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Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States23 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-06 06:01:16
September 05 2017 04:04 GMT
#1
Will anyone read this? Probably not. Oh well.

I'm going to use this as a journal through my journey back into the realm of competitive StarCraft 2. If you'd like to come with me through the journey, please tag along! I hope to help someone or at least inspire someone along the way.

A bit of background:
I started playing StarCraft 2 during the Wings of Liberty beta, and promptly got addicted. I'd only ever played Brood War with friends on UMS games, so a Counter-Strike player coming to SC2 with a ladder system was intriguing for me. I spent the large majority of my undergrad playing Wings of Liberty, only ever finishing as high as Platinum. I probably could have made the push for Diamond at the time due to what I was seeing on my replay statistics and the ranks of my opponents, but I never did.

Fast forward to today - it's 10:50 pm at night, I'm a full-time choir teacher at a Catholic high school and a professional musician with several choirs in my area, and I have parking duty at 7:00 am tomorrow morning. I really should go to bed.

However, in chatting with a buddy, I realized that I miss being able to come home and play 2-3 ladder games a night and seeing how they go. I'm a Zerg player through and through - if you ever see me on ladder doing something other than trying to play a macro game where I can literally just bully you with the power of the Swarm, something is probably wrong. I'm currently in Gold 3 and am going to see how far I can progress by simply getting back into the mental gymnastics that are the game whenever I can during the day, then seeing if I can translate and apply those skills in-game in the evening for 2-3 matches. I'll be using sc2replaystats to upload and parse my replays, so any games that I play I'll post here and if you feel so inclined to comment and offer comments/concerns/questions/prayers, I'd love to interact with you. I'll put my thoughts along with the replay links as well; hopefully this will track my thinking as I try to progress through the ladder!

Here are tonight's games:
I began both games with a 17hatch, 18gas, 17pool opener that I found on allthingszerg.com. Here are the results. I hardly ever scout at my level - I really want to focus on my macro and ensuring that I can win the game that way. Yes I know that I need to incorporate more than overlord scouting, but one thing at a time!

ZvT - This one was a dumb loss on my part. I thought I was okay to go kill him, then he shows up with Liberators. I got salty at the end because f u srsly.

ZvP - This one felt more like me getting to play my game. As soon as I got my natural up and running, I felt good about what was going on. As soon as I saw what he was doing with his air units and found his gold base, I felt even better and just kept up the aggression until I muscled him out of the game.

Like I said, questions/comments/concerns/prayers? Please don't hesitate to let me know!


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Spawn more Overlords.
Jan1997
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
Norway671 Posts
September 05 2017 08:08 GMT
#2
If you want to genuinely improve quite a bit I think you have to practice a bit more than 2-3 matches a day.

That being said, glhf.
Do something today that your future self will be thankful for.
JWD[9]
Profile Blog Joined November 2015
364 Posts
September 05 2017 10:01 GMT
#3
noodle don't noodle

<3 gl hf
noodle
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States23 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-09-05 14:05:34
September 05 2017 14:05 GMT
#4
On September 05 2017 17:08 Jan1997 wrote:
If you want to genuinely improve quite a bit I think you have to practice a bit more than 2-3 matches a day.

That being said, glhf.

I agree wholeheartedly - I simply don't have the time (or brain power) to put in more than that right this second (on school holidays or evenings that I have more time off, I'll definitely play more). I'm kind of taking a "musical" approach to the whole thing by practicing a little bit every day. I'm hoping for more of a gradual improvement that's still enjoyable and educational.
Spawn more Overlords.
LoneYoShi
Profile Blog Joined June 2014
France1348 Posts
September 07 2017 10:09 GMT
#5
To be honest, I kinda "came back" to sc2 after a 6 months break (holidays, GF moving in, new job), and only recently came back to it and play like you. 2-3 games every other day.

And you know what ? It took me like 3 weeks to get back to where I used to be before (dia2), and I feel like I'm improved. Slowly, but i'm improving. Also, there's way less stress/rage involved now that I play more casually ! I hope it'll go well for you too :-)
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