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iCCup... You're destroying my self esteem.

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Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 15:59:38
June 02 2009 14:15 GMT
#1
I log into iCCup with the mindset of mass gaming, and accomplishing something this season. Despite it being the season, I felt I could at least beat a few people. After chilling for a bit, I finally join a game. I see the guy, and I see he's D+. The fact that it was this early in the season and that he was D+ didn't really click in my mind =\.

So I proceed to play one game. I get utterly raped. Completely and painfully. That sucked, but since it was ZvZ, I felt I could take at least one game from him. I rejoined, and got raped again. In frustration, I quit iCCup, and went on their website to see who I was actually playing.

I check his past ranks. A-. And then I look at current 1x1. He's #7. Ugh... I think I'm going to take a break from iCCup until the middle of the season so that I know who I'm playing =(.

Just waiting for the next Who is Who so I can know if I actually played anyone. Had a somewhat interesting conversation.
He said he was Korean, I accused him of lying of his ethnicity, and he proceeded to explain something about corean vs korean, and then claiming 'I AM SUPER COREAN!"

=\.

UPDATE: I feel some pride in saying that I was 8% of the wins by the #1 person on iCCup right now.

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jhNz
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany2762 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 14:19:49
June 02 2009 14:19 GMT
#2
i never play during the first 3 or 4 weeks of a new season...

some people say it's the best time of the season because you can play a lot of really good players even at low ranks. but i don't really see what's so cool about that i don't wanna get raped almost every game
http://twitter.com/jhNz
Strayline
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States330 Posts
June 02 2009 14:20 GMT
#3
If it's anything like last season you just need to wait like a week or so. It's really only the first few days that things are that bad.
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
June 02 2009 14:22 GMT
#4
On June 02 2009 23:19 jhNz wrote:
i never play during the first 3 or 4 weeks of a new season...

some people say it's the best time of the season because you can play a lot of really good players even at low ranks. but i don't really see what's so cool about that i don't wanna get raped almost every game

It's good for other high rank players (like B rank players) who can see how A rank players beat them and what they need to do to improve.

For us D+ to C- newbies, the benefits are small at best -_- The most you can do is claim you played Savior and got raped miserably at D+ or something.
Peace~
Highways
Profile Joined July 2005
Australia6103 Posts
June 02 2009 14:24 GMT
#5
It would be pretty cool if you got to play a progamer :p
#1 Terran hater
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
June 02 2009 14:26 GMT
#6
On June 02 2009 23:24 Highways wrote:
It would be pretty cool if you got to play a progamer :p

Yeah, too bad I don't think I did. His last season rec was like.. 400-200, and progamers don't lose that much. It's blasphemy.
jhNz
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany2762 Posts
June 02 2009 14:27 GMT
#7
On June 02 2009 23:22 fanatacist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 23:19 jhNz wrote:
i never play during the first 3 or 4 weeks of a new season...

some people say it's the best time of the season because you can play a lot of really good players even at low ranks. but i don't really see what's so cool about that i don't wanna get raped almost every game

It's good for other high rank players (like B rank players) who can see how A rank players beat them and what they need to do to improve.

For us D+ to C- newbies, the benefits are small at best -_- The most you can do is claim you played Savior and got raped miserably at D+ or something.


exactly. i haven'T stated my rank in my previous post but i'm d+ too. so i totally agree with you.
http://twitter.com/jhNz
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 14:49:36
June 02 2009 14:49 GMT
#8
On June 02 2009 23:27 jhNz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 23:22 fanatacist wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:19 jhNz wrote:
i never play during the first 3 or 4 weeks of a new season...

some people say it's the best time of the season because you can play a lot of really good players even at low ranks. but i don't really see what's so cool about that i don't wanna get raped almost every game

It's good for other high rank players (like B rank players) who can see how A rank players beat them and what they need to do to improve.

For us D+ to C- newbies, the benefits are small at best -_- The most you can do is claim you played Savior and got raped miserably at D+ or something.


exactly. i haven'T stated my rank in my previous post but i'm d+ too. so i totally agree with you.

No offense but from your response it was already obvious :p

EDIT: I'm D+ too, right now.
Peace~
jhNz
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany2762 Posts
June 02 2009 14:56 GMT
#9
On June 02 2009 23:49 fanatacist wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 23:27 jhNz wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:22 fanatacist wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:19 jhNz wrote:
i never play during the first 3 or 4 weeks of a new season...

some people say it's the best time of the season because you can play a lot of really good players even at low ranks. but i don't really see what's so cool about that i don't wanna get raped almost every game

It's good for other high rank players (like B rank players) who can see how A rank players beat them and what they need to do to improve.

For us D+ to C- newbies, the benefits are small at best -_- The most you can do is claim you played Savior and got raped miserably at D+ or something.


exactly. i haven'T stated my rank in my previous post but i'm d+ too. so i totally agree with you.

