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Hey guys, random monologue time.
I've been diamond since season one. I've, at the very least, played my placement match in each season, but my level of activity has fluctuated haphazardly. Due to the usual mundane constraints of school and other interests, my ladder and practice time has been severely restricted. However, I was all set on using this summer as my chance to get to masters, especially because on August 15th I'm going away for at least six months, and I won't be able to play ANY starcraft for that time period. I felt that this could well be my last chance to get masters, ever. For all I know, by the time I get back I won't care about masters anymore, and I'll have worked for seven seasons (with varying amounts of actual effort) for nothing. So, there I was, all set on finally achieving masters.
Cue the queen buff. Suddenly, terrans disappear from the ladder. Without getting into any significant balance arguments, we can all agree that Terran is no longer in the same situation they were one or two months ago, and even then I was struggling to beat high diamond. How would I be able to get to masters now? I could barely beat diamond zergs, how would I ever even compete with masters zergs? needless to say, my confidence on achieving my goal plummeted. I resigned myself to the chance of failing, and staying diamond for another season, maybe forever.
I spent almost a week barely laddering or practicing at all. I couldn't get myself to try, with the prospect of failure so blatant and the excuse of Zerg OP being so available. Everywhere I looked I saw QQ backing me up, bolstering my arguments towards giving up. It didn't look good, to say the least. I assume this is what idra felt like in the early GSLs, with all the pressure on him to perform and all the easy excuses ripe for the taking. The game wasn't even fun for me anymore, as it didn't seem at all likely that I would be able to meet my goal.
However, I then spent a few days doing nothing but watching pro streams. And suddenly, the game seemed fun again. Sure maybe I wouldn't make my goal, but wouldn't it be fun to try out some of those cool builds? So I started playing again, and really got into it. Tonight I finally made masters. After seven seasons of mediocrity, I am now at the slightly-less-mediocre level (if masters is even a measure of anything asides for blizzard's random lines of demarcation).
Why am I making this post? I'm not sure to be honest, just want to get this off my chest. And all you Terran players out there, stop QQing and start playing! If playing doesn't seem like fun, watch streams. See pros do things that never occurred to you, or things that you could never pull off. It will motivate you to improve for the sake of improving. It worked for me.
*Insert cliched GLHF variation here*
 
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And all you Terran players out there, stop QQing and start playing!
Nah, keep QQing. Terran is too weak and cannot win and thats about it, don't play until Blizzard patches them back to their glory (bunker including). Why be so positive.
You know like that one time in Broodwars long ago, when nobody played Terran and a certain Terran player called SlayerS_Boxer kept QQing instead of playing, posting in forums about how bad terran was instead of trying to come up with good strategies, and thats why nobody knows him now. Or like Liquid_Taeja did in MLG Arena just recently, when he downright refused to participate if Blizzard won't fix Terran, because it's impossible to win, remember? Just happened, recently, last weekend?
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This feels a bit weird to read, because I'm in a very similar situation. Totally unmotivated to play, but I just watched STHack's stream for an hour or so, and watching his play really made me want to play again. Nice read, 5/5.
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On July 25 2012 13:01 -Aura- wrote:
Hey guys, random monologue time.
I've been diamond since season one. I've, at the very least, played my placement match in each season, but my level of activity has fluctuated haphazardly. Due to the usual mundane constraints of school and other interests, my ladder and practice time has been severely restricted. However, I was all set on using this summer as my chance to get to masters, especially because on August 15th I'm going away for at least six months, and I won't be able to play ANY starcraft for that time period. I felt that this could well be my last chance to get masters, ever. For all I know, by the time I get back I won't care about masters anymore, and I'll have worked for seven seasons (with varying amounts of actual effort) for nothing. So, there I was, all set on finally achieving masters.
Cue the queen buff. Suddenly, terrans disappear from the ladder. Without getting into any significant balance arguments, we can all agree that Terran is no longer in the same situation they were one or two months ago, and even then I was struggling to beat high diamond. How would I be able to get to masters now? I could barely beat diamond zergs, how would I ever even compete with masters zergs? needless to say, my confidence on achieving my goal plummeted. I resigned myself to the chance of failing, and staying diamond for another season, maybe forever.
