• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 22:39
CEST 04:39
KST 11:39
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL21] Finals Preview: Two Legacies18Code S Season 2 (2026) - RO12 Preview2herO wins GSL Code S Season 1 (2026)5Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO4 & Finals Preview5[ASL21] Ro4 Preview: On Course12
Community News
Weekly Cups (May 11-17): Classic wins double0Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO8 Results2Weekly Cups (May 4-10): Clem, MaxPax, herO win1Maestros of The Game 2 announcement and schedule !18Weekly Cups (April 27-May 4): Clem takes triple0
StarCraft 2
General
herO wins GSL Code S Season 1 (2026) Code S Season 2 (2026) - RO12 Preview Weekly Cups (May 11-17): Classic wins double Code S Season 1 (2026) - RO4 & Finals Preview Team Liquid Map Contest #22 - The Finalists
Tourneys
Crank Gathers Season 4: BW vs SC2 Team League GSL Code S Season 2 (2026) GSL Code S Season 1 (2026) Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament Maestros of The Game 2 announcement and schedule !
Strategy
Custom Maps
[D]RTS in all its shapes and glory <3 [A] Nemrods 1/4 players
External Content
Mutation # 527 Hell Train The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 526 Rubber and Glue Mutation # 525 Wheel of Misfortune
Brood War
General
(Spoiler) ASL21 Winner's Interview 25 Years Since Brood War Patch 1.08 vespene.gg — BW replays in browser [ASL21] Finals Preview: Two Legacies UA StarCraft: Mawin (T) vs hanniGan (P) Showmatch
Tourneys
[ASL21] Grand Finals Escore Tournament StarCraft Season 2 [Megathread] Daily Proleagues Small VOD Thread 2.0
Strategy
Any training maps people recommend? Muta micro map competition [G] Hydra ZvZ: An Introduction Fighting Spirit mining rates
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Dawn of War IV ZeroSpace Megathread Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
Dota 2
The Story of Wings Gaming
League of Legends
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
Vanilla Mini Mafia Mafia Game Mode Feedback/Ideas TL Mafia Community Thread Five o'clock TL Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread Trading/Investing Thread European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread YouTube Thread
Fan Clubs
The herO Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
[Manga] One Piece Anime Discussion Thread [Req][Books] Good Fantasy/SciFi books
Sports
2024 - 2026 Football Thread McBoner: A hockey love story TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 Formula 1 Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
streaming software Strange computer issues (software)
TL Community
The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Esports Organizations: Raisi…
TrAiDoS
Why RTS gamers make better f…
gosubay
ramps on octagon
StaticNine
Funny Nicknames
LUCKY_NOOB
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 1205 users

Is it really possible? - Page 4

Blogs > Racenilatr
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 All
ilovehnk
Profile Joined October 2008
475 Posts
January 15 2009 04:06 GMT
#61
no, you would be stuck in c-d+
Hikou Shinketsushuu
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
January 15 2009 04:15 GMT
#62
If you mass game 12 hours a day and still cant get out of D+, something is sreiously wrong with you
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."
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7567 Posts
January 15 2009 04:35 GMT
#63
On January 15 2009 12:07 Frits wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2009 12:01 AttackZerg wrote:
frits hahah about your chess comment

only a bad player could believe that dude.

Seriously not everybody can play chess at all. After 6 years of study and tournament play, I know first hand that is not the case.


Your argument is based on your pride and anecdotal evidence, mine is based on famous psychological research.

Being a bad player has nothing to do with it.

And it's not like you know how much time each kid invests in chess, how much they care about winning, how much they obsess over it, your first hand experience is meaningless. And your examples of multi tasking and stuff like that required in sc? Any kid could learn it, I guarantee it.



Actually I just didn't feel like explaining how poor you argument is frits.


Mine is based upon 5 years as a chess teacher at a junior college , high school , jr high school and private lessons. Along with being partnered with a USCF master Arthur Braden whom I helped prepare lesson plans and outlines for over 200 chess players.

Unlike you I've actually worked first hand in the field along with taking classes in childhood development. Also unlike you I know how to play broodwar and have taught many people how to play broodwar. Quote whatever bullshit studies you like (that you obviously can't refrence without dipping into the google world) and try and prove yourself right. There are many different ceiling caps in chess.

