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So this is odd way to put it but I guess this is one way of saying it. Might sound silly but I'm attempting to become a Starcraft 2 progamer and eventually make a name for myself the international scene granted the right opportunities.

My biggest issue at the moment is essentially burning out. You could say that if you truly wanted to become a professional at something you would love absolutely every element of it and not burn out but I don't think that's true. Maybe my mental strength isn't as strong as others or I'm forcing myself down a path to become burned out because I’m forcing out games when I just don't want to play. I have my reasons that make me want to play and to a degree that does help. When you constantly face negative feedback, you can't help but feel like you're not making any progress. By making progress you need to play more and in the end face more negative feedback, putting myself in a direction where I need to go but at a rate very slow. A rate which is affected by the will to learn and capacity to be capable of doing so. If anyone else has been down that path I'm sure you can agree that with constant negative feedback as strong as your will might be, there's something about the unknown that will always make you doubt yourself. Although to know that you tried to the best of your abilities to get as far as you possibly could is enough reconciliation in itself.

One of my biggest issues for me when I first started playing Starcraft 2 at the start of this year is that I skipped the "fun phase" so to speak. Instead of learning the game through the fun way of making mistakes and doing stupid shit I wanted to get where I wanted to be and as fast as possible. A way to make this game more interesting is to talk about it with the people that play it as it adds more interest, personal competition to achieve more and easier to converse ideas. So I’m proposing that if there are any people that are in the same boat or are at least GM/M on SEA or NA, or Diamond/Masters on Korea feel free to message me or add me on skype: zenaku6 to talk meta/play customs. I'm also currently looking for a team!

About me: My name is David Addati and I'm 19 years old! I have been playing games competitively since I was 11/12 starting off with
Call of Duty 2 -> Attended lans, was apart of team that became top5 in one of first seasons of competitive cod2
Command and Conquer 3 http://i.imgur.com/CUoy3.jpg?1 , Also was somewhat apart of Serious Gaming (recognised European team)->
Call of Duty 4 -> Paid to play to advertise for a team, voted as best mp5 in Australia (tied 1st)
Quake Live -> Top 5 Dueler at any point in time, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2LvybotJAc , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywGWG9v4CUo , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGaImoh95Fw
League of Legends -> Played 2.5k+ games during my final year of high school to focus on study. General idea of meta/how to play champions
Starcraft 2 -> Achieved GM on SEA(6/7 months), Masters on NA (don't play there), and Masters on Korea(11months), Haven’t mad many opportunities play in various tournaments but hopefully in the upcoming ACL!
Start of this year went to uni for 6 months, deferred to get better at Starcraft. Current schedule is Starcraft, Learning Korean, exercise, work and occasionally go out.
Goals: Compete in GSL by at least end of 2013/2014, be apart of an international team, attend various international tournaments and study Korean as a language in Korea

tl;dr: Let's all be friends and play starcraft
inb4 get a job you bum