

Do yourself a favor and finish these five to be placed in the proper league.

The first five matches are "placement" matches, meaning that they aren't necessarily going to be against players of your skill level.

Remember that you have to lose to get better. Complete the tutorials, play the campaign, do the challenges, play against AI opponents, and finally check out the ladder to play against humans. I recommend that players use the built-in progression that Blizzard has put into the game for going from campaign to multiplayer, which has a different set of units and data. StarCraft II's ladder system and matchmaking is designed to try and give each player a 50% win ratio. A lot of people believe that they will be instantly steamrolled by players of a much-higher skill level, but that shouldn't be the case. With the weekend approaching, many StarCraft II players will be wrapping up the campaign and considering trying out the multiplayer game. I've finished the singleplayer campaign of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, but I still need to run through all of the challenges before I'm ready to write my review.
