I now suck at TvT

I'm not sure what's changed in the time since I've played.  I'm not getting enough agression out early enough, that's for sure.  But it also feels like people are more prepared for that, so I'm hitting a hard wall with my agression.

What I quickly run into is a scenario where I feel like I'm constantly failing to catch up until finally I run into the Terran turtle army, loose everything against it and it's GG.

Honestly it feels like I'm just not fast enough to execute the strategy.  So maybe I just need to keep playing...  This is one of the challenges of not having more friends who play SC2 any more, makes it hard to get more games in every week.

- 9 Points, Gold League Division Rank 73, Remaining Bonus Pool 286

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7 minute lair...

This time I got my two hatches going and went straight for lair tech to get some Overseers.  I wasn't going to be DT rushed again.

And I wasn't.  But mostly because he didn't make them...at least I was prepared had he.

He threw most of his forces into an early attack, I defended and did some decent damage to him in return.  All the while my macro stayed on top and I just out macro'd him.  He tried to get VoidRays up while I was getting my Mutas up and I beat him to the punch.

+ 30 Points, Gold League Division Rank 68, Remaining Bonus Pool 257

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8 minute DTs

Cross positions, I went for heavy queens for larva and into roaches.  I didn't immediately rush for lair tech and Overseers.

His early push was pretty easy to defend, but he had a few DTs in it and I just wasn't anywhere near detection.  GG

- 0 Points, Gold League Division Rank 77, Remaining Bonus Pool 272

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Hrm, pathing and micro

I could not move my army.  ZvP, he did the death ball thing but not...fantastic.  I really didn't feel like he was a great player, I should have beat him.

I was doing well but I lost my whole army.  My roaches...got stuck in Zealots.  It was the oddest thing. I don't know what happened, suddenly they couldn't maneuver..none of them.  Somehow he or the AI charged Zealots around some 20 Roaches and then they were stuck.

Something I'm going to have to watch out for in the future.  Otherwise I should have won that game.

Well, I also needed to do something more later on.  Gotten Infesters up.  Actually I totally forgot about my Infesters.  I was heavy on gas thinking "what am I supposed to be making right now?".  I even had the Infesters pit up, but once I lost that initial army like that I was so overwhelmed with replenishing and trying to keep up the pressure and keep my upgrades that I just forgot.

So basically I kept making mistakes until I loss.

Anyway, placed into Gold.

- 0 Points, Gold League Division Rank 16, Remaining Bonus Pool 220

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If you're not attacking, you're losing

I stayed in my base for the first 10 minutes.  I scouted to figure out where he was and then I just sat, mining and teching and building Gateway units.

He, apparently, said "Fantastic, I'm just going to build a crapton of siege tanks".

The best part is, I identified this before moving my army into it.  But I went ahead and did anyway.  Somehow I thought maybe I could overrun them with Chargelots.  Which, of course, wasn't the case.

What should I have done?  Attached earlier.  As soon as I had a Zealot, then a few stalkers, just kept the pressure up.

Or, baring that, at least changed tech directions.  Done something different once I saw what he had.  He was all robo...just tanks and Thors.

Well, live and learn.  And lose, apparently.

1 placement match left.  Not really in the mood to play it now =/

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Back to the placement matches!

TvP win tonight.

Admittedly, the guy just started playing again (according to his profile).  The last few days and then months ago.

Also I got a bit lucky.  We were cross map positions so once I confirmed he was just building a Colossus / Gateway deathball in his base, I expanded and teched.  I moved out at the same time he did but had control of the Xel'Naga so when I turned around I hit his base from behind, taking out his lagging Colossi first and then rolling the rest of his Gateway units before he quit, no GG.

A bit lucky, but as I say "a win's a win" so I'll take it!  2 placement matches remaining.

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Also, I have bronchitis.  I didn't know before hand if playing SC2 would cause me to cough with my lungs being as shallow as they are right now.  Verdict is in, it does.