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Ownos
Profile Joined July 2010
United States2147 Posts
April 14 2011 09:09 GMT
#521
On April 14 2011 15:30 Wolf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2011 15:14 Zerglinguist wrote:
On April 14 2011 15:11 Wolf wrote:
Don't know if anyone mentioned this, but you can't chat Grand Masters. Period.



???
This is not true at all. Maybe if they are RealID friends you are able to because I have a friend in grandmasters and I was giving him props after his promotion. I initiated the contact as well... I'll have to randomly whisper pros to see if they respond


I think you have to be mutual friends with them. I couldn't add/chat any of my friends from one of my accouts they didn't know.


Probably to protect these players from being messaged to death by stalkers.
...deeper and deeper into the bowels of El Diablo
Zerker
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada201 Posts
April 14 2011 09:13 GMT
#522
U guys are so butt hurt that your fav player didn't get in because they weren't as good as you may of thought they were. Honestly if someone is 10-10 but his MMR from the previous season was so high that he got in so be it.

If you Fav player / Yourself was good enough i'm sure you would of gotten in. Idra didn't even play his GM match for 2days, played one game and instantly got in, That says a lot about how the GM spots were based off MMR.
Terranium
Profile Joined February 2004
Turkmenistan144 Posts
April 14 2011 09:43 GMT
#523
I played like 10 games last night. In 3 of those games I got matched up with grandmasters, 2 of them were slightly favored, one said teams even. Won 2 lost 1. No promotion.

Weird thing: I also encountered some master players who were slightly favored over me. So what is with the MMR of that grandmaster guy who were evenly matched against me?
bistri
Profile Joined November 2010
Croatia72 Posts
April 14 2011 10:04 GMT
#524
OMG, white ra isn't gm on eu -.-'
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Steven-Destiny-Bonnell-II-Fan-Page/209963009023885
Jei-
Profile Joined February 2011
Bulgaria33 Posts
April 14 2011 10:12 GMT
#525
On April 14 2011 18:43 Terranium wrote:
I played like 10 games last night. In 3 of those games I got matched up with grandmasters, 2 of them were slightly favored, one said teams even. Won 2 lost 1. No promotion.

Weird thing: I also encountered some master players who were slightly favored over me. So what is with the MMR of that grandmaster guy who were evenly matched against me?


Being favoured has nothing to do with the opponent you are facing in fact. It's kinda ridiculous but true. It's determined by your current rating to your expected rating (MMR), so say if your MMR is much higher than your actual rating you will be favoured etc. This leads to situation where both players that are playing against each other see themselves as favoured on the loading screen, which is even more ridiculous :D One more point for false and misleading systems!
Snowbear
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1925 Posts
April 14 2011 10:26 GMT
#526
On April 14 2011 19:04 bistri wrote:
OMG, white ra isn't gm on eu -.-'


There are still spots open men, don't worry...
Kaleb aka. Mngzkhuel
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
Germany49 Posts
April 14 2011 10:36 GMT
#527
I only wanted to get into diamond :C and then master league came :D and then even grandmaster leage came D:

People dont fail, they just give up too soon.
Fishermang
Profile Joined September 2010
Norway56 Posts
April 14 2011 10:40 GMT
#528
On April 14 2011 19:36 Kaleb aka. Mngzkhuel wrote:
I only wanted to get into diamond :C and then master league came :D and then even grandmaster leage came D:



I know! I still am aiming for diamond! Now I have to aim even higher! I find this grandmaster league awesomely interesting, checking it every day :D
JupiterJazz
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany92 Posts
April 14 2011 10:56 GMT
#529
seems to me gm league is not worth checking a lot.
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
April 14 2011 11:24 GMT
#530
On April 14 2011 19:04 bistri wrote:
OMG, white ra isn't gm on eu -.-'


im guessing since this patch came out he has been busy abroad and hasnt played much at all on actual ladder, Wont be long!!!
Live and Let Die!
TBO
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany1350 Posts
April 14 2011 12:00 GMT
#531
On April 14 2011 20:24 Tommylew wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2011 19:04 bistri wrote:
OMG, white ra isn't gm on eu -.-'


im guessing since this patch came out he has been busy abroad and hasnt played much at all on actual ladder, Wont be long!!!


