Hello teamliquid! I am happy to announce my new project “The Ambitious Terran”.
How often do you watch streams made by well-known players? Someone streams few hours per day, others 2-3 times a week, thoughest gamers are making long exhausting 1 day marathons. I am gonna go way further - 7 days a week, 7 hours per day. Why would i do that? All details are in the video application.
You will be able to follow the schedule and discuss the stream itself on TL events calendar, facebook channel, and vkonakte (for russian-speaking watchers). There will be separate streams in English and Russian language and the schedule will certainly show that.
Sounds good, good luck with your project. I just hope that you also play some games that you don't stream so that you can practice some strats without you opponents knowing them; but I think you've thought of that Looking forward to your stream.
Love your play style and always tried following you in tournies, but if you're streaming so often aren't you just giving your opponents easier ways of studying your play style and possible blind counters?
Strelok, you are taking this to a whole new level. I like it, if you manage to do this until MLG your chances are winning are going to be even greater. Only downside I might see is the opponents you might face there will be able to check your stream so often and maybe learn your style/build orders or something. Anyway keep it up, will be sure to check it out
Of course practice is awesome. but are you going to promise yourself that you will have people to help flush out problems in your play. Practicing is great and all. But also being able to have a second opinion is great.
I would get your teammates to review a couple of your replays a day, ones where you felt you did well or you did poorly. Send maybe 3-4 to each teammate and ask them to reivew the replays and have them tell you what they think.
Since you are playing a lot, you will improve, but sometimes playing too much will make you forget your mistakes and play the same and not improve. Having others check out your replays and give tips and hints will make that 7 hours more efficent and improve at a faster pace.
great thing for doing sports for one hour and giving up drinking, Its a great attitude to take in general, I wouls suggest keeping those 2 self promises for longer than 2 months and keeping them for many years. They will help in the long run.
The midnight self curfew might be a little severe. You are playing 7 hours a day. i assume you will be playing top players and also you want to get some experince staying up late.
MLG usually goes until 2-3 am. If you start telling yourself to go to bed at midnight, you eventually will get programmed to fall asleep at that time. Once MLG comes you will be quite tired and not play as well after that time.
If you set your curfew for something like 3am, you will be programmed to sleep at that time, and will not have huge issues with being tired at mlg. so will have an edge by setting it up that you are at %100 during the entire mlg event.
Thanks all of you for such a nice words. Special thanks goes for masterbreti and his nice advices!
On July 21 2011 08:21 masterbreti wrote:
I would get your teammates to review a couple of your replays a day, ones where you felt you did well or you did poorly. Send maybe 3-4 to each teammate and ask them to reivew the replays and have them tell you what they think.
Since you are playing a lot, you will improve, but sometimes playing too much will make you forget your mistakes and play the same and not improve. Having others check out your replays and give tips and hints will make that 7 hours more efficent and improve at a faster pace.
I will certainly do that. Some of those actions will be streamed. And also you are free to leave your advices in this thread, i guarantee i will read them, but don't guarantee i will use them. I am always open to other ppl opinion.
On July 21 2011 08:21 masterbreti wrote:
MLG usually goes until 2-3 am. If you start telling yourself to go to bed at midnight, you eventually will get programmed to fall asleep at that time. Once MLG comes you will be quite tired and not play as well after that time.
I will certainly do that, but only few days before tournament, since for now there are A LOT of big european competitions.
On July 21 2011 08:26 rafaliusz wrote: Why do you have a carpet on your wall?
Hahahaha I was thinking EXACTLY that!
Also, I am seriously interested in how this turns out - never really been a big fan of you (through ignorance on my part to be honest.) however I am impressed by the determination you are showing and if you keep this regime up i'll tune in as much as I can and can't wait to see you at MLG!
