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Depetrify
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
978 Posts
December 23 2011 07:07 GMT
#1
Sooo last season before lock I was #1 master random... it locked so I got super bored and just fucked around gave free wins etc.. my MMR fell to plat.

I got placed into diamond in the new season and im just owning kids -- still messing around... i'm bored as fuck because I'm not getting promoted. I'm pretty sure i'm the #1 diamond in the world .. havent seen anyone with over 300 points and I have over 400.

I wonder if I have to lose once in order to be promoted... I'm playing all masters people (not even low masters)

Or maybe since masters is top 2%... and mostly masters play immediately right after the new season I can't get promoted? I don't know -- but this is really dumb.

I know I shouldn't of deranked and shit but ladder was locked and I thought it would be easy to get back.....

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Depetrify
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
978 Posts
December 23 2011 07:07 GMT
#2
sorry second monitor + cropping kind of made the pics weird.
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
December 23 2011 07:10 GMT
#3
Hey my match history is ALMOST as good in my past 10 ladder games...

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1 loss to a cheesy protoss...
Depetrify
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
978 Posts
December 23 2011 07:13 GMT
#4
On December 23 2011 16:10 LuckyFool wrote:
Hey my match history is ALMOST as good in my past 10 ladder games...

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1 loss to a cheesy protoss...


Ya but ur playing bronze people
LuckyFool
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States9015 Posts
December 23 2011 07:17 GMT
#5
Oh yeah sure...I'm playing all GM/High Masters thank you very much.
Skuller
Profile Joined September 2010
United States197 Posts
December 23 2011 07:19 GMT
#6
I'm thinking that the system pretty much always works in the long run. Mass games, be patient, and you will get promoted
mizU
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States12125 Posts
December 23 2011 07:22 GMT
#7
Keep winning yo.
if happy ever afters did exist <3 @watamizu_
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
December 23 2011 07:26 GMT
#8
patience...

and remember. play for fun
Jaedong :3
hp.Shell
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2527 Posts
December 23 2011 07:37 GMT
#9
I have a feeling it's attempting to place you more precisely within Masters than you probably care for.
Please PM me with any songs you like that you think I haven't heard before!
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6600 Posts
December 23 2011 08:16 GMT
#10
You'll get back in soon enough. Depends how far down in diamond you went lol
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Cyro
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United Kingdom20343 Posts
December 23 2011 10:01 GMT
#11
You gain/loose 12 points (+ added bonus pool up to double what you gained) for beating an opponent the matchmaking system considers equally skilled. If you are facing low masters and getting that many points per game, the system doesnt consider you to be significantly better than them yet and you just need to play more games.

I heard it takes 30 games to reset ladder ranking effectively but nothing to back that up, ive hit winstreaks of 15-20 before without promotion more than once
"oh my god my overclock... I got a single WHEA error on the 23rd hour, 9 minutes" -Belial88
Adastrom
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Canada219 Posts
December 23 2011 14:40 GMT
#12
haha xD, i remember when i beat you on ladder last season. Im pretty sure that you actually have to LOSE one match before you can promote back to masters. I don't know why, but it just seems to be the way that the promotion system works :/, lose one match to confirm your mmr, then promote you when you win again.
Lol pvz
Erik.TheRed
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1655 Posts
December 23 2011 16:17 GMT
#13
MMR moves a lot faster than you might think. Just keep playing! Remember, a league is nothing more than some shiny pixels on your screen.
"See you space cowboy"
KeksX
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Germany3634 Posts
December 23 2011 16:32 GMT
#14
On December 23 2011 23:40 Adastrom wrote:
haha xD, i remember when i beat you on ladder last season. Im pretty sure that you actually have to LOSE one match before you can promote back to masters. I don't know why, but it just seems to be the way that the promotion system works :/, lose one match to confirm your mmr, then promote you when you win again.

That actually happened if you look at the pictures.


I'm thinking that if you're really telling the truth that your MMR is getting too high right now and therefore you won't get promoted into masters, but right into GM after it is there.
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