A year and a half after it came out, I have finally played enough 1v1 games in StarCraft II to make it out of the practice league 
You could have skipped the practice league at any point.
That is a game you have to play every day if you want to be good. I only got up to Platinum League and it was impossible to maintain unless I was playing regularly.
Protoss 4 lyfe, yo!
