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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.

3.33 stars based on 3 ratings

3.33 stars based on 3 ratings

y0su

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

3800 Posts

August 10 2012 03:31 GMT

#3

Good job with gold, tiger! Go get plat!

CyDe

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.

101toss

3232 Posts

August 10 2012 05:46 GMT

#5

I remember when I was stuck in silver for around 200 games

Tough times

RiceAgainst

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

Canada66 Posts

August 11 2012 00:07 GMT

#7

Thanks for the support everyrone! :D

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