I wanted to see if other people have similar stories like mine when being promoted.
I'll tell my story first.
I've been bronze for 2 seasons and have been trying to get better. I've been playing tons (by my scale) lately. And its payed.
SILVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I literally blew one ear drum from screaming so loud when i saw it pop up. And the best part is i was getting super pissed in the game i promoted in. I had a bigger army but he start sneaking DT's in my base and i couldn't get my heavy ass slow army to defend and i ended up losing my CC. But eventually marched into his base and won!
WOOO share your promotion story of the game and what you did :D
Its so rewarding even if i'm still a nub going from bronze to silver is a big confidence booster! So much fun!!
My promotion stories have been jokes. In Bronze I was smashing everyone once I began to understand how to play the game, but then I finally get promoted by beating some guy in placement. He had barely anything, but he was my last bronze game. In 2v2 I began this Season as Silver. 5 matches later I get bored and pull off a 6 pool. We win and I'm promoted to Gold. The 1v1 promotion felt good, but because I worked for it. The actual promotion game didn't feel that great
A few weeks before the new ladder season I figured I might as well start playing, because my losses will be deleted soon. I realized how much fun actually playing the game was when i started playing again. I got promoted to gold when the ladder reset.
About 50 games later, I got promoted to platinum after going about 70% wins and 30% losses in gold.
I don't really remember. I was in gold for a week after launch, then platinum for a week, and then diamond, and I haven't really laddered much since masters came out. Could probably get it if I tried.
i played the beta phase one as teran, was bronze league after SC2 officialy released, i got into gold league, and used the infamous 3 rax reaper speed rush all the way to diamond.
i am still in diamond playing between toss and teran.
oh and everytime i got promoted i was in school playing, and i would get a league promotion ^.^
Came fresh out from Company of Heroes, top 10 consistently 1v1 and 2v2 (played Ra3 and Halo 3 on the side). Got into Plat. because I didn't have a mouse, so I used a trackpad on my MacBook.
2 weeks later I got a mouse, made diamond. When masters came out I made that too.
I haven't done much with 1v1 (Platinum). In 4v4 I placed into Bronze attempting to mass singular units (Ghosts) and win with them. I eventually landed on a better singular unit to mass (Marines) and got into Silver, then won 12 straight in a night and ended up going from Silver to Platinum, skipping Gold. lol 4v4
Reaching Diamond wasn't very eventful. Marines too strong.
I started in silver and during december I gamed really hard to get promoted to gold. I was then placed in platinum with season 2. But the promotion to gold just felt really rewarding.
On a funny note, my friend (diamond 1v1) and I (platinum 1v1) got demoted from platinum 2v2 to Gold. I coulnd't stop laughing cos he was having a really bad SC2 day. We won 2 matches then lost 1 and got demoted.
hm... beta was plat (when plat was highest), the release got into diamond after about a month, then stopped playing much for season 1. season 2 came around, i played over 150 games, then masters promotion, i was so happy =D
Last season I got promoted to diamond by stopping a 6 pool. I was playing on Steppes and managed to block off my ramp with 2 gateways and a forge. Safe inside, I built a stargate and chrono'd out a void ray. Once I had the void ray I sent out my 3 gate army and the voidray and attacked. The guy had gone mass roaches. As soon as he saw my void he gg'd. Welcome to Diamond.
I was diamond last season and wanted to get masters, I won lots of games but it didnt promote me (i was 30 10 or sth ) then I lost hope and played for fun after some losing streak I managed to korean 4 gate that protoss guy and I was promoted(yesterday) yay!
Started out in copper way back. Knew nothing. Got Brtonze after a few games, then after a total of 50 or so games got into silver. Then I started slowly crawling up and ended platinum when beta was over. After release it didn't take long to get into diamond. Was pretty happy about that back then. Got better over time and I have been in a masters league about three times now. Usually get bored though and screw my ranking over by going random. But hey, they added grand master, so will be trying to get over there.
Feels good to get there, but pressure goes up as well. I actually get hesistant to play ladder, because in the end losing points is only a waste of time.
first started off as terran (heard from friend that terran was op), got placed into silver league switched to random, got promoted to plat at beginning of season 2 realizing that I cant do tvp and zvp for shit, switched to protoss as a result, promoted to diamond
Played like 7ladder games in beta, got placed in Bronze. When released, I got placed into Gold with 3-2 and 10games later I got promoted to Diamond. Probably the most boring story :D
Last season I had an interesting promotion into masters. Basically, it started with all my good friends getting in easy. Then theres me laddering and my friends all said you should be in masters your good enough. Well apparently for the system to register me as being good enough I literally had to become the best Diamond player in the world. And yes i did check this on sc2 ranks and the only acc higher then mine was Miniguns old acc that was inactive. So by this point I was getting hopeless being so high in diamond and not getting promoted. But then one morning just playing casually I got promoted. I was happy and then got the crap scared out of my when my dad walked in right as I was about to cheer (those two emotions put together isnt the best combo).
Kicked the ass and raped a zerg player in the middle of switching races from protoss. He was so bad that I literally walked into his base and killed him with mm. Simple, stupid easy. I expect to be demoted for terrible play or bonus pool because I myself am switching to zerg. My opponent was favored so it wasn't a huge surprise. Also, I had only started playing sc2 competitively in 1v1 a few weeks before hand, and I knew I was at least silver level so I just kept on pushing. It wasn't a huge surprise.
I started off the game being placed into plat and then eventually worked my way into Diamond. When Masters League first rolled out I was so disappointed that I wasn't placed in there that I played 53 games straight over the course of 2 days until I got promoted into Masters. I have never left since.
My friend and I were Silver in 2v2s. First game on Tuesday, we get High Orbit with 2 Protoss opponents. I go for one-base broodlords, while he banshee harasses and moves out with 2 thors to their back rocks. One of the Toss players went mass phoenix, and by mass I mean 8. The other had a bunch of stalkers and zealots, but didn't know how to blink that well. We ended up beating both of them, even though the guy with stalks/lots had more supply than both of us combined. Got the gold promotion after that.
Started playing in beta, got placed in copper and was awful at the game... Played for abit, got better than others in that league and once some reset happened, i got placed in Diamond, which was highest then (or if it was platinum i got placed in that).
When retail came, i did my 5 placements and got placed in higest (was diamond i think?), and played for a while until i took a 6 month break. After the break i went in, shaky as hell, managed to win my first game (was really surprised), and got promoted to masters instantly (even more surprised). So my promotion story is really boring, only got promoted once, and that was after 1 game and a 6 month break.
Now if i could start playing more than 3-4 games a day and get better, and get promoted into GM, that'd be something to be really happy about!!
Actually, today I got placed into gold after like 2-3 weeks in silver. I was beating everyone in silver and today, the first game I played, the guy I was playing against 10 pooled and I was able to hold it off. After I held it, I 4gated and he had like no units. Very boring way to get promoted
Season 1-played my placement matches and won 1/5 Was in bronze league for about 2 months Practiced a bit to get use to the mechanics of the game Made a strong build and went with it every game And started winning with it Got promoted to Silver And skipped Gold league was placed platinum as my mile stone
Was placed into diamond start of this season (around 3rd week playing). A bit over a week, I was promoted to master by beating a t with a baneling bust on metalopolis. He rage quit and my 750pts turned into 250 (went about 60-30 in diamond). Now I'm playing on my second account, it's diamond atm after 2 days of laddering. Going to promote very soon wonder which game it could be.
I was bronze for the longest time until i went on a 15+ win streak vs all high gold/high plat players. My last bronze match was against a 6pool, which is too easy to hold off at this point in the game. I won, skipped silver and got directly promoted to gold.
On April 30 2011 08:30 Engore wrote: I wanted to see if other people have similar stories like mine when being promoted.
I'll tell my story first.
I've been bronze for 2 seasons and have been trying to get better. I've been playing tons (by my scale) lately. And its payed.
SILVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! I literally blew one ear drum from screaming so loud when i saw it pop up. And the best part is i was getting super pissed in the game i promoted in. I had a bigger army but he start sneaking DT's in my base and i couldn't get my heavy ass slow army to defend and i ended up losing my CC. But eventually marched into his base and won!
WOOO share your promotion story of the game and what you did :D
Its so rewarding even if i'm still a nub going from bronze to silver is a big confidence booster! So much fun!!
heres my story for my most recent promotion to Gold
my opponent left
and i got the promotion thing. i thanked the guy for giving me a free promotion(apparently he was trying to lower his MMR, when i played him and looked at his profile, he was a low diamond, 3 hrs later he was in silver league o.o)
On April 30 2011 08:48 GlocKomA wrote: Came fresh out from Company of Heroes, top 10 consistently 1v1 and 2v2 (played Ra3 and Halo 3 on the side). Got into Plat. because I didn't have a mouse, so I used a trackpad on my MacBook.
2 weeks later I got a mouse, made diamond. When masters came out I made that too.
Boring story.
I don't know you. You must have either hacked your way into the top 10 or just game spammed (if I'm wrong please forgive me ).
Still nice to see CoH players here, I've faced Sweix (if you know him) 3 times on ladder. :D
Played in the beta. Right at the end of it I "made" diamond (it was right after a ladder reset and I won all my placements). I thought I was so good going into the start of the game -- that I had all this experience -- but, when I played my placements I went 2-3 and was placed in bronze. The pain of getting bronze was only second to the mocking that i suffered from my friends . . . But I worked my way up to Gold, and now that schools done I'm almost into Plat! Nothing feels better than working your way up from the bottom.
Cant really remember specific games of getting promoted but after I bought sc2 I was placed into bronze and slowly worked up to low-mid diamond. Then once masters came out got promoted to that shortly after.
I wish i was bronze, but i win too much. After getting to masters i was like, whatever. Switched to toss, then random and tanked like 60 games during that time. lost about 50 times and won less then 10. got demoted to diamond in season 2. now i switched back to zerg since random is boring. and i cant get back into masters due to the infestor change. I got in masters winning 11 ZvZ's against 3300+ zergs in arow. But now my strat/build in ZvZ got removed due to infestor change. I went for quick muta on 2 base to force my opponent, and hoped he would overreact. Get roach hydra and tech to broodlord at that point on 3 base. I won so much cause so many zergs overeacted to muta. doesnt work now since everyone rushes to infestor in ZvZ and if i go muta they will attack and i wont have enough roachs to survive fungals.
When I just got the game I was first placed in platinum by 8 pooling all my placement matches. I continued to 8 pool my way through platinum until i learned how to play the game. I have worked my way to masters ever since! I was such a scrub...
On April 30 2011 09:00 Fivt wrote: Started out in copper way back. Knew nothing. Got Brtonze after a few games, then after a total of 50 or so games got into silver. Then I started slowly crawling up and ended platinum when beta was over. After release it didn't take long to get into diamond. Was pretty happy about that back then. Got better over time and I have been in a masters league about three times now. Usually get bored though and screw my ranking over by going random. But hey, they added grand master, so will be trying to get over there.
Feels good to get there, but pressure goes up as well. I actually get hesistant to play ladder, because in the end losing points is only a waste of time.
yah I get hesitant to play ladder sometimes(especially when im a bit tired from heavy macroing and have no bonus pool)
Got placed into plat in the beta, wasn't too familiar with the game but apparently massing lings & spamming hatcheries was enough. Promoted to diamond shortly after and started expanding my game. Placed into plat after release, made diamond shortly thereafter. Made masters as soon as it came out. Still can't win a friggin team game to save my life.
I had been drinking a bit with friends. We decided we all wanted to head out for the evening, but a few folks needed time to get ready.
I decided to hop on and do a quick ladder game. Doubting my ability to multi-task come late game due to being a tad drunk, I decided to 7 pool; I score a quick win. I walked away to piss and came back and saw I had been promoted to Master.
I picked up this game in November 2010, with no RTS experience at all (a friend of mine played the game and suggested Husky; I saw how exciting the game was and said, I can do that!).
Of course I get placed in bronze and am there for months.
Then I discover Day9, and after tons and tons of ladder games I finally make Silver! But I feel like my skills are above that, and I end up just saying "not good enough, we can make it to diamond".
Soon I find myself in Gold league, still feeling inadequate. HOWEVER I do want to say that upon getting promoted to Gold I also earned myself the 100 wins photo (yay Hydralisk!).
I then go on a vacation of sorts, and fit in 3-4 long 6 hour ladder sessions, and at the end of the final evening before heading out on the road, I make it to Platinum! Oh the joy! Now people will respect me a bit more!
But ever since promoting to Silver, I had the goal in mind of making it to Diamond. I knew I can.
So comes along the ladder lock into the new season, and I'm on fire. I feel completely in control of all of my games and feel like I'm outclassing everyone. You cannot imagine my joy when came the first hour of the new season, I am placed in Diamond! Not only that, but top 5 in my league! I am ecstatic, and play quite well that day.
I wake up the next morning finally feeling like "now I can play some real games" (of course my MMR is still the same and my calibre of opponents is the same as well, but I feel accomplished). I sit down, and play a match. After a long macro game, I end up not quite having enough bases and get killed.
Oh, died to a 4 gate. Hmm. I can get through this, I'm good enough.
Oh, 2 rax. :/
Oh, speedling all in. Fine, I can cheese too. I'm diamond, I can execute it perfectly. Scouting? Nah.
I 7 pool 2x spine crawler rush, crush my zerg opponent. Ha! Take that!
Oh a protoss opponent? You're about to be 6 pooled. Get there!
I eventually fall into a pattern of cheesing every games for about 50 games. You, the experienced TL reader/player that you are, can guess how that went. My win ratio was below 40%. I demote to platinum, where I am now. Smacked some sense into me, and now I am earning my way back in with a macro-oriented goal in mind. I will celebrate once more when I get back into diamond. :D
Moral of my story: CELEBRATE when you promote! But don't let it go to your head or you will demote and that's not something you want to celebrate.
nothing very exciting for me, started off in lowest league in beta, in diamond now. every promotion ive had has been expected after checking the ranks of players i had been playing recently, when release hit i was placed in plat and started playing all diamond players after about 10 or 15 games, so i knew it was coming soon, nothing too exciting
I went from silver to diamond from July 27 release to late December. Then school punched me in the face and I couldn't play as much without hurting my marks. 3000points, 2000points, 1000points, High plat...
When the game first came out I placed Plat, it took me getting a new computer to ladder my way to Diamond, I was placed into diamond at 600 points where I would stay from September to early april this year. After months of tons of team games and a few practice games with a buddy of mine I decided I was going to ladder.
In my first ladder game I was like "WTF this guy is terrible" I was against a 3.8k Diamond Zerg. I stomped him. I proceeded to win 21 games in a row without losing and started getting placed against mid masters players (3.5k Masters). Ladder was locked the next day, waited for a week. Logged in and started my placement. After a 65 minute macro game on Metalopolis against a T, a game in which I used every unit in the Protoss arsenal with the exception of the Mothership, I was promoted to Master League.
Now when I heard about Master League it was something I wanted to be a part of so badly, but it was akin to a dream. I was like "yeah I'll make master lol", with my friends. It just seemed like something that was impossible. I have never beat my chest so furiously nor been so excited as when it said I was promoted to Master League :D
1v1: I started at release getting placed in platinum from 5-0 placement. I had played in the Beta so it was pretty simple to get promoted to Diamond right away. I've probably played 10 1v1 games during the school year so nothings changed since that first month really.
2v2 R: Placed into Plat, played like 10 games. Got promoted to diamond when I did a season 2 placement.
3v3 R: Started in diamond, played like 50 games and won a lot so once master league started, I was promoted right away.
4v4 R: Started diamond, no changes.
Once summer starts, hopefully I'll have some exciting 1v1 promotions head!
On April 30 2011 10:18 Incursus wrote: Now when I heard about Master League it was something I wanted to be a part of so badly, but it was akin to a dream. I was like "yeah I'll make master lol", with my friends. It just seemed like something that was impossible. I have never beat my chest so furiously nor been so excited as when it said I was promoted to Master League :D
I don't know why reading this made me so happy. :D:D:D Super congratz!!
Mine was a while back, my diamond promotion match was a dude who left because he was in the bathroom and claimed he didn't know how long the game had been going on without his SCVs mining.
Started in silver and got to plat in roughly 10 games. Didn't play for a long time then came back and got diamond in ~20 games. I never really cared much about promotion, i care more about getting ranks within my division.
Placed in plat in season 2 after a long hiatus from sc2, won my first three games and it demoted me to gold. Have been in gold ever since for 100+ games.l it does is play me against high plat low diamond players that I mostly beat and it still refuses to promote me out of gold. The gold and silver that I get the majority of the time I essentially destroy. Now I agreed with the initial demotion as i was extremely rusty. However at this point I am night and day better then I was when I was in Diamond in season 1..yet still stuck in gold.
My MMR is freaking Broken. If it wasn't so insulting to be considered gold league I wouldn't really care. I liked it better when it was just one large ladder in SC:BW and I didn't have to worry about this auto promotion based on god knows what requirements garbage.
Edit: Main thing i am fed up with gold is all the terrible tactics, cheesing and all in garbage. I am forced to trudge through. I realize this happens some on diamond, but not nearly as much. I just want to play a decent macro game once in a while. ><
I'm just happy to see that these leagues and placement notices that blizzard created have really introduced a sense of achievement and fun into everyday starcraft
On April 30 2011 10:40 Dekoth wrote: Placed in plat in season 2 after a long hiatus from sc2, won my first three games and it demoted me to gold. Have been in gold ever since for 100+ games and all it does is play me against high plat low diamond players that I mostly beat and it still refuses to promote me out of gold. Now I agreed with the initial demotion as i was extremely rusty. However at this point I am night and day better then I was when I was in Diamond..yet still stuck in gold.
My MMR is freaking Broken. If it wasn't so insulting to be considered gold league I wouldn't really care. I liked it better when it was just one large ladder in SC:BW and I didn't have to worry about this auto promotion based on god knows what requirements garbage.
MMR is fine. If you were good enough to be in a higher league, you would be. I'm not a big fan of people blaming their own lack of skill on "THE SYSTEM, MAN".
On topic: I placed into Masters from Diamond the day after Masters league went into play. I'm an average Masters player, learning everyday. Love this game. <3
not sure how people can stay in low leagues for such a long time, back when masters didnt exist i got to masters in less then like 40/50 games, got into masters as soon as it came out..
On April 30 2011 10:40 Dekoth wrote: Placed in plat in season 2 after a long hiatus from sc2, won my first three games and it demoted me to gold. Have been in gold ever since for 100+ games and all it does is play me against high plat low diamond players that I mostly beat and it still refuses to promote me out of gold. Now I agreed with the initial demotion as i was extremely rusty. However at this point I am night and day better then I was when I was in Diamond..yet still stuck in gold.
My MMR is freaking Broken. If it wasn't so insulting to be considered gold league I wouldn't really care. I liked it better when it was just one large ladder in SC:BW and I didn't have to worry about this auto promotion based on god knows what requirements garbage.
MMR is fine. If you were good enough to be in a higher league, you would be. I'm not a big fan of people blaming their own lack of skill on "THE SYSTEM, MAN".
On topic: I placed into Masters from Diamond the day after Masters league went into play. I'm an average Masters player, learning everyday. Love this game. <3
It isn't a lack of skill, I take on and beat mid diamond players all the time. Most of my friends are high diamond and I beat them half the time. Over 100 games won, winning 4 out of 5 matches, yea sorry something is screwed up. It should of promoted me or..hell demoted me for that matter..Something anything except being stuck in the same freaking league endlessly.
On April 30 2011 08:49 Gfox wrote: Played 5 games on my new account - won them all. Placed in diamond - played 5 more. Placed in masters. Aint no thing :p
Nice except that you can't get placed in diamond.
I got placed in bronze then played about 30 games and got put in platinum.
Started waaaay back in the beta in the good old bronze league. Played horribly all throughout the beta because I hadn't played Starcraft since when BW came out originally. Slowly worked my way up to gold and then the beta ended.
Picked up Starcraft II at midnight the day it came out and began playing immediately. Went 3-2 and got placed into Silver. Made it up to Gold before I found Day[9] and realized that his commentary could really help me improve. Almost instantaneously got promoted to platinum after becoming an avid Day[9] watcher.
The road to Diamond was not as easy. I would go on fantastic win streaks of 5 or more wins against diamond players and then lose a couple to cheesy builds or stupid mistakes on my part. After over 100 games I started getting really frustrated that I was never going to make it to Diamond. Then one day I played an epic 40 minute TvP that I was convinced I was going to lose. Somehow, someway, I broke though his Colossus ball and he gg'ed and when I returned to the main menu the screen popped up that I had been promoted to diamond. I couldn't believe it and for a moment my jaw dropped and then I got the hugest grin on my face and started laughing and cheering.
I performed very well in my Diamond division, breaking into the top 10 very quick. Then my life outside of Starcraft got much more stressful and complicated. I retreated to starcraft to relax but my mind wasn't focused on the game and I ended up on a 15 game losing streak that dropped me back into platinum. That really lit a fire under my ass. I worked my way back up into Diamond with a week left in Season 1 and grinded my way to #5 in my league before the season ended. I doubt I'll ever go back to platinum again.
On April 30 2011 10:40 Dekoth wrote: Placed in plat in season 2 after a long hiatus from sc2, won my first three games and it demoted me to gold. Have been in gold ever since for 100+ games and all it does is play me against high plat low diamond players that I mostly beat and it still refuses to promote me out of gold. Now I agreed with the initial demotion as i was extremely rusty. However at this point I am night and day better then I was when I was in Diamond..yet still stuck in gold.
My MMR is freaking Broken. If it wasn't so insulting to be considered gold league I wouldn't really care. I liked it better when it was just one large ladder in SC:BW and I didn't have to worry about this auto promotion based on god knows what requirements garbage.
MMR is fine. If you were good enough to be in a higher league, you would be. I'm not a big fan of people blaming their own lack of skill on "THE SYSTEM, MAN".
On topic: I placed into Masters from Diamond the day after Masters league went into play. I'm an average Masters player, learning everyday. Love this game. <3
It isn't a lack of skill, I take on and beat mid diamond players all the time. Most of my friends are high diamond and I beat them half the time. Over 100 games won, winning 4 out of 5 matches, yea sorry something is screwed up. It should of promoted me or..hell demoted me for that matter..Something anything except being stuck in the same freaking league endlessly.
