Sometimes, life gets in the way of gaming.

I just had too much stuff to do, so I didn't get the chance to make a final push at the end of season 6. I ended up placing 11th in Silver division.

Even though it doesn't show it in the end-of-season rankings, I do think that I improved from playing one race, and now I think I have a decent shot of breaking into the Gold division. I think I learned how much a tighter build (and attacking more quickly) can help you win games. I noticed that if I was building fast and well, I needed to attack early to take advantage of my lead. It's much harder to hold onto a lead if you have to keep macroing to stay ahead.

The other big problem was that I didn't have a Terran vs. Terran build for most of the season. I was losing *all* of the TvT matches. One of LGRipper's friends suggested that I look at Day[9]'s TvT week, and specifically at the ThorZaIN build. While I didn't have much success playing with it, my style got a lot better when I learned how to play TvT. I also had to be more patient when trying to march my army across the map. Another tip that I learned? Don't march the whole army - hotkey a marine and send him ahead. Losing a 50-mineral marine to siege tanks that you didn't see is a lot less painful than losing half your army (and mostly likely, the game.)

I also think I have a better understanding of the race, and at least an idea of what I should do in the middle game. I still don't use enough ghosts.

Finally, I found that I started to be better at countering cheese builds and their followups. I used to hold off a cannon rush, only to die later. Now I know to expect a void ray followup, so siege tanks and marines are a good counter after you hold off the initial cannon rush.

I'm going to stick with Terran for another season and see how I do. I'll probably change to Zerg next.