No offense but from your response it was already obvious :p

EDIT: I'm D+ too, right now.



haha well... according to my post i could have been even worse :D i just wanted to clarify that this is NOT the case ^^
http://twitter.com/jhNz
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
June 02 2009 15:01 GMT
#10
That's sick you just played an A- so early. Stop your bitching and man up. If by "play iccup" you really mean you just want to bash newbs then ya, quit for a month, cuz that will make you loads gosuer.
Nak Allstar.
Harem
Profile Joined November 2007
United States11390 Posts
June 02 2009 15:01 GMT
#11
On June 02 2009 23:26 Archaic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 23:24 Highways wrote:
It would be pretty cool if you got to play a progamer :p

Yeah, too bad I don't think I did. His last season rec was like.. 400-200, and progamers don't lose that much. It's blasphemy.

Season #11
347 - 193

That's July's record last Iccup season.

So yeah, they do lose a lot when they hit a/a+/olympic since they are playing other programersssss.
Moderator。◕‿◕。
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66155 Posts
June 02 2009 15:45 GMT
#12
Let me tell you what I do

First, I prepare the ICCup site on my firefox
Second, I go onto ICCup and create a game
Third, someone joins, I say 'wait plz' and check out that user's info
Fourth, if reasonable, play. If he's smurfing, ban.
POGGERS
Shivaz
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1783 Posts
June 02 2009 15:46 GMT
#13
On June 03 2009 00:45 konadora wrote:
Let me tell you what I do

First, I prepare the ICCup site on my firefox
Second, I go onto ICCup and create a game
Third, someone joins, I say 'wait plz' and check out that user's info
Fourth, if reasonable, play. If he's smurfing, ban.


lol
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66155 Posts
June 02 2009 15:48 GMT
#14
I forgot to add

Reset and playing as D/D+ = ban
POGGERS
Archaic
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States4024 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-06-02 15:59:32
June 02 2009 15:58 GMT
#15
On June 03 2009 00:01 Harem wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 02 2009 23:26 Archaic wrote:
On June 02 2009 23:24 Highways wrote:
It would be pretty cool if you got to play a progamer :p

Yeah, too bad I don't think I did. His last season rec was like.. 400-200, and progamers don't lose that much. It's blasphemy.

Season #11
347 - 193

That's July's record last Iccup season.

So yeah, they do lose a lot when they hit a/a+/olympic since they are playing other programersssss.

Hmph, okay. I stand corrected =\.
But I rechecked, and it was more like 400-300. But I still believe you.

UPDATE: I feel some pride in saying that I was 8% of the wins by the #1 person on iCCup right now.
SkelA
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Macedonia13032 Posts
June 02 2009 16:27 GMT
#16
I always getting pumped for massgames in the first week of season so i can play some good players.Last season i played nal_keke in first few days so i hope this time i get some games vs other progamers too
Stork and KHAN fan till 2012 ...
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
June 02 2009 16:29 GMT
#17
You realise how lucky you are lol? This is the whole reason for playing early season! If you want to play scrubs, just go on USEast :S
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
meathook
Profile Joined December 2007
1289 Posts
June 02 2009 16:34 GMT
#18
On June 03 2009 00:45 konadora wrote:
Let me tell you what I do

First, I prepare the ICCup site on my firefox
Second, I go onto ICCup and create a game
Third, someone joins, I say 'wait plz' and check out that user's info
Fourth, if reasonable, play. If he's smurfing, ban.

This is lame and gay. Don't do this.

I wish people would start to understand how little importance the rank has.. I mean, unless you are getting paid to reach a certain rank (this happens in some clans, I guess) what is the meaning of it? At that point you are just doing it to make yourself feel better, not to improve your game.
An ugly planet. A bug planet.
MiniRoman
Profile Blog Joined September 2003
Canada3953 Posts
June 02 2009 16:38 GMT
#19
Ya Kondora, stats were banned so people stopped stat dodging. Now you just make the process take an extra minute ~_~ YOU should be the one smurfing if you're gonna play like that. Care less about your record
Nak Allstar.
Jayme
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States5866 Posts
June 02 2009 16:47 GMT
#20
On June 03 2009 01:29 Chef wrote:
You realise how lucky you are lol? This is the whole reason for playing early season! If you want to play scrubs, just go on USEast :S


What some guy said earlier is correct though.

This is prime time for B- - B+ players to get in games with A players they normally wouldn't be able too and see how to improve. I can really see why a B player would love the beginning of the season.

Now for a D+ player... the benefits are blah at best. Mostly because even a C+ player is going to rape you abysmally and you have every B - Olympic player to deal with at the same time. Hell I hit C+ last season and I'm still getting my ass handed to me so much at D I feel like crying
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