Like I said, if you were good enough to be in a better league, you would be. You're not an isolated case in a massive system, being cheated out of your rightful league. If you keep winning, you'll get promoted. If you're not getting promoted, you're not being entirely truthful about winning all the time. The system isn't out to get you. It's a fair way to gauge your skill. Good luck.
Man, all you guys that don't try hard and are in diamond and masters piss me off so bad lol. I started in bronze and have worked so fricken hard to get into platinum. I wish that I was just naturally good at anything I try. Unfortunately I am disappointingly mediocre.
On April 30 2011 10:18 Incursus wrote: Now when I heard about Master League it was something I wanted to be a part of so badly, but it was akin to a dream. I was like "yeah I'll make master lol", with my friends. It just seemed like something that was impossible. I have never beat my chest so furiously nor been so excited as when it said I was promoted to Master League :D
I don't know why reading this made me so happy. :D:D:D Super congratz!!
Glad to hear my story made your day :D Thanks man!
Played at the start of beta, lost my 1st like 10 games horribly, went 0-10. Then learned to mass marine rush and got into gold. They finally nerfed mass marine but by that time I learned how to constantly make workers and units so I quickly got to platinum (highest league at the time). Then into diamond when it came out.
Masters however came out after I stopped playing solo for like 2 months. So I lost like 3 games in a row trying to get into masters, then gave up. Two months after that I got bored, played another solo game, won it, and was promoted to masters.
On April 30 2011 11:04 Drock wrote: Man, all you guys that don't try hard and are in diamond and masters piss me off so bad lol.
I feel ya.
I started in bronze, a month after release. Lost all my placement matches, wasn't very encouraging. I think 16 games later I finally won one, was ecstatic. Still have the replay saved, a tvp on kulas ravine. Played team games a ton til I got my mechanics and whatnot down. I had no concept of things like build orders, hotkeys, macro, micro, nothing. I just made some stuff and when I felt comfortable attacking I did.
A few day9 dailies later I started laddering a lot, with all the simple concepts mentioned above in the back of my mind. Roughly 30 games later I was promoted straight to gold, skipped silver entirely. Was pretty happy. I was content to sit on my gold status for a while, and went back to team games.
Came back to laddering again later, trying to squeeze in wins here and there, every ladder game backed up with tons of practice against a friend of mine. I remember randomly deciding to ladder at like 4am. Lost 3 games, was about to ragequit, then decided to have one more, because I hate going to bed on a losing streak. One win later, platinum! Never fistpumped as hard in my life.
That promotion gave me the encouragement/motivation I needed to improve enough to get into diamond, which was the highest league at the time. I heard masters league was being introduced in about 2 weeks time, so I decided I wanted diamond while it was still the highest league. 2 days before masters league was implemented, I got diamond. For some reason I was happier with the platinum promotion but the diamond one was pretty awesome too :D
Now I'm just squeezing in games here and there, trying to get to masters. 19th in my division, and I fail hard in TvT lategame, but confident everywhere else. Haven't been matched against masters players, just consistently being matched against top 25 diamonds. If I get to masters I'll be ecstatic c:
Holy crap, talk about a novel. I should get a blog lol.
For some reason I was stuck in bronze for 2 months even though I was playing and beating exclusively silvers/golds. Then the new season rolls around, I play my placement, and BLAM I'm promoted to silver. But I seriously don't get the promotion system. I've played golds that need to be placed in bronze and silvers that are easily the skill level of platinums.
Season 1: Placement > Silver > Bronze > Started watching Day[9] Dailies > Silver > Gold Season 2: Placement > Platinum
That's it for now, can't remember the individual matches, I know I was very very happy when I saw the promoted to Platinum message The funny thing is, even though I am improving, it's just now that I see how bad I was a while back, and still am now (unacceptable macro, meh micro) I thought i was quite good when I was in gold, guess I just didn't have a good enough understanding of how you can macro to realize all those floating minerals in late game weren't good :p
I, on my main Protoss account, started in Silver, got knocked down to bronze then have made my way up to platinum, all taking about 6 months because I actually started playing at the start of November, even though I've owned the game since launch but I get to play very little. My goal is to get to Master league but at this point I'll be happy with diamond, because every time I start playing pure diamonds and masters I somehow get hit with crazy all-inners and my rating tanks so I won't get promoted. I'm going to start playing during the day when I have days off (uni's done but I work 3 days a week now) because I found when I did previously I got way more macro games instead of cheesy garbage. I think it is gonna take a while to get promoted regardless because of how many games I've played.
My second account started out as a guest pass around 4 months ago (I was really bad back then, I still suck but not that bad) where I Bitbybit.Prime rushed my placements, getting into silver and then goofed around and did nuke rushes, which seldom worked. Two weeks ago I bought a key for it and have been playing straight random. I went from silver to top platinum in around a week of playing an hour a day, though I race picked Zerg at first. Yet again, as soon as I play diamonds I got pure all-inners (Crazy stuff like 3rax with a PF in my natural on Shakuras, which you can't really scout because looks like a regular 3rax and is really hard to break out of, or mass mass mass speedlings right after my expo finishes, which I usually can hold). Right now I'm 38th in my platinum division going from 1st.
Also, people are super BM to random players. They tell me to say my race and swear at me if I don't, so I've started saying the wrong race or telling them to scout. I also get cheesed way more than on my Protoss account.
- me: cheesed with 10pools (ok well, semi rush ;o w/e) for the lulz and then placed into bronze, did a random, got terran, and did a 9rax build to get another quick win against others/etc. stopped playing when gsl started - little bro's acc: cheesed with his, mainly made mass reapers and abused them (>_>)
and so in S2 I started to want to try to be competitive after watching gsl (nasl/ipl/all these fking good tournies out T_T) etc, so I started playing again,
- placement S2 my acc: bronze -> silver (won against a silver protoss....that did a failed 4gate into a 6gate on one base....) - placement S2 bro's acc: ( I play on his acc now): bronze -> gold (lost vs a silver protoss...did this game before my own placement ;o, he went 3gate robo and then tried to contain me, and I was like "uhhh wait what am I supposed to do" and was like "uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and forgot to get my 3rd and such -____- then played against a gold zerg and won that game
right now just trying to do practice games, and reading info before I REALLY go back laddering..
I first started in COPPER when I got my beta key, and then i learned more about the game.
Upon release of the game, I DT rushed my way to gold, and 4gated my way to diamond. Then I learned how to play other strats, and got to the top of my diamond division trying to break into masters.
Second season, I lost my first placement match and got moved up to Masters. Really happy about that, but then I lost 30 games in a row and got moved back to diamond.
5-0 placements to Plat. Got Diamond later that day with 17-7 or something. I think I was onebasing a lot of people to death. Played 1 game to get into Master and Grandmaster when they each came out. Probably back out of Grandmaster now due to inactivity, haven't played a lot lately :0
I wish I had a story to tell in there. Hardest part was when I was sitting around 1k diamond (when that was... rank 150ish in SEA) and just kept getting cheesed down whenever I thought I was gaining rank. Ended up finding some practice partners and playing a fuckload of custom games, and getting hugely more confident in my gameplay (plus, we ended up forming a clan).
Really burnt out with regards to ladder now, play very few games (hence dropping back out of GM)... I think I don't have the 250 wins portrait still, just a lot of custom games.
Made silver way back in the beta and was platinum for all of it (When Plat was the highest league) Then made Diamond a week after it was released (still in beta.) I was pretty much Diamond straight from release and onwards, getting masters after a few weeks of actually trying.
Made masters last season, and then from playing at a LAN + tilting, I went on a crazy losing streak + mass disconnects and got demoted to diamond in season two. I tried to get much better to get back into Masters (going 40-20) Then, I got 2v2 masters with my best friend which was great.
I started playing a week and half before the season change. I got placed in bronze and when season 2 started I got promoted to silver. Then, today, after what felt like several weeks of constantly getting "teams even" against high gold opponents, I finally made the jump into gold.
It was weird, because for at least a week, I was expecting the promotion after every single win. But it never came. As soon as I stopped thinking about the promotion, there it was.
Haven't played for like 6 months, I was low diamond before I started again like 5-6 days ago and got promoted to masters lol¸
Doing stupid shit like 15 nexus vs zerg, lots of 1 gate expand PvT and adelscott's in PvP, I don't 4gate but when im pissed off at getting PVP 8 times in a row (Im dead serious, 8 PVP in a row) I do some korean 4gate, impressing how that cheese still works at mid masters.
The only rts background I had was playing random use maps in BW, so i knew what the races were and some of the zerg units lol.
I started out in beta copper or wood, or whatever the lowest was, and just kinda messed around, and I think i settled on zerg simply cos i was the most familiar with that race. I think I ended up getting placed into diamond when the game came out, but got demoted to plat, and was forever plat for a while. Now I'm forever diamond, and I've pretty much given up on getting promoted haha.
Got my beta key in early March and was placed into Bronze after placements (back when Copper was the lowest tier). After a week or so and adjusting to the economic difference between the two games I was able to get to Silver and then Gold later that night. After the next reset I placed into Gold and got into Platinum shortly after that. Whenever the patch came out that introduced Diamond, I was able to get into that after a week or so of that patch. And then I pretty much stayed there.
I didn't really play in phase2 so when the game actually game out I placed into Gold for my placements. By the end of the night I was in Diamond and I have been stuck there ever since. I am 99% sure that if it wasn't for PvP I would have been in Master's a long time ago...
Started in bronze not even knowing what hotkeys were, I proceeded to cannon rushed my way to silver. From there a guy taught me a 3 gate blink stalker build I refined and went from silver, to gold, to platinum. Then in platinum I learned how to macro/micro and do different builds. After about two weeks of practicing in platinum I got promoted into diamond.
Bought the game straight after Beta.. played placement matches and got put in Silver. 20 games later I was in Diamond. Took me all the end of last season to finally get a Masters promotion, since i'd quit for a while when Masters was released. That's it xD
Started out in gold league. I hadn't played for a week or two and I was kind of intimidated of 1v1 because the intensity always gets to me. But I finally worked up the courage to play one. As it was loading I was getting myself pumped to the best of my ability. Finally, the game started and my opponent left immediately. I got promoted to platinum right away ^.^ It was a awesomely anticlimactic.
Now I'm in diamond but the story is not so good. I placed in to it when the new season started. I'm hoping my masters promotion will be better
Started off as a speedling rusher in silver league and stopped laddering 1v1 because I knew my fundamentals sucked. I practiced macro and mechanics with the game AI on hard until I felt pretty confident and then played about 20 ladder games and got to platinum. I then stopped laddering again and practiced my mechanics and macro against FYN ai (very good practice tool) until I felt comfortable with my improved skills, after which season 2 started and with the improved skills I got promoted to diamond with ease on a new account and 2 other accounts. The entire time I did watch GSL.
the day i got promoted to masters i went 0-4 lololololol had just gotten back from a trip to disney so i was rusty, yet i still got promoted w/losses xD
Started off in Silver (technically gold now) in Beta, thinking i would stay there for a bit. Continued improving and eventually got to Diamond.
Game is released, started in Plat (4-1), but got to Diamond quickly...and pretty much stayed there since. Played against a couple masters players, but that's pretty much it...
When this season started, I played my one placement match and hoped to get into diamond, as I was in platinum last season. I see I'm going up against a Terran (I'm Zerg) on Tal'Darim Altar. My 15 hatch goes up and he starts a bunker. I killed 1 SCV, but I couldn't kill the 2nd he used to build the bunker. He starts putting up more bunkers while I try to tech to roaches. But I can't stop him and as soon as my hatch dies, I rush with all my lings + roaches + broodlings. I killed 4 bunkers and about 14 marines. I immediately break for his base. I catch a few marines that he forgot to move back to his base and an SCV. I start to attack his wall when I see that one of his marines that wasn't in the right position just walking into his base. He messed up his wall :D As soon as he gets his 1st tank out, I'm already walking into his base and kill it quickly along with a few marines. He starts raging and complains about some tree that looked like it was walling the rest off.
I was happy for the promotion, but I felt like I didn't deserve it. I've been doing pretty good in diamond though, so I'm okay now.
I started out in bronze, getting promoted to silver later the same day. As terran. I was in silver for maybe 2 or 3 months before I decided to switch to protoss. Two weeks later I was in Gold, a week after that I was in plat. I was placed in plat after my season 2 placement match and I still reside there
On April 30 2011 11:42 Ben... wrote: Also, people are super BM to random players. They tell me to say my race and swear at me if I don't, so I've started saying the wrong race or telling them to scout. I also get cheesed way more than on my Protoss account.
It's amazing how true this can be. I'll get asked my race then I'll mention that I'm random and they'll swear back. Sometimes I'll say you'll find out soon enough I don't have any specific stories to add here, but, might soon enough
I was in Silver for the longest time, after I watched a single episode of Day9 for then first time, got to gold, watched a few more and go to platinump
Was in bronze when I started and have since spent at least a month in each league (much longer in plat) until recently getting promoted to diamond. Every promotion feels even better than the last :D
Bought the game on the day of release, and started finding out what macro means. As terran, got into bronze, and copied a build by Trump, which pushes with three barracks early in the game. That got me to silver, gold, and platinum in a week or two, but then I learned that knowing one build doesn't get you far, and started loosing alot. Then I watched Fruitdealer kick ass and decided to play zerg, which demoted me to gold, and demotivated I gave 1v1 up until this February.
Since then I have been training every day, working on my weak points, trying out different buildorders till I settled with Ice Fisher build and during season 2 finally got back into platinum. Now I am top platinum and am playing against diamond players mostly, improving on everything I can whenver I loose. I can feel diamond promotion coming up anytime soon! :D
Both in beta and retail I've had demotions. In retail I got placed in silver, got promoted to gold by actually playing a game with terran and winning (I'm zerg). After more work I got to plat but then I didn't play for a few weeks. This got me demoted as my skills sucked and others got better. I got really pissed and felt bad so I whored gold until I got back into plat again. Currently I'm playing diamond players and winning occasionally so I'm definitely getting close to diamond (diamond has been my goal since beta).
I first got into beta in March last year, was promptly put into Copper after having 5 TvP placement matches. After the reset I had diversified opponents and got placed into Silver league, then copper was scrapped, and Diamond was added in, so I was put in Gold after my 5 placements.
After a 3 week span of being in gold I moved up to #1 gold, and the ladder was reset again, when I got back I got into platinum, where I stayed for about 2 months.
When release came about, after my 5 placements I was put into Diamond league, my goal the whole time, I then laddered a bit until I made it to about 1900 Diamond and then Masters league came out, got placed into that then stopped laddering.
Started off w/ terran in bronze, 3rax allinning every single game until silver. In silver 3rax - 5rax reapering everyone. When i got to plat, ppl started to defend my allins and i figured that i actually had no idea how to play the game. That was the time i started playing "straightup" and improved, finally reaching diamond
Was in bronze for a while, playing all the races (sometimes random, sometimes choosing a specific race). I saw a thread somewhere that said zerg players should watch the day9 daily 188? (the one about how you should drone more and make units less). Next game i played, promoted to silver. ♥ day9.
Was an old school BW player. Switched on WC3 when it came out, was lvl 45 1v1 at the time apm70 was grinding to 50 in TFT. Got lazy on wow, then came to SC2, after 5 matches -> platiniun then diamond. Grinded to high diamond just before master, and then reached master as soon as it came out.
Not good enough for grand master though, and never will be (casual, I pass more time on this forum than playing the game).
On April 30 2011 17:55 Pawnawa wrote: A disconnect from my opponent promoted me to masters. Like a boss
^LOL
Placed into gold... as Protoss I thought Immortals could shoot air, Terran was straightforward enough so I was okay, and as Zerg I couldn't figure out which building had the lurker upgrade T_T
Once I figured out all of that, I got into Diamond but I don't have enough time to play and get better =(
I had very little RTS background before, it was mostly Age Of Empires matches with friends and 2v2 ladder on Company of Heroes with a friend aswell
Anyway, I went to the midnight release of the game and played as soon as I got home, did my practice matches (around 15) and then I made my placement matches, surprisingly enough I got placed on BRONZE, where a banshee or a drop means GG.
I then began looking for BO's and what not for every matchup, after like 15 games I got promoted to silver!
I stayed like a week here, played a bunch of games, won most of them and suddenly I got promoted!
Now comes the gold league, I stayed for about 2 months here, people were starting to understand the game and for me taking more than 2 bases was crazy, I felt overwhelmed with huge battles. When my macro got alittle better I started winning a lot more and I got promoted to...
Platinum! dear god, this was a punishment for me around 6 months stuck on that league, I kept playing and playing and playing, I was top 10 on my division and I was playing 2000+ rated diamond players, but the thing didn't promote me at all.
Season 2 started and I got placed back on platinum, I stayed there for like a week and then I noticed how I had improved, I did a huge session one saturday (30 games), won most of them, and I got promoted. At that moment I was so happy, finally I thought that I was going to get better games and that I was going to improve even faster...
Oh boy I was wrong, I want to rip my hair off with all the cheese I get in a daily basis, now I have been going from 5th of my division to 25th...and back to 5th...and back to 25th again. I guess I'll stay in diamond for a year. I'll make sure to do some kind of party once I'm masters :|
i started out at gold... at SEA, won a few games in a row to get into platinum.
was on a 5 game winning streak and then went on a 2 game losing streak when i encountered a person who disconnect within 5 seconds and i got into diamond.
Protoss: Beta: Bronze, Retail: Gold->Plat->Diamond Race Switch to Z: Season 1: Plat, Season 2: Top Plat. I feel a promotion coming soon, playing high ranked diamonds.
Anyways, after retail I remember 4gate'in and 3gate roboing my way through gold/plat. The game that I got promoted to diamond was vs a rank 4 diamond Protoss who went 4 gate, i went 3 gate blink stalker and barely beat him. My micro won me the game, and afterwards the little notification popping up made me scream FUCK YEAH so loud my parents yelled at me. . All my vent buddies hated me too :D
started playing in December. This is my first RTS, so thought it would take a while to rank up, but played about 5 practice matches, then did placement. Got placed in gold, then hit plat about 2 weeks later, and then diamond about 3 weeks after that. Finished season 1 at ~3450 points in diamond. Hit master's about 3 weeks ago. Guess it's okay, but I won't be happy until I'm in GM at the very least.
Placed in bronze, played for a month (about 2-3 days a week), got promoted to silver. Played for a while until I got into gold. Finished season 1 in gold. Won placement match and got plat. Now, due to a massive slump combined with a huge problems with my internet connction (I got dropped like every other game, fixed it now though), I was demoted to gold. Said fuck it and decided to switch to zerg. I expect to stay in gold till I get the race down and then move on up the ladder. Yay!
I started in platinum after my placements and this is how I got promoted to diamond:
Close pos metalopolis ZvP. I try to go hatch first like usual but the guy has blocked my natural with a pylon, and this is the first time I've seen this. So I'm like "wtf is this? now what?" I decide to just go and take the far side gold and hope he doesn't spot it, which he doesn't. Oh yeah, he also double gas steals so I can't get zergling speed in time and have to make extra queens and a spinecrawler. He hits me with a 2 gate (this was before they nerfed it) and I barely defend it without losing more than 2-3 workers. And now he thinks I'm on 1 base and that I will do an all in. So he plays really defensive until I hit him with a billion zerglings and banelings with a couple of mutas. Boom diamond.
That was so satisfying because it was the first time I really had to improvize and adapt to something I had never seen before.
I was stuck in high diamond for almost 2 months, grinding out games desperately trying to obtain masters league. It finally happened and i got to share it with my viewers :D
On April 30 2011 08:46 sjschmidt93 wrote: I don't really remember. I was in gold for a week after launch, then platinum for a week, and then diamond, and I haven't really laddered much since masters came out. Could probably get it if I tried.
lol what, are you my other half? srsly, every single thing you just said fits for me as well ;o
gold after placement, platinum about 10 games later, diamond the week after. havn't reached masters due to not feeling like grinding 1v1's instead of playing with friends etc, but I know I can reach it if I wanted to.
I was stuck in high diamond for almost 2 months, grinding out games desperately trying to obtain masters league. It finally happened and i got to share it with my viewers :D
I think I'm in the middle of a gold promotion horror story.
For some reason, the matchmaking keeps screwing with me. I'll play people rougly on my level for maybe 1 or 2 games, most of which I win. The MM then pits me against high gold or platinum suddenly. I lose this game because I haven't had much practice against their skill level yet. The MM then proceeds to cast me back into the lowest depths of bronze league players for 8 games in a row.
It's so annoying. I know golds and plats are better than me and I need to adapt to their play, yet I only ever get one or two tries at it before the matchmaking decides I am equal in skill to people with a grand total of 2 games played, in bronze. I then have to slug my way through 6+ easy wins, before it once again gives me one chance against a higher skilled opponent, and back again to 1-base 6rax allin world.
This is my first rts, not the hardest game(protoss), but I feel my progress has been fairly high since i started.
- Bronze league when i started playing late christmas 2010 - Silver league february 2011 - Gold league february 2011(two weeks after silver), finished season 1 top 8 gold, - Platinum league first game in season 2 - Diamond league 2 weeks later.
Approximately 100-150 ish games from bronze-diamond, pretty happy. Taking a break now in may to do exams then aiming for Masters throughout the summer.
Got placed into bronze since the lack of my RTS gaming, I played WC3 few years back but mostly dota and custom games since I was so horrible in 1v1.
I got promoted to silver quite fastly and from silver to gold also very quickly. Then I played like a month in gold and got promoted and got stuck into platinum for 4 months. When I got promoted to diamond, masters league was already running and my goal was to atleast get to the last league there are. I might never get into grand masters, but now I am atleast meeting master players and beating them so hopefully I will get promoted into masters soon. : )
My season 1 I got into diamond top 10 in my league with 3,4k points:p
Well, I finished my placement matches and got directly into silver, there I was on the #1 spot for most of the last season - but I never got promoted. Now, in season two I probably get more gold- and platin-players than silver and I beat them on regular basis. Yesterday I even whooped a Diamond's ass - still no promotion.
It must be bugged or something. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just beat another Diamond. I'm losin' it over here. I can't believe I'm still in effin SILVER!
I got the game back in October. Placed in Silver but really didn't play much. I probably played like 5 games a week (definitely had more to do with nerves than anything). When the first season ended I played a ton because it felt like those games didn't matter. I noticed my MMR was moving up because at first "even matches" were against gold then eventually platinum. I played some matches verse diamond but I broke about even with those, even though they were "slightly favored".
