<p>I used to play Starcraft extremely competitively, although I stopped about a year ago (now I'm focused on math). Realistically speaking, would it be okay to talk about Starcraft in my MIT essays, or would it be better to omit this?</p>
<p>i dunno, were you diamond league??</p>
<p>A year ago, when only the original Starcraft was out, there was no diamond league ;)</p>
<p>IMO if it shows your personality in a good way, then why not? Chris plays minecraft 
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<p>Well, at my best I was B+ on a very competitive ladder called iccup, which must have been at least like top 20 in the US or something… To put SC and SC2 into perspective skill-wise, I’ve seen D+/C- iccup players go into diamond league in starcraft 2 (and in iccup the difference in skill between C- and C, C and C+, C+ and B-, etc is huuge).
But of course in order to become this good I played hell a lot. This can either be seen as an indicator of dedication/determination or a sign of bad time management/game addiction (depending on whether MIT sees competitive games like starcraft as positive or negative…)</p>
<p>i’m kidding - sure, talk about it! what, do you think we’re afraid of admitting a nerd?</p>
<p>Talk about it, and hope that Chris is the one who gets to your application first ;)</p>
<p>B+ iccup is pretty damn impressive … to me at least haha
how many hours /day do you play?</p>
<p>I’d say go for it. I don’t think they have anything against it. Still, I was deferred from EA to RD and I wrote a few snippets about competitive Pokemon Battling. I thought being a top-tier battler would have been a nice hook. :P</p>
<p>Only if you’re the very best, like no one ever was. Anyone can beat the Elite Four…it takes a true master to catch 'em all.</p>
<p>I thought I was going to add something meaningful to this thread, but then this had already happened:</p>
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<p>DUDE I can tell you the csl (or cbw, really) team wants you! I think our last bastion of cbw players have started moving on ( more like moving down!) to wings of liberty. also there used to be a B/B+ player, Stryker, at MIT (who also went to IMO lol.)</p>
<p>But back to your first question–I wrote about how my roommate and I did a mathematical modeling project on a quantitative model of ZvZ :D</p>