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techempage
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States43 Posts
November 17 2011 14:06 GMT
#1
Gah. Last night was a disaster. The only game I won involved my opponent quitting 9 seconds into the game. =/

And I ended my night against a 6 pool...that I didn't react quickly enough to. Nevermind that for some reason I was going bio against Zerg when I had decided that mech really would have been the way to go.

Blah, just one of those nights. For whatever reason, my PC seemed to be slowing down quite a bit too...but I won't make excuses for myself.

One of my favorite coaches early in his coaching career had a team that was blown out by 43. At the end of the evening, at a team dinner one of the news guys for the college raised a glass and said, "Here's to forgetting tonight." To which the coach responded, "No! Here's to never forgetting tonight."

That said, it's time for me to see what I can do to make those nights happen less often. It's time to hit the replays. The 0-9 streak from last week. Hell, now that I'm using SC2 gears, I can find every loss I have and watch them all.

Here's to never forgetting the losses.

Here's to letting those losses push me forward.

Time to remove myself from the ladder for most of my playtime, boot up YABOT and start working on my builds, over and over and over and over. Know the maps, know the builds as second nature and how to adapt them based on both the map and the opponent and his moves, and have my ECO running like a well oiled machine.

~grins~ For the Horde!

(Something about the gutter exuberance of that phrase seemed to fit at the end. ~shrugs~)

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Keep stumbling over dead bodies...
Mattchew
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States5684 Posts
November 17 2011 14:21 GMT
#2
Coach K is pretty motivational.

GLHF
There is always tomorrow nshs.seal.
thesideshow
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
930 Posts
November 17 2011 15:27 GMT
#3
Why not "For the swarm!"?

I realised awhile ago that my losses actually are more useful in improving my play than wins. You can just learn so much more from them.

Good luck!
OGS:levelchange
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Profile Blog Joined April 2005
Where dat snitch at?37071 Posts
November 17 2011 19:25 GMT
#4
On November 18 2011 00:27 thesideshow wrote:
Why not "For the swarm!"?

I realised awhile ago that my losses actually are more useful in improving my play than wins. You can just learn so much more from them.

Good luck!


QFT. As strange as this may sound, losing makes you a better player. You can analyze what you did wrong, and learn from your mistakes. You can also get motivated so that something like that never happens again. As much as it sucks, you only get better by losing more than you win.
ModeratorPeople ask me, "Seeker, what are you seeking?" My answer? "Sleep, damn it! Always sleep!"
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