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Aiurr
Poland80 Posts
beta = top copper league 1st season = top bronze league (same as copper) 2nd season = top silver league 3rd season (now) = top gold league I guess it's good that I, at least, almost always play in the top 10 of my division, it's almost guaranteed promotion in the new season. | ||
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whistle
United States141 Posts
Early plat was losing to random cheeses, proxy 2 gate, 3 rax marine/scv all-ins, 6/7 pool, etc. I usually didn't lose to the same cheese more than once or twice though (although proxy 2 gate kept getting me...). So I learned to defend mediocre-execution cheeses first. Then, most of my time in plat was spent losing to 2-3 rax aggression or roach/ling all-ins while trying to 1 gate FE. I got promoted to diamond after winning a PvT on Nezarim Crypt because my T opponent timed out after 10 game seconds. A bit anticlimactic but whatever, a promotion's a promotion. I think I was around ~80 wins 1v1 at this point. While the story of plat league was losing to early pressure because I couldn't defend and macro at the same time, the story of early diamond league was losing to ling run-bys, multiprong drops, and terrible army control (especially my HT... so many games when I would have 5 full energy HT and not get a single storm or feedback off during the big fight). Eventually at 181 1v1 wins I started a PvP on Tal Darim. I was back on the 4 gate train after trying 3 gate twilight openers for a few weeks because I had been watching SaSe stream all the time, and apparently koreans ONLY do 4 gate PvP and still do fine against "anti-4 gate" builds. Plus it's Tal Darim, my micro is nowhere near good enough to defend a good 4 gate with just 3 gates on that map. I'm scouting around my base around 4 minutes and there is a probe throwing up proxy pylons everywhere. I kill the probe and check the other parts of my base and there's another probe throwing up proxy pylons. I guess he either went 12 gate like me, or forgot a chrono boost on his core, since my warpgate finished just barely after his. Easy defense, and counter for the 182nd win and promotion to master league. Since I was curious about this when I was diamond: for the few weeks before the day I got promoted, I played a low-mid master player probably every 10-15 games. I think I went something like 15-3 the day I got promoted though, started off normally - playing mid-high diamonds - then eventually only playing high diamond and after that mostly masters players. So my diamond -> master promotion could be summarized as: maintain high diamond (possibly very low master) MMR for a month, then go on a sick streak to bump the moving average into master league territory. | ||
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Mashakosha
United Kingdom1 Post
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zakmaa
Canada525 Posts
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CarachAngren
United States84 Posts
Season 1 - placed gold, made platinum after a month and got diamond toward the end, Seaon 2 Stuck in diamond  Season 3, started in diamond again but with new practice partners and an attitude to win, I was determined to get masters. I always had a super high apm for diamond but bad decision making and reacting. Did a lot of replay analysis and watching of pro streams. Then in a 2-3 day period I went on a 12-1 run and started playing only masters. I lost a couple but won the majority by playing smart and safe. A week later I got masters after someone dropped :/ I'll take it! | ||
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Deadstrider
Netherlands258 Posts
Season 2: omg Silver.. still switched between terran and toss.. Same season I streamrolled through silver, got into gold after like 30 games. Season 3: Plat:D Protoss became my race. Im high plat now touching low diamond. Still I think im not learning/improving fast enough.. not using hotkeys good enough etc. But still happy.. I like the game and like ESPORTS.. and ofc the community is freakin awesome:D | ||
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98element76
Canada1 Post
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Fatal_Wound
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Blasterion
China10272 Posts
To be continued | ||
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Soulriser
United States192 Posts
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fdsdfg
United States1251 Posts
Silver, racked up a TON of games but never got promoted. Protoss. Phase 2: Platinum, many many games as P and then T Phase 3 / Season 1: Long phase, all Zerg. Got to be high diamond, back when everyone rated themselves by points (2300 diamond) and inflation made the number nigh meaningless. Season 2: Didn't play Season 3: #1 diamond forever. Wish I'd get Masters. Playing consistently. | ||
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CactusSC2
United States61 Posts
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Happyhydra
United States5 Posts
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DeCoder
Finland236 Posts
I think there should be a league between Diamond and Platinum for me, since Platinum is too easy and Diamond is too hard. | ||
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ragnorr
Denmark6097 Posts
Playing protoss | ||
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Talanthalos
Germany153 Posts
The day Sc2 came out: Placed in Diamond, after ~10 games Master. End of Story | ||
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Shelke14
Canada6655 Posts
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keioh
France1099 Posts
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ineq
Sweden376 Posts
On September 13 2011 06:01 Deadstrider wrote: Season 1: Bronze, was my first serious RTS.. felt weird, switched between terran and toss alot. Season 2: omg Silver.. still switched between terran and toss.. Same season I streamrolled through silver, got into gold after like 30 games. Season 3: Plat:D Protoss became my race. Im high plat now touching low diamond. Still I think im not learning/improving fast enough.. not using hotkeys good enough etc. But still happy.. I like the game and like ESPORTS.. and ofc the community is freakin awesome:D If it's your first RTS i would not worry to much, i think everyone without any deep-ish knowledge of how competative RTS works will need something like a year atleast to even begin catching up.  | ||
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Hexagecz
Czech Republic66 Posts
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