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KinD
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada4 Posts
August 12 2010 05:10 GMT
#1
Hey everyone, I don't know if you guys can help or give some words of advice/encouragement, but I've been following Team Liquid for a while now and have been in the beta and now own the game. But I'm so frustratingly afraid to press the Find Game button. I'm pretty confident in my ability to play, I'd guess I'm at low Platinum level, pretty decently. I want to become better, but for some reason, I can't sit down and play. Does it get easier? Am i just crazy? I want to improve, but it just seems so terrifying. I don't get angry when I lose, and am a pretty well mannered player, so I just don't get it. Can someone tell me how to get myself to just play the game?-_- Thanks.
InfiniteIce
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States794 Posts
August 12 2010 05:14 GMT
#2
relevant thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=135235

Also, JUST GO PLAY. Just say "fuck it".

Lose on purpose. Do something completely stupid. Just bunker rush, or proxy pylon, or offensive hatchery for 3 games.

Get that fear of losing out of the way. Even though you're confident, and you don't get angry at a loss, if you KNEW you were going to win, you would obviously be playing.

Go lose a few on purpose, without just suiciding 6 workers right off the bat. So just go do some stupid strats, get those jitters out of the way, then when you're sick of losing, go win!!!
i keep going back to my response to chill's fake PM and laughing, then immediately getting a feeling that i assume i'd get if i had an orgasm and the girl said "hahaha guess what i have a dick" -FakeSteve
VTArlock
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States1763 Posts
August 12 2010 05:14 GMT
#3
Step 1) Hover mouse over the button
Step 2) close your eyes
Step 3) click the left button on your mouse
Step 4) dont move a muscle until you hear the coundown
Step 5) Open your eyes and enjoy

Theres really no pressure man. Battle.net places you against people in or around your own skill level. Just enjoy it, if your screw it up and lose, repeat the steps and do it again. You can only get better by playing, practice means EXPERIENCE!

Enjoy bro
Why?
moopie
Profile Joined July 2009
12605 Posts
August 12 2010 05:15 GMT
#4
If you are hesitant to run 1v1s, find a friend and run 2v2/3v3/4v4. If you have a good group, team laddering often ends up pretty fun.
I'm going to sleep, let me get some of that carpet.
nira
Profile Joined April 2010
United States116 Posts
August 12 2010 05:15 GMT
#5
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=142780

try that and the links in the thread
SyN_FiR3
Profile Joined May 2010
United States85 Posts
August 12 2010 05:15 GMT
#6
it happens to pretty much everyone. just pick a day and tell yourself you will sit down and play x amount of games... and if you are losing too many in arow just take a break or try it again the next day... you will always win some lose some, when the goal becomes getting better regardless of winning, that's when it should be easier to play ^-^
"How 'bout changin' a line cause it don't make sense..."
MrJizz35
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada6 Posts
August 12 2010 05:16 GMT
#7
Well.. not much I can say here. Just get into man.. sometimes i have that type caution before I enter ladders but once I get the blood flowing and I'm warmed up I'm fine. and don't worry about losing or being surprised you'll only get better learning what happened and what you can do better. In order to be a better player(like you want to be), you have to play... nothing much I can say. Try with some customs first and once u get over that, maybe play one ladder and come back to customs if your still not comfortable playing ladder.
kyama
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States118 Posts
August 12 2010 05:16 GMT
#8
Try to play for fun and not about your stats. I think that should help you, that's what helped me.
Let them hate, So as long as they fear...
T0fuuu
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia2275 Posts
August 12 2010 05:16 GMT
#9
dodge 1v1 and come play 2v2 or 3v3. Until you get cheesed hard and want to play 1v1 again. Lol
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
August 12 2010 05:18 GMT
#10
dude, losing is how you improve

be a man! (even if you're a woman)
G3nXsiS
Profile Joined July 2009
United States656 Posts
August 12 2010 05:18 GMT
#11
Yeah I know what you mean man, my suggestion would be to get a friend or something and compete with him on score and ranks. Don't be scared to lose games just know that everytime you lose you get better and it gives you a higher chance to go on large winning streaks.
Hope is the first step on the road to dissapointment
Gnax
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden490 Posts
August 12 2010 05:18 GMT
#12
losing on purpose sounds stupid. My suggestion is before you're gonna que, listen to some pump-up music and tell yourself "come on you can do this, you're the man! you're the best sc2 player in the world LETS DO THIIIIIIIIIIS!"
virgozero
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada412 Posts
August 12 2010 05:19 GMT
#13
On August 12 2010 14:14 TheComeback wrote:
Step 1) Hover mouse over the button
Step 2) close your eyes
Step 3) click the left button on your mouse
Step 4) dont move a muscle until you hear the coundown
Step 5) Open your eyes and enjoy


STICKY PLS
muse5187
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
1125 Posts
August 12 2010 05:19 GMT
#14
Man just click it! Once the countdown starts you have no choice but to destroy your opponent!
epik640x
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1134 Posts
August 12 2010 05:20 GMT
#15
Why care so much?

It's only a human at the other end.
Defeat
Profile Joined March 2010
United States476 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-12 05:33:28
August 12 2010 05:21 GMT
#16
On August 12 2010 14:10 KinD wrote:
Hey everyone, I don't know if you guys can help or give some words of advice/encouragement, but I've been following Team Liquid for a while now and have been in the beta and now own the game. But I'm so frustratingly afraid to press the Find Game button. I'm pretty confident in my ability to play, I'd guess I'm at low Platinum level, pretty decently. I want to become better, but for some reason, I can't sit down and play. Does it get easier? Am i just crazy? I want to improve, but it just seems so terrifying. I don't get angry when I lose, and am a pretty well mannered player, so I just don't get it. Can someone tell me how to get myself to just play the game?-_- Thanks.


I know exactly what you mean. I'm in exactly the same situation.

For me it's just because I've never been able to play games online since I've got horrible internet. SC2 is the first RTS game that I've actually cared to play seriously with. That and I've never played on an online ladder. What I've boiled it down to is that I'm afraid I'll actually do bad. What I'm trying to do is get myself to just sit down one day and play for a long time so I can get over that feeling.
"the metagame has really evolved to the point where the best chance to win the metagame is to game the metagame" -Bags
kzn
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1218 Posts
August 12 2010 05:21 GMT
#17
An answer that departs from the "just play, dude" answer:

Play 2v2/3v3. Its much easier (at least for me) to lose a game in 2v2/3v3 and be like "oh well I should have done that lets play again) - and you can still focus on practicing certain things, like macro/micro or smoothing out build orders etc.

And the avatars are cooler from team games.
Like a G6
Mindcrime
Profile Joined July 2004
United States6899 Posts
August 12 2010 05:23 GMT
#18
come play some unranked ffas!

:D
That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
August 12 2010 05:23 GMT
#19
On August 12 2010 14:20 epik640x wrote:
Why care so much?

It's only a human at the other end.


i think that's exactly why

no one wants to feel inferior

which means that the player is putting too much emphasis on winning and not enough emphasis on the process of getting there
The_Pacifist
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States540 Posts
August 12 2010 05:24 GMT
#20
On August 12 2010 14:21 kzn wrote:
And the avatars are cooler from team games.


I will never understand why the best avatars weren't reserved for 1v1...
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