Where is the magic?

Despite the fact that I am way too old to believe in Santa Claus I still wish that he existed sometimes or at least that I could enjoy Christmas as I used to as a little boy. Eventhough nothing really changed in terms of the timings (my family comes to our house and we eat etc) it just doesn't feel really special anymore and I am not quite sure whether that's just normal when becoming older or if it's my fault by playing so much Starcraft. Time is literally flying by whilest playing Starcraft and the fact that I actually try to improve sometimes backfires in real life because I deny booze or other kinds of  fun things in order to be capable of playing serious Starcraft later that day. Sometimes I am a bit worried that I might over do this Starcraft thing but on the other hand I just love this game and the idea of becoming a professional that I can't stop now, not unless I know that there is a wall that I can't pass no matter what I do but let's see what is going to happen in 2013.
Okay, let's get all of this apocalyptical writing out of the way and let's take a look at what I got out of Christmas, 'cause the last remaining magical thing about that day for me is getting PRESENTS (yaaay). Steelseries still did not message me about my repaired keyboard and I couldn't wait any longer so I bought myself a Filco Majestouch 2 Ninja Tenkeyless with Cherry MX Reds (click) and I enjoy the fuck out of that keyboard. Next to that I got a bunch of clothes and money but that's not as exciting as my Filco is.
In the end I just hope your Chirstmas was a bit merrier (not like mine was crap, I still enjoyed it but it was just like any other day *sad smiley*) than mine was. I think the actual Chirstmasmagic will be renewed when I can give presents to my children, so I'll wait up until then.
(wow that sounded really sad)
P.S: Santa Myu brought you some replays, just click the "Hot Replay" button and enjoy

A quick christmas write up...

on what happened to me in most recent times. 
Ever since my last real post about how much I dislike the current metagame of Zerg I ran out of ideas on what to write on so I simply didn't and now I feel like I have to inform you guys about my recent activities because I have - by no means - letting the lazyness get the better of me. I've been playing alot in order to reach a new peak in my play and with joining my3D my motivation got renewed. My teammates are nice, the leaders ambitious and the atmosphere is great. It's the perfect envirorment for improvement and I am doing that majorly at the moment. I feel like I am playing better than ever before. I have a huge viarity in my builds by practicing an unreal amount with my Z and T mates, my mechanics are getting on a good level again and in addition to that the holidays are right around the corner, giving me the opportunity to do a massive amount of laddergames.

The next big thing that happened to me besides me joining awesome my3D is my Steelseries 6GV2 with Cherry MX Blacks giving up on me. I don't know why and how it happened but some keys just stopped working. I was playing Dota, then I switched over to Starcraft and the number "2", which I used as a hotkey in Dota, suddenly gave up on me and no matter what I'd do I couldn't figure out how to fix it. I also plugged the board into my Laptop with and without PS2, still, no response. That lead me into sending it back to the Steelseries warehouse in Denmark and researching about a possible replacements. I came up with a bunch of keyboards including the Filco Majestouch2, a Leopold Tenkeyless Keyboard or the Zowie Celeritas. All of them equipped with either Cherry MX Red or Brown switches and as soon as I get confirmation about me getting a new 6GV2 or not I'll get myself a christmas keyboard.

In case of me not getting my 6GV2 returned I'll also make a post about creating Cherry MX Ghettored switches because they'll send back the keyboard as it is, if the mistakes was done by me, leaving me with linear topheads and the springs of the MX Browns which are basicaly MX Red springs but we will see what Steelseries decides to do.

Next up, a short update about my life. I am approaching my 18th birthday and I will ultimately turn 18 at the 01/06/13 and the end of school is enivitable leaving me with the big question of WHAT TO DO?
The answer for what to do has not been found up until now but I will probably write about it when I feel like I've found THE THING to do.
In the end I'd like to thank you for sticking around for over a year now and following my progress from a low platinum player to a developed Starcraft player and person aswell.
That's it for the little update. Check out my replays and I'll keep you up to date in terms of what I am doing after school. Maybe I'll continue Starcraft for a while, perhaps even fulltime if I reach a certain level up until then and wether I enjoy HoTs or not.
~Myu

Yet another team?

