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apocriva
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada66 Posts
August 10 2012 01:55 GMT
#1
I played a few games last night and totally didn't have my head in it! I lost outright by playing extremely poorly. One thing to note is that I didn't start off playing by writing a bit of blogging, so it's highly likely that my brain didn't have time to 'tune in' properly before jumping in, and like jumping into a cold pool, my brain was probably a bit numb with shock.

So here we are tonight, in a similar frame of mind where I'm done doing whatever else I was doing tonight and sort-of-feel-like-playing-but-sort-of-not. I was able to crack through that kind of barrier in other aspects of creative life by doing this journal-writing beforehand. Let's see if it can work to crack the barrier with SC2 too.

(A little later...)

Oh hey, I just got promoted to gold! Looks like this whole journal-before-play thing really does help my brain out.

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y0su
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Finland7871 Posts
August 10 2012 03:22 GMT
#2
good job of making sure you were mentally ready and grats on the promotion :D
Azera
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3800 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-10 03:33:41
August 10 2012 03:31 GMT
#3
Good job with gold, tiger! Go get plat!
Check out some great music made by TLers - http://bit.ly/QXYhdb , by intrigue. http://bit.ly/RTjpOR , by ohsea.toc.
CyDe
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States1010 Posts
August 10 2012 05:00 GMT
#4
Haha, great to hear! I always love hearing how people get promoted. And especially to gold, oh man, I don't know about you, but I actually began to have a scrap of respect for my StarCraft play when I finally got that DIVINE promotion. And hey, that's actually a really good idea, to journal or intellectually stimulate yourself before playing a game. Like warming up your mind. I think I'll start doing that.
youtube.com/GamingCyDe-- My totally abandoned youtube channel that I might revisit at some point
101toss
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
3232 Posts
August 10 2012 05:46 GMT
#5
I remember when I was stuck in silver for around 200 games

Tough times
Math doesn't kill champions and neither do wards
RiceAgainst
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States1849 Posts
August 10 2012 06:43 GMT
#6
Congratulations with Gold! It seems like a good idea to warm up the mind with something other than StarCraft, so maybe I'll do that too!
apocriva
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada66 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-11 00:07:47
August 11 2012 00:07 GMT
#7
Thanks for the support everyrone! :D
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