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Team Liquid detrimental to your SC2 performance?

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OneBaseKing
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Afghanistan412 Posts
May 20 2012 00:51 GMT
#1
Hi all, I wanted to share this thing with you. I used to go on teamliquid everyday and read many guides on here and watched streams daily. However, my internet crashed for a few days and I was out of my daily Teamliquid. It felt crappy and I was desperate for some more knowledge in SC2. Whe n I got the internet back I didn't go straight to TL though, I went straight to SC2. I played some games and I broke a huge losing streak and replaced it with 7 winning streak.i was stuck at diamond for a very long time and had a bonus pool around 200, i spent it all in just 2 days after I stopped looking at teamliquid!

The lesson I learned is that this website is very helpful occassionally and EXTREMELY entertaining no doubt about that, but most of the time, I think yourbetter off on your own when trying to improve becausethis site gave me so much information at once that it gives me a tunnel vision. Just coming here now makes me paranoid because I'm afraid I will lose this clear sight of SC2.

Please. take no offense, this is just what I learned.

*
kamkerx
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States264 Posts
May 20 2012 00:54 GMT
#2
no see youre linking two things in your mind together that have no real connection.
CrazedNight
Profile Joined October 2011
United States65 Posts
May 20 2012 01:05 GMT
#3
No, it probably doesn't have any correlation.

It's not uncommon to have 5-10 game win streaks followed by 5-10 game losing streaks and have it repeat.

Think about this: why would TL make you play worse? There is no reason why. You're overthinking this.
DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44599 Posts
May 20 2012 01:06 GMT
#4
I think you're confusing:

"I spend so much time on TeamLiquid that I never spend any time actually playing StarCraft"

with

"I don't learn anything helpful on TeamLiquid so it hurts my performance in StarCraft."
"There is nothing more satisfying than looking at a crowd of people and helping them get what I love." ~Day[9] Daily #100
Whatson
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States5356 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-20 01:17:29
May 20 2012 01:16 GMT
#5
The only way TL would have you playing worse is if you are listening to terrible advice, which is a possibility. There's a reason why you pay close attention to the blue-highlighted pieces of advice, and disregard most of the newer posters. If you're saying that because TL offers "so much information at once" you get worse and worse at SC2, and you support your idea with the evidence that you just broke a X-loss streak because you took a break from TL...I'm sorry, you haven't laddered enough. It's so common for me to lose seven or eight games in a row, and then go another win-streak just as long. It's completely unrelated to TL.
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MountainDewJunkie
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States10341 Posts
May 20 2012 01:17 GMT
#6
On May 20 2012 10:06 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I think you're confusing:

"I spend so much time on TeamLiquid that I never spend any time actually playing StarCraft"

with

"I don't learn anything helpful on TeamLiquid so it hurts my performance in StarCraft."

True, but I would argue that too much of either thing could greatly affect one's "get the fuck outside once in a while and live" time.
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Yoshi Kirishima
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States10347 Posts
May 20 2012 01:18 GMT
#7
agreed with the others, plus 7 games is good but coincidence also plays a part
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.Sic.
Profile Joined February 2011
Korea (South)497 Posts
May 20 2012 01:22 GMT
#8
On May 20 2012 10:06 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I think you're confusing:

"I spend so much time on TeamLiquid that I never spend any time actually playing StarCraft"

with

"I don't learn anything helpful on TeamLiquid so it hurts my performance in StarCraft."


It's true that TL doesn't teach anything helpful though
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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-20 01:32:07
May 20 2012 01:31 GMT
#9
TL is what you make of it. If you spend the time learning strategies, builds, tactics, etc. you will improve. If you make practice partner friends, you will improve. If you learn to learn to stick with it, you will improve. TL can help or hurt depending on whether you take sound advice, I suppose, but all in all being part of TL shouldn't really be to your sc skills' detriment provided you're here at least partially for sc and aren't silly.
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ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
May 20 2012 01:43 GMT
#10
On May 20 2012 09:54 kamkerx wrote:
no see youre linking two things in your mind together that have no real connection.


