• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 23:14
CEST 05:14
KST 12:14
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
WTL 2023 Summer - Week 6 Recap/Week 7 Preview2Team Liquid Map Contest #18: Voting4[Interview] iRk-AgGe10WTL 2023 Summer - Week 5 Recap/Week 6 Preview6Maru wins Code S Season 1, achieves "6SL"49
Community News
ESL Open Week #177: herO, Clem, Astrea win1Matcherino starts SC2 team with Astrea, Future18ESL Open Week #176: Creator, Clem, Solar win7Alpha X disbands15ESL Open Week #175: ByuN, MaxPax, Solar win1
StarCraft 2
General
Matcherino starts SC2 team with Astrea, Future WTL 2023 Summer - Prediction Game ESL Open Week #177: herO, Clem, Astrea win WTL 2023 Summer - Week 6 Recap/Week 7 Preview trigger Talks: SC2 Balance, Basilisk, Serral...
Tourneys
WardiTV 2023 Opens (Monthly) [WTL 2023] Summer - Week 7 Grand Platypus Open (EPT Asia Region) WardiTV TL Map Contest Tournament #10! [WTL 2023] Summer - Week 6
Strategy
Custom Maps
TLMC#18 Judging Comments and Feedback Thread [M] (2) Magannatha [M] (2) Ultralove [M] (2) Vertigo
External Content
Mutation # 372 Medieval Times Mutation # 371 Never Say Die Mutation # 370 Astigmatism Mutation # 369 Undermined
Brood War
General
Mouse wheel scrolling speed BGH auto balance -> http://bghmmr.com/ Stormgate. The new Starcraft 3? Stork's Protoss Quotes Compendium vol. 1 Chat StarLAN Chicago! August 26-27
Tourneys
BSL 2v2 ProLeague S2 - Day 4 - Sunday 20:00 CEST [Megathread] Daily Proleagues Small VOD Thread 2.0 Artosis vs the World
Strategy
[H] Yet even more questions about DT builds Carriers or arbiters Abusive drop locations on Vermeer
Other Games
General Games
Nintendo Switch Thread Diablo IV FF7 remake for PS4 announced Diablo 4 lvl 100 HC challenge! Frost Giant announce Stormgate
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion Berlin Major 2023
League of Legends
MSI is happening, the thread TSM pausing esports and CLG Dead Building the Future of Sport at Riot Games
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes International Nations Cup - Berlin 2023
Hearthstone
TL Mafia
TL Endures Mafia TL Endures Voting Thread TL Mafia Plays: Diplomacy TL Mafia Community Thread [410]TL.net/forum/mafia Appeal Disambiguation 1.02
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Summer Games Done Quick 2023! NASA and the Private Sector The Games Industry And ATVI
Fan Clubs
The Guru Fan Club INnoVation Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Series you have seen recently... [Manga] One Piece Korean Music Discussion Movie Discussion! Rome (TV Series)
Sports
NBA General Discussion 2022 - 2023 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 McBoner: A hockey love story
World Cup 2022
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 Thread
Tech Support
StarCraft 2 Is Crashing on My PC
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Going for a kidney transp…
Jockmcplop
Atom-Mech (Chapter 4)
Terryberri
Berlin and Balloons!
FuDDx
Unexpected Wholesome SC Mome…
JieXian
Job interview
mantequilla
15 years
Shady Sands
The truth about Final Fan…
jameswatts
Big Bad Battles & Midjourney…
Falling
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 859 users

Me, Starcraft and the road to Masters

Blogs > kollin
Post a Reply
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
June 06 2012 09:06 GMT
#1
I'm not sure why I decided to write this blog post. Maybe it was boredom or frustration. I don't know. But recently I've been getting very frustrated about esports in the UK. It seems everyone and their mother plays COD or Halo and we have maybe 2 or 3 LANs every year in the entire country.

It's just so frustrating to have a strong passion for a game like this, where there are tournaments in which many thousands of dollars can be won and not have anyone I know share that passion. I've tried to show my friends videos of the amazing crowds at MLG and the GSL but they just won't be won over. In their mind this is a game for needs and they'll go back to their ub3r l33t 360 no scopes thanks.

[image loading]
Who wouldn't be won over by that?


I wish I knew the means to boost esports in the UK because I sure as hell have the will. I think this song sums up my feelings the best:



Now I've had that little rant onto the main subject of this post. Recently I came back from a 5 month break from Starcraft 2, because I was a bit burnt out from it. On coming back, I decided to change to Zerg because I wanted a change of scene, having played Terran for over a year and only managing to get plat. That and I couldn't remember any of my build orders.

From what I've played of Zerg, I'm really enjoying it, though there are so many things in my game I need to improve. At a rough estimate, from around 3 days of playing I'm probably at mid gold level, which is ok but nowhere near where I want to be, which is masters of course (start playing this song now).



I feel I have a lot more potential with Zerg because everything just feels a lot more natural. So when I feel confident to start laddering I have decided to start one of those "Road to Masters" blogs, where I'll just analyse my play and maybe get advice from you guys. I know this was a bit of a ramble, but I've been meaning to make a blog like this for a while.




