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JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
January 18 2009 23:27 GMT
#121
On January 19 2009 08:10 CapO wrote:
please stop blogging and just get to "B" asap.
thx
bye.



some people asked me to say what I thought of the new competition, and to post some replays and crap, so I did.

I will gladly continue to play though, i need to keep practicing.

this blog was not intended just to entertain YOU, so please don't say not to do things that you have nothing to do with.
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
Straylight
Profile Joined March 2008
Canada706 Posts
January 18 2009 23:33 GMT
#122
I just hope that that in "seven to ten days" you won't just give yourself a new deadline to hit B rank.
It felt like gravity.
CapO
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1615 Posts
January 18 2009 23:36 GMT
#123
On January 19 2009 08:27 JoeSaddles wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 19 2009 08:10 CapO wrote:
please stop blogging and just get to "B" asap.
thx
bye.



some people asked me to say what I thought of the new competition, and to post some replays and crap, so I did.

I will gladly continue to play though, i need to keep practicing.

this blog was not intended just to entertain YOU, so please don't say not to do things that you have nothing to do with.


just get to B, and i'll shut up. right now, you're only talking and not showing results.
SNSD fan
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
January 19 2009 00:51 GMT
#124
I think everyone who ridicules him should be forced to put a link to their iccup page in their post.
[SECRET FONT] "Dragoon bunker"
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
January 19 2009 01:19 GMT
#125
On January 19 2009 09:51 Fontong wrote:
I think everyone who ridicules him should be forced to put a link to their iccup page in their post.


That has nothing to do with this at all.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
January 19 2009 01:24 GMT
#126
On January 19 2009 09:51 Fontong wrote:
I think everyone who ridicules him should be forced to put a link to their iccup page in their post.

Red herring.
Red.Cloud
Profile Joined September 2007
Canada235 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 03:06:02
January 19 2009 03:05 GMT
#127
has he played attackzerg yet?

and saddles i wanna play against you again
NeO)PhOeNiX
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
Canada250 Posts
January 19 2009 04:27 GMT
#128
Wow I can't believe all the negativity in his blog/threads.

Good work Saddles on all you've done up until now, I admire that you can pick up the game again and still own some guys left and right. Don't listen to these haters and do what you gotta do!
SC1: B_Saint[LighT]
kdog3683
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
United States916 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 05:33:51
January 19 2009 05:32 GMT
#129
On January 19 2009 13:27 NeO)PhOeNiX wrote:
Wow I can't believe all the negativity in his blog/threads.

Good work Saddles on all you've done up until now, I admire that you can pick up the game again and still own some guys left and right. Don't listen to these haters and do what you gotta do!


Maybe if you weren't so insulated, you would see that there is a good reason to

Don't listen to these haters and do what you gotta do! can't do


1 year from now, people will remember him as the guy who actually thought he was good, but couldn't break C+.
Multiply your efforts.
ToyotaDemon
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia150 Posts
January 19 2009 05:55 GMT
#130
tbh C+ is pretty good, i bet not even a quarter of tl can reach C+ (including me :<)

anyways

FLAME ON
rawr
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
January 19 2009 08:02 GMT
#131
First of all: he made a first post out of ignorance because he didn't know how good people have gotten, fine.

Secondly: you're all jumping on the bash Saddles bandwagon which is fucking retarded because he's probably already better than 90% of the people who've posted comments in this thread (except Chill and a few others who are definitely better than him).

Thirdly: there's no reason to continue acting like morons when he only made one idiotic blog and has since gone back on it because he realized that it would take longer than that to get up to B rank.

Let's face it, nobody except Chill and 1-2 other people who've posted in this thread have any idea what "facing blue ranked Koreans" feels like, so you all should stop acting like fuckheads.
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
January 19 2009 08:03 GMT
#132
On January 19 2009 14:32 kdog3683 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 19 2009 13:27 NeO)PhOeNiX wrote:
Wow I can't believe all the negativity in his blog/threads.

