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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JimmyKuddo" data-source="post: 577653" data-attributes="member: 22380">Indeed...I've seen some good points, but I'd like to talk hypothetically, how and what kind of effort may be used to accomplish an MLG team.Assuming we want conditions that provide the best chance of success, we'll need active skilled roles uninterrupted by the woes of everyday life.The roles include but are not limited to:Supporter - Players and observers that donate their time and/or money to help any role. Participant - Players that are most able and willing.Leader - Directs roles and sets the plan. Does whatever it takes to get it done the best way.Creator and editor - Gives an image to the team. Attracts supporters. May also help point out good habits and bad habits and such.Creating an environment for yourself to play your game is vitally important. The champion is forged in fire, not in a vacuum. You need physical access to the game and access to a variety of opponents. It helps greatly to have friends who are players of the same game or to make friends who play it. If you truly walk the path of the champion, you will eventually find yourself closely involved with the community of players who play your game. The sooner you can become connected to this community, the better. They have a great deal of knowledge about the game and about tournaments and events surrounding it. You will find keepers of secret knowledge about your game, and you will find the very best players of the game as you approach the inner circles of the game’s community.To avoid many distractions, you'll need money, support from your family, friends, and roommates. You'll also need a strict routine schedule that keeps you in the best shape. Thus you shouldn't rush to the soonest, nearest MLG event and expect to win. Instead, Build on what you have so that later you can forge yourself and your team into something that plays at the highest level.That means you better start taking on as many jobs, and hours you can building a nest egg, a local support structure, and any form of a Kickstarter page to have a place where you can sell you or your team as a project and display your work and anything else to sell it. Anyway you can earn money, equipment, software or knowledge is worthwhile.This' an early game strategy, and gaming should be play one good game and get off, back to work, or prepare to sleep your best. Deal with some hard work now, figure out how to overcome anything standing in your way, and don't break yourself doing it.Compiling all information, or delegating someone else to do it for you and others to review will focus everyone to make goals.When, where, and how to participate in MLG is key to let everyone know all in one place to gain support, new participants, and motivation to make the trip when you may.Building your life around any game is arguably a mistake, but I’ll pretend to ignore that point, as it sure helps when it comes to winning.It's very useful to watch expert players play each other (either in person or from recordings), but playing against them directly maybe overwhelming; it depends how proficient you are in your basics. Watching expert or intermediate players will also reveal “bread and butter” tactics that you will need to learn, and probably a lot of other things that are over your head for now.Once you have done the above and understand the basics of the game, the next task is to learn a few “bread and butter” tactics of your own. You should learn effective, easy to execute sequences of moves that give you a shot at winning. The goal isn't to develop new sequences that have never before been seen; the goal is to be effective. When an opponent plays extremely poorly, you should at least have some idea about what you are supposed to do to seize the game from him. There may be different “bread and butter” tactics to move you toward winning and to actually seal the game with a win. Also depending on the game, you may need to practice executing these tactics outside of the chaos of a real game. If even the basic tactics require a great deal of practice, then attempt to develop these skills as quickly as possible in a controlled environment. Execute them faster, and faster until you can't go faster, and you can repeat in consecutively without fail. Do not dwell too long on isolated, laboratory practicing at this point though, because you need to dive into real games.I know some players who wish to play only against expert players. I personally prefer to play against average and poor players for a bit, as a way to hone my skills of attacking efficiently. I think the important thing is simply to play as much as possible, regardless of the skill of your opponents. Familiarization with the game is paramount.When you do play against experts, they will probably beat you badly. Playing them will teach you what not to do. Do this, and they punish you horribly. Do that, and the game is lost. Playing them will teach you which moves are “unsafe” or “terrible,” and you must learn to make fewer and fewer of these moves that will lose you the game. Of course, if all you do is remove moves from your repertoire, you are playing a safer game that is less likely to be lost at any moment, but you also must make moves to win! You should be making good progress on not losing so quickly when you play these experts, but how can you learn to win? Watch what the experts do to you. They are likely extremely efficient at stealing a game. When you make a mistake, watch exactly how they punish you. Watch exactly which sequence they use to end the game.Again, some of my friends swear by only playing against experts, and there is surely much to be learned from that. But once you have learned how the experts win, it can be very difficult to practice those maneuvers against them. The opportunity to exercise your winning muscles will show itself only rarely. It is at this point that I prefer to play against weaker players. The weaker players will present plenty of opportunities for you to practice your endgame skills. You can try variations on your attack patterns all day on them. You can hone your skills at ending a game. Often, attacking patterns will leave you vulnerable, so practice until your attack sequences leave no gaps of vulnerability. You won’t truly know if you've accomplished this until you play against the experts later, though.The idea is to use the beginners as a way to get an extraordinary amount of practice in the tactics that win the game in a short amount of time. The experts rarely allow such situations to arise, but when they do, you will need to capitalize on them professionally. When the opponent makes a fatal mistake, you need to be able to confidently take control of the game and win it. This act must be natural, something you've done a thousand times before. When the rare opportunity to win presents itself while playing the expert, you shouldn't have to think “I’m pretty sure I can win this in theory. The textbooks say I should do X.” You should take control of the game simply, quickly, and instinctively, just as you have done countless times against the beginners.The experts keep you honest. They remind you, “That was not a safe move. You cannot trick me with that. That will not stop my advances.” The expert also teaches you how to win, but presents only very few opportunities to practice winning. The beginner, on the other hand, will let you practice winning until it’s second nature. At that time, you must return to the experts.There will soon come a time when beginners and even intermediate players are of very little use to you. They do not know how to punish your mistakes properly, so you can develop bad habits. They fall for tricks that are not “real,” meaning that experts would never fall from them. And perhaps worst of all, they often defeat themselves. If you play safely for long enough against beginners or intermediates, they are likely to eventually make a mistake that gives you the win. It might teach you that long, drawn-out conservative play is the road to victory. But what will you do when the expert never hands you the game? What if the opponent is good enough that you must actively beat him rather than wait for him to beat himself? This is why you must focus all of your attention on playing experts when you are ready.So good luck and have fun!</blockquote>

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