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Why is there no mention of refinement in this post?
I tear apart the ladder when i ladder because I pick sweet builds Liquid Tyler's Double forge or 3 gate expand into all the fun stuff Zerg hates. PvP is more of a game sense 4 gate into other stuff or cannon rush.
Either way I'm getting off topic. The point is I feel you have way more stable time laddering if you just have solid builds that you know so well you can adapt on the fly and when you lose, you know how you should of adapted from watching the replay. Furthermore, you can see what they were actually doing and improve your scouting.
TL;DR: Laddering and improving is easier when you have a refined build...I feel this should be mentioned, Can't just mass ladder.
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Nice Post BaekHo, good for inspiration! Okay now I'm going back to practice. Struggle! Fighting!
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Great post! The truly hard part is when you look back at a replay over and over and can't find any leaks you can fix. So you try again and again and get a practice partner, and watch some VOD's and do some forum searches, and then keep losing to it. And finally you snap and break the nearest fragile object and yell "damnit 2rax-expand on close maps and 3base protoss death ball takes four times as much skill to stop than execute wtf am I playing this broken game for damnit!"
Then you switch races after ladder reset and have fun again.
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On April 01 2011 03:18 Bippzy wrote:
Why is there no mention of refinement in this post?
I tear apart the ladder when i ladder because I pick sweet builds Liquid Tyler's Double forge or 3 gate expand into all the fun stuff Zerg hates. PvP is more of a game sense 4 gate into other stuff or cannon rush.
Either way I'm getting off topic. The point is I feel you have way more stable time laddering if you just have solid builds that you know so well you can adapt on the fly and when you lose, you know how you should of adapted from watching the replay. Furthermore, you can see what they were actually doing and improve your scouting.
TL;DR: Laddering and improving is easier when you have a refined build...I feel this should be mentioned, Can't just mass ladder.
I didnt specifically mention about refinement because that is just one way to get better. Surely you can do 4 gate every games. Picking one build specifically doing it every games. I seen good people using same strategy over and over in ladder, that does help, indeed that's one of the many ways. Sometimes doing one strategy can stop you from doing other strategies as well. If you are doing one strategy over and over, when you mass up, you cant do other things cuz you have no idea.
But thanks for mentioning it. I agree with that to some extent. If you are not confident in using banshee, for instance, you should use it every games, and at some point of time you will get used to it and know how to use it in best way, but again, that's one of the many ways to learn.
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Thanks a lot for this awesome read ! I'm feeling strange right know.
I was 3k master in season 1 but I was only able to play the week end, everytime I start laddering Friday, I feel like I have to learn everything again about the game even if I can watch stream or replay during week. I thought a lot that it doesn't worth it to play if I can't progress because of irregular playtime, I thought to stop laddering and stop trying to progress in these conditions, but I just can't.
Because of my love for Zerg and this game, because when I watch GSL/GSTL, others tournaments, Day9, Dimaga or Whitera ceremonies ... I just feel great, and I fucking love this game, and I just fucking want be a part of it. Hoping I can see my limits one day after really try to improve.
Thank you for this great read, definitely will help me. In game or in everyday life.(not kidding)
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Seen this guy play live, he is absolutely legit, really good player. If you're struggling to get better you should very much take his advice 
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I personaly quit playing 6months ago while I was top500 NA ladder. I stopped cause it became too much pressure just to get a tad better each days.
Now I'm back and I regret quitting for so long since I have to regrind my way back to where I was....
anyways... thanks for this post... it gave me some drive 
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Yes! I love it.
Saranghae BaekHo ~
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One of the best things I have read in a while. Can't wait to go home and practice.
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Thank you for the post, BaekHo, really informative and a great contribution!
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On April 01 2011 03:35 State wrote:
Yes! I love it.
Saranghae BaekHo ~
^_^
<3
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I definitely didn't realize someone from slayers was in toronto that's cool!
Nice post , good read. Thanks.
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respect. Helped me a lot. Im currently on a losing streak and hate the game atm. Now i gonna watch my replays, watch what went wrong and try not to do these mistakes against.
Thanks a lot man. One of the best posts in the whole strategy forums..
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its cool to think that a members of slayers is in my backyard. which is uber cool.
thanks for the post. i have been struggling for months getting better. but its my lack of auctual hardcore practice that hinders me to much.
how do you go about practicing hardcore. like 8-10 horus a day. i've tried to do that, but i always end up fustrated and tired after 2-3 hours.
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On April 01 2011 03:47 masterbreti wrote:
how do you go about practicing hardcore. like 8-10 horus a day. i've tried to do that, but i always end up fustrated and tired after 2-3 hours.
Players like RET practice about 6 hours a day and do just fine!!
and also... I personaly recommend training in blocks of 3hrs with 1hr break up to 9hrs max a day... thats what I do and it works for me
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I demand all your replays vs nyomu
Nice post though, everyone should remember to double check replays rather than keep asking themselves "how did he have so much stuff"
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thanks for the motivating post!
Wow Toronto, I was born there, I wish i still lived there  sucks having to grow up in America instead of Asian-Toronto, haha. Oh well.
Thanks for the friend code :D
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Nice read man, thx for posting it.
On April 01 2011 03:18 Bippzy wrote:
Why is there no mention of refinement in this post?
I tear apart the ladder when i ladder because I pick sweet builds Liquid Tyler's Double forge or 3 gate expand into all the fun stuff Zerg hates. PvP is more of a game sense 4 gate into other stuff or cannon rush.
Either way I'm getting off topic. The point is I feel you have way more stable time laddering if you just have solid builds that you know so well you can adapt on the fly and when you lose, you know how you should of adapted from watching the replay. Furthermore, you can see what they were actually doing and improve your scouting.
TL;DR: Laddering and improving is easier when you have a refined build...I feel this should be mentioned, Can't just mass ladder.
Sir, trust me or not, i am one of the player who doesn't focus that much on "refining", i just mass ladder.
And after about... 2.5k games i think ? I am at a good level of refinement in my builds, maybe even bigger then most ppl... sadly i lack some micro
Just saying, i know play practice games and vs Ai games + theorycraft to refine builds is faster then playing 1 milion games BUT 1 million games can work as well
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You played GenX? He's a friend of mine, pretty good player
Thanks for writing this thing, I appreciate it and liked reading it!
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