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Kippers
Profile Joined April 2010
United Kingdom100 Posts
April 22 2011 00:35 GMT
#101
Maybe its Artosis' lucky day?
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
April 22 2011 00:47 GMT
#102
On this note, I also logged in today and found that I jumped like 15-20 spots in my league without playing a game. I rarely play 1v1s.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
Torte de Lini
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany38463 Posts
April 22 2011 00:48 GMT
#103
On April 22 2011 09:47 TheAmazombie wrote:
On this note, I also logged in today and found that I jumped like 15-20 spots in my league without playing a game. I rarely play 1v1s.


A lot of people got promoted :b
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scottycopter
Profile Joined October 2010
United States46 Posts
April 22 2011 00:54 GMT
#104
If I were to venture a guess, I would say it has a bit to do with the recent launch of season 2. The general idea between the 5 leagues (Bronze - Diamond) is that each one represents roughly 20% of the player base (Masters is top 2% iirc). My thought is that since season 2 started a few weeks ago, the system might be reseeding people to keep the leagues fairly even and adjusting for any players from the previous season who are no longer playing.

But I have nothing to base that on other than my own personal logic.
Pwnographics
Profile Joined January 2011
New Zealand1097 Posts
April 22 2011 00:56 GMT
#105
Got promoted today ^^
KillerPlague
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1386 Posts
April 22 2011 00:58 GMT
#106
id be willing to bet this is because a certain amount of time has gone by since the new season, and everyone that played 1 game for their placement match is now considered inactive. this means new spots open up since leagues are 20/20/20/20/20 of active players. imo
Side 1: Why no dominant players with 90% win ratio Side 2: Nerf Side 1
gogogadgetflow
Profile Joined March 2010
United States2583 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-22 01:02:47
April 22 2011 01:00 GMT
#107
I got demoted -.-

Was pissed at lag (like 3000Ms) and just scv all-inned every game. Probably unwise lol


On April 22 2011 09:58 KillerPlague wrote:
id be willing to bet this is because a certain amount of time has gone by since the new season, and everyone that played 1 game for their placement match is now considered inactive. this means new spots open up since leagues are 20/20/20/20/20 of active players. imo


ooh good thinking but FYI leagues are like top100/2%/6%/24%/28%/40%

I pulled that out of my ass but you can check Excalibur Z's thread for exact numbers I'm sure
Tracedragon
Profile Joined December 2010
United States948 Posts
April 22 2011 01:00 GMT
#108
Probably Blizzard's way of celebrating 4/20? :3

But most likely because there've been less active players lately? Seems like there were only 8k games the whole day yesterday instead of the usual 12k+.
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random user
Profile Joined December 2010
85 Posts
April 22 2011 01:01 GMT
#109
Noticing some players were not being promoted as soon as they should have been, we’ve made an adjustment to the ladder that will promote them in a more timely fashion


My total WAG is that they looked at what happened to Grandmaster's and why some people had a hard time and/or weren't able to get in, and discovered a bug in promotions somewhere, and not limited to GM. Once they fixed it, a byproduct is a lot of people were affected by that bug got promoted.

Too bad for this season for GM though.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
April 22 2011 01:01 GMT
#110
On April 22 2011 09:33 Bxk wrote:
Blue post on Ladder Promotions - pretty much confirmed?


haha. Hooray! They originally said they weren't going to say anything, I'm glad they changed their minds. I notice they don't go into much detail, but that's probably for the best anyway.
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-22 01:03:51
April 22 2011 01:03 GMT
#111
On April 22 2011 08:53 Lysenko wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 07:50 Arkless wrote:
No offense, but how do we know exalicuber knows what he is even talking about? Do you work at blizzard? or have any proof?


His analysis and commentary on this stuff has been viewed by the community as pretty definitive since before release, and his MVP status in the Blizzard forums suggests that they've noticed and want to encourage this.

I'd guess that Blizzard's thought process is that the type of detail that Excalibur_Z puts into his threads is way, way more technical than they'd ever want to put out there themselves, so they give him nudges to keep him on the right track rather than offer their own thick, mathematically laden document on how the SC2 ranking system works.

As for this current issue, Excalibur_Z has implied that he has specific information that the league boundaries changed. Absent that, I might have also wondered whether this might either be a result of a large shift in inactivity from people who came back after the reset dropping back out of the game (as someone above suggested) or alternatively some kind of correction for promotions that might otherwise be dictated by existing league boundaries not happening in a timely fashion.

Excalibur_Z: I'm guessing you are pretty certain those two possibilities are not the cause of this recent shift. Can you blink once for yes, twice for no?


Yeah I spoke with a couple of people a few days ago, which was when I learned about the impending hotfix. Now that it's receiving official acknowledgment I feel a little more comfortable =) My eyes kind of bugged out when I saw someone reposted this on the Bnet forums (before the blue post went up).
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hitman133
Profile Joined October 2010
United States1425 Posts
April 22 2011 01:04 GMT
#112
woop times to ladder
Lysenko
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Iceland2128 Posts
April 22 2011 01:08 GMT
#113

On April 22 2011 08:53 Lysenko wrote:
alternatively some kind of correction for promotions that might otherwise be dictated by existing league boundaries not happening in a timely fashion.


That summary sounds more like what they described in the blue post than the league MMR boundaries actually changing, but I wouldn't necessarily expect the telephone game from developers -> CM staff -> blue post to yield a perfectly accurate statement of what changed, either.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Handfoot
Profile Joined January 2011
United States62 Posts
April 22 2011 01:10 GMT
#114
I got promoted yesterday too!
Logarythm
Profile Joined November 2010
United States264 Posts
April 22 2011 01:13 GMT
#115
I got promoted this afternoon. Hurray :D :D :D :D
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zJayy962
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
1363 Posts
April 22 2011 01:20 GMT
#116
So what the percentages and league thresholds now? Someone mentioned that sc2ranks isn't 100% accurate. If people are noticing more promotions at the moment, why is the master league still decreasing in size for sc2ranks?
Nerdslayer
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark1130 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-22 01:26:23
April 22 2011 01:25 GMT
#117
DiDigital
Profile Joined February 2011
75 Posts
April 22 2011 01:48 GMT
#118
I don't think the percentages were changed. What was likely changed were the qualifications used to determine what category players fell into (league or activity status).
-Exalt-
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States972 Posts
April 22 2011 03:21 GMT
#119
I've been rank 1 in my diamond division with 500% points for a while, been playing ALL DAY today because i saw this post

I'm like 8-2 vs masters players, only have been playing them really but I won't get promoted T.T

I will get masters some day... for now ill go cry in a corner
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
April 22 2011 03:35 GMT
#120
On April 22 2011 10:48 DiDigital wrote:
I don't think the percentages were changed. What was likely changed were the qualifications used to determine what category players fell into (league or activity status).


Nah it was definitely a threshold change. What we don't know is which leagues were affected. The only one I know for sure is the Bronze breakpoint (which would also affect Silver). Not sure about the rest -- maybe Master wasn't affected at all.
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