I ended up placing in Platinum when season 2 started up, I figured since I stopped worrying about my nerves that I'd play more but once the season actually started I played less. I'm still in platinum now.
Mmh. My first promotion to diamond was quite funny. I was struggling for a long time just between platinum and diamond, when I finally took my friend´s account which had 0 online games and played it into diamond. Afterwards I felt, now I can finally make it on my own account as well.
I queue on the ladder, first game on my own account after playing friend´s acc. scrap station against zerg. 6 Pool comes, worst ling micro ever and I beat the guy like some random bronze.
Promoted to diamond.
All the time I had been ONE game away from the diamond league :D:D:D
Oh, wow. It's really odd - these types of things, though somewhat trivial, are extremely exciting. I remember all of my promotions / demotions since the game's release. Let's see...
It started out with me picking the game up on launch day. Despite some previous RTS experience in the Age of Empires series, I wasn't really good and had never played Starcraft before, so only won one of my placements and got placed in bronze. After that, I began grinding out matches and eventually moved up into silver, then about 2 weeks later I moved up into gold. Looking back now, though, I was really bad... I was Protoss, and went blink stalkers like EVERY game. Didn't know how to 4 gate or anything, I just got lotsa stalkers and the blink upgrade. I didn't understand what to do against mass hydras or lings or basically anything competent 0.o
But after about a month of solid playing and promising an interested friend that I'd get into diamond soon, I got promoted to Plat. I was way happy. After a week or two more, I was playing top plats and low diamonds like every match, and was on the verge of making it in... but then school caught up. I stopped playing as much, and only began again when masters league was introduced. By then I still didn't have the time to play as much as I wanted, and I was kind of suffering for lack of practice. After a long night of playing on tilt and losing almost all of my games, I got demoted to gold again. However, break was coming up, as was the ladder lock - and I wasn't going to get stuck in gold for the ladder lock. I grinded hardcore for the few days before the lock, and played almost nonstop on the day of. Late at night, after like 13 straight wins, I was tired and decided I'd give it up after one final match. I played, I won, and of course I managed to get promoted to plat again! Apparently it was 10 minutes before the lock as well.
Then, after a week of screwing around during the lock, I got placed in gold at the start of season two, once again proved that I really don't belong there, and went immediately back up to plat. And I'm currently still there, trying to finally reach diamond and fulfill that goal.
I was in one game on my shitty bad 20 Framerate computer and i thought i'll do an all in so i did. I did a 3 gate 1stargate all in and just win really quick then go on my other computer. Got my 2 voids and roflstomped this diamond terran GG Diamond promotion from plat
I was gold league beta, hitting platinum at the end of the first beta phase. The jump to diamond was made easier by all the Zergs who insisted on giving free wins away during the awful map pool days after release by trying to 6 pool every game, even against Terrans.
The speed reaper got nerfed, terran got too gimmicky, and so I switched to Protoss and tried to learn how to play the game. The punishing nature of diamond league's missed forcefields lead to 2 replacement keyboards. I have now learned to forcefield, my keyboard is safe for the moment, and diamond league is a cesspool of cheesers and 1-base gosus
Well, I don't ladder that much. I placed gold when the game came out. At the beginning, I had about 50% win ratio. I started playing a lot of custom games (I mean, regular 1v1 custom) because laddering was stressing the hell out of me. So I played a 1v1 once in a while, when I had the courage to do so. And I soon noticed that I was roflstomping every opponent I met in ladder. I was eventually matched with plat, and them even diamond players, and still winning all these games. Promotion would never come. My record went to something like 20-2. One day, I'm furious about the no promotion thing and start to chain games like crazy. I lose 10 in a row! I'was so sad and telling myself that I would never be diamond A few days later, I play one game, win it and BAM, there it is: direct promotion from gold to diamond You can imagine the banana grin!
Nowadays, I'm a high diamond player. I play like 4 hours a week, so I'm having trouble to get to masters yet... Maybe one day!
My promotions were the easiest thing ever. Started playing the game did about 10 of the slow ladder games and realised just how terrible I was at sc2. Played against the AI doing the basic build 3g/4g/2gr. Watched gsl and worked some of the rush/cheeses into my play then practiced defending cheese with a friend. Then made a few timings with forge to attack with.
My placement matches put me into platinum. Won 90% of my matches till I was high diamond. Think my masters game was a ffe cannon rush into 6 gate.
I was playing 1v1. I crushed every opponent I had in silver. I played against a gold, won, played another gold, lost to cheese, played silver, crushed the guy in a macro battle, played a gold and lost to cheese, played 2 silvers and crushed them all, played a PvP gold and lost to 2-gate after I blindly hard-countered 4-gate. Still not promoted :/ On topic, I was playing 2v2 silver random. I got completely owned (by cheese) by gold level players, the first I played. Then I beat 2 bronze players and got promoted to gold. I then won 3 games in a row =O I was playing my 3v3 placement match. I was expecting to be demoted from platinum to gold, because my 11-6 record was reallllllly badddd. I proceed to get crushed and get promoted to diamond. It was a What the f.... moment. I immediately played my 4v4 placement match, crushed the other team and got promoted from platinum to diamond.
Started playing when SC2 just came out for about 2 weeks with around 60 games played. Placement got me into plat but I promptly promoted without dropping any games. Didn't play for months and came back just before ladder reset/season 2. I first had a losing streak which evened out my win ratio then started winning a lot more often. Season 2 came and I maintained about a 60-65 win ratio for another 100 games or so and then I promoted to Masters.
When i first got my beta key on april 1st 2010 (I was so afraid that it was an april fool) I placed in silver, which was in the middle back then. Then I shared the acc with a friend and we 6 pooled our way into plat xD (the highest league). Thats actually why I picked zerg in the first place )'_'( Then I switched over to baneling busting all terrans. Nobody knew of that strat back then, so I won all my zvt's back then I feel so evil now
Since then I've always been in the highest league within a few games I guess thats a good thing, but I don't get to feel the joy of being promoted
copper (beta) -> silver (retail) -> gold -> silver -> gold -> plat -> gold -> plat -> diamond (when it was still the highest league, yay) -> plat -> gold (epic losing streak after playing customs only for 2 weeks) -> plat -> diamond -> plat
I feel playing customs is highly detrimental to ladder performance. Always got demoted from diamond after trying to improve on some builds in customs only for about a week. Thats a pity, since I felt customs are much nicer for improving macro play, since people tend to practice their builds more instead of just trying to bust your behind with the fastest cheese available.
Late season 1, I just could not get promoted to masters. I was one of the top 20 diamond players in points, I would go on occasional winstreaks, just could not get the promotion and finally stopped playing so frequently as I realized it probably not happen for me.
Then one day I fast expand vs a terran, he brings a super weak marine attack which I shut down... then a few minutes later he comes up after me with stimmed marauders and a couple ghosts (?), which my speedlings take care of without too much effort.
Major WTF afterwards as I got a masters promotion for it. Checked the guy's record and he was mid level masters, I guess he thought I'd go roaches and he would plow through them with marauders and snipe or something, lol.
Until now i got two promotions, starting at bronze league. I got my promotion to silver in my first game after i stopped playing ladder for like two month, because i was frustrated i wouldn't get promoted.
My promotion into gold was after the placement match for season two. Actually i didn't want to ladder so i asked a friend of mine to play a custom game. But he answered he just started a ladder game. So I thought i would ladder too. Only to get matched up with my friend. Instantly in the game he starts to curse and after i scouted, i saw he hadn't picked his actual race and i got an easy win after a proxy rax marine all in which I held. After the game he told me his roommate played on his account and switched races.
I was Platinum after my placement matches back in August 2010, then I was quicky demtoted to Silver, because I was obviously too bad for Platinum. In Silver I won the majority of my games and I was promoted to gold very fast, then Platin, then diamond. And 1 week after the Master league came out I was masters.
I started late last season having never played any rts games competetivly at all...lost all 5 placement matches..lost about 30 beginner matches then skipped them..my score was like 8-36
Then a freind started teaching me a few things and i suddenly turned my score around to like 80-60 but remained in bronze
practiced some more before doing my season 2 placement match ..Then got stuck n a map that id never played before after a 30 min macro game and 3 tech switches i finally lost but was placed in silver
I got placed in copper, won against a copper, silver and lost to a gold, didn't play anymore before season two started, lost the first match and was placed in silver.
.... and until further notice, silver is where I belong. My macro is terrible and my micro is worse. After watching all the GSL seasons, I know how the game SHOULD be played, but it's too hard mechanically. After playing the first game or two my hands usually start shaking like i'm a 90-year old trying to drink tea. :D
Did some research and worked out how the mmr system works along with the promotion system. Stopped laddering at 12/12 and began to play 1v1 xel naga custom matches via the 'find match'.
Did xel naga customs against bronze-diamonds untill I was at plat level, then started laddering again. Got my mmr to plat average within 10 games, consequently was promoted to plat once the new season began.
I havn't been promoted but I've been siting in platnum league since the game came out. I have been playing just a lil more, but just recently I won 10 games in a row!!!! I'm really psyched about it but I have this feeling I might just be beating on recently promoted people lol. If I am sorry!!!
I had been playing 3v3 with a few of my all 1v1 diamond friends for a few months, and we had been stuck in Platinum forever based on our rule of absolutely no cheesing. Finally we sit down one night, play these moron marine rushers that just get stomped because of how good we've gotten at defending early nonsense, and when we absolutely demolished them in what can only be described as a "one sided game" it promoted us to diamond 3v3.
We were pissed, what a lackluster game to get promoted off of.
my diamond to masters story 1. Search for 1v1 Game 2. Bored because there isnt any games for 2 minutes 3. Find game, opponent Favored 4. Cheese him 5. get promoted
Got placed bronze, this was back when there was copper in the beta, in first couple weeks went up through to gold, got plat/diamond by the end of the beta. There were alot of placement resets in the beta. retail was in diamond immediately. Master when that was available, am currently top8 master, GM still eludes me .
I got promoted to Platinum by stopping a cannon rush I luckly scouted quickly enough with a forge of my own, and then cannon rushing him back. Oh the giggles
I remember when I was promoted to Diamond (back when there was no Masters league). I joined a ladder game and my opponent immediately left. I went back to the game lobby and got promoted to Diamond.
It would've most likely happened pretty soon anyway, but I found it kind of funny to get promoted like that.
I introduced the original starcraft to my school and popularized it. But when starcraft 2 came out, i got it half a year later. I lagged out EVERY SINGLE PLACEMENT GAME so obviously got placed in bronze. I was the butt of all jokes as I was sopose to be one of the better players:'( I can only play at school because the school internet was actually better then the internet at my house-_- I was dissapointed because at a laddering party(with my other bronze homies) while they were being placed with silver and even gold, I was stuck with solid bronze, and even unplaced. One day at school, I just won a tough game and i was happy that I threw my hands up in victory and turned around to face all my classmate. My best homie started to make a joke saying "congratz, you got promoted to silv..what the shit...?"because I actually did. I think I kissed a guy on the back of his neck with joy, not exactly sure cuz it is all a bit fuzzy then:p In conclusion, I got promoted to silver without playing any silver, honestly. Promotion feels so good, even if it is just from bronze to silver.(My friend did a double league jump, im so jealous)
My brother bought me the game for christmas, he wanted to test if my account worked so he played my 1v1 placement matches he won them all and got into diamond. so when i got the game i had to purposely lose like 40 games because my opponents were to good. and then FINALLY i got demoted to silver. i played 15-20 games, and then my brother came home to me (btw my brother is really good at Sc2) and he helped me in my games, so i went on a 27 win streak :D then i was facing diamond players and winning, i eventualy got promoted to diamond. i played and played and played until i got to top 5 in my division, but i couldnt win pvz i got very angry. and then for no reason i started playing random, and i won almost all my games. and then ironically i randomed Zerg and my oppenent was Protoss, he was master. that was the first ZvP i have ever played in my life. i end up winning and was promoted to master where i am now :D
The other day I was playing 2v2 with my buddy and we got in Masters...I was happy, but I like 1v1 better than theme games because we essentially have to t1 push in 2v2 or lose.
When we were promoted he said: Well now we HAVE to get masters in 3v3 and 4v4!
On April 30 2011 08:49 Gfox wrote: Played 5 games on my new account - won them all. Placed in diamond - played 5 more. Placed in masters. Aint no thing :p
Than you didnt play the rest of the season on ladder for fear you can't compete at that level. or so the story seems to be with alot of low lvl masters... below say rank 70.
I got promoted to diamond just before the season reset...
In the last game b4 i got promoted, i was on a pretty large losing streak, 4 or 5 games, as i assume bnet was trying to figure out my ranking... i was high plat and playing vs diamonds of all calibers =P.
ANYWAYS, i got this game, where i say HF instead of glhf... since it was on a huge losing streak, i wanted all my luck for myself.
The guy im facing(protoss) construes this as BM and starts raging at me, saying that im an asshole/jerkass/douchebag for not wishing him good luck.
I do my regular (at the time) 2 rax expand while he 4 gates me, i scan at 5:30 and see the constructing gates and have time to build bunkers, but he comes anyways.
He just walks into 3 bunkers that i pull scvs to repair, and loses 20 supply for nothing, continues to BM more and then leaves the game... and i get that sweet sweet promotion message!
So I ofc have to tell him about it... which needless to say, he doesnt appreciate =P
Got the game the week of the release and went like 2-3 on placement, got into bronze. After a few games I was in silver, then before I knew it i was gold. I stayed at the top of gold for a while until finally reaching plat. After another long stay in plat I made it into diamond. At the end of season 1 I was diamond, and a few days after the start of the new season, I made masters :D
After being only at 2300 points in diamond, but being able to pwn some masters in customs, after the reset I decided to ladder. And I won a lot of games became the #1 ranked diamond in the world with something like 800+ points less then a week into the reset, and when I got promoted I had 100 points.. currently working on y new account which is 620 points in a weekend and #1 in my division.
Back when SC2 came out, was high diamond (when diamond was the best league). Started playing again season 2, got placed into plat, lost like 3 games, placed into gold. Played like 50 games and got promoted into plat. Now am like 1st place plat with probably a 75% win ratio but will never know due to no losses being shown.
Takes SO long to get promoted when I obviously should be in a better league, but w/e. Winning is fun =D
switched from Terran to Zerg, got placed silver last week. fought through all the 6-10 polls, worker rushes, cannon rushes and all other cheese. now to work up to gold. thats not the point of the game, i know, but it does give one something to shoot for.
It was a PvP. I noticed he had 2 gases and he kept chrono boosting his probes, so it was obvious he wasn't going for any sort of 4 gate or what not.
So I fast expanded, and he did too but a bit later. around half way through the game, I saw him go pretty early colossus and alot of stalkers. I didnt have a robo, so I decided to go for chargelots.
He went to attack me, but i surrounded him with my zealots, and his colossi didn't do much at all, all I had was zealots with charge and a handful of sentries.
Afterward, I quickly rushed to his base and he didn't have much by then, since I killed his colossi. And whats the best sign of promotion? BM of course! started calling me a noob, p imba and what not..
Got the promotion message, and after being stuck on that league for awhile, I just had the urge to say thanks to him ;P But later I blocked him, because he kept calling me names in some foreign language every time I got online :D
Right now I got promoted to master league after an interesting ZvZ.
You see, there are these days where my micro decides to take a nap. That can be quite risky during ling/baneling wars in the early game, actually so risky that at the 9 minute mark I was braving my way ahead with my 1 10hp drone that was mining gass. The rest of my drones found it a good idea to cuddle up next to banelings.
I decided that I wouldnt give up, and kept on going until at the 15minute mark he decided to go with a roach/bane allin. And remarkebly I held it. And after that I kept macroing and won in the late game, simply because he figured a taking a 3d base is so mainstream.
Was a nice cherry on the top to see a master League Promotion after the game.
On April 30 2011 08:49 Gfox wrote: Played 5 games on my new account - won them all. Placed in diamond - played 5 more. Placed in masters. Aint no thing :p
Find that hard to believe. I was 14-0 on EU on my new name, still diamond. Good story though.
I was gold at release, as I never followed sc2 beta at all. I hopped on, starting with 2s, and then solo. 4-5 games was plat, then from there it was like 15 to diamond, then I actually got serious about build orders etc.
I used to ebay at 17 for fear of mutas and DTs lol... Then I finished season one a 3.5k masters with under 600 solo games.
Was placed in silver at the beginning of season one, only played 5 games. I decided near the end of the season that I wanted to be promoted, and I got to diamond within a month.
Platinum out of placement games. I played around 50 or so games of just pure 3 raxing in the first season until I finally got promoted to Diamond which felt damn good. After that, took a break from 1v1s until word of "Master League" came out. I hardcore laddered for a very long time, going from about 50 to 200 games and finally a few days before the ladder froze, I got promoted and began cheering like crazy and telling all of my friends. Felt amazing and since then I've been playing in Masters.
I myself have been playing sine the beta and started out in the bronze league. Throughout that whole time I got up to only as high as silver. When the game was realeased to the public I got placed in gold for my 1v1. I was proud of this seeing as it was the highest I ever got. Towards the middle of season 1 I got promoted to platinum and then stoped playing the 1v1 ladder for the most part. Since season 2 I played pretty much only 1v1. I got placed in platinum but shortly after I got promoted to diamond. So I have been working my way up due to knowledge and some hard work. Hopefully i'll be getting up to masters eventually.
Started in Gold after i finished the campaign and doing my placement matches. Was quite proud about that because i hadn't played any other RTS competitively - only played BW 10 years ago, WC3 i stopped playing a few month after the addon and mostly played custom maps.
Played about 5games a day as random because i couldn't decided on a race and slowly worked my way up into platinum with the help of the Day[9] dailies and watching lots of Huskys casts. About 5 wins before i got my "250 wins as random" achivement i got promoted to diamond and only finished up the achivement before becoming the Zerg i am now.
A while later i had a slump and decided "Everything sucks, i'll just do some crazy stuff"... like drone rush all the automatons on Scrap Station before attacking his base 5 minutes into the game with all my 6 drones, 6-pool into "kill my own base" or "last drone standing and then 1-pool". Did that for 30 games and got demoted to platinum, just to get back to diamond a month later and since then my skill seems to plateau in mid-diamond.
I feel i could do better if my hands weren't so slow, every action seems to take ages :/ (i'm almost 30)
I was really struggling in ZvZ at the time. I was on a pretty big win streak, for me atleast, 10 games, since I didn't get any ZvZs:D
I wanted to keep the streak going, qued new game, and it was a ZvZ.
After a 30 min game, I was lucky enough to squeeze a win, and after celebrating my first ZvZ win in almost a week, the "you have been promoted to platinum" thing came up. I was extremely pumped^^
Got placed into gold league after my placement matches, played 30 games, got into platinum.
Played the one placement match this "season" and got into Diamond.
Now I don't dare to play anymore, even though I actually know that leagues (rationally seen) don't mean shit. But I like Diamonds. They are shiny. Don't wanna lose that! Can't play!
It sucks, I have been working to masters from diamond for about five months. So the season resets, I get about 8 wins. Then my friend has a deal with me (he is a master Zerg) on how 4 gate can beat any race below masters. Well he went on my account (since it has a lower MMR) and did a 4 gate against a Terran who went 1-1-1, and won. Then my account was promoted into Masters League, the one I have been working on for months. (JUST THAT ONE WIN!) Now I cannot fully brag near him that I am a true master league person...
Got placed in Gold, won like 15 games in a row. Went to Platinum, another 15 games Diamond. Stopped playing properly- returned to go on a 20 game losing streak and be demoted to Plat with season two.
The moral of the story - natural talent for RTS is no excuse for not actually playing said RTS.
started in beta as toss got placed in copper. I had no clue how to play, id try and go like 1 gate core robo stargate carriers off 1 base and make like only 1 zealot and would die. Eventually I got into bronze. Then I switched to zerg, all i did was 14 pool 15 hatch into ling/muta, got promoted to silver, then gold, was high goldbut couldnt get promtoed to plat (plat was the highest back then)
then when the reset came that introduced diamond i decided to tyr terran for the first time, got placed into diamond, kept playing, stayed in diamond. When retail came out I went T, gotp laced in plat (you couldnt place into diamond) got promtoed to diamond after about 15 games, stayed there. Then I met my friend vVvTitan, and also watched idra play in tournaments, and it inspired me to switch back to zerg to prove that I wasn't just another facerolling terran abusing how easy T was back then. I barely managed to stay in diamond as I learned zerg, but eventually I got the hang of it, and got better with zerg than I was with T.
Then masters came out, right before it came out I did some calculations based on points and sc2ranks.com and figured I was high enough to get promoted into it right away. I was pretty sad when that was not the case, whats worse is my comp started having problems and I couldnt play for about a week and a half starding the day after masters came out, while I waited for a new part to come in the mail. After I gotto play again it took me about a week of playing in diamond to get promoted to masters. I've since been a low masters struggling bad zerg, doing everything I can to move up to mid masters and hopefully eventually high masters/some day GM, but It seems no matter how much I seem to practice I just don't get any better, or if I do I get better more slowly than everyone else.
me and a friend did our 4v4 in season once with off races and retarded strats and we did our single placement match and i 4x expoed by the 6 min mark as Toss and we ended up winning and got placed into platinum
Bought the game; placed plat. Played a few games; got into diamond. Stopped playing for a long time until masters came out. Grinded games to masters, now I'm still in masters playing maybe one or two games a day.
People need to stop saying that they grind to masters... this isnt an mmorpg you don't grind games to go up in leagues.. you either have the skill or you don't you should say I finnally improved enough to be placed higher. lol. just my 2 cents.
Started playing as an ex-wc3 orc player, obviously chose protoss since most similar style wise. Got platinum after initial placement matches going 4-1 because I got screwed by some random all-in in a PvT in my first game. 20 games in got diamond, was around 45-25 in diamond before my desktop died last november. stuck playing on a laptop that cant handle sc2 past 1 base allins or too much FPS lag for my computer, haven't played since. T_T
hope to make masters this summer once i get my desktop going again.
I was in plat in beta when that was the highest, since after that I've been diamond. I don't think I'll ever get promoted or demoted from diamond so I don't know how that promotion feeling feels like and afaik will never find out.
