I am actually suprised how calm I am while playing.. thats probably why I keep having like 1000 resources and junk though.. On other games like.. savage 2 / HoN I am so.. intensely concetrated on the game.. maybe its because I never played SC1 so I am still learning the game a bit.. In 2vs2 I probably would be more nervous cuz I would hate to make my partner lose because of me doing bad..

Oh wait I do get kinda nervous when I see person scout really fast cuz I always think they are gonna proxy me (which often they do). Although I dont think I have died to a proxy-er once so far..

jazzy3001

21 Posts

July 10 2010 03:26 GMT

#43

yeah like a few days ago i played my friend i panicked, i still won but wasn't very efficient, i played about not caring and my game play was very smooth. Try to think its only a game and you can play others.

taintmachine

United States431 Posts

July 10 2010 03:27 GMT

#44

i find 1v1 to be pretty intense and i don't like playing more than a few games in a sitting. however i find the experience fun or at least fulfilling, even if i lose, so maybe my situation isn't the same as the OP's. i, too, find team games less intense. however, unless im playing with friends, i avoid them as i've had too many bad experiences with random teaming.

virgozero

Canada412 Posts

July 10 2010 03:31 GMT

#45

I get this all the time and heres why

I am in plat and i know my level reflects somewhere between high gold and low plat. Yet I hapen to be 8th in my div atm. I really want to keep my place but I know I am not good enough so I am always nervous before my game hoping its a noob to raise my rank

I know thats a bad way to practice and improve but I just can't help but adore the pretty rankings ^______^"

speaking of which

A BUNCH of pros are on same ladder, whitera, idra, kawaii, TTone, and a bunch moreeeee

Zergneedsfood

United States10671 Posts

July 10 2010 03:31 GMT

#46

I'm a little bit uncomfortable because I'm not confident in my skills as a player.

I'm still killing people on the ladder at times, but I feel a little more tentative in terms of my decision making. Sometimes I feel like I'm being outmacroed, when I'm the one that's actually ahead in unit count.

So I think the rustiness is there. I just gotta clear it out.

tertle

Australia328 Posts

July 10 2010 03:33 GMT

#47

Only in tournaments against known players

Rinrun

Canada3509 Posts

July 10 2010 03:35 GMT

#48

When its 1v1 I always get jittery and nervous, its so weird cause I remember playing CS so much and rarely feeling like that (only in clan matches). But it only happens for the first few games, eventually, I just get comfortable- cause I've been laddering for a couple of games.

Dionyseus

United States2068 Posts

July 10 2010 03:36 GMT

#49

When I was younger I tried playing in chess tournaments but I just got so nervous playing in them that I quit playing and i've mostly been watching other people or computers playing ever since. Same thing is happening with SC2, I spend more time watching people's streams and replays than I do playing.

I just really hate losing...

Kvz

United States463 Posts

July 10 2010 03:36 GMT

#50

On July 10 2010 11:42 somedumbgamer wrote:
Since SC and SC2 are such intense games, forcing you to be on your toes every second and knowing that any slip up can potentially cost you the entire game, I seriously get pretty nervous before games, even random quick matches. I just keep thinking to myself "Oh man, who's my opponent gonna be? Is it gonna be some crazy uber gosu guy with 200apm? oh my goooodddd" And when the game starts and the guy is about equal skill to me, I get really nervous and stuff, so I start slipping up all over the place; slipping up in macro, making bad strategic choices, etc.

Fortunately for me, for all my placement matches, I had opponents that weren't very good so I won all of them without much effort, and my nervousness went away about midgame as I realized my opponent wasn't very good. But now that I'm in the platinum league, I'm even more nervous to even try and play any matches >_>

This is also why I strongly prefer anything besides 1v1, because 1v1 is just so intense, and it's entirely up to you to win. With 2v2 and 3v3, it's a lot more casual, and anything bad that happens is just kind of like "eh, whatever, not like it was entirely my fault or anything".

haha i feel your pain

.

the best solution for me is just to suck it up and keep queueing. the feeling eventually subsides or i get used to it lol

Nairul

United States262 Posts

July 10 2010 03:36 GMT

#51

Just tell yourself its beta and none of your stats will matter in a few weeks. The worst thing you can do is lose motivation and stop practicing.

