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Time to get back into the regular flow again.It's been a wild ride for the last 6 months since I travelled to win ACL Melbourne. 1 month later I won WCS Australia. The day after WCS finished I travelled to Cologne, Germany, to compete at IEM Gamecom. 1 month later I was in Korea competing at IeSF and spent the next 5 weeks training in the PRIME teamhouse and competing in the most recent code A qualifiers. After less than a week back in Sydney from Korea, I was off to Singapore to compete at yet another IEM.
Through all of this I've made many friends and met so many of my idols in eSports. I've had the chance to commentate with Day9, Artosis and Jorosar. I had the chance to sit on the analysis desk for the entire finals day of a major tournament (IEM Singapore - thanks Carmac). I've gone from a player who could almost never take games from top international players to a level where I feel I can seriously contend with the best. At Gamecom I went 1-10 map score only taking a map off feast. I felt like most of the series were incredibly close but somewhere in the mid-to-late game my multitasking and experience would flounder and I would get completely outclassed when I was holding leads vs MVP, Nestea and Violet.
A few months later I had progressed in ability to making it through multiple code A players in the KR Iron Squid qualifier, having a close 1-2 set with MKP in the Fnatic Storm Invitational (epic game 3 on antiga). I even got to help Creator prepare for DRG in GSL going 50/50 with him, it didn't help much in the ro32 where he lost, but in the ro16 Creator crushed DRG! At IEM I managed a close victory over Vortix, fell to MC in a close set and was ultimately knocked out by Hasu in a series which I thought was much more one-sided than apparently it was.
I just landed back in Sydney yesterday and can't wait to get back into coaching. I am truly sorry to my students that I've neglected my coaching responsibilities over the last months. Whilst I'm glad that my focus on training has allowed me so much travel and great opportunities, I really miss streaming, teaching strategies, mechanics and build-orders. Also I feel my understanding of the game has increased so much and I've identified a variety of ways to improve my coaching at a fundamental level. Most importantly I am looking to be more adaptive to each individual I coach and whilst I will still give out comprehensive notes, the coaching sessions themselves won't be as focused on "setting out homework" and more on practical implementation and deep understanding of what we're working on.
So this is where I'm at guys. I'm back home and looking to get back into the flow of coaching, streaming and producing build-order and strategy guides. Anyone out there who has coaching paid that they never redeemed please contact me to arrange a time. Anyone who was considering coaching with me but didn't get the chance because I went travelling, if you're still interested please contact me now! Anyone who is just stumbling across this blog and is interested feel free to tune in and watch my coaching all streamed at www.twitch.tv/ttpig - if you like what you see and need some help on ladder than shoot me a message and we can set up a time.
Contact: jkrensel@hotmail.com
Streaming schedule:
AUS/Asia Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm AEDT
Europe Monday-Friday 2am-7am CET (will try to do some sessions in CET daytime TBA)
America Sunday-Thursday 8pm-1am EST
Thanks to everyone for your support. I've received so many supportive comments on twitter and facebook over the last 6 months and it has meant the world to me. Even just by joining in on my stream-chat or tweeting at me you do me a world of kindness and make me so happy to be following my dream as a progamer!
