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Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3395 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-07 23:34:28
September 07 2008 23:20 GMT
#1
So its another season and another D+. I think this is the 2nd week of the new season. I feel its so hard. I know some games I am just doing very stupid stuff and throwing it away but most of my games [even some of my wins] have been very very close. I feel the skill level of ICCup went up and I'm only @ D+. I got C+ in Season 7 and then last Season I didn't play alot and got C-/C but I'm finding it very hard.

I think it's because I kinda took a 2 month break from serious playing. I'd play maybe 1-5 games a week and nothing more.

Anyways, I am 14-10 D+ 2075. I found the last 8 games kinda depressing. I can't make games at the moment and spamming in the channel takes a while so I join whatever game comes up. So I'd be playing Python [cause people keep making it] and winning and get 1995 and then lose 2 games and win 1 and lose 2 games and always be @ 1995. Its was tiring.

Anyways I am:

PvZ 3-3 (50%) [I always end up being around 40-50% in PvZ]

PvP 6-1 (86%) [I always start off strong in PvP but when I reach C-/C I go down to about 50-60% win rate in PvP]

PvT 5-6 (45%) [ I honestly think this is my worst Match-up. I suck against Terran. I suicide my army so much. I lose to pushes so easily and I can't micro Carriers at all. Actually if I go Carriers = Auto Loss for me lol. I end up either doing 1 of 4=5 things:

1) Playing normal and taking a 3rd in reply to their FE and macroing up and going for a late game. Sometimes I suicide my army to crack their 3rd and get really behind. I usually go Arbiters
2) I do some all-in 4 Gate goon garbage lol [this almost always fail]
3) I do a 1 Base reaver build and usually have horrible micro and lose my shuttle and the reaver lol
4) I do some 2 base mass zeal + goon + storm and try to rape their first push and then take an 3rd + 4th. This usually works 3 out of 5 times.
5) I DT Drop. I really like this build especially on python where you can take an island. Of course if they did some build like 2 fact vult or 4 vult drop then your usually screwed and that FD Rush usually comes before my dts come out. Anyways, I am working on it.

I hope I can get at least C+ this season. I hope I can makes games soon and that way in 3 hours I can play 10-12 games easily without having to search for games and play non-MOTW. I switched comps [as anyone will know if they read my previous blog] so whenever I configure a Static IP [so I can open my port in the router] then my internet stops working. I am working on that.




김택용 Fighting!
Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
September 07 2008 23:33 GMT
#2
Does your right testicle hang slightly lower than your left?
Your resistance only serves to make my carapace harder.
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3395 Posts
September 07 2008 23:35 GMT
#3
On September 08 2008 08:33 Kletus wrote:
Does your right testicle hang slightly lower than your left?

What does this have to do with my blog?
김택용 Fighting!
Kletus
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada580 Posts
September 07 2008 23:36 GMT
#4
On September 08 2008 08:35 Yaqoob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 08:33 Kletus wrote:
Does your right testicle hang slightly lower than your left?

What does this have to do with my blog?


http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=78126
Your resistance only serves to make my carapace harder.
maareek
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
United States2042 Posts
September 07 2008 23:39 GMT
#5
Congrats on getting D+! But I am a little confused about you only getting to play on python. I have a little more leeway than you in that I can host, but I have only played motw all season (only longinus and andromeda so far, actually) and have had *no* problem whatsoever getting games on those maps. If nobody joins my public game I just channel hop spamming "1:1 D+ Andromeda?" to every D+ until one answers and generally find a game very, very quickly. Haven't had issue one with getting motw games all season, and I've been D+ since the second day. o_O

FrozenArbiter: Obless PvT master
Mastermind
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Canada7096 Posts
September 07 2008 23:40 GMT
#6
its really early in the season. You shouldnt expect to do well right now. Wait a few weeks until the good players level up then things will get easier.
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3395 Posts
September 07 2008 23:43 GMT
#7
On September 08 2008 08:39 maareek wrote:
Congrats on getting D+! But I am a little confused about you only getting to play on python. I have a little more leeway than you in that I can host, but I have only played motw all season (only longinus and andromeda so far, actually) and have had *no* problem whatsoever getting games on those maps. If nobody joins my public game I just channel hop spamming "1:1 D+ Andromeda?" to every D+ until one answers and generally find a game very, very quickly. Haven't had issue one with getting motw games all season, and I've been D+ since the second day. o_O

I will keep this in mind. Actually I usually give games to those people that spam everyone. I just wish I could make games. It would be alot easier.
김택용 Fighting!
d1v
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Sweden868 Posts
September 07 2008 23:46 GMT
#8
Beginning of the new season is always hard. I got literally pummeled by some Korean Terrans and Zergs and I can't get anywhere right now. Just be patient, work on your builds and try..
Adams Æbler
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
September 08 2008 00:45 GMT
#9
What they said. ^^