I was Gold, beating quite a few Platinum players, wondering how long it would take for me to get promoted. Today I started up SC2 like any other time, searched for a match, it was a ZvZ, and I was upset because I suck at ZvZ and starting the day with a loss is never good. I told myself to try my best and if I lose, don't let it get to me. I guess the guy hated ZvZ quite a bit more than I did. I didn't even get the chance to tell my Drones to mine because he left right away. "Alright, awesome!" I thought to myself. I click the score screen button, and it says I got promoted. I didn't know what to do, I just sat there for at least 10 seconds. And I got the whole thing recorded because I was going to post the FPVOD of the game on YouTube :D
Placed in platinum back near the start of S1 as protoss. Switched to zerg and proceeded to do baneling busts for about 20 games in a row to get into diamond, then played team games for the next few months. Just started playing solo again recently (and actually playing non-cheese games) so I expect to get promoted pretty soon.
Season 1Got placed in Bronze got dced in 3 of my placements, won my first 10 games and put into gold, than I won 2 games and was put into platinum and than I won 2 more and was put into diamond. It took 1 day lol.
Placed into platinum a few times in beta. Promoted to diamond after a game or two when that was added. In retail, placed in platinum, played 20 games to get diamond, played 1 game to get master league when that was patched in. I've played maybe 50 1v1 ladder games since release, but I'm always impressed by people that have worked their way up from bronze/silver into master/grandmaster.
I started off in silver, every time i got promoted i for some reason stopped playing for a couple of week's, came back and played until i got promoted xD. I'm in diamond atm, will eventually be in masters! AND THEN GSL
I played alot of 2v2 3v3 4v4 due to playing alot of Halo: 2, 3, Reach and wanting team mates. Got into like bronze straight off with no RTS experience. Mucked around with team games, eventually got them to plat and diamond, started playing custom games as all my friends from Halo were all like diamond/masters and I couldnt play with them for the fear of getting ass raped and laughed at so played customs for a few weeks, took ages to get from bronze to gold on SEA then I went on NA placed straight into Plat on my way up to masters now.
Well I never really played RTS's, at the time that I heard about sc2 I was playing a lot of private servers in WoW doing arena's and shit. I thought it would be cool to try it out. This lead me to watching a ton of streams and cats before even picking up the game When I got it I went 4-1 in placements and got into gold. I then finally experienced my first 4-gate.... I lost like 10 games in a row vs toss 4-gate and got demoted to silver . My internet is pretty shit and as a result I get dropped a lot, so I stopped playing. I never really stopped watching starcraft though. Then about a few months later I decided to go on another run, this time I was ready. I quickly got promoted to gold, then to platinum, and then finally to diamond. I go to around 3.3k with a ~500 bonus pool at the end of the season
I'm 9-1 this season with a ~300 bonus pool, still diamond. I'm getting better internet in June which is when I plan on actually playing constantly and getting to masters.
I was in Gold for the longest time. After season 2 I go on a tare and rack up a massive win streak, about 30 wins all against plat and diamond players. Eventually I get frustrated of waiting and I cheese for a few more games, and poof I'm in plat. 5 games later i get promoted again into Diamond :D.
During beta I was in plat. I was going ok, going like 3-2 for the day, on my 6th game I ended up facing a pretty bad opponent. It was on metal.
He goes forge first, so I'm think ok, he's trying to cannon rush me. Nope He procedes to cannon the hell out of his base and eventually expands and cannons that up too. It ended up being a 40 minute game where I couldn't break his natural with my ground army, so I eventually switch to broodlords and start working on his cannons. He has almost no ground army and it's all just cannons. So it takes me a while to kill all of them, and of course he doesn't leave the game as soon as he knows he lost.
Eventually I win, but then promotion screen comes up. I end up getting DEMOTED to gold for that game. I don't know why, I felt at the time it was because that game took sooooo long for such a bad opponent. After that I just stopped playing beta seriously
Play about 8 practice league matches season 1, and got into bronze at going 2-3 in placement. Near the end of season 1, I got into silver and I was so happy, because I was finally in the same league as my cousin, who was bragging xD.Today I played 4 matches. Lost the first 2 to 1 basing terran allins (all gold leaguers). I won the 3rd against a protoss (again gold) because my macro was alot better.
The last game I played was against an FE protoss. I opened my usual Spanishiwa, and scouted his army at about 7 minutes with my ling. He hadn't fully walled off, or made any cannons and I was really suspicious. I went around, looking for hidden tech, when he finally says to the effect of "Congradulations on the win". I was seriously like "what the heck??" so I asked him. He had to answer the door apparently, and hadn't been playing for 3 minute. He left, and with that win I finally became gold. Needless to say I was ecstatic.
Game after game when masters came out I won, 100 games later I was on a 12 win streak. Said in game chat why in god's name it didn't promote me yet, won again and got in =D 13's my lucky number lol!
I was playing 4v4 casually with zerg cos i suck with them and needed to improve as i play random, and got placed in platinum, then, for some inexplicable reason I got demoted down 2 leagues (!!!) to silver after winning 3 games in a row vs favoured players (wtf !!!). Was unbelievably confused, and decided to play a few games to see if i got repromoted. I didnt. About 5 games a day and still nothing, I was gettin sooooo frustrated at being in silver (since I'm diamond for everything else), until, eventually, after winning 34 games in a row (even bigger "!!!") i got promoted to gold, where I remain, in the hopes that I dont have to win 34 in a row vs mostly plat and diamond players off-race again haha. Rant over
I started playing at release as protoss and then stopped playing for awhile. Started again as Zerg in bronze league. I finished season 1 as bronze league and was placed back in bronze at the start of season 2.
When I was promoted to silver, it was my first win after a pretty bad losing streak. Not only that, the guy disconnected! He dc'd and I said to myself, "Okay time to get back on track now" and then boom promoted to silver. I was so happy!
Season one, got in to Platinum ( woho ), was in silver during the beta. Had a pretty sick winning streak for a while.
Then I lost eight games in a row... didn't feel like ladder at all. Five days later I decided to just play one more game and see if I would get demoted to Gold or something, so I could win a few games again. but NO! I won that game and got promoted.
I was placed in gold first then I was demoted to silver. I got really frustrated about that and started playing hardcore. I was top in silver for a while then I got promoted... stayed top gold for a long time and finally got promoted to platinum. I was satisfied being mid platinum for a while but then I noticed I was getting a lot better staying top platinum and I eventually made it to Diamond. I was so happy because at the time it was the top of the ladder. Now I'm working my way towards masters.
I'm a former FPS Player, played ET for like 4 years before i got bored of it, started to looking a bit for smth new like cod and QL. then in november last year i just bought starcraft after seeing one match of qxc on some dreamhack i believe, im not sure i was mainly following the QL going on there.
started the game, thought after 3 practice matches screw it i wanna how where i stand and qualified for bronze. i had no clue what i was doing so i quickly went to a 0-30 loss streak. then started watching stuff on youtube like forcesc2strategy and husky. i finally started to win stuff and went up to something like 80 - 40 before promoting.
then 3/4 months later jsut before season 1 finished i got into diamond. right now not that extremely active but slowly improving my play, we'll see if i'll be able to get into masters someday, but im not to optimistic
I played sc1 so I had a head start. Was semi-high diamond in beta so when the game came out I was pretty confident I'd get placed in diamond without breaking a sweat. So, to get my placement matches out of the way I thought I'd cheese every game.
First game I 6-pool and messed it up somehow and lost! Next game I thought to myself "omg I lost to a scrub, next games I will be facing only bronze league players" and I got even more overconfident. Second game I won easy, but the third game I lost again due to a counter cheese. My opponent 8-pooled and killed my dual proxy rax on steppes of war. I lifted of to an island and almost managed to win the game, but not quite. My opponent was terrible, but I lost anyway. I was so pissed at myself.
The last two games I played super safe, I got to 4 bases and maxed out before I attacked my opponents who both were sitting on one base turtling with cannons. I get placed in gold league with 3-2 score and I had to grind my way back to diamond. When I had to play the first game to get to masters this season I made sure I was well rested and I played super safe. I learned my lesson and I'm never going below masters again.
I played BW for 4 years and developed that "SC2 will never be as good as BW" mentality. I kinda wanted to pioneer a new trend in a new game....so I decided to switch (kinda regretting the switch now...).
Beta came along, and I got a key from a buddy. The game was ok, i played a few people, and I kinda enjoyed just playing a new game. After a week or so, I got extremely bored of it. I got tired of dealing with cheese and had to focus on school for a bit.
When the game came out, another buddy of mine bought it, played a few games, and said "Hey want to paly on my account?" I said "sure, why not," and proceeded to play about 50 games. I got him promoted from bronze to diamond in less than a week...essentially stealing his account from him.
got my beta key a few weeks into beta, got placed into gold after my first few matches. playd few games and soon was promoted to platinum (back then the highest league). since then the only time i was not in the top league was right after beta resets (always did 4-1 and placed in 2nd highest) and right after release for like 30 games.
since then been diamond and got promoted to masters after my 1st game after masters patch/ladderreset. so just sailing along pretty much >.<
Only mildly interesting promotion for me was my most recent into Diamond, which happened immediately after I did a Funday Monday strat (the no banes/roaches/hydras/mutas + 12 lings one). I did win the game , with a BL/Infestor/Queen push with spines on the ground buffering.
I played a very, very little amount of BW and didn't do much outside of Fastest Map Possible and Cat vs Mouse. SC2 caught my interest as I began looking up trailers and gameplay footage.
After buying SC2 around release, I played around with Terran a bit and ended up being placed in Bronze. After getting to Silver a few weeks later, I decided to switch to Zerg and learned the 7 roach rush build. After exclusively using that build against T / P as well as inControl's 1 base roach timing attack in ZvZ from MrBitter's VODs, I eventually ended up in Diamond where I practiced a few different builds and had a fair share of wins and losses.
Season 2 hit and I decided to try both Terran and Protoss on ladder after upgrading my gaming gear from a laggy laptop, cheap mouse, and mushy keyboard to a gaming computer, DasKeyboard, and Ikari Laser.
After losing my placement match, I was placed in Master's league for some reason. I played a few more games as Terran and Protoss but ended up switching back to Zerg after maybe 10-15 games. Ever since, I have been looking into the Spanishiwa build and have been trying to refine my play. I am currently in the top 15ish of my Master's league. From Bronze! :D
i learnt the game quite fast at the start: i went from bronze to silver, back to bronze, to silver and gold in only 2 weeks (probably because day9 started doing newbie tuesdays by that time) then i kind of stopped laddering and only advanced to platinum, which i mantain with one game a week.
My ladder matches aren't very memorable to me. What is memorable is all the practice and hard work I put in in getting my promotions. Lots of beating my head against the master-league wall that is my buddy and playing in US Craft Cup weekly tourneys, polishing my macro and trying to wrap my head around timings and strategies, and wishing my mechanics and control were better.
Made Platinum yesterday at lunch and the promotion plaque popping up as well as the practice games with my Masters' buddy before that game were way more memorable than the game itself.
I had been in high diamond pushing masters for a few weeks and was getting pretty frustrated at the lack of promotion. The final game I got promoted I was sure I was going to lose because I canceled my 9/10 drone, which in ZvZ (or any match-up really) is HUGE. I went zergling baneling with the hopes that I could get some miraculous win. My opponent wasn't bad, but luckily, he/she didn't 10 pool and I was later able to catch 3 roaches slightly out of position. This forced his lings to engage and allowed my banelings to connect properly: GG. I shouted pretty loudly when I finally got promoted.
1v1 is the only one I really work at. Bronze to silver happened once I understood basic macro and the idea of keeping money low. Basically after I "understood" protoss units and how to manage my money on a basic level I was promoted. Silver to gold happened when I started winning 60 percent of my games vs terran/zerg (protoss win rate has always been around 80 percent). I finally have the 3 gate sentry expand down and I'm learning more every day. I'm beginning to win more than I lose in gold now, so I should be moving up to plat soon :D
My goal is masters by the end of the summer so we'll see..
i think that i have had disconnecting opponents multiple times directly before my promotions... (went from gold->silver->bronze->silver->gold->plat->diamond) so i have had my share of league changes XD
I decided to not care wether I would get promoted to Masters or not since I just found it stressfull to eagerly await a promotion after each game. After realizing that, I looked forward to spending a longer time in diamond really focusing on improving before moving up to masters.
Two games later I get promoted. All my motivation gone.
After playing the beta for very few games, I got the retail and started with a perfect 5-0 in my placement matches. Got put into platinum and was very glad I was there. Since I'm slow and old I didnt expect anything higher. Then I actually LOST a game and got promoted to diamond afterwards. Came of as a total suprise.
Stopped playing mid-season, because friends were getting into another game and have just started to play again. I'm slowly regaining my game ability, but again, I'm quiete content with staying diamond, so who knows, maybe there will be a surprise promotion to masters again.
after plagement i got into plat, 10 games later i'm in Diamond. I start playing again when masters arrive and i get promoted. Getting bored of Terran i switched to Zerg. 10 games later i got demoted to diamond tho i didn't feel like i was playing worse. tho two weeks before the new season i played alot and had a very high winrate. Next season i got promoted to masters. That felt awesome because I worked for it.
I think the best felling ever was that when i was promoted from diamond to master, i was losing a lot of games vs chees/stupid build and then 1 weekend i said to myself " man i am better then those guys, i need to stop fucking around and get my ass out there play some games and get promoted " and i did, i was promoted with a 11 win streak the same they i got into craftcup Bo64 and got knocked out by a dc after beating a shit ton of master players that were 1k points above me, what a great felling :D Hope that in a year or 2 i get good enough to be GM and share that story as well <.<.
was forever bronze in the beta, doing stupid ass tactics because i only signed up for the beta as a joke. Near then end of the beta i really started enjoying the game and wanted to improve. On release i played a lot, got to gold. Then, when i was near rank 1 gold, i played this toss who absolutly destroyed me(im terran). I was so pissed i played as toss the next game to show myself how ez it is. came up against a terran who i knew was going banshees and owned him, in the game i got promoted to plat. Now i play toss fulltime, high diamond almost masters
Started as bronze, took me about 50 games to get to silver, then about 50 more to get to gold, then about 60 -70 to get to platinum. I don't know why it took so long to get promoted back then, my win/loss ratio was ridiculous (80/20). This latest season I played my placement match and got placed in masters.. cheee
In beta patch 6 I was silver, then the next ladder reset I got plat(which was the highest) and I was super excited. Then got diamond when that came out, and when sc2 was released got my diamond and master when it came out.
I've stuck with Terran since the start, and placed into gold when I got the game in August. I almost entirely relied on 3 rax/heavy bio play in all matches until platinum where the builds finally started to deviate.For platinum, I favored banshee/drop/harass play, a lot of players around that level had a hard time handling multiple points of pressure and I sort of exploited that. To get into diamond, I used that one thor build against a protoss where you rush for the +1 armor and push with about 10 marines and scvs to repair. And then finally for masters, I got into it about a week after its release, with a 8 win streak. Don't remember the specifics of my promotion though. D:<
Only time I remember being promoted is into silver and diamond. I was first placed in bronze and played something like 30 games, watched replays of pros and tried hard to get out of bronze.
The diamond promotion I remember I was at a mates place stuck in platinum and I was playing protoss and the terran walled off on jungle basin. My mate told me to go voids and charge up on the wall off then stomp him and I did exactly that :D. After the game we went out to the casino and had a good time :D
My friend and I chat with our online friend whom we haven't played with in many months. We decide to 5-0 our 3v3 placements to try to get masters, but realize we only have 2 left cause we never finished them from all the way back then. So, we get two quick wins (Ling, Hellion, 4gate) and get masters!
Started off Silver played a bit and got promoted to Diamond during beta. Release came out, was placed in Platinum, eventually got promoted to Diamond after many games. Then once Masters came out, managed to get into Masters. Stayed at around the mid-high level of Masters, learned about season 2 and grandmasters. Took this entire weekend to grind ladder, and got promoted to Grandmasters.
Just started to play again lately, and I'm in plat atm.
But at the start of SC2 I was placed in platinum after the 5 placement matches, then I won most of my matches and was eventually promoted to diamond.
The funny part was that the match I was promoted from was a match I lost, and it wasn't like a close call. I was crushed, he outplayed me in almost every single way. But when the game was over I was promoted.
last season i thought it would take a year for me to get into diamond turns out i did it in the first season one thing i thought was awesome is that i made it my mission to get into plat before the end of 2010 and i did it the day before
But ye started in bronze at september 2nd (my birthday) was sooo happy when i got all the way up to diamond
Got placed in platinum in season one after winning all 5 placement matches. Haven't played since. Decided to do one placement match for season 2, lost that, and got placed into diamond 1v1. Go figure..
I was platinum in beta. Placed quite below my expectations at silver upon release which really discouraged me from laddering. I would pretty much either lose to something silly or win so convincingly it wasn't even fun. I switched to playing custom games against diamond/masters players that built up my consistency/confidence in all MUs. After that I went back to ladder and crushed face, got promoted to gold, ladder reset and I placed into platinum. Played customs at this time to prep for MLG Dallas, which I made it to losers round 2(but my games were good! t.t) then came back to ladder and was promoted to diamond. Right now I play mainly obs till my vP is better and more fleshed out so I can make that final push towards masters(hopefully)
I was in copper/bronze in beta, because i never played any RTS online, except a few matches of Supreme Commander. Watched all the Day9 sc2 related dailies between the end of beta and the actual release of the game. Won all my placement matches after, got placed in plat and stagnated in there ever since, due to not having enough time/willpower to play constantly.
Oops. Wrong thread. Well I guess I'll edit it into a promotion story
Got placed into bronze. went silver then gold. Got a girlfriend, so played less. She dumped me, got demoted to silver from lack of practice. Played a ton more, got promoted back into gold. About a month ago I got promoted to Plat at a LAN i was hosting at my college. I had to watch the room overnight, no one was there so I played a ton of games. went 9wins for 10 games played that morning. Later that afternoon got put into plat. Felt great ^_^
end of the beta phase 1, wc3 player, never played starcraft before, started 0-11 in copper league, then all the way to rank 1 platinum in beta (when diamond didnt exist), didnt play phase 2, 3700 master at the end of the last season.
Was Platinum in the beta (the equivalent of Diamond now.) Placed Platinum in season 1 and never got higher. Placed Platinum in season 2, but then I lost a bunch of games in a row to Silver players, I guess because I was rusty, and I got demoted to Gold. Over 100 games later, I'm still in Gold. This frustrated me so much that I bought a smurf account... on which I placed Platinum.
2 bad i played enough bw 2 not suck, so i have allways been in the top leagues :< nothing 2 celebrate :< i guess i could celebrate if i got into GM now im getting there soon
I did placement straight away never played sc2 before, watched some MLG tho. Got placed in Silver, was in there for about a week, then I found this 3 rax all in build did that for a bit got into gold, then about 5 games later got into plat :D. I had a lot more wins then loses. Since then I haven't played to much but I got into high plat doing a variety of builds mainly 1-1-1 or 2 rax fe.
Did not play BW before (despite of some games against my turtle father in LAN) Got the Beta early, started in gold and soon got promoted. Went immediately into Diamond. When Master was availabe got immediately into that league too. Did not get into Grandmaster, but since the last ladder reset i've got a 6:0 record in my Master League.
Actually built up the nerve to 1v1 ladder after like 35 2v2s with my friend (in which we managed to get like #2 silver, losing to apparently superior cheeses by diamond/platinum 2v2ers). See PvT Scout and see gas -> rax -> gas his scout comes into my base I put down a quick robo, his scv leaves, bam put down 2 gates and do a delayed 4gate i walk into his base with 5 stalkers and some zealots, he has 3 hellions and a half completed bunker like wtf.
Well, I got the game on release and played mostly team games with friends.
I did my 1v1 placement and got platinum. I played a bunch of games (Maybe 50 games or so, with approx 65-70% win ratio) and got promoted to diamond. When masters league was introduced I logged on, played and got promoted. No real story there, I just think if you have decent enough mechanics and learn the game there's not going to be any difficulty in getting to masters.
My 2v2 story was a little more interesting, because I started out on retail having never watched/played a game of startcraft, not knowing what the units did, not knowing what buildings did what, but feeling confident because of my considerable previous RTS experience. We got placed in bronze, and we sucked.
We kept playing, and approaching 100 games in the bronze league we mastered a build which gave us great success: I would go 13 gas-pool and my teammate would go 2gate. We just rushed and killed all of our opponents and rapidly shot up our division and eventually received the elusive silver league promotion.
We continued to rush and finally found ourselves in the gold league. This is where things got tricky, we found that people could actually attempt defend themselves against our rush, so we needed a backup plan. It took a while, but we were getting to the point where we understood the game pretty well, so after some practice we got promoted to platinum, and 1 game later we got promoted to diamond.
I studied some high level zergs and then dived into 1v1 ladder and found that with my mechanics, my team game practice and my 1v1 studies I was able to quickly climb the ladder into diamond/masters fairly effortly, as mentioned above.
Played a bit of BW in 1999/2000, didn't play the SC2 beta, and went straight into placement matches after the campaign. Got placed in Bronze, but quickly rose through to Silver and then Gold. Here I started experimenting a bit with races, but eventually got up to Platinum by playing mainly Terran. Then as I start getting close to Diamond, I switch to Random. Which meant that I had 6 new matchups to learn, and got worse in the 3 I already knew.
I dropped down to low Gold before I started climbing again late last season. I started this new season in Gold, and I now think I'm close to being promoted to Diamond having played about 50/50 Random/Zerg.
I really ought to stick to just the one race if I wanted to consistently improve, but that just bores the crap out of me. I may not have much of a record, but I am enjoying myself.
Ive been laddering for about 7-8 months in Bronze Just last week I was put into silver, i sort of knw it was coming because I was playing a ton of silver players, and thrashing them to shit.
I got knocked down to silver at the start of this season from gold, which annoyed me quite a bit since I was always rank 1 in my gold league and never really got promoted. Anyway, I climbed my way back up to the top of silver after a while, taking the opportunity to experiment with a couple of other races.
