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You're playing a lot Panda, that's cool !

What Nemo said! This is my favourite blog entry just because you've played so many more games than in the others. You don't need to play 1000 games a day, but playing 3-6 each day for a week (with maybe a day off here and there) is definitely the way to improve. Less and you might not get any worse, and will probably have your good days where you seem better, but long term you want to have a steady stream of games to improve over. I can't wait to watch the replays after work tonight

The fact that you're hitting plat opponents means that you are VERY close to promotion. If you beat the first plat MMR player you come across, chances are you will go straight to gold with a high placement (happened to me bronze to silver and silver to gold). Don't sweat it if you don't beat them though - they are 2 leagues above after all.

Notes as I go (without watching reps):

Game 1 - banshees are a bit funny in TvZ. I personally restrict them to 2 roles - all-ins, and support for mech armies when you get scouted and opponent goes mass roach. They are so gas heavy like you said.

Game 2 - Yep, gotta say you should practice new and crazy things in a custom, even if vs AI at least once before taking it to the ladder, on ladder focus on refining your execution rather than expanding your quantity of builds

Game 3 - Standard

Game 4 - Nicely scouted, want to see the replay!

Game 5 - Works in TvT nicely (especially with proxy marauders), but it's a bit cheesier (the reason it works so well in TvP is that trading works in the favour of Terran that early in the game - in TvT it doesn't (but does favour the player with the better macro) so you want to do a lot more damage. Consider going double tech lab and making 2 marauders at a time. Reapers are dangerous to use at low level because of the lack of control. Good job punishing him for the choice.

Game 6 - I'll stream a look at this replay for you if you like

Game 7 - The advantage of that kind of early aggression is that you're in a strong position with a lot of fast units. Just go home, expand, get some upgrades (I would go fast stim when leaning on a heavy marauder element), and just enjoy maxing out a bio army really fast.

Game 8 - I'll stream this one too - I'll help you refine that timing.

Game 9 - I want to watch this badly - keen to see how you are with drops!

Game 10 - Sounds like good decision making. I'm keen to see what you did after you went home (did you expand, did you get fast medivacs, did you get combat shield up etc). Sounds like it went quite standard, and yes storms are a pain to deal with.

Game 11 - Good job

Game 12 - Standard

Game 13 - Nice! Sounds about right in a siege situation. The person who gets impatient and attacks loses :P

Games 14 & 15 are tournament play so I'll brush them off... for now...

hahaha XD just too much free time :P Its a good thing I have good teachers in school or else I wouldnt be able to play this many games :P

thanks though, you don't have to stream the replays you mentioned cause its really just bad decision making and macro. And Game 9's drop micro was just picking all my stuff up quickly as the Banes come rolling in and dropping em 1 by one and far apart on top of em till he runs out of resources :P Game 10 was horrid. Had map control and yet wasn't able to control the game D:

Game 13 is the one that I'd like you to look at. Two factors favoured me in that game, my macro and my opponent's macro. Though, when I look at the statistics, I lost alot of things and workers :/

And you gonna leave Game 14 and 15 alone...for now? o_O?

hey panda, i got an idea
when you give a summary, tell us what map it is on, so people (me) who cant watch replay can make a bit more sense of it