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McStupid
United States94 Posts
Then I won one, then lost 2 more. Then this evening, I played a few more games. Lost 2 then won one. I'm now down to #24 in rank. I'm going to bed now. Another friday evening, and no women in my bed. SIGH. Got to get up early (8 am) to go to SoCal lan 5 tomorrow. Anyone else ever have losing streaks like this? | ||
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theonlyrio
United Kingdom200 Posts
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Logyx
United States14 Posts
So anyway, hang in there man. This post actually really helped me a lot. It's worth the read: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=142131 | ||
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Ai52487963
United Kingdom136 Posts
Win one, lose three. Win one, lose four more. The points don't even balance out, since you have to be on your A-game to lose 20-25 points against a 150-point silver league player who got lucky on where to 4gate proxy all in on lost temple. I even tried playing against my non-competitive friends who are legitimately worse than me by a longshot, still losing best of 3's to 1-base carrier play. Needless to say, I feel the frustration. | ||
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jnay
Canada107 Posts
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BrickTop
United States37 Posts
So if you play N games, and we assume that all of them are evenly matched (you win with 1/2 probability), there's bound to be a squareroot(N) losing streak in there somewhere. For 1000 games, that means a ~31-long losing streak; for 400 games, a ~20 long losing streak  On the brighter side, you would probably have a ~31-long winning streak as well Note that this is all theory, in reality it probably wouldn't hold because of the match-making system (if get into a losing streak because of pure chance, then after a bit you will be fighting people below your skill level and you will win with a very high probability). But I think the moral of the story is that extremely long losing streaks are bound to happen even if every game is even, so if you get into a losing streak, just accept it as a result of probability theory | ||
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daewdasd
Germany64 Posts
Best thing you can do is just shut off the game, make something different and then try again. | ||
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Hilberer
Sweden64 Posts
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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Pughy
Wales662 Posts
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junemermaid
United States981 Posts
Just keep at it man. It happens to everyone at some point. Even bisu went on a mega slump. | ||
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ZomgTossRush
United States1041 Posts
Then I realized im 22 and I need to grow up. Keep practicing. | ||
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slam
United States923 Posts
Unless its a midnight booty call in which case I have already done all of the crafting for the night... mmmmm booty call. But yes, losing streaks suck. I had a 4 lose streak today (i play toss) after two baneling busts in a row, a pretty good pvp which I ended up losing and then another loss to Z mass muta+a bajillion spinecrawlers... knew i should have gone phoenix harrass to start out. whatevs. But I was on an 9 win streak before that so i can't get too upset and then after the lose streak I made up most of the points from a win + bonus pool so I got back to 500 point diamond. Cool story... i know. =o Oh and I will see the OP at the socal lan 5 tomorrow. :D | ||
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SaikOuLighT
Canada742 Posts
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Meta
United States6225 Posts
edit: One of my losses was against a protoss who proxy 2-gated, which I was able to fend off really well and even kill the probe with an scv, but lost about 5 minutes later to a 4 warp gate allin that I wasn't sufficiently prepared for T_T | ||
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Bartiemus
New Zealand84 Posts
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phantaxx
United States201 Posts
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Deleted User 47542
1484 Posts
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DarkSanta
Netherlands76 Posts
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Kantom
United Kingdom27 Posts
On August 14 2010 18:07 superbabosheki wrote: I have losing streaks because I usually rage inside and don't let myself leave the computer until I win one game. Went from 930 to 800 points in diamond in one night T_T I'll usually do this but after losing my first 7 games yesterday I decided it was time to stop. | ||
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DiTH
Greece116 Posts
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Ozarius
United States42 Posts
On August 14 2010 18:20 DiTH wrote: I went from 690 to 570 and then back to 630 after a 11loss streak in diamond league.Terrans just stomped over me with MMM.I play toss btw and still havent come up with a good plan to counter it but i think im close. What i do against a MMM ball is to either do a 3 gate robo and wait for the terran to walk up my ramp and forcefield off half his army and repeat, or i get fast collosus. Ive been trying to use void rays in my PvT's but i dont know how to use them to there fullest potential. | ||
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Doc Daneeka
United States577 Posts
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sAfuRos
United States743 Posts
I'll go on 10-0 runs and then go 0-10. Literally that divided. Its pretty fucking frustrating. | ||
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Geo.Rion
7377 Posts
3-4 days ago i was at ~730 which meant top 100 / ladder, 2 days later i was at 620 o.O i hope today i ll get myself over 800 finally | ||
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Abnell
23 Posts
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Nixda
119 Posts
I've learned to relax, take a break and come back to the game later, that usually fixes it. | ||
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thOr6136
Slovenia1775 Posts
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shannn
Netherlands2891 Posts
I went nuts after losing so many games. But then I learned not to rage when I lose. A loss is a lesson learned whether it's by proxy cheese or anything else and you got to be critic on yourself. Now I'm at 560 rating though (still in Diamond  ) | ||
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Fodder03
Canada142 Posts
