Premier tournaments winrate in LOTV expansion

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You say that as someone who has never been to that mmr range when I’ve been as high as 6300. So let me tell you why since you missed it last post. Top of the ladder requires meta strategies, aka you do 3 builds in each matchup on repeat like a robot. Your opponents are also doing the same exact builds. So it’s boring. The game isn’t a strategy game at that level, it’s a mechanical game. Games are decided by how fast you click, not by any other factor which is, again, very boring. Winning at a 6k+ level requires tremendous effort, and you have to spend most of your free time waiting for the matchmaker to find a match and, when it does find a match, it’s always an opponent 1,000 mmr below you. When you only have 2 hours to play some games in a day, it sucks to have to waste half your time waiting for a match. Time is valuable. There are lots of negatives to being high level and basically no upsides.

5k by contrast takes literally zero effort. You find a match instantly. There is wiggle room in strategical choices and so you can do any strategy that you want. I’ve been in GM for a year now by making swarm hosts off 1 base vs terran. That’s fun. I’ve been doing 2 base hydra, mutalisk swarm host, swarm host infestor spine, loads of fun unit comps while the losers at the top of the ladder spam the strats they’ve been doing on repeat for years and years. There is literally no cognizable benefit to being over 5k mmr.

I think I’ve figured out where you are coming from, though. You’re an old man who has a lot of regrets & is playing the “what if” game where you say “had I done this differently, maybe my life could’ve turned out differently.” Let me tell you something. You can’t change the past so it’s not worth worrying about & it’s detrimental to worry what you can’t change. You need to be realistic and focus on here and now & what problems you have in the present. The past is a distraction. It takes your attention away from what is real and in front of you now. Even if you could go back and change things in your past, there is a 99% chance they wouldn’t turn out the way you think they would through your rose-colored glasses. You can’t change what you can’t change, it is what it is, the only thing you can change is how you react to it, and you’re reacting to it wrong.

You need to make a list of the problems presently in your life and sort them from easiest to fix to hardest to fix. If you can’t decide, you put them onto note cards & shuffle them together. You draw two. You have to decide which is easier of the two. Place it in the easier pile & the other in the harder pile. On a notepad, make a tally of how many times each item ends up in the easy pile & repeat this experiment, shuffling the deck each time, 5 or 10 times. The one that has the most tally marks is the easiest to solve. Now formulate a plan to solve it. Once it’s solved, revisit the list and focus on the next item. You can do this. Your past is a distraction from the now. Ignore it. You can’t change it. It is irrelevant.

If I performed this experiment, the lack of “6k” mmr wouldn’t make it into the top 100 problems of my life. It’s the definition of irrelevant. If you think faux rewards in a video game are important then you’ve got a screw loose, my man. They are the definition of irrelevant.

You aren’t the first person to experience these feelings, by the way. You can draw inspiration from others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuUmLMVUs3w

:musical_note: If i could turn back time I would return
Back to the place and memories I left to crash and burn
What felt right back then I could never see
The foolish ways of my mistakes would come back haunting me :musical_note:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIuZUCpm9hc

:musical_note: My shadow’s shedding skin
I’ve been picking scabs again
I’m down, digging through
My old muscles looking for a clue

I’ve been crawling on my belly
Clearing out what could’ve been
I’ve been wallowing in my own confused
And insecure delusions
For a piece to cross me over
Or a word to guide me in
I want to feel the changes coming down
I want to know what I’ve been hiding

In my shadow
My shadow
Change is coming through my shadow
My shadow
Shedding skin
I’ve been picking
My scabs again :musical_note:

Stop picking at your scabs. Let the wounds heal. Move on with your life. God speed.

EDIT: remembered another one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgikGBh6pbI

:musical_note: Foreclosure of a dream
Those visions never seen
Until all is lost, personal holocaust
Foreclosure of a dream

Barren land that once filled a need
Are worthless now, dead without a deed
Slipping away from an iron grip
Nature’s scales are forced to tip :musical_note:

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True. The biggest enjoyment old mate paul gets is by using all the corny jokes he hears on the daily. I think thats a thing you 2 share in common since batz only plays sc2 to troll people with type C personality disorders.

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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2199807636?t=4h8m20s

“Yo dawg we down three bases and only have 20 drones, are we losin’? Nah bro, we winning.”

