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Slumping (Part II)

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GoShox
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States1843 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-07-22 04:51:51
July 22 2009 04:50 GMT
#1
[image loading]


I think I made a topic about slumping last year around this time. Thankfully now I'm much better than what I was, but I still can't escape this bug known as the 'slump'.

Everything was going good until the MOTW change. I had just hit C and was climbing up to C+ (oddly enough I beat a C+ rank player before I beat a C rank player, but hey I'll take it) and was about halfway there on Sunday. I lost a few games in a row on Destination (my mass-gaming map of last week), but hey, no big deal, I'm not going to be able to win every game. Even better, I watched the replays from those losses and noted big mistakes that I made in each one, and had I not made each mistake each game I most likely would have won at least a few, if not all of them.

Suddenly, paranoia. The MOTW changed.. it seemed as if the iCCup admins were out to get me. Outsider.. a map I truly hate and dread playing, and have no idea how to play on really. Tau Cross, a pretty good map but a map that I never seem to do well on, especially in PvT (my PvT is miserable regardless, but still). Wuthering Heights, an excellent map but a map that no one seems to play (especially Koreans). Return of the King, another map that seems good but no one plays, and God's Garden, a purely macro map that really bores me to play on cause there isn't anything unique about it.

Am I a picky person? Apparently, since I just complained about God's Garden being too boring but Outsider being too weird, LOL

Anyways, I'm forcing myself to play on Outsider and I'm trying to learn how to play that map versus how to play on other maps. As you can see, it's not working out so well.. 3-12 since the MOTW change (2-9 on Outsider).

Why the slump? Probably cause I'm playing players better than I'm used to, but I think at least some of it has to be attributed to the MOTW! Even though the maps aren't even anti-Protoss (that I know of).

Anyways, I just needed a rant post I suppose.. and I'm anxiously awaiting next week :p

*
Yaqoob
Profile Blog Joined March 2005
Canada3356 Posts
July 22 2009 04:59 GMT
#2
The answer to your slump is:

Tau Cross
김택용 Fighting!
Romanian from
Profile Joined September 2008
Romania89 Posts
July 22 2009 05:17 GMT
#3
On July 22 2009 13:50 GoShox wrote:
[image loading]


I think I made a topic about slumping last year around this time. Thankfully now I'm much better than what I was, but I still can't escape this bug known as the 'slump'.

Everything was going good until the MOTW change. I had just hit C and was climbing up to C+ (oddly enough I beat a C+ rank player before I beat a C rank player, but hey I'll take it) and was about halfway there on Sunday. I lost a few games in a row on Destination (my mass-gaming map of last week), but hey, no big deal, I'm not going to be able to win every game. Even better, I watched the replays from those losses and noted big mistakes that I made in each one, and had I not made each mistake each game I most likely would have won at least a few, if not all of them.

Suddenly, paranoia. The MOTW changed.. it seemed as if the iCCup admins were out to get me. Outsider.. a map I truly hate and dread playing, and have no idea how to play on really. Tau Cross, a pretty good map but a map that I never seem to do well on, especially in PvT (my PvT is miserable regardless, but still). Wuthering Heights, an excellent map but a map that no one seems to play (especially Koreans). Return of the King, another map that seems good but no one plays, and God's Garden, a purely macro map that really bores me to play on cause there isn't anything unique about it.

Am I a picky person? Apparently, since I just complained about God's Garden being too boring but Outsider being too weird, LOL

Anyways, I'm forcing myself to play on Outsider and I'm trying to learn how to play that map versus how to play on other maps. As you can see, it's not working out so well.. 3-12 since the MOTW change (2-9 on Outsider).

Why the slump? Probably cause I'm playing players better than I'm used to, but I think at least some of it has to be attributed to the MOTW! Even though the maps aren't even anti-Protoss (that I know of).