I was so impressed by your play during the NASL regular season. I had heard of you before, but I was like meh, just another EU Terran. Then I was like... DAMN this guy is legit. This is awesome. The dedication and work you're putting into this game is what this community needs. Finally someone stepping up and doing what's needed to become a top top player of the game.
I wish you the best of luck. You're coming to MLG Anaheim right? I hope you get through the open bracket because I really like your games. I'll be sure to tune into your stream. Go go Strelok! :D!
Reminds me of the Nada smurf "anbmitiousman". I remember seeing you get a big advantage vs Nani during your Dreamhack set vs him, and though you lost I was very impressed. Hope you can take your play to the next level with this.
That sounds amazing, good luck Strelok! Please remember to take care of yourself though, wouldn't want to hear about another progamer getting carpal tunnel or some other injury.
On July 21 2011 08:21 masterbreti wrote: Sounds pretty awesome Strelok.
Just a couple things though.
Of course practice is awesome. but are you going to promise yourself that you will have people to help flush out problems in your play. Practicing is great and all. But also being able to have a second opinion is great.
I would get your teammates to review a couple of your replays a day, ones where you felt you did well or you did poorly. Send maybe 3-4 to each teammate and ask them to reivew the replays and have them tell you what they think.
Since you are playing a lot, you will improve, but sometimes playing too much will make you forget your mistakes and play the same and not improve. Having others check out your replays and give tips and hints will make that 7 hours more efficent and improve at a faster pace.
great thing for doing sports for one hour and giving up drinking, Its a great attitude to take in general, I wouls suggest keeping those 2 self promises for longer than 2 months and keeping them for many years. They will help in the long run.
The midnight self curfew might be a little severe. You are playing 7 hours a day. i assume you will be playing top players and also you want to get some experince staying up late.
MLG usually goes until 2-3 am. If you start telling yourself to go to bed at midnight, you eventually will get programmed to fall asleep at that time. Once MLG comes you will be quite tired and not play as well after that time.
If you set your curfew for something like 3am, you will be programmed to sleep at that time, and will not have huge issues with being tired at mlg. so will have an edge by setting it up that you are at %100 during the entire mlg event.
A) I don't doubt he'll get help from friends. Strelok's a top player, he knows how to practice and when to get help from others.
B) Agreed
C) Midnight's best, although if it were earlier it would be better for him. Every hour before midnight is like sleeping for 2 hours after midnight. He can stay up a bit later for just before MLG and prepare for that.
Cheering you on Strelok, you're one of my favourite terrans! :D
strelok, you've always been one of my favorite terrans. your talent and the precision and accuracy in your play have always amazed me. i know that you can accomplish whatever you aim to. stay strong man, i'll cheer for you when you win MLG in a month.
Midnight curfew is absolutely a way to get better. No doubts, and I applaud the effort. But doing that is not a way to get your sleep schedule adjusted for MLG. You are flying across about 10 time zones to get to Anaheim, gaining 10 hours along the way, meaning that your Midnight is 14:00 Anaheim time. Jet lag sucks. So I would caution you in that regard.
Or, failing that, you could take Viagra to minimize jet lag. I wish I were joking.
Haha i had to laugh at the part with the alcohol...these Ukrainians ;p
I really like what Strelok did there. It adds a lot of personality to him as a player and makes you look forward to his next competitions - especially MLG.
I wish you the best of luck with your project, hope that it will enable you to reach your aim and will make sure to tune in to your stream regularly to watch your progress.
I admire your dedication. You, alongside Kas, are my favourite terrans to learn from and I'm delighted to see this. But wouldn't too much streaming prevent you from private practicing, special tactix, etc ? Does the practice you usually do involve that much playtime that you have no problem showing to the public?
great initiative! Your rules should be the guiding principles of every pro-gamer but the become ever better shouldn't all the great Ukrainian players set-up a pro house or at least have boot camps together?
