Top of the Heap: Where do I go from here?

After a long(read: a few days), grueling(actually it was quite fun) process, I find myself finally at the top of my division. So, now what?

While I wait for Blizzard to acknowledge my relative awesomeness, I wanted to talk about a few things I noticed from my trip up the ladder. Primarily, the difference in opponents as you get higher in the ladder and the necessity of adapting your play to your new environment.

The Push Continues

So after all my excitement of pushing into the Silver division and how excellent that would be, I have a confession. I'm still in Bronze. By the time I had finished pushing, I was ranked 2nd in my division and only 40 or so points from 1st. Not too shabby, I think to myself.

Then Blizzard's match-making system decides it's been far to lenient with me. Enter in matches against Gold-level players. These were definitely not games I was used to playing, but I think I did well; I did lose a few but I also won a few. It did, however, seem to wreck my focus and I lost more than I cared to. And then the unspeakable happened.

I'm Making the Push!

After sitting in and around the 30th spot in my particular Bronze division, I decided to focus on one or two strategies/goals in each game and try to break into the Silver division. So far, I've played 13 games today and won 10 of them; apparently, deciding to win is all it takes. As of this writing, I've hit rank 10 and that's enough for me for the day.

Tomorrow I'll post a few things that I'm noticing about both my play and that of my opponents and maybe you too can make that push into the next division, whatever one that might be.