Anyways, I just needed a rant post I suppose.. and I'm anxiously awaiting next week :p

are you "shoxMD"
GoShox
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States1843 Posts
July 22 2009 05:20 GMT
#4
On July 22 2009 13:59 Yaqoob wrote:
The answer to your slump is:

Tau Cross


Haha, maybe.

On July 22 2009 14:17 Romanian from wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2009 13:50 GoShox wrote:
[image loading]


I think I made a topic about slumping last year around this time. Thankfully now I'm much better than what I was, but I still can't escape this bug known as the 'slump'.

Everything was going good until the MOTW change. I had just hit C and was climbing up to C+ (oddly enough I beat a C+ rank player before I beat a C rank player, but hey I'll take it) and was about halfway there on Sunday. I lost a few games in a row on Destination (my mass-gaming map of last week), but hey, no big deal, I'm not going to be able to win every game. Even better, I watched the replays from those losses and noted big mistakes that I made in each one, and had I not made each mistake each game I most likely would have won at least a few, if not all of them.

Suddenly, paranoia. The MOTW changed.. it seemed as if the iCCup admins were out to get me. Outsider.. a map I truly hate and dread playing, and have no idea how to play on really. Tau Cross, a pretty good map but a map that I never seem to do well on, especially in PvT (my PvT is miserable regardless, but still). Wuthering Heights, an excellent map but a map that no one seems to play (especially Koreans). Return of the King, another map that seems good but no one plays, and God's Garden, a purely macro map that really bores me to play on cause there isn't anything unique about it.

Am I a picky person? Apparently, since I just complained about God's Garden being too boring but Outsider being too weird, LOL

Anyways, I'm forcing myself to play on Outsider and I'm trying to learn how to play that map versus how to play on other maps. As you can see, it's not working out so well.. 3-12 since the MOTW change (2-9 on Outsider).

Why the slump? Probably cause I'm playing players better than I'm used to, but I think at least some of it has to be attributed to the MOTW! Even though the maps aren't even anti-Protoss (that I know of).

Anyways, I just needed a rant post I suppose.. and I'm anxiously awaiting next week :p

are you "shoxMD"


Yes.
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
July 22 2009 05:34 GMT
#5
what race do you play?
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Licmyobelisk
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Philippines3682 Posts
July 22 2009 05:37 GMT
#6
i myself is slumping and usually play my other accounts
I don't think I've ever wished my opponent good luck prior to a game. When I play, I play to win. I hope every opponent I ever have is cursed with fucking terrible luck. I hope they're stuck playing underneath a stepladder with a black cat in attendance a
GoShox
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States1843 Posts
July 22 2009 05:55 GMT
#7
On July 22 2009 14:34 Xeris wrote:
what race do you play?


Protoss
jhNz
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany2762 Posts
July 22 2009 08:45 GMT
#8
On July 22 2009 14:55 GoShox wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2009 14:34 Xeris wrote:
what race do you play?


Protoss


let the flame wars begin T_T
http://twitter.com/jhNz
ReCharge
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Philippines505 Posts
July 22 2009 11:11 GMT
#9
On July 22 2009 17:45 jhNz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2009 14:55 GoShox wrote:
On July 22 2009 14:34 Xeris wrote:
what race do you play?


Protoss


let the flame wars begin T_T


Well, at least we can proove that P is NOT imba :D
David Kim for Bonjwa!
jhNz
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
Germany2762 Posts
July 22 2009 11:24 GMT
#10
On July 22 2009 20:11 ReCharge wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 22 2009 17:45 jhNz wrote:
On July 22 2009 14:55 GoShox wrote:
On July 22 2009 14:34 Xeris wrote:
what race do you play?


Protoss


let the flame wars begin T_T


Well, at least we can proove that P is NOT imba :D


that's true
mines are imba! :D
http://twitter.com/jhNz
REDBLUEGREEN
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Germany1904 Posts
July 22 2009 12:27 GMT
#11
awwww shame on me for losing against 2 gate pressure lol =)
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