:muscle:

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That is highly contradictory to league distribution. You said 5k is top 0.2 % of general population so don’t say it’s easy LMAO. Diamond is easy to get and maintain but not GM.
Imaging being in the top 0.2% of population and saying “it takes zero effort” - so literally remaining 99,8 % (including me) must be either super lazy or complete idiots. This is what i call “detachment from reality”. You have no clue what’s going on in lower leagues.
“5k TAKES ZERO EFFORT” - tell that to bronze/gold players.

I’m 42 y/o. Working full time as software developer. Master degree in computer science + postgraduate education. High salary. What should i regret ? That i didn’t get some stupid 5k MMR in SC2 that nobody gives f about ? Bro. Playing SC2 on ANYTHING lower than top 16 GM is a complete waste of time (unless you’re gold playing for fun). What do you get out of 5k ? Nothing, no reward, no gratification, no satisfaction. I told you - you will regret it in 10-20 years. You’ll be like “why did i waste my time playing this garbage ? Maybe i could have achieved something more than i did.” You’ll see. Mark my words.

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Dude when you have pro level skill, it takes literally zero effort to be gm. I don’t know why this concept is so difficult for someone who claims to have a masters in computer science.

Wait, you’re 42 years old and you’re just barely realizing that some people are more talented than other people at different things? Lol.

There’s no way you are 42 dude. You’ve got the emotional maturity of a 14 year old. You’ve spent hours of your life posting thousands of words to the internet specifically for the sole purpose of demeaning someone else’s accomplishments, and you’re doing this over video game accomplishments none the less. Who gives a crap other than a 14 year old, lmao. That’s the money question.

Well you should live your life in alignment with your own conscience. So your regrets are your own and frankly I don’t even care, lmao. I am not your therapist.

You’re absolutely wrong. Studies show SC2 increases your fluid intelligence & multitasking abilities. That’s crystal clear in the data. I play it because it’s a convenient time filler based on my current work schedule & because I have a very large monetary incentive to do so. I will be using my stream to market a new video game, for example, and it would net somewhere in the ballpark of 1,000 views every time. Video games of this nature net around 20 million in revenue generally speaking. People simply won’t watch your stream unless you are GM in skill level. So when I stream I am pulling in 5x to 10x the channel average for that time block. So yes there is a very large advantage to being good at SC2. It gives you the power to market products. Frankly it’s mind blowing that I have to explain this to someone who claims to have a masters degree. You clearly have no clue how life works. You clearly do not know the basics of how to bring a product to market. BeinG Gm Is a WaStE oF TimE lmao. Clueless. Totally clueless.

It’s really funny that people who stream sc2 think they want to “make it big” like Asmongold, or how how people in SC2 want to win a tournament like Serral. There are so many things you can do with those talents other than winning SC2 tournaments. These people just don’t have the premonition or percipience to realize what tools are at their disposal & how to utilize those to make real money. Nerds are always drooling over Asmongold’s ad revenue but frankly it’s a red herring. Asmongold’s power goes far and beyond his ability to sell ads. His endorsement can make or break billion dollar video games. He could launch businesses, and it can be any type, even one as simple as a cookie business. So his wife starts a cookie business and all he has to do is sit there with a box of her cookies every day and eat them and mention her website on ocassion. He could probably even step up into the political arena if he wanted to. Winning tournaments? Your thinking is small and narrow minded. The power of being good at video games in the modern era is enormous. Even for a small streamer, the power is tremendous. But you have to be good at video games. So when someone says being good at video games is a waste of time, it’s like, wake up and smell the roses for crying out loud.

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First you call me old man, now 14 years old. There’s scientific term for that - it’s called schizophrenia dude. Besides it is true what they say about you having split personality disorder - sometimes making covenant with terran players “Toss imba nerf”, other times making alliance with protoss players “terran imba nerf”

I can assure you i regret absolutely NOTHING. I have higher education. Good job. My expectations towards professional life are satisfied. My private life ? Well that’s another story. I have emotional problems due to improper upbringing - nothing i could do about it. You’re not going to understand so i would not elaborate.

Yes !
SOME people, not ALL. 0.2 % are not all. So your pathetic statement “takes zero effort to get GM” applies only to SOME people, not all.

If i am 14 years old, then you must be like 5. Reacting to any criticism literally like a little kid posting walls of text. Bragging like a little kid about how good you are at life. To be fair, i’m surprised you even have audacity speaking about things like maturity knowing your own behaviour on this forum.

Even if you have some intellectual skills at life, you severely lag in emotional and social aspect and that’s something you should work on.