I don't know if anyone is still left over (due to the huge amount of time since I posted) but for those who still stick around and take a look once in a while, I am going to join 3D-Gaming (which would make me MYƎDǂMyu).
It's an eSport clan founded in 2002 and it's ceo is german. The main part of the team though, is a mixture out of random europeans. It's strenght lies in their CS-Team therefore equiping them with some jammy sponsors and sick teamshirts.
I am really happy to be granted this opportunity. Check their site out aswell.
3D-Gaming.org

It's been a long time

(Lloret de Mar - Spain)

ever since my last "real" post but I am currently sitting in school - finished all my work - and though to myself "might aswell".
It's not like I am not enjoying the writing anymore I just haven't had the time, skill or ingame knowledge to do things ever since I came back from Spain.

I already posted once after my arrival but it wasn't that insightfull of a post so I just recently cleaned alot of old stuff from this blog and I wanted to redo the post.

First of all the vacation in Spain was pretty great. Being away from home with friends only, partying is really fun (we went to hungary the previous year - also really great) and I can only advice you to do similar things
if you are having the money and the friends needed. 

The only negative thing I took from the trip to Spain was a really bad flue, combined with the backlash from a seven day marathon in terms of drinking baverage and smoking perfectly legal things (...) that knocked me out for about one week letting me and up with only one and a half weeks left of vacation and a three and a half week break of not playing Starcraft II.

(Matchhistory after I started playing [+40 for 1.3k master])

My motivation was almost not existing to crawl back into getting decent at the game. I started playing though and I was beating 1.1k - 1.2k Masters rather easily giving me a little bit of motivation.

After I started to enjoy my play more and more I had surgery in my mouth. They basically cut out some wires that destroyed my gum or something. (Sorry about my lack of knowledge)
What I know for certain is that it isn't cool to play SCII with a swollen mouth and while I am using painkillers. Further on the sudden start of school (after 6 weeks of lazyness) and the need to wake up at 6 am (6 f*cking am - freaking germany) made me feel tierd through out my freetime. (It's not that great to play while being almost asleep for half the game.)

Just because I was not capable of playing alot I manly focused on the non mechanical part of the game. While I was watching replays I focused my attention on the different mindsets (mentalities) of each and every matchup. I also "updated" alot of openers, in order to make them viable in the current state of the game. Alot changed in ZvZ and especially in the ZvT matchup. 

Not playing made me also realize that I promised youtube.com tutorials for Zerg. I came up with alot of videoconcepts and an entire concept for the "series" in which I am going to explain the Zergrace from scratch including the capabilities you are going to need in order to get decent at Zerg. I am going to go through all the matchups and share the new information I gathered while watching replays of  Western Wolves SortOf, Gamersleagues Snute, TeamLiquids Ret, Fnatics very own Moon and alot more.
I already started recording a little bit of footage but I am not quite satisfied. I don't want to put up senseless stuff.
The main problem I engaged is my bad internet connection which is basically forcing me to spend a whole day on uploading for a 10 minute video. That's why I want to finish at least 5 episodes before uploading them (it would be really annoying to turn up to my friends house every day for a new episode) .
I want to bring them to my friends house and upload them with a 16k internet. That would make things alot easier and also quicker.
They are probably going to take a while before being ready to upload but they are currently in the making!

In the end I want to focus YOUR attention on a new playlist I found. It's the one WWSortOf is laddering with and it's a house - trance type music. It's a whole bunch of good tracks and if you are having spotify this link will guide you to the playlist: (Click!)

Thanks for your reading <3 - Myu

(BTW: I switched my Twitter to myusenTT instead of maaaaaxenTT :) - just saying)

Hi I am still alive I was just

...pretending to ski in Italy!

