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Dear Community,
as always, when I post on Teamliquid, I come up with a new gaming related challenge.
The last two times, Diablo 3 Hardcore Speed runs and Path of Exile Hardcore Speed runs were the results.
This time, it will be a challenge that will be for myself the last step to go when it comes to gaming. I was a competitive player in all games since I started playing video games.
Now it is time to compete in the hardest game out there: Starcraft 2.
As I speak, my Starcraft 2 game count is around 1,7k~ - Master in all Team-Brackets and Diamond in 1on1, but I never played it really hardcore nor aimed to be good at it.
The Challenge: Make it to Grandmaster in the next 2,5 Months.
If there are any people, that would like to support me, train with me or coach me - I appreciate some help, but its not mandatory to achieve my goal.
I will post every few days an update how my progress goes and in which ways my game play improves.
Some statistics I want to keep track of:
- SQ values
- APM
- Winratio
- Tactic related information
Schedule per day:
- 4x 2h practice
- 2h~ replay analysis
- 1~h Workout
From time to time my games will also be streamed on:
twitch.tv/gg_nore
Lets see how it goes 
P.S. There will be rage, much rage
 
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Ha, this sounded far fetched, but then I opened your stream.
Protoss, and NA? Doable^^.
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I suggest you get very good at cannon rushing/cheese.
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My initial reaction was negative, but now, I actually want you to hit GM so I can document your progress and send it to David Kim once you hit GM
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Yes, yes, most excellent. This is one particularly intriguing casus - Leris Protossis Germanicus. I shall observe its progress with scientific curiosity to learn more about its behaviour within its natural habitat.
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On July 12 2013 10:01 Harajuku wrote:
Yes, yes, most excellent. This is one particularly intriguing casus - Leris Protossis Germanicus. I shall observe its progress with scientific curiosity to learn more about its behaviour within its natural habitat.
this
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You already posted this blog. Why are you posting it again?
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On July 12 2013 11:08 aike wrote:
You already posted this blog. Why are you posting it again?
it got moved and i couldnt manage it.
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I guess it depends if up till now you've been focusing on solid play or just doing abusive builds. Frankly, though, I'll be very surprised if you can hit GM in 2.5 months, even if you do stick to your schedule (which looks very difficult to stick to). Good luck though.
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I highly recommend you don't have scheduled replay analysis. Do it while you play. Every time you lose just load up the replay at 4x speed and slow down for engagements maybe and just take a few notes on what you could've done better and what holes there are in your play that your opponent took advantage of in that particular advantage.
Even if it seems obvious, watch the replay. You'll pick up on things much better in review than what you figure happened while you were playing.
You should also definitely get other people to look at your replays, not even necessarily good people too, any second opinion helps.
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On July 12 2013 18:03 Trufflez wrote:
I highly recommend you don't have scheduled replay analysis. Do it while you play. Every time you lose just load up the replay at 4x speed and slow down for engagements maybe and just take a few notes on what you could've done better and what holes there are in your play that your opponent took advantage of in that particular advantage.
Even if it seems obvious, watch the replay. You'll pick up on things much better in review than what you figure happened while you were playing.
You should also definitely get other people to look at your replays, not even necessarily good people too, any second opinion helps.
Hard to find people who sacrifice their own time to help others improve in starcraft o:
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Seriously, you might not even make masters.
This is really disrespectful to people who have tried to make gm since 2010.
Everyone who takes sc2 seriously wants gm, none of the 15000+ people with mastersleague and double your games makes a blog about it.
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On July 12 2013 23:12 Ler wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2013 18:03 Trufflez wrote:
I highly recommend you don't have scheduled replay analysis. Do it while you play. Every time you lose just load up the replay at 4x speed and slow down for engagements maybe and just take a few notes on what you could've done better and what holes there are in your play that your opponent took advantage of in that particular advantage.
Even if it seems obvious, watch the replay. You'll pick up on things much better in review than what you figure happened while you were playing.
You should also definitely get other people to look at your replays, not even necessarily good people too, any second opinion helps. Hard to find people who sacrifice their own time to help others improve in starcraft o:
You shouldn't really expect people to come here and give you tips, you should go into the strategy forum, read the stuff that is posted there and then post some questions / replays of your own.
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i hope you do achieve this because it would be an incredible feat, but is somewhat flawed. Grandmaster has 200 spots. That means you may have the mmr to be a grandmaster and should be in that 200 but the system doesn't allow you in. You should probably have some sort of contingency plan for this. With that said, though, i don't think it is possible
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On July 12 2013 23:12 Ler wrote:Show nested quote +On July 12 2013 18:03 Trufflez wrote:
I highly recommend you don't have scheduled replay analysis. Do it while you play. Every time you lose just load up the replay at 4x speed and slow down for engagements maybe and just take a few notes on what you could've done better and what holes there are in your play that your opponent took advantage of in that particular advantage.
Even if it seems obvious, watch the replay. You'll pick up on things much better in review than what you figure happened while you were playing.
You should also definitely get other people to look at your replays, not even necessarily good people too, any second opinion helps. Hard to find people who sacrifice their own time to help others improve in starcraft o:
It's actually very easy, tons of people make [H] posts in SC2 strategy with replays asking for advice/tips, and tons of people are happy to help.
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Day 12:
Mechanics practice
- > Playing without sound to improve map awareness.
- > New hot keys.
- > faster/more accurate boxing.
- > Less Scrolling / More Screen Positions.
- > Control Groups reworked.
live now
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Day 13:
Macro Practice
live now
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Two weeks... now that's a start. Will you give us a small recap maybe?
e: I took a look at your vod at twitch entitled "Day 14 macro practice"... it's 6 hours long.
>3hrs is you playing Diablo and fooling around with some Path of Exile stuff... and the one game I watch is you going proxy 4gate vs some other P who is actually trying to macro up and expand.
Wow... like what is that?
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Continue practice today, since it was like 38°C here for the last week, impossible to play starcraft...
Day 23
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How can it be too hot to play a video game....... You're not outside in the sun
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Can you only bump this thread when there are significant updates? Instead of just posting the day?
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Yea, please only bump if you have anything to say. An update on your progress would be nice rather than just mentioning what day of the challenge it is.
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Maybe adding the evolution of your play in the OP could help us follow your progress - or absence of progress - , aswell.
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