Retrospect after the GSL Final

On September 26 2013 15:33 Waxangel wrote:
thanks, really love your blogs :D

On September 26 2013 14:46 Rain wrote:
after winning against moonglade he said something about me at the interview the question was your next opponent is Rain how do you think about next match up? and he said like ah he is anticipatable player so it would not be tough.

On September 26 2013 14:46 Rain wrote:
Due to the winner-winner ? something rule, I lose to kyrix. Thus, I took 4th place in my group and placed in the worst place for up down matches.

On September 27 2013 16:39 Rain wrote:
@Schelim I lived there for 3 months and I'm currently living in Korea

On September 27 2013 13:10 Waxangel wrote:
could you talk about the finals itself?

the feeling you have before it happens, knowing how important it is, all of the pressure that's on you

and the feeling when you lose... you only get to hear about it from the winner's perspective, but I imagine there's a whole different world for the person on the losing end

On September 26 2013 14:46 Rain wrote:
Prologue
Episode 1
Episode 2
Episode 3

Thanks for reading my blog once again and special thanks to @ HaRuHi for fixing my grammatical mistakes and also thanks to the TL Manager for putting my post on Spotlight.
I actually finished writing stories about the final.
However I have decided not to post stories about my Final because there is are so many sensitive stories which can give a bad influence impression to of my friends and me.

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After The Final.
Okay. I felt desperate all day after losing the Final.
Christmas was coming I was supposed to go out with my friends.
but GOM TV operated some event, it was 5v5, Zerg vs Terran vs Protoss on Christmas for event.
I was very annoyed because I eventually finished all my all tournament matches and I really wanted to have a vacation.

Since I felt so desperate I didn't practice a lot(If I had tried harder at this moment, I would have had a more successful gaming career)
And My Code S matches was were coming up, my opponents was were Trickster , Choya , Kyrix
Actually I didn't practice a lot.

I played against Choya on Scrap station. I played very safely and I won with a long macro game.
And The second game was against Kyrix , the map was metalopolis and I played mech and the game was disconnected during the game due to internet problems.
+ Show Spoiler +
And I thought he didn't know what I was going to do but apparently he knew what I was going to do and he just counter attacked me so I lost the game.

The Third game was against Trickster and he knew much about me because he sit sat right next to me.
He knew what I was going to do and I lost
Due to the winner-winner ? something rule, I lose lost to kyrix. Thus, I took 4th place in my group and placed in the worst place for up and down matches.

The Up and down match was Kyrix vs July and the loser vs me.
Kyrix beat July and I lost to July. I practiced a lot and my strategies were good when I was practicing. However I played very stupid at the tournament.
and I dropped out from the Code S. + Show Spoiler +
After this I had one last chance. one of the players who is was in code S had to do military service so there was one free spot in code S so . Gom TV made Wild card matches for 8 players who had been demoted form Code S.
At that moment there weren't many good players and I thought I can get through this.
my first opponent was Moon I saw lots of his VODs and I thought he won't be a hard opponent.
I underestimated him and I also played really bad and I lost 2:0

Due to the losing 7 official matches in a row I was tremendously disappointed to in myself.
I was also depressed everyday, spending most time alone sitting at the staircase and thinking about my future plans and I thought I must give a change to myself + Show Spoiler + or else It will be the end of my career.

So I had to start playing in Code A, I was planning to quit if I got dropped to Code B.
my first opponent was "YeaH" a zerg player we both played very weird I think he was nervous as well I almost lose lost the series but I got lucky and I advanced to the Ro.16

My next opponent was Zenex.Jjun and he won against moonglade in the Ro.32.
after winning against moonglade he said something about me at the interview the question was:" your next opponent is Rain how what do you think about your next match up?" and he said something like:" ah he is an anticipatable player so it would will not be tough."
I was so mad when I saw his interview and I practiced a lot and I beat him black and blue(In game)

And Then I played against hyperdub for the up and down match, I won 2:0 and I made it into Code S once again. there were 5 Code S players in our team out of 8 players.

for the next Code S match ups.: I lost to Julyzerg I made my special CHEESE but my micro control was bad and I lose lost the game. and then I played against oGsInca I won the game in crevasse.
and I had to play one more game and I was so so ahead but I lost to a couple of DT's (many people might remember this game)and I couldn't get into the Ro.16 again.
+ Show Spoiler +

So I took 3rd place which meants I hadve two chances to survive in the up and down match.
I lost my first game against MvP but I won my last match against Rainbow so I was able to survive in Code S.

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Okay, Actually my storyies after the Final is boring and depressing.
thanks for reading my blog, I'll comeback with better stories later!

Since my last post had so many much attentions + Show Spoiler + and positive comments, I had some pressure writing my blogs, I felt like I'm a novelist lol

Grammatical corrections would be appreciated !
Thanks for reading and have a nice day!

Twitter : @rainpsy

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