In all seriousness... How do you become a progamer - Page 5

vileChAnCe

Canada525 Posts

January 03 2011 06:27 GMT

#81

I'd like to look into how every sport got it's beginning and what it was like to try being a pro at the start of those sports. I can't imagine it being very much different then the mindset of the current progamer where they see the risk and everyone tells them not to do it but they do because they are crazy in love with what they do. If you want to be a pro gamer at this point in time it's not so much a choice as it is a sickly amount of passion for the game.

Zlasher

United States9129 Posts

January 03 2011 06:31 GMT

#82

I'm pretty sure of the top 200, probably 140 of them go to school, have a part time or full time job alongside that, etc. Even a lot of pros signed to teams have full time jobs or go to college still. It can be done.

lac29

United States1485 Posts

January 03 2011 06:31 GMT

#83

Get to competitive amateur status before you think of pro.

Gingerninja

United Kingdom1339 Posts

January 03 2011 06:37 GMT

#84

Learn to use your time efficently. Practice with intent. Enter competitions. They are Pro.. because they make a living doing this, stay in school, study, get a good education. Then look at how many hours a day you can dedicated and make allowances properly without wrecking anything else. It's the same when you want to improve with anything, Musical instruments, Languages... you have to sacrifice something. Free time usually.

prodiG

Canada2016 Posts

January 03 2011 06:42 GMT

#85

I asked this very same question to a quake pro back when I started playing quake 3 in '06 or something. He said one thing (and at the end of the day, it's the only thing that needs to be said.)

"Practice, practice, practice."

If you do that, you'll become a good player. Become good enough and you'll get noticed. Get noticed and eventually someone will pick you up.

-HellZerg-

United States409 Posts

January 03 2011 07:01 GMT

#86

I would like to add something to this without repeating someone's post here. There's a point in time when you mass games to become a better player, you get tired of losing and will most likely rage quit on those lost games and not ever look back at those replays and analyze them. If you really want to become a pro, really analyze those replays and learn from them. When you watch your own replays, you should ask yourself questions such as the following:

1. Did I scout as often as I should to know what my opponent is up to every second?
2. Am I multitasking hard to keep making workers, armies, build production buildings and tech buildings at right times, scout my enemy, and efficiently microing my armies at battles?
3. How can I efficiently use hotkeys and mouse clicks so that I don't unnecessarily spam APM that does nothing for me to win games?
4. Am I spending the right amount of resources in order to get a right unit composition in appropriate times that correspondingly counters my opponent's without sacrificing my economy a lot (think about this in terms of opportunity cost)?
5. Am I supply-capping myself?

And study today's SC2 progamers' replays if you have time. As you watch pros' replays, think about why they made such decisions at those specific situations and what you could've done differently. Think about whether you agree with those pros' decisions or not. Look at their minimap and their resources and food counters. See how those numbers flow and how they are spent. Learn how pros control their gameflow with their decision making skills.

P.S. - I'm not a pro; there was a clan named PrO) in SC:BW on iCCup server a long time ago that disappeared now.

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