I can't win a single f'ing game...=/

I don't know what to do.  I can't figure out how to win a single game.

In my defense, I almost never play other bronze leaguers.  In their defense, when I do they still kick my ass.  How bad am I?  When did I get this bad?  When did it happen that I actually can't win any games at all?  At the bottom of the Bronze League I can't get close to a 50% win ratio.

Like quite a few of the other players I've faced, he shows in his profile and badge as being Platinum, but not in the score screen.  Bug?

Also like quite a few other players I've hit on the ladder, I didn't get a GL or HF or anything out of him.  More and more I'm seeing that.  I guess the friendly players have moved on to other games?  The ladder just isn't as much fun for me in HoTS and I don't know if that's because I don't have as much time to play or I just don't know how to play or if something else is really going on in the Community.

Before the Replay:

PvT.  I scouted his heavy Marine / Marauder 1 base push early and was ready for it.  I defended pretty well and put up some counter pressure.

I kept to my "expand to 3 bases by X time" but I failed to continue to Macro well.  He did a *huge* drop on my Mineral line and I held it off, but was hurt and didn't rebuild quickly.  I started to tech but I was feeling anxious that he had a huge lead on me.  I threw DT's into his expansions and base and slowed him a bit, but not enough  He had all his mining centralized pretty tightly despite the attempts to expand.

He threw another huge MMM force at me and I thought I was defending it well but suddenly I had *no* army.  He just ripped them to shreds despite my better upgrades.  I hate Robo tech.  I just hate it.  I have to find another way to win.

After the Replay:

I was supply blocked a lot.  I'm so bad at building Pylons.  Why?

I was right that he had a huge advantage after I destroyed his first MMM group that landed on my mineral line.  His supply was 20 higher and though I had twice the working worker count, MULEs gave him a higher actual income.

However I had a huge advantage after my DT attacks.  I had 71 harvesters to his 17.  I had a huge amount of cash and I just wasn't spending it.  I should have had more Gateways down and should have been Chrono Boosting them.  Jesus that's where I lost the game right there, the biggest single blunder where I could have won easily.

That being said, it's worth noting that we actually had a similar food count.  159 to 168.  Just that his was almost all Army and mine was 1/2 Income.

Damn, I should have been able to win that.  Even when I GG'd he had nothing behind it.  If I'd started properly macroing then...

I had almost 4k in Minerals in the bank.  Didn't even notice.  I am so so so awful at this game.

- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 32

I'm so terrible

Before the Replay:

I'm assuming it was a 4-gate.  ZvP.  Somehow I scouted and missed the Pylon until it was too late.  Eventually I notice it's on my mini-map even though I'm staring at the mini map.  Because I'm terrible. =/

So anyway, he basically floods my front with units and I can't stop him.  Producing whatever I can as fast as I can and trying to engage smart but making mistakes.  Forgot my second round of Queens.  Didn't watch to make sure I wasn't supply blocked.  Didn't throw down Spines when I saw the Pylon late.  Bad decision after bad decision.  So bad at this game, when did I get so bad?

After the Replay:

Oh I forgot.  I also failed on getting my first Drone out in a timely manner.  Too busy "GL"ing my opponent.  At least this one threw a response my way.

He built the Pylon at 4 minutes.  That's good to know.  And he built it behind the gas of my 3rd, which is a little hard to get to on this map.  Also good to know.

I could have stopped this.  I scouted early, I suspected it, I looked for it.  And even when I "spotted" it late I still had time.  I just executed poorly.

- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 48

Not to be deterred...

I went 0-2 last night.  Hoping to do a little better tonight.

For the first few seconds I forgot to build my first probe =/  Auspicious start.

I ended up winning, but I don't know that I earned the win.  He d/c'd as I was rebuilding my army from a relatively "failed" attempt to put pressure on him.  I had built up some infrastructure so I planned on having an army back soon and I had good vision, so I figured I could afford to lose most of my army...but still...

Before the Replay:

He hit me with somewhat early 'Lings.  I don't have a great feel for it, because I totally screwed up my opening (as mentioned above).  Built 2 Pylons before my first Gateway, started a wall-off, then changed my mind, then he rolled in with Zerglings.

I took care of them pretty quickly and the game escalated from there.  I held off his attacks and harass pretty well (I thought) and managed to get my 3 bases up by 12 minutes.  I transitioned to Templar with Storm and as I was rolling out for a second time to attack his base, he D/C'd.

After the Replay:

One thing I forgot about, he built an extractor in my base.  Not he started and cancelled and started, just built one full out.  I guess he was worried about early Stargate pressure?  I all but forgot about my plan after yesterday to go Stargate against Zerg, so I was just going with my Gateways.

He threw up a Pool at 10 (after the Extractor in my base) and threw in his Zerglings at my base and started a Roach Warren.  He only had 2 in gas though so he wasn't getting much there.

He also pretty much stopped Drone production once he started attacking me.  That makes me feel good...like I may have actually earned my win.  The only time he seems to have built drones was to replace the ones he was about to spend on buildings.  I'm pretty sure I would have won this game in the long run.

I was totally wrong about when I got my 3rd base up.  I barely had my 2nd base up at the 13 minute mark.  Wow, how did I so totally read the clock wrong during the game?  No idea.  Interestingly though, at the 13 minute mark when my 2nd base is just getting going, he's still on 1 base.    I had more probes than he had drones, and a higher income.

+ 48 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 38

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck =/

Placement match, demoted to Bronze.

Before Replay:

He just 1 based me hard.  God.  He just massed Marines and SCREWED me.  I've never felt so terrible in my life.  I tried to get up a good defense and I just could-not-do-it.  Every time I held him off, he just had a crap ton more Marines incoming.  There was nothing I could do to stabilize and get any good offense or even harass going.

After the Replay:

He opened Supply Depot into Double Barracks.  I should have scouted the front with a Zergling...I saw he had a good number of Marines when I had my Overlord in there but I didn't realize he was going so Marine committed.  4 Barracks before the 5 minute mark.  Banelings earlier and I would have held that quicker.

He produced nothing while he attacked his Marines the first time.  He was supply capped.  I actually feel embarrassed that I lost this game.  He didn't even make an Orbital or rally his Barracks.  Neve expanded.

Okay, by the 13 minute mark he's finally got his Orbital done.  When he realized the Marine-all-in wasn't going to work?  

Lesson learned, send a Zergling to scout-the-front.  Look out for the stupid losses.

- 0 Points, Bronze League, Division Rank 100

Blown Away

Not even close TvT.  He was bronze league.

Before the Replay:

I tried to do a quick but macro oriented marine build but he got more marines and a tank out faster than me.

That's all there is too it.  He hit me hard at the same time I was pushing out, but did it with more.  I defended but he immediately returned with more and smoked me.  GG.

After the Replay:

He macro'd better.  The only difference was he threw down a factory early and macro'd better.  Just better mechanics.

Also his APM was crazy high.  He macro'd pretty good, had a better build and had high APM, am I in serious trouble on the new post HotS ladder?  Maybe so.

1 Placement match Won, 1 Placement match Lost, 3 to go