How does one become "pro"? - Page 8
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KevinIX
United States2472 Posts
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REM.ca
Canada354 Posts
Good luck on your quest to top 200. Only 3600 ranks to climb! | ||
Mukester
United States27 Posts
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brentsen
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PrimalFear
Greece17 Posts
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Cephei
United Kingdom79 Posts
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Mephs
139 Posts
On December 10 2010 18:56 ste0731 wrote: I started 4 weeks after the game came out, coming from a FPS scene and started in bronze with 2 wins and 33 losses after my first 35 games. I know stand at 2k diamond with 60%+ win ratio (including my initial 30 losses) what you've achieved is in all honesty nothing, and this is the scary thing about bonus pool. 6weeks back, OMG huk hit 2k points, he is so fucking pro. 6weeks later, inflation occurs, holy shit im at 2k. me > huk. However, Enter every online tourny, TLopen,ESL series, every lan etc. CONSISTENT (thats the important word here - many people can pull off a one-off fluke win @ X tournament) get into the top 8/4/final etc etc. Then you'll be spotted. Bonus pool is fine because it inflates EVERYONE's points at the same rate. Sure 2k back a few months ago was top of the league, but now its 3k, you basically go by that and your world ranking rather than just your points alone. I started out in gold or so, who knows what rank, now top 2000 so I'd say I came a long way overall, but I wouldn't think I'm anywhere near ready to go pro because of it lol. | ||
ilmman
364 Posts
just my advice,,, it gives u more options i guess... | ||
n3m0
Portugal247 Posts
That's the true meaning of being a pro. It's not a title that you get from winning some tournament in Korea (as it was in bw). | ||
Belial88
United States5217 Posts
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scDeluX
Canada1341 Posts
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Tenks
United States3104 Posts
Then, follow the path similar to TLO. Be a phenomenal player, win open tournaments with consistent play and become a name in the community. This isn't KeSPA anymore, you don't need to apply to become a progamer it just happens these days. | ||
kataa
United Kingdom384 Posts
#1 Ladder an insane amount and work your way to top 20 on your ladder (Blizzard rankings) on the way you'll have to take games off top pros. #2 Win some tournies like the TLOpen, Craftcup ect. #3 Get picked up by a decent team #4 Keep performing well and eventually get sent to teams Korean house At the moment is true for Liquid and soon EG members, and I think it will become the trend for Western SC2. | ||
therockmanxx
Peru1174 Posts
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ste0731
United Kingdom435 Posts
On December 10 2010 23:38 Mephs wrote: Bonus pool is fine because it inflates EVERYONE's points at the same rate. Sure 2k back a few months ago was top of the league, but now its 3k, you basically go by that and your world ranking rather than just your points alone. I started out in gold or so, who knows what rank, now top 2000 so I'd say I came a long way overall, but I wouldn't think I'm anywhere near ready to go pro because of it lol. It is fine, but now when people see themselves at 2k they think omg im awesome when quite clearly they're actually really crap. | ||
Achilles
Canada385 Posts
Idra QED IN OTHER WORDS: play nonstop so that you need a timer to remind you that you need to eat, sleep, piss+shit. | ||
universalwill
United States654 Posts
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KiLL_ORdeR
United States1518 Posts
Also, there isn't a secret to becoming pro. You just play a shitload and win tournaments. If you're good enough, you get noticed. If not, you're wasting a shitload of time. | ||
StarStruck
25339 Posts
You have a long way to go. So my advice to you is to enter lots of tournaments and do well in them. That way managers start hearing your name more and perhaps they might give you a tryout or come to you. Usually it doesn't work the other way around, but you can still try to get a hold of them either way. You need results though. | ||
vileChAnCe
Canada525 Posts
I was doing fine playing ladder all day executing my build and beating people and then I joined a clan with ICCUP folk, this is when i started learning what the fuck mechanics actually meant. It's not just how quickly you execute your build but the timings and why you execute your build in that certain situation. If you truly truly want to learn your gonna have to eat sleep and breathe starcraft 2 to catch up, your at such a disadvantage just because you don't comprehend the sheer difficulty of the task. Basically at this point you went on a summer hike and half way through you aspired to climb Everest and then proceeded to talk to people who've done amateur climbing. That being said do what you want just please do your best, once you've hit that level of understanding and still want to tackle your Everest fuck everyone else and do it. | ||
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