I hope you guys did not lose interest in me 'cause neither did I. Eventhough I have to recover from this exhausting ski trip and I have to redo all the stuff my classmates did in school while I was skiing a new opportunity opened up!
As I stepped outside of the bus - that brought us home from italy - and my computer got turned on I realised that all my old clanmates had a different tag infront of their names. My first thought was "well.. my old clan had disband.. that kinda sucks.."
I tried to get someone to talk to since I wanted to find out what the meaning of "DT" was. Finally I recieved an answer from our (ex) intern caster Dystopia. He wrote (translated from german into engl.) "Well DT means TeamDieTrying all of our players joined over to the new clan!".
- Well what are the chances of me gettig into that team since I am low master and I am not in good  shape since I was on vacation? 
At that time I was getting kinda disappointed and I desperately tried to find my old leader to talk to.
After a short nap (since I was kinda tierd after that long trip from italy to germany) I cought my old leader and he told me the whole story!

Team Proxy emerged with Team DieTrying in terms of we (Proxy) have the players and them (DT) having the organisation behind it.
What does that mean? I - as a Player in their MAIN SQUAD (here is the news) am just playing while my new 'leaders' and 'orgas' are providing us with ClanWars, a shop w/ clanshirts, a beautiful homepage, a teamspeak and an IRC-Server and much more!

For me that means NEW MOTIVATION AWWWWW YEAAAAHHHHWWWWW....

Yeah I arrived savely at the end of the piste!

I am not for no reason in that clan and I have to prove myself since my form is not that great at the moment. Without the help of my former leader I would not be able to get that chance so now I have to return the favor!

And before I forget I want to provide you with a beatiful picture of our trip!



I hope you still enjoy my writings and I hope you stay tuned for more since I will be posting more.


I want to thank you for this awesome opportunity TeamDieTrying.de and I hope I have a deserved spot!

That's it yours DieTrying.Myu!

Back from Berlin

Don't think any further comment is needed to describe the awesomenes of the event!

Community of Starcraft....

Hello my fellow readers!
In this post I'll encourage you (and me!) to ladder more and skip the common ladder anxiety. 
First of all let's face the reasonings of the fear to press the button that says "Find Match".
It's really easy! The most obvious reason is the fear to expose your skill to the whole world and make you vulnerable to flames and people that accuse you for beeing a bad player. That's the more easy fear to overcome since you can simply ignore people that are flaming you and keep in mind: "One does not simply get Pro at Starcraft II!" (just to keep the styles of meme). People that are better than you are either Smurfs or people who spend at least as much time as you spend into the game. Let's face it: If you want to become anywhere near good (I wouldn't consider me to be good by any means) you have to spend alot of time into Starcraft II. The game is based on making decisions and showing tactical refinement but beeing able to make the perfect decisions and in the same time not having the capability of following it up with the proper mechanics won't win you the game! (even if you have an IQ of over 9000 if you can't keep up with injects - or other mechanical tools - you wont be able to win).
Let's do an example: Your immense IQ allows you to have the perfect thought out composition (let's just say mass mutalisk 'cause it requires a huge amount of cleverness to figure out mutalisk are good!) but you are only able to build 4 of them 'cause your injects were slipping he'll still lose!

You might think to yourself: "Well sir, that actually makes sense..." but at the same time the next big reason appears! "...but what do I do if I lose?" 

