Arriving into sydney at 6am was a death sentence as the flight takes 4 hours but its also at midnight so you pretty much get no sleep, anyways after i arrived i had to wait 4 hours for Jamie (Ice) to get into the airport so we can catch a cab to Mikeys house (Psycho) as thats where we were staying for the weekend. Once Jamie arrived we went to Mikeys house and started the practicing of Sc2, On no sleep i decided to stay up for as long as i could and just push through and stay up as late as i could. After about 34 hours i passed out on the chair i was playing starcraft with for about 30mins, Jamie and Simon decided to take advantage of that and take photos of me and what ever else they did ( i hope nothing bad! haha).
Saturday 27th June :
Waking at 7am, i got up and ready showered and had breakfast and by 8am we were on our way to ACL, Arriving at the venue around 8.30am, Ice Mikey and myself started warming up, after a few hours of playing games the tournament started, i watched a few games here and there, Came around 4pm i started playing my games first up was Kez, first game i pushed with a 8 gate push and just crushed his roach ling army, 2nd game i also did the same to his 3 base macro and crushed him again taking the 2-0, after kez i had to play Dark, first game was a macro game 3 base vs 3 base i out macroed him and pushed with blink stalkers and sentries ( pre good if you can use them well) game 2 was the same and i took the 2-0, the last person i had to play for this day was Yours, we played on stage and he was clearly the Crowd favourite as not many people like to cheer me on. (will talk about this later)
First map was echo, i opened stargate oracle into 3 base blink stalker pressure and just out played him with macro and multi tasking, game 2 he tried to cheese me on cactus valley with a 2 base roach ling attack which would of killed me if he didn't make it suspicious that he was hiding something, so i took the 2-0.
Sunday 28th June :
Arriving at the venue at 8.30am again to get warmed up because i knew i had to be warmed to play against nxz and alopex as they were the 2 guys coming into my group to just take me out of the tournament, by 9am i was playing alopex and after a shakey game 1 with bad plays and macro by myself alopex took the game, game 2 i tried to proxy 2 gate and that just failed to his 15 pool opener i lost 0-2, going into the games vs nxz i knew i had to win 2-1 or 2-0 to atleast advance from my group, game 1 was on echo i opened my 8 gate blink stalker push to his 3 base roach ling but i just attacked in time and just had to much and took game 1, game 2 i tried the same build on vaani which is a decent map for the build but he took really good engagements and macroed very well to take the game and to tie the series 1-1, the game that pretty much just ruined my event completly.... game 3 on iron fortress, i opened 7 gate and with his late speed and hardly any army i was winning and i was going to win untill the mind of a bronze leaguer kicked in and i didnt notice 2 lings go into my mineral line and kill it, soon as i noticed i just shook my head and gg'ed, after that loss there was only 1 chance to advance to champ bracket and that was through kez and nxz, Kez won 2-1 against alopex which made my chance quite decent, nxz got up 1 game and i thought i had a chance but then alopex played very safe and defended nxzs 9 pool to put him behind and win the game.
Overall :
The tournament was run pretty good considering the late start on Saturday, everyone seemed to be cheering in the crowd when they were down there so that was good, i even feel there was more cheering at this ACL then there was last ACL, Baldie did a AMAZING Job at running the event and he was crazy all weekend running around keeping everything on top so Props to baldie for everything he did this weekend and hope to see ya again next ACL if i attend.
This will all be bad and negative shit which actually was stupid, and sorry for the language but it needs to be said.
The venue was ****** freezing and absolutely unplayable for people who actually need to use stuff like blink stalkers, marines drops and even injecting like my hands and my body was shivering day 1 and day 2 of the event which just made it so ****** unplayable it wasnt even funny and i know alot of people had this problem but honestly that should not happen at all, the doors should of been closed the aircon shouldn't of been on and that was just poor by ACL, To the crowd of guys who actually dont like me winning Kez, and others literally go **** yourself cause i haven't done anything to you guys part from beat you in all events and am just better then you guys, yes some say i might not of deserved getting out of groups if i didnt beat alopex or nxz but to laugh at me about not getting out and cheering on alopex so i dont get out is actually pathetic and childish, Expecially Kez, Nxz is your team mate yet you cheer on alopex because you dont want me to get out of groups is actually pretty pathetic. (Yes some of you may be cheering on alopex cause you want him to win bout others were not doing that for him to win)
This was all said because it has to be said because im pretty much sick of this community hating on me for being a better player then most, Yes i might be egotistic sometimes about shit but atleast i can back it up and win shit, i dont even know 70% of you irl and probably wont ever.
Thanks to Dynasty and Skitz for flying me over to Sydney im sorry i didnt get the results that i should have but i will defently try harder next ACL or year or even WCS, also thanks to mike for letting us stay at his house was actually the best of fun, Jamie for supporting me and having a laugh at everything pretty much and also the game of thrones theme song in the morning with the bird whistling to it haha, and thanks to anyone who cheered me on and actually wanted me to win and go far, also thanks to jordan for the games and practice and talking to me about a few things here and there, also all the ETL guys namek and co who cheered for me and talked to me sorry i didnt talk to you guys much at the lan and i left early i just couldnt stand to be around people who didnt actually like me or want me to do well, also to anyone i missed thanks
Drop this "real man" bullshit. You clearly have a personal grudge with frustration and that's fine. But have you never heard the saying "if you can't say anything nice, don't saying anything at all"?
Stop trying to distort frustrations image with your melodramatic philosophy.