Good work Saddles on all you've done up until now, I admire that you can pick up the game again and still own some guys left and right. Don't listen to these haters and do what you gotta do!


Maybe if you weren't so insulated, you would see that there is a good reason to


There's a good reason to what? Keep flaming a guy who made a stupid blog almost (or over) a week ago with some stupid claims which he now says openly that were mistakes on his part?

Stop being a fucking tool.

twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 08:11:57
January 19 2009 08:08 GMT
#133
On January 19 2009 14:32 kdog3683 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 19 2009 13:27 NeO)PhOeNiX wrote:
Wow I can't believe all the negativity in his blog/threads.

Good work Saddles on all you've done up until now, I admire that you can pick up the game again and still own some guys left and right. Don't listen to these haters and do what you gotta do!


Maybe if you weren't so insulated, you would see that there is a good reason to

Show nested quote +
Don't listen to these haters and do what you gotta do! can't do


1 year from now, people will remember him as the guy who actually thought he was good, but couldn't break C+.



I seriously think you are not thinking correctly here...... not gonna be able to break C+?


I've been playing for 4 days so far... this is after not playing for 3-4 YEARS.

And I'm C right now, do you really honestly believe that I am not even gonna be able to make it to C+??? Right now I'm playing at about 40-50% of the speed I used to play.....

Come on man lol.....


And yes I freely admit I was wrong on my first day posting here, I didn't realize how popular FE PvZ has become, and also didn't realize how much muta micro has improved.

I've admitted that, I admit it freely that i was DEAD WRONG.

but do you honestly think that after 4 days of playing I hit C rank, and I will not be able to break C+ within a few more weeks of practice? LOL... come on ... that just doesnt make sense. Once I get back to 90-100% of what I used to play like I will be blue ranked...
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
January 19 2009 08:18 GMT
#134
If I was 45-52 C ranked or something then I would agree that I would not get past it.

But the fact is I'm winning a lot more than I'm losing at C rank, I'm 41-20 right now and I know it's a crappy record but a lot of my losses are to very very good players.... a lot of them are 25-1 42-7 etc etc. THey are not C players.


and like I said i'm playing at about 40% of how I used to play.

add those 2 facts together, and do you honestly believe I won't even make it to C+???

http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 08:29:27
January 19 2009 08:26 GMT
#135
I freely admit my first post 4 or 5 days ago was inaccurate and arrogant... I said it would take me a few days when really I should have said it would take me a few WEEKS at least to get back into shape..

I was gone from the game for a long time and I'm not playing nearly up to speed yet.

but to everyone posting that I'm a newb and etc and that I'll never even get to C+, that is just plain wrong.... I think I've proved that just in my first few days of playing again...

once I get back to 100% do you guys still really think I'm a newb and won't get to blue ranks??


http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/saddles.html
42-20 on my 5'th day of coming back??? Only playing at about 40-50% speed right now that I used to???? APM right now only at 180 instead of 240-250 where it used to be 4 years ago??

yah I'm sure i'm a complete newb.... ok guys............



http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
blabber
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States4448 Posts
January 19 2009 08:29 GMT
#136
no offense but are we supposed to know you? I was definitely not following American SC way back when so I have no idea if you were famous or something
blabberrrrr
JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 09:17:39
January 19 2009 08:36 GMT
#137
On January 19 2009 17:29 blabber wrote:
no offense but are we supposed to know you? I was definitely not following American SC way back when so I have no idea if you were famous or something



I think some of the people here know me but a lot probably don't...


My real name is Joey and I've been playing BW since it came out, I believe I was 10 or 11 when I first started. I live in the Miami area of southern Florida.

I was playing pretty well in 03 and 04. ... my biggest online accomplishment was probably in WGTour don't remember exactly which season, season 6 or season 7 maybe.

