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Hello,  .
My name is Girit(no not my firstname), Girit is my lastname and my handle. I plan to be playing starcraft2, about 10-12 hours a day maybe more. I am on my PC from 11 AM - 11 PM every day, usually earlier than 11 AM, but that is the latest time I wakeup to hopon the PC. I recently started competing in Playhems, Won my first few rounds but lost to some good players. I am a gold player currently rank #1 on NA.
Some intro stuff, Season 1 I was a crap bronze player who knew nothing pretty much. You can watch some of my youtubes over at youtube.com/GiritTV, my first 2 weeks of playing starcraft seriously and trying to get somewhere, it took me two weeks of massing to get to silver finally.(season 2).
Okay some typos, I started in season 2. So Season 2 I was bronze, the end of season 2 I was silver. The start of season 3 I was still silver, but I got promoted to gold recently. Then I got dropped because I switched race to zerg, and then terran etc etc. I am now back to my original choice, Protoss. I am gold rank #1, beating and facing top platinum players. I am currently on I think a 12 or somethign win streak. I lost 3 games total the last few days, one was my net disconnecting and the other two, I just messed up. One was a roach-allin and until recently I had no clue how to counter that but now I can counter it fine.
I am 18, and dropped out of school to fulfill my dream. I'm sure you can guess what that is.
So I bought my new gaming rig to help me out, my specs are an intel core i5 2500k, 3.3ghz I have an ATI HD 57701gb, 4GB DDR3 ram, I recently bought
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428) which will help me out with the minor lagish I get while listening to pandora, and having 3000 windows open etc while I stream and sit on my computer etc lol. I also bought Microsoft LifeCam HD-3000 USB 2.0 720p HD widescreen video webcam (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105420) So I can have one of those cool player cams, I'm no model etc so I don't expect everyone to watch my stream just to see my awesome face etc. But I will be streaming a lot. my link is Twitch.TV/GiritTV, I expect 1-2 viewers, one me, one my laptop. If that even counts that way. But I always have my stream open on both.
I work on my laptop, so I figure why not have my stream open, so when I am ingame I can respond to your messages etc. I think that's about everything that needs to be said today. >_> So yeah.. end of blog, thanks for reading, thanks for skipping to the bottom and not reading if you did that. Just some nonsense, it's a blog anyhow I'm not Athene playin da gaimz etc having fans. Someday maybe ;o
-end of blog message- 12/8/2011
 
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With respect, you can attain a higher ladder ranking without dropping out of school.
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On December 09 2011 06:59 HackBenjamin wrote:
With respect, you can attain a higher ladder ranking without dropping out of school.
I'm aware of this, but I really didn't learn much while in school so it was pretty much a waste of time. I wanna be a sc2 pro gamer. Also, I didn't until recently get serious, I quit the game a lot played SWTOR, and some other games. But I really like starcraft and wanna get in the pro scene.
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Even though I don't support your decision, ill just say this
good luck!
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I recommend you read the blog directly below yours.
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On December 09 2011 07:03 Tamburlaine wrote:
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I recommend you read the blog directly below yours.
I was just about to say that
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Hey girit, a good way to test if you have the stuff to go pro (because its really hard, there is a reason not everyone is one!) is to commit yourself fulltime for a month.
You should:
Be playing sc2 1v1 (NOT reading reddit,watching vods,etc) 5 days per week, 8 hours per day.
You should be aiming for a MINIMUM of 30 1v1 games per day. Most pros play up to 60 on an average day. This means you should be able to play a MINIMUM of 600 1v1 games within the next 30 days. If you can't maintain that kind of practice schedule sadly you will not be able to play at a high level  .
Also by the end of the month of doing this you should be high masters (above 900 points) at least. If you are lower it might mean you just dont have the raw APM sadly to be a pro.
I'd suggest doing this for a month and if you can do all of the above you have a great shot! Good luck.
If you can't no worries, its not the right lifestyle for a lot of people. I'm sure that as a high school dropout you can find another great job like working at Denny's or some such .
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motbob
United States12546 Posts
Dropping out of school to do SC2 full-time when your rank is gold/plat is an objectively terrible decision.
EDIT: Hell, dropping out of school to do SC2 full-time when your rank is GM is a terrible decision.
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What is going on with all of these "I'm gold and going pro" blogs lately??? I know there have been many in the past but this is like the third one today. Quite honestly I don't understand why anyone would want to be a pro-gamer. I would never want my hobby to become my job. The beauty of a hobby is that you do it for fun. A job is something you do for money. If someone is willing to pay you to do something (your employer) there is usually a reason why and it's not because they just love you so much that they want you to have fun.
Anyways as far as your aspirations, the community will set you straight so I'll just say this: Chill for prime minister!!!
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this has to be a joke. especially with the blog right below yours. if it isnt a joke, you'll learn more important stuff in school than playing some video game. but hey, if you want to spend your life playing games go for it. i knew a guy in WoW that dropped out of high school and regretted it. now he's roofing, and just playing games. you'll probably not go anywhere above low-income but if that suits you..
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I hoped you dropped out of college and not high school to do this.
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
Hi Girit! There are a couple of critical posts that all people who are considering dropping out and/or dropping out of college to go pro should check out so they can be as effective as possible in life.
Let me recommend you this blog on the high respect I have for progamers: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=266837
And this recent blog about progamer lifestyle, passion, and inspiration: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=292871
(this one starts with a cool picture of BoxeR)
I recommend you read both of these and I hope you enjoy them.
Make sure to keep on making blog posts so we know how things go.
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On December 09 2011 07:00 Girit wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2011 06:59 HackBenjamin wrote:
With respect, you can attain a higher ladder ranking without dropping out of school. I'm aware of this, but I really didn't learn much while in school so it was pretty much a waste of time. I wanna be a sc2 pro gamer. Also, I didn't until recently get serious, I quit the game a lot played SWTOR, and some other games. But I really like starcraft and wanna get in the pro scene.
If you can't get in
To Grandmaster while still in school
You will not go pro.
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On December 09 2011 07:09 Roe wrote:
this has to be a joke.
I really hope this is a joke...
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I never read reddit, I go on these forums once a week max.
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You didn't drop out of school to play SC2. You dropped out because you didn't like it. SC2 isn't a big enough part of your life yet to influence your major decisions, don't kid yourself.
Good luck going pro though. It will take seemingly forever, but with a lot of free time you can improve very fast!
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On December 09 2011 07:09 shindigs wrote:
I hoped you dropped out of college and not high school to do this.
Isn't dropping out of college worse...?
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On December 09 2011 07:20 CanucksJC wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2011 07:09 shindigs wrote:
I hoped you dropped out of college and not high school to do this. Isn't dropping out of college worse...?
It's easier to go back to college than high school
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If he's 18 and in college, I assume he's a freshman in which dropping out can be his 1 year break between high school to college (still not ideal). See if actual progaming is what you really enjoy, and if not, you can enroll in school again without too much harm done. Maybe you can even get into the second half the semester instead of the next year.
dropping out of high school is like the worst idea ever, though. It's insanely easy to just pass and graduate if that's all you're aiming for, and at least have a high school degree to work the most basic jobs.
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Blazinghand
United States25557 Posts
On December 09 2011 07:20 CanucksJC wrote:Show nested quote +On December 09 2011 07:09 shindigs wrote:
I hoped you dropped out of college and not high school to do this. Isn't dropping out of college worse...?
Dropped out of college -> no college degree. Available professions include anything that requires a high school diploma.
Dropped out of high school -> no high school degree. Available professions include... mowing lawns and working fast food.
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