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PiGStarcraft
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Australia987 Posts
August 09 2013 06:58 GMT
#1
Hey guys!

Just wanted to write a quick brag blog! Some people may remember the first blog in a series from about 18 months ago titled "Path to Korean GM" (http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=309898) which was all about me taking my training, including exercise and balanced lifestyle, a lot more seriously.

In the time in-between I've been right at the top of masters almost permanently, and practically built a mental block for each time GM came out I'd go on horrible losing streaks. The last few seasons I was confident I would make it in no matter what, and instead was caught travelling each time it was released. By the time i got home it would be full.

So here I was laddering last night, surprised to notice I was almost only playing top 100GMs and then I wake up today, lose my first ladder game, hop into another, win a comfortable macro game vs a Protoss and BAM!

I couldn't believe I would hit this goal that had been worked up in my head so much, in the middle of the season of all times. I know that it's always ridiculously harder to get GM mid-season so I almost fell out of my chair. It's built up into such a huge goal over this time that I'm just bursting with happiness right now.

I know in real terms its just a ladder ranking, and part of me KNOWS that I was already at this level for quite a while... but somehow that gold icon makes me so DAMN HAPPY!

Haha!

[image loading]

Thanks for reading guys! Hope to see some TLers at ACL Melbourne this weekend!

*****
Progamerwww.twitch.tv/x5_pig | pigrandom88@gmail.com | @x5_PiG | www.facebook.com/pigSC2
P7GAB
Profile Joined June 2012
Canada486 Posts
August 09 2013 07:01 GMT
#2
Thats amazing dude! good job keep it up
monk
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States8476 Posts
August 09 2013 07:01 GMT
#3
yay!
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Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
August 09 2013 07:05 GMT
#4
holy crap, good job! This is an amazing achievement.
GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
August 09 2013 07:12 GMT
#5
dude congratz i can't even get gm on NA lol
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Rickyvalle21
Profile Joined July 2012
United States320 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-08-09 07:19:40
August 09 2013 07:17 GMT
#6
Wow getting korea gm is very very impressive. Its mostly esf and kespa koreans in kr gm right? I hear any kr gm can get easily get rank 1 on NA and EU server. You should try to aim for those too now that ur kr gm.


Gogo rank 1 gm on kr? Lol thats probably damn near impossible even for a kr gm.
people say practice is perfect but if nothing is perfect whats the point in practicing?
VelJa
Profile Joined October 2011
France1109 Posts
August 09 2013 07:23 GMT
#7
wépé
ANGRY_KOREA_MAN. -- Giff WC4 plz
NarutO
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Germany18839 Posts
August 09 2013 07:24 GMT
#8
Please provide replays. Not interested in your gameplay, but those of your Terran opponents, haha sorry ! Congratulations
CommentatorPolt | MMA | Jjakji | BoxeR | NaDa | MVP | MKP ... truly inspiring.
NexCa
Profile Joined March 2011
Germany954 Posts
August 09 2013 07:28 GMT
#9
win a comfortable macro game vs a Protoss and BAM!

no wonder ... Zergs ...

congratz anyways
Best Protoss Player 4 ever - Bisu[Shield] || http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=326242 || THIS IS WHERE WE STAND, THIS IS WHERE THEY FALL, GIVE THEM NOTHING, BUT TAKE FROM THEM EVERYTHING ! || SKT FIGHTIIING
JimmiC
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Canada22817 Posts
August 09 2013 07:29 GMT
#10
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igay
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Australia1178 Posts
August 09 2013 07:35 GMT
#11
yes congrats pig! well deserved, come across as such a nice guy
MVP <3 MKP <3 DRG <3
Graphix
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
United States208 Posts
August 09 2013 07:40 GMT
#12
Gratz dude. if ur playing from SEA and that ridic ping. im even so much more impressed.
either way
really good job dude
~Jaedong Forever~
Salivanth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia1071 Posts
August 09 2013 07:41 GMT
#13
Holy shit, congratulations! Love to see you competing for Australia :D
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
ElusoryX
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Singapore2047 Posts
August 09 2013 07:41 GMT
#14
congratulations!
xd
Fishriot
Profile Joined May 2010
United States621 Posts
August 09 2013 07:43 GMT
#15
Congrats!! You guys down in Australia are so badass <3
Meow-Meow
Profile Blog Joined May 2013
Germany451 Posts
August 09 2013 07:45 GMT
#16
Wow, congrats.

Time to go pro, maybe?
| (• ◡•)|╯ ╰(❍ᴥ❍ʋ) Like all techno, it's hard to tell if it's good music played horribly or horrible music played well.
NEEDZMOAR
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Sweden1277 Posts
August 09 2013 07:47 GMT
#17
Congratulations man! Aussie hwaiitiiing^^
ThePhan2m
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
Norway2750 Posts
August 09 2013 07:52 GMT
#18
wow! grats!!! :D
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28092 Posts
August 09 2013 07:53 GMT
#19
I'm so jealous. Barely got like mid master on KR myself, if that.
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Brownic
Profile Joined June 2013
Australia69 Posts
August 09 2013 07:55 GMT
#20
Congrats PiG! As an aussie, it's great seeing more australian talent shine through
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