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. Dedication baby. dedication. In all seriousness... How do you become a progamer - Page 3
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theriv
United States149 Posts
. Dedication baby. dedication. | ||
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:05 FindingPride wrote: You should be playing in as many tourneys as possible That's what I originally thought but tournaments like Zotac or Go4SC2 take up way too much time: sometimes even 1 game per hour. If you're going to get knocked out in the 1st, 2nd or 3rd round, you won't get noticed and it's a waste of time. Although, I do understand your mentality of playing in as many as possible to get tournament experience but that way is just not for me. | ||
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Almin
United States583 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:14 IdrA wrote: being high on the ladder doesnt get you any closer to your goal avoiding practice to protect your rating is absurd. if you want to be good go play 40 games a day and stop thinking about becoming a pro. Idra, what convinced you to turn pro at Starcraft in general? Is it the money? Fame? Women? When you look back 10 years down the line, what would you think of, do you play because StarCraft is fun, or is it just a job? Or is it fun with benefits? | ||
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Kpyolysis32
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
Takes lots of practice/doing well in tournaments. If you love the game enough and play and practice alot you can improve to a point where you can get good results in major tournaments. But it takes tons of time/practice for most, and commitment. | ||
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Yoshi Kirishima
United States10366 Posts
On January 03 2011 11:43 gamerkhang wrote: It's not like you can just play forever and become pro eventually- people don't have time for that, they have jobs and stuff to do. thats exactly what you do haha yea I do wish e-Sports was as popular here as it was in Korea. Perhaps even better, I wish people would come to realize that basketball, football, etc., are ALSO GAMES. Imagine a world where there there high school starcraft teams. It would be so much more accessible to "get started" and try to go pro (like many athletes want and try to do). | ||
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doffe
Sweden636 Posts
You know that being a pro-gamer in itself has nothing to do with how good you are? Ofcourse its just natural that the best players are those that become pro's but in theory a bronzeplayer can be considered a pro if he just makes an considerable income of the game. So calling yourself a local pro in CS or w/e people do is simply wrong unless you are actually having some sponsorship or another kind of contract giving you an income through the game. Semantics I know but nevertheless, lets get things straight. Not even everyone in GLS could in all honesty be considered pro's. Maybe S-class now but I doubt that everyone in 1-2-3 had a sponsored team to rely on. | ||
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gamerkhang
United States152 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:16 theriv wrote: i really like that pros actually comment on threads like this. Makes me feel good inside . Dedication baby. dedication. Yes it does. :D @ IdrA (you probably really are IdrA... right?) I didn't actually expect to get answers from pros, at this point, I guess I'm just looking for PvT/PvZ practice partners or practice partners in general, and a team that's free to join. Thanks for the motivation guys! | ||
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hellokitty[hk]
United States1309 Posts
It's mind over matter. No it's real sports are popular and the players earn big bucks. Grats to Nony for winning tons in TSL2, but he's not on contract to play video games. | ||
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XsebT
Denmark2980 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:18 Almin wrote: Idra, what convinced you to turn pro at Starcraft in general? Is it the money? Fame? Women? When you look back 10 years down the line, what would you think of, do you play because StarCraft is fun, or is it just a job? Or is it fun with benefits? Why do people get a job? To earn money. Why do people play games? To have fun. If you can make a living from playing games (which is an extremely rare oppotunity), I'd say it's a reasonable choice. | ||
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ktimekiller
United States690 Posts
Grats to Nony for winning tons in TSL2, but he's not on contract to play video games.[/quote] As a part of TL, he pretty much is as far as pro gamers go | ||
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gamerkhang
United States152 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:27 hellokitty[hk] wrote: No it's real sports are popular and the players earn big bucks. Grats to Nony for winning tons in TSL2, but he's not on contract to play video games. Mind over matter as in you have to use your head instead of getting crazy muscles. | ||
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theriv
United States149 Posts
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SpeaKEaSY
United States1070 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i51.tinypic.com/2vsjad1.jpg) Finally an opportunity to use this. I suppose if you're really serious, the way to go is practice hard, compete in local tournaments and work your way up. | ||
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zhurai
United States5660 Posts
[QUOTE]On January 03 2011 13:27 hellokitty[hk] wrote:[quote]No it's real sports are popular and the players earn big bucks. Grats to Nony for winning tons in TSL2, but he's not on contract to play video games.[/quote] As a part of TL, he pretty much is as far as pro gamers go[/QUOTE] uhhhhh... aren't the Liquid members under a contract? @any of the liquid members: if I'm wrong please correct me, as iirc I saw on the news that when HuK joined, it had a picture of him signing contracts......... | ||
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ribboo
Sweden1842 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:02 gamerkhang wrote: Well the problem with that is I don't have $60 to make a scapegoat account and if I practice on ladder, I might go down a long ways- taking me further away from my dream rather than closer. I'm not really sure if computers are good or not, but obviously I can't beat insane yet because it has resource hacks. >:[ I'm not joking. Which leads me back to my point, CAN SOMEONE PRACTICE WITH ME? 2300 PROTOSS LOOKING FOR PvT/PvZ practice. The practice partner thread here is just a long list of names that doesn't actually get any attention from what I see, as is the same for many large sites. :/ You won't get further away from your 'dream' by losing points. You're supposed to practice to get BETTER. If that happens by losing, so be it, you'll still get better and eventually get higher than where you were. Points don't mean shit. | ||
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DecoyOn
Canada45 Posts
The only way I see it is you ladder like crazy to get into tournaments. Then win many tourneys and get noticed by teams. Then maybe if you win enough tourneys (or impress lots of ppl) you'll be picked up by them. | ||
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ace246
Australia360 Posts
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Coutcha
Canada519 Posts
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Lennon
United Kingdom2275 Posts
On January 03 2011 13:50 ace246 wrote: Would be nice if people who aren't progamers stopped advising what it takes to become a progamer, since they obviously don't know what they are talking about and I could learn a thing or two from this thread that's actually correct. You don't have to be somewhere to know how to get there. | ||
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