I finished 120-55 B2 16'th overall in the 1v1 ladder and qualified for the final tournament. Got beat by zealotito in round 2 and finished 12'th in the tourney. That year I also played in many gosugamers.net show matches and a few team liquid tourney and other tourney invites.

for 2 or 3 more seasons I finished b2 ranked but never placed higher than 16'th overall.

For offline, I went to WCG in 04 and finished 8'th overall in the USA, getting knocked out at the USA finals 3'rd round by FroZ in Long Beach, California. That was the only year I attended WCG or anything offline.. Oh I was also on Team USA A-team for a while when nation wars were still popular.... don't know what that's worth but for a while I was considered top 2-3 protoss in the US.

I had a very good record in nation wars and always seemed to play my best against good competition... I remember one nation war where I clinched the win forUSA by 2-0'ing eriador.. team USA was very strong back then though I think we were one of the top 3-4 teams out of all the nations.

(besides korea obviously, they weren't wasting time with newbs)

a year after that when I turned 18 I quit BW and got addicted to World of Warcraft LOL =(


But obviously today like people have said the competition has improved a lot since then. The strategies for PvZ have also changed a LOT.

It will take me a lot of time to really learn the new builds and to learn the new MAPS especially.... but I can still feel the potential there, as soon as my HANDS get fast again and catch up to my brain I think I will still be a good player.



http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28670 Posts
January 19 2009 08:44 GMT
#138
while I agree that I think you will be able to reach b- (and maybe even keep it, as later in the season it will be easier to do so with more and more people attaining it, i think its more likely that you'll reach it and then fall down to c+ like 5-6 times until you manage to stabilize around 6500), i do have to wonder where you learned the math that allows you to form this sentence "Only playing at about 40-50% speed right now that I used to???? APM right now only at 180 instead of 240-250 where it used to be 4 years ago??"


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JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 10:03:44
January 19 2009 08:48 GMT
#139
There are so many completely random people here flaming me that I have to add this in.... I know it's nothing great but how many of you guys here randomly flaming me for no reason have won stuff just from playing a computer game?

Just from playing BW back then I've won 240$ (covers the cost of my bw discs!!!!!!!! hehehe), a 19 inch flat screen samsung LCD monitor, a free trip to California for the USA finals, (one of the best weekends of my life... got to go there with my closest Uncle who is now passed away, and we got to go for free and enjoy ourselves at Long Beach... very very fun weekend.. I still remember each day clearly)

and a few other small items like keyboard mouse t-shirts etc. This was all from playing offline for 1 year...

so flame away people, flame away !!!!!


edit: heres one of the links before you can flame me even more and call me a liar or whatever

http://www.v2.cyberfight.ru/site/news/26408/?highlight=froz

heres an OLD ASS link showing when I first joined team USA (03') note that i was in iG back then lol, just starting to play some decent games. I didn't really get good until I joined rS and then Fk. in 04' http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=9833

if anyone can translate the first one would be cool, I'll look for some diff links
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
JoeSaddles
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States344 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-01-19 08:54:23
January 19 2009 08:50 GMT
#140
On January 19 2009 17:44 Liquid`Drone wrote:
while I agree that I think you will be able to reach b- (and maybe even keep it, as later in the season it will be easier to do so with more and more people attaining it, i think its more likely that you'll reach it and then fall down to c+ like 5-6 times until you manage to stabilize around 6500), i do have to wonder where you learned the math that allows you to form this sentence "Only playing at about 40-50% speed right now that I used to???? APM right now only at 180 instead of 240-250 where it used to be 4 years ago??"




Sorry for my sloppy grammar I'll try to clean it up a little from now on. I know it's a pain in the ass to read sloppily written posts.

I suppose I'm just being lazy at 4:00 am, but that is no excuse anyway I was even a journalism major in college =( I feel ashamed for those sentences =O
http://www.iccup.com/starcraft/gamingprofile/SaddleS.html
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