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My Experience on Ladder and Growth as a Player.
 

Most of you here won't know me because I'm not really an active poster on this site, but I do check here everyday and read a lot of the stuff here because this is such a great community ♥♥♥

Anyway I'm a high gold Zerg who's had a lot of struggle and fear in ladder. This blog is just how I've over come my fear of ladder because I know/hope that other people out there are intimidated by the ladder like me.

When I first got the game I didn't go into ladder straight away, I told myself I would first beat a very hard AI 10/10 times before placing because I didn't want to place bronze. I was so naive... So after a week of lurking team liquid and devouring day9 daily's and various vods I was ready to play the AI. I beat the AI 10/10 games and was really happy I thought I'd place gold and maybe silver if I didn't play well. So grinning form ear to ear I clicked the find match button and every time I clicked that button my smile began to fade until I got to the last match... I was up against another zerg and I was depressed after having lost 4 out of 4 games so far so I did what any noob would do in this situation, 6 pool. I ended up winning the game, but it didn't feel like a win. I placed bronze and all my expectations were crushed. I told myself I'd keep laddering and laddering so I did and after 11 more games I was at win/loss of 1/15. I sucked and I was in bronze.

I stopped playing starcraft altogether. I continued to watch day9, go to team liquid and watch tournaments like GSL. After a month and a half I finally got the courage to ladder again so I did and I surprisingly won. I played again and I won then again, again and again. I was on a 5 win streak and I was so happy then I got crushed again and booted down to an 8 loss streak. I didn't stop playing starcraft this time, I stopped laddering for months. I played custom games before getting bored of it all and I wanted to get back into 1v1's so I came to this site to get practice partners and coaching. I met people here like derpy, zergtastic (SatuSPR) and many others who have helped me a lot I watched all these players progress and improve at an incredible rate and to be honest I was getting frustrated because in all this time I was still bronze. I started to wonder why it was that I was still bronze and I came to the conclusion that I cared about my status not my skill. It was the ladder lock time period before season 2. So what I did from here was what drastically improved my game play. I just laddered and laddered and laddered. When my placement came around I was matched even vs a zerg, it was like my last placement match I got when I first started the game. I got nervous and I lost confident in myself, but quickly overcame this because I said to myself I've been doing well in ladder because I want to improve. So I just played it out and won, I didn't place silver, but I was now being matched vs silver players and eventually I got promoted to silver after around 15 games. I was so happy I wasn't forever bronze anymore.

May be continued...


If you guys like what I've written and want to hear more then please tell me I didn't post the rest because I'm not sure you guys may like what I've written :\