Anyway, it wasn't the game I got promoted on, but one of the games before, and I was facing a protoss placer who went forge fe on tal'darim altar. With my scouting drone, I killed 2 of his probes trying to wall off his natural, and he just gg'd. I felt kinda bad for him, since he probably woulda beaten me and it wasn't a huge deal, but it got me in the mood to win the next game which promoted me
Bought the game in September/October after watching S1 of the GSL Open. Decided that I wanted to be like fruitdealer and played zerg. Won two of my five placements and got placed into bronze. Pretty much kept on losing for about a week and took a few months off. Started playing again in January and decided to pick up Protoss. Basically went from a 5-13 record to 45-22 by just 4gating my way into diamond in a weekend. Since then I've gone back to zerg and I'm still in diamond.
On April 30 2011 10:40 Dekoth wrote: Placed in plat in season 2 after a long hiatus from sc2, won my first three games and it demoted me to gold. Have been in gold ever since for 100+ games and all it does is play me against high plat low diamond players that I mostly beat and it still refuses to promote me out of gold. Now I agreed with the initial demotion as i was extremely rusty. However at this point I am night and day better then I was when I was in Diamond..yet still stuck in gold.
My MMR is freaking Broken. If it wasn't so insulting to be considered gold league I wouldn't really care. I liked it better when it was just one large ladder in SC:BW and I didn't have to worry about this auto promotion based on god knows what requirements garbage.
MMR is fine. If you were good enough to be in a higher league, you would be. I'm not a big fan of people blaming their own lack of skill on "THE SYSTEM, MAN".
On topic: I placed into Masters from Diamond the day after Masters league went into play. I'm an average Masters player, learning everyday. Love this game. <3
It isn't a lack of skill, I take on and beat mid diamond players all the time. Most of my friends are high diamond and I beat them half the time. Over 100 games won, winning 4 out of 5 matches, yea sorry something is screwed up. It should of promoted me or..hell demoted me for that matter..Something anything except being stuck in the same freaking league endlessly.
Like I said, if you were good enough to be in a better league, you would be. You're not an isolated case in a massive system, being cheated out of your rightful league. If you keep winning, you'll get promoted. If you're not getting promoted, you're not being entirely truthful about winning all the time. The system isn't out to get you. It's a fair way to gauge your skill. Good luck.
Say what you want, my rank is hosed..I just threw 20 matches in a row just for shits and grins and it wouldn't even de rank me..
Placed into Plat. Outmacro'd everyone by a ton but had to learn all the cheese. Went to diamond. Was master's temporarily in Dec but then demoted to diamond after 3 months of no playing and coming back. Currently trying to get back into form, though the metagame is way harder for zerg (very close though!)
I started as bronze 1v1, completely new to RTS's, beginning of November. After 160 games, I got promoted to silver in the first week of February. End of Feb, I was promoted to Gold. That week, I believe I was promoted to Plat and Diamond in less then a week. I was in Diamond when I had approx 235 games.
Started around release in silver. Eventually I was dropped to bronze where I belonged anyway. Then this season I was placed in bronze again -.- but after one game (where the other player left right away lol) I was promoted to silver. This week I was promoted again to gold and I'm hoping to make the jump to platinum soon.
I also started early release in silver in 1v1, then worked my way up to gold before focusing more on team games where I was mainly plat. After awhile I started to ladder 1v1 more and got plat and then quickly diamond. By then, my team games were also around diamond level.
I got masters the first day it came out; and when masters came out for team games, I got it in 2v2, 3v3. I didn't get 4v4 masters until season 2. Nowadays, I have multiple masters teams and want to try to climb up the ladder 1v1 (i'm in the bottom 50 )
Got promoted to diamond on the 21st of January around 2AM It was the last day I spent at my old place before moving to Paris. The truck was to pick my stuff and furniture early in the morning and I was slacking instead of packing the few random things that what were left. Obviously the computer would be the last thing I would pack (because yes, I'm a nerd) and I played like 2 or 3 games that night. Getting promoted to Diamond was almost literally the last thing I did before leaving that apartment.
Pre-ordered SC2, then realized I was on vacation when it came
No problem, changed the order to receive it on vacation 6 hours away from my home. The place we were staying didn't have internet so I spent 3 days (8 hours a day) in a coffee shop playing SC2 on my laptop, periodically buying coffee or calling my mom to watch my computer as I took bathroom breaks.
Who needs a fucking vacation when you have Starcraft? Got placed into diamond. Ohhh yeahhh.
My promotions were all really satisfying, and I felt like I really earned each one. Way back when Starcraft II was first released, I had a friend over and we both eagerly started laddering together. He played normal, 'standard' games, and ended up getting placed in bronze. He was fine with it though, as he was eager to really get into Starcraft and learn. I was new to the competitive aspect of Starcraft entirely, and I ended up 6pooling all of my placement matches. I didn't understand why it was all-in or why it was a generally awful idea to 6pool. I won 4/5, and got placed in high gold.
I had my first ladder game, and when 6pooled, I ended up getting smashed. He actually defended it properly, and pushed out a few minutes later with a few zealots, annihilating me. It was around this time that I realized, "Oh God, all I can do is 6pool and people ranked this high can actually defend it." So, while my friend happily learned at a nice, casual pace in bronze, I was stuck in gold, getting hopelessly thrashed. I was at least two leagues higher than I should have been, which was horribly demotivating. I spent the next three weeks playing only around 20-40 games, with each game being a tedious, harsh learning experience. It was a surprise that I didn't get demoted.
However, I soon discovered that I was actually learning incredibly fast for the amount of games I had played; my friend, having played over 200 games by this time was learning a lot slower than me. We played a 'standard' game together, and I ended up having superior mechanics and I simply out-played him. This really motivated me to keep playing, and by the end of my 50th game, my macro clicked. I understood what I needed to get better at, and how I can improve. Suddenly, I was at the same level as most of the people I was vsing, and by the time I earned the Hydralisk portrait, I was promoted into Platinum. I was absolutely overjoyed, as my friend still hadn't made it into silver.
Another 100 games and a season later, I'm top 8 Platinum, and eagerly anticipating promotion. My friend had made it into Gold last season with over 500 games under his belt, and with his Season 2 placement match victory, was promoted to Platinum. I had a serious problem with ZvZ: I didn't understand the matchup, it was all too fast compared to the others, and every single game ended up degenerating into speedling all-ins. Ever since my 6pooling mishap, I had been strictly against all-in, and would only play straight-up macro games. Frustrated, I watched MrBitter's 12 Weeks With The Pros and saw how Dimaga opened with a very safe, macro-orientated build. The tiny change in timing with the Hatchery made all the difference in my ZvZ games. I ended up losing 1/15 of all the rest of my Platinum ZvZs, and ended up easily getting promoted into Diamond. I was absolutely thrilled, as I never thought I would ever even get a chance to see Diamond anytime in my Starcraft II career.
Not really the most exciting story, but it really means a lot to me. Starcraft is (shamefully) the first thing that has truly given me a truthful understanding of the concept of effort = reward.
Played in beta, was copper. Copper was removed. Moved to bronze. Game came out, placed in silver. played for a while was close to being promoted to gold. and i stopped. freind asked if he could use my account, let him use my account, he lost a lot and got to bronze. i started playing again, after season 2. was in bronze for a couple weeks, lost 3 games in a row, won a game "you have been promoted based to silver". then i won 10(?) games in a row (with my now super solid bio build), tried to cheese a couple times, lost all those times, school work caught up on me, and finals and such so my laddering is on hold.
I started in bronze at launch and I didn't know how to play at all. Getting out of bronze was probably the most difficult promotion of all, but after getting promoted to silver, I quickly climbed to platinum within 40 games. In platinum, I hit a plateau for about 80 games - until I learned how to properly 4gate. My actual promotion to diamond was because one player got mad at the matchmaking system on his smurf account and left after ranting about it to me.
My Promotions have been funny, from bronze to silver was a DC in a PvP where my 4 gate failed horribly and he was pushing with like 5 colossus, just as my army engages he disconnects and I make silver.
Silver to gold wasn't as funny, but as soon as I joined the game my opponent (who was diamond) said rofl and left, and gave me a new league. Gold to plat was simple enough, I won like 9 games in a row and made plat 7 pooling in a zvz.
I was bronze in December right before xmas when i started playing. 2 months later, silver. 2 weeks later, gold. 1 week later, plat. 3 days later, diamond.
Placed into gold (2 weeks after release) with zero experience with BW and beta. Half a week later, I got platinum. A week later, I got into diamond. Played for a couple of months on and off. Took a 4 month break from SC2.
Saw that masters league was released, so I decided to learn a new race and try to get into masters league. It took me about 2 weeks and I got promoted at around 1700 diamond. Now I am forever masters. :3
The game that promoted me to Master was stupid. The whole game was laggy and right when the first confrontation happened between the two armies, he lagged out. And I got promoted to Master. >.>
I worked my way up to play from bronze, having bought my first RTS the day it came out (not the beta, but the actual game). I got bored with doing the same few builds over and over again, started cheesing and doing dumb stuff, and got demoted to gold. After playing about 30 or 35 games the current season, and winning 28 of them, I got promoted back to platinum. I got promoted after the wierdest game.
It was a PvZ on Zel'Naga, so I 4-gated, just because the natural's opening is so damn wide, and so much harder to hold vZ than on most other maps. My opponent did Spanishiwa's no-gas build (I failed at scouting and didn't realize this until I attacked). Knowing he wouldn't be attacking me anytime soon, I expanded and teched to DT's. I then expanded again behind my DT's. I managed to do enough damage to keep him on 3.5 bases for a while, and the game eventually evolved into the wierdest macro game I've ever been in. I got mad upgrades and lots of HT's and chargelots. Eventually, I got 3 stargates and about 9 VR's. I attacked at around 180 supply, into a bunch of ultras and infestors! It was so wierd. We basically traded armies, but I made sure to kill off his AA units, so my VR's were still alive, but couldn't attack because of his queens. The coolest part of this was that I remembered HotBid's post about mini-map feedback and used it to feedback all of his infestors. It was awesome. Eventually, I mustered up another force and killed him.
The craziest thing about my promotion, however, is that because I fell so far behind in the beginning, I was just messing around. In a 30-minute game, I never got a robo fac! I was pretty happy with the promotion, because I'd been crushing other people in gold ever since this season started.
I just got promoted to silver after a pretty nice zvz, im so happy ^_^
Got initially placed in silver then demoted to bronze after not playing for a long time and changing to z from t. After Season 2 started i began playing a bit more and went to win most of my games with 22-4 (yea i still dont play much) or something, niceeeeeeeeeeeeee
well i installed starcraft 2 played my first 5 games in custom got use to the game ( all macro games ) then i played my first 13 1v1 games, and went 13-0
I got promoted after winning a base race against a protoss; he had a stalker/zealit/sentry ball and i had a flock of mutas. I kept sniping off units of his that strayed away from the ball and killing buildings in his base while making extractors everywhere.
Eventually he saw that he was going to die unless he defended his last buildings, however it was an unwinnable position; my mutas where faster than his units so if he moved out he would lose, however if he didnt move out i would keep sniping units and retreating until my mutas recovered their health. It was a cool game
I started somewhere around mid December, I went 1-4 in my placements and got placed in bronze as terran, then I switch my race to Protoss and started winning some game, then I had a key moment, I saw someone Pro play, this gave me a HUUUGE confidence boost and I started winning and was able to get a positive win ratio. This brought me into silver and shortly after into gold, I stayed in Gold till the ladder reset, but in the 2 weeks, were the ladder was locked I won so much (probably because the people used the freeze to practice new Stuff), at the End of the season I was number 13 in the World in Gold. This brought me to plat after the Reset, now after the 1-2 Month, that the season is running I got in to Diamond after a 15-2 Day :D
There I was, finishing my school assignments, when I hear that the ladder is being reset. I tell my friend "This is my chance!" and jump on StarCraft 2. I login swiftly and become face to face with the multiplayer screen and my olde friend laddering fear comes to say hello. I tell my fears to go fuck themselves as I press the button. It feels like half an hour passes before I find a match (it was actually like a minute) and then.. BOOM PvP! OH GOD NO, HOW DO I QUEUE DODGE? So I get into the game without a plan and without a paddle and I say to myself "Hell it's PvP, I'mma 4gate the son of a gun". I scout this guy around 12 food, he's walling off, alright I got this. I get my 4gate prepared and I'm getting my pylon out, he hasn't scouted me yet, I got this.. I GOT THIS!|! I warp in a bunch of units at his natural and I'm ready to push, suddenly THOUSANDS OF ZEALOTS run out of the base and just catch me off guard, at the same time DTs in my base raping my face. Crushed, I say the gg and die a little inside. The game ends, I meet the score screen and sigh to myself. Then, suddenly, a pop up comes up saying YOU HAVE BEEN PROMOTED TO SILVER LEAGUE. At first I'm confused, I lost my match why am I getting promoted from Bronze League? I chat with my proponent from the last match (the rat bastard), and he says he's still in bronze and his placement match put him in a worse position than he was originally in. Laughing to myself, I press the ladder button again and play a few more games, winning all of them. Then I went back to school work and haven't played since.
And that friends, is my cool story about how I made it to the glorious and prestigious SILVER LEAGUE.
i picked WoL 2 months after retail hit, got placed into bronze after my 0-5 performance in placement matches. never played any rts or competetive games at all (only a li'bit of WoW, like it matters, lolz) got promoted into silver and then gold fairly quickly, discovered tl.net, got pumped for sc even more, started watching and playing a ton, got promoted to platinium and then diamond, when masters league came i got in after maybe 1-2 weeks. im like 800 masters now, looking to get promoted to grandmaster someday
Friend and I cheese every game in 2s and derank occasionally to enjoy the rage of the lower leagues. However, we've not deranked in a few weeks and hit masters 2v2 after a game filled with cannon rushes into the 10 minute mark when we transitioned to mass voidray. Protoss at its finest.
Starcraft 2 is pretty much my first RTS I played online, but for some reason I got placed in gold when I started last year because I won 3 placement matches. Obviously I then got demoted straight to bronze lol. I worked my way up to silver then decided to switch race from terran to zerg (WHY???) and dropped back down to low bronze. So basically I've gone Gold - Bronze - Silver - Bronze - Silver - Gold - Platinum - Diamond...hopefully in masters soon.
before the ladder reset, i was in plat. after the ladder reset, i lost my placement match and was promoted to diamond. meanwhile, my friend gets demoted to gold league for winning his placement. wtf blizzard?!
On my new acc, got 4-1 and got into plat. Then for some reason i got terran 3 times in a row, won over high diamond players and got into diamond, so much for practicing on the lower levels with Z and P xd. Now I'm kinda struggling in ZvT and ZvP. PvZ and PvT are going better for some reason.
I never played RTS games until this one when I got it in August. I started out in bronze and sucked my way to the last spot in my league. Thats when I started watching day 9 dailies, reading guides, watching vods of casters like artosis and when I joined TL . I must say you all have helped me climb my way through each league to platinum, until 3 days ago... I was in platinum for 4 months, refining my macro and a little bit of micro. Got home from college, got on my brothers SICK ASS comp and played one game. It was a PvZ, on typhon. Pretty standard 3 gate expo into colosis build. He went roach infester which has been given me a hard time lately. And after a 30 min long back and forth brawl we met in the middle for a giant battle. Except I had Dts on the to his bases and he had nothing to stop them. He had to win the battle in the center or it was over. He didnt and I was promoted to DIAMMONDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!! I have been waiting so long for this moment and will soon try my hardest to reach Masters.
Tip from My experience: No matter what strategy you use in the lower leagues, you are there because you still have imperfect macro mechanics. If you can refine just your macro skills (building units 24/7!) you will out produce your opponents and win every game and soon be in Diamond GL and HF!
When I first started playing StarCraft II, I made the brutal mistake of skipping my practice league. I played all my placement matches like a noob and got placed into bronze for all four categories. After that, I never played league, I only played custom games. I only played 2 maps, Arakan Citadel and Lost Temple, 3v3 and 1v1 respectively. After playing custom games for about 3 months, I gathered enough confidence to play league. I played some league and was promoted into Gold and Silver for 1v1, 4v4 and 2v2, 3v3 respectively! Of course, that is not big but for me it was a big confidence booster!
I'm 44 years old and obviously don't have the hand speed that my opponents have. Pretty sure I went 3-2 in S1 placement(Protoss) and was put in Gold which quickly led to Silver and then Bronze.
A switch to Zerg saw an APM improvement and a slightly better than 50% win that I think got me back to Silver only to be followed by massive losing streak and back to bronze. S2 started with me still Zerg. Another losing streak had me switch back to Protoss and with my recent 19-8 stretch I just got promoted to Silver!!!
I finally got promoted to platinum the same game I got my solo streak 5 achievement, beating a proxy void ray all-in type of build with siege tanks marine! :D
now the goal is to hit diamond before the end of the season.
I've never had a promotion EVER that was because of a normal game. I got promoted from bronze to silver by doing the lift your CC off and fake a game bug cheese(which worked)
I can't remember all the promotion games I had, but I do know that I have never had a normal game as a promotion game.
In season 1 I got placed in silver. I played a total of 11 games in season 1, won 6 of them. Then I did my placement for season 2 and beat some zerg guy in a baserace. GOLD YO! So now im in gold and ive played like 6 games Ive noticed that like 80% of my games are zvz though, and i hate that matchup. Ive only ever played 1 terran on ladder :/
In S1, I was bronze all season - lost most of my games, took a 3 month break, brought my winrate up to above 50%. When S2 rolled around, I lost my placement match, but was consistently winning matches.
Once I started playing around with a new strategy, I started winning games like mad. I kept drawing Shakuras for my games, which was pretty much perfect for the 2-base early game that I had been practicing, and never lost. I figured I'd get promoted soon.
Then I went up against a Protoss on some horrible PvZ map, and said to myself "Hey, this is Bronze League, I can get away with roach rushes."
So I did. And then I got promoted on what amounts to a cheesy rush build. I was kind of depressed about it, actually.
1vs1 i had 2 crazy nights winning streaks and got promoted to dia 1 month after release. pity that i abandoned 1vs1 since then.
teamgames: MASS LINGS and my mates did the rest. For hybrid i did mass arranged teamgames and suprisingly i learned a lot about every race and its basic mechanic.
Season 2
1vs1: i am trying to get into master which shouldnt be hard. still doing some practise so i am properly prepared and got solid basic down.
teamgames: most weird thing happend last night: i never got into master in teamgames. so i kinda gave up and played it randomly. Then last night, one game in 4vs4 and one in 3vs3 brought me into master. weirdddddddd~~~
played some beta in the lowest league (i guess it was named copper back then) because i haven't played any other rts before. practised like 30 games in beta and when the game came out i got silver after my placements. after some games i got better and got promoted to gold. after a losseing streak i looked up some strategys and 17-0'ed my way to platinum. stopped playing for like 5 month and started playing againe in seasson 2. after loosing 5games in a row i decided to get better againe and practised some games with my friends and looked up strategys and replays etc. then i had a huuge winning streak and started to get matched against dia players. i owned them pretty hard as well so the system started to match me against masters and i won some games against them too. i guess the system wanted to test me if im good enaugh to skip diamond and go straight to masters. but i knew that im not good enaught for that so i left 5 games in a row. after the 5.th game i left the system promoted me to diamond. now im practising to become good enaught for masters. got around 150wins right now so around 250-300 games overall played.
my promotions: copper-silver-gold-platinum-diamond
started in gold, got demoted to silver because i sucked last season. after that i cheesed my way to gold and platinum. stopped playing before season ended in first place platinum. started to play solid. second season got placed into diamond. got cheesed and failed a lot. so got demoted into platinum. stated to play lil bit more solid so im back in diamond.
When I finally got promoted to masters I was playing in a PvP and I hate PvP So I was already expecting a really crappy game and it was so I thought of just another game. The game started to lag as I clicked score screen, The masters screen popped up and I screamed tossed my headphones into the air and ran around in a circle for a bit than screenshotted it and made it my desktop wallpaper.
I am in the SEA servers and was surprised how good every one was even at bronze, I got placed in bronze and quickly got to rank 1 after about 10 wins and 2 losses. then got cheesed a few times and eventually stucked at top bronze for a month (100 games)
then there was once my fd switched my race to protoss from zerg and facing a silver zerg and i thought, omg, this is my chance to get promoted but I am playing off race. luckily i won and got promoted, kind of bad because I wanted to move up with my zerg play
On April 30 2011 08:48 GlocKomA wrote: Came fresh out from Company of Heroes, top 10 consistently 1v1 and 2v2 (played Ra3 and Halo 3 on the side). Got into Plat. because I didn't have a mouse, so I used a trackpad on my MacBook.
2 weeks later I got a mouse, made diamond. When masters came out I made that too.
Boring story.
It's an impressive story imo. Plat with a trackpad?
I was 3000 gold at the end of season 1, playing and owning plats. season 2 rolls around and i get promoted to plat from my placement match. keep on playing, couple weeks later im playing and owning diamonds. then one day i went on like a 7 game losing streak and was super sad. I knew i wouldn't be promoted after something like that. later that day, i thought to myself, "I'm not going to end this day without a win" so I play a game, PvZ, and I own him. Get to the score screen and WAAAAAH DIAMOND!!!! i was ecstatic
i was just playing for fun in the beginning, messing around in team games with my 'good friends'. then i basically decided to get serious and read tl, learned some basic build orders for each matchup and tried to understand how every matchup worked while getting the mechanics needed for it. i actually got from bronze to diamond in 10days, then i was stuck there for a while.
I was in 2v2 master with a friend as PT. We got tired of playing vs hellion 10 pool every game so my friend used a smurf account to play stress free games. We got placed into master and my friend promptly quit 2v2.
My story: I first played BW back in 2001 for a summer so I knew what it was and played vs the AI with cheats a lot so last spring when I saw a you tube video by HD and Husky on "SC2" I really wanted to get into it so I got a beta code and was bronze all through the end of beta. On release I struggled a lot and bought a new computer, it didn't help a ton at first and I was in bronze. I practiced a lot with random people and on a usual day of losing a ton on ladder I figured out what "timing push" meant and started doing tank marine pushes every game until a month or so later I was promoted from bronze to gold. Eventually I started reading Liquipedia and figuring out all the unit abilities and switched to Zerg from Terran for a bit and macro'd my way to diamond. Gotta say without the great folks writing all the info and stats in Liquipedia and Day9 I would never have gotten a good game sense enough to rise from bronze. :D Not super exciting tbh but that's my promotion story.
