Noticeable Diamond Divisions - US server

On July 12 2010 18:34 Kantutan wrote:
Damn, that division is badass.

On July 12 2010 18:34 Pigzyf5 wrote:
btw, does anyone know how many people are in diamond and how many devisions there are?

On July 12 2010 18:33 link0 wrote:
Being in that particular division made my dreams of rank 1 diamond quite laughable. =/

On July 12 2010 18:43 Alpina wrote:
No guarantee about those names being real or not.

On July 12 2010 19:04 Puosu wrote:
I doubt there's too many players capable of achieving such stats that would be willing to advertise other people's names while they're on top. It seems like Blizzard has seriously cut down on the amount of diamond leagues, which is a good thing, and this has resulted in such insane groups. I really hope some of the players decide to leak some replays for us lesser players to watch.

Seems like Tester (oGssSKS) has switched to Terran by the way, he used to play protoss. It's possible its someone else playing on his account but switching races wouldn't be too unbelievable seeing as terran is kinda considered to be the strongest race right now.

Would love to see some more screenshots of these ladders.

On July 12 2010 18:47 Hider wrote:
Many of them are probably real. I mean how many zerg players that like to fake names would be able to get a 87-19 record.

On July 12 2010 19:37 Onlinejaguar wrote:


Its 67-19.

On July 12 2010 19:37 Onlinejaguar wrote:


Its 67-19.

On July 12 2010 20:38 OPSavioR wrote:
If you are good enough to become rank 1 in Diamond you DONT fake nick , you use your own nick cause you want a piece of the fame , only noobs fake nick...

On July 12 2010 20:40 calin wrote:


Ok Savior

On July 12 2010 20:38 OPSavioR wrote:
If you are good enough to become rank 1 in Diamond you DONT fake nick , you use your own nick cause you want a piece of the fame , only noobs fake nick...

On July 12 2010 21:21 Nyx wrote:


LOL.

On July 12 2010 21:21 Nyx wrote:


LOL.

On July 12 2010 20:42 aLt)nirvana wrote:

diamond league seems to actually live up to its name now, which is awesome

On July 12 2010 20:40 calin wrote:


Ok Savior

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 21:30 earky wrote:


seriously haha

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 21:23 DemiSe wrote:
If those name are real, then they'll will get some kickass practice everytime they play ladder.

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 21:37 Amber[LighT] wrote:
Sadly my division isn't as stacked... the no. 1 in my diamond division was stalife for a few days. I think some random terran players took the no. 1 spot (gee I wonder how a Terran pulled that off)

Just checked no. 1 today is a Zerg player named "Billy." I don't know anyone really in the top 10 in my div cept for stalife. Still the ratio of the top 12 is 5T/4P/3Z so my rant on T may continue!

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 22:09 Nightmarjoo wrote:

I played Billy! I won despite repeatedly sacking my army by having my tanks no where near my fungal'd mmm ball.
edit: Oh that's my div, I'm Lyra. Stalife was #1 for a long time, he was 430 at one point, guess he ran into a loss streak or something. Bubba is my friend, he'd be higher in the ladder if he 1v1'd more. He plays custom a lot vs root teammates, and 2v2s.

On July 12 2010 20:40 calin wrote:


Ok Savior

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 22:09 Nyx wrote:


"Pixalation" is just artifacting that occurs around text when an image is compressed. In fact, it's a good way to find out if an image is genuine, compare artifacting for the whole image, it should all be the same!

On July 12 2010 22:57 Toque wrote:
Is this screen cap from the start of Phase 2?

On July 12 2010 21:49 Phrost wrote:
I duno, looks pretty shooped to me. It's a very pixelated screenshot

On July 12 2010 20:40 calin wrote:


Ok Savior

On July 12 2010 20:38 OPSavioR wrote:
If you are good enough to become rank 1 in Diamond you DONT fake nick , you use your own nick cause you want a piece of the fame , only noobs fake nick...

