I was chugging along, steadily working my way up the leaderboard, refining my builds and timings, expanding my card knowledge, you know the drill, up until level 27, where I peaked after a particularly good day.
Then an unlucky day later I dropped to rank 23 and I've been piddling around ranks 21-23 ever since. Mostly of the time I play, it feels like I lose close games due to bad luck. There are some exceptions where either my opponent or I made a crucial mistake, or Tournament games that spiral out of control, but overall I can't figure out why I'm losing so much more often lately.
http://councilroom.com/player?player=mDuo13here's are a few example games -- if you guys can look through and point out anything I could've done to play it better, I'd love the advice. I'm sure there are more optimal ways to play some of these.
Game 1.
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120411-135816-79f70173.html (Tunnel game, I probably should've bought Secret Chamber earlier?)
Game 2.
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120411-145750-173f7d58.html (Goons, I probably shouldn't have opened Walled Village, I guess?)
Game 3.
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120409-141859-e7ebf3be.html(Familiar with both players opening 5/2. I tried to play defense with Wharf+Crossroads+Salvager but it didn't work.)
Game 4.
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120409-142407-4c3af287.html(I go Chapel/Remodel, he goes Masq/Masq)
Game 5.
http://councilroom.com/game?game_id=game-20120409-133033-65d6b479.html(Basically a BM game, I lost the tie on turns.)
Especially if you guys can see some trend to my mistakes/weaknesses that I can work on for all future games, that would be ideal.