Got a 2nd account...main i play toss on this new on Ive been playing zerg..5 placement platinum....expected....only really play zerg in team games with buddies....play like 9 more games...promoted diamond.....holy shit didn't think i would get this far....20 some odd games later i'm in 3rd in my division....higher than i was as toss...if i get masters i'm going to shit bricks
When the game was released I qualified platinum in 1v1 and until the new season played roughly 60 games in total with roughly a 55% win ratio. During that entire season I spent most my time playing random 3s and 4s and finally got sick of it. Season 2 started and again I qualified platinum in 1v1, but instead of leaving it there, I started grinding games and got a TON better. To my amazement I was promoted to diamond 2 days ago and now sit in the top10 of my division. Master league here I come!
Diamond since the beta came out thanks to Day9 mental checklist, and like 2-3 of his other vids
When masters came out i climbed to the top of my division but was unable to beat a masters player.. i then resorted to 4 gate every zerg until i finally made it to Masters lol, not proud of myself but IMO it was worth it
bronze for all season one and the first week of season 2, then got promoted to silver, then spent a month and a half or so in silver and final got promoted to gold after smashing silvers forever. rank 3 gold now feels SO good to get a promotion
Man was i happy when i got promoted from bronze to silver. i mean when i first started this game i went in my first like 13 games losing all of them i felt so dumb so i started watching a bunch of videos from hd and husky and wow did i learn alot. at first it killed me to multitask by clicking it was so annoying then i found hotkeys after that i went on to go for like 10-15 game winning streaks and after a while i went like 65% w/l ratio and then i got promoted to silver. but no i cant seem to get out of silver even though im playing gold and plat players and winning alot of them just waiting to get promoted again so that i feel like im getting better at this game instead of just stuck in the same spot
I started out in silver league, playing about as well as... Well, my main strategies were naked mass void rays (not even cannons!) , 3 gate with no warpgate or chronoboost at any point, 2 base, 5-gate, 5-robo mass collosus high templar, double worker rush, 6 barracks with reactors and tech labs off of once base, 6 pool, 7 pool, and mass hydras off of double expand by 20 supply. I learned the game better, and in season two (still silver) I started smashing people with insane macro. Before long, I was facing top gold players. Then I started losing to cheese, cheese, an all-in, a blind counter to my blind counter to a 4-gate, etc. Then I decided to just have fun. I played a PvP with this in mind. I was rank 27 silver at this point with a 14-8 record (I don't play much :D) PvP is my worst matchup in every way. I can't beat 4 gate, collosi, not even 3 gate robo. I opened up with 2 gate zealot pressure and broke even. I got some stalkers and scouted 3 gate robo. I expanded, added 2 more gateways, and another gas. I held off the immortal/sentry/stalker pressure, expanded again, added more gateways, expanded again, attacked, expanded again, built 7 proxy pylons in his natural's mineral line, and he gg'd out. Suddenly, I got promoted to rank 24 gold, up from rank 27 silver (???). I have more points (282) then I did in silver (275). I checked the opponents profile and he was top silver. o.O
Today I played a game after I came back from vacantion, hoping it would be an easy one. So at the loading screen I started spam clicking the races when a player was found. I was random, oh fuck. Im usual protoss but played some zerg as well, so im begging "Plz no terran, plz no terran.." Metalopalis, close by ground, ZvT, with me being terran T.T... well mass marines it is..... After an 8 pool 2 baneling bust's I came to his base, only to find out he didnt have any stuff and rofl'd Finaly SILVEEEERR ^^
I have two accounts. One is for messing around and one is for getting on winning streaks and winning 9 out of ten games, at times. My serious account got promoted tonight. If you look on sc2 rankings, you will see that I had been in silver for a long long long time. Then, I started to watch terran videos. I found Halby as a real good person who understands terran. So, I learned to play very well and build very well. I am getting better apm (real apm, not spam).
I like diamond. And as I move up, I will start to face master league guys. So, I am looking forward to that. Right now, I am #1 in my league as diamond. I got promoted straight from #1 plat to #1 diamond. My wife has been telling me that I am bound to get promoted and she was right. The first thing that I did after the promotion was to go grab her from upstairs and show her the screen shot that you see here.
I think it is a good accomplishment to go from terrible at bronze to all the way to diamond. I think if I keeep on working at it, I will start to face master league people and eventually make it masters.
I will use my mess around account to practice and use the serious account for when I am not tired or distracted. I will easily bring up my messing around account to diamond and keep on practicing with it. I am very relaxed with my smurf account and sometimes I even do better on that account because i am not stressing out when I play my smurf account.
Just got promoted into Masters! Unfortunately I didn't print screen it .
Anyways, I've been in diamond pretty much since the release of Starcraft 2. Wasn't very good though, just playing BW really got me through it. Won most of my games because I could macro (slightly) better then my opponents.
I was pretty much a mid-range Diamond player all the way up to Season 1. As the new season hit, I went into this insane streak, going like 25-4 or something. Prior to this, I was going 50% win rate. I think I finally started winning because most of my games was PvP.. and I finally figured out how to play it decently.
Bout a month ago, I faced my first Masters opponent and won which made me think I was gonna get into Masters like the next day or so. Suffice to say, it didn't happen, and I eventually slumped for like 4-5 days, going 50%.
So today, I played just a few games, and finally got promoted! The game where I got promoted: The guy was going for a Thor rush, but he got a little too greedy, and built no bunker. My standard Zealot + Stalker poke ended up doing insane amounts of damage, enough for me to get my Nexus up, Robo up and 3 gates running for a few minutes before the push had even arrived. A bit of target firing with the Immortal and I cleaned it up for the win =D.
I was in diamond from like week two after release and even though I switched to random about in the middle of season one I stayed in diamond. But then I went on a big losing streak right before the end of the season ond managed do get demoted pretty much at the latest possibly moment before there were no more pro-/demotions possible at the seasons end. Well, at least I "won my division" by a fair margin...
Started silver I think. Got ranked up to Plat quickly. I play infrequently, but spend a lot of time reading/watching replays, ended up getting to Diamond after around 65~ 1v1s. Wish I could get masters one day, but I imagine I would need to play +200 games? (Or win, more precisely, most of them).
I remember each of my promotions fairly clearly. I started in bronze. I've always loved RTS games but never really knew how to play them correctly, so I struggled for quite a while. Then Day9 taught me how to macro and I started winning a lot more, after about 2 months, I was in silver, and kept winning the same way, but unfortunately I hit a wall since I was playing on a laptop, with no mouse. I got one in december, and immediately shot to gold. A week later I hit platinum. I was ecstatic. unfortunately, I hit a wall at this point, as I was finally playing against more experienced players with actual skill. I tried a race switch to terran, lost probably 27 of my next 30 games and got pushed back down to gold. frustrated, I switched back to protoss in february. I battled hard through the rest of the season, firmly believing I belonged in Platinum. with hours left in season one, I was promoted once again to plat. I stayed there at the start of season 2, and about a week later, I got a fancy new desktop computer. the lack of lag made my unit control shoot through the roof and I was in diamond a week later. I have now been playing against high diamond opponents, and heave beaten a few master's opponents. I aim to be in the master's league by the end of the summer.
i played a bit in beta and made it to diamond in beta, and when the game came out i quickly made it into diamond (after about 20 games or so). i didn't really think much of this.
when masters came out, all of the top players in my diamond division were moved into masters, so i thought i could get in, too. but i was wrong. in season 1 i played and played and played, but i was stuck at diamond 1 for a long time. i would go for a week without playing and fall down, build up bonus points, and then use them all and get back to diamond 1 again. at one point i had racked up 400 bonus points and fell to diamond 30s, and then i used them all in a week or two week span and got back to diamond 1, but i never made it into masters.
when season 2 rolled around, i lost my first match and got placed into masters. i was like wtf. apparently losing is what i needed to do?
once in masters, i was around 50% win/loss (still am), but i went on a losing streak at one point, losing like 10 out of 12 or something horrible and fell to diamond. then i went on a 14 or 15 game winning streak and made it back to masters (i'm around 500-600). pretty silly i guess. i'm still a scrub i guess
Got placed into Platinum last July and didn't play much, but won enough to get me into Diamond. When I heard about the ladder reset, I realized I should probably start playing to get to Masters and I got there in about 5 days, which felt really good. Last season was great for me actually...I think I ended up being like 45 games over .500.
I was in bronze, playing Zerg, then get bored so i switch to protoss. After I realize i was doing the same thing over and over again in PvP i switch to Terran
I was in my school in the computer room with some guy, playing against them and in the ladder. I was against a zerg that go zergling muta no bling against me, while i try to mech. He manage to beat my thor and run his zerling in my base because i didn't raise my supply depot in time. My friend tell me to gg, But I said "Never give up Never surrender !" and barely be able to do a mass marines. Because i was in bronze i said to myself "He can't expand because we are not good enough, we are in bronze " I manage to kill his natural with my last tank and lots of marines, then his main and finaly his more recent expension.
When the victory screen appears i was so happy, joking about my awesome skill to my friend then the promotion screen appears and i litteraly jump on my chair
I was plat 3v3 for all of last season (I barely ever played it, lol who 3v3s in SC2?), this season I play 1 placement match, lose and get into diamond?
I came home drunk and decided to play a game of SC2. I figured that there was no way I can possibly play a macro game, since I was too lazy to think. So I decided to 4gate the hell out of my opponent. He went DTs, We base traded.. but I killed him off faster.
Blizzard thought the game was so crazy epic that I deserve a promotion into diamond.
I was in low Gold 2 weeks ago, then I figured out what the fuck to do and got promoted to platinum. I haven't been laddering for about the last week, but last night I was in the asc weekly gold/platinum tournament and made it to the round of 8 out of 100+ people, so I'd say I'm on the right track.
Never played Broodwar but I played a decent amount of Warcraft III.
Bought this game a couple weeks after release because I was on vacation, and started with the campaign. I finished the campaign doing every achievement except for “Hurry up it is raid night”. I continued playing around 10 games in the starters league, but a friend told me that they were nothing like the “real” game with the rocks and such so that I was better off just skipping those games.
I played my placement matches and got placed in bronze. Nothing special because I really had no clue on how to play this game, I don’t know if it has anything to do with me being an accountant but in my first games ever I always ended up with having 4 bases and I didn’t focus at all on army composition. I had an army but massed ling/roaches/hydra without caring much. After being placed in bronze, and playing 20 games there, something clicked in my head and I figured out I had to figure out how to play this game. I found TeamLiquid, and its (back then) infamous Strategy forum. After browsing through all the “OMG I CAN’T BEAT THIS STRAT” threads I quickly found 3 decent builds I could abuse my way into diamond with, and I learned about how to beat abusive strats.
After hitting diamond rather quickly (100 games?, I cant remember) I actually started learning the game. My game was still pretty abusive but after a while I could also pull some macro games off. But I was able to hit a decent ranking in diamond because my first 10 minutes in every game were pretty solid.
I hitted Masters the weekend after patch day, I remember I was pretty solid in ZvZ (which was always 14gas 13 pool and then only ling/baneling) and ZvP (which was the 2RR, or mass upgraded lings) my only problem was the endless crap Terran could trow at me. But after playing a day for 12 hours straight I guess my mind was able to counter the endless cloaked banshees (50% of the time back then) and I got promoted.
Being in Masters in another story. Sometimes I feel that the difference in skill that I have to gain to go from world rank 6000 to world rank 4000 is a hundred times harder than going from bronze to masters. I actually have not reached rank 4000. However, I plummeted to rank 9000 when I started to use spanishiwa and infestors. But now that is another trick in my bag and I am back to rank 5000.
For some reason, I played all my placement games against bronze players only. I went 4-1, so I was placed in Silver.
While in Silver, I'm pretty sure I've never played against a silver player. I've played against gold players once or twice. At that time, I pretty much only played plat or diamond players.
When Season 2 began, I lost my placement match and get placed in plat.
w3 background started sc2 in september last year, placed in silver 1 week -> gold 2 weeks -> platinum for a month -> at last working through diamond when it was highest, but stuck there for nearly 3 months after masters was added before another promotion. Shows how there's "this point" to break through your boundries.
Oh. Playing toss. Actually my promotion game to diamond was win vs 3rax reaper cheese (yea, remember those days?) and to masters - defending cannon rush for almost 10 min. Both guys smacktalked the hell outta me in the end, 'how could i win vs their cheese' etc. If i ever get to GM i predict my promotion game would be with combatex.
Played in beta and when game came out, like 22 games and won every one but 1, got diamond back then.
Haven't played for over 6 months, play 1 game in new season, lose it, got into Diamond again. Now I lose like 3/4 games but the 1 game I win is against someone favored and I still manage to be at top 20 at diamond -_-
Started out as a Bronze for losing 1 and disc't 1 out of 5 placements, cruised up the ladder relatively easily. Having BW background helped greatly, so I made Diamond, and then Masters quite easily in season 1. Now currently sitting at around 100-140 Grandmasters league. Possibly have hit my glass ceiling.
I lagged out in 2 of my placement games when the game first went live and was placed into Gold. After 2 games I was promoted to Platinum and 3 more games I got Diamond. When Masters was introduced, I didn't get auto-promoted but it only took me 6 or 7 games to get into Masters. I don't play enough to get into GM though so Masters will probably be my max rank.
Past couple weeks I was laddering on and off, started winning tons of games against diamonds, then masters. Knew I was really close to promotion, could not study for finals. Spent some time laddering instead of finals studying. Got promoted into a fresh master league, can study in peace.
I had a nice 57-58% wlr and one day I came online after some days of not playing and I found myself in a ZvP where I got 4 gate into pieces. I insulted him because he is a toss player (as zergs do) and ragequit the game and got promoted to plat. My mood changed from -________" to ^.^
Poor 4 gating toss got insulted for pushing me into plat :/ (Yet I found it weird to be promoted after a lose XD)
I JUST got promoted to gold! i was on a real winning streak after having one of those moments. you know those moments, when you suddenly get a whole lot better? well, i had one of those and afterwards everything seemed easy. I went on a winning streak that wouldnt stop, i basically played only gold the last 20 or so games and today i lost once, looked at the dude and so that he was plat!
i felt kind of awsome after that, but unfortunately mismicrod in the next game and lost my whole force at my natural in shakuras when a bunch of mm stormed up the ramp. i went into the next game feeling still elated at being placed against a plat player and won. to top it all off i was promoted to gold!
what was weird though were two things: the guy i won against was silver ( i guess he too was at the verge of being promoted) and i got promoted after a win. i heard almost everywhere that promotions usually occurr after a loss. long story short, it was awwwwwwsome! promotion always feels good!
I've been playing against so many peopel that don't early pressure that a 15 hatch is my standard build and i did enough to get into Silver with it. Then went on a 6 game losing streak after two silver wins, and then got 7 wins in a row.
Basically it was a simple game where I stomped a silver zerg and the promotion screen came up.
I also rofl stomped a gold terran who didn't know how to expand into his nat with enough units or any bunkers and I had zerglings and ovies scouting the entire map.... It was probably the single worst game of his life. His BO was completely whack and I think that's why he just left without a gg- he was playing horribly and I owned hte entire map with creep going all the way to his nat. I hope this win helps the blizzard system promote me up again.
I have been diamond in my serious account, but the ladder was locked for the smurf account. So, today, after I fought a bunch of mothhter f'ers, I finally got the promotiosn screen. here is a picture:
Congrats on the promotion longtang, I always love the promotion screen since it just pops up without you even thinking you will get it soon enough often times and idk every time I have gotten it in solo and team I just feel so good about everything. Masters here you come! :D
I remember my first promotion pretty well. I had placed into silver, played about 20-ish games. Then finally, came a game where a Zerg tried to 6pool me. I held it off pretty easily (this was before the Zealot build time nerf), and my opponent left when I counterattacked. Viola, promotion. It's like the game was testing me. "Oh, so can you handle a 6pool? Cool!" *Gold*
Played the beta as much as I could. Got placed in Silver on release date which I felt didn't reflect my level. Quickly worked up my way to Platinum and stagnated there for the rest of Season 1. Got placed in Diamond in Season 2 and worked my way up to #1 of my division.
Currently trying to break into Masters, although it feels like a very long and steep hill to climb yet. I mostly play Diamond players and get roflstomped by the few Masters I encounter (unless I cheese them of course mouhahaha).
When i started laddering in season 1 i got placed into bronze and worked my way up to gold until i was really close to get promoted to plat,but ladder restart came too soon
theni won my placement match in season 2 and BAM =Plat
I started to get better and better and about 3 weeks ago i was really really close to diamond. beating about 70% of my diamond oponnents with only macro games ,no cheese at all.
then suddenly every thing fall apart. I started to make stupid mistakes,like f*cking my buildorders,microing bad etc. and got on a really bad losing streak and lost to diamond and plat players (lost about 20 of my last 30 games) now i have to play against gold players and i destroy them most of the time.
unfornatuely i lost all my motivation because beeing so close to diamond and then falling down that far is so humiliating
started in bottom bronze with like 1-20 win/loss, then i heard day9 say i gotta make workers and just have more stuff, started doing that and now im random top diamond without playing that much
i got SC II in September 2010, didn't play the beta. i 've been through bronze, silver, gold.. diamonds last season, top 5 diamond in my league play around 800k games. this season i dont play much coz i work full time and go to school. i spend average 1-2 hours play everyday.
today i got promoted to Master league after 150 games i think. with a win - lose 9x-6x
for me playing sc ii is fun, i enjoy playing with my friends or vs random people on ladder. SC forever.
Got placed in Silver, like 4 matches later was promoted to Gold. Played about 30-35 matches and bumped me straight to Diamond. Stopped playing for a while, and when I came back during Season 2 and it made me play an other placement match, I off raced and beat the guy I was playing and it stuck me in Masters.
After getting to diamond the week before the ladder lock, it demoted me once the ladder was reset to Plat despite me winning my placement match :p... so ive been working my way back...
Anyways, last night i was playing a Z and opened with DTs into an expand. My opponent didnt have Lair yet,which im surprised about, since he had gotten a drone into my base along with 4 lings after a miss click and saw that i had relatively nothing but had x2 gas going not to mention Just before my DT Shrine had finished an Overlord peeked into my base and saw what i was doing but luckily enough it was literally just finishing so i warped in 3 DTs and got to his base before his Evo chamber was finished. He then pushed with all his roaches, which wasnt the smartest idea since he had no mobile detection.. i killed his push off with 2 more DTs, some sentries and a load of zealots. When i realized he had only 2 Spine crawlers defending his natural, i pushed in and won. I got to the score screen and was delightfully greeted by a promotion to Diamond :D
I met up with a friend on ladder and he got demoted to diamond I was trying really hard one day to get promoted to masters. I felt so fucking low, never getting into masters and removing my friends from there lol.
mine was less then climatic... never played an RTS before placed platnium after placement less then 20 games later was diamond... then the day masters came out was promoted to masters.
I bought the game on release day. Beat story... Then i tried multiplayer. FAIL so hard. Stop playing for a little. I saw a huskystarcraft video on youtube. So i started to watch vod and reps of good player and study there play. And i played lost a lot then i learned mechanics. Then i started to kill in bronze got up to silver and stayed for a little. Took a little brake and played hardcore for a long time and got to plat. And thats where i am now.
I started in Bronze when I first bought the game, was just messing around trying to pick a race, I then picked toss got to gold and discovered this thing called a 4gate, used that to get to diamond then switched race to zerg because I found toss boring. When masters came out I got into that about 1-2 weeks after release and now I'm still not in GM
I got bored of ZvP so I started 6pooling. I 6pooled 3 games in a row and won. Then I faced one random player who 5 seconds into the game leaves because he didn't want Terran. I got promoted to masters.
1 week ago i played my firth 2v2 random this season, last season i was diamond. Got master. Next game i played a 3v3 random (i had already played some 3v3 season 2) and got promotet 2 master. That felt pretty nice.
I had been rank 1 Platinum for about a month (started in gold), and had long streak of winning 5-6, then losing 5-6.
I was at my wits end, trying to figure out what I could do. As a random player, I've been told there is a hard-wall at some point in your laddering that is nearly impossible to overcome unless you settle on a race. I REFUSED that as an answer and really focused during laddering this weekend.
I had won 8 games in a row all against top 10 diamond players and about to pull my hair out. I knew the ladder would detect my win streak and put me against people who would crush my face but I decided to keep going.
One last match...a long drag-out ZvZ where I went roach/hydra against ling/bling/muta (burrowed banelings almost costing me the game when the took out all my hydras). I stayed focused and didn't let anything suprise me. After his 'GG', WHAM!! Promoted to diamond!
Hang in there my 'random' amigos! You can go as far as you want!
was in silver, but didn't play (after playing one placement game in start of S2 from bronze -> silver) then decided to ladder+stream it
Lost one game (ZvP where I underdroned......) Won the next game (ZvZ where the other guy 10pooled...but waited till he had a very large speedling force, which I killed with banelings, then went for lair.....for hydras, and essentially all-in'd with lings, hydras, and drones....all of which are light units
played from broze to gold as zerg, when i was about to get promoted to plat i raged hard everytime i lost to protoss, this was two or three months ago when p was considered "Op". I was like fuck this and qued as p one game, got a pvp, won and got promoted :I
Team up with my friend who's played less than me at a lan cafe, we both play P. Played 5 placement matches, completely roflstomped each game, be it 4 gate rushes, 3 gate expand, just walked over anyone we met. Usually you'd get promoted into diamond or platinum, but we got put into masters straight away!
I played my first placement matches a while ago, and don't play online that much at all so... yeah, but I went like 4-1 in placement and got Gold, then went like 3-2 in Gold over a month or two. Then 1.3 or whatever patch with infestor buff came out and I played my 1 placement match, lost it, and got platinum, while the other guy stayed in Gold. ROFL!!
Lost all 5 placement matches, bottom of bronze. Clawed my way to rank 1 after a while and then sat there for a whole month with a ridiculous win ratio (something like 80%) against silver players and something like 99% against bronze, with the occasional cheese taking me out. And then I entered another game, send my drones to mine, and 4 seconds later win because my opponent disconnects. PROMOTED TO SILVER, BITCH.
Silver: I had been in bronze for ages, I was silver material a month back. Shot up to rank 1 in a week and got my gold promotion in only a few days more.