On July 12 2010 18:53 WarChimp wrote:
This is legit, my mate is in this division as well

Oh... your talking about the authenticity of the players being the "real" IdrA and such haha silly me

On July 13 2010 00:12 StarStruck wrote:
200 games hm. i don't know who the heck that is, but I assure you that isn't Draco or a TL member ;/

On July 12 2010 21:57 Skyze wrote:


Its not, its real. Like I said, it was the 1st or 2nd diamond division created, so everyone who was top on the first 2 days, had a strong chance to go into this division.

I've been playing lots for the first 3 days of this patch also, and ive played Gerrard and Tester, I believe they were real cause they were insane, along with being #2 in platinum behind IdrA who was 20-0 at #1 before being moved into Diamond so im sure it is him too

On July 12 2010 23:48 Lylat wrote:
Fake ?

On July 12 2010 23:48 Lylat wrote:
Fake ?

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On July 13 2010 01:35 uLysSeS1 wrote:


i think so. probably not the real matt damon.

On July 13 2010 02:04 arb wrote:

Rofl

i noticed this div after Capoch cheesed the piss out of me yesterday, its quite ridiculous

On July 13 2010 02:03 EliteAzn wrote:
That division is scary. Too bad it's extremely rare for you to play people in your own division.

On July 13 2010 01:35 uLysSeS1 wrote:


i think so. probably not the real matt damon.

On July 13 2010 02:38 doss wrote:
I played against that liquiddraco, he lifted off to gold asap on metal.

I don't know about players, but my diamond division is called infestor pepper. Try and beat that name.

On July 12 2010 23:48 Lylat wrote:
Fake ?

On July 12 2010 22:52 gillon wrote:
I went 4-1 in placements and ended up in Silver. Standards seem to have shifted, lol.

On July 12 2010 20:40 calin wrote:


Ok Savior

On July 12 2010 21:21 Nyx wrote:


LOL.

On July 13 2010 05:31 Tenks wrote:
IdrA was in my platinum division for a little while. I think he was like 14-1 at the time. It could have been a smurf, who knows.

On July 12 2010 18:37 Sandrosuperstar wrote:

but is it real?

On July 13 2010 01:58 koppik wrote:Also, IdrA only has 190 achievement points?! Has he not been trying to Yamato 20 times in a ladder match or something?

On July 13 2010 05:30 Sabu113 wrote:
That's an awesome league.

Too bad we'll probably see everyone migrate to the azn server, lag permitting.

On July 13 2010 05:29 wolfe wrote:Pretty crazy divisions. How are you guys browsing the different divisions? Do you guys have "friends" added in each one or what? You think Blizzard will ever add a searchable or browserable ladder?

On July 13 2010 06:11 Andtwo wrote:
Would someone in this division mind taking another screenshot?

Or preferably writing down all the names and seeing if it changes within a few days significantly

On July 12 2010 20:40 calin wrote:


Ok Savior

On July 13 2010 01:35 uLysSeS1 wrote:


i think so. probably not the real matt damon.

On July 13 2010 06:11 Andtwo wrote:
Would someone in this division mind taking another screenshot?

Or preferably writing down all the names and seeing if it changes within a few days significantly

On July 13 2010 07:16 StormsInJuly wrote:

Hasnt changed that much.. Huk is #1, idra #2 and whitera #3... me at 84 cause im slumping like crazy fuck fuck

On July 13 2010 07:38 Me0w wrote:

SS!

On July 13 2010 08:35 Polygamy wrote:
Hopefully this is the right place to post this, if not feel free to relocate it.


