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Reithan
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States360 Posts
May 22 2012 17:25 GMT
#1
Lately, I've changed a few things with how I've been playing. I found myself going on tilt a few nights and I was considering taking a break from SC2, but instead I decided to take a look at WHY I've gone so long without any real improvement, WHY I was going on tilt, not just that time, but in general. My game WAS tilt. Why?

The reason was, instead of trying to play and learn and get better, I was just trying to play better. It sounds like not a difference. It sounds like "Well, of course you try to play better! What's wrong with that?"

The difference is, you have to get better to play better. You can just go from platinum to masters or even diamond in a single game. I can't just decide "Ok, this game, I'm gonna be perfect at macro and perfect at micro and multitasking and I'm gonna demolish everything put in front of me." You have to work to get there. You have to practice, you have to learn the game, you have to train your responses and your multitasking.

Expecting to just be able to, in a single game, go "Ok, now I'm pro-level," is not just unrealistic, it's setting yourself up to fail, and worse, to rage. You're not gonna do it, but because you're expecting to, and you're falling so short, it puts your skills and self-worth into question. "I was supposed to be awesome that game? What the hell happened? Am I just a scrub??"

So, I stopped obssessing and expecting. I play stupid games with friends. I played some Desert Strike with buddies, played some FFA with lower-league friends, played some 1v1s to try to help them with their builds. Showed them some cool custom maps, like Darglein's Micro Trainer, Darglein's Multitasking Trainer, Multitasking Trainer, Build Order Test Zone, etc.

Also, I've been finding and picking out streams and replays from pros and high masters/gm players I like and going through them and trying to note a lot of stuff like builds, timings, responses and stuff. But I did that before. However, the lack of the usual frustration and intense search for direct answers, I feel like I'm learning more from them.

I've been laddering, but I also changed my ladder methods. Rather than just trying to slam through a set number of games, and obsessing over my performance and the reasons for my wins and losses and analyzing replays as I go...I'm just laddering when I feel 'warm' and just giving a few games my best shot until I don't feel like going anymore.

Oddly, this seems to actually increase the number and frequency of my ladder games, and lessens the amount of games I play 'on tilt'.

Then, rather than obessing with performance as I go and analyzing replays right after that game, I wait until the morning after to look at the replays. I find I'm a lot more able to be objective that way, and when I see a mistake I made, it's easier for me to just note it and think of ways to fix my mistake(s), rather than just raging at myself for being bad and playing the next game even worse.

All this seems to be combining in a way that I feel like I'm actually improving and increasing my skills and maybe I'll even make diamond sometime! That would be awesome.

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http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/Xanthus730 ***** http://www.twitch.tv/reithan
Sajiki
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany522 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-05-22 17:43:19
May 22 2012 17:43 GMT
#2
that is really awesome, i would love to be able to think like that!

keep going.. if i were NA i would immediately request you to practice with me
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dGHaiL
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States177 Posts
May 22 2012 17:57 GMT
#3
Sounds a bit like me!

I played master Zerg for about two seasons before I got bored and decided I would much rather play terran. I haven't played much since, but playing Terran for awhile was nice for me because when I lost I could just laugh it off - I don't actually know how to play terran! WTF am I doing!

But now I'm getting back into master MMR and actually learning a few builds. I'm also getting way more used to the heavier, nicer gaming mouse I bought (death adder) and my APM has skyrocketed. Two days ago, I went on an 9-0 streak against high diamond and mid-master players. I have no idea what happened. I was just wrecking noobs for 3 hours. I actually stayed up until 6am playing because I was so hot.

I'm Wolverine.123 if you ever want to practice sometime! I noticed you didn't say what race you were, but I'd love a zerg practice partner. Anything is good, though ;P
Reithan
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States360 Posts
May 22 2012 18:33 GMT
#4
Xanthus.730 as always, Plat Zerg. I'm online at some point most nights, PST so, depending on your timezone, I might catch you online.

I usually stream when I ladder at http://www.twitch.tv/reithan
My replays auto-upload to http://www.sctemple.com//profiles/1044767-xanthus/

Hopefully I can catch you guys online at some time, don't worry about me being NA, Sajiki - global play is coming in HotS.
http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/Xanthus730 ***** http://www.twitch.tv/reithan
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