Yep, that's my Matchhistory from 2 Days ago and yeah it hurts and noone can help me (you) with the problem of losing games. It's the most horrible feeling in Starcraft II especially if you are in Mastersleague and you failure is shown to the whole wide world  (exposed win loss).
Some of my friends tend to say "Wow that race is so OP and it just makes no sense to play this game anymore!" (well that actually perfectly reflects my feelings after losing to another stupid Protoss allin) but in order of beeig able to become better at the game you have to lose. By losing I don't mean if you quit all games you'll instantly climb up the ladder, no you have to lose and you have to find a reasoning for your loss and totally F*CK THAT MOTHERF*CKING PROTOSS UP next time you see him doing that dumb allin again (pretty much every Protoss on the ladder). A loss is more telling than a win. If you loss (for example I just lost to a horrible allin) you can figure out why you lost. For example you overdroned (I didn't) or you did not build overlords - you were supplystucked - (Yep I was still Protoss is op) or you simply engaged in a bad angle (I did too but that's just because forcefields are too damn strong) or you simply didn't see it coming (how am I not supposed to see an allin coming every scrub Protoss on the god damn ladder allins the f*ck out of zerg since they think their race is weaker than the other two... WHICH IS BULLSH*T).
You always have to find those mistakes and admit them... atleast to yourself.
Another really important saying to gather from this post "I don't always admit mistakes... but when I do I only admit them to myself and say Protoss is op to everyone around me"(wow I just made it up myself! and it's still like a memetext).
There is no easier way to improve than for looking for mistakes. (Oftentimes it's really easy to send the replay to a friend and he tells you the mistakes more objectively.)
And hey... lucky us we have blizzard providing the perfect laddersystem so we are able to get a 50% winrate ALWAYS! So after a huge streak of losing you'll probably be able to win a bunch of games in a row 'cause that's just how the laddersystem works.

Dealing with rage!
Well what am I supposed to say. If you have problems in terms of rage I am probably not the right person to question here... And I am going to apologize to everyone I lost to (99% Protoss) and wrote things such as "I hope you die a painfull bloody death so I can eat you worthless protoss body..."[exaggeration] or something along those lines to. Still if you played a stupid allin you probably deserved it!
Back to the topic.. dealing with rage is really hard. It's not only the provoking enemy that tries to lure you out of your chilled pose it's pretty much always a scumbag Protoss how makes me rage and oftentimes it's not even their fault (read prior paragraph) it's just that I hate myself so much at that moment that I just have to... pretty much insult you, your mom etc. and destroy something in my room.. for example I threw a bottle against the wall.. the outcome of it was a really bad hole right beneth my bad.. I am not proud of my rage and it is probably the biggest flaw I have in terms of Starcraft II atm... 
As far as that goes thank you for reading once again I hope you enjoyed this rather long post...!

Winter Holidays

Not going to post anything till I am satisfied with my opponents and SC skill / until I am in masters!
But until that I want to satisfy you by posting the beautiful sight I call my home. Cya 

Since this blog is not only

about starcraft to thought I'd let you know!
 It's a beautifull day and my cards for the skrillex concert on the 24. fabuary 2012 in Berlin arrived (Germany) and since I am german and I am still in school it's perfect that he presents his show on a friday evening!
For the once of you that dont know Skrillex (lol either you are retarded or you have no taste of music!, just kidding but seriously.. i guess you are retarded) he is a musician and he is one of the best dubstep producers in the whole wide world. Another big advantage of him is the fact that he was able to produce Dubstep so good that even people that aren't nerds (Dubstep is considered to be the music of nerds due to the massive use of computer related sounds that are contained in dubstep and the massive use of dubstep in PC gaming related videos [such as ESL-TV Teasers or Call of Duty montages]. I have to admit it's quite true I enjoy dubstep really much and some of my friends who are not familiar to onlinegaming / don't nerd as much as I do would rather listen to music of pitbull and such [mainstream shit - mostly -]) can enjoy his music.
Here is one of my favourite tunes of skrillex. He has a wide spread on his style of dubstep. He is able to produce rather SLOW (click) dubstep which can sound awesome and at the same time he is able to produce really CRANK SHIT (click). He is the one artist that really started to spread the dubstep music. Skrillex is the first artist you'll find if you search for dubstep in google or on youtube. Some might consider him ''Mainstream'' and, just think about it. A Dubstepproduces is considererd to be 'Mainstream' it's sick.
His taste of music is so awesome that either his tunes get various amounts of remixes or he remixes a various amount of tunes and they all sound really sick. Almost every tune he makes has an unbelievable amount of clicks on youtube and its highly appriciated by everyone (The song that has 57,000,000 views CLICK).
But it's not only his music that makes skrillex so sick. He is a really authentical. He started his career as a musician with the age of 18 (prolly earlier but I first heared of him when he was 18) and he hasnt changed his style of music ever since eventhough he could have earned way more money with another style of music but he stuck to his guns and made dubstep really big. You can still hear the difference between a regular dubstep producer (no offense I like alot of them lol) and his dubstep - it's special in some way.
Another real cool point to know about skrillex he simply used very basic tools to create his awesome music. Just recently he tweeted about finally switching over to real musician gear. 
I hope you enjoyed the small Text I wrote about Skrillex. I guess that the majority of you did already know him but I just wanted to put that out there.
Skrillex = Awesome!

