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cyclone25
Romania3344 Posts
I'll start with Division 5 since I have access to it. Those who have access to other divisions, feel free to update it here too. ![[image loading]](http://i938.photobucket.com/albums/ad226/cyclone24/Division5.jpg) Since I know the W3 scene very well, I can tell you Nightend, HasuObs, Bly and Bensen are semi-pro W3 players. From the SC players I only know ParanOid in this division.   | ||
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NarutO
Germany18839 Posts
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cyclone25
Romania3344 Posts
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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TeWy
France714 Posts
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Nal_rAwr
United States2611 Posts
On February 20 2010 04:55 cyclone25 wrote: btw, any idea how can I move this to "Starcraft 2" threads? a mod has to do it =X | ||
Zelniq
United States7166 Posts
btw, David Kim = dayvie, in platinum division 4, he's 88-5 | ||
NonY
8751 Posts
On February 20 2010 05:03 TeWy wrote: Bensen is also a semi pro War3 player; What is a semi pro for War3? | ||
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Irrelevant
United States2364 Posts
a failure at life ^ ^ jk, no clue? Maybe they hustle bet games or something. | ||
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cyclone25
Romania3344 Posts
Atm, there are like 20 players who make a living from playing W3 (there were more in the past, but leagues/tournaments went down alot lately). These are the pro's. Besides these players, there are like 100-150 more players who earn money from W3 but a lot less (100-500euro monthly). You you can see them in all kind of solo/team leagues (some of them even playing in the very top leagues), but very rarely you see them placing top in a tournament. Imo, these are the semi-pro's. | ||
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jimminy_kriket
Canada5541 Posts
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TeWy
France714 Posts
No specific definition, and it varies a lot, most of these guys are students who play War3 as their main hobby. A semi-pro like NightEnd earns a decent money for playing, not enough to live from it though, I've no idea how much he earns but it must be 100-500 euros (500 euros is probably far too much). A guy like Bensen plays in the same leagues than NightEnd, exept that he is part of a less famous team, I'm pretty sure that he doesn't even have a salary, but he is still referenced as a "semi-pro". I I had to give a definition, it would be "People who play in the same leagues than the real pros except that they get destroid 98% of the times by them and almost never get invited in real tournaments". | ||
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Xeris
Iran17695 Posts
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Skyze
Canada2324 Posts
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deL
Australia5540 Posts
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Mr.Pyro
Denmark959 Posts
![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/3RU7t.jpg) ![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/pXvRq.jpg) | ||
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ocoini
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Mr.Pyro
Denmark959 Posts
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Tsagacity
United States2124 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img251.imageshack.us/img251/1574/plat6.jpg) We need some sort of constantly updated thread or sticky for keeping track of this because as far as I know there's no way to view stats outside of your own league. I'm curious how other divisions look because at the moment there's not a single terran at the top in mine | ||
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Hammy
France828 Posts
Can players from different divisions be paired up against each other? Can the top 8 players from division 2 play against division 1 players? | ||
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MagisterMan
Sweden525 Posts
On February 21 2010 10:12 Hammy wrote: I don't get this division business at all. Is division 1 higher ranked than division 2? Can players from different divisions be paired up against each other? Can the top 8 players from division 2 play against division 1 players? The players you play against have nothing to do with you're division - it's based on your elo points. Also division 1 is not higher than division 2 afaik. | ||
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0mgVitaminE
United States1278 Posts
Honestly i didn't know about divisions until now, have I been moving up divisions without noticing? | ||
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StuF
Netherlands51 Posts
also a bit of a warning here to anyone new to the ladder: if your ladder-rating means anything to you at all, dont start experimenting in laddergames, especially when you first start out. if you end up in a lower-lvl league, like i have, itll take you a long long time climbing up. dont do what i did: i started out silver after placement matches. didnt know you could do custom games yet, so wanted to try some different builds, races, just being creative and trying out all kinds of stupid things, even probe rushing (dont ask me why). obviously i started losing. after a few matches -20 orso?- blizzard recalculates your level and puts you in -what they consider to be- your appropriate league. for me this meant a drop from silver to 96th copper.  i think my ratio was something like 6/18 at this point. a score of say 921. still hadnt realized you could do customs  , so i just kept on experimenting and generaly sucking caus you can imagine i just wanted to play and learn the game. at this point my score didnt mean ^%& to me anymore. getting me in even more trouble. ratio 14/26 something. score well below 900. my own bad ofc. but i hardly expected it to be so hard climbing up! trying to prevent others from making the same mistake... once i realized the custom games option (dont judge me for being slow!) things turned around score-wise and now, 10 days later, ratio is at 33/32, with 1381 points, placed 16th in copper. to summarize: dont fuck up you first games! after placements, you get re-evaluated somewhere round 20 matches. i dropped two leagues in one day - thats about 250 places down! ive been slowly climbing back since then, but that takes a hell of a lot longer! | ||
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