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eSen1a
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia1058 Posts
May 06 2010 12:16 GMT
#1
First time i cheesed my way into platinum(and then got poor results), i think i am a low gold/high silver player ANYWAYS i lost my 5 placement last reset, got promoted to bronze fast and now have been sitting at rank 1 bronze for a while and havn't been promoted... just wondering how long does it usually take? Bronze is god awful boring ;LLL

(also i looked but couldn't find a thead on this)

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InfernoX
Profile Joined April 2010
Sweden55 Posts
May 06 2010 12:20 GMT
#2
Im not quite sure but I heard from someone that he went 11-0 and got promoted.
TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
May 06 2010 12:39 GMT
#3
My friend says that after he lost a game, he got promoted from gold to platinum... pretty strange IMO.
(5)Twilight Star.scx --------- AdmiralHoth: There was one week when I didn't shave for a month.
XXehh
Profile Joined May 2009
Canada122 Posts
May 06 2010 12:42 GMT
#4
If you keep winning games, you will get promoted very quickly. There was a thread before about a guy getting from copper to plat in 30 games, and losing some along the way. If it is easy enough that it is boring, stop losing games .
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
May 06 2010 12:46 GMT
#5
An incomplete guide to bnet 2.0 ranking system
KinosJourney2
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden1811 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-05-06 12:47:58
May 06 2010 12:47 GMT
#6
I won a game and got demoted to Silver from Gold (but i had like a 3-11 record before that anyways )
ocho wrote: EDIT: NEVERMIND, THIS THING HAS APM TECHNOLOGY OMG
Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
May 06 2010 13:09 GMT
#7
so if people are winning games and being demoted, or losing games and being promoted, that would seem to indicate that you need a minimum number of games before it will let you change division. If you were 3-11 before, that win would be your 15th game, so maybe you need 15 games minimum before changing out of gold.
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
LuDwig-
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Italy1143 Posts
May 06 2010 13:25 GMT
#8
in 30 games i went from copper to gold (and im stuck there at 1 position now).
You need good win rate or you will never be advanced
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=120015&currentpage=98<--Search the HotBid's Post
eSen1a
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia1058 Posts
May 06 2010 13:35 GMT
#9
On May 06 2010 22:25 LuDwig- wrote:
in 30 games i went from copper to gold (and im stuck there at 1 position now).
You need good win rate or you will never be advanced


ah shit
i played protoss (my main race) until ranked 1 and then zerg (my worst race) since, still rank #1 but i lost a lot more as zerg
i assumed it was just rank FML, better go back to protoss
thanks all for the info
CTStalker
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Canada9720 Posts
May 06 2010 13:37 GMT
#10
On May 06 2010 21:39 TwilightStar wrote:
My friend says that after he lost a game, he got promoted from gold to platinum... pretty strange IMO.

yeah, that happened to me after i had lost two games in a row. granted, i had been ranked in gold but getting matched against platinum players for a while. it still seemed funny though
By the way, my name is Funk. I am not of your world
Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
May 06 2010 13:47 GMT
#11
On May 06 2010 21:39 TwilightStar wrote:
My friend says that after he lost a game, he got promoted from gold to platinum... pretty strange IMO.


cuz system evaluates you after X amount of games, so if over all in those games you win enough to be promoted, you will be promoted.
zealing
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada806 Posts
May 06 2010 14:12 GMT
#12
just keep on playing and eventually you will get promoted. just takes time.
Think you got lag? It took Jesus 3 days to respawn.
ModernAgeShaman
Profile Joined January 2008
Norway484 Posts
May 06 2010 14:31 GMT
#13
you say bronze is god awful boring but it seems if you're not getting promoted then you are probably losing about 50% of your games and will probably stay there. you can keep playing but unless you're beating silver opponents or better or being very consistant in bronze you won't be promoted
eSen1a
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Australia1058 Posts
May 06 2010 14:54 GMT
#14
^ yeah i thought it was just rank that mattered, my win loss with zerg is about 60 40 in copper but my protoss is about 80+, and i get dropped from maybe 1/10 games due to shitty 3rd world internet, gonna stick to protoss and play all day tomorrow to up my ratio
The6357
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
United States1268 Posts
May 06 2010 16:19 GMT
#15
if ur high in rank in ur league...mostly likely ur playing people from upper leagues... if u win 4-5 games straight at #1 u will get promoted..happened to me 2 times so far...
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