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Sm3agol
United States2055 Posts
On January 15 2011 00:01 jdobrev wrote: months of dedication and you've played less than 600 1v1 ladder games? that's not dedication. Devil's advocate. He spends 5 hours a day playing customs with IdrA. | ||
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mistokibbles
United States68 Posts
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theSAiNT
United States726 Posts
On January 14 2011 22:33 Red. wrote: I dont understand what you guys say. "Dont care what the rest tell you?" "Do what you want to do and dont worry about what your parents tell you"? What the fuck? seriously, what the fuck? Those parents are paying him: home. food. education. a good life. You wanna pay them by not going to college, by not working. So, you want to be fed by them for another 5 years, and if you dont succed, you think anyone can go to college? Good luck. Seriously good luck. I hope you and those young boys that think like you wake up soon. you want to know the truth? the truth is that you dont like learning. You dont like to go to school. You like sitting in your chair playing and chatting all day, watching forums all day. YES thats an awesome thing, i love doing it. but DUDE thats 1 thing, and succeeding in something as big as esports is something else. Go to college. A man of sense. I'm not sure a starcraft forum is necessarily the best place to get career advice. Sorry to be harsh but your 'improvement' is nothing special. Decent casual players can get to that level. If you can do what Kolll did then it would be a different story. As it is, enjoy SC2 and spend time getting better but realize that ultimately you will have to find a career elsewhere. | ||
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aka_star
United Kingdom1546 Posts
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BouBou.865
Netherlands814 Posts
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SolidMotion
Canada55 Posts
Just saying... | ||
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ballasdontcry
Canada595 Posts
To the guy that suggested the people saying "you've got a slim chance" are jealous or haters, lol @ you. We're the only ones providing a reality check for the OP here while a handful of you are egging him on an near impossible goal. | ||
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
- drop most of your hobbies other than starcraft. keep one form of exercise and then maybe one other serious interest other than starcraft. - stay in school and continue to do well. the worst thing you can do is count on your improvement. you do NOT want to commit to starcraft until you know you will be successful. - practice with all your other time. enter every open tournament with a prize. you will eventually get noticed by smaller sponsored teams if you do well. players on these teams are always encouraged to play these tournaments, and they will notice you. - now you are around top 200 level, joined the b-team or non contracted roster of a sponsored team. continue living how you were. - once you are contracted and have to constantly attend team practices and play in tournaments, consider dropping everything but school/work and sc if you're really committed. do NOT drop school or work. - go to mlgs, play in other lan tournaments/TSL if you begin to place highly (top 8-16), THEN you decide if you want to drop school or work, if it is convenient for you. don't drop school if you know you won't start again. if you have the finances, consider going to korea. | ||
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Foxt
Belize181 Posts
Im gonna play tomorrow for 12 hours | ||
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0neder
United States3733 Posts
I also disagree about Korea being the best choice to make money. That's where the best players are, so you probably are more likely to win prize money in the States/EU vs a smaller talent pool/less centralized competitive geographic SC2 area. There's a reason TLO went back to Europe besides his carpal tunnel. He knew he could win many tourneys while in Korea he was unlikely to win them, in spite of the prize pool being much higher. | ||
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Foxt
Belize181 Posts
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Ricjames
Czech Republic1047 Posts
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Pokebunny
United States10654 Posts
On January 15 2011 02:09 0neder wrote: I would not write off college yet. Do your best in school and try to win some tourneys on the side. You shouldn't really decide to go pro until you've proven you have enough talent, THEN you can decide to commit to it full time. I also disagree about Korea being the best choice to make money. That's where the best players are, so you probably are more likely to win prize money in the States/EU vs a smaller talent pool/less centralized competitive geographic SC2 area. There's a reason TLO went back to Europe besides his carpal tunnel. He knew he could win many tourneys while in Korea he was unlikely to win them, in spite of the prize pool being much higher. You're missing the important part, which is that korea is the best place to improve. | ||
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Kindred
Canada396 Posts
