The Return of From Bronze to Gold: A StarCraft 2 Quest

By GJSmitty July 30, 2011 16 Comments

 

Hello!  About a month ago, I started on a quest.  I, who was in the bronze league in StarCraft 2, wanted to eventually work my way up to the gold league, and document my journey in a series of blog posts.  I wrote my first blog, detailing the quest.  I played a bunch of games in the span of one week, it was going great.  I even had pictures ready for the next blog.  But then...I stopped playing StarCraft 2.  I had been on an eight game loosing streak, and I just wasn't feeling it anymore.  A month passed, every once in awhile I thought of maybe writing a new post, or playing at least one game.  But now I plan on getting back into StarCraft 2.  In fact, at the moment, it is minimized on my desktop.  I have not played the game in a long time, and I am about to jump into my placement match for season 3.  Wish me luck. 
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Annnd I'm back from the game.  This game was very short, and reminded me that a month away from StarCraft 2 is not a good thing.  I had a late start to my build, and was very bad about managing my minerals.  Overall I did terribly.  One of the worst matches I've played.  Everything that I did was bad. 

 But I won.
That's right.  I won the game.  I did terribly, but I managed to win.  I did an early rush with a couple of marines and marauders.  Eventually they were killed off, but by that time I had another round of them on the way.  He only had some marines, and eventually a hellion to protect his base.  If I hadn't rushed, I would have almost definitely lost.    He GG'd, and I excitedly quit to see what my rank was.  I mean, I had won my placement match, so it must be high!  
The page comes up, I read "Victory!" My eyes go to the right and... 
Rank 97 Bronze. 
I mean, I know he must have been terrible, but I couldn't help feeling disappointed about going from rank 40 to rank 97.  I have a long ways to go until gold league.  My short term goal is Silver league, but after that, I want to get into the gold league.  Well, that is all for now, I will be playing more over the next week, and writing something else up soon.   
Everyone who is also in bronze, remember: 
I believe in you 
Still
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Peace,  
Grant742

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