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This is a rant* Demoted to rank 86 silver? - Page 3

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holy_war
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States3590 Posts
March 30 2011 06:32 GMT
#41
Like most people stated here already, just ignore your ladder ranking and just keep playing. If you are better than the opponents you're playing, you will be bumped back up in no time. If you think the game is stupid because the ladder is working as intended, I don't even know.
djcube
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States985 Posts
March 30 2011 07:17 GMT
#42
Sucks that you got demoted, but it's not as drastic as it seems. Everyone is hovering around the same amount of points right now and you can easily get to the top of your division with a few games; the top guy in my division right now only has like ~110 points. Not sure why you're getting matched with worse players, though, because your mmr should have carried over.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
March 30 2011 08:13 GMT
#43
Harsh bro but the match making system is not an exact science. Sucks to be you to be demoted at exactly the point that you thought you will get promoted rofl.

Sorry, the universe is against you. Train hard and meet us in Diamond.
Rillanon.au
Jayson X
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Switzerland2431 Posts
March 30 2011 08:16 GMT
#44
On March 30 2011 07:01 StorkHwaiting wrote:
If you're worrying about gold and platinum ranks then you have a LONG way to go in terms of being competitive. You really should not be bitching about your rank at this point in time. It's totally meaningless. Worry more about your game skill.

The only people competitive at this game are at top of masters. If you're less than that, just keep playing to improve. Don't waste time on TL getting mad over your arbitrary rank drop. Trust that the system works just fine for players that actually play well. Bronze to Diamond is all just a bunch of nonsense.

Anyone worth their salt is going to be at least mid-masters or higher, and at that point it's quite easy to see what level you are at. Lower than that is mostly just people without a good grasp of RTS flailing away at each other without a clue.


StorkHwaiting speaks the truth. If you are anything below High-Diamond you have some fundamental lack of knowledge / skill. That is where your focus should be, anything else is simply not worth getting angry over.

I guarantee you that any coach over the course of one hour could get you to platinum level. Here's some assumptions I could make: You don't scout well, your grasp of your own and your enemies build orders are sparse, your macro falls apart when you reach midgame, you don't continually group buildings / units, your use of hotkeys is very low and you use your mouse way more than your keyboard.

Anyone can reach diamond with 3 basic solid buildorders for each matchup and mechanics alone. Check replays or liquipedia, pick out buildorders and then go from there.
Turgid
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1623 Posts
March 30 2011 08:48 GMT
#45
Almost nobody who complains about the ladder seems to understand it. Silver's not a challenge! I shouldn't be here! Jeeze man, if you beat silver players 85% of the time the system won't bother matching you with them!
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