I think it definitely more than just a bad streak of luck. Last night was a lot better, but the prevailing theme of getting placed on flames is still very much a thing. Here are my games last night:

Game 1: Placed IF - Winner MS
Game 2: Placed IF - Winner IF
Game 3: Placed MS - MS
Game 4: Placed TA - TA
Game 5: Placed IF - TA
Game 6: Placed IF - TA
Game 7: Placed IF - TA
Game 8: Placed IF - IF
Game 9: Placed MS - TA/IF
Game 10: Placed TA - TA
Game 11: Placed IF - TA
Game 12: Placed IF - MS
Game 13: Placed IF - MS
Game 14: Placed TA - MS (turned freelancer off for this game)
Game 15: Placed IF - MS
Game 16: Placed TA - TA (turned freelancer off for this game)
Game 17: Placed TA - TA (turned freelancer off for this game)

My win % when I freelanced on Flames was 20%. My win % when I freelanced on Adders or Mael was 75% (not counting my non-freelanced adders games).

And when I freelance, my chances of freelancing to flames, over my last 50 games, has been around 75% (it was 71% last night and that was the most diverse night I've had in a while)

So right now on the Aether datacenter, freelancing means a pretty low chance to win. I think I'll put my fate into the Adders for a while and see how that goes.