After the reset I made the experiment to lose all placement matches in order to find out how quickly someone can ascend from copper to platinum. The results were:

wins loses league
0 - 5 copper
9 - 5 bronze( somewhere between bronze and silver the AMM starts to put
me only against gold/platinum players)
13 - 6 silver
17 - 6 gold
20 - 10 platinum

I dont know if anyone finds this information interesting,anyway sorry to those who lost many points being favored vs me.

(note: before reset i was 1500+ platinum zerg after 300+ games)

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 25 2010 21:14 GMT

Hmm very interesting, I guess we don't have to put all that much work into going up leagues. I've been doing 2v2 random, ended up in silver league with 3-2 in placements, and when I hit 10-3, I got promoted to gold. Hopefully I can hit platinum soon.

zerotol

Belgium508 Posts

April 25 2010 21:15 GMT

Thats pretty fast, but not surprising if you get placed against platinum players when you were only in bronze.

micronesia

United States24805 Posts

April 25 2010 21:15 GMT

I did the same thing after the first major reset of beta... took me longer. It paired me up with some very strong players and I lost some games though... but it was pretty clear I was going to be reaching plat eventually (just like you) and yet it didn't skip over any leagues.

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

April 25 2010 21:16 GMT

I went 4-1 in the placement matches and got put in gold (some silver douche did a dual rax in base proxy). Then I went 5-0 in Gold and was promoted to platinum.

Kinky

United States4126 Posts

April 25 2010 21:16 GMT

It's nice to get some solid numbers for this!

Lunat!c

122 Posts

April 25 2010 21:17 GMT

Well... I feel like that leagues say nothin about ur real skill... u can come plat with just cheesing and that pretty easily.

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

April 25 2010 21:19 GMT

What name do you use? I just got a rage email a little while ago from one of my cousins(in europe) about being favored against some noob zerg in bronze and losing quickly to just pure macro/micro. Hes really mad and wants to know who it was that did it to him so he can er..."talk" to him/her.

[DUF]MethodMan

Germany1716 Posts

April 25 2010 21:19 GMT

What skillrange did you choose? (Novice, Experienced, Veteran)

ComradeDover

Bulgaria758 Posts

April 25 2010 21:20 GMT

#10

It's goot that the system corrects itself so quickly.

EDIT: Although, in reality it's copper to plat in 25 games, since at the moment you're counting your initial 5 placement matches where you're leagueless.

Chairman Ray

United States11903 Posts

April 25 2010 21:22 GMT

#11

On April 26 2010 06:20 ComradeDover wrote:
It's goot that the system corrects itself so quickly.

EDIT: Although, in reality it's copper to plat in 25 games, since at the moment you're counting your initial 5 placement matches where you're leagueless.

He counted those, note the 0-5 in copper

Titanidis

Greece132 Posts

April 25 2010 21:26 GMT

#12

On April 26 2010 06:19 [DUF]MethodMan wrote:
What skillrange did you choose? (Novice, Experienced, Veteran)

well i honestly dont know. When the reset was going to happen I gave my account to a friend in order to try it for a while. The next day I see in my msn his message:
"I made a new profile for me, I hope I m not ruining anything to you, eh?"
"I was,like wtf?" and it seems that he had played a placement match as well (he had lost it)
so i came up with this idea as well as a good way to be familiar with the new hotkeys (v for spawn larva omg)

when i see him i m going to ask him

TwilightStar

United States649 Posts

April 25 2010 21:29 GMT

#13

For 2v2 Random allies I'd usually go 5-0 and get platinum
Recently, I went 4-1 and went platinum
However, After the patch, I went 4-1 but got gold this time, wierd.

micronesia

United States24805 Posts

April 25 2010 21:29 GMT

#14

On April 26 2010 06:29 TwilightStar wrote:
For 2v2 Random allies I'd usually go 5-0 and get platinum
Recently, I went 4-1 and went platinum
However, After the patch, I went 4-1 but got gold this time, wierd.

It probably depends on the ability of the opponents you beat or lost to...

3FFA

United States3931 Posts

April 25 2010 21:33 GMT

#15

On April 26 2010 06:22 Chairman Ray wrote:

Show nested quote +

He counted those, note the 0-5 in copper

Please re-read he said that its 25 not counting those because those first 5 placement matches got him into copper and this is from copper to platinum not from placement to plat.

guitarizt

United States1492 Posts

April 25 2010 21:34 GMT

#16

On April 26 2010 06:26 Titanidis wrote:

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hahaha that's hilarious. Seriously though op's numbers look standard to me. It's not hard to get plat in a day no matter what your record is currently if you go on some sick winning streaks. I made plat zerg in a day after f'ing around going random after the first ladder reset. I made plat zerg from silver when beta was first opened after about 150 games, the first 100 of which I was experimenting greatly. I also went 15-2 2vs2 random when I switched to T and it bumped me from silver to plat after more than 100 games at silver.

Titanidis

Greece132 Posts

April 25 2010 21:35 GMT

#17

On April 26 2010 06:19 3FFA wrote:
What name do you use? I just got a rage email a little while ago from one of my cousins(in europe) about being favored against some noob zerg in bronze and losing quickly to just pure macro/micro. Hes really mad and wants to know who it was that did it to him so he can er..."talk" to him/her.

I was clientzero.clientzero because my friend picked the name

edit:And yes the games are 25 actually thnx for correcting

rally_point

Canada458 Posts

April 25 2010 21:36 GMT

#18

I was going to congratulate you for improving your skill from copper to plat so fast, but looks like that's not what this is about lol.

Interesting info though

AssuredVacancy

United States1167 Posts

April 25 2010 21:38 GMT

#19

Now there just need to be an experiment of getting placed in plat with 5-0, and see how many games you need to get back down to copper