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A) there are plenty of old men who never mentally matured past teenage years.
B) at most you have a slight inconsistency which most well socialized people would ignore in favor of continuing the conversation but you harp on it because, well, you’re not well socialized (clearly).
C) Schizotypal traits include abnormal reactions to stimuli, such as laughing when someone is hurt (most people would grimace or cover their mouth), or intense paranoia over things most people wouldn’t care about. So no, an inconsistency in logic is not schizotypal.

That’s definitely a lie, dude. Everyone has regrets because it’s built into the human mind to question their decisions. To say you have no regrets would be to say you are not human. So you are lying to me, and you’re lying to yourself. That’s called denial. The best way to find happiness is to live in harmony with your own mind. That means you have to be realistic about how you feel & what it is you want. If you are denying your feelings, then you can’t be realistic about them. If you can’t be realistic about your feelings, then you can’t take action to live in harmony with your mind. That’s why it’s important to be realistic with yourself about your wants and desires. Figure out what’s important to you and go for it. Is it money, or hot women? Maybe you want notoriety, or responsibility? Maybe you want freedom from responsibility, to relax and chill.

Wait wait wait, you just said you have no regrets. You even put it in all caps. The only reason I mention this inconsistency is to make the point that these things are a normal part of social interaction, and the way you react to them is going to make it very hard for you to socialize with other people. Nobody wants to be around someone who nitpicks every word to find contradictions. People would find that stressful. At the end of the day, these things don’t matter which is why it’s odd that you put so much emphasis on them, and other people will pick up on that too. The way they will interpret it is that you aren’t giving them the benefit of the doubt, which signals to their brain that you are their enemy. Initially they will be confused, but ultimately they will simply stop interacting with you.

Yes, it called a opinion. I am stating how the game is from my perspective. It takes literally zero effort to maintain GM ranking. I am sorry that makes you so mad but my opinion and perspective are valid & I am free to share them. You’re just going to have to come to terms with the idea that not everyone out there is going to cow-tail to your wants and desires.

I am giving you a therapy session that is clearly direly needed. You have some deep issues man. When I talk, I talk about possibilities, but you talk about limitations. I talk about aspirations, you talk about regrets. You say GM is a waste of time and anyone who does it should regret their decisions, I say being GM creates opportunities for marketing and meeting interesting people. So yes, you very much have the attitude of a child who is scared of the outside world and thinks a monster is hiding in the closet. You think not in terms of opportunities but in terms of adversity.

XD

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What exactly should i regret ? If i have very good job with good wages, and that job gives me satisfaction, what’s wrong with it ? By saying “i regret nothing” i meant decisions that i made in my life - studying computer science, avoid bad people, investing into education rather than partying, drinking etc. and that paid off. Surely if i could go back in time, probably i would avoid certain mistakes but in the end this mistakes did not impede my whole career, so what to regret ?

No regrets in my professional life, my private life is a mess because i had problems with my parents which i’m not gonna explain to you.

Again, why would i be mad at your silly 5k ? I am GLAD that i am nowhere near 5k. It would be the biggest waste of time. You will notice that waste of time when you grow older. Maybe it’s not that difficult to maintain 5k, but getting there surely is and 0.2% is the proof of that.

No it doesn’t. Only if you are top gm pro gamer or some relatively known personality such as caster or content creator -PiG, Winter, Nathanias etc. You have zero marketing and almost nobody knows who you are. If not this forum i wouldn’t even know you exist :smiley:

I say 5 -5.5 k is a waste of time. If i could reach 5k i would go for 6k and above. Otherwise what’s the point ? To show the badge to your granny ? “Oh look granny i’m 5k !” LOL

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I love how you make false assumptions without even knowing given person. Who gives you an authority to judge people ? You know nothing about me. We never met hence you can’t with all certainly estimate my mental state and personality so stop pretending you know me. Judging by your behaviour i could state with all certainty you are highly immature acting like a teenager bragging about your achievements, desperately seeking for attention on this forum, trying to bait people into believing you’re some sort of “guru of life” who knows everything about SC2, women, politics and what not but you’re sad little kid who did not get enough attention from his parents (much like me), otherwise you wouldn’t be acting like this.

And that is yet another small proof of that.

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That’s for you to decide. You gotta decide what’s important to you. So don’t ask me. This isn’t rocket science, man.

Kiddo, you care more about my rank than I care about my rank. You’ve spent dozens of posts attacking me for my rank. So no, you don’t get to pretend like you don’t care about it. You obviously do.

