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Deleted User 61629

1664 Posts

April 08 2010 06:07 GMT

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Daerthalus

Canada73 Posts

April 08 2010 08:01 GMT

#22

I played my 5 games, lost 1, ended up in gold. Played around 10-15 more games, was ranked #1 gold in my division by roughly 50-70 points above #2.

Played maybe 5 games as #1 in gold and was bumped to #7 in plat. I managed to get to #1 in plat (due to the reset), then stopped playing for about 3 days and found myself at #37.

Still unsure if I really should be in Plat or I got in by luck and timing, I kept playing games and dropped to around 40-50th. I've droped to 67th once or twice due to trying something new every single game. IE VR rushing, or Immortal Timing Pushes to practice the strats.

Bottom line, I'm not sure if i should be in Plat, but I assume since my rank has stayed around 40 something, I'm where I should be.

What does this indicate: There is no better way than playing ALOT of games to get placed where you should be.

flikera.alex

Bulgaria7 Posts

April 10 2010 18:10 GMT

#23

I'm in similar position as Inori:
I've screwed my placement and got bronze, lucky I got promoted to silver with <20 games... but now I've played ~90 games overall I'm rank 1 for like 5 days ~1450 rating and still no promotion is coming. I'm always playing with platinum opponents and very rarely against top gold.

Malince

United States1 Post

May 18 2010 15:39 GMT

#24

Seems like your all forgetting that all this is happening in launch conditions. It will take time for the system to level everything out and for everyone to get where they are supposed to be. Your not going to magically be placed where you need to be within the ladder without time for blizzards system to sort everyone out. Also...this is still a beta. Things will change, again with time.

FortuneSyn

1826 Posts

May 18 2010 15:44 GMT

#25

On April 08 2010 14:54 Spawkuring wrote:
I think a lot of problems were caused by making players only have 5 placement matches instead of 10. I've heard several cases of players who are bronze/silver level at best but got into gold/platinum just because of a lucky win streak in their placement matches. While I'm sure it evens out over time, I don't think 5 matches is a really good indicator of someone's skill.

5 matches is not a good indicator, but neither is 10 in the big scheme of things. I think it's more important to not discourage the player to play those placement matches because there are too many of them. A lot of newbies might be put off by having to play so many placement matches. I think it' fine the way it is. In a week, everyone sort of ends up where they should be.

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United States120 Posts

May 18 2010 15:51 GMT

#26

OP has no clue exactly how their system works, yet calls for a change. Makes no sense when you don't know what is "inside the box" at all so to speak.

Kokosaft

Germany172 Posts

May 18 2010 15:54 GMT

#27

i went to gold after the last ladder reset and then played 90% of the games against 'opponent favored', the rest were 'even match'. i still needed 40 to 50 games for my promotion with over 60% win rate. so i didnt feel it the way you explained it. (I only had 1 (!!) game since the last reset in which i was favored O.o played over 100 though)

OhDeezy

United Kingdom54 Posts

May 18 2010 16:10 GMT

#28

I was placed in bronze where I was rank 1 in my division for about a week, then yesturday after losing a match to a silver player, it promoted me to silver but at a higher rank than the person who just beat me. I don't get it

Jayme

United States5866 Posts

May 18 2010 16:18 GMT

#29

I still wonder what on earth is the point of these separate leagues is in the first place.

To me they just look like some arbitrary color to give you some distinction and make the whole ladder process needlessly complicated. Just throw everyone into one league and go off of ELO...it's not that hard

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