This is the Eighth of my project and the 11th week of genius hour, and I had a great week for getting lots of time in and putting the work in, but I didn't go very far. I played for 8 hours, 25 minutes, and 46 seconds this week, and I only missed playing the game on Friday of this week. On Thursday I went down in rank to Silver 3, but I got it back up to Silver 2 on Sunday.
I have realized over these 8 weeks that there are so many factors in my life that get in the way of going as far as I possibly can in the ranked system. My family, school, homework, girlfriend, and lots more. I barely have any free time, I have to mainly make my own free time and take away from my family or schoolwork to get some time into this game for the project. My dad doesn't support it and it makes it even more difficult to get lots of time on the game. I have done my best to overcome the obstacles and I have been doing okay. I could definitely have done better and I realize that. I also realize that I made my goal very unrealistic, and that is okay. I feel like these past 8 weeks have been unsuccessful but successful at the same time. Its felt unsuccessful because I haven't been able to get the time in that I needed and I haven't been able to reach the goal I set for myself. Its felt successful because I have learned a lot about my favorite video game and I've gotten a lot better. I've learned a lot about how things work, like the way that I've been playing isn't good for my rank. Solo-queuing is the hardest way to rank up, but I have been doing my best to overcome this obstacle, and its been sort of working. Im at the highest rank I've ever been on the game, just because I haven't put the time in. This project has helped me manage my time better and make my time management skills a lot better over these weeks. It's been a okay week, next week is the last week of the project, and I'm ready!!
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This is the seventh week of my project and the 10th week of Genius hour, and it isn't looking good for me at all. It started off being able to get in almost 2 hours on Monday. I felt good that day, but I'm not good enough to solo teams all the time. I kept on getting so close to ranking up and getting to Silver 1, but I end up losing the defining game, keeping me in silver 2. I have realized in the project that it is very difficult to rank up through the game if you cannot communicate with people. Communication is key, and if you cant communicate, it is hard to win the game. I can do great that game, but if my teammates aren't doing good and were all over the place, we wont be able to win. I didnt have time to play on Tuesday or Wednesday, and I got to play on Thursday. The same thing that's been happening to me for the longest time happened to me on Thursday. I win games, and right when I'm about to rank up, my teammates don't do anything to help and we lose the game. It has gotten to the point where I could play for hours and not be able to rank up. I don't have time to play every single day, so it makes the process very difficult of getting better and ranking up. I would have to stop having a life and just play the game if I wanted to achieve my goal in the time limit that I have. I was unable to play a single game after Thursday this week, and it was really frustrating. I know that me not being able to get the time in that I was hoping to get will affect how well my presentation will go and my success. I believe that even though I failed in my main objective, I still have some success that is worth mentioning. For one, over these weeks and weeks of playing, I have definitely gotten better and smarter when it comes to the game and how to play it. I have found a routine before I start playing ranked that helps me get warmed up for the ranked games and improves my game. Through this project, even though I will be unable to reach the goal of getting champ in ranked, I have gotten to the highest rank that I've been in the game since I've been playing it, and I've gotten so much better then at the beginning of the project. It sucks that I wasn't able to achieve my main goal, but at least I saw the obstacles of getting to it and trying my very best to overcome them. I will never be able to go past family for a video game, I just cant do that to my family and myself. This is my 6th week of this project and week 9 of the whole genius hour project. I had a very bad week last week with my project. This week started off better then last week. I wasn't able to play any on Monday, but I wasn't very mad about that. I got to play a few hours on Tuesday and Wednesday. The more and more that I play the game, I learn more and more on how to properly play the game and how to play in different ways. I learn more and more every game how to set up different sites, attack different sites on different maps. It will take me a lot more time and dedication during and after the Genius Hour project to know everything about how this game works, but since the beginning, I've been getting so much better at playing the game and my strategies when I play it.
A thing that I've definitely seen improvement on while playing these few weeks is my aim. I have played around with my sensitivity and how fast the cross hair moves around, and I've found a sensitivity that I like and I do good on, and it really improved my game. Before playing a ranked game that day, I always go into the shooting range and work on my aim for at least 10 minutes, working on my aim and getting better. Doing this helps my game and makes it easier to win games. Every night, before I go to bed, I watch professional players, studying how they play and ways they play, and I learn so much from them. A main person that I've learned from was Jynxzi. He plays on controller like me, and he plays in a way that I learned a lot from. The way that he helps his team and can learn how someone plays after maybe one or two rounds with playing with or against them. He is also very funny and entertains me while playing good on siege. He doesn't do good all the time, but that's normal when you're playing with the best in the world in a tournament for thousands of dollars. On Friday, I played a few games with the spare time that I had, but I was very unfortunate to not be able to rank up. Me and my teammates are always going against what feels like a pro team. I win a few games, and the game that I need to win to rank up, I lose. So I have to win two in a row again, and it never happens. It really upsets me that my teammates really suck and the other team always ends up winning the game. I feel like if I had a team of people to play with and communicate with, it would be a lot easier to get through the ranks then solo-queuing and not being able to communicate with my teammates. I didn't have any free time to play Saturday and Sunday, so hopefully this coming up week will be better for my project. This is my fifth week on this project and the 8th week of genius hour. This week has gone pretty bad for my project. I've been to busy with just life that I haven't been able to play at all in the beginning of the week. On Monday and Tuesday, I wasn't able to get a single game in those days. It really upsets me that I cant get much time into this because of the fact that we have this week and 4 more weeks until the end of the project, and I'm not very close to my goal. I've gotten a whole lot better at the game, i've found a routine to warm up and have good games, but I'm never able to actually put the time in that it takes to get to my goal.