Now that is one manly gamer! Tons of respect to you sir for doing this, will tune in any chance i get, i sure hope you dont have an internet cap, 7hrs a day of uploading might be costly lol. GL to you sir.
i very much recommend you not to archive your stream or upcoming opponents will have a very easy time to study your style and maybe have quite an advantage ...
On July 21 2011 09:00 jonathan1 wrote: strelok on FXO now? did i miss something?
afaik FXO has three teams two teams: FXO, FXOKorea and imba.FXO. he is on imba.FXO, an eastern european team which is run separately from the other two
I'm glad you're doing this, and may watch a little..
However, I don't feel its a huge undertaking. You should really be playing 7+ hours a day anyway. I've been streaming at least 7 hours a day each day regardless. That being said, good luck to you during this week, hopefully it gets you some more fans .
wow that's some sick dedication, gj strelok :D reminds me of Sheth's Manner and macro show, where he streamed for 4 hours (?) mon-fri, it's really cool :D
until now strelok was one of the best European terrans, if not the best, drunk, with minimal practise and no sleep? I guess we will now see who strelok really is!
Dear lord, you are not fucking around Strelok. I knew you were the man, I just didn't realize how bad ass you are. GL GL to you and I hope to see you trounce some kids at MLG Raleigh.
I love the way Strelok talks. His rules are also solid. I'm usually strongly anti-Terran, but I hope Strelok kicks ass. You are the new and only Terran I root for.
Sleeping on time, staying fit, not drinking, and playing starcraft 7 hours EVERY day. Damn, tons of respect to you Strelok, and good luck at all of your tournaments! I will be watching your stream!
GL Strelock! I wish you all the best with your training plan and I especially like that you also gave yourself workout and sleep requirements. I hope it pays off for you at MLG Raleigh.
Looking forward to catching some of your games on stream!
This is a cool project. Not only does it provide some good viewing, but stuff like this helps create an image of video game training as just that, training and not mindless screen watching, which we are often accused of.
This is the kind of attitude that every non-Korean player needs to have. As time goes by, the Koreans are only getting more ahead and will eventually surpass all non-Koreans to the point that we're no longer competitive (not that we really are competitive even now really).
Strelok is such a boss. I hope it doesn't backfire as people have more to look at when preparing for him though. This is indeed ambitious though... when does he plan on stopping this though. He will just stream 7 hours a week as long as he is playing sc2 professionally? D:
Why not go to FXO's Malaysia/Korea house and train? The Korean ladder is great. The houses will have the resources to take the burden off you as well. Code A prelims are coming up too and team leagues will be there in the future.
I posted this in the fOu/FXO thread and I'm posting it again here because I selfishly want to see you try to qualify for GSL.
I was really impressed with your level of play during the NASL, I can only hope that it continues to increase due to your training here. Can't wait to see you come to America and take down some Koreans!
I love it! Great man :-) You're always great and I know you'll get it done. I guess everything set up already so I'll see you at MLG Raleigh :-) Contact me if you ever need me Strelok FIGHTING!!
That felt like a motivational speech Strelok. Man you're an amazing player, I hope you can pull this off, earn some sick streaming cash $$ and be able to access alot more foreign tournaments at the highest of levels (and win them!)
YES !!! Finally a quality TERRAN player - who actually gets far in tourneys ! He should have WON NASL !!! I will definatly watch strelok ! YOU CAN NOT FAIL !
On July 21 2011 08:12 Angry_Fetus wrote: Good luck, quite ambitious indeed. Did you say MLG was being held in North Korea? I swear that's what I heard O_o
On July 21 2011 12:50 wats0n wrote: Why not go to FXO's Malaysia/Korea house and train? The Korean ladder is great. The houses will have the resources to take the burden off you as well. Code A prelims are coming up too and team leagues will be there in the future.
I posted this in the fOu/FXO thread and I'm posting it again here because I selfishly want to see you try to qualify for GSL.
because he is not in team FXO. he is in a team that happens to be sponsored by FXOpen.
