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This is part of a longer blog series I am writing. Where I am trying to figure out why I often gg and leave the game way to early. There are also a few other spin-off effects I hope to get out of it.
Read the whole thing here :
http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/Acurus
Day 2.
6 games and 5 wins tonight!
And the only game I lost was the first one, where the game froze and I couldn't play until a few minutes had passed. Actually the replay is bugged to, and I am unable to watch it.
I won't go over the game in any more detail, as I feel there is not much to learn from it.
There where however a few instances where i felt the good old "I-want-to-leave-the-game-now" feeling creep up on me.
In the second game of the night I was up against the evil MiracleMan. I got a little inspired by Snute's ZvT from the Daily last night, so I went for some light roach pressure while taking my third and droning.
However when I got there, I saw no expansion, only a couple of marauders trekking south towards my base. Obviously on move-command. A few seconds later I saw a huge red ball of hellion Marauder at my entrance.
He had moved his army across the map, outside of my vision, and we were now in a base race scenario. The second I saw the red ball outside my base, my heart fell and I just wanted to leave the game.
Hmm, why did I get that feeling?
I guess I got surprised , and realized that my game plan of light pressure at his natural, while freely taking a 3rd and drone drone drone, was not going to happen. I had not planned for anything like this and didn't instantly see an answer to it.
I think that is part of my problem, if I don't know what to do in a certain situation, it is so much easier to leave the game, than to stay in there and try and find a way. It is like I am no longer iNcontroL of the game, and have to play from behind in a game controlled by my opponent.
I also don't want to give my opponent the satisfaction of killing all my units and buildings, I kinda want to cheat him out of the victory by leaving early.. Hehehe, dam I am a weirdo! :D
Anyway, I did not leave the game, and barely won it!
The last game was a close one. Again I got a little surprised by an attack, and he got all the way into my base with hellion, marauder marine. Even killed off my roach warren. And still I didn't leave, or even want to leave. I guess in that game I felt like I still had a chance. And I knew what I had to do to hold it. I didn't know if I would be able to hold it, but it looked like it could be done, and I had a plan for it.
Thinking it through now, seems like a lot of my problems are that I get surprised by stuff. And that gives me that feeling of hopelessness.
Do you guys feel like you get surprised a lot when playing? Or do you have the timings and scouting down to a point where you kinda have a good idea of what is going on?
 
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hey congratz man! you never know when you'll end up winning. 
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Happy to hear you playing out a game that "didn't go according to plan". FFS, scout more! Sacrifice an overlord every now and then just to know what you're up against! (How did you not know the terran had not taken a natural by the time you took a third?!)
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Haha, good point! But everyone takes their natural, it would be silly not to :p
But serious, you are right, I really need to get used to scouting more. I keep forgetting it. But not sure what else I'm thinking about. At least not during that part of the game, since it's all drone drone drone anyway.
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I once played against a protoss who missclicked 1 of his buildings in his main, trapping a probe. Then he canceled the building and placed it off again, canceled it again, typed gg and left, like 6 minutes into the game.
Just don't stress about the game this much, that really sounds like your only problem.
People take this game way too serious. Try playing on a different account or server so rank dosen't matter and just play to get the habbit of playing.
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Thansk for the advice! I actually have 3 accounts (Only one with HotS). But the rank is not really the issue for me. It is more the bad feeling I get when playing a game I know I allready messed up.
Maybe it is all that Across, Elasto Mania and Trackmania gaming that got me to used to restarting after every little misstake. hehe
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I don't feel like I get those strong emotions like surprise when I play. I'm more like (jeez I hate to be this cliche) in the zone. If I see something on the minimap or playing field, I'm just in analytical mode. I think of the things I can do that would give me the best chance of winning and I do them. I'm this way so much -- to the point that if someone starts spamming or BM'ing me or being really stupid, I just mute them and keep playing without hardly thinking about it.
This, of course, prompts quite a few comments which I find mostly amusing. Let me tell you, people do not find it "satisfying" to kill all of your buildings while you have a secret base with 1 tank at it. Unless you think, "..", "gtfo", manner 'gl hf''s, and sarcastic 'you can still win''s are signs of satisfaction.
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I find staying in games after I'm pretty sure I might lose isn't a bad idea. You just need to shift your focus into more of a "what can I learn from this" position rather than a "win at all costs". Practice some micro, try something crazy you wouldn't have tried in a game that you're trying to win no matter what, do everything you can to make your opponents win as annoying and frustratingly hard as possible (this is actually good for BoX series tbh), etc, that kind of stuff. I sometimes also find that letting my opponents destroy my stuff in game without gg'ing right away sometimes makes me more calm rather then just leaving and raging out... gives me time to relax, to realize it's just a game. May sound all cheesy, but it's legit
You're not as bad off as you think OP... If you meet me in person you'd never know, but I have some legit anger issues, and they flare up in sc2 pretty bad... or anything competitive, even watching sports lol Long history with this, 2 broken mice, a broken desk, a shattered rubix cube and a hole in the wall are proof of it in my house, I've also broken a chair and cracked a bench during school sports... many pillows have been yelled into and beds punched... sighh I think I'm just too proud and I take everything as a personal loss, shame and all included... it's ok though, at least it's motivation to improve lol Aaaall gooooooooood lel
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one time I won the game but i was on such a hard tilt i said gg and f10 n and surrendered and lost >_>
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On April 05 2013 05:39 Mementoss wrote:
one time I won the game but i was on such a hard tilt i said gg and f10 n and surrendered and lost >_>
Typical Neil
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@ffadicted : Great advice! I'm not sure I will ever go as far as trying to make my opponents win as annoying as possible. Unless I'm playing for money or something. I just don't want to be that guy hehe.
But staying in, and trying something crazy instead of just leaving sounds like something I should do. And reading about your broken stuff does make me feel a litte better about my own "problems" hehe.
As Day[9] once said. "Playing video games only feels good when it hurts."
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