***
Marti
Profile Joined August 2011
552 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-06 10:48:20
June 06 2012 10:48 GMT
#2
This generation of gamers is used to seeing tips pop out on their screen all the time, and console games and competition LOL, that's a joke. You'll never win them over because they don't even know what "difficulty" is. They want to play, do something easy, see a lot of explosions and shiny stuff, and feel good about themselves, feel like they've actually achieved something. Try getting one of them into quakelive, taunt him a bit, dare him to win some duels in QL, we'll see what happens. ( It's free so you still have a chance of getting them to play it ).

Edit : zerg is a pretty good race.
#adun giveafuck - - - "Did this guy just randomly finger me?" - Sayle
dnld12
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States324 Posts
June 06 2012 17:07 GMT
#3
Good luck. Masters took me a long time too :D
When life gives you Stalkers, Get blink.
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-07 07:07:47
June 06 2012 17:32 GMT
#4
On June 07 2012 02:07 dnld12 wrote:
Good luck. Masters took me a long time too :D


Thanks dude :D
qinen
Profile Joined October 2011
United Kingdom10 Posts
June 06 2012 18:20 GMT
#5
I feel you bro, I came to the UK to study and expected to see a eSports scene that is somewhat better than my country. However, it is even worse...maybe it's a question of culture? Most people in the UK go to the pub to socialise during the weekends (And watch football of course), you won't hear someone saying 'hey, I'm heading over to X's house to watch some SC2 wanna come?'
Elect
Profile Joined January 2012
Australia17 Posts
June 08 2012 05:43 GMT
#6
Go go go! Get to Masters! Everyone is watching you now. =P
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
June 08 2012 07:40 GMT
#7
On June 08 2012 14:43 Elect wrote:
Go go go! Get to Masters! Everyone is watching you now. =P


I will start my Road to Masters blog today :D
Elect
Profile Joined January 2012
Australia17 Posts
June 08 2012 07:52 GMT
#8
On June 08 2012 16:40 kollin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2012 14:43 Elect wrote:
Go go go! Get to Masters! Everyone is watching you now. =P


I will start my Road to Masters blog today :D


Cool! gl hf, and I will be following when I can. =)
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
June 08 2012 09:24 GMT
#9
On June 08 2012 16:52 Elect wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 08 2012 16:40 kollin wrote:
On June 08 2012 14:43 Elect wrote:
Go go go! Get to Masters! Everyone is watching you now. =P


I will start my Road to Masters blog today :D


Cool! gl hf, and I will be following when I can. =)

Nice, though I did like 4 or 5 ladder games yesterday, for the most part they weren't very good, so today I HAVE to play good ones ^^
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 5h 46m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
PiGStarcraft382
NeuroSwarm 142
Nina 112
Forgg! 95
StarCraft: Brood War
Artosis1435
ggaemo 324
Shine 248
Shinee 178
Sexy 66
Bale 20
Moletrap 15
Dota 2
420jenkins635
capcasts111
ROOTCatZ28
League of Legends
JimRising 858
Other Games
summit1g13936
shahzam3906
FrodaN1288
WinterStarcraft578
Livibee228
Maynarde199
Mew2King135
Trikslyr113
ViBE103
febbydoto20
RuFF_SC213
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick7865
Dota 2
PGL Dota 2 - Secondary Stream2578
PGL Dota 2 - Main Stream1801
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
ESL CS:GO1468
StarCraft 2
Esl_sc2227
ESL.tv227
StarCraft: Brood War
StarcraftVOD2
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 20 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Hupsaiya 23
• davetesta10
• HKG_Chickenman7
• Kozan
• LaughNgamez Trovo
• Poblha
• Matcherino
• aXEnki
• Migwel
• intothetv
• Gussbus
• Laughngamez YouTube
• IndyKCrew
StarCraft: Brood War
• sscaitournament1
• STPLYoutube
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• BSLYoutube
League of Legends
• Lourlo505
• Stunt337
Other Games
• Scarra174
Upcoming Events
ESL Open Cup
5h 46m
OSC
8h 46m
ESL Open Cup
12h 46m
ESL Open Cup
19h 46m
PassionCraft
3 days
Korean StarCraft League
4 days
BeAsT Cup
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

TT Offline Party
WardiTV TLMC #10
HOTS Unchained
ESL Impact League S3 Finals

Ongoing

FS Mania
KCM Ladies Race Survival 2023 Season 2
KCM Race Survival 2023 Season 2
GRS Season 6
Super Anchor Qualifying S1
Platinum StarCraft League S1
CSL 9: 2023 Summer
BSL 2v2 ProLeague #2
WTL 2023 Summer
Nexus Never Dies #3

Upcoming

Copa Latinoamericana Season 2
ESL Winter
2023 GSL S3: Code S
2023 GSL S2: Code S
HSC XXIII
ESL Summer
LTK Thunderball
Nations Cup 2023
ESL Pro League Season 18
IEM Cologne 2023
BLAST Premier Fall Groups
ESL Challenger Katowice 2023
BLAST Premier Spring Final
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2023 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.