That’s absolutely false. You say you are a computer science graduate but then you are confused when I point out I bring in 5x to 10x the channel average for the time block, and you say nobody knows me. You can’t say you have a math related degree and then turn around and display shockingly poor comprehension of basic math. It’s beyond obvious you are lying, dude. You are displaying a high school level of math comprehension. In most systems, the mean and the variance are fairly proportional, so when you have a result that is several times larger than the mean, that strongly indicates it’s a statistical outlier. You don’t know for certain without knowing the variance, but it’s a strong indication. Then you say “nobody knows you, your twitch channel is bad” and it’s like what. This guy clearly doesn’t understand very basic statistics. FYI computer science is one of the most difficult majors. It’s up there with electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. There is no way you got a masters in CS while being unable to understand mean/variance. It’s impossible.

You can easily infer what someone’s motivations are by how they act and asking the question of “What motivations could make this person act this way?”. It’s not hard to do. Most people can do it. It’s the basis of being a social person. So when you act like people can’t read into your actions, that just tells me you don’t spend any time around people.

Understanding how your actions are perceived by others, and modifying your actions to gain an advantage, is the basis of politics. Politics are found everywhere from ordinary office interactions to nation vs nation interactions. So when you start saying things like “who are you to judge” and it’s like does this guy not know how life works. Of course people are going to judge you for your actions. Is this a surprise or something. So when you spend weeks attacking someone’s ranking in a video game, they’re going judge you. Of course they are. I am mind blown that this has to be explained. I am sitting here wondering why you care about my rank more than I care about my rank. Why are you obsessed with it. It’s bizarre, and because I find bizarre things intriguing, I am interested in figuring it out.

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Kid your very narrative indicates that you are literally using sophisticated language just to conceal your low intellectual level or arguments that you have no answer for.

Who is “tehbatz” ? Nobody, absolutely nobody, i swear that i learned about you on this forum, not on twitch, nor youtube or any other SC2 related website - exactly on this forum and people were already mocking you by calling you “batzy” , “narcistic”, “attention seeker” and so on. If anything you might be known for this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/3y4tnh/the_barcode_zerg_who_was_featured_in_neuros/

I couldn’t believe my own eyes this level of stupidity was possible among sapient creatures. I knew about your hacking accusations against Neuro, but i had no idea you wanted to … sue him ! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Literally this forum laughed their s off as well as everybody on that reddit article. You cemented your status as a complete loser incapable of accepting a loss and willing to improve by learning from your own mistakes. Even Neuro made you a favor by doing replay analysis and you still insisted he was hacking :man_facepalming:

Bro I DON’T WANT 5K MMR !!! Do you understand - once again i don’t want and i never wanted it. If i wanted to hit specific threshold just for my own satisfaction it would be no higher than 4.3k (M3) but i felt even this was pointless.

I never attacked anyone for their rank. I only said 5k is a waste of time and still say it, still support it. Yet you twisted my words in such manner that you want to portray me as a jealous loser, spitting at you just because i can’t get it. Again im happy where i am with my MMR. Stop drawing people in skewed perspective.

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Well, mystery solved. I legitimately think you are schizophrenic. Your ideas constantly flip flop and don’t have consistency between posts. Disorganized speech is one of the most obvious markers. Paranoia is another one. You think you can piece together which smurf accounts are which into a consistent persecution narrative when the reality is that there are literally tens of thousands of people who play this game and it’s impossible to track who is who. For all you know, Neuro could’ve had his friend do the barcode hacker accusation specifically to generate content. But no, no, trust me, I’ve found the barcode I’ve been searching for for all these years! No, I am not crazy! Lmao. You are living in another dimension my man. The whiplash I get from the lack of consistency in your posts is insane. Initially it was amusing but I think the conversation has run its course. We now know what your perspective is.

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Some ppl claimed the same, but think again - imagine you intentionally ask someone to accuse you of hacking only to make replay analysis for purpose of content or portraying yourself as a decent, knowledgeable guy. Wouldn’t that be more detrimental to your image as a player ? That someone accuses you of hacking, and now all of a sudden you have to make explanations, analysis etc. Then some idiots would be spreading rumors - “Isn’t Neuro the one who got caught hacking ? One guy accused him of that, i read somewhere on reddit”.

What about Psy and INcontrol ? Did they invite you to accuse them for hacking as well ?