On January 14 2011 22:33 Red. wrote: I dont understand what you guys say. "Dont care what the rest tell you?" "Do what you want to do and dont worry about what your parents tell you"? What the fuck? seriously, what the fuck? Those parents are paying him: home. food. education. a good life. You wanna pay them by not going to college, by not working. So, you want to be fed by them for another 5 years, and if you dont succed, you think anyone can go to college? Good luck. Seriously good luck. I hope you and those young boys that think like you wake up soon. you want to know the truth? the truth is that you dont like learning. You dont like to go to school. You like sitting in your chair playing and chatting all day, watching forums all day. YES thats an awesome thing, i love doing it. but DUDE thats 1 thing, and succeeding in something as big as esports is something else. Go to college. Quoted for truth. Most sensible post I've seen. | ||
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Arcanewinds
United Kingdom197 Posts
Aim to be the best, being a 'pro' will come with that. I've been playing since the game first came out, as my first real RTS and I'm 2700 diamond. Imma be pro before yooooouuu :D. Seriously though, you have to think that all these people have had a lot more experience than you in RTS, so make sure all your practice is more concentrated and more valuable than theirs. Step 1. Play Step 2. Encounter a problem Step 3. Try to Resolve the problem Step 4. Did it work? If not, try again, or see how a tiptop player does it. Step 5. Fix your error Step 6. Repeat. Too many people just Play -> Encounter a Problem -> Play again anyway. You can't learn if you do that. If you make a mistake, but carry on regardless, your brain will tell you that it is okay. Instead, stop and do it till you get it right. Now, obviously you can't quit whenever you get supply blocked, but make sure you make yourself feel shit about it, so that you don't do it again ;D. Good luck in getting to the top  , I'll see you at the end!Edit: Oh, and go to school kids! | ||
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Zeetee
United States153 Posts
On December 10 2010 13:58 Idmaif wrote: ok, i know this sounds crazy to a ton of people, but i am halfway through my Jr year in highschool, and im working on getting good enough to be able to become pro right after highschool. and i know there are going to be tons of people who say "dont do it! its too risky!" or "your wasting your life" but this is what i am dedicated to do. let me start off by saying how good i actually am right now. so i have been playing for about 8 months, (since beta) and i have improved from pretty low bronze newbie to pretty high diamond because i am a very fast learner. but if i made that much of an improvement in 8 months, another year and half will get me a lot higher. so i am constantly working my way up to get closer to the top 200 where a few of my friends are. here is my profile http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/339086/1/iDreamadroid/ so i am not the best in the world yet, but probly around rank 4000 in the US. and of course i will work my way up. so how do people actually start to make a living off of it? do you have to move to korea like IdrA and just find every little tournament plus GSL? cant you join a clan and get sponsored or something? i am just a little unfamiliar of the whole process of how this works. so any productive responses are appreciated, just try to leave out the criticism. but i know that Team Liquid is awesome enough to have less trolls than any other forum. also maybe remember the name iDreamadroid for future years ;D everyone starts somewhere If you really want to become a pro gamer, just get good at the game and everything else will follow. You don't need to "make connections" or anything... | ||
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dmillz
Canada270 Posts
I've finished high school, I finished college, there is plenty of time if he manages his schedule to do both. You can easily fit in 8-10 hours of play a day on top of schooling if you are committed to it, probably even more. Like everyone else says also do as many tournaments as you possibly can, start a livestream, get your name out there!! On January 15 2011 03:19 Zeetee wrote: If you really want to become a pro gamer, just get good at the game and everything else will follow. You don't need to "make connections" or anything... I pray to brother Mack that this guy is being sarcastic. Its WHO you know not WHAT you know for the most part in everything in life. | ||
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Starshaped
Sweden575 Posts
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NonY
8751 Posts
On January 15 2011 03:30 dmillz wrote: I pray to brother Mack that this guy is being sarcastic. Its WHO you know not WHAT you know for the most part in everything in life. Like standardized tests? | ||
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IPA
United States3206 Posts
On January 15 2011 03:30 dmillz wrote: I pray to brother Mack that this guy is being sarcastic. Its WHO you know not WHAT you know for the most part in everything in life. IdrA, HuK, Tyler, iNcontroL , Ret, etc could literally not know anyone and be contacted due to their amazing skill. If you think charisma and "connections" will land you a spot on Team Liquid, I don't know what to say. StarCraft 2 isn't a fraternity networking event. | ||
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