Went from top 25 in my diamond league to 74th from inactivity :/ Fml Just as bad as a losing streak imo | ||
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Jackafur
United States116 Posts
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SmoKim
Denmark10305 Posts
pretty sure its just me that sucks, stop hating on friday the 13 | ||
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T0fuuu
Australia2275 Posts
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Stripes
Australia57 Posts
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Ganondorf
Italy600 Posts
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Jefferino
United States69 Posts
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Skee
Canada702 Posts
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Snowfield
1289 Posts
On August 14 2010 18:20 DiTH wrote: I went from 690 to 570 and then back to 630 after a 11loss streak in diamond league.Terrans just stomped over me with MMM.I play toss btw and still havent come up with a good plan to counter it but i think im close. I feel like i lose every game vs protoss nowadays, im a terran, it's just so sad, losing to the 3gate robo every single game. no idea what BO i should use just go 3gate robo and win :S if they go 3rax just chill in your base and get colossi, or scout that they are teching, make more units and push | ||
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dinmsab
Malaysia2246 Posts
I blame friday 13th for the sudden spikes in terran. | ||
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Towni
Austria144 Posts
On this day i lost game after game and i couldnt stop playing. I just could not believe this. Overall i lost about 20 games (2 wins in between or so) and I wend from Top 10 to rank 80. Ok in the last twoe games i just did some nukerushes or massnukes because i thought i loose anyway. At least the loosing lasted 2 more days until i left it behind. hopefullyforever. "Don't play for winning when you're on a loosing streak. Because you won't!" | ||
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FrogOfWar
Germany1406 Posts
I don't know if I like this idea though, my winning and losing streaks not even being up to my performance. | ||
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zeox
Norway314 Posts
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Kvz
United States463 Posts
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
It's normal for players of all skill levels and it only makes you stronger! | ||
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Deleted User 61629
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Bair
United States698 Posts
It cost me 100 points (sitting at 350 right now ) and my mouse because I raged and slammed it against my desk.Watched the replays, figured out what I was doing wrong (terrible terrible macro) and working on getting those points back. The first win after that though was against a silver player...(and I am in diamond) | ||
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asmo.0
Norway318 Posts
Ironically I had a 9 win streak on friday the 13th untill I ended the night with a loss. The important thing is to not play when angry. Don't just say "Oh fuck that, just wanna play another game to win again!!!", but take a small break to cool down and never play mad. Don't think I've ever played more games than 3 straight after each other if I lose all. And I've noticed a drop in my performance if I'm still pissed from the previous game. If you dont want to stop playing, just play a custom game for 15mins or something before watching the replay and find out why you lost and what you should change next time. | ||
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TwilightStar
United States649 Posts
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Boona
Sweden45 Posts
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pzea469
United States1520 Posts
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nira
United States116 Posts
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Snuggles
United States1865 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img441.imageshack.us/i/screenshot2010081009375.jpg/) This ^ I had this losing streak like last week, and it has to be worst thing I've ever experienced in gaming. I've had losing streaks in over games before, but it never really affected me because I played games for fun, and had no strong intention of improving. But when you're pouring a lot of effort into your game and lose so much, it'll get to you at some point. I went from like rank 15 - 17 to the 50's in Diamond league, painful to watch i swear. I'm still recovering right now, and I must say low Diamond players are really bad O.o | ||
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VanGarde
Sweden755 Posts
You know when you can't fall asleep for hours and you are in bed just thinking, "if I fall asleep now, I will get 4 hours of sleep". "If I fall asleep now I will get 3 hours of sleep". And that stress is whats actually keeping you up. When you are on a loosing streak, 9 out of 10 people will be looking at the ladder or their wins against losses. "If I win a game again now I will get back to 20'th place in the ladder". "If I win a game now I will get back to the 35'th spot in the ladder". "If I loose one more game now I will be down to more losses than wins" etc". The key is to find a way to ignore all that stuff, DO NOT look at the ladder while on a loosing streak, don't count wins, rating or how many spots you lost and have to take back. | ||
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JudoChopper
England148 Posts
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McStupid
United States94 Posts
Then in the next game, the other guy was favored to win, and he quit the game 2 seconds after it started, so I got the win and 40 points, for a net profit of 6 points. Thereby erasing the 3 game point loss. I felt better. Wasn't a REAL win, but I'd like to think I'd have won anyhow. After each game, when I review the stats page, I always check to see what rank the guy was that I played. I've gotten a couple Silvers but it's been almost all Bronze to my upper end Bronze. | ||
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hadoken5
Canada519 Posts
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vposud
United States36 Posts
On August 14 2010 23:50 hadoken5 wrote: I usually stop if I lose 3+ games in a row, because I get too mad so I play worse. I wish i could do that, usually i go on tilt and continue to play until i at least win 2 games in a row. It's a bad habit i need to break cause when i get mad after losing a lot my builds suffer cause i'm to mad to play. | ||
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asmo.0