For instance 6 hours a day is the general regiment for a 1500 play (uscf rating) to reach 1900 within a year an half , 1900 is the expert ranking. This is a rather attainable goal for most gifted players.

If you do any browsing , which I'm sure you haven't since you always come across like you know what your talking about and never actually do, you will see that there are many many thousands of players with hundreds or thousands of games over a short span of years or a long span that can never break even 1200-1300-1400-1500 points, while the average "club" player is around 1600 which is still rather poor with a decent opening rep, decent tactics and normally terrible strategic understand and little or no end game understanding.

Now the sacramento chess club which I was an active player for about 4 years during which time I was under the wing of another master from yugoslav, also named arthur, and in numerous conversations with him and an actuall chess confrence in San Fransico with Jermey Silman concluded that average chess masters pupils had inert ceilings of ability, which they could never surpass. I studied for 7 years mostly indepently aside from any teaching or asst. teaching that I have done.

On this subject I know what I'm talking about and you do not. Also on the subject of broodwar your just another guy who can't do something blindingly believing others could or they could with effort.

Sorry alot of people are not very smart and hard work can not make up for inert disablities, dullness, lack of cordination, lack of mental speed, stamina, will power, creativty and worst of all lethergy(could be sp, but I'm pretty sure not)

Sadist I was going from memory not from seeing you this season . Gj, if you play after 9pm PST you are a fucking dope player.

Oystein, these people are giving me a headache, I give up on them =(.
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7567 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-15 06:17:22
January 15 2009 04:37 GMT
#64
On January 15 2009 12:00 fusionsdf wrote:
[ Don't just assume its all talent because it makes you feel warm inside

I agree 100% with frits' post



I'm not a B player.

(edited out a rude phrase to a forum vet)
Sadist
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States7328 Posts
January 15 2009 04:50 GMT
#65
theres no way I was B+ playing with all koreans on PST, I played whoever though, the god damn korean zergs always beat my ass though. =[

interesting thoughts on chess. My thing on something being mental has always been that theres a reason that a great player thought what they thought at a specific time, so I dont see why that information cant be passed on to another person for them to understand it. Obviously they dont have the same experiences as a great player but say a great player to a good player, you think it would help out the good player quite a bit and they could learn things from it and apply it to their own game.

Maybe its me being naive, but i feel its the same way with starcraft, once you get past the mechanics.
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal and you have to be willing to work for it. Jim Valvano
Savio
Profile Joined April 2008
United States1850 Posts
January 15 2009 05:07 GMT
#66
I think anyone could get to B but I don't think everyone could be as good as Flash no matter how hard they tried.

Just like even if everyone spent as much time at chess as Kasparov, Karpov, Kramnic, and Anand, very few people could actually reach that level.

I could NEVER swim as fast as Michael Phelps. All these people are special in what they do. They put in extraordinary effort but they also started with extraordinary potential.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
January 15 2009 05:21 GMT
#67
On January 15 2009 13:37 AttackZerg wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2009 12:00 fusionsdf wrote:
[ Don't just assume its all talent because it makes you feel warm inside

I agree 100% with frits' post



I'm not a B player.

Asshole.


how could I make that mistake?

You bring up your iccup rank in every fucking post
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."
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7567 Posts
January 15 2009 06:05 GMT
#68
On January 15 2009 13:50 Sadist wrote:
theres no way I was B+ playing with all koreans on PST, I played whoever though, the god damn korean zergs always beat my ass though. =[

interesting thoughts on chess. My thing on something being mental has always been that theres a reason that a great player thought what they thought at a specific time, so I dont see why that information cant be passed on to another person for them to understand it. Obviously they dont have the same experiences as a great player but say a great player to a good player, you think it would help out the good player quite a bit and they could learn things from it and apply it to their own game.

Maybe its me being naive, but i feel its the same way with starcraft, once you get past the mechanics.



When I've played you I never lost because your mechanics were better then mine.

I always lost because you played smarter/better.

Does it doesn't shock me that somebody who played me before when I played alot plays at a higher level then I do now.

