Season 2 Retrospective

At my job as a software engineer, our team holds a "retro" at the end of each major release, and we discuss what things went well and what things need improvement.

Season 2 ended a few weeks ago, and I've had some time to reflect on how things went. (and put together some cute HTML tables :)

	After Qualifier	Final Standing
League	Silver	Silver
Rank	84	23
Rank Points	0	278
Bonus Pool	780	1067

Matchup Wins Losses Total Win Rate TvZ 8 1 9 89% TvT 4 8 12 33% TvP 2 3 5 40% Total 14 12 26 54% Opponent's League Wins Losses Total Win Rate ? 2 2 100% Gold 2 2 100% Silver 5 5 10 50% Bronze 5 7 12 42%

Map Wins Losses Total Win Rate Delta Quadrant 3 1 4 75% Metalopolis 3 1 4 75% Tal'darim Altar LE 2 0 2 100% Xel'Naga Caverns 2 2 4 50% Slag Pits 1 1 2 50% Scrap Station 1 2 3 33% Shakuras Plateau 1 2 3 33% Typhon Peaks 1 3 4 25% Green text = map was new for Season 2 Red background = map is removed for Season 3

So some interesting results!

Apparently, I'm very good at TvZ - except for my qualifier, I won every game. When playing, I felt like TvT was my most even match, and I was beside myself with how to handle Protoss (TvP). I felt like I was getting better at TvT the more I played - and I was pretty jazzed after that last game, winning against a Gold league Terran! But yeah, TvP is a challenge for me.

The league breakdown confirms my feeling that I'm mid/lower Silver. The goal of the match-making system is to get you a 50% win rate, and it looks like I'm there.

I did find it sad that the two maps I did the best on are being removed for Season 3. I will miss Metalopolis, it's a great map. But it's been a staple map since the Beta, so it was only a matter of time before it got cycled out. I'm really looking forward to the new Season 3 maps, and playing more on Typhon Peaks and especially Tal'darim Altar LE - both bigger maps.

One thing that really stood out for me is that I really should play more games - 26 is not a very large sample set! I also thought it was a shame that I wasn't able to play more 2v2 or 3v3 with the handful of my friends that play SC2. Now that I'm getting the hang of blogging, casting, and posting on YouTube, I should be able to spend more time playing and less time in production!

Well, I think that's it for Season 2!

Good Game and Well Played :)