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Valnus
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
South Africa17 Posts
January 31 2012 07:22 GMT
#1
Hi guys

This is my first post on this website so I will keep this brief.

I am on the EU servers and I live in South Africa .

At the moment I am not ranked yet, mainly due to me being new to the game and wanting to make sure I am as good as I can be before moving into the competitive world.

I am looking for the following

1] Mentor to help me improve my play overall and do the yoda thing

2] Players to test against in non-ranked friendly games that we can share videos and help each
other improve .

I do a lot of reading and follow day9 as well so the above will be just be improvement not a complete how to play the game .


Valnus


*
If your not haveing fun.....your missing the point
MajuGarzett
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Canada635 Posts
January 31 2012 07:25 GMT
#2
If you post and look in the practice partner thread you should be able to find a few people to practice with.
Valnus
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
South Africa17 Posts
January 31 2012 08:14 GMT
#3
Thanks Maju

Did not even know there was a thread like that.

Just followed day9's suggestion. But I created a post there.


Thanks
If your not haveing fun.....your missing the point
FreeFruitFly
Profile Joined November 2011
Australia29 Posts
January 31 2012 08:46 GMT
#4
I would like to practice with you but too bad I don't have access to the EU server
Edeen
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom18 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-01-31 09:46:41
January 31 2012 09:46 GMT
#5
Hey, I'm currently a silver level Zerg and I'm playing when not working and you'd be welcome to join with me and some friends, we tend to do Free for all's for fun and some 1v1 with observing.

Eden #825 EU
Valnus
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
South Africa17 Posts
January 31 2012 10:25 GMT
#6
Hey Edeen

Thats sounds like a plan. I am in and ready to roll

Sorry Fly maybe next time
If your not haveing fun.....your missing the point
loginn
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
France815 Posts
January 31 2012 11:54 GMT
#7
Hi. I'm a mid diamond player. I ll be online the whole afternoon
loginn 737
Stephano, Taking skill to the bank since IPL3. Also Lucifron and FBH
Kashll
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1117 Posts
January 31 2012 12:18 GMT
#8
On January 31 2012 16:22 Valnus wrote:
At the moment I am not ranked yet, mainly due to me being new to the game and wanting to make sure I am as good as I can be before moving into the competitive world.

Valnus


The best advice I can give is just play ladder games. All the knowledge in the world of high level timings and strategies isn't going to help you if you don't have the basic fundamentals and experience to back it up. There's a huge difference between knowing how something works in theory, and actually knowing how to execute it... Starcraft is a scary and uncertain game with the fog of war on.

It's good that you now know the basic ideas and the right mindset to follow for improvement. Now my advice would be stop watching Day[9], stop watching streams, and just ladder.
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." - Aldous Huxley
Valnus
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
South Africa17 Posts
January 31 2012 12:35 GMT
#9
Thanks for the advice Kashil

So your basic recommendation is just play the game.And I should get better as I go along

But I am not sure why you are recommending I dont watch streams.Might it be that I might try and copy build I have seen to much. In stead of playing the situasion as it is.

But all in all thanks for taking the time to post a response.

Valnus
If your not haveing fun.....your missing the point
Hulavuta
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1252 Posts
January 31 2012 14:19 GMT
#10
Yeah the best thing to do is just grind out ladder games. The most important thing to do is to get your basic mechanics and macro down, and really the only way to do it is to play a lot.

Yes, watch pro games, but don't try to emulate their higher level decisions. Do more simple stuff. For example, you may watch White-Ra and say "Wow, that Warp Prism harass is awesome! I totally want to do that!" But you should watch and see like, okay, how does he expand early and make it safe? At what time does he take a third? How many cannons do you need to keep it safe? How many Gateways does he have per base? Basic things that will help your basic macro play, instead of trying to learn their own pro tricks.

Watch the pros, but instead of trying to learn high level play, watch their basics and try to emulate that.
Done with Team Liquid for a while. Don't expect to find me here.
CeSWaR
Profile Joined January 2012
Sweden2 Posts
January 31 2012 15:33 GMT
#11
Hello i was also looking for a playmate to play games with. I am a silver league Protoss and i've got the same name in the game as i got on this forum, and it would be nice if we could chat on skype.

See you Ingame
Valnus
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
South Africa17 Posts
February 14 2012 08:11 GMT
#12
Hi

Update

Still looking for more people to test agains

Valnus 958
If your not haveing fun.....your missing the point
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