How I would improve the ladder system:

Besides the already discussed idea of making it so you can compare your self with people in other divisions I would also make it so that the ladders reset the same way iCCup resets with the start of a new season. Instead making players play placement matches players would start in the same level league they finished in perviously (i.e. finish in gold) start in gold next season. It would be great if you could look at another players (or your own) profile and look at how you did in other seasons, this could be used to show improvement.
I would also implement a level above Diamond league, this league for the sake of this example will be called "Kings League" (KL). The only way to reach the KL would be by finishing the previous season in first, second or third place of a Diamond league, this league would be much smaller then the other leagues and would be only the top players across all servers. To keep this league small and to insure that it stay competitive at the end of each season the bottom players would be dropped back down to Diamond (clearly I don't have the stats to do the math but you can imagine that if 100 players moved up each season 100 bottom players would be moved back down.)

On July 13 2010 09:13 Dionyseus wrote:


Blizzard has already said there's going to be a Pro league which is an invite only league. From what I remember, the league will be started a few months after release.

On July 13 2010 10:55 prOxi.swAMi wrote:

I keep hearing about this but I'm yet to see a source of an actual blizzard employee saying this. Can someone provide any evidence or is everyone sort of just agreeing to the same rumour?

On July 13 2010 05:22 Darkn3ss wrote:
Why everyone keeps being skeptical?

Would you like another screenshot of that division from this morning? I'm sure some numbers/positions have changed since the last one... lol

It's natural that all of the pros are in the same division... they all RAPED as soon as beta was released so they all placed diamond extremely fast. Then other players came and other diamond divisions formed... big deal!

@.Soul,
They probably haven't laddered vs each other at all!!! You don't get to ladder vs your own division that often. I only laddered against someone in my division like once in last phase!

On July 13 2010 14:18 HuK wrote:
actually we all play vs each other quite often if on at the same time since there aren't many others who have same range of "elo" or w/e u want to call it

On July 12 2010 22:52 gillon wrote:
I went 4-1 in placements and ended up in Silver. Standards seem to have shifted, lol.

On July 13 2010 14:28 imPERSONater wrote:


Do you guys play the games as straight up ladders with little chatter and mostly focused or is there a good deal of talking when facing other pros? It seems like those matches would be the most useful, but I imagine there is a reluctance to show your hand to potential competitors.

On July 13 2010 14:18 HuK wrote:


actually we all play vs each other quite often if on at the same time since there aren't many others who have same range of "elo" or w/e u want to call it

On July 13 2010 14:59 HuK wrote:
i can only speak on my behalf but generally there is polite chat/cute mannerisms exchange and between certain people i get along with strategy talk/poking fun of

On July 13 2010 06:15 AncienTs wrote:


hahahahahaha

On July 13 2010 10:55 prOxi.swAMi wrote:

I keep hearing about this but I'm yet to see a source of an actual blizzard employee saying this. Can someone provide any evidence or is everyone sort of just agreeing to the same rumour?

On July 13 2010 16:18 Darkn3ss wrote:


Honestly, I kind of imagined you guys playing each other since there aren't too many people that can cause IdrA or WhiteRa to lose 19 or 21 times respectively (based on the screen shot in the OP). I just thought that you wouldn't normally play people from same division...

Oh, well... I guess they've been improving the match-making system while beta was down xP

On July 13 2010 06:15 AncienTs wrote:


hahahahahaha

On July 14 2010 02:01 Bash wrote:


Everyone loses random games to random people, especially in practice. Even Flash lost to Nal_ra.

On July 13 2010 16:27 darmousseh wrote:
LOL @improving the matchmaking system. The system is based on Elo or flick or whatever. There's nothing to improve unless they switch to trueskill which is owned by microsoft.

On July 14 2010 02:15 cocosoft wrote:
ROFLMAO seriously the irony.

On July 12 2010 20:48 NuKedUFirst wrote:
Hmmmmm..
How did they all end up in the same diamond league>? By chance?

On July 14 2010 04:44 Seraph.yongweihua wrote:
Doesn't Idra play primarily on the Asia servers? If so I doubt that's actually him.

On July 12 2010 23:48 Lylat wrote:
Fake ?

On July 14 2010 04:42 stalife wrote:
imo, it should be much harder to stay in diamond division. I haven't heard of lots of ppl being demoted to platinum, but everyday there's so many players getting into diamond :/