Sprinting to the End of Season 2!

It's been a while since my last post, and you're probably wondering, "Did he ever make it to the Top 25?"

Well, you'll find out ;-)

That evening after my last post, I played 2 games:

Result	Player's Race	Player's League	Map
Win	Zerg	Gold	Tal'darim Altar LE
Loss	Protoss	Silver	Xel'Naga Caverns

So I ended the night at rank 29 with 209 rank points.
"djer" was rank 25 in my division with 266 points, so I needed at least 267 points to push him down to rank 26.

The next morning I played 2 games before leaving for work:

Result	Player's Race	Player's League	Map	Notes
Loss	Terran	Silver	Metalopolis
Loss	Terran	Bronze	Shakuras Plateau	top in his division

So I was back to where I was after my last post: Rank 30, with one less point at 188 rank points!

And I only had the evening to play before the end of the season!

So that night, I put my baby boy to bed, did my Jillian Michaels workout (priorities first after all!), and told my wife my only plan for the evening was to play SC2 - and I started playing...

Result	Player's Race	Player's League	Map	Notes
Loss	Terran	Silver	Typhon Peaks	doh! 4 game losing streak!
Win	Terran	Bronze	Delta Quadrant
Loss	Protoss	Bronze	Scrap Station
Win	Terran	Bronze	Scrap Station
Win	Protoss	Silver	Delta Quadrant
Loss	Terran	Bronze	Xel'Naga Caverns
Win	Zerg	Silver	Tal'darim Altar LE

At this point, I was rank 26 with 262 points - I only needed 5 points to beat "djer"!

Result	Player's Race	Player's League	Map	Notes
Loss	Terran	Bronze	Delta Quadrant	Nooooo!!!!

So now it's just before midnight, and I was at rank 27 with 252 rank points.

I needed 15 points to get ahead of "djer", and push him out of the rank 25 spot. A single win would do it.

My wife was working on a project, putting up a bunch of photos over our fireplace. So I was given the go ahead for one more game...

Here's a videocast of my final game of Season 2 - enjoy!



Like that ending graphic? I thought it might be a nice touch. Wondering how I did it? Don't worry - at some point I'll add a section to my "How I make SC2 Videos" page describing how I did this :-)

Update 11/1/2011: I updated the video to point to my new YouTube channel.