EPTDoes laddering make you nervous? (POLL) - Page 9
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aderum
Sweden1459 Posts
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Churchy
United Kingdom6 Posts
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Sebast1aan
Belgium163 Posts
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eNbee
Belgium487 Posts
On April 17 2011 19:59 Tiwo wrote: I overcame this fear long before, I was so scared when I switched from B.net to iCCup in BW, but then I noticed there were a lot of crap people just like me, (apart from the [KR] people that were mostly smurfs), but yeah, I am overwhelmed by the people who are scared to ladder, you really should overcome it and enjoy the moments, I had a period that I lost 3 days in a row when i was like 2-22, and even was under performing against my friends in my custom games. But after that just break the underwhelming performance and go 10-0 the next day, and keeping up the pace. Gogo vent slacker | ||
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Apolo
Portugal1259 Posts
"If you play this game you will be evaluated. We won't tell you how good you're doing until it's too late. If you lose you may be demoted to a lower league. You may not be worth of the league you're in anymore. And everyone will be able to see it. If you win, you may be promoted. Or not. We like to keep you in the dark, but we still keep evaluating you in every game you play." Never have i heard anyone complain about fear of playing a game like i hear in starcraft 2. Never have i heard anyone complain on any FPS or simulator of any kind. They just don't use agressive and somewhat obscure evaluating the players mechanisms as employed in SC2. | ||
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Daralii
United States16991 Posts
On April 17 2011 20:39 Apolo wrote: Blizzard ladder: "If you play this game you will be evaluated. We won't tell you how good you're doing until it's too late. If you lose you may be demoted to a lower league. You may not be worth of the league you're in anymore. And everyone will be able to see it. If you win, you may be promoted. Or not. We like to keep you in the dark, but we still keep evaluating you in every game you play." So Blizzard is effectively GLaDOS? | ||
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nafz
Netherlands4 Posts
On April 17 2011 17:33 SpaceToaster wrote: I don't get nervous if I lose or am on a losing steak. I get the most nervous when I'm on an epic winstreak and I don't want it to end, which makes me play less, which makes me worse so the streak ends and thigns are back to normal lol. You wrote exactly what I experience aswell. I do play my best this way but get more nervous as I play to improve myself starting to face people that are far too good for me to face right now. If I'm on a losing streak I can spam find match 100 times in a row since im determined to regain what I lost however this doesn't usually turn out the way I want it to go as I lose focus ^^. | ||
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Nifel
706 Posts
On April 17 2011 21:07 nafz wrote: You wrote exactly what I experience aswell. I do play my best this way but get more nervous as I play to improve myself starting to face people that are far too good for me to face right now. If I'm on a losing streak I can spam find match 100 times in a row since im determined to regain what I lost however this doesn't usually turn out the way I want it to go as I lose focus ^^. I second(third) this. I only feel some kind of pressure when I'm on a streak and don't want to break it. Even more so, if I'm on a streak I get too confident and start doing builds I'm not comfortable with and in general trying out slightly retarded things. Which of course ends up ruining said streak. | ||
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Avean
Norway449 Posts
I was like this also before but you have to realise, top players would never be where they are without encountering TONS of loss and TONS of cheezing. I saw White-Ra's stream a few days ago, and he got cheezed alot in Grandmaster league. But he GG and takes next game. | ||
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NoodleFish
South Africa198 Posts
I guess a part of all of us just want easy wins sometimes, but that never makes us better. And if we want to improve we've gotta go through the losses and correct our mistakes. I suppose another thing for me was when I got promoted to Platinum I found the matches to become increasingly difficult and losing more and more. It's just frustrating, especially coming from a series of losses (in pretty decent games I might add) and getting 6-pooled the next game... but that's just me  Play Aiur Chef to calm down lol :D | ||
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AndyBear
Canada132 Posts
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susySquark
United States1692 Posts
A) I win. Better end on a high note and not ruin the feeling with a loss. B) I lose. Better not turn this into a streak. I'll come back when I'm clear. So yeah. Nerves after the first game, for differing reasons depending on the result | ||
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Zerum
Sweden348 Posts
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potatomash3r
Australia417 Posts
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RaiZ
2813 Posts
I mean when i'm playing ladder it's exactly like i'm training because i know those ppl are around my level (maybe worse) so i don't feel any pressure at all really. But when i play with friend or occasionnally some way better player than me i get nervous even though it's a custom game... If you don't want to feel nervous, then like everybody said, just play a lot of games (like 500) and you will feel less and less nervous. Simple as that. | ||
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cujo2k
Canada1044 Posts
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Fryght
Netherlands254 Posts
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LeBadger
Canada37 Posts
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Arefel
United States31 Posts
But contributing to this topic.... *sigh* I ladder in lengthy bursts and then just stop to play customs with friends again. I do not usually feel nervous during these laddering periods. | ||
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Laids
United Kingdom596 Posts
At the start of S2 I won my first game, then I proceeded to lose the next 4 on tilt, I had no ciggies and I was stressed as all shit. So in a fit of rage I switched to Protoss and 4 gated to victory in my next 5 games, lost one and decided to take a chill pill till I got more ciggies. I cannot play Zerg without anything to smoke, it stresses me out more than anything on this planet, it was the same leading raids in WoW. I've still barely played this season, I think I've won 12, lost 6, I just don't have the impetus right now. | ||
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