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It's not about investing a certain amount of time or playing a certain amount of games. It's not even about getting promoted to a higher league (the average skill of all leagues has been moving with time). What is important is that you are improving. How fast you improve will be up to you. Grinding games will probably be best for players who lack mechanics, but everyone, including masters players, can improve by looking at the logic of all aspects of their play. Everything can be improved from general strategy to which gas you take as your first gas on a specific map in a specific match up.
For example I spent a while looking at replays to decide in PvP I wanted to take the close ramp gas on Antiga Shipyard first because it can give me vision close to the ramp earlier, cannot be stolen for vision during a cannon rush, and if I go for any zealot stalker or 3 stalker openning I can usually chase the probe out and take my 2nd gas sooner. Also I can deny the scouting of a 2nd gas if they poke up the ramp.
It is just an example of how you can improve the way you think of improving, but most people convince themselves they understand what they are doing and dig themselves into a hole. You can practice a billion games but if you aren't actively getting better then you won't be improving fast enough for a fast promotion.
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humm half a year to get from bronze to diamond then three months to get into master
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I've found that i have much higher winrates, if i play in long streches rather than few games each day.
You always get promoted/demoted, when you least suspect it, so don't ask yourself, will i get promoted after each game :D
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It took me about 3 months to go from Diaomond to Masters, even then I was getting crushed when I got promoted. I just kept on playing and eventually got a lot better, watching replays and streams and reading some guides on TL.
Granted I'm not high masters yet, only rank 22 atm, but just putting in time made me better.
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I wish I could answer this. I play masters and win ALLLLL the time. I am evenly matched against rank 30-20 masters and even win against those guys about 50/50 and I'm still not promoted. I've grinded my ass off this season, but I cannot get promoted for the life of me.
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I was new to these games when I started and it took me about 8 months to get to diamond from bronze and I have now been stuck in Diamond for about 6 months. I feel like I have been improving though so I'm happy.
Edit: I feel I should mention that I posted because so many of the posts are from people who easily got into Masters. I think a question like this is going to naturally attract people who easily swept through while people who struggled/are struggling are less likely to reply. Congrats to people who got into Masters fast but I just wanted to add some perspective. Improve at your own rate and just be happy with getting better. 
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total of about 320 games. gold to diamond in 2 days as protoss. then switched to zerg a few weeks after. but i was already at around 250-280 games before master came out.
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got to masters in season 2 after like 3-4 games. (Obviously my mmr was high enough from season 1.)
I would say I played about 100 games ladder games total to get it. But I have RTS (brood war) experience.
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How can you tell that it was such a big jump for you when the system queues you with similar skilled players?
The difference between high diamond and low master is just an arbitrary benchmark that Blizzard implemented, it's not like there's a big difference between those two skill levels.
Sounds more like a mindset problem than an actual skill problem.
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On May 18 2012 08:46 nkr wrote:
Actually your MMR is the opposite to "all over the place" just because of how much you've played. The system is fairly sure of your skill, and your mmr wont change very drasticly.
I would argue the opposite, whenever I lose a game on my high diamond account in korea, I feel like it takes me from masters players back down to middling diamonds again.
As to OP's question, on NA I spent 1.5 seasons as diamond. In diamond I probably played ~250 games.
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I was diamond for season 1 and have stayed masters since then. I've been in eSports for a while and have coached wc3 and sc2.
I haven't been involved in sc2 for a long time, but I'm pretty sure things are the same now as they were before.
If you want to be a 'masters' player, you simply need to have good enough mechanics. You have to have decent enough knowledge to perform 2-3 strats effectively, you have to be able to not skip out on building workers and units (don't miss warp-in's if you're toss, don't miss injects if you're zerg, don't idle production if you're terran). Scout regularly, it doesn't even have to be miraculous scouting, just basic scouting like did your zerg opponent 15 hatch or is he 20+ food with no hatch zomg. If vs toss scout for pylons etc.
Only thing you need for Masters play, is solid enough mechanics. The jump to Grandmasters is much more difficult and involves more APM, but to compete at the Masters level, just work on all of the little things.
Watch your replays and notice how long your production cycles are idle (injects, warpins etc). Do you constantly have a probe on the field ready to place a pylon? How is your creep spread? Are you harassing frequently enough? Did you let your opponent double expand for free?
These are things you should be looking for to improve your play. Micro becomes much more effective after your mechanics are solid. Bad mechanics means Micro will not win you games.
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