Stretchin' it ouhhh yaaa!

Hello beautiful people....
It's seems like I'm kinda actively writing again, wuhu! Okay so last time I posted I wrote about, what to do when you either don't have the time, the motivation or the game to play Starcraft. 
This time I'll cover the pre-game things.
It is stretching. In my opinion it is very important to stretch your fingers before playing Starcraft (or any other games that require APM). You'll probaly ask yourself:
"Why should I do it? It's kinda useless. I didn't do it and I can perfom well non the less." I am fine with that, I just try to get out some advices to you. It's not important to me if you use them or not. In the first place they are for me 'cause, as you may or may not know, my hands and my left arm are pretty f***ed up.
My fingers need to be stretched and my arm needs a bandage otherwise my fingers hurt after "spamming" my avg. 200 APM per game. I'll start off with some basic stretching.
On the left side you can see this first very simple task.
It stretches the area right beneth your thump. At first you have to stretch your arm to the maximal extend. Secondly you take your left or right (or both) hands and form a fist. You take your thumb and stick it right into your fist-formed fingers like you can see in the 3rd picture.
The final task is it to bend your fist downwards. It's important to not do it overly fast. You should take it a little bit slower just to not get hurt.

The pictureseries on the right shows an even easier stretching-task. You just need your hand formed (again) as a fist. as you can see in the first picture. The only thing you have to do is pulling your fingers so you form a normal hand again. I actually have a hard time to explain it but just try it and do it SLOW, thats the trick, doing it SLOW!
Anyways, I am done for today :P

Chip Chup

Hello Ladys and Gens..

Basti "HomerJ" casting at his old place

As you may or may not know already, I first "published" this Blog on the HomerJ Forum. It's a german Starcraft 2 Community Forum which is organised by HomerJ (a german caster) and his Staff. However I am still a student and as a german student I have to do two weeks of "practice working" and I once wrote (in the beginng of my blog) "I can't imagine my future without E-Sport". So I figured to apply to this particular caster (HomerJ). The only deficit is that his headquaters are two hours away from my hometown. So if he's going to accept me I would have to life in a hotel for these two weeks. I hope to get that "job" anyways :) I am very excited.

My Blogentry is not finished yet, though. I still want to throw out some sick taste of music aswell as the announcement of me playing tourneys hoping to play vs a Starcraft celebrities. I signed in for the TakeTV online Homestorycup qualifier aswell as several Playhem Tourneys and the next GO4SC2! I hope I do somekind of achievment in one of them ;)
I promised a sick song right? Here you go folks.
2nd Song right here

~Going to write my CV etc now. ! cya guys

Hey guy, I wanted to give you a quick update

about how much i fucking suck. Well that's all. My mindset is kinda screwed, I am still stuck in woodleague and yeah... nuthin more to be told lol!
PLUS Lol I am finally gettin a second account with new MMR which is not screwed over just like my account is right now x3 So MB blizzard is going to give me somekinda... aeh...i dunno..

Using that school usefully!

Todays day was boring as f*ck....

It was really really boring.

and since I was not able to play during the past days, 'cause I had to play some CoD aswell as going out with friends, I started feeling dragged to SCII again. So I wrote down some theorycrafting of an early third against Terran and the perfectionation of the Muta Ling against Toss. Just wanted to post those pictures of my work here!
Furthermore I wanted to post some Videos of MW3 here so you can see what I am doing right now. I'll be playing SCII as soon as possible!



Collat Wallbang
5 Men

Just wanted to give a quick...

Update on what I'm doing!

