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GreatFall
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1061 Posts
July 29 2010 17:26 GMT
#61
I think what is going on is exactly what Geoff said
They want to show him that he in indeed outofContRoL! by making him suffer in plat league!

But seriously, I think it has to be over 9000!
Inventor of the 'Burning Tide' technique to quickly getting Outmatched Crusher achivement :D
GreatFall
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1061 Posts
July 29 2010 17:26 GMT
#62
On July 29 2010 19:50 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Alright I'm there! Woot


Oh good! Did you have to get anywhere close to 9000? hehe. Oh and congrats on diamond :D
Inventor of the 'Burning Tide' technique to quickly getting Outmatched Crusher achivement :D
zTz
Profile Blog Joined February 2003
United States476 Posts
July 29 2010 17:32 GMT
#63
Blizzard already commented on the ladder system and how it places in there community chat ('the transcript is somewhere on TL), it takes about 35'games to know where you belong
where's the rants n flames section?
AskJoshy
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States1625 Posts
July 29 2010 17:36 GMT
#64
Excellent OP, really glad I listened. Much love to EG and the GosuCoaching guys.
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v3chr0
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States856 Posts
July 29 2010 17:44 GMT
#65
On July 30 2010 02:36 JoshSuth wrote:
Excellent OP, really glad I listened. Much love to EG and the GosuCoaching guys.


Lol, indeed, that was well worth the time, it was pretty hilarious InControls impressions of the Blizzard team/DB.

On July 29 2010 19:50 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Alright I'm there! Woot


Congrats man :D
"He catches him with his pants down, backs him off into a corner, and then it's over." - Khaldor
CauthonLuck
Profile Joined July 2009
United States93 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-29 17:48:37
July 29 2010 17:46 GMT
#66
On July 30 2010 02:32 zTz wrote:
Blizzard already commented on the ladder system and how it places in there community chat ('the transcript is somewhere on TL), it takes about 35'games to know where you belong



Nope, the ladder system has some silly built in minimum loss requirement before it will evaluate you for division switches. It was the same way in beta, I remember being like 50-4 and stuck in platinum, then losing 4 out of 5 games and being promoted to diamond. I thought I was just bugged at first, but I saw multiple friends who would go to 30-2 or some such and not get promoted, while others would get bumped up with 15-9 records.

Seems like they left it in for release since some players like Idra/Moonglade aren't being promoted with 30+ wins against 0/1 losses. From what I can tell, the magic arbitrary number is 8 losses, I guarantee you'll be moved up within a few games of your next loss, since you have 7.
humansherdog
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada85 Posts
July 29 2010 18:00 GMT
#67
9000 points lmao.
Chriamon
Profile Joined April 2010
United States886 Posts
July 29 2010 18:18 GMT
#68
On July 29 2010 19:17 IdrA wrote:
you have to go on a losing streak and then win one, you'll get promoted after the win

This was also my experience. I played against a toss who was clearly better than me, and then I lost the next game to a cheese in ZvZ, and then was matched against the same toss again and lost (it was close mind you). Then it gave me another ZvZ and the guy hilariously 14 hatched and was subsequently destroyed by lings and then I was promoted to Diamond.
http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/274906/1/Blaze/
Awesomesauce
Profile Joined August 2009
Belgium69 Posts
July 29 2010 18:44 GMT
#69
LucifroN is at 27-6 in my plat league @580 ^^
Craton
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States17294 Posts
July 29 2010 19:34 GMT
#70
On July 29 2010 17:25 endy wrote:
so, cant you really choose your division ? is he sentenced to freewin until the next reset ?


You don't actually get stuck playing people in your division. Last phase of beta I got stuck in Silver (2-3 or 3-2 due to d/cs and whatnot), but I played almost all high plat and diamond until it eventually promoted me.
twitch.tv/cratonz
deo1
Profile Joined April 2010
United States199 Posts
July 29 2010 19:46 GMT
#71
I'm confused by how they determine the rankings as well. I placed into Gold but after a couple of days (with a record of about 15-10) I moved straight to Diamond--skipped Plat all together.

However, I was looking at the ladder last night and IdrA was #1 in his Platinum division with a record of 27-1. Yes. 27 wins and 1 loss. The only loss was clearly a dropped game (just a few seconds long) to LzGaMeR (I see that others have observed this as well). I really can't imagine what they use to determine Diamond.

Elo.
APM.
# of games played.
High income/low resources unused.
# of drones made lol. the list could go on. Though i think whoever said there is a minimum loss requirement is probably correct.

Any and all of these would be better by players like Incontrol and IdrA. Again, I have no idea what they use to determine this.

That video was hilarious btw.
Poooooor Protoss.
Ursadon-n-Pals
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States928 Posts
July 29 2010 21:37 GMT
#72
On July 29 2010 19:50 {88}iNcontroL wrote:
Alright I'm there! Woot


LOL. Blizzard was scared that their true intentions were revealed.
Nothing worth having comes easy.
GenesisX
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada4267 Posts
July 29 2010 21:51 GMT
#73
On July 30 2010 02:24 bellaisa wrote:
Idra is like 27-1 with 700 points and hes still in Platinum. lolz.


Pics?
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Ftrunkz
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Australia2474 Posts
July 30 2010 02:17 GMT
#74
On July 30 2010 06:51 GenesisX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 30 2010 02:24 bellaisa wrote:
Idra is like 27-1 with 700 points and hes still in Platinum. lolz.


Pics?

[image loading]
37-2, no diamond
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ArnO-
Profile Joined May 2008
United States258 Posts
July 30 2010 03:48 GMT
#75
On July 30 2010 06:51 GenesisX wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 30 2010 02:24 bellaisa wrote:
Idra is like 27-1 with 700 points and hes still in Platinum. lolz.


Pics?


He is 37-2 or something like that now. I was right behind him then I got promoted so I cant take a pic anymore. I think he had 700 something points.
Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-30 05:27:28
July 30 2010 05:27 GMT
#76
first, people complain about how it's too easy to get placed in diamond. now people complain about how it's impossible to advance. lololol
for there to be pro there has to be noob.
Entropic
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada2837 Posts
July 30 2010 05:52 GMT
#77
On July 30 2010 14:27 Malgrif wrote:
first, people complain about how it's too easy to get placed in diamond. now people complain about how it's impossible to advance. lololol


Pretty sure it's like that with everything. Beginning of beta, mech is not viable, later in beta mech is op.
fly.stat
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
United States449 Posts
July 30 2010 06:37 GMT
#78
Wow I was just thinking about how hilarious this was on the stream last night, I'm glad there's a vid to it now.
Until I write you again, take care of your precious person.
Sc1pio
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States823 Posts
July 30 2010 06:57 GMT
#79
It's just Dustin Browder's revenge for dating someone from Miss America, obviously.
"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few. " -Shunro Suzuki | fortuna fortes adiuvat
Deleted User 47542
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
1484 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-30 08:03:32
July 30 2010 07:48 GMT
#80
On July 30 2010 14:27 Malgrif wrote:
first, people complain about how it's too easy to get placed in diamond. now people complain about how it's impossible to advance. lololol

Uhmm.. the only people I get placed against are DIAMOND people after my 7th win or so. Now I have 500+ points in plat with over a 75% rin rate, playing DIAMOND people and I'm still stuck in plat.

Oh and incontrol I just beat you on the ladder with imba ghosts ^_^ and got raped one game later!
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