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So I finally hit A- for the first time a few hours before the season ended! yay 
The only downside to this was that it was achieved playing morrow\arew style playing mainly foreigners and in the end of the season. This because most of my games I streamed and it lagged to bad vs Koreans so they would leave most of the time. I have to say that playing mainly foreigners is so much easier than playing Koreans, during Korean hours I usually hover between B\B+ and get smashed around by most B+ Kors, while now I cruised fairly easy all the way til B+ where I started losing some and actually spent 36 games from first hitting B+ to reaching A- tho by now I was not streaming and about half the people where Koreans.
Ending up with a total 86-28 rec.
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/get.oystein.html
I have to say I absolutely love playing on heatbreak ridge and its a welcomed change from Desti being THE 2 player map of choice to play lately. Also its nice to see my PvT finally doing well again after some abysmal winrates (was below <40% for a while) on my other accounts due to the fact that I absolutely blow PvT on Destination.
Now in a stark contrast to this, my old accounts VAL\SCL it was a constant struggle to even get to B+ nevertheless try to maintain it going on a less than 50% winrate every since I hit B. Granted this was earlier in the season, the difference playing the Korean hours are just mind blowing.
As for this season as a whole I have to say that iccup is just awesome. The sick competition and practice you can get here is so good, and I even had the chance to play Casy and Forgg early season, where else would I have been able to do that? Also playing vs lots of amateurs\semiprogamers are great and I have no doubt the sick level of play at iccup the last few season have really helped my game improve tremendously. I had goals of reaching A- during Korean hours this season that I was never able to achieve, maybe next season.
In total this was a great season and now I can`t wait for the new season to start to try to get more games vs Progamers. Also I will once again give it a try trying to hit A- during Korean hours tho it will probably be to hard once again since I can barely get to B+ 
How was your Iccup season? Did you achieve your goals?
EDIT : Updated with a rep pack of my games from B- to A-
http://files.filefront.com/IccuprepsBrar/;13834715;/fileinfo.html
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United States11637 Posts
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On June 01 2009 06:24 Oystein wrote:
How was your Iccup season? Did you achieve your goals?
no
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United States11393 Posts
I hate zvp on Heartbreak so much. ~_~
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United States17042 Posts
Iccup frustration rant
+ Show Spoiler +I just uninstalled sc because it got too frustrating. It felt like I lost to absolutely everything. I'm like 2-20 in the past 3 days.
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well done hitting A- It always feel magical when you reach a new letter. I reached B- this season for the first time so I'm happy. The end of this season also means I have played SC for a year now so maybe a little celebration would be in order
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Norway28779 Posts
i pretty much reached my goals, didnt have time to really play much
got b+ pretty easily a good while ago, but then I tried to play some games against b+ and a- koreans and got raped pretty soundly in almost every game (but won every game vs b or b- when trying to regain b+), then had exams coming up and couldnt play during may, and besides it felt like i had reached the rank i belonged in hehe, at least unless i played really much.
going for a- next season tho
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I didn't play enough to achieve my goals. But if I were to continue playing the way I am right now I'm pretty sure I would.
So no.
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How was your Iccup season? Did you achieve your goals?
Didn't have goals, only reached C and then stopped playing due to lack of interest. Grats on A- though, I don't think playing good foreigners is a reason to downplay your shiny green rank. Impressive record also!
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i was going for C but wended up with 2 accounts 3 wins away
yesterday we tried to play the last few but we couldn't get any games!
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Well just about two hours ago i hit my goal of C for this season, hoping to hit C+ next season =x
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On June 01 2009 06:28 GHOSTCLAW wrote:Iccup frustration rant + Show Spoiler +I just uninstalled sc because it got too frustrating. It felt like I lost to absolutely everything. I'm like 2-20 in the past 3 days.
noooo why...
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Grats on A-! Battle net is still blocked for me so I can't go even go on ICCUP.
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nice A-!
i finally got out of the red ranks this season and ended with 3022 points. C- at last!
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I did :D achieve my goal of C-
3093 is what im staying at :D
Next goal is C/staying C-
Also grats on beating ChinaTTTT
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Gratz on A- Oystein
And for me I didnt achieve my goals was aiming for B+ after reaching B last season. But i was too bored to play mass games in last week of iccup its too boring imho... everyone massing games so they can get their perfect records as i did last season. I got bored lately of laddering and started playing only ums and some 1v1 + obs with random only which is kinda fun playing 9 matchups instead of 3 !
Now im waiting for the start of the new season so i can mass game in first week of the season this is when im most motivated to play and if im lucky i can get a game or 2 vs progamers!
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i lashed out against you in a desti-game where i got pissed, but i just wanna say you're a hell of alot better than morrow, if that actually counts for anything lol. Personally I couldn't even maintain B on korean hours.
I get this impression your zvp is very hydra heavy whenever i see you play though, and that macrobot tosses seem to do well against that particular style (esp. the ones that play defensively and are good at getting a third base up and running).
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Finland2818 Posts
On June 01 2009 06:27 Harem wrote:
I hate zvp on Heartbreak so much. ~_~
So hard to get 4th base. Ugly map
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Congrats. I see you've found out that the ideal strategy is to play foreigners in time limit ladders and train against koreans otherwise. 
I had exams so I didn't intend to play much, but I ended up with almost exactly the same as last season. But they'll be over soon so hopefully I'll meet some good players in the start season.
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