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lizzard_warish
Profile Joined June 2011
589 Posts
September 25 2011 04:49 GMT
#481
I bought the game, went undefeated in placements, got plat. Went on like a 8-9 game winstreak till I was playing diamonds, went like 8-6 against them, the season ended, I won my placement match and voila I'm diamond, in under two weeks and under thirty games.

What a story eh?
RezChi
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2368 Posts
September 25 2011 04:52 GMT
#482
When i hit diamond after 3 seasons moving up from silver... literally ran down the stairs, out the door and onto the street scream and having my hands = P Luckily i live in a quite street where there aren't many people outside haha
Mangix
Profile Joined June 2011
United States115 Posts
September 25 2011 05:33 GMT
#483
I have a pretty cool story.
So I started in silver and since my friends were in gold i played like 10 games in a row and got into gold the same day. Eventually i moved up to plat and when masters came out, i got into diamond. I found masters was out of my reach. Anyways a year later, I go back to school and join my college CSL team. I was selected to play due to my diamond rank 1.

I played my first csl match, I lost horribly and was extremely frustrated. To relieve the stress i played 2 ladder games. The 1st game i won a macro game against a zerg on taldarim. The 2nd game was a PvP, i wanted an ez win so i boss cannon rushed successfully. Afterwards, to my shock I was immediately promoted to masters, a league I had never been able to get for months (months where I was rank 1 diamond).

YAY!
But ever since achieving my goal I havent been playing much lol. I think it is because I have accomplished my ultimate goal and sort of finished the game (also my friends all quit lol).
BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
September 25 2011 05:43 GMT
#484
Played my placement matches in S1, went 3-2 and got placed in Silver as Zerg. Played more games/customs and got better with my balance(droning/army) but wanted a more microable race and didn't want to miss out on Terran/Protoss so I went random late Dec. I start S2 as random and I'm maintaining a ~54% win rate. I go on a win streak(11-1) and start facing a lot of gold players. I got promoted after winning a ZvsT close positions meta where my Terran opponent went 5 rax and kept attacking with marines. I lost my exp and at one point even had to pull my drones to get a surround on the ramp, but, eventually I got my exp back up with a bane nest and was able to hit his last marine attack with 5 banes. I then bane busted to victory

After that, I started to play less and eventually decided that I wanted more TvsZ action(don't get many when you random), so, I went Terran in S3. I start with a ~50% win rate but I started to put more effort into my game and multitask as well as macro better(more workers/faster FE, etc...). I went on another win streak and started hitting Plat players winning around 50%. Got promoted after a TvsP on Altar where me and my opponent kept trading armies. I almost lost as well but my marine micro and the fact that I had better upgrades/better counter to his army composition meant that I survived and eventually won.
Linky: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=258095
Former BW EiC"Watch Bakemonogatari or I will kill you." -Toad, April 18th, 2017
Mijati
Profile Joined July 2011
United Kingdom44 Posts
September 25 2011 05:46 GMT
#485
I originally had a US account which I played on during the first season then shortly after the 2nd season started I got an EU account too (I live in Europe so made sense) and pretty much abandoned my US account other than to play my placement game for S3.

In US I was Gold, in EU I was gold too and getting fairly high up.

I had a friendly tournament to play in on the US servers so I decide to go practice there to get used to the latency etc. and after about 4 games I got promoted to Platinum! Wasn't expecting that at all so was an awesome surprise. Still in Gold on my EU account (Although granted I've only played one match since then). Might have to start playing more on my US account
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
September 25 2011 06:09 GMT
#486
Well, play like shit when I got the game, went 3-2 in placement ends up in diamond rofl.

100 games like still in diamond.

new season, went 16-0 and still in diamond rofl...
Rillanon.au
Konaa
Profile Joined April 2011
103 Posts
September 26 2011 20:02 GMT
#487
Got placed in bronze in season 1 as protoss, didn't really care, I just loved watching sc2. Got silver in s2 by learning to 7 roach rush as zerg, in s3 switched to terran for 2 games and hated it so went back to toss and started playing non-cheesy (except pvp, fuck that matchup) and got gold.
Nacxo
Profile Joined July 2011
Argentina3 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-26 20:06:43
September 26 2011 20:05 GMT
#488
One guy borrowed me his acc, and i played for a month. I bought the game and, with the five placement matches, i got diamond <33333333333333
(I won the 5 games)
Dezire
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands640 Posts
September 26 2011 20:56 GMT
#489
sc2 was my first rts ever, so did like 5 games in practise league and thought hell yeah im ready! so i did my placements, went 1 - 5 i think or so got into bronze. (this was halfway season1) went 0 - 30 then cuz i had no clue what i was doing, then started watching youtube and streams and everything and went quickly to 40 - 75 and had my promotion soon, didnt stay long in silver nor gold, then platinum for a longer time and at the end of season 1 diamond. then season two somewhere mid diamond and got frustrated one night and demoted myself, stuck way to long in platinum a fter that but jst before season 3 i promoted to diamond again, now i am top diamond and somewhere on the verge of masters (i hope) :D
BoxeR, HuK, IdrA, Minigun, MVP <3
BrenttheGreat
Profile Joined July 2010
United States150 Posts
September 26 2011 20:58 GMT
#490
I lost 4 games straight then got promoted to Masters. I was ticked.
Zorgaz
Profile Joined June 2010
Sweden2951 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-26 21:07:09
September 26 2011 21:06 GMT
#491
Got the game the day it was released but was at my summer house with shitty net. Played campaign and 2 weeks later i got home.