I really like his decision, I think it is good for him as a pro player and good for his team, BUT ... I am afraid he will get stream sniped alot and will have a few more difficulties in online tournaments, because people WILL watch his stream, even while playing.
haha good luck strelok. Wow you video clip allmost scared me you.:D Im sure you will do well Strelok you one amasing player.
Btw strelok if you reading this if you think you lacking practise then why dont you contact Dimaga,white-ra, kas and maybe make a week of practise every month you live in the same country so it should be doable and its 4 amasing players. I allways been wondering about that
Nice work strelok! This is not only a good thing to do for your fans to be able to watch you everyday, but that an excellent training routine to do, playing loads is only going to benefit you (maybe not if you have injurys though )
On July 21 2011 08:12 Angry_Fetus wrote: Good luck, quite ambitious indeed. Did you say MLG was being held in North Korea? I swear that's what I heard O_o
On July 21 2011 08:12 Angry_Fetus wrote: Good luck, quite ambitious indeed. Did you say MLG was being held in North Korea? I swear that's what I heard O_o
He said North Carolina, but close haha!
I wonder what an MLG in North Korea would be like...
But, on topic: This is, of course, awesome. Will be watching whenever possible. :D
I wasn't a fan of yours before Strelok, but when someone makes an oath like this, I can't help but cheer them on, I'm going to be observing your progress, see to it that you stick to this vow you've made!
I assume multiple people have asked about the carpet on his wall by now. This is a really typical soviet culture thing. Also it keeps the room warmer and reduces noise, I assume that's how it originated anyway. We used to have one as well haha. (i'm from ukr originally)
awesome! i think people underestimate how motivating it is to go out and do something like this in public. it really helps people (it is often used for people trying to loose weight) going on when it gets rough
On July 21 2011 18:58 habeck wrote: Nothing new, Rainbow does the same...
How boring, somebody did something healthy and beneficial to their career and now somebody ELSE wants to do something healthy and thats beneficial to their career. Laame.
This ambitiusness is addicting somehow.I watched the video in the morning and played till now 18 ladder games.That's what i normally play in like 3 days or something?
7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
On July 21 2011 23:16 BionicSC wrote: 7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
you play 8 hours a day and you are not pro- I think you are addicted
On July 21 2011 23:16 BionicSC wrote: 7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
Are you on summer break or something... or is 8-10 hours all year round?
On July 21 2011 23:16 BionicSC wrote: 7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
What league/how much points do you have ? :O I'm high masters and at most, I play 3 hours a day O_o Sometimes I don't play for three/four days :/
On July 21 2011 23:16 BionicSC wrote: 7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
What league/how much points do you have ? :O I'm high masters and at most, I play 3 hours a day O_o Sometimes I don't play for three/four days :/
On July 21 2011 23:16 BionicSC wrote: 7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
I really hope you have summer vacation or so cause i don't see how either school or a job even still fit in that system with enough sleep.
On July 21 2011 23:16 BionicSC wrote: 7 hours? Usually as a progamer that should be the least ammount of time you play a day, I am not a pro and I play around 8-10 hours a day, and 2 hours of sports. But GL with this Strelok, you are already a great terran and with putting more time in you should get even better!
What league/how much points do you have ? :O I'm high masters and at most, I play 3 hours a day O_o Sometimes I don't play for three/four days :/
you so pro
Lol that is not the point. By playing 8 hours a day, you should be quite a good pro IMO. And no, I think I'm bad.
Anyone having a lot of issues watching the stream?
Having severe lag issues, something I rarely encounter on justin.tv. I've always had these issues with livestream >< Wonder if jtv would be a better venue for Strelok to do this on.
