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Chiyosuke
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States51 Posts
February 19 2013 05:42 GMT
#1
I don't know if this blog is really going to get off the ground, but I wanted to just make one to keep a record of the things that I go through in my journey. I feel like I can do a blog-type thing daily so I'm going to try and do this as regularly as possible.

Self Intro:

I'm 22 years old, a college student that's studying Computer Science with a focus on games. I'm in my junior year and I only have around a year and a half to go before I start looking for a job and things like that. I started playing some computer games when I was in middle school and since then I got pretty hooked. The original DotA that was played on WCIII was my favorite thing to do, even though I was absolutely terrible at the game. I would spend hours and hours playing with friends, and talk with them about strategy and how badly I fail at the game. I got into World of Warcraft a little, and I was at a pretty competitive stage after a few years of playing. I never got to the rank 1, please sponsor me, type level, but I was still competing with the best on the battle group at least. I continued to play it, but more casually so I ended up dropping in skill quite drastically.

The Start:

Somewhere in the middle of this I get a beta invitation for SCII, and I tried playing it. I thought it was amazingly fun because of how much skill was involved with it, and how a single player can do so much in a game to win. As I learned more and more about the pro-scene and what Brood War players did, I was enthralled with the entire idea that there were actual "professional" gamers. Whenever I had heard the term "pro" before I thought it just meant somebody was very skilled at a game, not getting paid for it. I always thought it would be awesome if I could do that, but I never thought that I could really do it.

I played the beta and climbed my way up from copper league (that was below bronze) all the way up to diamond. Once I got to diamond I just stopped playing completely because I didn't want to drop. This is something that I regret a little bit.

One thing to note about me is that I'm a very competitive person. I have been since I was little, and I also have a lot of pride that gets in the way sometimes (I've been working on this part). The competitive part of me realized that I get infuriated at myself when I lose. Why didn't I see this coming, why are you so slow... etc etc... Somewhere in my brain I think that I realized this so I didn't want to play the game anymore, that way I didn't have to feel frustrated. There's no time for that anymore though.

The Actual Game

I started to get in and out of the game when the release hit. I was placed into platinum and then I was shortly promoted to diamond without much difficulty. That's when I really just stopped.

I started focusing more on WoW, and HoN again and really never touched the game again because I thought that I'm good enough, even though Master's league was released sometime shortly after I was placed into Diamond again.

A year or two passed with me just casually playing the game with a bad case of ladder anxiety. I would sit down for a game or two and play and the second I won I would stop. If I lost I would get persistent and keep on playing until I won, but most of the time I would get frustrated to a point where I wasn't playing optimally.

I eventually stopped playing WoW as much and really focused on getting better at SCII. When I got back into it, I realized how bad I was and what I really should be doing. I started doing a couple of strategies varying by matchup, and I would practice a good 20 games a day because I didn't have that much school work. With a lot of hard work, effort, and practice I was able to power my way up to Masters League.

I stopped playing again because of my stupid "competitiveness" and pride, and I became very rusty. I was hooked on custom games, and I did everything to practice the game without actually playing it (marine splitting challenge, macro / micro mini games). I realized that this only helped to a certain point, but I was such a huge bitch that I couldn't do much besides that.

After eventually wanting to play the game again, I went on ladder and dropped like a rock back to diamond league for a long time. It was a hard grind learning strats and things like that, but it was rewarding as well. At some point when I was playing ladder I felt that it didn't matter what I did as long as I macroed well. I soon realized that I needed to factor in what my opponent was doing as well (man I was terrible).

I was able to get back into Masters league just in time for it to not matter that much anymore. Heart of the Swarm Beta is released and I got a key.

I was able to get into diamond again in HOTS, but it was a much harder road. The players in HOTS seem much better than the ones in WoL, and I'll just try to deal with that for now. I haven't been able to watch the pro-scene playing HOTS that much so I've just been playing around with my own builds and things like that.

The Realization

As I transferred to the college that I'm in right now, I sat down and realized that the time for games is coming to a close. I'm almost in my last year of college and that will be the end of me just playing games. Sure I'll still be able to play them in my free time, and I'll be able to program them as well, but I know that I won't have as much time as I do right now. I'm a generally lazy person, so I would always watch an asian Drama, or waste time on reddit / imgur constantly, but I don't want to waste my time on that anymore. I want to be good at this game, and I want to stand in front of a crowd receiving a huge check.

This is the last year that I have of college, the last year that I'm going to be fully able to play games, and the last year that I'm going to pursue my dream of being a pro-gamer.

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ItanoCircus
Profile Joined January 2013
United States67 Posts
February 23 2013 08:54 GMT
#2
Chiyosuke, I support you and your dream. As long as you put aside all other non-essential efforts and concentrate, I've faith you can do it.

It won't be an easy road. With HotS coming online you're entering a new world and territory against people already severely ahead in terms of skill of even regular Grandmasters. The money will be tight and the the practice will be nearly endless. Instead of practicing until you get it right, you'll be practicing until you no longer get it wrong... hours and hours and hours.

Some people already make it their job to play this game on a professional level. Their living is to play for over eight hours every day, constantly improving and practicing, making small adjustments and getting that much faster, that much better, and that much scarier. If this is your goal, practicing 20 games at 20 minutes apiece is only enough to match their level of effort, their dedication. Your practice HAS to be longer. You have to surpass that group through sheer hours, through a dedication borne of steel.

But I know you can do it.

This is the biggest opportunity you will ever have to break into the professional scene. It may very well be your last chance, it might even be your ONLY chance. Thousands of people are constantly clawing upward for the same goal that you are, through twitch.tv, through guides, here on TL and in the reddit community... but if it matters enough to you that you put in the work, then experience will guide you through.

So I know you can do it.

Whether it's by perfection of the timing attack, being a macro deity, cheese with ease, the highest levels of orthodox play or innovation that cripples all contenders, find what you excel at and push it. Make it perfect. Don't cover up weaknesses so much as exploit your strengths. Buy and grind out new accounts all the way out of Bronze back to GM, over and over and over. You quoted Day[9]? In Daily #100 he talks about how he put more than a half-dozen accounts up to an A+ level in preparation for ONE tournament. Each account only practiced ONE thing endlessly. I'll paraphrase something oft-heard here: I do not fear the man that has practiced ten thousand kicks once, I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times.

Breaking in will bring a lot of slaps from reality (no pun intended). You'll practice and grind and perfect and then be mercilessly shut down by no-names. Your first tournament against noteworthy individuals you'll probably get destroyed. You'll end up as a victim of some professional's stream at some point on the way up.

I'm not telling you that to break your spirit, but to test your resolve. Those are only in-game concerns. What about money and jobs, when you're so close but in four months you need to leave college. Do you stay with SCII or do you leave for the outside world? When you're high GM but never sponsored? When you barely have the money to travel to a tournament you're the darkest horse in? Reality hits your hard bro. But if this is your goal that you hold above all others, it won't matter to you. Eventually... eventually though, that quest will end. You'll have achieved your goal.

And I'll know you did it.

And so will everybody else.

Including yourself.

And when you get to the top? Give a shout-out to me, would you? ^_^ I say 'when', and not 'if'.

Cause hey. You can do it.



Better to be thought a fool and keep your mouth closed than to open it and remove all doubt.
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