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Quite a few people miss the underlying question, and a few formulated it right: Seems like it's about needing a little help to dive into the game.
It's cliché, but I'm gonna say it anyway: What do you think about when you are there in the main screen, but not starting a game ? I'm interested in your answer. And like Gallerz did, I'll answer it for myself:
What makes me excited about playing starcraft is that I love to progress, learn, and find it satisfying when I my execution is on my top level throughout the game.
What makes me not play is when I feel I'm not in top shape.
My ways around it all revolve around focusing on the learning and not the ladder:
1: I read about some builds and practice them.
2: I find a practice partner because I love to practice the same matchup many times over. (In the chats or, I'm lucky, I have a friend who's better than me in all 3 races)
3: Variation of 1: I play very focused on 1 thing. A mix of a funday monday with a practice twist on a weakness. I think: I'm going to use more X unit, try to never engage without pressuring with drops, expand more, all in more.
All of this is very often by VODs wich inspired me. I try to watch less caster-fun VODs (husky) for more 1rst person VODs where I see the player all the time, hear his reasonning and build order. Seeing plays from player's perspective helps me accept a lot how chaotic it can be to play compared to what we see on casted replays. This is also where I get most of my ideas for 1-2-3: What I want to try in my play. VODs I watch are adapted because I'm a lower league french protoss ( so I watch anoss, tod and desrow's french tutorials), but also personalities I love and that explain well on stream (incontrol, grubby, psy on youtube, day 9 archives)
TL:DR : I feel the same way. I play unranked, switch the focus from feeling not at my best by focusing on learning, practicing a particular build/unit/element inspired by VODs
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After seeing the guy who has disabled hands but still plays fairly well, I was quite excited to play.
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If you have to force yourself to play, just quit the game. It's about finding the game fun to play, which motivates.
I can understand the ladder anxiety, but the only way you can avoid that is simply by playing 1v1's, and keep doing it. Once you played enough 1v1's, your anxiety is gone for most part.
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On May 09 2013 00:26 oGsTrueSmug wrote:
Play 10 decent games or so, lose to a Protoss or Zerg who are mechanically a league below me but have the race to prop them up, get tired of game, repeat next day.
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oh please.
I Play all three races at master level.
Difficulty varies a bit yes, but stop acting like are a pro.
You are not at the skill level, to even maximize any of the races.
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Just click the "Find Match" button and know that you'll improve just by clicking it.
Sometimes you'll get frustrated or angry or sad. If that happens, just walk away and do something else for a while. Maybe...study for finals or something. =P
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I just get an urge to play, and then do lol.
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Yup, definitely lots of unranked as training to get a large quantity of games in with minimal stress. Once you hit plat/dia players start to get considerably more serious about the game, which can make it challenging to compete. Learning new build orders from pros is motivation for me 
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I often feel inspired to play, when a tournament is ongoing or I'm watching a stream, sadly this will mean I will miss the stream and I often pick the stream over playing myself.
It seems a bit weird to make solutions to other peoples problems, when I myself suffer from it, but what I've found, is that if you don't celebrate a victory and gain happiness from a win, as much as a loss will devastate you, you will find it extremely difficult to motivate yourself to play Starcraft.
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Sometimes I don't have any urge to play 1vs1, only team games because they are less stressful and no pressure. If I lose 1vs1 games I will just get upset because i know it was all my fault that I lost.
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i like to play as long as i am improving, no matter how many losses i take. if i keep losing and i cant figure out why i stop playing because it becomes frustrating rather than entertainment
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The psychology of playing an unranked game isn't really any different than playing a ranked one?
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I open my redbull, watch a stream/vods while I sip it to get into the mood of crushing faces then start my owning playlist music and go into a killing spree on ladder.
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On May 31 2013 01:44 Firestorm wrote:
The psychology of playing an unranked game isn't really any different than playing a ranked one?
Its the lack of a punishment/reward system.
You lose points when you lose, gain points when you win. This is too much pressure for most people--even if it's fake pressure.
Play poker with money, play poker without money. Different feel in both games. Play poker with chips, play poker without chips (no money involved), different feel in both games.
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i like to play as long as i am improving, no matter how many losses i take. if i keep losing and i cant figure out why i stop playing because it becomes frustrating rather than entertainment
This. If you want to rephrase your question to "how do I stay motivated to do things I dont enjoy?". My answer would be find something you like about it or stop doing it.
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I built a website (http://sc2replaystats.com/) to give me information on what i was doing on the ladder. I found that more information helps me get over the ladder anxiety, since its the unkown that freaks people out. With the more information i was able to improve my game, and in turn that helped me with the motivation and ladder anxiety.
Don't have a good solution besides get a second account for the days where you can win a game i start losing a bunch in a row i jump on over to my second account and that helps.
But i agree with some of the people above, turn on some music, grab a drink and just hit that find match button !
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I find it harder to start playing, but when I do start I can easily just keep playing. Especially when I'm losing I have the urge to continue playing, winning gives me the satisfaction but losing will keep pushing me. I've had friends who didn't want to play because they simply didn't find ladder fun or became incredibly aggrovated by the losses. The setting goals strategy is not bad, if you're finding yourself incredibly frustrated try to make an effort to hold it in or gg.
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the game just makes fun to play.
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If I was a single male I would find it hard not to play every single day.
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Force yourself to play ranked ladder until it's a habit. Then it becomes addictive.
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Set yourself a fun goal. This week it's to figure out factory timings for mech. Even though I'm losing I don't really BM or whine because I'm trying to figure out how it all works and I KNOW my build order isn't very good. I'm only platinum so people would say "focus on macro/improving etc" but if I feel like I'm having a bad weekend I will pound out 5 flat out macro games where all I do is hit 3/3 and 200 as fast as humanly possible with 18 barracks and time my remaxes. Even if I lose, I still win if my 3/3 and 200 was faster.
I don't suffer ladder anxiety. I just don't force myself to play Starcraft longer than my interest holds. These days that's about 5-7 games or so. Who cares if you win or lose so long as you enjoy what you do.
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