At the end of last season I didn't really feel like I should be promoted because I was still losing to a lot of stupid things. And my play wasn't very good either.
I was still climbing in points though. Slowly but surely.
I've heard that 800 points is a sure point to be promoted for the next season so this was what I was aiming for. I got to about 500 points or so before the new season began. I had won about 120 games this season, and lost aroun 100 games. I have never played as much as I did that season.

It payed off though. I lost my first match of the season but got placed in to platinum. I was overjoyed because I have been working for this for quite a while now. School then got in the way and I couldn't play until today. I played eight games today, all ZvP but two(one ZvZ and one ZvT).

I lost the first game to a whole bunch of zealots killing my natural due to sloppyness and underreacting as well as not scouting properly. I was so far behind at this point. This is when I noticed the eight-minutes cannon in the back of my main. Too many of them to stop. I tried but lost all my lings and I was in an unrecoverable position so I GG'd out.

The rest of the games I won. The TvT was weird because I scouted his drop at about 10 minutes and caught it with lings and managed to pick off a full medivac with my queens and then he just ragequit. My scouting was appalling this game so it was for the best for me.

The rest of the games was me fending off immortal-sentries all-ins and/or pushes. I have had so much trouble with this before but now I make sure I have the watch-towers and scout properly so I know when it's coming. I then set up flanks and engage just outside my base from three different angles so it's as hard as possible to forcefield off all the units. This makes it easy to clean up. Especially with reinforcements. I then throw down a fourth and an infestation pit and push. This is usually when I win. If I don't I get som infestors up and with the help of fungal and infested terrans I manage to take out the army he has. Unless theres colossi of course. But assuming I scouted this I have already gotten a spire so I can get out a few corrupters, hopefully in time.

I feel improvement in the ZvP matchup and it makes me feel really good. I even managed to defeat a diamond player. Hopefully I'll get more Terran and Zerg in the future so I don't lose grasp of those matchups.

HomeFlux, Signing Out!