This friday the 13th was a bad one for me. Over the last 2 days I'd risen to #14 rank in my Bronze division. Then this morning I started playing. Lost 5 in a ROW!!!!! By the third game I was screaming WHAT THE FU@K !!! when I was losing. If it wasn't protossers doing cheese rushes, it was some other dumb mistake or this or that.

Then I won one, then lost 2 more.

Then this evening, I played a few more games. Lost 2 then won one. I'm now down to #24 in rank.

I'm going to bed now. Another friday evening, and no women in my bed. SIGH.

Got to get up early (8 am) to go to SoCal lan 5 tomorrow.

Anyone else ever have losing streaks like this?

theonlyrio

United Kingdom200 Posts

August 14 2010 08:13 GMT

yh i went from 13th in my diamond league to 94th after a string of 6-7 loses =/ pulled a couple back by the end of the night but am still only ~50

Logyx

United States14 Posts

August 14 2010 08:17 GMT

Not today, but last week I was rank 1 diamond, rocking it out, and then went on a giant 20 game losing streak over 2 days. I went from rank 1 to rank 100. It was painful, but I kept at it and I've starting winning again. I'm working my way back up. My score now is a little less than 400, and my rank is in the 40's. Not where I'd like to be, but I've got my "mojo" back so it should not be long.

So anyway, hang in there man. This post actually really helped me a lot. It's worth the read: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=142131

Ai52487963

United Kingdom136 Posts

August 14 2010 08:17 GMT

I've been itching to get out of platinum league one of these days, but it's very hard on your concentration and confidence to just get 1a's by people two leagues below you who have less than 50% win/loss ratios. If the AMM isn't putting me against high level diamonds, it's trying to make deliberate fun of me by placing me against gold and silver players.

Win one, lose three. Win one, lose four more. The points don't even balance out, since you have to be on your A-game to lose 20-25 points against a 150-point silver league player who got lucky on where to 4gate proxy all in on lost temple.

I even tried playing against my non-competitive friends who are legitimately worse than me by a longshot, still losing best of 3's to 1-base carrier play.

Needless to say, I feel the frustration.

jnay

Canada107 Posts

August 14 2010 08:19 GMT

it happens to the best of us man. I feel your frustration but the best thing you can do is shake it off and learn something from your losses, doesn't matter what league you're in.

BrickTop

United States37 Posts

August 14 2010 08:24 GMT

Probability theory has some results on the "longest sequence of heads in a series of coin flips". If I remember correctly, the result was that with enough coin flips, there will be a series of only heads with length proportional to the square root of the total number of coin flips.

So if you play N games, and we assume that all of them are evenly matched (you win with 1/2 probability), there's bound to be a squareroot(N) losing streak in there somewhere. For 1000 games, that means a ~31-long losing streak; for 400 games, a ~20 long losing streak

On the brighter side, you would probably have a ~31-long winning streak as well

Note that this is all theory, in reality it probably wouldn't hold because of the match-making system (if get into a losing streak because of pure chance, then after a bit you will be fighting people below your skill level and you will win with a very high probability). But I think the moral of the story is that extremely long losing streaks are bound to happen even if every game is even, so if you get into a losing streak, just accept it as a result of probability theory

daewdasd

Germany64 Posts

August 14 2010 08:26 GMT

Sure everyone has losing streaks. I had some 5 game or more losing streaks. Even pros should have then, because its just human to loose patience and get frustratet after you lost a couple of games, wich then makes you lose even more games.
Best thing you can do is just shut off the game, make something different and then try again.

Hilberer

Sweden64 Posts

August 14 2010 08:33 GMT

Fuck, i lost 12 games in à row and i didnt know it was fridag 13th.

