On a side note, the ladder season 2 has just started, so league rankings has reset. You must play a game and it will place you in a league based on your performance, although I don't know how accurate this is. I hope if you're a former diamond 1 and lose to a 6 pool vs a former master 1 that you won't be placed in bronze league. I ended up in low Silver, although I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up back into the high bronze at one point. X.x

Wow nice that you were diamond. I used to be Silver 12 then got demoted to Bronze 27 and only got up to Bronze 12 or something until recently. At one point I started wondering why I even bothered anymore, considering I tried many tricks people told me and tried doing most stuff said in Bronze tutorials. When I got demoted from plat to gold in 4v4 I was happy and if I got demoted to silver I wouldn't mind too much, but I must tell you that getting demoted from a low league to the lowest possible league really hurts, especially since it happened after I played 5 games a day during 3 months. I hope this won,t happen again this time, else I think I'm just gonna quit bothering about 1v1 or simply don't try as hard. Even in Bronze I still managed to lose 10 games in a row sometimes.

Ah ok. Personally at first, in Silver, I often lost to void rays and reaper rushes until I figured out how to be prepared. However, after they required a factory for the reaper speed upgrade, everyone started going MM, and it took me ages to figure out that roaches just plain suck vs marauders and that I needed to expand asap to not get outmassed by their marauder/marine constant pushes. I would survive the first push, but not the 2nd. Eventually I got demoted to bronze. Then I figured out how to deal with that, but I have serious troubles vs toss (Colossi)

Also game requires 12 GB hard drive space. If it would run on my older machine, it would take about 15% of the entire hard drive

Only 15%? If I installed it on mine, I'm sure it would be 85% or something like that

Well what sucked is that I was demoted from Silver 12 to Bronze 27 X.x. Bronze 12 would have been more tolerable. Also even in Bronze I could still not hold a record above 49% win ratio. However, I heard that 50% of the players were Bronze, so that's a wide range of players. In Bronze, people claim everyone cheese and that they only get like 5 drones and never scout, but that's wrong: I even see people going Phoenix harrass and trying other strategies we normally only see in gold or higher.

On a side note here's how I got placed, just to tell how ranking is: X.x

1v1 low Silver, after winning a long ZvZ game. I did some mistakes in it like not scouting his banelings later in the game and sending a huge wave of speedlings to kill his expo drones, but otherwise he never really got to attack me as by the time he got a decent army I always decimated it with my loads of roaches, in addition to keeping trying to destroy his expansion. It helped that I scouted his fast expand, though, as I went with an early roach push. Original rank was Bronze, so I guess my new ranking isn't really innacurate.

2v2 gold, in an hard game, but where I sucked near the end as I forgot upgrades and one enemy terran had lv 3 attack. We nearly got decimated but the enemy basewas nearly gone as my ally had his massive army over there and I was defending our bases. In this game it helped that I scout the 6 pool rush that got followed by non-stop zergling waves. He didn,t even go roach and I had some banelings, so bye bye zerglings, and later his muta harrass was rather weak. Personally I feel I should've been in silver instead of gold.

3v3 silver. For odd reasons, 3v3 was always considerably harder than 1v1, 2v2 and 4v4 at Starcraft II. I am surprised I was not ranked in low bronze there, because in 3v3, bronze is the equivalent of gold in 4v4 and silver is the equivalent of platinum. I guess fewer people play 3v3 and mostly hardcore sc players do. Anyway we got owned badly so I eventually gg'ed along with my team.

4v4 platinum. I do not know if we won or lost, because the game lasted much longer than I expected and I had to leave for work, so I left. By the time I left we were starting to get dominated, though, so I guess we were probably on the verge of losing. Don't ask me why I was ranked to platinum. I think I should be gold at most or low platimum. (In plat I often owned, until I started playing only vs diamond and master then getting matched with crappy teams)

Personally my rankings should have been in the following ranges, based on my performances in season 1:

1v1 High bronze to high silver
2v2 Low silver to high silver
3v3 Low bronze to medium bronze (or low copper, if the rumors about the return of copper league are true)
4v4 High silver to low platinum