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Back on my grind

“Where did this come from? Spending the last year or two inactive, Cabracan was formerly a Top 3 Terran in New Zealand. He was decently well known within the community, often popping up in chatbox. Nobody knows where he’s been or what he’s been doing, but we do know that he is back and he is signed up for the WCS Qualifiers. Who knows what we can expect from him?”
-Soundwave

Only top 3? I guess it’s time for me to practise and reclaim my rightful place as second best Terran in New Zealand.

Last year I moved cities and started my clinical years of medical school (This is when you at in a hospital following around doctors rather than in a lecture theatre). While I was much busier than previous years I still had time to play sc2 I just never got around to it.

But then as the last summer holiday of my life began I had a dream. Otago University had put on another SC2 competition and I had gone down as the returning champion. Only to get knocked out by a diamond player. This unknown dream player started to bad manner the shit out of me, but I couldn’t say anything because I had lost to him. While most of my friends took this opportunity to travel the world I realised what I had to do.

After my first game I was placed in diamond NA. After a few games I realised I belonged in diamond. Obviously this is unacceptable, the grind had to resume.

WCS Qualifier

I figured the qualifier would be a good chance to cheese a bunch of players and have fun with my first tournament in over a year. I practised my two rax and experimented with a friend to find the quickest way to get four widow mines into a dropship. Despite still getting supply capped every game and not having played on some of the map pool I was ready.










Overall I was still happy, not letting one more win syndrome ruin the fact I had won three series when I was hoping to win one. Plus I had got myself a few OSC points which I hope I can buy candy with or something.



The next day I was messaged by Ice asking if I wanted to join Dynasty. I saw MetalCore was in the team so I figured I’d go ahead with it. This will be my busiest year in medical school but I intend to make up for all the time I didn’t play in 2014. With a new team to represent I’m hoping to achieve my former glory of “adequate tournament filler”.

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