After watching the astonishing performance of EG.IdrA at the Asus ROG-tournament and after drinking a whole bunch of energydrinks I went on Laddering and I did pretty decent. Not as good as I wanted it to go but decent. (I'm pretty damn hard to myself) I ended up winning 15 out of 24 games, I think that's fine. Anyways I started working out again which is helping me 'cause I feel good and I'm able to ladder more =D.
I don't know what happened actually I just stood up and laddered, it felt right, somehow. Trying to make that again! ;)




Update: Got my exam back today x3 So I am doing good in school, too! That's sick!
I hope you still enjoy my quick updates I certainly have nothing else to update on so I just post a bunch of IRL pics.
Hopefully I'll get promoted soon.
~~HF Gg ;))

The very beginning..

 Oh hai there, 

didn't see you comin. But hi and thank you for taking some time of your precious life.
First of all: What is this shit about? I heared about people who enjoy reading blogs and I have some really really big future plans to share with you

but before I am going to start I'll give you some basic informations.
I am an average 16 year old guy from germany with a really small fetish for korean lifestyle. That's probably the reason why I enjoy E-Sports so damn much. I'm not nearly as good and I don't (sadly) play nearly as much as I'd like too. The school is actually kinda holding me back at the moment. Visiting the 11th class is pretty "lifedraining". 

I'm addicted to videogames for really fucking long and since I realised that you can earn money in E-Sport my relation to competetive gaming has changed a whole lot. I used to play World of Warcraft. It's a MMORPG (Massive Multiplayer Online Roleplay Game) - btw I am writing it out because I want to make my blog readable for everyone who is interested in the gaming scene just as much as I am but whos pretty much new - and i was addicted as F*CK! Me and my friends played it really really often, probably too often... but we had a really nice time and noone of us was ashamed to say "...I play World of Warcraft." our social community was always very tollerant with us playing WoW (shortening for World of Warcraft). But please do not imagine us as fat, dumb, pimply social retards 'cause we weren't. So I was in the onlinegaming scene for very long. I started WoW with the age of 13 and still managed it to get good marks in the "Gymnasium". And eventhough I was only 13 years old and had the voice of a little girl and the mind of a little kid (I'd write into the guildchat: "LOL I ONLY WANT GEAR FARMING AND THEN I'LL LEAVE BECAUSE I WANT TO HANG WITH MY FRIENDS") I managed to get in a major guild with the age of 14. WoW teached me to be mature, selfconfident and responsible. I was the Classleader [Mage] of a 25 men Raidguild which managed to get a couple of server firsts. It was hard especially when my "diciples" found out about my age =D. This confidence of finally speaking in Teamspeak - giving directions to ppl. who are averagely 10 years older - made me progress in school and especially in my RL. BTW I actually managed to find my old interface:3
After Playing WoW for about 3 years (we stoped because of the addon and school - both sucked :D) I played a whole lot of Call of Duty on Xbox but that was nothing really serious.. not as serious as wow.. to tell you more in detail about my CoD Montages would turn out to be a whole new story and I don't want to get of my topic.

I played games as long as I can remember. I grew up in a time where kids played, besides with the rather regular buildingblocks and toy cars, with gameboys. Yes, exactly, these 500kg big things which were called "Handhelds". So playing Need for Speed

The first f*cking GAMEBOY!

with my friends after coming home from playing "Hide and Seek" was pretty normal. But I figured that playin Videogames is just a bad habit like smoking and I'd have to stop playing if I wanted to actually become something in the future.

The moment I realised how big the E-Sport scene has grown ,since the early 1990s, and earning money / making a living of gaming is nothing unusual anymore made me think. Shall I give up my FAVOURITE thing in the whole world or should I still be playing in the future and try to go down the progaming route to become the best and beat the best, just like Ash from Pokémon Red and Blue?!
I decided that E-Sport should play (lol see that wordplay) a big role in my future and nontheless what I am doing (Progaming, Coaching, Casting or even managing an E-Sport clan) gaming should be a part of it!
Okay - Thanks for reading this far, stranger, I hope you enjoy my future posts about my "career" and my life.
~ GG HF