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stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway869 Posts
April 06 2008 01:48 GMT
#1
Some background first. I first started an account at iccup after TSL started up. I guess I just wanted to be a part of it all instead of just reading and watching the progress here on the site. I think TSL is awesome by the way. I'm not quite the laddering type though. I played a little on PGT and a little on WGT. On both ladders the seasons ended before I managed to get a 2 digit number of games. In other words I was stuck on the bottom rank regardless of how good or bad I was. And to me the purpose of a ladder is to have a way to get a majority of your games with random people to be similarly skilled opponents to yourself. This clearly fails if I don't play enough. So that is the reason why I haven't registered before now, because I have more luck finding equal skilled gamers on bnet than on ladders.

So anyway, I've played 5 games already. 2 normal losses, not a whole lot to say about those. One did a build that countered mine right from the start and I didn't feel there was much I could do. The other was just from my point of view an amazing player. He crushed me.

My first win is a person who I thought was pretty terrible and my light early pressure broke him. He starts insulting me and lifts all his buildings trying to hide them. Slightly annoying, but it doesn't take too long to clean him up.

The second win wasn't really a win. Because after killing all his probes and starting to kill his buildings he starts insulting me and says "disc gogo disc gogo". The disconnect screen opens and the drop button doesn't work. Luckily I remembered something someone wrote here about getting off the internet so I could drop him and save the replay.

Third win was a long tvt. My opponent was apparently not too happy about the matchup because he kept complaining about how boring it was. It's not like I was hiding that I was playing terran.

The games have really made me wonder. 2 out of 5 games have been against fairly immature/badly mannered/morally challenged individuals. This is a much higher number compared to the public games I've had on bnet. Is it like that all the way upwards or is this a problem mostly contained down in the dirty D rank section? And if so, I really pity the people who are of D rank skill.

My view of iccup was pretty negative after the disc gogo affair. But when the compaint got processed, it made me feel a little better. At least there are people working to keep cheaters under control.

blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
April 06 2008 01:53 GMT
#2
are you playing the the public games or passworded games? I pretty much always play pub games and I've actually have yet to deal with a lot of these problems... only thing I've dealt with are sore losers
blabberrrrr
Wizard
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Poland5055 Posts
April 06 2008 01:56 GMT
#3
don't get discouraged, iccup is a great ladder but some people are bm no matter the rank.
sAviOr[gm] ~ want to watch good replays? read my blog: http://www.teamliquid.net/blog/wizard
stenole
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
Norway869 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-04-06 02:28:55
April 06 2008 02:23 GMT
#4
On iccup ive created public games that anyone could join since that seems to get me playing the fastest if that is what you meant. If you meant on bnet, by public games, I mean just creating or joining an existing game without a password. Pubbies on bnet have an exaggerated poor reputation. In general, they seem like well-mannered people. The point reward system of a ladder seems to attract the bad elements in the community though.

Thanks for the kind words Wizard.
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