EPTI need a crew of people to play SC2 with, at this point, and here's why!
Let me tell you where I'm coming from. Winter/Spring 2010 was my first semester in college, and that semester I lived and breathed BW. Me and like 15 people basically pulled all-nighters playing BW LAN parties. Rarely was I able to get people to play 1v1 (I'd been playing RTS's since I was a kid), but we played 4v4, BGH FFA, 2v2, etc. Near the end of that time I started playing BW on iCCup, being the scrubby D player that I was. At that point, the competitive BW scene was really, really incredibly competitive and very hard to break into.
However, right around then the SC2 beta started and I got in not too long after it did. I played a lot of SC2 WoL through the beta and a bit after the launch. I switched from the race I enjoyed in BW (Protoss), to Terran. I had a lot of fun, I did pretty well for someone who hadn't been playing BW seriously for years, I was starting to think of entering amateur tournaments. Oh, and I was high plat playing diamond players mostly by the end. Obviously everyone was a heck of a lot worse at the game back then, but I felt proud.
Not long after retail though, I transferred colleges to a place that originally had almost no internet, then crappy internet that blocked all games, then just crappy internet in general. I had no way of playing SC2 so I forgot about it. When I was able to play games online they tended to be LoL (a little less impenetrable than SC2 or BW), Street Fighter IV (which I was able to supplement with offline play to actually hit an okay skill level at that game, and MMO's.
Fast forward 5 years, to now (well, like a month ago). I've got more freedom now, a variable but not too tough work schedule. And at some point I had this hankering to dive back into SC2 with the release of LotV.
Now I would really like to play more and improve, but things are way harder for me than they were before. The whole group of people I used to play with have moved on to bigger things and I don't keep in touch with them. I do have a couple friends who are trying to pick up the game casually, but they have even less experience at the game than me. I still don't think I'm as good as I used to be, but my strategy of "try to make more stuff than the other guy" has worked okay for me, enough to somehow hit high gold.
It's been... somewhat frustrating so far, though also fun. Mostly everyone I've played has, due to the reset MMR, been far better than their silver level would make you think. Like people who were master or diamond earlier this year. But the main thing for me is I don't really have people to regularly play with, and I can't picture myself soullessly playing the ladder forever. I don't have any practice partners, I don't have any kind of a team, I don't have folks to revel in victories with, I don't have folks to watch replays with.
Anywho (and this is the TL;DR, are there anybody here who wouldn't mind playing decently often with a newish scrub? If someone's the same level as me we can learn together, if someone's better than me maybe I could learn some stuff, and if someone's not as good then I can help as I can. At this point I'd be glad to play anyone, rather than just trying to play ladder forever.
If there's anything I've noticed about the SC2 scene is that it got massive a couple years ago and then suddenly much of it evaporated. With LotV I'd like to join the community, and help grow it as the hopeless scrub I am.
Thanks!