If anyone had the same problems and found an easy fix, I'd appreciate the info ^-^
Didnt he say he would also speak English some time? Seems it is the Russian day today And am really happy to see him get serious hehe, I hope he can finally have some major success. Really love those Eastern European players
It's a huge huge step up compared to the vast majority of the foreigners out there and it's a great step to undertake, but no offense 7 hours isn't good enough. 7 hours a day will get you kicked out of a korean team house for not practicing enough. (most Koreans practice either 40-50 games per day or minimum 8 hours a day of practice.)
As shown in your post and the video, you really want to win MLG, but you won't only be competing with foreigners, you'll be competing against koreans who have had months of a training regiment thats harder than the current one you're doing against harder opponents.
Nevertheless, still a great thing to start with and I wish many of the foreigners would start implementing a similar practice regiment
On July 24 2011 21:16 b_unnies wrote: It's a huge huge step up compared to the vast majority of the foreigners out there and it's a great step to undertake, but no offense 7 hours isn't good enough. 7 hours a day will get you kicked out of a korean team house for not practicing enough. (most Koreans practice either 40-50 games per day or minimum 8 hours a day of practice.)
I heard Grubby yesterday who said that Stephano is practicing something like just 2 hours by day and look how good he is doing on the EU scene.
On July 24 2011 21:16 b_unnies wrote: It's a huge huge step up compared to the vast majority of the foreigners out there and it's a great step to undertake, but no offense 7 hours isn't good enough. 7 hours a day will get you kicked out of a korean team house for not practicing enough. (most Koreans practice either 40-50 games per day or minimum 8 hours a day of practice.)
I heard Grubby yesterday who said that Stephano is practicing something like just 2 hours by day and look how good he is doing on the EU scene.
EU scene. He's not competing with the EU scene if he wants to win MLG, he's competing with Koreans who have a lot to lose
On August 03 2011 22:56 aoe2fan wrote: Anyone know what happened with this?
He made an announcement a few days ago (as he was winning some random cup, like a boss) that he would no longer be streaming all his practice (was too tiring to talk all the time im assuming, besides, he didnt want to reveal all his strats) but would only be streaming Tourneys from now on (v_v) but he's still sticking to his practice schedule and doing one hour of "sports activities" ^_^
Anyone mention you look like Russel Crowe in the Gladiator specifically? I picture you with a giant Roman sword and enemies blood spattered all over you clothes. Sorry GL I be tuning in when I can!
On July 21 2011 08:21 masterbreti wrote: Sounds pretty awesome Strelok.
Just a couple things though.
Of course practice is awesome. but are you going to promise yourself that you will have people to help flush out problems in your play. Practicing is great and all. But also being able to have a second opinion is great.
I would get your teammates to review a couple of your replays a day, ones where you felt you did well or you did poorly. Send maybe 3-4 to each teammate and ask them to reivew the replays and have them tell you what they think.
Since you are playing a lot, you will improve, but sometimes playing too much will make you forget your mistakes and play the same and not improve. Having others check out your replays and give tips and hints will make that 7 hours more efficent and improve at a faster pace.
great thing for doing sports for one hour and giving up drinking, Its a great attitude to take in general, I wouls suggest keeping those 2 self promises for longer than 2 months and keeping them for many years. They will help in the long run.
The midnight self curfew might be a little severe. You are playing 7 hours a day. i assume you will be playing top players and also you want to get some experince staying up late.
MLG usually goes until 2-3 am. If you start telling yourself to go to bed at midnight, you eventually will get programmed to fall asleep at that time. Once MLG comes you will be quite tired and not play as well after that time.
If you set your curfew for something like 3am, you will be programmed to sleep at that time, and will not have huge issues with being tired at mlg. so will have an edge by setting it up that you are at %100 during the entire mlg event.
I dont see how him going to bed at midnight would effect him at MLG in any way, considering its a completely different time zone and when he goes to american he can reset his sleeping schedule to any time he prefers.
On October 11 2011 07:17 MoosePatrol wrote: Strelok just shat on Swedish players on the MLG live stream... yet, somehow i still love him. gogo Strelok!
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