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How long did it take you to finally pick a race?

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 Alvas   United States. April 04 2011 01:43. Posts 307
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Poll: How long did it take you to pick a laddering race?

Less than 50 games (930)
 
55%

Still haven't chosen (267)
 
16%

I mostly go Random (135)
 
8%

more than 400 games (106)
 
6%

100-200 games (98)
 
6%

50-100 games (97)
 
6%

200-400 games (66)
 
4%

1699 total votes

Your vote: How long did it take you to pick a laddering race?

(Vote): Less than 50 games
(Vote): 50-100 games
(Vote): 100-200 games
(Vote): 200-400 games
(Vote): more than 400 games
(Vote): Still haven't chosen
(Vote): I mostly go Random




I know for a lot of players, you don't just play ONE race. I mean come on, there are always times when you watch replays or get flattened when you say to yourself "man oh man, I wanna play that race a bit" and then for a few games you play them and then its back to your main race.

But for this thread (and poll, cuz I love em) I want to know how long it took you to choose the race you were going to stick with to ladder primarily. For me, I am at about 250 games between both seasons and I still have trouble being certain. I probably have about 150 games as T, 100 as Z, and then only a few as Toss, but now I've got my eye on them so who knows? I feel like it takes a LONG time to learn your comfort zone, learn the mechanics, get a good strat down, get comfortable losing with that race, and know that you will want to really focus your energy into them. And for some, they can't and they roll random, and I would like to just say how jealous I am, because damn if that doesn't take skill!

So how long did it take you to pick? Are you still picking? What would you say was the largest deciding factor in the choosing process for you? Basically, whatever comes to mind about how you chose the race you mainly ladder with.
Every bullet counts...
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 Neino   Norway. April 04 2011 01:45. Posts 256
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I chose race before I bought the game, so..
 
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  Lennon   United Kingdom. April 04 2011 01:46. Posts 2274Profile # 
I played Terran since the beta for 2 months. Then I switched to Zerg for 7 months. Then I switched to Protoss for a month. Still haven't chosen...
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 TryThis   Canada. April 04 2011 01:46. Posts 1522
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I sat down in the beta, already having watched SC2 for some time when i got my key.
I played 2 games with each race against a computer, I like the Terran add on mechanic the best. So i started playing Terran. And well...still do. Dispite Terran being the race i didn't play at all in brood war.

So i guess, six games vs a computer.
Dwell
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 Twistacles   Canada. April 04 2011 01:47. Posts 1327
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Took me a long time too. Played toss throughout beta+most of release, switched to random and played random in team games. Bounced between Zerg and Terran and then finally settled on terran.
"If you don't give a shit which gum you buy, get stride" - Tyler
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 imjorman   United States. April 04 2011 01:48. Posts 580
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I picked Terran because that's what the campaign was. I wasn't very good back in June and didn't wanna learn new hotkeys, units, etc.
You may say I'm a dreamer, but I am not the only one. - John Lennon
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 Roeder   Denmark. April 04 2011 01:52. Posts 735
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Played protoss. Liked it. Stayed with it. Took me roughly 5-6 games in the beta to decide.
Starcraft is a mix between chess, poker and a Michael Bay movie.
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 GagnarTheUnruly   United States. April 04 2011 02:01. Posts 655
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Picked Toss in Beta. I'd like to go random but I'm so bad with the other races it's not really fun...
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 Joseph123   Bulgaria. April 04 2011 02:07. Posts 1120
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when i bought the game i thought lets just pick the easiest race and without playing any games i thought the easiest was protoss according to BW so i picked it
later i realized it was terran :S but it was too late
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 THAmarx   April 04 2011 02:07. Posts 39
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played all races...
but i am human so i choose the human race.... i aint no traitor
just fooling around. I liked terran the most because of the marine marauder army what gived me some nice quick games with alot of excitment.
I am not the macro or sim city type of player... i like the battles the most.

In the start i felt that zerg had to win it more one more bases and i didnt liked the toss gateway army. So i picked terran.
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 fire_brand   Canada. April 04 2011 02:15. Posts 999
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I'm upwards of 1000 games I think, though a lot of that is casual team games, and I've played random almost the entire time. I know my best race is Toss, but I'm leaning towards Zerg. I just find I'm dissapointed when I spawn anything but Zerg, That being said I do find the variety and surprise from playing random really enjoyable. I may just keep going random forever, who knows.
Random player, pixel enthusiast, crappy illustrator.
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 Nerski   United States. April 04 2011 02:16. Posts 980
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Was planning on using zerg from the onset of the game release, have stuck with my zerg buddies through thick and thin ever since.
Twitter: @GoForNerski /// Youtube: Youtube.com/nerskisc
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 HEROwithNOlegacy   United States. April 04 2011 02:17. Posts 850
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I chose my race when I saw zerg being played by IdrA in the HDH when I first got into starcraft II by watching youtube videos.
SlayerS Fighting!
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 Alver   United States. April 04 2011 02:17. Posts 177
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picked toss in sc1.

sc2 didint affect my race in any way.
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 Dezzeh   Netherlands. April 04 2011 02:18. Posts 45
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I really had no idea before I started playing. In beta I've played about 3-5 games with each race, then I decided I liked Zerg the most.
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 Pecul   Sweden. April 04 2011 02:18. Posts 105
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I picked Terran almost instantly *cough* Boxer *cough*
But I recently just switched to zerg, and wow... they have quite a different playstyle
 
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 ProtiK   United States. April 04 2011 02:18. Posts 42
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I picked protoss after playing random for 135 games (don't ask how I remember that number) in beta.
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 Wr3k   Canada. April 04 2011 02:20. Posts 2533
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My first ~1500 games from beta > a couple months after release were as zerg, then I switched to toss.
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 synapse   China. April 04 2011 02:20. Posts 6907
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3 games, one for each race.
Mmmm butterfly... delicious.
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 raf3776   United States. April 04 2011 02:20. Posts 1859
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I was bad at zerg in BW so i switched to zerg in this one. Than i played terran... then I went back to zerg got to platinum from gold. Went protoss got to diamond. Went back to zerg got masters. Went to protoss again got to 3.3k masters. Now im back to zerg >.> So if i could stick with a race id be happy. I usually say "whoever wins this game (in a tourny PvZ) Ill play that race.. and then never do it lol
WWJD (What Would Jaedong Do)
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