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NoobieOne
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1183 Posts
April 21 2011 16:17 GMT
#41
Maybe Blizzard was banning that day. They ban hackers in waves after tracking them for a while. Hackers generally play up to the Diamond level with their hacks so when banned people bellow Diamond would have spots open to fill and that will trickle down the ladder.
Flameling
Profile Joined July 2010
United States413 Posts
April 21 2011 16:18 GMT
#42
LOL, yeah. I got promo from silver to gold!! on 3v3 though. Anyways, I was 30-13 lmao
ePLocust
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States587 Posts
April 21 2011 16:19 GMT
#43
On April 22 2011 01:08 Aequos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 01:05 shinarit wrote:
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.

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)."

yea a long time ago when i was demoted to silver (long time ago i'm diamond now) it was different than the placement match one
andrewwiggin
Profile Joined September 2010
Australia435 Posts
April 21 2011 16:20 GMT
#44
lol its just a psychological trick on yourself bro.

you end up being promoted.. and you notice more often people who are promoted/occurences of promotion.

but its really just the same rate of promotion (think about this, why would it change for particular days? makes no sense).



just like if you get your license and drive with learner plates, you suddenly see everyone with learner plates, notice them more often etc etc.



Qwix
Profile Joined October 2010
531 Posts
April 21 2011 16:23 GMT
#45
Winstreak of 7 already.. when would I get promoted today again?
shaippen
Profile Joined October 2010
Sweden88 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-21 16:42:46
April 21 2011 16:42 GMT
#46
On April 22 2011 01:20 andrewwiggin wrote:
lol its just a psychological trick on yourself bro.

you end up being promoted.. and you notice more often people who are promoted/occurences of promotion.

but its really just the same rate of promotion (think about this, why would it change for particular days? makes no sense).



just like if you get your license and drive with learner plates, you suddenly see everyone with learner plates, notice them more often etc etc.


Excalibur_Z pretty much confirmed on the first page that blizzard did tweak some values sooo..
IamaGrapeMan
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada165 Posts
April 21 2011 16:43 GMT
#47
blizzard said that once you are set in league you stay in that league for at least a week no matter what. so that might explain why you and all your friends got promoted.
sYnRoscoe
Profile Joined April 2011
United States149 Posts
April 21 2011 16:45 GMT
#48
I don't know if it's me or not, but I played around 18 games yesterday and I lost about 12 of them! I played an avg of 23 games a day and usually win around 15 or 16 of them.
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muffley
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States280 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-21 16:53:35
April 21 2011 16:51 GMT
#49
Here's a (hopefully legible) graph of teams over time for the us server. The last dot is a just recently updated count
[image loading]


From top down, bronze lost a lot of people, which is unprecedented. Silver and gold both gained a significant amount of people. Platinum gained a little, but this could be the normal gain and not due to any Blizzard shenanigans. Diamond went up a touch. Masters didn't move.
dafnay
Profile Joined May 2010
Angola375 Posts
April 21 2011 16:51 GMT
#50
On April 22 2011 01:43 IamaGrapeMan wrote:
blizzard said that once you are set in league you stay in that league for at least a week no matter what. so that might explain why you and all your friends got promoted.

False , on my second account I started bronze 2 days ago and I'm platinium now
aquanda
Profile Joined January 2003
United States477 Posts
April 21 2011 16:52 GMT
#51
On April 22 2011 01:43 IamaGrapeMan wrote:
blizzard said that once you are set in league you stay in that league for at least a week no matter what. so that might explain why you and all your friends got promoted.

I got promoted from Diamond to Masters on my smurf in about 2 hours...so I doubt it.
Alejandrisha
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States6565 Posts
April 21 2011 16:55 GMT
#52
Excaliber the Ben Bernanke of the of SC2 ladder :D
Was there a Battle.net blue on this or was it just your starsense?
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Dagobert
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Netherlands1858 Posts
April 21 2011 16:59 GMT
#53
I got demoted in a team league recently, which is not surprising because my teammates have been shit.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
April 21 2011 17:16 GMT
#54
On April 22 2011 01:55 Alejandrisha wrote:
Excaliber the Ben Bernanke of the of SC2 ladder :D
Was there a Battle.net blue on this or was it just your starsense?