FC.Strike

United States621 Posts

July 10 2010 03:37 GMT

#52

The nervousness happens when you play to win or achieve a certain goal. If you're playing only to win, you eventually reach a point where you're running into opponents as good as or better than you half the time. Due to Battle.net's matchmaking system, you're bound to lose about half of those games.

This gets extremely frustrating if you're trying to get that shiny new achievement, league, rank, or whatever else you're aiming for.

Something that's helped me is at the end of very long games that I lose, I'll chat with the opponent for a little bit (wow that was an intense game, etc.) just to cool off. Before my games, if I'm on tilt, I'll close my eyes and take a deep breath while the countdown is happening.

Small stuff like that really helps.

Randomaccount#77123

United States5003 Posts

July 10 2010 03:37 GMT

#53

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Marl

United States694 Posts

July 10 2010 03:38 GMT

#54

I also get nervous and feel drained when playing.. makes me want to go back to playing WoW... NO. It's nice that sc2 is a lot more than 1v1 though, I don't feel that much pressure during team matches and all the UMS maps that will be coming out will be nice for relaxing. Also, when I buy the game I think I'm just going to forfeit my placement matches so I don't start in the lion's den. In phase 1, I started in silver and built myself up to #1 gold (equivalent to platinum now) which was nice, but in phase 2 I got put right into platinum and it's been a lot more stressful getting used to the game again.

edit: lol I just remembered that my stress levels in sc2 are almost exactly like when I used to play yugioh with my friends and going to Toys R Us tournaments. I think I spent like 10% of my yugioh career actually playing the game and the rest trading / reading about it, kinda like now where I watch sc way more than I play. ><

Cryptic

Canada44 Posts

July 10 2010 03:41 GMT

#55

I know what you mean... I always have trouble bringing myself to queue up 1v1. Team games are fine for me, but i'm used to FPS/team games.
Probably a lack of practice, though. Put on your favourite music and just rock out until the anxiety of the first few games passes.
Also, I doubt its conscious; because consciously I get the idea of losing is good and I don't really have a fear of losing, nor do I get angry at the end of my games, I just get a certain anxiety when it comes to opening up the game and playing a 1v1.

One thing I can say though, is just play the game. If you get stressed over 1v1, just play 2v2 or FFA until you feel good enough to play 1v1 competitively at a level you're comfortable with. The anxiety won't go away unless you play, so do it. =)

ZidaneTribal

United States2800 Posts

July 10 2010 03:43 GMT

#56

once ur not afraid of losing it'll go away. just think of laddering as a way to improve urself rather than to get points

Luvz

Norway356 Posts

July 10 2010 03:43 GMT

#57

i got abit nervous my first 2 games just now when EU servers came up. but im sure itl settle down afther a few games.

prochobo

United States232 Posts

July 10 2010 03:46 GMT

#58

Yeah OP, I thought I was the only one. I'll get chills, start shaking, and hear my heart pounding. At the end of phase 1, most of it went away, but now at phase 2 it's pretty much back.

It's especially nerve racking since the placement is so screwed up. I got placed in Silver when I was previously Diamond in phase 1, so I enter most games with the mindset that the other dude's a nub. Well, I'm wrong more often than right because I don't play Silver level players. . . more like plat and diamond. So when I lose these games, I'm thinking I'm losing to a nub and rage like mad because that must mean I suck pretty hard as well. Then I look at the match history and only see a -2 and shrug it off

vindKtiv

United States215 Posts

July 10 2010 03:56 GMT

#59

On July 10 2010 12:46 prochobo wrote:
It's especially nerve racking since the placement is so screwed up.

Yeah this really got to me. I was a Platinum player during Phase 1 and I got placed in Bronze. I'm actually glad because I feel that it is more representative of my actual skill (I'm a D- player on BW), but the placement matches were intense because of the pressure.

Most of the time though, I get too scared to even start playing. Once I start though, I'm fine, but I'm always scared that I'll lose so I don't play as much.

floor exercise

Canada5847 Posts

July 10 2010 03:59 GMT

#60

First game of the day I get jittery, been that way since before BW but it goes away until I find myself playing like a complete zombie, not realizing I've even started a new game until I am splitting my workers