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Arrian
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States889 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-18 03:47:09
April 18 2010 03:42 GMT
#1
As some of you may have seen, I got a beta key with the new batch TL got and before I continue I'd like to thank riptide & kennigit etc for the opportunity to play beta. To those of you who don't have it, I know your pain like you will never know.

That having been said, in the small amount of time I've had the beta I already made the platinum division! I played a whole bunch of games in silver my first couple games then my account got reset randomly like it does, and I won 5 straight intense games against a variety of really good opponents in the placement matches and I got placed in platinum.

I don't think I'm a platinum player, partially because I don't know much about the game at all and partially because I was never any good at BW but if when SC2 comes out and the competition gets too fierce and I never make it this high again I'll always be able to say that I've made platinum, if only technically.

This is exciting every nerd cell in my body and thus I cannot type any longer. Gotta play more. Cheers, TL, and thanks all for helping me get the key!

EDIT: sweet 500th post forthcoming

EDIT: can't screenshot but also can't explain why...it's weird. Also can't respond because of imminent 500th post which is not yet ready

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AcrossFiveJulys
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
United States3612 Posts
April 18 2010 03:45 GMT
#2
Congrats, but realize that anyone who isn't completely terrible is in platinum right now, or is completely dominating in gold and going to be promoted soon. Make it up to 1400 ELO and you'll start playing some decent people

Enjoy beta and don't nerd rage too much when you lose to stupid cheeses!
SnowFantasy
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
4173 Posts
April 18 2010 03:45 GMT
#3
Nice~

Who's in your division? Screenshot the leaderboard or something.
Wi)nD
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada719 Posts
April 18 2010 03:47 GMT
#4
On April 18 2010 12:45 AcrossFiveJulys wrote:
Congrats, but realize that anyone who isn't completely terrible is in platinum right now, or is completely dominating in gold and going to be promoted soon. Make it up to 1400 ELO and you'll start playing some decent people

Enjoy beta and don't nerd rage too much when you lose to stupid cheeses!


congrats getting your key
hoborg
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States430 Posts
April 18 2010 04:09 GMT
#5
Congrats!

I also got a key from TL yesterday. I got destroyed in my placements 1:4 and got placed into... copper. The worst league. I almost feel like I've let TL down
blbl | CJ and ACE fighting!
IndecisivePenguin
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States771 Posts
April 18 2010 04:29 GMT
#6
Congrats! Keep us updated on the awesome learning experience.
Day[9]
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
United States7366 Posts
April 18 2010 04:30 GMT
#7
Congrats man! :D :D :D

Platinum is pretty hard to get to. You can end up paired vs some pretty sick people by random in those placement matches : ]
Whenever I encounter some little hitch, or some of my orbs get out of orbit, nothing pleases me so much as to make the crooked straight and crush down uneven places. www.day9.tv
stalife
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada1222 Posts
April 18 2010 04:31 GMT
#8
congratulations! That mindset always helps!
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ohN
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States1075 Posts
April 18 2010 05:07 GMT
#9
Congrats. the platinum icon looks cool. :D
My router dced on me in 2/5 of my placement matches. -.-
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11554 Posts
April 18 2010 05:11 GMT
#10
congrats ARrian :D
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
CaucasianAsian
Profile Blog Joined September 2005
Korea (South)11586 Posts
April 18 2010 05:34 GMT
#11
Man I only went 4-1 and got Gold T_T FML
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EPO
Profile Joined August 2009
Canada341 Posts
April 18 2010 05:42 GMT
#12
On April 18 2010 12:42 Arrian wrote:
To those of you who don't have it, I know your pain like you will never know.


But... we do know? -_-a
Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-18 05:45:30
April 18 2010 05:45 GMT
#13
does anyone know how many ppl (%) in plat, gold, silver etc.. I want to know what shape is the pyramid b.net ladder produces. As we know iccup had a ridiculous sharp top... like 50% D, 40%C, 8% B and 2% A or something like that. How does it break down for the current system?

I feel like if you can make it to C- on iccup, you can easily get to plat with sc2. 5placement matches being such a low number there is some luck in that too..
QuothTheRaven
Profile Joined December 2008
United States5524 Posts
April 18 2010 06:08 GMT
#14
Congrats!
. . . nevermore
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
April 18 2010 06:16 GMT
#15
Congrats to you!

I went 5-0 in 2v2 placement just yesterday and got placed into Gold. Boy, was I pissed.
God Bless
PatandPat
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada29 Posts
April 18 2010 07:27 GMT
#16
lol i went 3-2 in placement matches because of discs (previously 1900 level plat player) got into silver made it to platinum in less than a day.
rauk
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States2228 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-04-18 07:47:32
April 18 2010 07:32 GMT
#17
On April 18 2010 14:45 Glider wrote:
does anyone know how many ppl (%) in plat, gold, silver etc.. I want to know what shape is the pyramid b.net ladder produces. As we know iccup had a ridiculous sharp top... like 50% D, 40%C, 8% B and 2% A or something like that. How does it break down for the current system?

I feel like if you can make it to C- on iccup, you can easily get to plat with sc2. 5placement matches being such a low number there is some luck in that too..


there appears to be approximately 3000+ platinum players with about 40ish divisions. i know there's at least 89 gold divisions, so assuming that the number of divisions and players doubles each time you go down a metal league, you get:
plat 3k
gold 6k
silver 12k
bronze 24k
copper 48k

you get 93k overall players on the US server, and 3k/93k = .03 or 3% of the battle.net population in platinum. at least 90k+ beta keys on US server sounds vaguely reasonable to me. but even being in platinum there's a huge spread of skill. don't take these numbers for anything other than a very, very rough guesstimate.

i think being in platinum is more like being a solid D/D+ on iccup with a little bit of luck in actually getting into plat, and less than top 8 or top 16 gold and down is more like the casual battlenetters.

having about 1400 points places you at about 800 out of 3000 overall, going by starcraftrankings.com. so having less than 1400 points places you in the lower 75%. 1200 points is 1500/3000, or the 50%. so assuming that 1000-1200 is the D to D+ range, you can kinda extrapolate the equivalent of the iccup ranking by points with 2000+ being A-rank going by 300 points for every letter rank.
Exteray
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States1094 Posts
April 18 2010 09:30 GMT
#18
hahahah "cant respond cuz of imminent 500th post"

Congrats though! ur now platinum certified! ^^
3clipse
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
Canada2555 Posts
April 18 2010 11:03 GMT
#19
I just made plat too. ^_^

Figured I'd better brag as I'm probably at the highest rank I'll be for a looooong time. Placed into Silver, bumped from 1 Silver to ~30 Gold. Bumped from 11 Gold to 11 Plat. Currently 10 Plat, pretty psyched. I'll lose it when the rest of my new div starts playing though.
NonFactor
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Sweden698 Posts
April 18 2010 11:26 GMT
#20
Rank means nothing guys, it's the points that matters. Being rank 10 in Platinum isn't hard at all depending on your division. My Protoss that I haven't touched in days is still top 10 because the division it's in sucks, is relatively new, meaning it has low points. Like mentioned, when you hit around 1400-1500 points you will start playing decent opponents.

Getting top 10 in platinum when ranked 1 player has 1300 points is hardly something you can brag about or even feel good about, just throwing that out there.
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