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The point is that you can’t discern between the two scenarios with the information available, but you act like you can, and that speaks to your paranoia and inconsistent logic. Your logic is always “if someone beats me in a debate, I will blame literally everything on him, no matter how ridiculous” and this makes a good argument only in your mind. To a normal person’s mind, it’s literally insane because there are tens of thousands of players and you think you have seer like powers to peer through space time and figure out who this barcode was. I legitimately think you are schizophrenic.

Here is an article on schizophrenia & one of the common symptoms called “persecutory delusions”:

Someone with persecutory delusions might seem normal. But if their delusions are severe enough, they might become obsessed to the point that it disrupts their everyday life.

Sometimes, their false belief can be something improbable but not impossible. They may, for instance, suspect their neighbors of spying on them, or fear that the police want to torture them. Other times, their delusions are irrational, such as believing an evil spirit plans to abduct them.

Usually, the delusions spring from misinterpretations or exaggerations of real feelings and experiences. For example, they might perceive a stranger’s innocent glance as threatening

You are trying to track down a barcode player from 9 years ago. If that isn’t a persecutory delusion, then I don’t know what is. The big bad barcode on youtube is gonna get you, abs! Come on man, literally nobody except you even cares about what happened 9 years ago. You couldn’t find that barcode no matter how hard you tried. It’s time for you to let it go, to move on, and heal. Stop picking at your scabs and let the wounds heal.

A good way to decide if you should be upset over something is to assign monetary value to it. Ask yourself how much money you lost because this thing happened. If it’s less than the amount of money you spend casually on a day to day basis, then it’s irrelevant. A good number might be $20. If it’s less than $20, you don’t have to care about it, you don’t have to worry about it. It’s the same analysis that you can use to manage your finances. What is the minimum amount of money you can spend that doesn’t require you to have to think, at all, about whether it’s a good purchase, or do a risk reward analysis – it’s such a small amount that you can spend it without having to think about it at all. That number, whatever it is, is the minimum threshold for things you should care about. Anything that costs less than this number is irrelevant and should be forgotten immediately. It’s fantastic life advice that will help you to prioritize what’s important.

For example, “If I don’t change the brake pads on my car, I will have a $1,000 repair bill due to damage rotors, therefore, I care about changing my brake pads.” I am going to hold your hand here. “A barcode once accused my favorite streamer of being a hacker and I lost $0 because of it, therefore, I do not care about this barcode.” It’s very easy. You can do it!

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Perfectly sums up your personality - illusion of grandeur. You think you accomplished something but in reality you are poor little loser in your own basement oh wait - perhaps that’s not even schizophrenia, it’s simply inferiority complex.

LMAO. There is no need to track him down. It’s you as evidenced in that reddit article - people calling you “tehbatz”. One guy even made screenshot of discussion in the thread that you DELETED years ago to save face. Again Roboroadkill calls you “tehbatz”. Even you yourself critized Neuro’s attitude towards your hacking accusations. Do you have undeniable evidence it wasn’t you ?

804

Batz trying everything in the book to avoid being cancelled. R E A L I T Y check, champ, you can’t.

805

That’s not how real life works. Marketing through controversy is one of the best ways to promote yourself. But there is no point in explaining “R E A L I T Y” to the lunatics on these boards. They are legitimately deranged, and I give them 5 years max before their internet behavior bleeds over into real life and they land themselves in prison. They legitimately give off that vibe. If bnet had an IRL meetup, I’d have to wear a kevlar vest for fear of being shanked. But then again I’d never be dumb enough to ever show up to such a meetup, so it’s a moot hypothetical.

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The problem you have failed to account for is that being well known for being completely awful means that people will go out of their way to avoid you. There is in fact such a thing as bad press.

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The only person to feel that way is you and your alt accounts on these forums. You see, I participate on many websites and have positive experiences in each. Only here, on this website, are there 10 or 15 accounts who magically share the same bizarre opinion as you do.

My experience on other sites is so radical that other websites have paid me thousands of dollars to stick around & generate content for them. But not here. What is it about this place that makes it so unique. It’s not hard to figure it out.

808

TIL its bizarre to dislike a narcissistic compulsive liar who picks fights with people.

BWAHAHAHAAH

Oh my god, this was incredible. I cannot believe you actually thought this was a good idea to post this. This is the most embarrassingly transparent lie I have ever seen anyone try and pull.

Jesus Christ my dude, at least put some effort in.

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This is what I was talking about. He will make vague accusations but won’t ever back them up with proof. It’s the same thing he did on his Eliwan account just a few posts prior. It’s just too obvious, dude. You’ve been doing the same thing on repeat for years and thought nobody would notice. Reality check, I knew all along.