Everything I am posting here, I am posting onto my blog. It's still a work in progress though so I won't be posting the link until maybe tomorrow when I can work on it more.
Background:
Sup duders! My name is Nick Clement. My username/handle/tag is Covalent.234 on the NA region. I'm a newbie little Starcraft 2 player that has decided to start streaming some SC2 in hopes of improving. I found out about SC through streams (Destiny's in particular) and became hooked. This was back in early March 2011. I used my birthday money to buy myself a computer to actually run SC as I was primarily a console gamer at the time. After spending $600 for everything, I went back to college and just kind of didn't play any SC. For some reason I just couldn't bring myself to play on the ladder. I switched to playing LoL and didn't think too much about anything else.
After my school's semester ended, I kept thinking about playing but never brought myself to do it. I just watched streams more and more. The next time I started playing was July when I got more computer hardware (thanks to my new job). I still played maybe three games in all. Later that month, I started streaming for my first time after meeting some friends on TeamLiquid (<3). I learned the joy of streaming very quickly (and that you get more viewers when you are drunk). This motivated me to play a bit more but ultimately I kept watching streams.
I ended up going to MLG Raleigh with a friend of mine and felt inspired by one player (LiquidHerO) and decided I would do what it takes to get better and eventually compete in MLG (shooting for Columbus). For some reason, I was still afraid of laddering. I eventually lost my inspiration and didn't really play.
TILL NOW! Dun dun dun!
I had this great idea to just suck it up and play. I want to share my experience with all of you while using my day to day thoughts to see how I'm progressing as a player and psychologically. I'm hoping the more I play, I will conquer my ladder anxiety and eventually improve in skill level while meeting new friends to enjoy this game I love oh so much. Each day that I play, I will say my record, how I felt during my games (possibly just a general overview instead of per game), what I feel I'm lacking gameplay wise, what I'm having a hard time with, so on and so forth.
tl;dr
I have ladder anxiety that has caused the days I have played to be scattered over the past months. This blog will act as a motivator and a journal for my thoughts and gameplay.
My stream is http://www.twitch.tv/covalent. Be sure to follow me! I will be trying to stream at least 10 hours of week and possibly play more than that.
Day 1
Seeing as this is my first write up and I'm tired, I am just going to continue this tomorrow. I went 2-3 today. I can't figure out FFE building placement on some maps. Caused me to lose a game that I should've won. PvP seems to be my worst match up. I 3 Gate Robo every match because I really know nothing else but I don't have that down. I'm just going to keep playing games and not worry about build orders right now. I'm just having a harder time as Protoss than I had as Zerg (it seems). I just don't know the race too well. Is there a specific way to place my buildings (simcity)? I'll figure this out eventually.
Day 2
So today I went 9 - 4! Woo! I actually didn't know I did that well until I actually looked back at my match history! I felt like I was actually losing a lot but I guess not. :D I would like to thank Thule for helping me out via skype. He's a total nerd baller!
The first game I lost was to mass Zealots. I even scouted it but just wasn't sure what to do. He arrived at my base with four Zealots to my two at six minutes.
The second game I lost was against a Protoss that took two ninja expansions. I never knew about them and he was just massin up them Void Rays :\
The third game I lost was to a Protoss on 4 bases with mass Void Rays and a Mothership (along with a bunch of ground units). If I would've scouted better this game, I probably could've tried to push before he reached critical mass of Void Rays. I also did not know about one of his bases.
The last game I lost to a 1 1 Marine/Marauder push with combat shields and conc shell. It came at about 11 minutes. I'm not really sure how I would beat that at the time being. I think if I had a few sentries and tried to keep him off my ramp, I could've gotten units to hold him off but I was just low on units from the start.
Now none of this is in depth as to why I lost, just giving a general overview.
I was proud of myself one game though. I held off a Zealot rush :) I think I did more tonight to impress myself, but again, I'm tired while typing this up so I don't remember much of the games I played.
Day 3
Only played a few games today just cause I was doing stuff with the family. They were against a friend of mine whose Starcraft he just started playing (maybe 10-15 games played) lags his computer during any game beat me during every game I played. I'm completely demoralized. Maybe I'm just making dumb mistakes because I'm so tired? Idk... Goodnight
End of Week.
I've come to the conclusion that I just cannot play after work during the week. I'm too damn tired and force myself to stay awake already. Also, sorry for lack fo updates. I get off around 10 PM EST or so tomorrow night so I'll be playing after then!
Forcing myself to play today. I get off work at 4.
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