New times
As you might have noticed, my entire blog has changed! The design has been changed so that it does match the entire purpose of the blog: games and gaming!
I had some great help from the one and only Adam (go check out his blog!), and I have to say that I am really satisfied with the outcome!
As I mentioned in the previous post I’ll be a bit more serious with my gaming and will try to do my best to do the same with this blog! I’ll be updating more about my gaming and progress, and news from the gaming world that I find interesting and/or important to share!
The E3Expo is starting in 3 days, and I will do my best to follow it and share the updates from it!
But now it’s time to play some Starcraft II, so that will be it for now, Mike is over and out!
Time to get serious!
Alright peeps! It’s time for me to step up my gaming! So far I’ve only played at a casual level (well… I am in a LoL team that is trying to get semi serious, but not sure where that’s going right now), but I’ve always wanted to get more serious, and get good enough to at least compete in the smaller online tournaments and all that, and if my skills just simply ain’t enough, I could get the knowledge and know-how to be able to cast some matches or something like that!
The only game that I know of, and doesn’t require a whole team to compete is Starcraft II, so that’s what’s going to take a decent amount of my time for a while (don’t worry, I wont stop playing the other games that I currently play!).
If you don’t know the game and how tournaments and all that work, then here’s a short introduction:
What is Starcraft II?
Well, it is an RTS (real time strategy) game, where you build up a base and try to destroy the enemy base, simple as that! There are 3 races: Terran, Zerg and Protoss, and they each have their style, strengths and all that.
Ladder system:
In-game you start off with getting placed in a league… There are 7 leagues in total, Bronze is the lowest league and where you’ll find most of the noobs. Silver and Gold is somewhat the same as Bronze, just higher level and bit better skilled, and somewhat goes for Platinum, even though it’s a quite decent league to be in. Diamond is the one to aim for to start with… here you’ll find a lot of good and even pro gamers that haven’t quite made it to Masters League. Masters League is where the top 2% in each region are placed. And then we have the Grand Master League, and this is the top pro players! There can only be 200 players in Grand Master League, and it’s frigging hard to get into!
Obviously, I’d want to be in the Grand Master League, but to make it at least a bit realistic I wanna aim for Platinum, as it’s the top of the ‘noobs’!
Tournaments:
Now this is where it gets interesting! Every Starcraft players dream would be to get to compete at the big events such as GSL, BlizzCon and DreamHack (I’m sure there are plenty more big ones but let’s just leave it at this). There are of course smaller events around the world all the time, with smaller prize pool and “less” famous players. And last but not least there are the online tournaments… Weekly (and even some daily) tournaments where there is a prize pool of $100 or access to the bigger events.
The matches are played 1v1 with a best of 3/5/7, and most of the time it’s one player playing all the matches, even though you do see a few team tournaments, but they aren’t as popular.
That was a short introduction to the world of Starcraft II, and hopefully it’ll be something I can compete in! So in the next few posts there might be a bit too much Starcraft in it, just so that I can brag with my skills, and just let ya’ll know how it’s going!
If you’re a Stacraft II player, do feel free to add me @ eCtoPlasmA #737 (on the European server) and you could teach me a thing or two… or just kick my ass, which ever you prefer!
Oh and by the way… I do for some reason have a S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat product key laying around, so if you’re interested in getting it let me know! (I haven’t played the game yet, but the trailer doesn’t look….. well… yeah…. BUT HEY! it’s a free game right?!)
That’s it for now guys, Mike is over and out!
So much to do so little time!
Aaargh!! These last 2 months have been a pain in the ass! 2012 started rather weird, when I ended up in the hospital 30 min. before boarding the plane to Denmark, all because some stupid ass kidney stone decided to mess with me.. So I had to stay in bed for almost a week due to massive pain in my back, and lost the first week of school, great way to start the new year huh?
Thank god that was a one time experience, the next 2 months went rather smooth (compared to the first week), but school has been keeping me so god damn busy all the time.. I barely have time to do any proper gaming! I basicly quitted raiding on World of Warcraft due to my school keeping me busy (and that the game is becoming rather boring), so now it’s just games that doesn’t take up so much time: League of Legends, Pokémon (oh yes, never gets old), Starcraft II and Mass Effect 2!
Mhm.. there are so many games and so little time! Mass Effect 3 is being released in 10 days, and I haven’t completed ME2 yet! And Skyrim is uncompleted for me as well, and I’m getting my ass kicked in Starcraft II ladders by some noobs.. yeah.. and of course I’m still trying to complete Pokémon blue in under an hour, and not to mention that I want to return to my beloved guild in WoW and kick some dragon ass..! Man I wish the days had 30 hours instead of only 24!
And 2012 has barely started! Later this year Diablo 3 is going to be released (’bout frigging time!!), so will the new WoW expansion and not to mention Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm.. I wonder how the fuck I’ll manage all this!
But for now, I got 10 days to complete Mass Effect 2, and I’m going to try to do it! If not, then ME3 will have to wait (and we don’t like that, now do we?)
So there ain’t much to say, other than let the days with no sleep start! ❤
Update: Just finished the game, and omg omg what an EPIC game! ❤ if you haven’t tried it then do it! even if you don’t play any computer games, just do it, it’s worth it!
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