Where is diamond league? - Page 9

On June 05 2010 04:18 Liquid`NonY wrote:

I agree. I was hoping it'd be something like a week of gaming for a good player to be promoted from Platinum to Diamond. In my opinion, make Diamond .1% of the population and put everyone in Diamond in one Division. Every competitive player would love that (even if they don't make it into Diamond -- it'd be a meaningful goal) and every person interested in competitive gaming would love it too. And what's the drawback for everyone else? I don't see one.

On June 05 2010 04:51 Liquid`NonY wrote:

Pro will be invite-only.

The thing is that Blizzard wants to make participating in ladder meaningful. For everyone who isn't at a really high skill level, their solution is Leagues and Divisions. They've defended and explained that. I think it's fine. But for people at a high skill level, and for the fans/followers of people at a high skill level, this Leagues and Divisions system does not make ladder meaningful. Pro league will be one solution to that. But it won't completely solve it. People in the top 1,000-10,000 or so will want to know what their global ranking is. If there's 1,000,000 people playing, that's the top 0.1%-1%.

Also, I think people in Platinum/Gold/Silver/Bronze would like to know what bracket they're in, like if being the best Silver player in the system means you're better than 50% of people and worse than 50% of people, and if being the worst Silver player means you're better than 25% of people and worse than 75% of people, etc, then people would like to know those numbers. So while they can focus on ranking up in their divisions and be competitive that way, they also have an idea of their global ranking. They can have goals like being an above-average player, which means being in the top 50%, but currently there's no way to know that.

On June 05 2010 05:25 billyX333 wrote:
I just saw a guy with 600 points and not upgraded to diamond yet (and a couple of 500 point players as well still in platinum)

Assuming there is an actual mark you have to reach to get promoted, 1000 points seems like the next logical conclusion since 500 doesnt get promoted.

If my random guess is right then I dont think there will be a full diamond league before beta servers go offline
even if the mark is something like ~750 points, I still don't think there will be filled league w/ 100 players

I'm really liking this concept of making diamond league something you have to achieve
Now there wont be a new division made every time ~100 players go 5-0 in easy placement matches
basically flooding the league with 50000 divisions