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For this blog I'll just be looking at the goals I set at the start of 2015 and whether I achieved them, as well as the major events (ACL, WCS qualifiers etc) that took place in the year that left a big impression on me.



** In typical Rize fashion this is terribly formatted, not proofread aaaaand probably mostly rambling... and I've most likely missed a lot of things - enjoy! **




Before jumping into events, lets talk about my goals for 2015 ~

My goals were pretty straight-forward, they basically came with "get better", so fairly easy.
:^)


2015 goals:

• Get back to 1000 rating on Aligulac.com - Achieved around my birthday! (September)
  
• Top 100 of all kr masters - Topped out at rank 60~ of all kr masters in season 2.
  
• Win a LAN - Adelaide Arena LAN #8
  
• Make it into groups for an ACL event - 9th seed for ACL Melbourne's groups
  
• Make it into top 32 for the OSC Global Finals - 29th Seed

Achieved them all! Was a bit hard for a few there, but thanks to the sR boiz for motivating me whenever I wanted to give up.




ACL Sydney

I remember reading this announcement and playing almost 60 game straight after, I was so hyped to try my best, as this was the first chance I really had to represent fray at a LAN... IF I proved good enough in the qualifiers and managed to get over to Sydney.

(Atleast, I thought I had to do really well in the qualifiers, which added a load of stress to practice hard)

The stress was resulting in poor practice, I remember not analyzing my replays enough and not testing more builds out etc due to just wanting to grind more games... such terrible quality of practice, I barely even played any custom games at the time as I was still extremely shy towards my teamates.










Aaaanyway, pretty good experience overall at Sydney! Due to my results I seriously felt like I let the team down again, I did so poorly that it really didn't make up for a flight over imo.

Onwards and upwards~!




ACL Melbourne

This was a big one. I felt so much fear that I'd bomb out of qualifiers again, and if I were to be flown over just to get rekt again... I don't know if I'd bounce back from that.
So I needed to work hard.

And that's precisely what I did! More efficient practice, customs, analysis of replays... I was making a lot of progress in developing my skills and generally getting better before the first qualifier kicked off, I knew I had to perform a hell of a lot better this time around.










Melbourne was a wonderful experience, not only because I got to meet so many more amazing people - but because so much of fray was threre that it felt like I was hanging out with the whole second family. I felt more welcomed this time, and felt a little more deserving of the opportunity too.




Adelaide LAN



4Head





So those were my experiences with the events I attended/was a part of this year, the games I played, the lessons I learned etc. Overall it was a great year, I can't thank everyone enough for how much they've helped me this year, even if I'm not the best player. I think I've got a long way to go with my mindset(IRL stuff reks this), and for whatever reason... I still don't feel deserving of a team - So just some things for me to work on. ~

There's a lot more to talk about, but nothing that'd be very detailed or interesting;

- SSTL was just me being a useful practice partner for the fray guys.
- WCS Qualifiers went okay, but I didn't have any breakout performances or anything.
- Placed pretty decently in a couple of online cups, took some maps off solid pro players, doing well vs top kr gm's on ladder... nothing too spectacular.

2016's looking really good, I finally feel like I can get to that next level and start winning things, so I'll set some higher goals for the year:

- Get KR GM (legit)
- Raise aligulac points to 1500
- Win atleast 10 online tournaments
- Win another LAN/Place top 8 at ACL event
- Knock HuT out of everything he tries to qualify for (if he does)
- 2-0 a high-level Korean pro

I think these goals will keep me occupied. ^_^



Thanks for reading this gigantic wall of text for some reason




p.s. shoutout to edmond "redemption" lam for being a handsome devil, so hot xoxox