[G] Comprehensive SC2 League and Ladder Guide - Page 75

On May 15 2013 09:35 Sek-Kuar wrote:
If not yet fully confirmed, I can now 100% confirm that 180 bonus pts is still the right amount to get kicked out of GM.

What I would really like to know is how are points after promotion/demotion determined now, since we get twice as much as used to and can lose them.

If I lose 20 games in row, "spending" 300 bonus pts, will I be demoted and placed with 373 points? Or 73 points and 300 bonus pool? Or........?

On May 17 2013 19:45 Dunmer wrote:
Probably off racing on unranked ladder and his MMR was low. Hence why he played you, could be he let someone else play his account on unranked only and they are at your MMR

On May 20 2013 17:50 Kakaru2 wrote:
Was there a change lately so you are no longer demoted during a season? Is it now only at beginning of next season? really confused here, thanks for the help if you know the answer.

On May 22 2013 01:23 LordOfDabu wrote:
Slight correction to the opening post: To get promoted to grandmaster, you need less than 90 bonus pool, not 180. 180 is the threshold for getting kicked out though.

Also it needs to be 90 before the game. So having 95 bonus pool and winning and getting +10 from the pool won't promote you.

On June 05 2013 00:14 packrat386 wrote:
Hey I dunno if this is the right place to ask, but here it goes. Is your MMR effected by how long its been since you played the game? Around January or February I was platinum, but I haven't played since then and when I played my 1 placement match for this season, I won it and was placed in silver. I'm not unhappy with that since it gives me a good chance to start over after such a long dry spell, but I was wondering whether my placement was effected by how long I had been away.

On June 05 2013 00:34 ObliviousNA wrote:

I'd like to confirm the same thing happened to me - I was masters (though idle) last season, with very few 1v1 games since HOTS released.

I played my single placement match a few days ago, hit plat, and needed 30 games (25-5) to get back to masters. This isn't how I remember WoL working, has something changed on that front?

For records,
current season: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1748711/1/Oblivious/ladder/leagues#current-rank
last season: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/profile/1748711/1/Oblivious/ladder/lastseason/leagues

On June 11 2013 03:04 Jochan wrote:
Can someone explain this to me, I am just curious, not raging, mad or anything. Why does the first guy have so many points with this match history? Ladder is locked from this season (no promotion during seasons) so there is no "promotion adjustment" or some other shenanigans, you get into ladder after placement with 0 points and more or less 20 bonus points (he must have had less because he started playing sooner than me). I am wondering how does that work.
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Yeah got similar story, not played long, was in plat. Got into silver, played a bit in past days, got some diamond opponents in silver (promotion was locked). Now I got promoted, but only to gold and now I face only gold players, really bad ones, I am going 6-0 right now, I wonder why I don't get plats/diamonds like two days ago.

On June 11 2013 03:04 Jochan wrote:
Ladder is locked from this season (no promotion during seasons)

On June 11 2013 03:54 Lysenko wrote:


My understanding is that that's not accurate. There are promotions during a season, but no demotions.