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souljah · Fri, 22nd-Jul-2011, 6:18 PM

Mmm I started out the same way as you did, watching lots of dailies and Husky casts on youtube even before I got my game. After I got the game, I did not play any team games as previously in War3, i played mostly team games which did nothing for my mechanics or tactics wise... 6 months into the game and I worked my way up from Bronze. Sure I had lots of loss streaks along the way but I didn't let it get me down and I hope you will be like that too! Diamond beckons, work your way towards that target!

ZergGirl · Fri, 22nd-Jul-2011, 8:27 PM

If you can try and keep your current replays, when you hit diamond/masters (if you are dedicated hehe) you'll wanna watch them. Good motivation I think.
Sadly I lost all of mine T_T ('husky' one base roach all day every day!)

No harm in posting more

Sturok · Fri, 22nd-Jul-2011, 8:54 PM

i liked your story/message and also the username DrunkPanda is awesome :P

DrunkPanda · Fri, 22nd-Jul-2011, 9:58 PM

Thanks for the feedback guys and thanks for the advice ZergGirl I'll do that

**Nemo** · Sat, 23rd-Jul-2011, 4:59 AM

Cool story and congrats for having been rewarded for your efforts. I remember when I got promoted the first time, from bronze to silver, I was sooo happy too. ;-)

Nobunaga · Sat, 23rd-Jul-2011, 12:20 PM

Keep it up mate. Ladder fear really stops progression, and once you've overcome that you can only start to get better and better.

Sat, 23rd-Jul-2011, 1:34 PM

These kinda writeups are always nice to read, but try to paragraph better next time, especially that 2nd long paragraph - my eyes just glazed over them :S

**SkyBreaker** · Sat, 23rd-Jul-2011, 10:40 PM

Kudos to you for overcoming your fear of laddering and realizing that you should focus on improving as a player, rather than which logo sit beside your name!

The way I see it, the more losses you endure; the more experience you will have obtained and lessons will be learned therefore you'll become a stronger player and promotion and all that other good jazz should fall into place. GL&HF.

Next_rim · Mon, 25th-Jul-2011, 3:57 PM

I played very well in beta, but only got SC2 a year after actual release. RL stuff, yall know how it is. I'm no RTS noob, neither I'm completely clueless in sc2, but I still got placed in bronze.

There is nothing bad about being in low league. There is so much more you can do to improve, which is awesome. Sometimes I wish I was gold or plat, it would be sooo much easier

It is much better than being up in diamond for 2 moths, like me, and bashing my head in the wall over my own replays, because I still make stupid and obvious mistakes. This feeling that you know the build, you read your opp build, you perfectly know what to do and how to do it, you don't slip on macro, but are not perfect yet enrages so bad, you want to uninstall sc2 and never come back to it.

It's a point when you stop losing to all-ins and cheese, know all possible and impossible timings, can even tell # of workers your opp has without scouting, but still can't beat them. Because you make a ton of little mistakes. Your core goes up 2 seconds late, you chrono wrong warpgate, you focus wrong unit, you split army badly in response to incoming drop, you miscalculate your army power.

Misplaced forcefields start to lose you games, supply block at 140 supply loses you game, bad observer placement loses you game. Details and little things annoy much more than general mismanagement of forces, trust me )

Gl on your huge journey of improvement.