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Blaize
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United States91 Posts
January 16 2012 09:18 GMT
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About a week and a half ago I took a break from Starcraft 2, I was trying to get better and work my way up towards Masters during this season because I had gained mid Diamond from low Plat last season. I figured it would be a cake walk put the same amount of time in, and my progression should be linear. So I set out on my journey, Masters by season 6. About 200 games in I realized that I wasn't getting better, I was getting frustrated because my goal was Masters, not improving in gameplay. After about two or three days of playing and having this nagging feeling that I need a break a post pop'd up on TL here that led me to think about my practice schedule, was grinding 8-14 hours really benefiting my play, or was I just practicing the same mistakes making them more engrained in my play and harder to fix when I finally find them.

That night I was cruising Reddit I think and I found something about Studying titled "If you're busy you're doing something wrong the surprisingly relaxed lives of elite achievers." and after reading this my mind was made up. I take a break until a set date when I return I will set a strict schedule that only consists of SC2 for a certain number of hours twice a day, that takes full benefit of the amount of focus I can put into it for that set amount of time with no distractions.

Then during the time off I played some MMO's, some LoL, and watched the entire Batman Animated Series awesome show by the way. I brought this up because during this time I remembered something I heard, I forget exactly who said it but I can't help but think it was on one of the SC2 pod casts that are a plenty, or maybe the last episode of SoTG, maybe someone who reads this can tell me. The comment that I heard was "Cast your Replays from a neutral stand point." Now I've always watched my replays but I've never casted them, I've never taken a Neutral stand point and tried to figure out how both parties were thinking on each side. My replay watching is rather biased being the loser of the game or the winner.

So I've told you all of this story to say this, I will be casting my replays of the games that I was dumbfounded on every day during the week Monday through Friday on my stream. I am mainly going to chose losing replays of myself so that I can take an objective approach to them. This I feel will help me improve, aswell as help me be dedicated because I said I was going to do something.

Here I will put the information if anyone would like to join me in practice, or watch the stream:
Practice Schedule:
7AM - 10:30AM EST
1PM - 4PM EST
Casting Schedule:
11AM - Noon EST

Any tips, suggestions, or just general feedback will be greatly appreicated. I love talking to people.

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PhiliBiRD
Profile Joined November 2009
United States2643 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-16 10:44:16
January 16 2012 10:43 GMT
#2
i enjoy your enthusiasm to have a practice schedule and work hard at becoming pro, but i do suggest you to NOT play when you don't want to. if your not enjoying yourself your time is not being spent wisely. you learn much better in these conditions

also forget about masters. you haven't gotten it because you have not aimed to improve your play, you said so yourself. aim on your weaknesses and nothing more.

also, taking breaks can be good. ive taken many throughout my journey in the SC world, and most of the time i come back feeling refreshed and i jump leaps ahead. but the same can be said with hard practice
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