EPTWhen Starcraft II came out, I was crashing at my brothers house. He had always been the Starcraft player out of the two of us, but thanks to Void Rays being quite good I managed to get placed into Platinum with a strategy that was based around getting a secret base early, and putting all my tech in that secret base. It worked especially well on the dreaded Xel'Naga Caverns. After achieving this right out the gate, my big brother being placed into gold, I felt it an achievement enough, and quit playing 1v1 (focused on 3v3 and 4v4 with friends).
Late that year my brother stumbled on to this beautiful website known as teamliquid.net. With this was my introduction into the world of Starcraft, not only is it not just a game, but a community! Destiny was my introduction into Starcraft II streams, and I watched him daily. After some time I heard the subject of MLG come up into conversation.
This showed me the idea of professional Starcraft II. I had heard of Halo professional gaming, and knew of the Korean scene for BW, but never thought there was a Global existence! Finding this out, the fire within my competitive spirit started to burn! I wanted to get good at this game, not to be able to compete at a pro level, but to show I can be good at something that is considered a profession. With this reintroduction into 1v1 I quickly fell through the ranks, and landed in silver. Such a painful experience for myself, but then again, it meant I had more to improve on.
Following the pro scene like a true fan, at this point I was showing improvement, and doing my best to steal the builds of the pros. Platinum was like a warm embrace once again, until the unexpected happened. I had to accept the 4-Gate as a good strategy, even though I hated it, it was my best way to get up the ranks. Then it got nerfed. Back to gold I went. I hated Starcraft for that! Why take away my only strategy? I thought I was the shit! Screw this game, I thought, and we parted ways once more.
Finding a love for BFBC2, I found a game I could be better then most at. Spending my time away from playing the game I loved to watch for one I could play. Now the question of when I actually came back to the game? Around the same time I made my popularized SC2 Mix.
I had found about the Playhem Daily and z33k tournements, and knowing I could compete in a tournement setting, I felt it was time to buckle down again. I acquired practise partners and began playing as frequently as I could. Winning a few gold league tournements, I managed to work my way back home to platinum. Getting second and third in two different Playhem Dailies were achieved by giving up on ladder to just practise with friends. Once school got busy for me though I found it hard to keep it up, and at the worst time I had improved enough to reach the beauty of Diamond league. To be in the top 20% of players in the world! The top where I dipped in and out of for the last 5 seasons. 5 seasons, where I trended from never building a Collosus in PvT, to adopting a White-Ra inspired Warp Prism 2 pronged attack, to sticking with Zealot Archon. From continually cheese in PvP (I know, I still do it pretty often now, I just hate that match up) to playing 1 in 10 games of PvP that aren't cheese. From 6 gate timing pushes in PvZ, to a 1-1-1 sort of style, to now rarely doing the same build twice.
Finally becoming active in McMaster's CSL team (as a co-manager) I finally reached this great milestone! Playing ladder tonight, I faced up against a mid leagued Masters Zerg. From the point the game started, I could tell he was either first in Diamond, or infact a Master Leaguer. After 20 minutes of proxy hatches, Sentry drops, Muta-Ling vs Blink Stalker microing, I multi prong attacked my way into taking down my first Master Leauge opponent. Now second in my division. Maybe next season we get Masters?
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