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D+ is substantially harder than C- on Iccup.

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SirIsaacNewton
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States19 Posts
December 12 2009 06:41 GMT
#1
It seems that the level of play for the D+ players is higher than that of C- players on Iccup.

There is a good amount of smurfs at D+ rank who are probably B rank at least while there are plenty of D and D- players who cheesed there way into C-.

Does anyone else feel the same?

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Glaucus
Profile Joined June 2009
479 Posts
December 12 2009 06:43 GMT
#2
lol
Mowse
Profile Joined October 2007
South Africa56 Posts
December 12 2009 06:44 GMT
#3
I keep getting c- then everygame there im cheesed back to d+ which is easy to win again then it repeats :/
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
December 12 2009 06:44 GMT
#4
No.
Misrah
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States1695 Posts
December 12 2009 06:45 GMT
#5
i don't know if i should call you a troll, slap you, or ignore you.

Either way i am not taking you seriously.
A thread vaguely bashing SC2? SWARM ON, LOW POST COUNT BRETHREN! DEFEND THE GLORIOUS GAME THAT IS OUR LIVELIHOOD
KawaiiRice
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States2914 Posts
December 12 2009 06:45 GMT
#6
Where does everyone get this feeling that D/C is filled with B smurfs?
@KawaiiRiceLighT
Amnesia
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States3818 Posts
December 12 2009 06:46 GMT
#7
what is up with all these "smurf" blogs, cut the bullshit you're just playing bad. don't blame other players
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
December 12 2009 06:47 GMT
#8
Why does everyone seem to think that any person that's better than them at the same rank is a smurf?
Foreplay
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1154 Posts
December 12 2009 06:47 GMT
#9
another smurf blog? srsly?
Better than Pokebunny
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
December 12 2009 06:48 GMT
#10
your fucking zerg... 9pool speedling into 3hat hydra cannon bust.
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
December 12 2009 06:51 GMT
#11
im really, really confused. i play vs d players with 24-36 stats or so and they give me a really hard fight. then i play vs 6-0 guys that were c- last season and own them with no problem.

w t f ?
AmstAff
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Germany949 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-12 06:53:30
December 12 2009 06:51 GMT
#12
no

i have more troubles with 300-400 B-/B players than with 50-10 B-/B players think why...
after 2 years i reached it = marine icon
Nightmarjoo
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
United States3360 Posts
December 12 2009 06:53 GMT
#13
I agree, D+ is always harder than C- for me. Two seasons ago, when I got b- for the first time, at one point I was 19-6 D+, having lost all 6 games at D+, and then hit C+ at 36-6. D+ is fucking hard, the noobs don't know what they're doing at all, so how am I sposed to know what they're doing? Guys at c- know what they're doing more than d+ guys, so they're easier to predict, and still have god-awful micro/macro.
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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11557 Posts
December 12 2009 06:56 GMT
#14
smurf blogs ROFL
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
Foreplay
Profile Joined May 2008
United States1154 Posts
December 12 2009 07:06 GMT
#15
On December 12 2009 15:56 FragKrag wrote:
smurf blogs ROFL

They're the new girl blogs. They just involve a different breed of frustrated nerd
Better than Pokebunny
T.O.P. *
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Hong Kong4685 Posts
December 12 2009 07:06 GMT
#16
I'm sure that D is substantially harder than D+. D rank is where all the smurfers play because that's the rank people get when they type "/clearstats YES". In D rank, you play players like TSL-GoOdy, TSL-ChOseN, and TSL-semih. Plus you get to play all those B Skilled Koreans that aren't B ranked because they play on ICCUP sparingly.
Oracle comes in, Scvs go down, never a miscommunication.
JFKWT
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Singapore1442 Posts
December 12 2009 07:09 GMT
#17
On December 12 2009 16:06 T.O.P. wrote:
I'm sure that D is substantially harder than D+. D rank is where all the smurfers play because that's the rank people get when they type "/clearstats YES". In D rank, you play players like TSL-GoOdy, TSL-ChOseN, and TSL-semih. Plus you get to play all those B Skilled Koreans that aren't B ranked because they play on ICCUP sparingly.

at D i can find people with 200-300 apm and its clearly not spam from the way they control their units O_o
The calm before the storm / "loli is not a crime, but meganekko is the way to go!"
ketomai
Profile Joined June 2007
United States2789 Posts
December 12 2009 07:10 GMT
#18
Personally I'm having more trouble at the D- level than even the C- level. I mean seriously, do the B players just come over to their D- friend's house and 'show them how it's done'? It's ridiculous how much harder D- is. I can get to D+ with 15-2 stats, but if I just see a D- it's like an autoboot. I mean wtf I lose half the time to D- players, who should just be learning the game. There's obviously something wrong here :/.
DanceCommander
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1808 Posts
December 12 2009 07:10 GMT
#19
I disagree... Only because the smurfs are like C- for me lol. here are some of the people i played (and lost to) at C- recently

http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/tsl.maestro.o.html
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/rico[sca].html
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/wild.bull[7].html
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/aidplv.html
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/russiasuperrr.html
http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/davkov[vt].html
d(O.o)a
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada5066 Posts
December 12 2009 07:17 GMT
#20
I think that he's mocking that other guy's post.
Hi.
JohannesH
Profile Joined September 2009
Finland1364 Posts
December 12 2009 07:31 GMT
#21
On December 12 2009 16:17 d(O.o)a wrote:
I think that he's mocking that other guy's post.

Who? I saw no such post...
If you have to ask, you don't know.
Piste
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
6183 Posts
December 12 2009 07:31 GMT
#22
So are you D+ or C-? :D
Marine50
Profile Joined September 2007
Australia1764 Posts
December 12 2009 07:42 GMT
#23
I agree with you OP
IRIS FIGHTING!!!
reincremate
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
China2216 Posts
December 12 2009 07:49 GMT
#24
Statistics show that there are at least 3 times as many B level players at D than at B.
lazz
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia3119 Posts
December 12 2009 08:09 GMT
#25
there's a lot more skill variance at D/D+ but to say its harder than C- is obviously a bit of a stretch
CobaltBlu
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States919 Posts
December 12 2009 08:12 GMT
#26
When I first started playing I thought everyone I lost to was a smurf. When I got good enough to make D+ and I saw how easy it was for me to go up through the D rank I realized that I had just been making excuses.
Saturnize
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States2473 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-12 08:46:05
December 12 2009 08:40 GMT
#27
this doesnt make any sense -.-

Edit: Nvm i see your mocking the other guys post :p
"Time to put the mustard on the hotdog. -_-"
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
December 12 2009 08:56 GMT
#28
On December 12 2009 17:12 Pifualkd wrote:
When I first started playing I thought everyone I lost to was a smurf. When I got good enough to make D+ and I saw how easy it was for me to go up through the D rank I realized that I had just been making excuses.


This, back when I first played someone went fact port against me and I thought he was hacking because I thought no one could get dropships that fast
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
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