I think smart players, not smart people, have potential to improve, and that its simpily mechanics that negate their results. Some people lack the ability to consistently make good decisions in game. Watch 90% of the reps in the strategy section. Most of them literally are so handicapped by the basic functions of starcraft that they can't ever enter into the meta game and meta-midgame (which I believe exists now).
AttackZerg
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States7567 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-15 06:31:19
January 15 2009 06:07 GMT
#69
On January 15 2009 14:21 fusionsdf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 15 2009 13:37 AttackZerg wrote:
On January 15 2009 12:00 fusionsdf wrote:
[ Don't just assume its all talent because it makes you feel warm inside

I agree 100% with frits' post



I'm not a B player.



how could I make that mistake?

You bring up your iccup rank in every fucking post




I have never once ever said I was B ever once. Infact 3 months ago I was stocked to beat a korean b- terran, and 1 1/2 months ago I was happy to hit b- in 120 (I think) games.

Thank you come again!
jgad
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Canada899 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-15 08:58:15
January 15 2009 08:57 GMT
#70
Given the nature of the ICCup rank system, at any given time, then no - a B player represents a specific small percentage, by definition, of top players. To say that everyone could be a "B" is the same as saying that everyone can have a 140 IQ. It's a standard deviation above an average - you need the Cs and Ds to make the B meaningful.

More accurately, "anyone" could be a B, but not "everyone", for if lots of people became a 'B' (by today's measure), then the bar tomorrow just raises higher and a new class of C's and D's emerge.
콩까지마
Prev 1 2 3 4 All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
OSC
00:00
OSC Elite Rising Star #19
CranKy Ducklings216
Liquipedia
Patches Events
19:30
Patches' Patch Clash #7
Liquipedia
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
RuFF_SC2 207
StarCraft: Brood War
Zeus 157
Noble 18
Dota 2
monkeys_forever409
NeuroSwarm158
LuMiX1
League of Legends
JimRising 722
Counter-Strike
taco 561
Other Games
gofns22409
tarik_tv13894
Artosis488
WinterStarcraft478
C9.Mang0388
ViBE179
Maynarde136
Livibee123
JuggernautJason29
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick823
BasetradeTV199
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
[ Show 13 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Hupsaiya 65
• CranKy Ducklings SOOP20
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• Migwel
• sooper7s
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Other Games
• Scarra2870
Upcoming Events
Universe Titan Cup
8h 21m
Rogue vs Percival
Wardi Open
9h 21m
Monday Night Weeklies
13h 21m
Replay Cast
21h 21m
Kung Fu Cup
1d 8h
GSL
2 days
herO vs Classic
Cure vs Clem
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
GSL
3 days
Maru vs SHIN
Zoun vs Rogue
WardiTV Spring Champion…
3 days
SKillous vs Strange
Lambo vs Strange
Ryung vs Strange
Lambo vs Ryung
Ryung vs SKillous
Lambo vs SKillous
[ Show More ]
Replay Cast
3 days
Maestros of the Game
4 days
Replay Cast
4 days
RSL Revival
5 days
TBD vs SHIN
TBD vs Rogue
IPSL
5 days
ZZZero vs WorsT
Julia vs eOnzErG
Replay Cast
5 days
RSL Revival
6 days
IPSL
6 days
Dragon vs Artosis
dxtr13 vs Hawk
BSL
6 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

ASL Season 21
2026 GSL S1
Heroes Pulsing #1

Ongoing

2026 KK StarCraft Pro League
BSL Season 22
IPSL Spring 2026
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 2
KK 2v2 League Season 1
YSL S3
Acropolis #4
CSCL: Masked Kings S4
SCTL 2026 Spring
WardiTV Spring 2026
2026 GSL S2
RSL Revival: Season 5
CS Asia Championships 2026
Asian Champions League 2026
IEM Atlanta 2026
PGL Astana 2026
BLAST Rivals Spring 2026
IEM Rio 2026
PGL Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 1
BLAST Open Spring 2026
ESL Pro League S23 Finals

Upcoming

Escore Tournament S2: King of Kings
BSL 22 Non-Korean Championship
CSLAN 4
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
HSC XXIX
uThermal 2v2 2026 Main Event
Maestros of the Game 2
Bounty Cup 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer 2026
BLAST Bounty Summer Qual
Stake Ranked Episode 3
XSE Pro League 2026
IEM Cologne Major 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 2
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.