I spent almost a week barely laddering or practicing at all. I couldn't get myself to try, with the prospect of failure so blatant and the excuse of Zerg OP being so available. Everywhere I looked I saw QQ backing me up, bolstering my arguments towards giving up. It didn't look good, to say the least. I assume this is what idra felt like in the early GSLs, with all the pressure on him to perform and all the easy excuses ripe for the taking. The game wasn't even fun for me anymore, as it didn't seem at all likely that I would be able to meet my goal.
However, I then spent a few days doing nothing but watching pro streams. And suddenly, the game seemed fun again. Sure maybe I wouldn't make my goal, but wouldn't it be fun to try out some of those cool builds? So I started playing again, and really got into it. Tonight I finally made masters. After seven seasons of mediocrity, I am now at the slightly-less-mediocre level (if masters is even a measure of anything asides for blizzard's random lines of demarcation).
Why am I making this post? I'm not sure to be honest, just want to get this off my chest. And all you Terran players out there, stop QQing and start playing! If playing doesn't seem like fun, watch streams. See pros do things that never occurred to you, or things that you could never pull off. It will motivate you to improve for the sake of improving. It worked for me.
*Insert cliched GLHF variation here*
It is partially that you improved and partially the fact that today's master zerg were yesterday's gold zergs. They are still gold mechanics wise but as we know, infestors are nice. However, if you hit weird timings or outright cheese them which is something you should do every game until Blizz decides to finally nerf zerg, you will find out that they are still the gold zergs of yesterday, even worse, because playing an imba race for so long made them retain their mechanics of a 3 year old one handed girl with polio.
Gj in getting to masters, though.
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+ Show Spoiler +On July 25 2012 14:52 Sejanus wrote:Nah, keep QQing. Terran is too weak and cannot win and thats about it, don't play until Blizzard patches them back to their glory (bunker including). Why be so positive. You know like that one time in Broodwars long ago, when nobody played Terran and a certain Terran player called SlayerS_Boxer kept QQing instead of playing, posting in forums about how bad terran was instead of trying to come up with good strategies, and thats why nobody knows him now. Or like Liquid_Taeja did in MLG Arena just recently, when he downright refused to participate if Blizzard won't fix Terran, because it's impossible to win, remember? Just happened, recently, last weekend?
im quite sure boxer played protoss untill later patches of terran. (i think it was the dropship speed patch) though im not certain when he switched im positive terran was seriously bad during the early stages of bw.
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Congrats on masters. I honestly don't feel like the patch changed TvZ for us regular Joes on ladder. At the pro level, it's incredibly hard for terran to deal with a map entirely covered by creep at 15:00, but have you ever seen that in master league? Most zergs I face don't even mass queens, and even if they do, their creep spread usually still sucks. I do think the patch was unnecessary and I hate Blizzard's balance philosophy of shrinking the pool of viable strategies with every patch, but it's no excuse for losing games on the ladder.
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Disappointed thought was girl blog..
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On July 25 2012 17:36 Entertaining wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On July 25 2012 14:52 Sejanus wrote:Nah, keep QQing. Terran is too weak and cannot win and thats about it, don't play until Blizzard patches them back to their glory (bunker including). Why be so positive. You know like that one time in Broodwars long ago, when nobody played Terran and a certain Terran player called SlayerS_Boxer kept QQing instead of playing, posting in forums about how bad terran was instead of trying to come up with good strategies, and thats why nobody knows him now. Or like Liquid_Taeja did in MLG Arena just recently, when he downright refused to participate if Blizzard won't fix Terran, because it's impossible to win, remember? Just happened, recently, last weekend? im quite sure boxer played protoss untill later patches of terran. (i think it was the dropship speed patch) though im not certain when he switched im positive terran was seriously bad during the early stages of bw.
He switched when the Reaver got nerfed (they don't always hit units)
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why so many haters? congrats bro
i play zerg and i only dream of masters
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I am kinda proud to say I play Terran still. The majority of the people I play are actually Protoss players. I get a TvT every now and there. I got my icon for 1000 terran solo wins and i am pretty proud of that. I find myself playing anywhere from 1-5 games on the ladder now adays. But lately I haven't had much fun on SC 2 with the ladder, custom games are fun. I play enough to keep what little skill I have refreshed.
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I just find it funny how the ladder is suddenly void of Terran.