Norway318 Posts
However, due to my hidden rating skyrocketing I've now faced the highest tier of diamond for the last 4 games and not stood a chance in either of em... Its very depressing to loose when you know you didnt actually do that much wrong, but were completely outskilled by people with 3 times my apm and tons of experience (Im completely new to rts) playing against good players... So I foresee a long losing streak incoming, doubt it'll stop at just 4. The last guy I met had 550ish games player, against my 160ish I was diamond rank 5 in my division before the losses, but as most diamond players I'm quite poor... | ||
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JimmyJRaynor
Canada16710 Posts
On August 14 2010 17:11 McStupid wrote: This friday the 13th was a bad one for me. Over the last 2 days I'd risen to #14 rank in my Bronze division. Then this morning I started playing. Lost 5 in a ROW!!!!! Anyone else ever have losing streaks like this? the match maker attempts to find opponents at your level which causes the vast majority of players on the BNet2 ladder to have win percentages close to the 50% level. flip a coin 5 times... and every once and a while... it'll come up tails 5 times. | ||
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XazXio
United States356 Posts
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Nabber
United Kingdom11 Posts
Hate playing against terran at the best of times, but this is just stupid; he has no units, any other race this would not be even a slight problem, ps why is archon range only 2? | ||
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CookieFactory
United States43 Posts
 . I'm such a fraud. | ||
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shazbot
Canada5 Posts
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Reason.SC2
Canada1047 Posts
If you string together a few wins and improve your rating bnet will match you with better and better players. Perhaps in earlier cases, where you have less than 200 games played it doesn't know exaclt how good you are and puts you against opponents that are simply out of your league to check if you should generally be promoted or placed with higher diamonds. This leads to losing streaks. After you lose a few and it realizes you're not fit to compete with 1000 rating diamonds it puts you with weaker opponents, maybe some high ranking platinums even, leading to a nice winning spree. Rinse and repeat until the system has a better understanding of your exact skill level from a larger number of games and opponents. Personally after getting promoted to diamond I went 6-2, then 2-6, then 13-3, and am constantly dreading an impending losing streak once bnet decides I should be playing against the likes of huk and idra lol. | ||
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bubusls
Romania61 Posts
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zeb_us
United States4 Posts
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jiabung
United States720 Posts
From 682 to 512... I dunno how.. I just started getting pissed off when I went on a 3 game losing streak and tried cheesing pretty much every game for like 6 hours. Every loss just fueled me even more into playing ladder to gain back my points. If I were a gambling man I'd probably be broke. just look at this graph, it makes me sad. http://sc2ranks.com/us/524508/Sushi | ||
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lindn
Sweden833 Posts
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Jenslyn87
Denmark527 Posts
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Gedrah
465 Posts
On August 14 2010 18:11 DarkSanta wrote: You forget that if you're losing everything, someone else has to win .Indeed. The ladder is a zero-sum competition. For each one player's win, there's another player's loss. So for each losing streak you go on, the collective of "everyone else" can be said to be on a winning streak. So in that sense, you're helping make the world a better place... for someone else. Streaking is worse in gambling, because it often starts when some idiot realizes he's already put a third of his paycheck into poker tables on the 1st of the month, and he now has to win some back because he can't make rent anymore. Then he proceeds to lose the rest. edit: wtf, I said "Poker" and it didn't form a hotlink to TL poker. | ||
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Subversion
South Africa3627 Posts
just watched trump lose like 10 games in a row on his stream (and he's freakin' awesome) | ||
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oursblanc
Canada1450 Posts
Granted, I play Terran, but I almost never win TvT. I hate it. | ||
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D10
Brazil3409 Posts
around 60% vs Z and it never leaves this zone | ||
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maggalo
United States77 Posts
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Liquorshot_852
Korea (South)72 Posts
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bodycount
Poland36 Posts
Think of what every loss gave you in terms of game knowledge and just how you can use it in the future to improve as a starcraft player. Best thread about this sort of mentality: clicky | ||
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Certa
30 Posts
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fams
Canada731 Posts
Also, like said in the Nal_rA Oldboy series, do 10 pushups every time you lose. It gives you time to reflect on your loss, and keeps your body fit a little bit at a time : P | ||
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ultratorr
Canada332 Posts
I guess I wasn't fit to play today since I seem to have slower reaction than usual, and cannot think clearly. | ||
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Ryuu314
United States12679 Posts
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Kutar_FOX
Korea (South)67 Posts
But because my division was newly created and I was the only one in that division at the time. Har har~! I was automatically placed around 60 when ppl were starting to show up in my division. one bad day, I played and lost many games so I was pushed back to around 90. but currently I am proper rank 34 diamond in full division of 100 people. | ||
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Dragonsven
United States145 Posts
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FaCE_1
Canada6172 Posts
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Orion_2kTC
United States80 Posts
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CidO
United States695 Posts
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boesthius
United States11637 Posts
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