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Bunn
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Estonia934 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-04-12 18:28:21
April 12 2012 18:27 GMT
#1
Today I played my first match this season, the placement match. It was against a protoss.The game was pretty good. Although it was full of mistakes from my POV, I almost managed to make a comeback. Sadly, almost. It got to a baserace scenario, and I forgot to build more hidden buildings. Nevertheless, I got promoted to platinum!!!

Took me only 7 seasons to do so.
First season(which was pretty long) I reached silver, after finding the Teamliquid community, and the now forgotten, 5 roach rush. Then, in season 3, I reached gold. And now, 4 seasons later, PLATINUM, the promised land, the once highest league.

Now I can say that today has been a good day.

*
"There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level." - Bruce Lee
Crownlol
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States3726 Posts
April 12 2012 18:33 GMT
#2
Grats Bunn!

Now you can buy that shirt with the Platinum symbol on it. You've earned it!
shaGuar :: elemeNt :: XeqtR :: naikon :: method
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
April 12 2012 18:34 GMT
#3
Well done. I hope that you keep improving and make a blog a few months from now describing how you made it to Diamond.
B.I.G.
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
3251 Posts
April 12 2012 18:45 GMT
#4
Learning/improving usually isnt a linear increase, but rather one with bursts, plateaus, and the occassional decline in skill. With any luck your on a burst now and have a good run to mid/high plat ..
Th1rdEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1074 Posts
April 12 2012 18:53 GMT
#5
Well done. : ) Dont forget your progress
from the days of: TheMarine [NC]...YellOw [H.O.T.]-Forever99 OgOgO [_MuMyung_] ChRh PlayGrrrr.... SlayerS_`BoxeR` [Oops]Reach [ReD]NaDa [DF]zergboy..!! Pusan[S.G] Nal_rA GARIMTO SSamJJang ChoJJa JinSu Silent_Control iloveoov H_PauL_WII JulyZerg [DaK]JoYo
Apom
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
France656 Posts
April 12 2012 19:03 GMT
#6
Well I got demoted to gold. Wheel's gotta turn I guess.
CaptainCrush
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States785 Posts
April 12 2012 19:18 GMT
#7
On April 13 2012 04:03 Apom wrote:
Well I got demoted to gold. Wheel's gotta turn I guess.


I got demoted to gold as well... even though I played a plat for my placement match and beat him!

I think I'll be back soon, Might even see you around plat town =]
FrankDaGreat
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada31 Posts
April 12 2012 19:51 GMT
#8
Im still wondering how the system works. When i did my first placement match 2 seasons ago, i got placed into plat. i played about 10 game till i was top 10 of my division then stopped playing. Season 6 i got placed into diamond even though i lost my match? This system is weird.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein
EsX_Raptor
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States2802 Posts
April 12 2012 20:28 GMT
#9
I am willing to bet that Blizzard has been testing an AI system to match players accordingly.
Hulavuta
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
United States1252 Posts
April 12 2012 20:29 GMT
#10
On April 13 2012 04:51 FrankDaGreat wrote:
Im still wondering how the system works. When i did my first placement match 2 seasons ago, i got placed into plat. i played about 10 game till i was top 10 of my division then stopped playing. Season 6 i got placed into diamond even though i lost my match? This system is weird.


The one placement match doesn't affect your MMR that much. Really the only point of the placement match is so that people who haven't been playing won't be put into a league so there's little inactive players wasting division spots.

You got promoted because your performance in past seasons qualified you for a promotion. In season promotions are harder to get, because the system needs to be absolutely sure you deserve it, because they don't want you to hop leagues so much that it becomes meaningless. The placement match is a catalyst to promote you, if you did everything else you needed to get promoted. The placement match itself doesn't change your rating much.

A good way to think about it is that every match you've played up until that point are your 4 placement matches and this 1 match is your 5th. Even if you lose it, it's not a big deal if you've been winning everything else.
Done with Team Liquid for a while. Don't expect to find me here.
Dapper_Cad
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United Kingdom964 Posts
April 12 2012 20:40 GMT
#11
Congratulations.
But he is never making short-term prediction, everyone of his prediction are based on fundenmentals, but he doesn't exactly know when it will happen... So using these kind of narrowed "who-is-right" empirical analysis makes little sense.
Firesilver
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom1190 Posts
April 12 2012 20:42 GMT
#12
Congratulations man! Enjoy platinum
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OptimusYale
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Korea (South)1005 Posts
April 12 2012 22:13 GMT
#13
I'm similar to you. though I got to platinum season 4 and stayed there, then got demoted last season to gold and then got repromoted to platinum in the new season!

Hope to see you around :D
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