And the few that I do play against give me responses of "Zerg so OP" "fucking patch buff" "queens op"
I don't even make extra queens, I play ZvT Muta Ling Bling like I'm back in 2011 or some shit, why do all these diamond league terrans feel that the reason they're losing is because queens have got 2 extra range? It's not because of that it's because they refuse to improve themselves and would much rather blame their shortcomings in macro and micro on a balance patch that has changed very little below the pro level
/rant over but I feel your pain and congrats, Diamond since season 1 and still waiting, I have these moments where I'll reach rank 1 diamond and start beating Masters and then I just drop drop drop and lose interest and the cycle repeats (must be like 6 times now), currently playing a lot of Dota until I find my SC love again
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Thanks for all the replies! To all the people still in diamond, keep pushing. You'll get there soon. One thing I forgot: Get a team and friends who can practice with you or give you advice. Otherwise you'll lose to some dumb shit and have no clue how to beat it. Pinpointing specific problems you have and then grinding out practice games and focusing on that problem is a great way to get better. For example, I was having a really hard time vs Protoss allins and special tactics, so I got a masters friend of mine to play 15 games with me alternating between greedy builds and crazy allins. I'm still not great vs protoss shenanigans, but I'm definitely much better than I was before.
On July 25 2012 14:52 Sejanus wrote:Nah, keep QQing. Terran is too weak and cannot win and thats about it, don't play until Blizzard patches them back to their glory (bunker including). Why be so positive. You know like that one time in Broodwars long ago, when nobody played Terran and a certain Terran player called SlayerS_Boxer kept QQing instead of playing, posting in forums about how bad terran was instead of trying to come up with good strategies, and thats why nobody knows him now. Or like Liquid_Taeja did in MLG Arena just recently, when he downright refused to participate if Blizzard won't fix Terran, because it's impossible to win, remember? Just happened, recently, last weekend?
So...you agree with keep playing? Getting some mixed messages here lol...
On July 25 2012 18:07 ShadowDrgn wrote:
Congrats on masters. I honestly don't feel like the patch changed TvZ for us regular Joes on ladder. At the pro level, it's incredibly hard for terran to deal with a map entirely covered by creep at 15:00, but have you ever seen that in master league? Most zergs I face don't even mass queens, and even if they do, their creep spread usually still sucks. I do think the patch was unnecessary and I hate Blizzard's balance philosophy of shrinking the pool of viable strategies with every patch, but it's no excuse for losing games on the ladder.
Actually most of the zergs I play do go for 6 queens, and many of them have great creep spread. Not quite full map at 15:00, but very in-your-face, expansion-blocking creep spread lol. I don't think the patch affected us as much as GM of course, but it allowed the zerg a little more safety to squeeze out those couple of extra drones, which really adds up over the course of a game.
On July 25 2012 18:40 nihoh wrote:
Disappointed thought was girl blog..
Next time 
On July 25 2012 22:38 Denzil wrote:
I just find it funny how the ladder is suddenly void of Terran.
And the few that I do play against give me responses of "Zerg so OP" "fucking patch buff" "queens op"
I don't even make extra queens, I play ZvT Muta Ling Bling like I'm back in 2011 or some shit, why do all these diamond league terrans feel that the reason they're losing is because queens have got 2 extra range? It's not because of that it's because they refuse to improve themselves and would much rather blame their shortcomings in macro and micro on a balance patch that has changed very little below the pro level
/rant over but I feel your pain and congrats, Diamond since season 1 and still waiting, I have these moments where I'll reach rank 1 diamond and start beating Masters and then I just drop drop drop and lose interest and the cycle repeats (must be like 6 times now), currently playing a lot of Dota until I find my SC love again
Watch some pro zerg streams to get the exact timings down, and then try out making more queens. They are actually pretty good, and will, probably expedite your way into masters. xD
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Grats on masters, you have the rest of your life to play Starcraft too, if you so choose.
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On July 26 2012 01:49 Beorning wrote:
Grats on masters, you have the rest of your life to play Starcraft too, if you so choose.
Key words: If I so choose. Who knows what my interests will be like in a year? I've previously gone through stages of infatuation that didn't last, so I'm self aware enough to understand that regardless of how much I enjoy sc2 now, in a year I may think it's silly or dumb.
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