I'm not saying I have a secret spy camera in Blizzard's conference rooms, but I'm not not saying that either :O

Hopefully they'll announce something so that it's more official and clues people in to what exactly is happening (I can understand if they don't say that they shifted the league boundaries [esp for Bronze] though).
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tnkted
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1359 Posts
April 21 2011 17:26 GMT
#55
Hmm... I haven't ladderd in awhile. If I were to ladder today, are my chances of getting promoted higher?
'I think "tnkted" may have justified this entire thread.' - Mjolnir
Phinix
Profile Joined October 2010
United States116 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-21 17:30:20
April 21 2011 17:29 GMT
#56
On April 22 2011 02:16 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 01:55 Alejandrisha wrote:
Excaliber the Ben Bernanke of the of SC2 ladder :D
Was there a Battle.net blue on this or was it just your starsense?


I'm not saying I have a secret spy camera in Blizzard's conference rooms, but I'm not not saying that either :O

Hopefully they'll announce something so that it's more official and clues people in to what exactly is happening (I can understand if they don't say that they shifted the league boundaries [esp for Bronze] though).

Do you have any further speculation for us, Excalibur_Z?

Would you think it likely that the Diamond league's threshold was dropped as well, considering their former 13.6% distribution in NA? (Current SC2 ranks data - I'm banking off of the update lag. Heheh)
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SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
April 21 2011 17:33 GMT
#57
On April 22 2011 02:29 Phinix wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 02:16 Excalibur_Z wrote:
On April 22 2011 01:55 Alejandrisha wrote:
Excaliber the Ben Bernanke of the of SC2 ladder :D
Was there a Battle.net blue on this or was it just your starsense?


I'm not saying I have a secret spy camera in Blizzard's conference rooms, but I'm not not saying that either :O

Hopefully they'll announce something so that it's more official and clues people in to what exactly is happening (I can understand if they don't say that they shifted the league boundaries [esp for Bronze] though).

Do you have any further speculation for us, Excalibur_Z?

Would you think it likely that the Diamond league's threshold was dropped as well, considering their former 13.6% distribution in NA? (Current SC2 ranks data - I'm banking off of the update lag. Heheh)


I'd think that for some reason bronze were getting way more than the 20% of active population and they just fixed that.

The design was probably to have a 20%/20%/etc between leagues, but they didn't realized that the system would tend to do this and that and bronze would end up with way more than intended, and now they just "fixed" it so bronze could finally be no more than 20% of active population? Just speculation though!
purecarnagge
Profile Joined August 2010
719 Posts
April 21 2011 17:37 GMT
#58
I was in gold until I switched from zerg to protoss...actually top 10 gold...pvp is killing me. I 4gate die too much.

some people just got that timing down. I don't like to chronoboost warpgate and I find 99% of everyone else drops 3 chrono's on it which makes me sadface as I go for probes hoping that it finishes intime and I can hold ramp with FF
AeonStrife
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States918 Posts
April 21 2011 17:41 GMT
#59
Thought it was just a coincidence that this was happening to people. Idk what Blizzard is up to...

I don't like it...it must be some sort of evil plan...
Whats worse...US Poltics or SC2 Balance Talks...
Phinix
Profile Joined October 2010
United States116 Posts
April 21 2011 17:44 GMT
#60
On April 22 2011 02:33 SDream wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 02:29 Phinix wrote:
On April 22 2011 02:16 Excalibur_Z wrote:
On April 22 2011 01:55 Alejandrisha wrote:
Excaliber the Ben Bernanke of the of SC2 ladder :D
Was there a Battle.net blue on this or was it just your starsense?


I'm not saying I have a secret spy camera in Blizzard's conference rooms, but I'm not not saying that either :O

Hopefully they'll announce something so that it's more official and clues people in to what exactly is happening (I can understand if they don't say that they shifted the league boundaries [esp for Bronze] though).

Do you have any further speculation for us, Excalibur_Z?

Would you think it likely that the Diamond league's threshold was dropped as well, considering their former 13.6% distribution in NA? (Current SC2 ranks data - I'm banking off of the update lag. Heheh)


I'd think that for some reason bronze were getting way more than the 20% of active population and they just fixed that.

The design was probably to have a 20%/20%/etc between leagues, but they didn't realized that the system would tend to do this and that and bronze would end up with way more than intended, and now they just "fixed" it so bronze could finally be no more than 20% of active population? Just speculation though!

If I understood correctly, the plan was indeed to distribute leagues as 2/18/20/20/20/20 (Masters/Diamond/Plat/etc.etc.etc). Bronze was way over-saturated, according to SC2ranks, though I don't know how much Blizzard's "Active" data differed.
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