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But yeah I also heard a couple of my friends getting promoted on Wednesday as well. I guess it is true :oPromotion day on battle net? - Page 2
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Cyn.ful
United States89 Posts
But yeah I also heard a couple of my friends getting promoted on Wednesday as well. I guess it is true :o | ||
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Innovation
United States284 Posts
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meep
United States1699 Posts
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Tenks
United States3104 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:29 bentski wrote: Hmm interesting... Excalibur, can you tell us which leagues had their thresholds changed? I assume it's mostly just the lower leagues, since sc2ranks.com still shows like %40 Bronze in NA, which is probably a lot higher than it should be... while the middle leagues are somewhat underrepresented. I've been trying to get into Masters since the patch, but I've noticed it went from like 6% to 3.5% over the past few weeks, so I assume it is also still overrepresented... did they push the mmr threshold for Masters up even more? I am in Diamond and a ton of people on my ladder got moved out. | ||
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Floydian
United Kingdom374 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:24 Excalibur_Z wrote: They have the ability to do this (change the thresholds without a patch) and this is basically what happened. I don't know how much more I can say on that but I'm surprised that people were able to pick up on it so quickly. Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but how do you know all this? o.0 | ||
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Rotodyne
United States2263 Posts
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shablaman
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Icx
Belgium853 Posts
But what is blizzard's reasoning for this actually? I haven't looked to closely at the sc2ranks stats, but the league distribution overall looked kinda normal in comparison to season 1. Or is this the after-effect off the GM league (200 people cut out of master's, so they changed the leagues slightly to accomodate for that), or is it just a complete guess for yourself to? | ||
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Ben...
Canada3485 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:22 Kokujin wrote: It's always been like that. Myself and two friends did 4v4s with one random and I got placed into Gold Random 4v4. I thought it was weird too.terribly flawed that post patch, players in teams of 3 or 2 playing 4v4 are now ranked individually in 4v4 | ||
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moltenlead
Canada866 Posts
Also, has anyone got a screenshot of the demotion screen? Really want to see one. | ||
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Kokujin
United States456 Posts
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xSixGeneralHan
United States528 Posts
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Sakarabu
United Kingdom132 Posts
It would make alot of sense as they always ban in waves, and it would free up alot of spaces on the higher leagues. They usually announce when they have done some mass banning, but perhaps they are changing their strategy and doing it quietly now. | ||
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aderum
Sweden1459 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:31 Floydian wrote: Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but how do you know all this? o.0 Blizzard talks to alot of pros and big names in the community, so i guess they have told him something | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12280 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:29 bentski wrote: Hmm interesting... Excalibur, can you tell us which leagues had their thresholds changed? I assume it's mostly just the lower leagues, since sc2ranks.com still shows like %40 Bronze in NA, which is probably a lot higher than it should be... while the middle leagues are somewhat underrepresented. I've been trying to get into Masters since the patch, but I've noticed it went from like 6% to 3.5% over the past few weeks, so I assume it is also still overrepresented... did they push the mmr threshold for Masters up even more? SC2Ranks still doesn't have the updated numbers, and it may not for a few days (Bronze especially is updated less frequently than the rest). I'd imagine that the thresholds were readjusted to smooth out the league populations though. The biggest difference will probably be shrinking Bronze and building up Gold through Master. I do know that the thresholds for teams were changed (or are being changed very soon) and will no longer mirror the solo thresholds. This is probably going to put a lot more arranged teams (especially in the 3v3 and 4v4 brackets) into Diamond and Master so we don't get anymore silliness like 2-3 teams in total in Master league. | ||
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bentski
Canada31 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:51 Excalibur_Z wrote: SC2Ranks still doesn't have the updated numbers, and it may not for a few days (Bronze especially is updated less frequently than the rest). I'd imagine that the thresholds were readjusted to smooth out the league populations though. The biggest difference will probably be shrinking Bronze and building up Gold through Master. Hmm yea this is what I suspected (I assumed SC2Ranks wasn't completely up to date). Thanks for the info  Although I feel like Masters is still over-represented like Bronze, so I assumed it would be pushing some Masters/Diamonds down and pushing Bronze/Silvers up a bit to populate the middle more... but we'll have see what happens over the next fews days! | ||
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shinarit
Hungary900 Posts
On April 22 2011 00:36 moltenlead wrote: Also, has anyone got a screenshot of the demotion screen? Really want to see one. Umm, no screenshot, but when i played my season2 placement match i got demoted, and as far as i can tell its the same: congratulations etc.etc. you got placed here. If the no-placement demotion/promotion message is something else than nevermind. | ||
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Aequos
Canada606 Posts
On April 22 2011 01:05 shinarit wrote: Umm, no screenshot, but when i played my season2 placement match i got demoted, and as far as i can tell its the same: congratulations etc.etc. you got placed here. If the no-placement demotion/promotion message is something else than nevermind. The "demotion screen" says something like "based upon our numbers, you have been reclassified to this league (then shows a picture of the league below and gives some sort of name)." | ||
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ZasZ.
United States2911 Posts
Was wondering why they were in such quick succession and only after a couple games. | ||
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windsupernova
Mexico5280 Posts
Feels bad man | ||
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