Exactly. Don't be superstitious about TL.net or any other website. Sometimes, you just need to take a break from laddering to slow down, because it's very demanding.

Also, think about this:

a = 1
b = 1
c = 1

If you subtract a from b, the variable c is unaffected. The variable c remains constant, even if you "feel" as though it has changed. The interaction between a and b have nothing to do with c.

In this same case

a = your time
b = your ladder success
c = teamliquid

Teamliquid remains constant, whereas your time and ladder success have fluctuated in value.
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Immaterial
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Canada510 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-20 01:54:18
May 20 2012 01:51 GMT
#11
Correlation does not imply causation. There are so many other factors that were at play when you broke your losing streak that its pretty difficult to declare a causal link between not browsing TL and playing SC2 better. There is definitely something to be said about actually playing the game versus just reading guides, but directly linking your performance to whether or not you read some threads on a forum is kind of silly.

edit: clarity
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mobius_1
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United Kingdom2763 Posts
May 20 2012 02:32 GMT
#12
On May 20 2012 10:17 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2012 10:06 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
I think you're confusing:

"I spend so much time on TeamLiquid that I never spend any time actually playing StarCraft"

with

"I don't learn anything helpful on TeamLiquid so it hurts my performance in StarCraft."

True, but I would argue that too much of either thing could greatly affect one's "get the fuck outside once in a while and live" time.

Why would anyone want to do that?

But yeah, moderation is best.
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Th1rdEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1074 Posts
May 20 2012 11:37 GMT
#13
Yah... teamliquid probably had nothing to do with it.

Ever hear the saying about you don't know what you have till it's gone?

My guess is that you were yearning to play StarCraft2 because it was "taken away", a thing you once took for granted or felt frustrated with. Your mindset was more than likely much more excited and positive since you couldn't play for a few days after normally playing daily or reading about it daily.

Positive mindset = good results.. a similar thing happened to me after taking a week off of ladder. My record for the day back was 10-3
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Angel_
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1617 Posts
May 20 2012 14:43 GMT
#14
It's not TL, it's "not wasting time looking at kittens on the internet and actually practicing".

I know that for the next month I'm probably going to have no internet. And after that I might also have no internet. So I figure I'm going to get a shitload of offline practice because I won't actually have anything else to do with my computer. I might also go to the gym more.
Deleted User 255289
Profile Joined March 2012
281 Posts
May 20 2012 20:38 GMT
#15

No, it probably doesn't have any correlation.

It's not uncommon to have 5-10 game lose streaks followed by 5-10 game losing streaks and have it repeat.

Think about this: why would TL make you play worse? There is no reason why. You're overthinking this.
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OneBaseKing
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Afghanistan412 Posts
May 21 2012 00:28 GMT
#16
Team Liquid was the factor, but you guys are right, I listened to really bad advice from people who are bad at the game. It's my fault for listening to them at first place, but my gosh, it's making me angry. I can't believe I was stupid enough to follow really shitty advice. I'm realizing I listened to so much crap from Team Liquid. Almost all of the guides are pure garbage for me even some of the ones from recommended threads thread.
mrGRAPE
Profile Joined November 2011
Singapore293 Posts
May 21 2012 02:37 GMT
#17
It's called an Illusory Correlation. Go look it up.
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heha
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Australia425 Posts
May 21 2012 02:57 GMT
#18
Sigh (because like almost everyone else I too believe visitng TL can't really be a factor in playing worse), for the sake of argument could you at least tell us what 'bad advice' from TL you were following? Maybe you're right, but hopefully that sort of thing should be weeded out with the new stricter guidelines coming into place in the strategy forums.
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imanoobcs
Profile Joined January 2012
184 Posts
May 21 2012 06:13 GMT
#19
TL is only detrimental in the fact that I see a funny cheese build and decide to try it. It usually ends with me crying tears of defeat.
Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
May 21 2012 06:51 GMT
#20
Not nearly as much as retarded patches and Diablo 3.
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