So! I am a Utah smasher and the scene out here is nice. Well more in the southern region of Utah, the Northern part lets just say if you want to play in any tournaments you would have to drive 2-3 hours to the southern part do so.
So when I joined the competitive scene about a year ago I jumped right into a tourney. Lets just say it was ****ty! If you're not to familiar with the weather in Utah it's cold 9 months out of the year then its scolding hot for the 3. The venue was at some dudes house in the middle of winter, the heat was off so it was ass cold in there they had little space heaters but that didn't stop people from johning about cold hands.
How terrible this tourney was, inspired me to start my own and in the next month to start off 2014 and my Smash Career I threw my own tourney, lets say that its fun and all, but damn is it tiring. But I stayed ambitious to be one of the top T.O's in my region. And I was pretty much the only one running tourneys at the time in northern Utah.
Everything was great, until I had some unexpected life changes that I rather not get into but let's say it affected my Smash career. I noticed it when I went to a tourney called Gamers Abbey A Smashers Tale. I got destroyed. I was burning out.
This is where I drew the line. I noticed that trying to balance my life problems and play smash full time wasn't working and it was affecting my gameplay. So I took a 3 month hiatus. I regret doing this for many reasons. One being i left a part of my life that I didn't think i needed at the time. And I lost all the support that I had before. Once being a person that many liked, to being some one no one cares for or wanted to play with anymore.
I've been back for about 2 months and the struggle has been real. I practice all the time, if it isn't with some friends it's just practicing tech on computers but, I feel as if I can't bounce back from a set back like this, and picking up where I left off doesn't seem like viable option. So I'm stuck, I have no way of figuring out where to start.
So! I want to know if you guys have a any advice on what I should do to reignite the flame, or if you can relate to this at all. Anything would help. . .
So when I joined the competitive scene about a year ago I jumped right into a tourney. Lets just say it was ****ty! If you're not to familiar with the weather in Utah it's cold 9 months out of the year then its scolding hot for the 3. The venue was at some dudes house in the middle of winter, the heat was off so it was ass cold in there they had little space heaters but that didn't stop people from johning about cold hands.
How terrible this tourney was, inspired me to start my own and in the next month to start off 2014 and my Smash Career I threw my own tourney, lets say that its fun and all, but damn is it tiring. But I stayed ambitious to be one of the top T.O's in my region. And I was pretty much the only one running tourneys at the time in northern Utah.
Everything was great, until I had some unexpected life changes that I rather not get into but let's say it affected my Smash career. I noticed it when I went to a tourney called Gamers Abbey A Smashers Tale. I got destroyed. I was burning out.
This is where I drew the line. I noticed that trying to balance my life problems and play smash full time wasn't working and it was affecting my gameplay. So I took a 3 month hiatus. I regret doing this for many reasons. One being i left a part of my life that I didn't think i needed at the time. And I lost all the support that I had before. Once being a person that many liked, to being some one no one cares for or wanted to play with anymore.
I've been back for about 2 months and the struggle has been real. I practice all the time, if it isn't with some friends it's just practicing tech on computers but, I feel as if I can't bounce back from a set back like this, and picking up where I left off doesn't seem like viable option. So I'm stuck, I have no way of figuring out where to start.
So! I want to know if you guys have a any advice on what I should do to reignite the flame, or if you can relate to this at all. Anything would help. . .