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NDG.Stitch · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 9:35 PM

Recently I've been getting involved in casts and getting involved in clans with practices, training, and whatever. I also just got in diamond league, but today I noticed I've been spending way too much time on SC2, and not really caring a lot about school. I'm not a very good caster, yet I'm also not a good player at starcraft. I swore to myself that I would stop the playing and instead just spend minimal time on casting.
Now I'm wondering if its a good decision made by me.

Should I put all my effort into casting? Even though I'm not a known caster around SEA? Or should I just play and quit casting?

Sorry for those of you that don't really care. I just want some opinions if any of you have had to make these decisions before!

cruxis · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 9:55 PM

A good caster has a good voice. Post a recording of your voice.

NDG.Stitch · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by cruxis

A good caster has a good voice. Post a recording of your voice.

Well, this is my latest upload.

You Tube

EDIT: O.O BANELING PICTURE!

Mukade · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 10:27 PM

Well dude, what do you want to do? Personally, I just play sc2 to both have fun, and to improve myself, haha.

**inFeZa** · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 10:48 PM

dels awards are in his head, Keep casting man, they talk about stuff like this on state of the game (recently in pax) and how day9, husky, jp and all of them got well know is they just did it, they didnt ask anyone or get suggestions.

listen to the recent PAX state of the game.

ETL.Santi · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 11:05 PM

Why do you ask people in an online forum what to do with your life? I suggest make real life friends and have fun.

TAriiChard · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 11:09 PM

You're good at casting mate. Just because you don't have 300,000 subscribers like Husky or HD doesn't mean your bad. It just means that you haven't gotten the breakthrough like they have.

Maybe you should take a step back from what you doing and remember why you're casting and playing Starcraft 2. For the fun of the game. A few days ago i played 13 ladder games and lost 10 ...... It was so frustrating but I took a step back and just chilled and played fun games with the TA guys. Straight away I got back into Starcraft 2 and loved it again.

So my advice for you is, spend less time playing so much Starcraft 2 and get some study habits going. So like, study for a few hours and then you'll realise how much you hate studying and love Starcraft LOL! And don't cast because you want to be big in the world (huge assumption from me) but cast because you enjoy casting.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers, TAriiChard

**kellyMILKIES** · Mon, 21st-Mar-2011, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by StitchStarcraft

Recently I've been getting involved in casts and getting involved in clans with practices, training, and whatever. I also just got in diamond league, but today I noticed I've been spending way too much time on SC2, and not really caring a lot about school. I'm not a very good caster, yet I'm also not a good player at starcraft. I swore to myself that I would stop the playing and instead just spend minimal time on casting.
Now I'm wondering if its a good decision made by me.

Should I put all my effort into casting? Even though I'm not a known caster around SEA? Or should I just play and quit casting?

Sorry for those of you that don't really care. I just want some opinions if any of you have had to make these decisions before!

Try to find a balance in it all. Do school, it's important. Do sc2 as well if it is your passion. !!
Do you like casting / playing a lot? If you do, then continue. But make sure you don't fail school too!! ^-^V

ddengster · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 12:08 AM

Really good casters are the ones who can spare the time to play online. They tell you (and can even predict) about the current or new styles of players, and make far fewer mistakes reading the game and telling the audience about it. Never give up on playing, imo. If you don't have time to play, watch streams of others playing.

tin · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 12:54 AM

just quit school and play and cast sc2.

nah just allocate your time and be strict with your self set times where you do your all your sc2 stuff as for being a good caster or not i dont really know anything about casting but i like casters that make me laugh that might be just me tho. but in the end do what makes you happy

LennX · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 1:02 AM

What riiChard said and....

Time management. This is what you really need at e moment. As you have said, you need more time studying. There are 3 things fighting for your time right now. Studying, playing sc2 and casting games.

For example, on weekdays, you will study first and then allocate some spare time to playing sc2. Something like 3hours studying and 1hr of playing sc2. No casting at all. Do all your casting on weekends. That will mean no playing normally and just casting and editing your casts (if they are not live.)

Judging from your post, you seem to be suffering from a burnout of hvaing too much sc2. Take the next week off sc2 and do all your other stuff that you have thrown away since playing sc2. It will help a lot.

