whats up?
My name is Niklas aka ShoCk. I am a several time high-master player on EU. I was quite close to Gm at one point but fell of a bit due to less time and passion(SH ).
I did quite a few guides that I released over here on TL in the past which you can check out by visiting my profile and looking for my posts.
However, making those guides takes a tremendous amount of time (video cutting,uploading etc.) as well as playing the game on a consistent level. Well, I used to have that time but time changes and with university, I got less and less time to spent on Starcraft and content production (if you want to be good at university that is, at least for me the case).
I came up with an inbetween-idea. I basically dont play a whole lot right now anyways at.(I played like 2 games in a week, i used to play like 10 at least a day) so I thought I might as well just record myself playing for about an hour every time that I ladder whilst providing insightful commentary.
Obviously, the question comes up why I would not stream this series etc. For those that have been following me, you probably already know that I moved out and do not have a internet connection that handles streaming even decently well.
To not cut out entirely from the scene, I thought this could be a way of still giving you guys some content and interacting with you whilst I maintain spending/focusing most of my time on university and other stuff besides that.
The idea is as following, I will record me playing an account (maybe even several, dependent on interest of this) to masters. Given that the MMR was reset 2 days ago, it seems like the perfect moment to start a series about this.
I will commentate my games, tell some stupid jokes and basically provide the same vibe that we used to experience whilst streaming.
I will release some special episodes where I will talk about the importance of practice, we will watch replays together as soon as there is something to talk about or mention and just in general i will provide you guys with as much updates and information of how to approach and play the game as possible for me whilst maintaining a relatively high level of play.
I will keep updating this post/thread whenever I am uploading content for this series so stay tuned!
With this, I dont want to hesitate any longer and post Episode one.
Episode 1 - placement matches:
This one is a bit boring as we are playing our placements for now and the system has to find a good match for us first. So it will take some more games until we get some more exciting, close games! Hope you still take something out of it or have some fun watching, next episode will come very soon!
glhf, commanders.
[b]Episode 2 - first hour in "platinum" (full of master players)!