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Mago515
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States24 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-03-20 08:25:42
March 20 2012 08:20 GMT
#1
Ok, so long story short awhile ago I posted on here that I am going to practice a lot and focus on improving at this game. Unfortunately a lot personal problems, my mouse cord snapping in half (lol don't ask how), and my keyboard deciding it wants to be a worthless piece of junk, have pulled me away from the computer for quite a bit of time. On top of everything, i'm probably going to lose my keyboard sometime in the next day, which I will talk about more soon.

So i've decided I don't want to play zerg anymore. ZvZ isn't as difficult as it is random and stupid. I don't like it at all, and I don't think its any fun to play. Its also around 60-80% of the games I play on ladder. I thought about it for awhile, and asked one of my bronze friends if I can borrow his account for a few days while I work on protoss builds. I've been using it for about a week now, I can see my game improving by leaps and bounds even though i'm only playing bronzies, i've gone 35-1.

I saw the mega improvement in my Protoss play just minutes ago when I hit a zerg on ladder, who ended up playing a 35 minute macro game with me. After winning, I had to ask him if he was smurfing, he said yes, and said he normally plays diamond zerg. I don't know if he was truthful, but its given me the confidence in my protoss gameplay, so I think its time to stop smurfing. Hopefully I don't get wrecked as soon as I jump back into platinum. As a side note, I won 35 games in a row, how did the ladder not promote me to silver?!

Now, about my keyboard! I have a Razer Black Widow Ultimate, and the switch for the A key likes to register anywhere from 0-5 times when I hit it. Razer said it was a bad keycap and sent me a new one, but it obviously didn't fix anything. The email they sent me today told me to cut the cord on my keyboard as close to the keyboard as I can, and send them a picture of the cut cord and the serial number to the board so they know i'm not ripping them off for a free replacement keyboard. Just seems a little strange to me, but ohh well, is this kind of thing normal?

Thanks for reading, hopefully I post some replays in the next blog post.

Mago.951 - NA Procrastinators unite.....tomorrow!
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6600 Posts
March 20 2012 08:24 GMT
#2
lol they got rid of the other one. anyway Best of luck to you, the real test starts when you actually go back to your league... beating bronze players w/ any strategy executed even slightly correctly isn't really a challenge when you come from plat... at least I don't think it should be. good luck against people of your own skill level
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Mago515
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
United States24 Posts
March 20 2012 08:31 GMT
#3
Yeah, I noticed lol. I wanted to play in bronze because the only protoss build I could do with confidence is the 4gate, and I can't do that every game. I just had to practice builds, and improvising as protoss, one game comes to mind specifically. I remember getting proxy 2gated, so I walled off my own ramp with 3 pylons. I needed to learn how to react to specific situations, and I think i've learned a lot. The biggest thing I learned is when your low low bronze people don't attack ever, so thats no fun. Sentries are also something I practiced with a lot, I don't think i've ever tried to use one up until this last week. I don't think i'll have a problem in plat anymore, the only thing it seems i'm having problems doing right now is building additional gateways, I know I have too, I just do it way too late.
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