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How do mentally prepare yourself to ladder? - Page 2

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Mementoss
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada2595 Posts
April 16 2012 16:38 GMT
#21
Get a drink of water. Start laddering. If I get really frustrated by a loss I usually stop playing wash my face or take a shower (my face and ears heat up).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu96xMwFVXw
eviltomahawk
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States11135 Posts
April 16 2012 16:52 GMT
#22
Listen to this.

Pretend that you are Lee Young Ho.

Profit!

Laddering is tough, but so is everything else in life, whether it's applying to that dream job or asking out that dream girl. You just gotta go for it. Be result independent.

I personally have a pretty baller playlist full of kpop, video game music, and montage music to pump me up during my ladder sessions.
ㅇㅅㅌㅅ
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
April 16 2012 17:49 GMT
#23
check under my bed for tasteless cannons check my blood pressure write it down on a sheet then i smoke 3 cigs out my window then i do a shot of jack daniels to take the edge off THEN i can start to prepare myself to ladder i sit in a chair on a huk ass pillow such that i sit 2.45 inches offset from my mousepad and the invisible line between the widow's peak i don't have and the top of my monitor makes a 95º angle with the invisible perpendicular.
then i stfu and snatch up some ladder points
nbd
get rich or die mining
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VisceraEyes
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States21170 Posts
April 16 2012 18:08 GMT
#24
Great Blog. I'm also trying to improve my game...it's slow-going, but I feel like I'm making some headway. Good luck sir.
if I had to describe his playstyle, it'd be a coked up rabbit with the attention of a goldfish injecting caffeine into himself directly through an IV drip. it's like a reel of random animated shorts where things just blow up randomly
TuElite
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2123 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-16 18:27:17
April 16 2012 18:26 GMT
#25
On April 17 2012 01:52 eviltomahawk wrote:
Listen to this.

Pretend that you are Lee Young Ho.

Nah man, wrong song, Flash is KARA fan.
+ Show Spoiler +


Gotta go all the way if you want to pretend to be him

And as for playing ladder, to me that's the easy part. Not punching through every walls or jump off of a cliff after the ladder session is the hard part.
Always Smile - Jung Nicole - Follow Nicole on Twitter @_911007 and me @TuElite
Fallians
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
Canada242 Posts
April 16 2012 18:54 GMT
#26
I click the fucking button. Simple
If you attack before 15minutes.. It's cheese....
hawliet
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Mexico112 Posts
April 16 2012 19:36 GMT
#27
in my first play before laddering, i know that i'm gonna loose for sure...because i haven't warm up at all, but liike naniwa said "Loosing the first round is my trade to win the other two" kinda
If you think you are good enough, you should presume what you want.- Naniwa
MyLastSerenade
Profile Joined February 2010
Germany710 Posts
April 16 2012 19:37 GMT
#28
On April 17 2012 00:56 Lokk wrote:
Just turn on music and go ez pz



that and hang out with friends in voice!
Knap4life
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Slovenia333 Posts
April 16 2012 19:38 GMT
#29
The thing with me is that i can only do about 2-4 games before stopping, because its mentaly tiering.
UmiNotsuki
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States633 Posts
April 16 2012 19:53 GMT
#30
The trick is to extricate your rank from your ego. If the absolute best I can do in SC2 is reach Silver league, that doesn't mean I'm an inferior person, it means I'm not so good at SC2. I would wager that Einstein, were he to have lived in our time and played StarCraft, would've sucked at it (at least at first.) Einstein probably would've been bronze league when he began. Does that make Einstein a worthless person? No. It makes him bad at SC2 without having anything to say about anything else that is Einstein.

Quoth Day[9], "You are not your banshee micro."
UmiNotsuki.111 (NA), UNTReborn.932 (EU), UmiNotsuki (iCCup) -- You see that text I wrote above this? I'll betcha $5 that you disagree :D
GlintFox
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United States275 Posts
April 16 2012 20:53 GMT
#31
You never know until you hit that button. You have to face that you are not DongReaGu, youre not MC, you're not MarineKingPrime. But you can be you and that itself has endless possibilities if you try and learn. They just didn't wake up one day and become a pro. It takes time, blood, and rage tears. I used to be scared of not preforming my best but I noticed I play so much better when I'm tired. I thought about it and its because I'm apathetic to everything but the game and myself. So I didn't overthink everything. I concentrated on Injects and creep, on drones rather than all the what ifs because who cares. You cant win all you games anyways, no one does. Not even the god Flash.
"Fear. Fear attracts the fearful… the strong… the weak… the innocent… the corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally." -Darth Maul
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
April 16 2012 22:38 GMT
#32
I just start a ladder game. Sometimes I'll put on chapstick if my lips are dry.
"If two pregnant women get into a fist fight, it's like a mecha-battle between two unborn babies." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
MistaBlue
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
37 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-16 23:14:21
April 16 2012 23:14 GMT
#33
On April 17 2012 05:53 GlintFox wrote:
You never know until you hit that button. You have to face that you are not DongReaGu, youre not MC, you're not MarineKingPrime. But you can be you and that itself has endless possibilities if you try and learn. They just didn't wake up one day and become a pro. It takes time, blood, and rage tears. I used to be scared of not preforming my best but I noticed I play so much better when I'm tired. I thought about it and its because I'm apathetic to everything but the game and myself. So I didn't overthink everything. I concentrated on Injects and creep, on drones rather than all the what ifs because who cares. You cant win all you games anyways, no one does. Not even the god Flash.


Great explanation. I think people get ladder fear sometimes because they feel like they can't improve at a good pace or feel lost or can't figure out a build that ALWAYS gets them. But knowing that nearly everyone else playing has these same kinds of flaws is a reassuring thing.

I'm glad to hear some people are actually answering the question in a thoughtful manner and not simply going "herp derp just press the button and play the game, what are you bro, a loser? herp derp".
Boner Amanda
mahi29
Profile Joined May 2011
United States235 Posts
April 17 2012 00:30 GMT
#34
Mentally prepare? I do nothing. I honestly don't understand "ladder fear." I've decided not to ladder sometimes not because of anxiety/fear but because I've been on a losing streak and I just want to take a break. Other than that, its a game against a faceless individual - I mean if it wasn't for any chat you could be playing the AI for all you know.
However, I do play a couple of customs to get in the groove and get any stupid mistakes out of the way [supply blocking myself before 10 min etc.]
The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
HardlyNever
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States1258 Posts
April 17 2012 00:43 GMT
#35
I don't know if this counts as "mentally" preparing, but before I ladder I always:

1. Play a single custom game. Doesn't matter what level my opponent is, because I just want to warm up. My computer also kinda sucks so every time I build my first sentry after I've shut it down, I get a weird fps hiccup (I know, it is weird, I don't get it).

2. I always have music playing. I cycle through different playlists, but I won't ladder without music.

3. I warm up my arms/hands. This is usually just stretching mixed with light exercises like shadow boxing and quick hand movements on the mouse/keyboard.
Out there, the Kid learned to fend for himself. Learned to build. Learned to break.
Dfgj
Profile Joined May 2008
Singapore5922 Posts
April 17 2012 01:05 GMT
#36
On April 17 2012 03:26 TuElite wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 17 2012 01:52 eviltomahawk wrote:
Listen to this.

Pretend that you are Lee Young Ho.

Nah man, wrong song, Flash is KARA fan.
+ Show Spoiler +
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISaABpyvzh0


Gotta go all the way if you want to pretend to be him

And as for playing ladder, to me that's the easy part. Not punching through every walls or jump off of a cliff after the ladder session is the hard part.

It's his intro song, no music is more Flash at the moment.
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