I had this when I first started playing melee games at all seriously, a few months ago, in Warcraft 3. Push through the fear and nervousness, after a few games it really fades away. Sure your still nervous, but not much. I'm back to playing Starcraft, it is my one true love. Im 1-7 on ICCUP. I usually play two games a day, not because I cant mass game, or because im too nervous- I'm just too pissed. I've taught myself how to play a game with a cool head, but I have yet to teach myself to lose a game with a cool head! =)

I'm going to mass game tomorrow though. Watched some replays, and saw what I was doing wrong. Really, I'm not that bad. I just need to fix my macro and get my apm up [its at a pathetic avg of 72..]. That and the ICCUP season has just started, so im going against people with an apm of 300. Its fucking bullshit. Oh well.

Apparently some people- never met one- throw their babies into a body of water not long after their born, due to the fact that in the womb they already float. Supposedly the baby will learn to float very quickly, and if it does not it dies. I don't know if that really happens, but I suppose that idea can be applied to my Starcraft. Throw me in against much tougher players, just to stay alive for a few minutes you gotta try a lot harder. Who knows, I might be alot better than I would of been if I went against people actually near my skill level.

fusionsdf

Canada15390 Posts

March 09 2008 04:45 GMT

#23

You just have to play games back to back

play like 10 back to back, keep playing, no matter how bad you play or even if you start to lose concentration

I suggest you do it with an account you dont mind resetting.
Even if you go like 3-7 or 2-8 or something, there is always /clearstats YES

ZidaneTribal

United States2800 Posts

March 09 2008 04:53 GMT

#24

u can make a "smurf" account and then u wont feel so bad about losing and u will get better in the process

Krohm

Canada1857 Posts

March 09 2008 04:56 GMT

#25

This is always happens to me as well. Also I never rematch anyone if I win, because I think they have some advantage because they know my play style... It's pretty sad. I usually play until I win, then I don't play it for a couple days after I lose.

But yeah, I'm kind of glad I'm not the only one with the ridiculous problem.

grobo

Japan6199 Posts

March 09 2008 05:15 GMT

#26

On March 09 2008 13:53 ZidaneTribal wrote:
u can make a "smurf" account and then u wont feel so bad about losing and u will get better in the process

It's not a matter of people knowing i'm bad, i don't give a damn about that, it's the fact the i know that i still suck after all this time.

MeriaDoKk

Chile1726 Posts

March 09 2008 05:39 GMT

#27

On March 09 2008 13:56 Krohm wrote:
This is always happens to me as well. Also I never rematch anyone if I win, because I think they have some advantage because they know my play style... It's pretty sad. I usually play until I win, then I don't play it for a couple days after I lose.

But yeah, I'm kind of glad I'm not the only one with the ridiculous problem.

That is so true, rematch is something really scary to me.

I get really shaky when i play whit a guy that has a better rank than me, i played whit this Zerg and i tryed the 3rax sunken break for the first time, when i saw that the tech actually worked i started shaking like a madman. Ive never been so scared in one game before

ram

Lithuania602 Posts

March 09 2008 06:40 GMT

#28

I remember having that problem too. Whenever I was about to play WGTour (yes, it was long time ago), everything had to be perfect before the game. Such as no hunger, no unfinished bussiness, no sleepines etcetc.... So I would usually find some kind of an issue before playing and stop playing...
Later i started to try and not care. Play in PCBang with a crappy mouse, play early in the morning with eyes still closed, play while drunk, play while high. After those i just didn't care anymore...

Dromar

United States2145 Posts

March 09 2008 06:52 GMT

#29

I'm an ICCup pussy because I don't want to deal with disconnects and all that shit.

fanatacist

10319 Posts

March 09 2008 06:59 GMT

#30

Clear your stats.

Nitrogen

United States5345 Posts

March 09 2008 07:10 GMT

#31

Just plan a day where you will play iccup all day on a smurf or just reset your stats after, and just say to yourself "Wow, I'm nervous about losing a game to some random person on the internet."

That's what I did. I still suck but you get better from playing a shitload of iccup.

Jayson X

Switzerland2431 Posts

March 09 2008 11:43 GMT

#32

It's because the truth hurts your ego.

You - are - fucking - bad - at - starcraft.

Once you get over that you can start to improve.

FieryBalrog

United States1381 Posts

March 09 2008 12:48 GMT

#33

Make a joke account. I've been practicing low econ zerg (2 hatch, but mostly 1 base, lol) and it helps break the idea that you need to win every game.

Also like someone said clearing stats helped. I went 16-12 my first 2 days of ICCUP and got pissed that I was losing some extremely close games and so I just /clearstats YES and then it wasn't so serious.

Xiberia

Sweden634 Posts

March 09 2008 13:33 GMT

#34

Just go get your ego crushed already so you can start to improve.

zergleon

Canada5 Posts

March 14 2008 18:36 GMT

#35

I have this exact same anxiety, but it applies to all the RTS i play. I actually went up against an 0-11 guy yesterday on Icup and when he won the game against me he told me "Wow, you're a real noob" and didn't even say GG. It was nice hearing from the rest of the community and I think im definitely going to do the 10 games in one day thing that's being suggested.

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