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Finally Platinum! *Mission Accomplished Banner*

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 jeeeeohn   United States. April 17 2012 10:19. Posts 859
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For those familiar with my blog, you may have read this:Self-Punishment; Should I Stop Playing?

That was written in December. You may also know that my primary goal in SC2 multiplayer was to reach the platinum league. Everything else is gravy. Platinum (as said by Day[9] in one of his dailies) is basically the plateau where you're, "actually pretty competent in playing this game."

Being "pretty competent" in SC is like being gosu at chess, so I'm happy. 257 league wins is also a comparatively small mass of games. I've seen people with 1k wins still stuck in silver league, after all. Like Gheed said in his latest blog, it's about having a fucking clue what to do.

What surprised me most is that I placed into Plat after beating four Toss in a row. Those of you familiar with me know that I hate Toss more than Stalin.

Just so you know it's not a fluke, I also placed into Plat on my smurf account (as Random...which is weird, but I'll take it).

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So technically it's 257 + 51 = 308 games.

ANYWAY, mission accomplished! Don't flame me please. When it comes to video games I set my own goals. Plat promotion came as a surprise since I basically came in playing cold after a 5 month break.

#can'twaitforHoTSsingleplayer

^Notice dat Brutal portrait 0:




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"Never forget the Cheer Cannon." (MLG Orlando, 2011) IdrA / HuK / INcontroL, On November 17 2011 07:41 iNcontroL wrote:[i]The pleasure was all mine[/i] / BoxeR / Ret / Stephano ("Napoleon") / Machine / Artosis: I am not a doctor. (Dreamhack Winter 2011)
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 DieterEilts   Germany. April 17 2012 10:27. Posts 238
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congratulations! got platinum myself last season. feels good. i wish you good luck to improve further
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 dAPhREAk   Nauru. April 17 2012 10:53. Posts 8698
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cool. finally an accomplishment blog instead of a "im going to play 50 games, skip dinner, watch GSL, and get into gold league" blog.

btw, i know your smurf account now!! muahahahah
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 kerpal   United Kingdom. April 17 2012 10:58. Posts 1544
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well done! i'm pushing to get back to diamond personally, so i know what it's like. Hope your improvement continues and you push up to the top of your division and start on the diamond guys.
stael on ICCUP, come play.
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 Salivanth   Australia. April 17 2012 11:26. Posts 823
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Wow, Day9 said that? I suddenly feel awesome, as I am also in Platinum league. Congrats!
<@Wikt> so you are one of those nega-fans <@Wikt> that hates the company that makes a game and everything they stand for <@Wikt> but still plays the game <@Wikt> (like roughly 30% of blizzard's player base, maybe much more...)
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 jeeeeohn   United States. April 17 2012 11:33. Posts 859
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Thanks guys! I probably won't push for Diamond since Plat was my goal and I'm pretty happy with that. I'll still play though but now I won't stress out over promotions :D

Just had this awesome ZvT. He tried to proxy barracks but I stopped it for the most part. We macroed up and in my classic fashion I a-moved a 200/200 army into about 20 siege cannons, 2 planetaries, and a 100 marines...twice. Yes, 2 armies. I was ahead by that much and I literally threw it away.

God damn that was fun.
"Never forget the Cheer Cannon." (MLG Orlando, 2011) IdrA / HuK / INcontroL, On November 17 2011 07:41 iNcontroL wrote:[i]The pleasure was all mine[/i] / BoxeR / Ret / Stephano ("Napoleon") / Machine / Artosis: I am not a doctor. (Dreamhack Winter 2011)
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 yukit   United States. April 17 2012 12:06. Posts 6
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Congratulations! It's always nice to reach goals.

I qualified into platinum myself this season. Eesh, platinum is competent? Personally, I don't care about the league, I just know certain things I would like to improve regardless. I hope to reach my goals this season. I slacked off last season and did squat halfway through.
Where are my pants?
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 Vod.kaholic   United States. April 17 2012 13:47. Posts 701
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Hm, that Day9 quote doesn't seem too far off. In Plat you generally have a better idea of HOW to do things and more importantly you start understanding what things to do and why.
._. \: |: /: .-. :\ :| :/ ._. They see me rolling...
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 Gryffes   United Kingdom. April 17 2012 13:50. Posts 701
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www.youtube.com/gryffes - Random Gaming Videos.
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 CreatorGX   United States. April 17 2012 13:52. Posts 97
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Congrats!

I'll get the confetti.
http://creatorgx.blogspot.com/
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 zhurai   United States. April 17 2012 14:33. Posts 5559
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That was written in December. You may also know that my primary goal in SC2 multiplayer was to reach the platinum league. Everything else is gravy. Platinum (as said by Day[9] in one of his dailies) is basically the plateau where you're, "actually pretty competent in playing this game."

Really? He said that?
O_o

Cause I've been plat since like season 2 or 3, so I've been saying I'm forever plat .....
;;

(Edit: then again I haven't been practicing much for most of the inbetween seasons as I had school and dealing with being a team manager and all, but w/e)

O_o

well, congrats to you!
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 jeeeeohn   United States. April 18 2012 08:59. Posts 859
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On April 17 2012 14:33 zhurai wrote:

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Really? He said that?
O_o

Cause I've been plat since like season 2 or 3, so I've been saying I'm forever plat .....
;;

(Edit: then again I haven't been practicing much for most of the inbetween seasons as I had school and dealing with being a team manager and all, but w/e)

O_o

well, congrats to you!


Yeah, Day[9] said that during one of his Funday Mondays.

Thanks dude!
"Never forget the Cheer Cannon." (MLG Orlando, 2011) IdrA / HuK / INcontroL, On November 17 2011 07:41 iNcontroL wrote:[i]The pleasure was all mine[/i] / BoxeR / Ret / Stephano ("Napoleon") / Machine / Artosis: I am not a doctor. (Dreamhack Winter 2011)
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