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Ruscour
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
5233 Posts
November 22 2011 05:32 GMT
#1
If you missed my first blog, I was announcing that I'm playing full time for something to do over the summer holidays. Aside from distractions (had to babysit my little cousin, girls coming over, etc), it's been pretty good! I've had some trouble sitting down and consistently playing, I have a pretty short attention span T_T I've been playing in 2 hour chunks, probably around 6 hours a day but I'm trying to play more.

Nevertheless, my play has been improving by leaps and bounds just by playing consistently, and thus, the first minor step into not being a total scrub:

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(yes the game was short, that's what happens in PvP when you forget to convert a gateway while I'm outmicroing your stalkers and have a zealot killing probes! also I finally spent my bonus pool this game)

Promotion doesn't really mean much, but it's a nice pat on the back, I knew the promotion was pretty close because I've been hitting lots of diamonds. The real test is Masters, I think I should be able to make it by the end of this year, that's my goal.

My main problem right now is just dedication, being able to focus on something for a decent period of time. I can never sit still, really gotta work on that. PvP is going very well for me, I'm going nexus first pretty much any viable map PvT and it's going well, my biggest problem in that matchup is when to add additional gates/get double forges/expand in the midgame, I think I'll just be able to feel that out over time. PvZ is a total mystery to me, every time I win it feels like my opponent is completely incompetent, especially on Tal'darim Altar, I have no idea how to play that map PvZ, my FFE transitions are outright garbage. I usually go for the anypro 7gate +1/+1 obs but my attack seems to be way too late and I end up overextending instead of getting a third.

Anyways, whenever there's anything interesting happening with my play now that I'm doing this full-time I'll post about it. If this has taught me anything so far, it's that I'm one lazy mofo. I need that Korean work ethic :-/



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Froadac
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States6733 Posts
November 22 2011 05:44 GMT
#2
Wewt. Have fun trying to get to masters >.>
MagickMan
Profile Joined March 2011
Australia498 Posts
November 22 2011 05:50 GMT
#3
Are you on NA or SEA? i recently got promoted to masters on NA playing Protoss, and i feel like i'm about 5x better than i was when i got promoted to diamond, so good luck!
Thaniri
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1264 Posts
November 22 2011 05:56 GMT
#4
Diamond to masters was a tough jump for me. It takes a lot of deliberate practise to get past masters.
CoolSea
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States236 Posts
November 22 2011 12:26 GMT
#5
Having gotten to diamond rather effortlessly, I am now finding it difficult to make it into masters. My usual 5 to 6 games a week are not cutting it and it seems like routine practice and dedication to laddering are the only way to get into masters. If you're really dedicating a good amount of time to it then I think you'll get into masters without many problems. Don't just mass game either, try to find specific weaknesses with your play and try to focus on one of those weaknesses a day and you'll improve much faster
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