there is just 7 spots left though. Both White-Ra and Naniwa still missing (unless they are in with a smurf), hopefully their spots are reserved in some way. Anyone noticed any other players who should be in there but aren't yet?
PraetorianX
Profile Joined September 2010
Sweden780 Posts
April 14 2011 12:04 GMT
#532
On April 14 2011 21:00 TBO wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 14 2011 20:24 Tommylew wrote:
On April 14 2011 19:04 bistri wrote:
OMG, white ra isn't gm on eu -.-'


im guessing since this patch came out he has been busy abroad and hasnt played much at all on actual ladder, Wont be long!!!


there is just 7 spots left though. Both White-Ra and Naniwa still missing (unless they are in with a smurf), hopefully their spots are reserved in some way. Anyone noticed any other players who should be in there but aren't yet?


Yeah that's really weird. Do we have any information about whether or not spots are in fact reserved for well-known players? Because once the GM league is complete, it will be locked for like several months or something, right?
The best argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter - Winston Churchill
Specialist
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States803 Posts
April 14 2011 12:37 GMT
#533
3.7k last season
started with 730ish pts. got to 920ish by constant laddering for 2 days.

Finally took a GM spot
Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
April 14 2011 12:42 GMT
#534
On April 14 2011 21:04 PraetorianX wrote:
Yeah that's really weird. Do we have any information about whether or not spots are in fact reserved for well-known players? Because once the GM league is complete, it will be locked for like several months or something, right?

They are reserved in a sense. The spots go to the 200 players with the highest MMR and a bonus pool of less than 180. As long as these players aren't overtaken in MMR, the spot will remain for them. However, eventually they'll either have to play a game and qualify for the league officially, or their bonus pool will get too large and they'll be disqualified.
Jumbled
Profile Joined September 2010
1543 Posts
April 14 2011 14:49 GMT
#535
Grandmaster league is now out in Korea, it would seem.
http://kr.battle.net/sc2/ko/profile/2336167/1/일걸레/ladder/16340
Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
April 14 2011 14:50 GMT
#536
On April 14 2011 21:42 Jumbled wrote:
They are reserved in a sense. The spots go to the 200 players with the highest MMR and a bonus pool of less than 180. As long as these players aren't overtaken in MMR, the spot will remain for them. However, eventually they'll either have to play a game and qualify for the league officially, or their bonus pool will get too large and they'll be disqualified.


This is correct -- I posted a few pages back speculating that some of the empty spots in NA were allocated to recognizable names who had traveled to Dreamhack. EGIdrA making it in on his return is a pretty good indication that that's why the league has not filled up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
LaLuSh
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Sweden2358 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-14 15:05:20
April 14 2011 15:03 GMT
#537
There is no way darkforce didn't have a high enough MMR to get into GM.

If that's really the case, then he must have royally screwed up his MMR last season before reset. And then Blizzard's hidden MMR must be really inflexible, since he went like 180-40 in the 2 weeks prior to GM league.

I just don't see a universe where darkforce's MMR is below top200 (unless he offraced for 1-2 months straight).

Same thing with ESC.delphi. He didn't get in either and he finished last season ahead of me in masters (not that it means the world because of how screwed up the ladder was towards the end, but he's another player who is very unlikely to be outside of top200 MMR.).
Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-14 15:10:14
April 14 2011 15:08 GMT
#538
On April 15 2011 00:03 LaLuSh wrote:
There is no way darkforce didn't have a high enough MMR to get into GM.


He's in the European GM league at the moment.

Edit: So is ESCDelphi.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
uberism
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada271 Posts
April 14 2011 15:47 GMT
#539
Nice to see two 17 year olds from Mexico at rank 1 and 2 of the ladder (Maker and sixjaxTerran).
Also congrats to the 17 year old xsixMkengyn who was top 5 yesterday. Lots of young players stepping it up on the ladder.
PhiLtheFisH
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany442 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-14 15:48:40
April 14 2011 15:47 GMT
#540
On April 15 2011 00:08 Lysenko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 15 2011 00:03 LaLuSh wrote:
There is no way darkforce didn't have a high enough MMR to get into GM.


He's in the European GM league at the moment.

Edit: So is ESCDelphi.


Yes, they are both in now, but weren't directly promoted after 1 win (afaik), so their MMR appparently wasn't high enough when the top 200 places were determined, they had to increase it to get into top200.
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