It Begins

Years. It has been years since I wanted to really played this game for more than just fun.

The first moment I really wanted to play this game and get good at it was when I was 9. It was after being triumph over the combine forces of the United Earth Directive, Terran Dominion and the Protoss that I felt like I mastered this game, and so to prove it I got on Battle Net to play against a real human in a battle of who was better at this game that I also have mastered. I got annihilated. I felt humiliated at being so easily defeated and so I got off of the computer all together to sort my thoughts on what happened. How could he be better than me when we were both a master at the game? It came to me that while I did beat the game, there may have been a lot more that I didn't mastered. That made me angry, how foolish I was to think that I have mastered all there was to the game by just beating the campaign. I decided on that moment that I will get better at the game, but before I do anything else, I must sleep til the next day for this day is long gone and the crickets have started chirping.

Then came the period of abstinence.

Little did I know was that the next day the computer(the only one in the house) was going to get sold to someone else, and while I was still able to keep the game, I had nothing to play it on. Four years passed before my family was able to afford a computer, and while I was able to play the game again, we didn't have Internet for me to play on Battle Net. Four more years passed before we got Internet(for those not keeping track, I'm 17 now), and I was finally able to play on Battle Net, but I lost the will that I had back then, and only played online in a real match every other month when I got an urge to do so, knowing that I am a cow walking right into the open arms of the butcher and his axe.

The turning point.

Another year passed by, but something happened. I learned that Starcraft 2 was in the works, and the tiniest scrape of the will I had back when I was a child that hid in the back of my mind whispered me, but I said no, I said to myself that years had passed since the release of that game, most of the players that wanted to become at least decent at the game had already done so. But it wouldn't stop whispering me, in fact it got stronger the longer I kept myself up to date about Starcraft 2.

Now after yet another year, this time filled with the voices of the will of wanting to become a decent Starcraft player, I have finally surrendered to the will of wanting to become one and in doing so I can also become a decent Starcraft 2 player before the game comes out.

My training in Starcraft has begin, and this blog will be my record of it from now to the end. I hope any of you who are reading this and have experience with the game offer me advice as I study my lessons and tackle my problems down one after another. Maybe after my training, or even during it, that this could be used to help others learn the game as well.