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sTsCaboose
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States10 Posts
June 17 2012 20:34 GMT
#1
Hey guys,
So this is my first blog post so i will start by telling a little about myself. I am a Platinum terran player on NA that has played sc2 since season one. I havn't really played competitivly until the start of 2012 when I joined my first team. Now, as I struggle (as many do) to find the motivation to play and improve. This got me thinking what motivates the pros.

Besides the fact that they do it for a living, the main thing I believe is their motivation is the drive of competition. Therefore, I believe if we can give more drive to compete to lower players, then we can have more players trying harder to improve.

I believe if we had a NASL style leauge (for lower players) this could definatly motivate people to imporve because they have more than ladder ranking to work for. Now i see many problems with this idea. For example, how would we manage it? How would we choose which players to let in? What would be the best format? I am researching and working on this myself but any feedback from you guys would be awesome. Also if you are interested in helping do this shoot me a pm.

Thanks guys,
Caboose

Note becasue I dont have anything specific i didn't put it in the tourny section

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Jinsho
Profile Joined March 2011
United Kingdom3101 Posts
June 17 2012 23:05 GMT
#2
There have been several bronze->platinum tournaments before, I am pretty sure. Why don't you have a look through the SC2 tourneys archives to see how other people have organised such tourneys? Set the view to "all" instead of "14 days" to find the older threads.

A major danger for those tournaments is diamond->GM players smurfing, either just for fun or to get at the sweeet prize money. You need to be familiar with Sc2 gears or similar tools and how they can be used to identify players from replays, however, I am guessing that in most cases that won't really help unless you suspect someone in particular.
Cheater23
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States34 Posts
June 18 2012 00:31 GMT
#3
There are many lower level leagues and tournaments out there that one could participate in.

Check out playhem for a perfect example. Sometimes the tournaments in there are a series or something. For example, TeamLXG runs tournaments every tuesday and thursday...They cast and all that fun stuff. Makes for a great time ^-^

I'm sure there are other examples too.
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