It's clear the real issue at hand isn't frustration, it's people like you that refuse to change and give people a second chance.
That saying is complete shite. If we were never critical or always said nice things to one another, we'd be a hopeless civilisation.
I fail to see any melodrama or philosophy in my arguments. Just stating facts as to how, and why, people react to frustration in this way. Nice try at obfuscating the point without addressing it at all.
I'm happy to give people a second chance, but they have to actually want to change, then put that change into practice.
Drop this "real man" bullshit. You clearly have a personal grudge with frustration and that's fine. But have you never heard the saying "if you can't say anything nice, don't saying anything at all"?
Stop trying to distort frustrations image with your melodramatic philosophy.
It's clear the real issue at hand isn't frustration, it's people like you that refuse to change and give people a second chance.
Man, you clearly have no idea what you're talking about. I don't think deth even has a personal grudge, but I do.
Why?
After Frustration cheated Petrify out of a win with manner pauses last ACL, I was still nice to him, still tried to get along with him before our match (even though my team hated him at that point). I lost the game to frustration, suddenly he's telling everyone at ACL how shit of a player I am.
As some might know, I'm pretty good friends with hitman, hitman and frust were/are? on the same team. Hitman is constantly showing me quotes about frustration shit talking me behind my back.
This is my experience with frustration, doesn't seem like he's a nice guy at all from my perspective. I just wanted to be left alone.
It was pretty cold in the morning and night! Need to get yourself some gloves!
It is a shame you felt a little unsupported, but given your online actions both in the distant past, this years tournament incident, and online chat persona, it is somewhat to be expected not to have everyone cheer for you (even for some to cheer against you). Then there are others who were cheering on their friends, fellow zergs, etc. That's just the way it goes.
As others have mentions, the past may always be on peoples minds, but only your actions going forward over a long period (we are talking years), and how you present yourself to your peers and even the 'haters' will change that. Respect is earned.
You're a nice guy offline, but it's your online actions that may prevent people from wanting to give you a chance/talk with you.
No doubt you have talent, but as others have said, maybe model your behaviour on someone like KingKong. Very respectful and manner guy.
It was pretty cold in the morning and night! Need to get yourself some gloves!
It is a shame you felt a little unsupported, but given your online actions both in the distant past, this years tournament incident, and online chat persona, it is somewhat to be expected not to have everyone cheer for you (even for some to cheer against you). Then there are others who were cheering on their friends, fellow zergs, etc. That's just the way it goes.
As others have mentions, the past may always be on peoples minds, but only your actions going forward over a long period (we are talking years), and how you present yourself to your peers and even the 'haters' will change that. Respect is earned.
You're a nice guy offline, but it's your online actions that may prevent people from wanting to give you a chance/talk with you.
No doubt you have talent, but as others have said, maybe model your behaviour on someone like KingKong. Very respectful and manner guy.
I agree with everyone but you gotta understand there is alot of people who wont change even if you do because they are so stuck up and so up themselves that they actually dont care if you change or not and will just keep hating on you so i think i will just do what ever i please at the time from now on as 70% of the community is like this.
They will change if you give them enough time. The problem is you never keep your mouth shut long enough for them to forget the last time you annoyed people...
Dude are you ****** serious i was away for pre much all of 2013 half of 2014 came back was nice for atleast 6 months and still no change at all, and i was literally nice at lan online didnt say a word of bad shit so no there will be no changing for the arrogant people of sc2sea.
Youre right people probably wont change, cauz you messed up and have still done a few crappy things here and there, get over it. Not everyone has to like you, I saw you talk to a bunch of people at the event and youre getting really mad cauz I was cheering alopex one in a game against someone who happened to be my team mate? I like alopex, ive been playing him and had a good friendly rivalry for YEARS, of course im going to cheer him on, I was cheering for him the whole bracket, I was cheering for nxz too when they were playing, you just focused on the times when it mattered for you. I seriously think youre taking it a bit overly personal, I literally didnt say or do anything besides clap and cheer, it could have been a LOT worse
Youre right people probably wont change, cauz you messed up and have still done a few crappy things here and there, get over it. Not everyone has to like you, I saw you talk to a bunch of people at the event and youre getting really mad cauz I was cheering alopex one in a game against someone who happened to be my team mate? I like alopex, ive been playing him and had a good friendly rivalry for YEARS, of course im going to cheer him on, I was cheering for him the whole bracket, I was cheering for nxz too when they were playing, you just focused on the times when it mattered for you. I seriously think youre taking it a bit overly personal, I literally didnt say or do anything besides clap and cheer, it could have been a LOT worse
You said in the series of Nxz, Alopex " Frustration doesnt deserve to get out of his group because he didnt beat anyone good" Or it was "Frustration doesnt deserve to get out of his group because he didnt beat either of them" but it was 100% 1 of them
Yeah I said it, to my friends tho, I'm sorry you heard it, but shit I stand by it, you didnt deserve to get out of the group, cauz you didnt beat any of them
One love friends. Enough derailment of the thread please. #ModWarning #Wasting 48000th chat line
I don't think it is derailing a thread discussing why someone wasn't cheered for when one of the main contentions of the original post is about that lack of being cheered for.
Frustration is the classic example of boy who cried wolf.
> Be BM.
> Hey guys i changed
> Don't change, be BM.
> Hey, guys I changed.
> Don't change, be BM.
> No serious guys, I changed.
> Wonder why everyone still hates you
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