I didn't play a single game this week until Sunday. I was so busy with my life, family, and school, that I wasn't able to play a single game. On Sunday I got a good amount of time in, but I wasn't able to rank up. This was a terrible week for my project. It really upsets me that I haven't been able to get much time. I have come to realize that this was a goal that needs so much time. I would basically have to have no life to be able to achieve this goal. I manage my time the best I possibly can, and I barely have 30 minutes to get a single game in. I hope that next week can be better. In this week of Genius Hour, I have been able to play a pretty good amount. Over spring break, I was able to get a lot of time, and I mean a lot of time. Over the spring break, I went from Bronze 3 all the way to Silver 3. Here is a picture of me hitting Silver 5. I was able to get all the way to Silver 3 throughout the spring break, which is very good for my project. It is hard to get a lot of time into the game when I have school all day, homework sometimes, plus family, friends, and a girlfriend. I do my very best to find the time to play the game, and I'm getting some pretty good time on the game when I possibly can. I haven't been able to play much in the beginning of the week because of me playing in this baseball league with my friend. I didn't go to school on Monday so I was able to play for about 2 and a half hours. I didn't get to play any on Tuesday because I had a game in a baseball league that I joined with my friend. We had games in two days back to back, Monday and Tuesday. I was only able to get time on Monday because I didn't go to school that day. On Tuesday, I went to school and didn't get any time on the game that day.
I was only able to get one game played on both Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday and Saturday, I didn't get any time to play because I was doing a lot of sports stuff with family and friends. On Sunday I was only able to get a game in, but that brought me up to Silver 2. I feel like this week hasn't been very great, but it hasn't been terrible either. I got a good amount of time in the beginning of the week, but at the end of the week, I wasn't able to get that much time in. I hope that next week will be better and I'll be able to get more time in the game. The beginning of week 6, Monday through Wednesday was very slow for my progress. I was only able to play 2 games in those three days because my dad wouldn't let me get on much on those days. I wasn't able to advance in rank any in those days, since I lost a game and then I won, I stayed in Bronze 3.
On Thursday, I was only able to play one game and my teammates kept on team killing, losing the round. I was lucky to stay in the rank that I was in and it wasn't a major set-back. I really don't like that my teammates sell like that because it is a very long process to begin with to go from the bottom to the top, and the fact that my teammates keep on selling, making me lose rank is very frustrating to me. I wasn't able to play on Friday or Saturday because I was busy with things for Easter, even though Easter was on Sunday. I was able to get about two games on Sunday but I didn't rank up because I wasn't able to fully focus on the game because of my family and Easter, which is completely okay with me. This week was very slow and I didn't do much ranking up this week. At the beginning of the second week, or week 5 of the genius hour project, it went by very very slowly. I was only able to get in two games on Monday and Tuesday. I had some family problems and I had to much homework to get more then those two games in two days. I was able to rank up because I won one of those games, but the other one, I wasn't able to pull off the win. My teammates didn't know what they were doing and my aim wasn't very good, but we were close to winning.
On the day in class that we have dedicated to genius hour, I logged all of my time and wrote down all I needed for the blog post. After that, I spend the rest of the time that I had in class studying professional players and how they play certain maps, objectives, and operators so I can become a better player and a better teammate for the random people that I am queued with when I solo-queue. Thursday through Saturday, I was able to get in a total of around 5 hours playing, and I got pretty far in the ranks, going from Copper 1 all the way to Bronze 3. I wasn't able to play any Sunday so I didn't get any time to play. This was a pretty decent week for progress and I feel pretty good about this. This is the first week that I've been starting this project, but it is the 4th week of Genius Hour. The new season of Rainbow Six Siege started on Tuesday, March 12th. That was the first day that I played and got my rank off to a start at copper 5. Every season, no matter what rank you were the season before, your rank gets reset and when you play your first game after being unranked, you start at copper 5 (the lowest rank in the game.) On Tuesday, I only had time to play one game that night, and I got to copper 5.
In this new season, there is a new operator names Deimos. He won't be released for everyone to be able to buy for a little while so I will not be able to use him until he is released. Right now, on defense, I either play as a denial operator, like mute, or a low maintenance character like Wamai. On attack, I normally use a hard breacher (an operator that can make holes and entry points through reinforced walls) like Ace, or a versatile operator like Buck, who is able to go through soft walls with his shotgun, or go through a reinforced wall with a hard breaching charge. On Wednesday, I got to play a really good amount of time. I was solo-queuing into ranked from the lowest rank, and then I knew it was going to be hard to get all the way to Champion. When I solo queue into my first few games, I was at the top of the leader board everytime, but we lost the first 3 games in a row. It really upset me because my teammates would always somehow lose the round. When it came to the 4th and 5th game, we won those games and it got me up a rank and really close to another, so I'm Copper 4. I figured out that Castle is a really good operator to use because of his ability. He can replace barricades and block off doors with his reinforced barricades. It really just matters the site that the bombs will be at. If there isn't many doors and windows, then castle wouldn't be as useful. On Thurssay I was only able to play about 40 minutes because I got home late that day and I still had to go to bed on time for school. I wasn't able to rank up today because I was practicing for about 30 minutes and I saw some improvements on my aim and movement and map knowledge. I was not able to play again Friday through Sunday because I spend time with my time with my family for my moms birthday. this week is a good start to everything when it comes to getting to my goal. |
AuthorGavin Gauntt Archives
May 2024
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