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

August 14 2010 08:36 GMT

went from about 1400 to around 860 D/D- on iccup the other week. all because I got stressed out about the first loss but didn't take the time to reflect on it :\

Pughy

Wales662 Posts

August 14 2010 08:36 GMT

#10

Think the most I've lost in a row is 5, gets well annoying especially if you get cheesed everygame. So far today I won my first 3, then lost my next 3 to stupid attacks I should have been able to defend (roach rush and two 4 gates).

junemermaid

United States981 Posts

August 14 2010 08:36 GMT

#11

I haven't really had a losing streak in SC2, but in SCBW I would get ridiculous losing streaks in ICCUP / PGTour. I would start the day off C+ and end up C- / D+. I specifically remember a 15 game losing streak that made me 1) rage pretty hard 2) break a mouse 3) throw a water bottle at the wall that subsequently made a pretty big dent.

Just keep at it man. It happens to everyone at some point. Even bisu went on a mega slump.

ZomgTossRush

United States1041 Posts

August 14 2010 08:38 GMT

#12

I consider 1 lose a streak then rage quit. Screaming "SC2 is so F***ing broke!" I'm going to play WoW.

Then I realized im 22 and I need to grow up.

Keep practicing.

slam

United States923 Posts

August 14 2010 08:43 GMT

#13

Lawl. It is quite rare that I find a woman in my bed after a night of playing starcraft as well (and I imagine the same is true for most). When I do have the pleasure of a woman in my bed for the night, starcraft isn't really on the menu.
Unless its a midnight booty call in which case I have already done all of the crafting for the night... mmmmm booty call.

But yes, losing streaks suck. I had a 4 lose streak today (i play toss) after two baneling busts in a row, a pretty good pvp which I ended up losing and then another loss to Z mass muta+a bajillion spinecrawlers... knew i should have gone phoenix harrass to start out. whatevs. But I was on an 9 win streak before that so i can't get too upset and then after the lose streak I made up most of the points from a win + bonus pool so I got back to 500 point diamond. Cool story... i know. =o

Oh and I will see the OP at the socal lan 5 tomorrow. :D

SaikOuLighT

Canada742 Posts

August 14 2010 08:44 GMT

#14

Everyone will probably go on a losing streak one time or another. The most important thing is to not let losing get to you. In my case sometimes when i lose, i continue to think about that game in the next game if i'm still angry about it, and it will greatly affect my play and i may lose that game as well, and it becomes a vicious cycle.

Meta

United States6226 Posts

August 14 2010 08:45 GMT

#15

I had a string of losses today as well, 5 or 6 in a row I think. Dropped like 60 ranks in my diamond division. I decided to just pub stomp some hon games and try again tomorrow

edit:
One of my losses was against a protoss who proxy 2-gated, which I was able to fend off really well and even kill the probe with an scv, but lost about 5 minutes later to a 4 warp gate allin that I wasn't sufficiently prepared for T_T

Bartiemus

New Zealand84 Posts

August 14 2010 09:01 GMT

#16

I went from rank 5 on my gold league to Rank 40 after losing 8 games in a Row I raged hard I am slowly clawing my way back one game at a time.

phantaxx

United States201 Posts

August 14 2010 09:05 GMT

#17

my wins and losses only come in streaks. well, not absolute streaks like 20 in a row, but more of a general streak. One time i went 5-22, then 17-2, then 3-15, you get the idea. it has always been like this for me, i can't find a pattern or anything no matter how hard i try. at first it confused me but now i have accepted that my wins and losses just come in massive streaks for no reason.

Deleted User 47542

1484 Posts

August 14 2010 09:07 GMT

#18

I have losing streaks because I usually rage inside and don't let myself leave the computer until I win one game. Went from 930 to 800 points in diamond in one night T_T

DarkSanta

Netherlands76 Posts

August 14 2010 09:11 GMT

#19

You forget that if you're losing everything, someone else has to win

Kantom

United Kingdom27 Posts

August 14 2010 09:19 GMT

#20

On August 14 2010 18:07 superbabosheki wrote:
I have losing streaks because I usually rage inside and don't let myself leave the computer until I win one game. Went from 930 to 800 points in diamond in one night T_T

I'll usually do this but after losing my first 7 games yesterday I decided it was time to stop.

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