NDG.Stitch · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 9:04 AM

Thanks for the comments everybody, I'll try to balance work and sc2 as much as I can as Kelly said.

As for deL and Pinder, i don't really care about what you guys think about me. I'm not complaining nor am I advertising. I purely want some advice because I know there are some great players and casters in this forum with great experience and I just hope they could give me the advice. But it looks like you two really aren't the types of players anybody should be going to for some useful advice. deL, who are you to judge what matters and what not? Idc if it doesn't matter to you or Pinder - cuz it definitely matters to me. If you think its a useless thread, go talk to the admins and tell them to remove it. Posting it here won't affect me and it won't benefit your naive mind.

Unstable · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 9:57 AM

This post shall be a double edged sword so be warned!

Stitch I fully sympathize with how your feeling at the moment, I have exactly the same drawbacks which is very frustrating, the best you can do is prioritize. Obviously your school/RL commitments must come first as they do with me there is no shame in only being able to do a certain amount in sc2. just do what you can and it will all seem better.

now to the other side :O

While i semi agree with del/pinder your response has turned my next words from" they were trolling man chill". to you just made a fool of yourself.

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Originally Posted by StitchStarcraft

But it looks like you two really aren't the types of players anybody should be going to for some useful advice

You couldnt be more offpoint if you tried. Del created the tournament scene in SEA no tournament with more than $50 was not run by del, even the SEASL i will bet $$ that nirvana consulted with him about it. Pinder while not the absolute best player in SEA you will find no better coach simply because of his experience and interaction with all the top level players.

You want to know how i became a good enough caster to be picked up by FXOpen who are about to dump millions of $$ into SC2 the caster who Pheonix/kelly pretty much any mainstream SEA caster comes to for advice/help, do you REALLY want to know.... when i first started casting guess who were the first 2 people i went to for feedback about my casts. ill give you 1 guess....................

AxSGRiM · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 9:45 AM

deL's funny, but honestly he's right.. no need to ask a forum for tips on leading your life, you do what you want to do not what we tell you to do.

deL · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 10:38 AM

It looks like I just troll this site and try to ruin it but if you look carefully it's mostly in response to idiots or useless threads and therefore for the benefit of the site and it's members. When they take the bait it usually proves the point.

I don't think it's a stupid question as I think most of us have tossed up whether to put so much time and effort into it but not every person makes a ******* attention-seeking thread about it rofl.

Disadvantage · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by deL

It looks like I just troll this site and try to ruin it but if you look carefully it's mostly in response to idiots or useless threads and therefore for the benefit of the site and it's members. When they take the bait it usually proves the point.

I don't think it's a stupid question as I think most of us have tossed up whether to put so much time and effort into it but not every person makes a ******* attention-seeking thread about it rofl.

Wouldn't it be more beneficial to not post and report it rather than derailing it, even if you do think it is a useless thread?

deL · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Disadvantage

Wouldn't it be more beneficial to not post and report it rather than derailing it, even if you do think it is a useless thread?

But that's a lot less fun.

toasti0 · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 11:44 AM

slayers_boxer said that when he choose to play sc1 he decided he wanted to become a champion and he devoted 100% of his life to becoming a champion. So in his eyes if you wanna be a pro you goto throw everything you have got at it otherwise your wasting your time. If you don't wanna be a pro than just enjoy playing sc2 and know that it's your hobby and not your goal in life and if that's the case you should put what is your goal first at all times e.g. job or becoming the worlds fattest belly dancer or whatever it may be.

Crankenstein · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 11:56 AM

My goal in life is to become an amazing science teacher. However, that goal is becoming more and more difficult when you have to decide between laddering/tournaments and showing up to class. :P

NDG.Stitch · Tue, 22nd-Mar-2011, 12:49 PM

Well deL, the reason why I put it on the forums is because I don't know a lot of the people around, since I am new to here. I'm not here to advertise, I am purely just trying to ask for advice.

Unstable, there are different success stories. But I respect yours, and it is a shame I don't get to see how deL helps with new casters. Obviously I probably won't be able to until the flame goes out around this thread.