I usually don't have anything aside from 6-12 zerglings and maybe a half-constructed Hydralisk Den. A friend recommended building a couple Queens to counter these kinds of rushes since they can pretty much keep each other alive with Transfusion.

I don't know if battle.net regions are incompatible. But you can add Yamaxanadu/816 if you like. But beware, I'm really crap at this game. So far.

I couldn't add you either.

I'm winning a few games in the practice league, but I feel it may be as much due to opponent incompetence as my own competence. I won one game by distracting an opponent's mutalisks with my own corruptors long enough for my wave of zerglings to make it over to and completely obliterate his entire harvesting operation... you just don't recover from that. The second time was a lot of hit-and-run with void rays while some stalkers harassed the other side of his camp to keep him having to split his forces, which pretty much won me that one despite facing heavy anti-air resistance.

I said pretty much the exact same thing to a friend of mine when I was saying why I don't really like Blizzard any more. We were talking about the video game market and how Microsoft jumped into consoles because the PC market was no longer the main source of 3D gaming. Going through the history of Blizzard, they didn't start with games. They started with spreadsheet apps and crap. It was just more profitable to move into gaming. Thus, their games are designed to create the highest profit, which means they will work with the human brain's reward system as fluidly as possible.

I think they've done a great job, it just sort of creeps me out that they actually did it.
It's another one of those things I have to try and keep away from myself even though it's what everyone talks about. Over 4,000 matches on the original SC is enough gaming addiction for this lifetime. I even have people asking me to build them computers specifically for SC2. It's so hard to be paranoid of commercially designed entertainment.

Ah at least you aren't in Diamond.

I'm still in bronze in 3v3. turns out my record is shit. I keep losing all the matches. Like the one i just played... i warded off 3 teams with blink stalkers, chargelots, and collosus. But in the end my macro slipped and after the two toss players were out the terran nailed my only minning expansion and i was toast. But like always, i lost 2 players to a really early rush when they had no units.

I wonder how they managed to make those practice maps anti-rush.

I have the same record for 2vs2. Out of the games I lost, only once did I have a decent teammate. One win for example happened when my teammate left in the first 20 seconds. I ended up using his base to fund a quick zealot rush which I went all in and held nothing back (if he had just one air unit, I would have lost the game), and it managed to win me the game somehow.

Other then that every game I've played had the other team "slightly favoured", and by slightly favoured, they mean my teammate will only mine half the resources of any player and have one barracks for the entire game.

Thats kind of crazy. All my opponents have been surprisingly good and I'm in the second worse division. I'm not at my full strength but I always have at least 3 barracks and such. I just lost a game to some void rays -- man those things are annoying. I had a fleet of valks, about 2 to 1 against void rays. The void rays cleaned them out. What the hell are you supposed to send against them?

I just got into Platinum League making only 3 unit types.

The more I play the game and watch replays of the top players, the more realise what a pile of shit it is compared to Warcraft 3. The only thing keeping me from reinstalling Wc3 is that it's so much more fun that I tend to waste too much of my time playing it.

Hm, I have not been microing. I guess that is the problem.

You'll do fine. I also got placed in Gold League for 1v1 too, and I just completed the 5-game hotstreak achievement.

Another thing that really annoys be is the "favored" bull-shit. I've now got ~100 games played across 1v1 / 2v2 / 3v3 and not once has my team even been "slightly favored". I've come to the conclusion that Blizzard always tells each team that their opposition is better than them so that they feel better about losing.

Has anyone else noticed this?

I finally started playing online matches, and entered into the expected bronze league. Most players seem nice, but there are those that tell you how much you suck after you wipe the floor with them

@Arthur Kalliokowski

0_o That was ... interesting.