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merz: "My SC2 Journey so far!"

By Duncan 'Thorin' Shields
Jan 3, 2012 00:58


ImageDignitas Swedish Terran merz discussed his career as a progamer in a blog on TL entitled "My SC2 Journey so far!".

Dignitas Swedish Terran SE Tim 'merz' Olsson has posted a blog on TeamLiquid entitled "My SC2 Journey so far!" in which he takes readers through his whole career as an RTS player. merz provides reaers with plenty of contextual information for his ups and downs as a progamer.

Joining Dignitas:

"After the disappointment settled I was still quite happy with a shared 3rd place finish with Liquid'Jinro. After all, I still beat Naama who I'd never expect to beat, and I beat Fuzer to make it to the semi-finals. And SjoW wasn't looking that bad after all, seeing how he took down MorroW, who was beasting in SC2 Beta and SC2 Release. All of a sudden I started getting tons of offers from small and middle sized teams, they promised salary, gear, trips and what not. I sort of went on hybris again, thinking I was hot shit. But as I was trying to choose which team to join, I was approached by Team Dignitas. Apparently SjoW had recommended me as they were looking for more people in their SC2 squad. When I spoke with Team Dignitas:s manager ODEE, I knew it was the team I was looking for. He wasn't trying to bullshit me as in making promises he couldn't keep, it was honesty, something which is rare in the e-sport community. And I went for it, apparently they had picked up this other random Dawn of War dude named SeleCT as well, whoever the fuck that was, but at least he was Korean..."


Going into Dreamhack Winter 2010:

"I'm going to try to keep things short here. DH:W 2010 was great in a way, but it was also completlty horrible. I was still on Hybris, thinking I was the shit. I kept posting results that would increase my ego and I was really upset with that I hadn't gotten an invite for the tournament. Luckiley there were BYOC qualifications as well. I felt like I was one of the top european terrans (after bo3 wins against SjoW, DIMAGA, DeMusliM.. again, I was so fucking naive and full of myself) and I deserved an invite. In retrospect, I still feel I should've been invited, but I wasn't nearly as good as I thought I was (obviously)."


Facing US IdrA in 2011:

"I had studied IdrA extra carefully because A) He's the most exposed person of them all so finding replays/vods and what not is really easy. B) On paper he was the toughest opponent in the group C) TvZ has always been my second best or best matchup. In the end, it paid off because I had prepared three different strategies all who relied on a reactor hellion opening but all followed up differently. By the time the series was at 1-1, I had him guessing what would be next and it forced him into playing safer than usual, which I exploited by playing greedier than usual instead. I ended up winning 2-1, and my first tournament game after I went on summer fulltime was a 2-1 win vs EG.IdrA. Things felt good."


Source: TeamLiquid
(Photograph courtesy of fragbite)


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