I'm not even going to try for a good record this early. I'm playing on an anonymous practise account so I don't care about losing in the slightest and I'm actually seeking out matches vs very good players (often with my weakest mu) just so I can learn a few things. When the going gets easier halfway into the season, THEN I'll see what rank I can acheive.
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
September 08 2008 01:22 GMT
#10
Yaq i hit C- on gogopractice!, whats ur account?
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
Superiorwolf
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States5509 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-08 02:05:41
September 08 2008 01:53 GMT
#11
yaq is sMi.Yaqoob, I'm sMi.Suppy

dammit me and ahzz went 8-0 2v2 D+ 2100 pnts or so, then lost 1 game so we both reset because ahzz wants us to get to C- at least with 100% win record T_T

btw GS I thought you were quitting?
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SaveYourSavior
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1071 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-09-08 02:05:53
September 08 2008 02:05 GMT
#12
For PvT I recommend pyloning their wall area if you scout early enough so you can send some zealots up their grill, stealing their gas (twice), pyloning machine shop area, proxy DT tech or robotics/reaver tech, etc. You'll find that your win rate will skyrocket, maybe after the good people get out of the D,C range. I also find that fake upgrading Goon Range with Air Attack on Cybernetics Core until you kill scouting SCV is a good scam on Terran players.

Nice job getting to D+ in the beginning of the season though. To me that is a greater accomplishment then C- late in the season.
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24782 Posts
September 08 2008 02:40 GMT
#13
On September 08 2008 11:05 SaveYourSavior wrote:
Nice job getting to D+ in the beginning of the season though. To me that is a greater accomplishment then C- late in the season.

ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
DanceCommander
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1808 Posts
September 08 2008 02:41 GMT
#14
On September 08 2008 08:36 Kletus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 08:35 Yaqoob wrote:
On September 08 2008 08:33 Kletus wrote:
Does your right testicle hang slightly lower than your left?

What does this have to do with my blog?


http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=78126


LOLROFL
BigBucketz
Profile Joined August 2008
30 Posts
September 08 2008 03:00 GMT
#15
On September 08 2008 08:36 Kletus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 08:35 Yaqoob wrote:
On September 08 2008 08:33 Kletus wrote:
Does your right testicle hang slightly lower than your left?

What does this have to do with my blog?


http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=78126


My balls dance in circles and hang up. What happens then?

More on topic: Try playing with a clearer mind, it seems like you're getting frustrated in between games and it's building up to make you play crappier.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
September 08 2008 03:54 GMT
#16
On September 08 2008 12:00 BigBucketz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 08:36 Kletus wrote:
On September 08 2008 08:35 Yaqoob wrote:
On September 08 2008 08:33 Kletus wrote:
Does your right testicle hang slightly lower than your left?

What does this have to do with my blog?


http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=78126


My balls dance in circles and hang up. What happens then?

More on topic: Try playing with a clearer mind, it seems like you're getting frustrated in between games and it's building up to make you play crappier.

It's means you need to start playing a different RTS.
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
September 08 2008 03:56 GMT
#17
Actually Im liking this season so far

not sure if I've gotten better, but the start of last season was batshit fucking insane skillwise

this season it seems a lot more winnable, except when I play like a giant noob
SKT_Best: "I actually chose Protoss because it was so hard for me to defeat Protoss as a Terran. When I first started Brood War, my main race was Terran."
YPang
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States4024 Posts
September 08 2008 03:59 GMT
#18
On September 08 2008 12:56 fusionsdf wrote:
Actually Im liking this season so far

not sure if I've gotten better, but the start of last season was batshit fucking insane skillwise

this season it seems a lot more winnable, except when I play like a giant noob


me too, i found that D+ so much easier to climb in comparison to last season, maybe i'd get B- this time.
sMi.Gladstone | BW: B high| SC2: gold T_T
beetlelisk
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Poland2276 Posts
September 08 2008 04:05 GMT
#19
On September 08 2008 12:59 YanGpaN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 12:56 fusionsdf wrote:
Actually Im liking this season so far

not sure if I've gotten better, but the start of last season was batshit fucking insane skillwise

this season it seems a lot more winnable, except when I play like a giant noob


me too, i found that D+ so much easier to climb in comparison to last season, maybe i'd get B- this time.


I've read that competitiveness on Iccup changes in hours when most Koreans play on it?
wwww
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24782 Posts
September 08 2008 04:06 GMT
#20
On September 08 2008 13:05 beetlelisk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On September 08 2008 12:59 YanGpaN wrote:
On September 08 2008 12:56 fusionsdf wrote:
Actually Im liking this season so far

not sure if I've gotten better, but the start of last season was batshit fucking insane skillwise

this season it seems a lot more winnable, except when I play like a giant noob


me too, i found that D+ so much easier to climb in comparison to last season, maybe i'd get B- this time.


I've read that competitiveness on Iccup changes in hours when most Koreans play on it?

Lol you say 'I've read' like it was published in some journal XD

But it probably is true.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
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