[H][D] Can 'anyone' be Masters? - Page 11

On February 16 2012 11:01 Belial88 wrote:
Any gamer can with any race. Anyone can if they play deathball Protoss (not a balance whine, i'm just stating that if you turtle a deathball, you need less skill to pull it off to get to masters, especially since lower level people can't pull off the macro or aggression to 'counter' it and low masters is low level, and mech isn't really viable in all of the 3 match-ups and not as hard to deal with as zerg, you might actually need skill to do it in tvz).

For the average person, yea. If you play 2,000 games (not even sure on the exact number, probably less, whatever) you will definitely be masters though, provided you are at least like 17 years old.



Dude... your plan is horrible. You aren't getting it.

1. Yes, demuslim is a beast, but you are nowhere near his level, 99% of masters players are seriously like bronze to a diamond compared to him, and you are better off PLAYING.

In fact, when I was diamond, and first realized I 'could' hit masters, I made a vow to stop watching tournaments, stop watching streams, stop posting on TL, stop posting on any forum, stop watching VODs, stop watching day9. Suffice to say, i hit masters almost within a week.

You just have to PLAY. How much time have you spent on just in this thread alone? An hour already? That's easily 2 games. All the time you waste watching stuff, yea you may learn stuff, but you would've learned a LOT more playing. Not to mention, anyone below high masters is at a level of play where you'd just learn way more by playing the game, and learning it for yourself. Plus, you can't do what Demuslim does, he's 'above ladder', he could do some serious troll stuff and get away with it because he's that good. So maybe some of his play is trolling, maybe he does it but doesn't realize it's not viable against an MVP caliber opponent, maybe he does, but either way you are better off PLAYING.

2. You are way too low level to get coaching. All a coach will do is say "yea man just do this build ezpz get masters pay me $20" or "build probes, build pylons". Get a coach once you hit high masters. Or I mean go for it, it's your money, it's only a bit of time. But you really don't need a coach. You just need to know how to be critical of yourself, and understand you macro like total shit. Because unless you are high masters, it's true that you actually macro like total shit. Myself included (mid masters).

3. You want to play. Maybe join a chat channel and ask to play better people than you, but focus more on playing, not joining social groups.

4. You can do whatever builds you want. It's your macro that's a problem.

In short, you need to PLAY more. Get off the forums. Completely disassociate from every tournament, every vod, every pro, every stream. I strongly recommend, that if you want to hit masters, you should not watch any tournaments or anything or even visit reddit or TL (especially reddit).

Just get out there and play dude. Masters really isn't high level at all, and even if it was, you are just holding yourself back by not playing. I guarentee you, you play 2,000 games, you'll easily be masters.