Gold: Wow, not really ready for this! Lost 8 games in a row and nearly got demoted, but just like bronze I climbed my way to the top again! Took me another couple months, and overlapped with the season 2 ladder lock. FINALLY a promotion after two weeks at the top of gold.
Platinum: Gold for far too long. I celebrated my long time coming promotion with a 10 game winning streak, comfortably depositing me at the top of my platinum division.
Now I'm verging on a diamond promotion. Any day now ^-^
Anyway, the pattern is: I'm not ready, spend way too long in that league, very late promotion, shoot to the top, quick promotion, repeat xD
Placed Gold and ranked up to Platinum pretty quickly. But finally reaching Diamond was a huge sigh of relief, took me a couple months, but I got there.
Bought the game and went straight to ladder without watching vids or playing campaign at all. Played Zerg, didn't know about Queens and their inject so I was just playing by massing hatches and getting units that way.
That got me in Platinum, then when I found out bout Queens went straight to Diamond. Then when Master league came out got placed in about 10 games. Fun times.
I started playing beta.... was placed platinum and was promoted diamond after 10 games... then master league was introduced and with my next game i was master...
Im still waiting for it, i went from bronze to diamond in about 3 months with no previous RTS experience.
Now im very stuck in diamond and the promotion to master league will definetly be the one that makes me break something in joy.
Allthough the promotion to silver felt special to me, after that i got promoted every 4-5 days until i hit plat, there i stayed for 2~ weeks until i hit diamond.
I guess the story I would have to share is getting into Masters 4v4 Random as a solo player, I am not sure if you guys know but many people play as 3s in 4s random but I did it alone and it took be a good 150ish games to do so and that was the hardest masters league for me to get into. I think I had to go 100-20 my last 120 games before I was placed into 4s random masters and this was when masters was just starting and more or less prestigious. I was pretty damn happy, took me 2 weeks to get to Masters 4s random.
Now I got into Diamond 1v1 basically after beating the 25th ranked player (at the time) in SEA server (back when they had the top 200 lists weekly). Have not played many 1v1's I get ladder anxiety for 1s... hopefully i'll get past it and get into Masters and maybe Grand Masters (if I can play enough to pull bonus pool down). I'll repost once that happens. Currently 7-2 in Season 2 haha.. yup;... only played 9 1v1s so far.
Haha no idea this thread was still going. Nice to see so many new people and their promotes! Gah i probably slipped back to bronze >.> i haven't played since my silver promote (date of OP xD)
I had been practicing ladder for a month of SC2 release as Protoss. Trying hard to learn the game and get better, but not with a specific goal. After a few weeks in school, I ran into a flier about a SC2 meeting and got really excited. When I got there, I found half the players there were in diamond which made me feel so bad for being only in platinum. I wanted to badly to be part of the group in a competitive way, but this was my first RTS.
Over the next 2 weeks, I practiced hard on the ladder, refusing to take the easy route of 4 gate, only cheesing in PvP (didn't think fast 2 gate was cheesing at the time). One day, I went up against this Protoss on Lost Temple. Close spawns, and I scout a fast forge. I recognize immediately he is going to cannon rush me, so I stop probe production, wall off my ramp, and hide my scout probe around his base. He gets there to cannon me and realizes he has to set up at the bottom of the ramp. I quickly throw up a forge and place a protective cannon and a proxy pylon for the counter cannon rush. Game goes on for a bit with me obviously ahead and eventually winning. After the game, it pops up that I have been promoted to diamond! Such a glorious and happy day!
Got promoted on my shared account yesterday Me and my friend play on them with offraces and started a week ago. After 87 games I got promoted from Diamond to Master. Shot up from 300 rating to 1100 in 3 days and then after going evenly against 1100 masters I got promoted.
Started playing like 2-ish weeks ago even though I bought the game on release (I followed the scene I just never played for some reason). Decided to play terran, did my placements (Only won the first and third and lost the rest) so I got put in Silver... And like a few minutes ago, 65 wins and 35(ish) losses later I get promoted to gold haha. All the wins were pretty standard nothing cheesy and nothing lame like DCs.
Yupp Now it's time to get to platinum
Hugee shoutout to Manicshock for helping me get there :D
Started off in the bronze league, then got told about day 9. After watching 1 daily, I just had to watch all of them. Now im rank 1 masters!! TY DAY 9!!
I started playing sober and I got promoted to master. And that mental state made me stop just making drones up till 64 food where a single zealot used to kill me.
Played mostly 4v4 (plat) then tried 1v1 got placed in silver cause i suck. Told my friend that I could 4gate to diamond and did. Then started playing zerg and I'm probably around 40% win rate with them not using toooooo much cheese (occasional 8pools in zvz sorry im not sorry)
I got the game around release, never played that much RTS. So I was in bronze. I was happy and chilling.... Loved it just making some units and stuff...
Then some IDIOT shows me GSL and I was like "zomg I wanna be like marineking" So I started trying to improve, things were not going well. I then found team liquid and various other leagues and got very very very into SC2.
I went from bronze to high plat in about 3 weeks! I was on top of the world. I then slogged my way into diamond! I was in the top league and walked around like the cat that got the cream. 4 days later Master League was released "fml"
I then carried on playing and was kinda at a wall... I then watch Day9 Daily #100 and after drying my eyes approached the game with a whole new perspective. At the end of Season 1 I was in Master League! I was rather chuffed to say the least. I have continued to improve and I am getting better by the day as I learn more and more...
I am now highly ranked Masters and aiming for Grandmaster and putting a little UK team together. SC2 is now becoming a huge part of my life.
I hope this is not too distant from what the OP wanted but I feel it is fun to share!
Some days ago, I was playing 2v2 with a friend of mine. We were top silver for like a month and the match making system was matching up with pretty strong opponents (diamond/master league). We lost 3 games in a row, we were pretty pissed being matched with people much stronger than us. So we decided to play one more game and stop. We won that game and got promoted to gold league top 8. We were happy about it and decided to play some more games to celebrate. The same thing happened to us. We lost 3 games in a row and won the fourth one ... and we got promoted into platinium league (currently rankd 5th, but I think we were 7th or 8th after the promotion) !
I think the ladder lock caused this double promotion but it's still quite strange to us
On June 01 2011 23:44 Allscorpion wrote: Started off in the bronze league, then got told about day 9. After watching 1 daily, I just had to watch all of them. Now im rank 1 masters!! TY DAY 9!!
Don't you think you would be grand master already if you spent the same playing SC2 instead of watching Day[9]?
i started from bronze and got to platinum over time. each time i was pretty confident i could get into the next league, and so whenever i had time, i told my friends i would make it to the next league. i played 10-15 games and bam, promoted. i was so happy and my friends were all oO. not only that, but it seemed i had a knack for guessing when people would get promoted, as i successfully guessed after which game i would be promoted twice. also, for one of my friends, he started in bronze and laddered each day in school. he was frustrated because he wasn't getting promoted. however, when i was watching him play one game, i announced to him, you're going to get promoted, and bam, he was in silver. i think he almost cried from happiness. then after that another friend (in gold at the time) was playing and once again i announced he was going to get promoted. little did i know he actually did, and this caused me to play 13 games in a row to get to platinum as well. i'm so proud of my ability to guess when people are promoted. :D
Bought Sc2 the day it came out, got placed into gold. Stayed gold for 6 days, then got placed into diamond. Masters first day it came out, and now still masters.
Edit: And I played SC (Original) for about 5 years, but exclusively FMP.
On day 1 of beta, I got placed in copper league playing on an account a friend lent me. Mostly played random to see what race I wanted to play, then decided to play T, and worked my way to bronze.
Got my own beta invite a week later, and got bronze, and eventually platinum (when it was the highest at the time). Then they came out with diamond, and got that eventually before beta ended.
On release, got placed in diamond, but was in low diamond til I watched a few more EP of day9 daily. Started to get better at my macro (constant scvs/supply depots, or probes/pylons) and got to about top 5 diamond.
Masters league was released, played ladder game after patch, lost, got promoted =D. Been there since.
My friend let me use his beta acccount, i used to play BW but not a lot just BGH stuff with friends.
I started off by placing in Platinum which was a surprised; infact I started playing as a Terran and somehow I beat Idra once in the beta with a 1/1/1 build. Either way i didnt know who idra was until later on.
I first started using zerg near the end of the beta, I remember using baneling busts and laughing. Either way once retail came out I got placed into platinum i believe again and made my way to diamond, I got promoted pretty early; nothing to exciting.
Season 1 i finished 2nd in diamond and i never got promoted which was real upsetting as I played a lot and had a winning record; however I guess my MMR wasnt high enough.
Season 2 I got placed in diamond again after losing my placement match, however this season I decided to try harder. I read up on strats, I followed spanishiwas build closely and adapted it to handle the protoss death ball which probably was the reason I wasnt getting promoted.
I finally made masters after going 20-2 over the course of two days and was extremely happy.
I started off by placing in Platinum which was a surprised; infact I started playing as a Terran and somehow I beat Idra once in the beta with a 1/1/1 build. Either way i didnt know who idra was until later on.
I started off by placing in Platinum which was a surprised; infact I started playing as a Terran and somehow I beat Idra once in the beta with a 1/1/1 build. Either way i didnt know who idra was until later on.
Did he BM you for using that race?
He actually did, and rage quitted; however i started following him cause i wanted to learn zerg and now i use zerg only :D
On April 30 2011 10:10 The..Architect wrote: I picked up this game in November 2010, with no RTS experience at all (a friend of mine played the game and suggested Husky; I saw how exciting the game was and said, I can do that!).
Of course I get placed in bronze and am there for months.
Then I discover Day9, and after tons and tons of ladder games I finally make Silver! But I feel like my skills are above that, and I end up just saying "not good enough, we can make it to diamond".
Soon I find myself in Gold league, still feeling inadequate. HOWEVER I do want to say that upon getting promoted to Gold I also earned myself the 100 wins photo (yay Hydralisk!).
I then go on a vacation of sorts, and fit in 3-4 long 6 hour ladder sessions, and at the end of the final evening before heading out on the road, I make it to Platinum! Oh the joy! Now people will respect me a bit more!
But ever since promoting to Silver, I had the goal in mind of making it to Diamond. I knew I can.
So comes along the ladder lock into the new season, and I'm on fire. I feel completely in control of all of my games and feel like I'm outclassing everyone. You cannot imagine my joy when came the first hour of the new season, I am placed in Diamond! Not only that, but top 5 in my league! I am ecstatic, and play quite well that day.
I wake up the next morning finally feeling like "now I can play some real games" (of course my MMR is still the same and my calibre of opponents is the same as well, but I feel accomplished). I sit down, and play a match. After a long macro game, I end up not quite having enough bases and get killed.
Oh, died to a 4 gate. Hmm. I can get through this, I'm good enough.
Oh, 2 rax. :/
Oh, speedling all in. Fine, I can cheese too. I'm diamond, I can execute it perfectly. Scouting? Nah.
I 7 pool 2x spine crawler rush, crush my zerg opponent. Ha! Take that!
Oh a protoss opponent? You're about to be 6 pooled. Get there!
I eventually fall into a pattern of cheesing every games for about 50 games. You, the experienced TL reader/player that you are, can guess how that went. My win ratio was below 40%. I demote to platinum, where I am now. Smacked some sense into me, and now I am earning my way back in with a macro-oriented goal in mind. I will celebrate once more when I get back into diamond. :D
Moral of my story: CELEBRATE when you promote! But don't let it go to your head or you will demote and that's not something you want to celebrate.
I really enjoyed this story.
I started with SC2 back in september or october 2010 with very little experience in RTS (age of empires 2... oh yea...!). I had a pretty big fear of placing into bronze, so I decided to straight up play against the computer, and play co-op against 2 hard computers. I did it for probably a whole week until I knew the basics around the terran race. Tried the placement matches, and got into gold. After a month or so of gaming, and really trying to buckle down and win with strategy, I go promoted to platinum. I was ECSTATIC! My gf thought I was nuts!
But of course I hit a wall. A pretty hard brick wall. Trying to go from platinum to diamond was not working for me, and I decided to do a race switch to Zerg. I didn't even try playing 1v1's. More co-op and 3v3's 4v4's for me! After about a month or so, I felt confident enough to try the ladder once again. Watching day[9] helped tremendously, and I also understood the TvZ and ZvZ matchup pretty well (now that I think about it, not THAT well) and that pushed me over to Diamond. Lots of happy dancing :D :D :D
Now I'm trying for masters. I feel that I've got a pretty good understanding of the game, and should be able to get there soon.
I have been playing on/off for a month. Made the mistake of lending my account to my friend when I got the game on release and was on holiday and he somehow managed to get it banned. Lacked cash majorly and have only recently rebought the game.
As a former WC3 player and general stubborn idiot I got a solid bronze placement, with 2 disconnects in placement which didn't help. I frequently tried to build armies about a third of my opponent's size and try to outmicro the other guy.
Once I discovered that was retarded I just learnt a few builds and played 1v1 pretty infrequently, got to diamond in all the team modes with a load of friends which was fun.
Then set myself back to 1v1 games, got my promotion to silver after a portrait farmer insta-left my game, which was nice. Stayed in silver for about 2 or 3 weeks despite having a 70% win rate, and a solid 16-0 record in mirror matches. Finally got promoted to high gold yesterday after it started matching me against plats.
I don't play too many games a night, maybe 4 or 5 after I'm well warmed up, so I started cheesing 3 rax marine SCV all-ins yesterday and whored some games out. my record wasn't the best so I went back to Toss, won a really solid game against a Terran and got promoted, naturally went nuts.
Timing is handy too, I'm away with no SC for a whole week, so cool to get that promotion before I left.
Got no money and therefore no life all summer so gonna try to push for masters now, apparently there are only 4 or 5 from Ireland so that would be a cool thing to add to my resume
i bought starcraft 2 because i was watching video's and streams and tought that can't be that hard to play.
well i was totaly wrong XD i won 1 of the 5 placement matches and got into bronze. the first season i was top 5 but didn't get promoted and when the ladder reset for the next season i didn't play for the first 2-3 months of the new season but still watched the streams and video's.but about 2 months ago i picked sc2 up again and started playing like 5-10 games a week and after 2 months of playing. i got this match against a protoss who did some weird ass 3 gate into hidden stargate against my 3 rax, i beat him easily.and i got promoted to silver league and i screamed so loud and got really drunk ( well it was saturday night ofcourse) and now i am making my way up to gold league:D
I started in gold and slowly won my way to top platinum. When i stayed there for a while i was able to smash everyone that was platinum level until i was eventually promoted to top diamond. I got raped. I went something like 5-15 and it demoted me back to top plat where i proceeded to obliterate everyone until i was promoted to top diamond again. Rinse and repeat. I stopped playing for a while and despite playing a much more solid game and consistently winning and finishing top score, I have not been promoted beyond platinum. I also started playing a lot of 4's (ugh). I think it ruined my mmr because i played a lot of games with ppl that were kinda bad, I'm not sure if mmr is separated in each game type, (1's 2's 3's and 4's) or of its one stat for all. I'm not too salty about it though.
1v1: got from Bronze to Platinum in 27 games (those were the very first ladder games) - I suppose being a former BW player helps a lot. All promotions were like 5 wins in a row, 2 losses, one win and bang.
2v2: got to Diamond in 14 (13:1) games by playing double Protoss and building aggressive double proxy Gates. Masters happened like two months later after regular like 30 games per week and being almost continuously on the top spot of the division.
In conclusion, the promotion system is weird, but there's at least some fun.
Was gold in season one...Lost a ton in a row decided to stop playing for a few days. Ended up not playing for week or so. Started playing again just after season 2 started. Played ladder game got stomped hardcore. Was pretty pissed until i surrendered and got promoted.
me and my friends who dont play starcraft but support me playing it agreed that when i hit diamond league, we would take 5 shots of vodka, whenever it happened. i was a freshman in college and would play on the weekend when i finished my work and wasnt out party so on a sunday i played TONS of games, almost all vs diamond players, but i didnt make it after weeks of trying and gave up and went to bed. the next day i got back for a break from class and decided to throw the game on and played a ladder match. i crushed the guy and it said "Diamond League" so me and three friends took 5 shots in about 15 minutes and then proceed to finish our classes for the day completely smashed. best thing ever and i cant wait for master league (i hope)
Started in April 2011, very first RTS (FPS & MMO player) was playing the practice league, but it came to a point where I was playing the same people all the time and the queues were 5-10min. So I skipped the practice league, took my placement matches, won 3/5 and was placed in Silver.
I've had 1 promotion per month since I started, so only now in Platinum; but each promotion was very satisfying as it shows some kind of tangible improvement.
Just love the game, love the community, love the competitiveness!
Was diamond when master's league came out, played one game, a PvT on jungle basin... I 2 probe harassed him, and killed 6 scvs. after the 6th scv died he jjust quit 2:38 seconds into the game, when i got out i was instantly promoted to masters and i was laughing pretty hard
My promotion to diamond was my 7 pool versus some other guys 7 pool on steppes of war and I took an expansion after our ling wars and I went roaches and won. Very dumb game, didn't feel like I deserved diamond from that game because it was just 2 people cheesing
Screwed up all my placement matches after practicing on only the AI, so I started out in bronze. Rose quickly out of Bronze in a few days Silver, then to Gold in another few days, then to maybe 2-3 weeks? Sameish time I'd estimate to get into Diamond. School and sports hit hard and I lost a lot of motivation to play, so I stayed in Diamond for 4-5 months, sitting at Rank 1 before the reset, never really hitting consistent play against Masters. Played a ton of customs for awhile, was Rank 20 ish Diamond cause I didn't ladder much, played a game the other day and got promoted to Masters. :D
Dicked around for ages, got put in bronze, didn't care much started actually playing and dominated with 90% win rate, didn't get promoted top of bronze, no promotion 1500 points, no promotion found out about bug played after bug now top silver, probably 1 game away
not a very exciting story, i'm sure i'll feel accomplishment in promotion once i start playing seriously
A friend of mine was playing 3v3s with some other friends of mine. Some might say 'twould be easier to say "some friends of miner were playing 3v3", but I used the word "'twould", so I bite my thumb at they.
Anyway. One of these friends is particularly godawful, and we constantly make fun of him for it, for instance, he sieges his tanks in his mineral line, and never makes anything ever.
This 3v3 team had been wallowing around in Silver for a couple of games, then they lost one game, quite convincingly, and instantly got promoted to Diamond.
Our theory is that the system grew sentient, and felt sorry for the team, due to playing with the Terran, and bumped them up the line a little.
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Then there's me. I barely played last season, just greatly enjoying customs, team games, and Day[9] dailies. (And the GSL, but who didn't?) This season, I've been playing private 1v1s with my friends a lot, and very much enjoying it, so I've hit the ladder.
I was staying over at a friend's house, with my PC, tapped him on the shoulder, and said: "Wanna see something funny?"
I'm very well known for not laddering. I often use it against the aforementioned Terran, in arguments structured as follows:
I make any point. Sometimes a cleverly crafted and disguised troll, most of the time a valid point.
Terran disagrees.
We put forth points and counterpoints.
I remind him he's Bronze 1v1, and unable to break silver.
He reminds me I'm 1v1 Bronze too.
I point out I don't play ladder, and challenge him.
When the friend I was staying with obliged, I clicked the "Find Match" button, and an epic game commenced.
After my 4/2 split, (haw haw haw), I used my default casual bm, and said "die", to the opponent. He replied with: "ok", then: "gg, i guess", and left.
I went from Bronze 58 to Silver 9 in that one match.
I started playing since day one of beta and for the longest time I was rank 1 bronze.. I didn't know anything above bronze existed at the time I thought I was really cool :p
One day I won a few matches with my buddy and we got promoted to silver and I almost shat myself in excitement, come to find out it went all the way up to platinum at the time. (copper - platinum)
When season one came out I started as gold and got platinum fairly easily. Getting up to diamond was such a difficult struggle but now that I'm here... Masters is just so close.. Rank 7 diamond now
Looking back on my progression my promotions have shown great improvement in my skill ;D
started playing at christmas when i got it. was immediately placed in bronze after losing all 5 placement matches (and skipping the practice league.) I remember one of my patented builds was to make a barracks and float it across the map to a remote part of the opponents base and make marines to totally take him by surprise! Let's just say it didn't really work out. was top 8 bronze though by the time the ladder locked for season 2. After about 5 games in season 2 i was promoted to silver. was SOOOO HAPPY
First game as silver was close positions metal TvT and i was just outclassed, being dropped, cloak banshees to kill my tank lines at the xel naga tower, etc. After a few weeks to a month when i started to destroy silver i was promoted to gold. Felt good but i don't think it was as good as bronze --> silver.
Now i was in Gold forever, at least a month or two. At the beginning I was playing just regular golds and losing more than winning, but that was to be expected. I then started to really ramp up my games, being more aggressive and less "i need to wait just for THESE marines before i push out." Needless to say i started owning golds, and at one point in the last week i had 300 more points than anyone in my division, playing and beating plats/top8plats/diamonds with some losses as well. FINALLY GOT PROMOTED TO PLATINUM LAST NIGHT. I fist pumped the air with triumph and played two games, i won the first and lost the 2nd to a pathetic TvT base trade i deserved to win.
gold --> plat was by far the most relieving though. I definitely wasn't gold skill for the last 2 weeks i was in gold.
In 2v2 my buddy and i did our placements and were put into Platinum (which disappointed both of us) but the first game we played after placements got us into Diamond and the next one after that got us into Masters xD. It was awesome
Came into SC2 with no BW experience just a lot of wc3/aom/aoe etc, it was the first rts ive played online often. I came into silver league but was promoted to gold pretty quickly, i took a break from 1v1 after that and just casually played 3v3/2v2/4v4 with some friends until season 2 i got myself into platinum just before season 2 and then was placed in platinum in season 2v2, i found myself in platinum in all 4 of my leagues however im hoping for masters in 2v2 (team still seems to be in a bugged division constant master team opponenets and winning) and in 1v1 im currently facing diamonds in most games so hopefully ill be bumped up soon.
I was plat playing diamonds consistently. Leagues were unlocked so I was like ok I'll get promoted now. I won a few games...no promotion. Then I started doing bad and lost literally 7 games in a row. I then won 1 game and got promoted to diamond. Needless to say, I was surprised.
Holy shiit. I am starting to face masters league ppl on both of my accounts: my regular and my smurf. Holy shiit. This means that one day I am going to be masters.
