Tales of a Bronze Bastard VII

Currently -- Bronze IV with 50

Well, 5.5 is live now.  I have a new mouse and am off from work today.  I'm going to try a casual game to see if I like this mouse, then...ranked or bust.  Not loving the mouse, switching back.

Ranked has sucked. I've played well lately, especially as solo, but just can't win.  So that is a sign of improvement.  I'm not getting BM-ed in game anymore.  So there's that.  Of course...when the rest of my team is a bunch of 10 year old who just installed the game, it doesn't really matter if I win lane.  Hopefully the new matchmaking algorithm will help.  I wonder how long the queue will be this morning?  6:45, not bad

Crap.  There's a bug where you can't call role in chat.  I wanted to go Cerb solo.  But if I pick Cerb at 3rd pick, they may think I'm Supp. Our Vulcan is diamond. 2nd pick takes Nemesis. I'm going to make a flex pick and go where it takes me.  Sylvanus.  Let's see what happens.  I can go supp or solo with this guy and feel OK about it.  The other team has an Osiris and what I presume will be a Cu Chu or Zhong support.  Wow, this should be fun.  Our team rounds out with Iza and Bellona; I'm going supp on this one.

Well, what a game.  Zhong crushed me early, I truly underestimated him.  I die 5 times in the first 10 minutes.  I do start to turn it around after I finish sov, though.  We team fight way better than the enemy, but they are tactically more sound than we are.  They group well and split well.  But when we get into 5 on 5...its no question we crush them.  We take numerous objectives, Gold Fury and Fire Giant all day.  We actually get the lead in gold from our early deficit.

And wouldn't you know it...in a ranked game that was going well...we get DC'd at the 40-minute mark by whatever bug HiRez dropped on us today.  Thanks a lot, this is just another game in the life of a Bronze Bastard.