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**rezyn8** · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 11:29 AM

I have had enough of playing against the AI and team matches and am giving 1v1 a real crack. I am not a pro and don't have time to to ladder like a lot of other people do. Nevertheless, I am giving my take on laddering from a Bronze players perspective to where ever I end up - hopefully Masters by the end of the year!

You can get my updates from my site siliconsports.net which will be a regular feature each Thursday going over the week's play and the lessons learnt. It may not be high level enough for a lot of you but I hope it help some of my fellow Bronzers out there. As a side effect, I hope it helps with my game casting as well.

LT#1 - It's Laddering Time
LT#2 - Laddering Horrors
LT#3 - Snakes and Ladders
LT#4 - Slow Week, Lose Rank
LT#5 - Be Like the Pros

I am playing as Terran at present.

Fighting!

**SkyBreaker** · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 12:19 PM

Looks good man and I'm glad to see you planning on giving 1v1 a serious shot! I had a quick look over your blog and it looks like you're on the right track, having a solid opener for each match-up (solid, meaning standard), reviewing your losses and understanding why you lost the game are the two most fundamental aspects of learning and improving! Here's a link to a TL thread which is aimed at teaching you how to review and analyze your replays.

Also don't forget to watch some high-level replays of some Terran players (and their live streams) to see how to react in various scenarios as well as some general in-game mental notes.

More importantly, glhfgg!

Edit:
Just one thing I read from your blog that I don't entirely agree with;

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Originally Posted by rezyn8

I have thought about playing Protoss, but that just seems a bit of an easy way to do things at this stage with the way the GSL is going and the current balance setup.

This is really, really wrong. At your level of play, there are no imbalances between races; only skill differences between players. Thus you should play whichever race you enjoy playing the most as as long as you have decent macro (not getting supply blocked, always making workers, always producing out of unit-producing structures) you will probably excel out of the bronze league in no-time, as any race.

**rezyn8** · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 12:58 PM

Thanks heaps Skybreaker and for the TL link too. That will definitely help with my game and also casting my replays and others. *thumbs up*

**SkyBreaker** · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 1:59 PM

No problem dude, and with my edit; I wasn't trying to be an ass... but that mentality is very detrimental to improving overall; as ofc attributing a loss to anything other than your own skill & ability is hindering to the learning and improving process. ^^;

**rezyn8** · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 2:24 PM

I only just saw your edit - no offense taken.

That comment in my blog was more a reflection on the recent GSL finals results (MC/san/anypro/etc) and that notables such as Artosis and Tasteless had changed races to Protoss in very recent times. It wasn't a 'imba' comment. And I am not one to QQ. I know my failures are my own, and being on the pulse with the meta-game is a part of this as well in order to counter build orders is another key point in improving.

I actually like playing Protoss and do so in team games. I am a Jinro/Mvp fan and have always found Terrans a more natural race to play with, so will stick with them for the time being.

With the beta and after release, I played a fair bit as Random. As a result, my favoured races were Terran, Protoss and Zerg in that order.

SiZeMaTTeRs · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 7:47 PM

Glad to see u are trying your best to got at 1v1, keep it up and u will surely reach your goal that u desire.

nard · Thu, 31st-Mar-2011, 10:46 PM

i love it that ur documenting ur ladder experience! but would love it more if it was in story form with some humour added in! and pictures! but nonetheless... bookmarked!

**rezyn8** · Fri, 1st-Apr-2011, 9:18 AM

Will see what I can work in nard.

As a side note - my macro last night was freaking woeful.

**SkyBreaker** · Fri, 1st-Apr-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by rezyn8

Will see what I can work in nard.

As a side note - my macro last night was freaking woeful.

Get your CCs and unit producing structures on like 3-4 separate hot-keys, tap through them (i.e. 4, 5, 6) and always make sure there's something building.

Even if you're in the middle of a battle, focus less on the battle and more on tapping through those hot-keys and making sure something is building, there should never be a time something isn't building.

More importantly keep an eye at the top-right supply, if you're coming close to supply build a supply depot - try to iron out getting supply capped and watch your macro boom!

**rezyn8** · Thu, 7th-Apr-2011, 2:20 PM

Laddering Time #3 - Snakes and Ladders is up

**rezyn8** · Thu, 14th-Apr-2011, 9:09 PM

Laddering Time #4 - Slow Week, Lose Rank is up - Fighting!

**rezyn8** · Thu, 28th-Apr-2011, 3:10 PM

Laddering Time #5 - Be Like the Pros

Let me know what you think!

deL · Thu, 28th-Apr-2011, 3:24 PM

I thought "this guy has no hope" but then I saw you were T. See you in master's league!

**rezyn8** · Thu, 28th-Apr-2011, 3:36 PM

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Originally Posted by deL

See you in master's league!

Haha, one day, maybe...

PraiseB · Fri, 6th-May-2011, 3:29 PM

Interesting read, I've been through allot of the stuff your describing in my laddering experience and I'm still stuck on Bronze on SEA. Made Silver on NA in about 70 games though.

**rezyn8** · Fri, 6th-May-2011, 4:13 PM

I haven't played on NA yet. Most discussions claim it is easier to get promoted because there are many more players to play against whereas the SEA servers have a small pool to draw from.

Hope to get promoted soon though...