Okay, so I don't normally make blog posts and the like, or really socialize much on here but hey DOTAfire people are nice, so I thought I'd be a little more open than normal.

So I've been playing and following this wonderful game of ours for a little over a year now (How time flies), and it's been arguably the best gaming experience of my life.

Now due to time constraints from having to balance a life with DOTA, I don't play that much, and when I do play I usually use the same few supports, since I'm at the stage of pubs where good supports are impossible to come by, and where being the teams selfless ward *****, and actually having plenty of disables is enough to help win more games than I by-rights should. And it's effective, I play a few games a week, and usually win them, and have a good win-rate whilst doing so.

And yet recently... It's been less satisfying than normal. My hero pool is feeling stale, and my mechanics are feeling a little more subpar than normal as a result, bec…
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One mans quest to boost his winrate.

Essentially I felt like sharing my current in DOTA goal. Because I'm not willing to do my calibration matches as of quite yet (I'm getting there, I just still feel like waiting a bit longer before I enter the murky waters of ranked), I felt like I should have a DOTA goal I would be aiming towards.

And when I was looking at my dotabuff (Shameless plug; http://www.dotabuff.com/players/96149094), I looked at my win percentage (Relatively small number of games, but hey), and so I decided upon it. I will try to both reach and maintain a 60% winrate from now till I start playing ranked, because I like the feel of the nice round number.

Now, it's very similar to the idea of hitting a certain MMR I'll admit, but it'll do the same things. Encourage me to continually get better and better ect ect ect.

So yeah, goal is set. Progress of the first day... Sad because I dropped .02 of a percent due to a poorly timed Lion pick making me go 1-1, but hey that's …
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