All aboard the fail boat!

Blew my placement match and got placed in high bronze. I hit #1 in Bronze and won 4 and lost 2. Oh well keep putting in work - a promotion to silver can't be far away. BTW both matches I lost I could have won....just me being bad more than the other guy being good. In one of the matches I didn't have a plan - I just kind of winged it. In the other I had a plan but I think the same thing happened in both. I teched up too much and didn't build up a big enough army....I also let the game too long with out much harrassment or good mid game / late game scouting. Ahh well - gonna watch all the replays today and make sure I was at least on track in my wins and make sure I fix my errors from my losses (and mistakes in my wins). I was #2 in Bronze last night but I'm sure I've slipped a lot as people played more games in my division. The guy who was #1 in my league as the guy who beat me in the placement match. I can't remember exactly what went wrong in the placement match....but I remember it wasn't good lol

First Map is

Abyssal Caverns

• Destructible rocks blocking gold expansions.
• Short Rush distance in Close Spawn.
• Destructible rocks blocking attack route in Close Positions. Destroying these rocks will reduce rush distance by about 5 seconds.

One of my losses came on this map last night. I spawned at the 3 o'clock position and my opponent was at the 8 o'clock spawn. I guess in one way I had the better spawn as it would/should have been harder for him to get drops or mineral line harrass because there is no real space behind my main mineral line. The 8'oclock has a nice big gap behind it where I could harrass with drops or phoenix pretty easily and retreat into the darkness. I didn't do that lol

I probably should have gone for a forge fast expand with that nice choke at my natural....but I didn't :( I scouted him and saw a 14 pool - so nothing overly aggressive would be coming for a bit but I still kind of panicked and put a forge down and a cannon....in addition to my already build Gateway. I just started spending my money on stupid stuff, didn't expand early to keep up with my zerg opponent. I was behind from the get go. I thought DT's might be able to catch me backup but he had overseers and spore crawlers so my DT's were useless. Transitioned into Archons but he had so many lings that they ate up my Archons pretty quick. My best unit against his buildings and ground units were my +2/+1 chagelots. Honestly if I would have just sat back and made about 25 more of these early on instead of teching I would have won this pretty easily. He got a small flock off muta's out later on but my Stalkers were taking care of them pretty good. Like I said I scouted early but not much later and in the end I just put too much money into tech (charge / forge / 4 gates / twilight+Dark Shrine....might even have a robo....all on 2 bases).....take all that crap out and put in another 3 gates and pressure this chump and I would have crushed him I think.

That's one thing I wish you could do in Starcraft 2 is stop a replay and play it from that point forward versus the AI. It wouldn't be a true situation simulator (being that it is AI) but still it would interesting to play some famous pro matches like and to play your own matches to try a couple of different things out and see what's what.

I think if you spawned on the same side on this map it might become more of an air game as the air distance would be really short.

I imagine holding these golds would be hard but the wiki mentions that destroying the rocks decreases your travel by about 5 seconds which is significant. I actually had a proxy pylon behind his gold mineral line the entire game.

Pretty good map - I haven't played this one a lot.