Indeed! I watched them day-of, when I got home from the warehouse. Kudos for the lack of spoilers, too, sir.
I took your advice and watched Daily 132 along with his recent show about hotkeys, mouse movement, and APM. They were great. Then I booted the game and tried to implement what Day mentioned. I was embarrassed at how bad I am. Long, long, long way to go; I'm still sub-bronze.
No problem! I hate it myself when things get spoiled and I haven't watched it yet. (although it's rare for a GSL/GSTL event as I'm almost always on top of that!)
It's just having to get the pylons/probes/units rotation going in your mind throughout the whole game. Even I have issues with that, and I'm around mid-Diamond level already.
Really solid macro and one proven build order will get people out of Bronze all the way to Platinum. When I started playing in July I played Terran and just went MMM all the way to Plat level.
Somewhere around July or August I found Day[9] and my play started jumping exponentially after watching some of his casts, especially 132. Once I started to continually make depots, barracks, and marine/marauder I could just 1a - stim - win.
In a span of one month I went from Bronze to Gold. Another month later and I was in Platinum!
Once you hit Platinum there's a huge switch in levels of gameplay. No longer will a single strategy work *all* the time, so you have to learn to adapt in gameplay. More on that when you get here.
I just recently watched Daily 253 (I think?) about warming up your game, learning about location hotkeys, having useful APM, etc.
I think 132 and 253 are *THE* episodes to watch if you want to improve.
And as always if you need help, don't hesitate to contact me online!
sawedust.851
EDIT:
After a laddering session this morning and afternoon, I made it up to 2800 diamond! On my way to Masters League!