this schedule for about 1-2 months to seriously improve my mechanics and game sense. I feel I'm not catching onto the small things which are hurting my game play.


If y'all could give some feedback on things like this I would very much appreciate it.

I'll attach some recent replays just in case some of you would like to judge my currently gameplay and I'll probably upload some new replays every couple of days to see if there REALLY is any improvement.

REPLAYS:
http://drop.sc/54337
http://drop.sc/54336
http://drop.sc/54333






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Aelonius
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Netherlands432 Posts
November 07 2011 06:19 GMT
#2
When my friends ask me for advice and coaching, most of the time the easiest solution for them is to plan to reach a certain amount of games per week. If it's a real life friend you can even impose a bet on it sort of. I always tell my buddies that they should atleast aim for 50 games per week. This is 7 games per night or roughly 4h per day.
''The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.''—Ronald Reagan
psp219
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States315 Posts
November 07 2011 06:26 GMT
#3
The problem here is none of my RL friends very serious about the game. They play random team games/customs. I'm the only one that actually does 1 v 1's.
Aelonius
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Netherlands432 Posts
November 07 2011 06:58 GMT
#4
I'll write down a mockup for you, hold on.
''The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.''—Ronald Reagan
psp219
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States315 Posts
November 07 2011 22:20 GMT
#5
Anyone?
psp219
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States315 Posts
November 08 2011 01:28 GMT
#6
Aelonius could you please PM me that mockup?
Aelonius
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Netherlands432 Posts
November 09 2011 04:59 GMT
#7
I've made the mockup of a possible planning
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvDBAbVvWJibdGxjTDJNaFk1Q3MzeHluc1lNZzNkOEE

Here I take into account that you will have traveltime, a consistent exercise routine, and the saturday off for purely sc2.
''The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.''—Ronald Reagan
Cool Cat
Profile Joined June 2009
United States1644 Posts
November 09 2011 05:50 GMT
#8
Hi Kai. Here's a tip for improvement: Don't rally your SCVs to mineral patches and expect them to mine. I clearly remember you having around 10 SCVs sitting there doing nothing when we played.

Good luck :D
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