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TheBobackwards
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States25 Posts
December 13 2011 01:03 GMT
#1
Week 1 has come and gone, and to be quite honest, I am very surprised at all the little things I learned from actually practicing and trying to make myself better rather than just playing.

For anyone who saw my last blog, this last week I focused on trying not to get supply blocked, and I quickly learned that I SUCK at it lol. Watching through my replays (which I never did before) was such a great help in noticing so many problems in my play.

Though I didn't focus too hard in trying to fix these things, my notebook is becoming ever more filled with small things I can continue to work on in the future. What excited me most about going through my replays again on sunday, I could actually see myself progressively getting better! Little by little, my play became smoother.

I'm extremely happy with my work from this prior week, and am excited to continue forward towards my goal. I have to admit, I'm not as "perfect" at making overlords like I had hoped, but I have progressed greatly. This week I'm going to be focusing on my queens, playing around with when I can get out creep tumors, and most importantly, be spot on with larvae injects.

Thank you for the continued supoort, I absolutely love the Starcraft community and welcome all feedback and criticism.

If you'd like, my 2nd video is up on Youtube which shows how terrible I actually am =D Feel free to watch if you'd like.

Love you all!
- Bob



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"When you get ahead, get more aheader."
Mr.Rager
Profile Joined August 2011
United States59 Posts
December 13 2011 01:21 GMT
#2
Hey Bob, I watched your video on youtube of your introduction, and to be honest, you don't feel like the other people who say "FUCK YEAH GOIN' FOR MASTERS IN A WEEK." You actually have a plan and know how much time per day you want to spend on it. I think that's great and I'd like to help you out with TvZ if you want. I'm a high gold terran and my TvZ is pretty good (though not right now because I've been sick for a week so I'm kinda rusty..). Anyway just hit me up on sc2 if you'd like anytime.
Name: MrRager. 745
I wish you luck
AyameStarcraft
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United Kingdom192 Posts
December 13 2011 02:04 GMT
#3
In terms of injects it eventually becomes a muscle memory. If you ever watch top zerg streams you'll see them do an inject cycle despite larva still being morphed because it becomes more instinct than conscious thought. Eventually your fingers will just automatically go 55v 66v 77v and you won't have to worry to much about it.

When I play zerg, I notice that I have flawless injects until the 11 minute or so mark because that's around when I start being very active with mutalisks. So that would be something you could maybe focus on. Get injects down and then another week keep injects good while being very active with mutas and lings etc.
// ᴵᴹᴍᴠᴘ \\
TheBobackwards
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States25 Posts
December 13 2011 03:07 GMT
#4
Thank you Mr.Rager! I'll get you added tonight after Funday Monday! That would be great help!

AyameStarcraft, I'm very simular, I feel i'm pretty good with larvae when I'm on 1 and 2 hatches, but there is something about getting my 3rd hatch that makes me just go stupid and completely forget about queens =P I'm very excited for the point when it will be just second nature to do these little mechanics.

I know for the first bunch of games, I"m not gonna let myself look away from my queens, and just not care about units living or dieing, i'll worry about that when my brain can handle everything at once =D

Much love guys!
"When you get ahead, get more aheader."
Yoshh
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada78 Posts
December 13 2011 05:09 GMT
#5
You need to play more games man...

I checked your match history and you only play 3-4 games a day, and some days you don't play at all. It's a huge insult to real pro gamers if you think you can become pro with that many games.

If you really do love this game and want to be a pro gamer then you would easily be playing 20+ games a day because you love playing the game so much.
TheBobackwards
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States25 Posts
December 13 2011 05:30 GMT
#6
I play 4 hours each day, some of that is going through replays again and again, taking notes and working it out.
"When you get ahead, get more aheader."
iSometric
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
2221 Posts
December 13 2011 05:31 GMT
#7
It's ok. if you have the passion, you will get to a satisfactory result~~~
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Yoshh
Profile Joined September 2010
Canada78 Posts
December 13 2011 06:15 GMT
#8
On December 13 2011 14:30 TheBobackwards wrote:
I play 4 hours each day, some of that is going through replays again and again, taking notes and working it out.


I don't consider watching replays or taking notes playing the game, but whatever floats your boat.

Replay watching and taking notes, while useful for improving, should not take up 3 hours of your time. If you want to improve your mechanics then you need to go through games again and again, not "through replays again and again".
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6592 Posts
December 13 2011 06:19 GMT
#9
On December 13 2011 15:15 Yoshh wrote:
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On December 13 2011 14:30 TheBobackwards wrote:
I play 4 hours each day, some of that is going through replays again and again, taking notes and working it out.


I don't consider watching replays or taking notes playing the game, but whatever floats your boat.

Replay watching and taking notes, while useful for improving, should not take up 3 hours of your time. If you want to improve your mechanics then you need to go through games again and again, not "through replays again and again".


Actually watching your own reps takes a TON of time (granted not 75% of it) but anywhere from 25% to 40% of his time spent in replays wouldn't be abnormal if he is watching every game. I agree though Yoshh, not enough playing being done to seriously attempt to get better quickly.
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TheBobackwards
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States25 Posts
December 13 2011 06:45 GMT
#10
I should be in games more, but 4 hours goes by pretty fast. I'm not doing anything to win games quickly, most my games are in the 30-40 min mark. More importantly, I am not rushing myself at all, I'm not trying to get better quickly, I'm trying to perfect my mechanics.

I am doing my best to not slack in any way, but still have responsibilities that I have to take care of as well; work and the such. Even when I'm not practicing, I'm watching Day 9 at work, watching my favorite pro's while eating; I guess my point is, much of my day is always consisting of Starcraft =D
"When you get ahead, get more aheader."
Arcane86
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States68 Posts
December 13 2011 16:50 GMT
#11
I'm really glad to see that you've picked a very specific skill to focus on first. Repetition and focus drives rapid improvement, particularly in the more basic components of the game. By focusing just on not getting supply-blocked, you've probably improved that skill dramatically quite quickly. Since that's quite the foundation for everything, it's a good thing to start at.

If I were in your place, I would watch replays and focus in on the skill that you specifically want to focus on that week. You can spend time analyzing your muta-harass, but if you aren't going to really develop it this week, that takes away from your time available to really improve your queen stuff (which reduces the repetitiveness of your practice, reducing efficiency of improvement). You may already be approaching it this way, but if not, this should help streamline your practice regimen.
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