Went 4-1 in placements into gold. Then i think i played 50 or so games and got promoted to diamond. Still there
Furthermore, I think the Collosi should be removed! (Zorgaz -Terran/AbrA-Random/Zorg-Dota2) Guineapigs <3
Vetrocide
Profile Joined August 2010
Norway600 Posts
September 26 2011 21:06 GMT
#492
i played some protoss in beta phase 2 as platinum. Then i switched to zerg when retail came out, worked my way up from silver to diamond in a few months time ( i dont have time to play that much ) and now ive been diamond since november or something, awesome..
The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal
Paraclete
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States100 Posts
September 26 2011 21:16 GMT
#493
My bronze to silver promotion was the generic starting to play better and demolishing everyone in your league type promotion. Then from silver to gold I can't remember the games leading up to it, but my promotion game was a disconnect from the opponent Then my gold to platinum was almost just as retarded as my silver to gold. I came off of a huge like 13 game win streak, then i lost 3 games in a row because I made some stupid mistakes. I was already pissed heading into my 4th game, and fucking up my build in the very beginning pissed me off even more. So I just put down like 3 barracks and did a scv marine all-in. Luckily it smashed the guy. I felt bad though because i made the other guy get angry too I just think its kind of funny that after doing very well and sticking to a solid macro based build, its when i get pissed and all-in that i get promoted.
scarper65
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
1560 Posts
September 26 2011 21:21 GMT
#494
I go on a five game losing streak to protoss. Pretty much every one of them was doing a 3gate robo or a 4gate. When I got my sixth protoss in a row, I decided to just 3 rax and kill him. It worked, and I got promoted to masters :D
OhMyGawd
Profile Joined February 2011
United States264 Posts
September 26 2011 21:24 GMT
#495
I was having a bad day winning many games and not getting masters, so i 7 pooled a protoss on close pos shatered...next thing the score screen came up and it said i was in master!
zomg
kituatembo
Profile Joined September 2011
United States39 Posts
September 26 2011 21:31 GMT
#496
i played bw a little bit but only like using cheats and building cannons everywhere. i got sc2 on midnight release and i didn't play the 1v1s much but was in silver league. i really liked 2v2s and 4v4s so i played them a lot. as i kept playing i got into plat in both 2v2s and 4v4s which sparked my interests in 1v1 again. i play a bit and found that i was beating silver and low gold very easily. i was quickly put into gold where i i stayed for a while as i got back into 2v2s and 3v3s. eventually i was promoted into diamond and was amazed with my self. the playing of team games helped my mechanics a lot but not much with 1v1 strategy. then i started really getting into 1v1s. i played and played until i was a plat on the verge of diamond. then it happened. couldn't even tell you how happy i was. then i started playing 1v1 all the time not really bothering with team games just grinding out games on 1v1 latter. then i made friends and started playing team games again. however i eventually decided to get to masters and stopped with playing with friends only asking them to help with my 1v1. then about 3 weeks ago i got masters and am currently a mid masters protoss.
Don't lose sight of the machine | kituatembo.627 masters
Hnnngg
Profile Joined June 2011
United States1101 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-09-26 21:34:44
September 26 2011 21:34 GMT
#497
Knocked down to 4th Silver from 1st just from people winning while I was sleeping, played 1 game to try to get back to 1st and instead got promoted to gold rank 10.

+ Show Spoiler +
fml
ckunkel1
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States181 Posts
September 26 2011 21:34 GMT
#498
I always try and save my promotion games and then look back to see how back I was. I wish I had saved my bronze-silver, silver-gold ones though. It is fun to look back and see how much you have improved.
SoapSC
Profile Joined February 2011
Netherlands112 Posts
September 26 2011 21:39 GMT
#499
Well its very simple.

Season 1 i became platinum..... And Season 3 im still platinum....

Yeah quite sad.....
umad?
MGN
Profile Joined June 2011
France383 Posts
September 26 2011 21:40 GMT
#500
I got promoted in platinium recently, and the way i did it was quite funny :

some zerg 6 pooled me, i was raging and started lifting up my cc and making buildings quite everywhere on the map aswell as a lot of scvs, and since the zerg only had tons of zerglings he couldnt do anything till some times.

Then he typed "im boring" (i assume he meant "im bored" but not sure)
And left the game.
And i got promoted with this win.

I was so happy man, haha
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