Well, I finally got my placement match for this season out of the way. I personally hate the placement matches because I hate losing and want to do well, but always seem to end up paired with an opponent who is clearly better than me and just get the crap kicked out of me and stuck in the silver league anyway. I actually tend to get a bit of a case of nerves with the placement matches, which might just be from not playing a lot of 1v1. I know how to win, just don't have the practice to execute it. Granted, this time around I had a hard fought battle as Protoss vs. Terran for almost 40 minutes, but by the end he was harrassing me from too many different directions and wore me down while preventing me from expanding to a third base. I was trying to keep him from expanding as well but I never managed to get any colossus out to deal with his MMM army (largely my fault. I thought I had built a robotics bay but had really completely forgotten it and was fighting tooth and nail to not die when I really needed to be getting colossus out), so he just kept draining my resources as I suffered bigger losses than him in just about every skirmish.

I'm not sure I'm really enjoying playing Protoss right now though. It hasn't felt quite right since I've been playing a lot of Terran/Random in cooperative mode so I think I'll be playing Terran for a while at least and see how it goes. I did play a second game right after my placement match and went Terran against a Zerg player and won quite handily with an MMM army backed up with tanks and some Vikings. My favourite part was when I had him pushed back to his main and natural expansion and he built 7-8 spine crawlers in front of his expansion. So I scanned his main, saw no spore cannons and said screw that. Loaded up the medivacs and dropped right in his main to completely finish him.

I think I'll have to go back and watch Terran week from the Day[9] dailies though. I have a rough idea of unit matchups and some builds and strategies, but I haven't put the time into learning it that I was for Protoss.