I supplement my wins by using tricks. Sometimes, when I am losing, I will trick my opponent into surrendering. This way, I add to my chances of winning. For every 10 losses that I may have, I can salvage about 2 or 3 of them by using tricky junk to fool people into surrendering. And that definitely helps me on the road to masters.
It gives me a few more wins, which may well the be the edge I need to bump myself up to masters. I utilize these tricks because I was not born with high apm and if I intend to get to masters, I need to one base all in while getting a few extra wins using deceptive practices (ie tricks).
I supplement my wins by using tricks. Sometimes, when I am losing, I will trick my opponent into surrendering. This way, I add to my chances of winning. For every 10 losses that I may have, I can salvage about 2 or 3 of them by using tricky junk to fool people into surrendering. And that definitely helps me on the road to masters.
cheers.
With that line you type in so people think you left the game? I find that sad no hard feelings :/
My road to promotions was kind of boring tbh. Lost last placement match because i had to go like 2 mins into the game and got placed in plat. After ten wins and a single loss got into diamond where i stayed for long. Got to 1700 points playing good masters players waiting to get promoted to masters and then my MMR jumperd or w/e and i started playing against 1200-1400 masters where i got massacred. After 2-13 run i was thinking the noob i am i will never get to masters. Day after won one pvt and it promoted me
Getting into masters took me a neat record of 30-16 versus mixed diamond/masters. Promotion match ended up being a PvP where we both DT rushed and mine just got done about 20 seconds faster. I saw his DT shrine so I automatically threw up mass buildings to wall off my ramp and he gg'd out.
Didnt ladder until I was able to beat every race very hard AI - got to gold One week 100 games to get to platinium, learned to scout and make counter units Two weeks 100 more games to get diamond, learned to expand timing push Masters when it came out, later dropped back to diamond trying win with "imba P deathball". Lost intrest to game. Months later easily back to masters, seemed skill level of opponents had dropped. Now I dont want to lose masters status by playing
I'm really the guy working up all the way story here lol. Went from Bronze rank 68 to rank number 1 in my division and stayed there for about a month and then was promoted to silver. Went from silver rank 48 to rank number 1 in my division and stayed there for about 3 days and then was promoted to gold. Went from gold rank 28 to rank number 7 right now. =D Gettin' better and better!
Well, i started in bronze (as a huge nub), but progressed fairly fast. I started as toss, but began to love terran when i tried them out vs the ai. I switched, and became better. I could simply outplay and stress my opponent to death, with 2 banshees attacking from 2 sides.
I got promoted to silver fairly fast, and stopped playing for some time (i got really tired of it). When i came back, i switched to toss again (can't really remember why i did it), and lost quite alot. I tried terran again, and learned playing the game the hard way. I literally lost nearly every game vs toss, so i was very frustrated. Then one day, i decided to find out what my flaws were. Against toss, i didnt build enough rax after expanding, i didnt expand nearly enough, i wasen't aggressive enough and all that jazz. I fixed those problems, and smashed all my opponents. Then i got promotoed to gold :D
Now im in gold, 2nd rank, im getting ranked against plat level players (and winning). So, it seems that i have a bright laddering future ahead of me :D
I remember my very first game, I had not a clue how to play properly. Got placed in bronze. Somehow, worked my way into silver. My friend I met in University, who played BW, showed me how to play properly, and introduced me to Day9. After that, i got into gold.
Second season league lock rolled around, i worked my way into first place in my div. I played my placement match for season 2, I lost on the new map Typhon peaks, in a TvT. It was a close game, but i eventually lost. I got placed in plat, my opponent in diamond. To this day i still play high diamond players, and occasionally masters. Not bad for a plat player . I am waiting for my next promotion story, should be real soon...
I was in Diamond on a heavy loss streak of like 6, then I won the next game because the guy didn't A-move his army, so all of my tanks destroyed him even though he was ahead of me. He raged quit and then it said I got promoted to Masters. I texted my friends and parents because I was sooo excited
In beta I was immediately placed into the highest league (platinum).
When the league name-change occurred, I was immediately placed into the highest league (diamond).
When masters was introduced, I was immediately placed into the highest league (masters).
But Grandmaster is a totally different story. I'm not even close to getting top 200 I'll probably sit squarely in the mid/upper master league for the foreseeable future.
Started in bronze, worked up to silver, and now in gold/plat depending on bracket. Not really much to say other than I've been grinding it out, it hasn't come easy.
Worked up from bronze being stuck in silver for quite a while and managed to get to gold right at the end of season 1. Then a couple games into season 2 I was playing while talking to my friend on skype (who didn`t play starcraft), and I got promoted to plat! I got so excited and pointed my webcam at the monitor to show my friend lol. Needless to say she didn`t really care but it didn`t matter to me because I remember when I was first placed in bronze and looked at the higher leagues plat and dia and thought, I`d never get there...but there I was. Now I`m almost in diamond and I hope the promotion will be just as exciting.
Well I got placed into bronze and now have a record of 51-9 in bronze and all I want is a promotion I understand it will eventually come and with the whole MMR system it can take a while. But playing really bad bronze players actually gets very tedious, and sort of feels like a grind. It just isn't much fun.
My silver to gold promotion game was epic. 4 gated a zerg, got it held off, while researching hallucinate. Popped a few hallucinated voids, let an overlord see them, then dropped two robos and a robo bay. 10 minutes later, 3 base(me) vs 5 base (him) I roll my mass gateway/collossi army into his mass hydra army. GG. You have been promoted.
I was derping along in platinum for a while, staying in top 3 when I started dropping tooooons of games vs players bnet said I should have beaten. After about 6 games into the tilt, I won this hour long PvP on lost temple and got promoted into Diamond. :D:D:D alt-f4'd out of the game and didn't play for 4 days because I thought I'd get demoted really quickly, but now I'm working my way to masters.
Lost my placement match. Placed into masters. Went about 4-17, still in masters. Right now I'm about 35-40. The only people I've ever played are 900-1400 masters and rank 1 diamond players every 10 games or so.
Went 2-3 in placement and placed in bronze, after about 20 games i was promoted to silver, then i went to gold and then to plat rapidly. Then i started playing custom games and was stuck at 62 wins at plat even though whenever i decided to play a ladder game i would win. then season 2 came and in the 1 placement match a beat a diamond player and got promoted. since then i have won 125 out of i don't know because it does not show loses, i am 4th in my diamond division and am very happy.
I used to be a pretty bad player in BW. Like the type of player who would build a million cannons and then nothing but dragoons.
When I started playing SC2 I was originally placed in gold for 1v1 though over the course of my next 150ish games I was finally able to make my way into mid-diamond and playing high-diamond/low-masters level players. I haven't played since January though since I've been on military deployment.
I just hope I don't suck to much when I finally get back home in September. Been playing a little bit against the AI just to keep my hand speed up and build orders going and such.
Starcraft 2 is the first RTS I decided to seriously play online. I have had my share of LAN/online games on other RTS, from Total Annihilation:Kingdoms, to the Age series, to Warcraft 3, to Dawn of War (1&2), to Supreme Commander... but I sucked hard at them, and gave up multiplayer after like max 10 games. I felt in love with watching Starcraft 2 games before launch, and decided to give it a try, not knowing if I could have learned how to play it. Started in Bronze as Terran, but after around 50 games, I switched to Zerg as it was the race I wanted to play from the beginning.
After a lot of games, like 200 or something like that, got promoted to Silver, but then I was so bored of playing the game that I switched to Protoss and got demoted in a week or so. The stopped playing. When Season 1 end approached, I was sucked back in the game, and after getting my skills back on track, I decided to give a serious shot to Silver again, with the objective of finishing Season 2 in top 8 Silver.
Again, it took me many games to get promoted, but I learned a lot in the meantime... after a month I was in Silver and after an initial bad start just after promotion, I began winning more than losing again. Today, I've finally got promoted to Gold after a week of playing only against gold and hovering in the top 3 of the league.
The curious thing is that on the game before the one I got promoted, I was losing SO badly to a Terran player, and just before he attacked me with what would have been a final blow, he disconnected and I won that game. I had already decided to call it for the night after that cause I was so pissed off at ZvT at the moment, but after I got lucky I told me "It's your night, you can't just go NOW after such a lucky break". And I got promoted.
I am currently 1-3 and on 20th place on Gold. For you all it's probably nothing. For me, after having lost at ALL the known RTS I've tried, it feels like heaven.
I got out of bronze when someone turtled and tried to use a mother ship recall on scrap station. I use and infestor and NP'd the mother ship and killed his army with no losses because my army was cloaked by his MS.
I got this game in october because of friends and I was the noobiest of the noobs. Once I found out it was like cnc red alert 2 (one of my recently played games that I loved) i couldnt stop playing it. I watched replays and did everything but I was still a super n00b. I got into bronze of course and learned from a friend. We screwed around a lot and i didnt get my first win until about 30 games in. after that I had a pretty steady stream of wins but a lot was from stupid cheese I used to do. my win loss ratio was terrible and I think i was rank 60-70 cant remember but it was low. Than once school ended I told myself "thats it I can't stand being low in this game I want to do better" I practiced the heck out of this game 7 hours a day and such playing mostly 1v1s. My W/L ration (yes I kept track on a notepad) soon went from 15 wins 20 losses to 50 wins 24 losses (appx) for season 2. I was able to beat my friend who taught me how to play and he was silver for about a month now. Then I met this guy on 1v1 obs who coached me (he was platinum, now he is diamond a week or so later) and I soon went from rank 34 bronze (havent played much season 2) to rank 1 bronze and I was mad because I played golds and silvers for about 2 days and I wasnt promoted. I went to teamliquid and asked what was up and they told me to keep on going and eventually I will be promoted. Sure enough about a day later I got promoted to rank 5 silver in a full division. I was extremely happy but i still wasnt happy enough i said "im going to be one of the highest of the highest" got my friend to help me a little (not as much this time) and just played ladder for a while. today I was promoted to Rank 1 Gold. I was silver for a mere 3 days. My friend who originally taught me to play and was the reason i got this game is still silver as he was for about a month and he just keeps loosing to non-favored players. I told my friend who coaches me "im not done yet, I still need to get to diamond" and I plan on keeping this up.
from messing in bronze to being rank 1 gold in about 3 weeks. All it takes is for you to tell yourself "i will be one of them" and you WILL get somewhere. I am extremely determined to get better. Something I noticed too is when I loose a ladder game I _always_ gg and watch replays and see what I did wrong and such and talk to my "coach" about it and then just go ahead into another ladder game. My silver friend however looses and says "im getting so tired of this im going to play some custom games". I hope he gets to gold soon and as for me I hope to be platinum. I have people all around me telling me "its easy to get into diamond league" with their help and my determination I will be back here sharing more stories.
I cant belive i was fortunate enough to have friends to pressure me into this game, best community, best game, most fun i have ever had in my life. This is the only game I have ever played that really doesnt get boring, i get bored extremely easily and i have over 100 games and i have played none of them as much as I have played starcraft. I was also never as good at any of them as starcraft. GOLD LEAGUE FTW!
Aw, sad this to this thread inactive was always fun to hear the promotion stories. Just played vs a top gold terran and lost... The gold protoss I faced after tried to do a 2 stargate void ray all in but I scouted no sentries so roach rushed in and wrecked his base and all his probes.
4gated to silver 4gated to gold 4gated to platinum 4gated to diamond finally learned how to build more than 24 probes, and then this happened! (actually it happened my promotion game was a PvP on steppes of war... I tried the old 'pvp build that made huk hate ladder on korea', and it actually worked) About two weeks later i got demoted, and haven't laddered seriously since Now since summer is done and CSL is starting up, i'm finally going to push back into masters!
I played like maybe 100 games before i got to silver (sc2 beeing my first RTS), then i got a fulltime job and i think i've played like 3-4 games since the end of may.. Don't really remember the game, i just remember that i played like 4-5 Gold league players in a row before my promotion, and i remember those games beeing really fun cause i could feel my game improving and my knowledge getting deeper after every game.
But my desire to play got crushed when i got a job, as i don't like to do anything halfhearted, i'd rather just not do it at all.
Bronze-Silver: i said yes! And smiled. Silver-Platinum: i started screaming because i thought it was so cool. I said to myself "Finally i'm not terrible anymore, i can cruise around and be in platinum league forever" (This was by the time diamond was the highest league) Platinum-Diamond: Oh my god, i'm becoming so pro at this. This is the same league the pros are at(At the time, i didn't realize how huge of a difference it was between the low and high diamond)
With the introduction of Master League i was shocked i wasn't in it. Then came a huge realization that i had to practice alot harder. Then when i finally arrived to Master League i was like "FUCK YEAAAAAAH!"
My story: got into BW end 2008 (first game I can clearly remember was sAviOr saying that he would destroy everyone in 2009. Funny how things work out eh?). Played iCcup a few seasons, but never played more than like 20-30 games so I don't actually know my real rank. I touched D+ once, but school took over and I couldn't see how far I could get.
When SC2 came out I threw my placement games, got put in bronze (on purpose ), macroed my way to Diamond in like a week and then quit SC2. At the end of Season 2 I found out there was a masters league and wanted to be in it so I started SC2 again. Was demoted after my placement -_- (ppl got good lol)... Started Season 3 as Plat. Got promoted back into Diamond yesterday!! Want to get Masters before Season 3 is over.
Bronze-Silver: I played like 100 games.(First ever RTS) Then i tried to expand, and having 8 gateways producing units all the time was just epic! So i started expanding to 3-4 basing very early in the game, and started winning all the games i played in bronze. Was ranked 1 and got the promotion!
Silver-Gold: In Silver people started to do wierd all-ins which my expo style just died to, so i needed to get a new build. I saw Husky making a guide for 4-gate, and thought this was my build ^^ I pretty much 4 gated my way to Gold.
Gold-Plat: Was almost the same as Silver-Gold. I 4-gated and got to Platinum in a couple of weeks.
Plat-Gold: In Platinum people knew how to defend 4-gate so i was demoted back to Gold. I was crushed The same evening i played in a tournament, where i met a really good player. He was Diamond back then. I lost horribly but after the tournament we spoke together, and we played alot. He was my first "friend" in Starcraft. He gave me a lot of tips, and i was able to fight my way to Platinum again!
Platinum-Diamond: With the coaching, from my friend it was no problem to make the jump from Platinum-Diamond. It only took like 2 weeks, but when i saw that promotion thing pop up.. I jumped up from the chair and started dancing xD (This was back when Diamond was the highest league)
Diamond-Masters: Now this was a hard one. I played hundreds and hundreds of games. No promotion. I got rank 1 Diamond. No promotion. Played tons of Masters but still no promotion. I think i played 2000 games in Diamond (with custom games). I was rank 4 Diamond in the whole freaking world, before my promotion! I remember the game like it was yesterday. I log on like normaly and search for a game. I played vs a Zerg. I give him the normal "gl hf". 2 seconds after he left. Promotion. I was completely speechless :D Now im high masters hoping to get into GM in s4! Sorry for long post/wall of text
Started in gold and worked my way up took 3 seasons of Diamond and Plat working my way up finally Screaming in joy knocking everything over when I made masters. Then I got kicked out for messing around lol then earlier this season redid it and here I am to stay until Grandmasters.
I started season 3 as silver just like 2 other seasons, I didnt play much on season 1 and 2 cuz of laddering fear, on season 3 I forced myself to pull throught the fear and I ended up to dominate silver and gold league.
Now I am currently platinium player waiting to get promotion to diamond
so ive been plaing bw since like 02, i got pretty good at it but stopped playing 3 years ago. I had a shitty computer so i didnt bother with sc2 and i felt it just wouldnt live up to bw so i didnt think much about it. then this year i bought a new laptop with great specs and i thought about sc2. Watched a couple of games on youtube when i received my lappy. When i finally got the game about two months ago i was hooked, and i played all of my practice league matches just to get a feel for the game, its pretty easy to catch on compared to bw i must say. After my practice league matches which were all pretty easy, i did my placement and got in platinum which i was feeling okay about. Now im ranked 1st and playing mostly diamonds so i hope i get promoted soon ^^ diamond in 3 months will feel good!
At the beginning I got placed in bronze. I tried to play "macro" games but since my macro sucked and I didn't really know any decent build, I was losing frequently. Then I learned how to 4 gate and 4 gated my way up to gold. I stayed at gold for some months, trying to improve my macro and once my macro started getting better I got promoted to platinum before the summer. I haven't play that much since then but the few games I've played were all macro games(besides some people trying to cannon rush me or whatever because it usually ended with me 4 gating them).
this thread makes me sad because I havnt had one in a while. Ended season 2 mid masters (based on points) but got demoted (expectedly) at the beginning of season 2. I dropped pretty low as I hadnt really laddered in 1s much since mid season 2. Now im back to playing almost exclusively masters and usually losing stupidly, I know im close to promotion but i am being patient...for now.
I saved a game from the first game I ever played on ladder. Having never played Starcraft 2 or an RTS for that matter, I was absolutely TERRIBLE. I think I just built anything I could and ran a bunch of infestors into my opponents base and couldnt figure out why they wouldnt attack anything. I remember the day I figured out that drones could attack too, LOL!
Needless to say I started out low Bronze, deservedly so. I chose Zerg because they looked to coolest to me, but the first half of season 1 was about getting completely owned by Reapers all day. Eventually I said "eff it" and joined the dark-side (Terran). By the end of season 1, I barely managed to crack Gold with Terran using the MMM build day in day out. Season 2 it was a climb, but I managed to hit Platinum for the first time as Terran, using the same MMM build. Eventually I got bored and stopped playing SC2 for about 30 weeks.
Came back as Zerg and got demoted from Platinum back to Gold because doing that MMM build all day didnt really improve my SC2 mechanics or game sense. After struggling a bit at the start of season 3, I hit my stride as zerg and now am on the verge of promotion to Diamond for the first time.
TL:DR> Started bronze, no RTS exp, MMM my way to Plat, switched to zerg, demoted to gold, Rank 1 Plat now on verge of Diamond.
Woohoo! Didn't take long once i started playing games regularly. Also this guy i beat was my first win vs plat! Played 2 plat's prior and got raped by 1 in macro and then other guy out micro'd me in 4gatevs4gate.
Well I started in bronze. My first game I remember very well. On xel naga it was a PvP, we both did crazy shit. I massed void rays and killed all his probes, so he left
I eventually moved to silver. First game I was cannon rushed, but held
Then I was gold. I remember my last gold league game I demolished a Terran with hts and zealots.
Plat I don't remember much, only that I got promoted to diamond.
Just this season I got masters in my placement (after seeing I was top .5% of NA diamonds during the lock I knew I was getting promoted anyway haha) by beating a Zerg with a sick brood lord timing. I hit as his stuff was morphing and killed like 10 broods. I proceeded to roll him over.
i started bronze season 1 season 2 placement me in silver season 3 placement put me in gold i entered a couple gold league tournaments on Z33K i won gold battlefield 1st place the next day for the next tournament i played one game on ladder won and got placed in platinum so i had to take myself out of the other tournament a couple hours before it began
beta stage : don't remember. season1. Qualified to gold ( won 3 or 4 of 5 games), 20-30 games and qualified into plat. ~50-65 games in plat and ended up in diamond where I remained for the 2nd season, and for the 3rd as well... Bottomline : wc3 experience allowed me to get to diamond nearly instantly, but master league needs a lot more than the basic knowledge... builds must be refined, attention and motivation reinforced. idk if i can ever make it there, although there are sooo many noobs who i beat easily in master who have 2k+ games while i still have 600
Placed into plat at the beginning of season 3. The only builds I knew were 4 gate, 3 gate expo PvZ, and 3 gate robo PvT. I think I went 4-1 or 3-2 in placement matches. Anyways I decide to learn some new macro builds.
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.
Only started playing recently, but watched a fair bit of SC2 beforehand and since buying it. Only just placed today and, surprisingly to me, despite losing 4/5 of my placement matches, got Silver. Onwards, now, to glory! Or to bronze. Probably the latter.
started off in bronze, having never played any rts before, picked Zerg as my race and just played. After about a month I made silver, a week later gold. stuck in plat for a loooong time. actually i hit 8th in the world in plat lol. eventually got promoted to diamond a week before masters was added. hit masters about three or four months in diamond
I used to play Brood war but only customs with friends and the campaign. I would say I have little to no RTS experience. I played the campaign right as the game came out. Once I finished it, I did my placement matchs with protoss because I liked the new protoss units. After 10 games I decided to play zerg which was my favorite in bw and i always loved the swarm.
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!
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
In two seasons i moved my way up from silver to masters, the game i got promoted into masters i played kind bad but once i got promoted into master league i was screaming YESSSS
I stopped playing Starcraft 2 late last year, and took a long long break from actually playing it. I still watched my dailies (of course), but never played. Once season 2 began, I started playing again and just did what Mr. 9 told me to do. I made it up to Platinum league in a week. In the match where I got promoted in to Platinum, and had been a guy trying to get down to bronze league from diamond. He instaquit the match and I got promoted. FTW
Season 3 during the placement match a platinum protoss was matched against some who used to be known as the Bronze King (refer to blog) The king prep'ed a build taught to him from his master's master's master. The famed Reactor first 2 rax. faced against the protoss's forge fast expand on shattered temple close position.
i got the game for christmas last year. i played about 15 games as protoss and was absolutely horrible with it and didnt touch it until the end of may this year. i began bronze as zerg this time with a stupid amount of bonus pool and went from 87 bronze to 6 bronze before S3 started. S3 started and i began as rank 4 bronze. i roach rushed my way through bronze and silver league in about 2 weeks. over the summer ive moved up to rank 14 platinum using actual builds and getting steadily better =]. but now that im platinum i realize how bad i am and have to play more games Dx
Beta phase 1: 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.
I got cheesed in a game on scrap station and instead of being graceful I decided to just stay in the game until all my buildings were destroyed. I had 0 units, but I was throwing a little tantrum by staying. I didn't say anything and he quit instead of destroying my last few buildings. Result? A win and a promotion. Not my proudest day, but its a promotion story.
Ok, Season 3 Begins!... I really want Grandmaster... so for the first 2 weeks I grind it up REAAAAAL good. I patiently wait for the 2 weeks to pass as I sit within the top 100 on the SCranks hopping my MMR is high enough this season. After the long wait I logged on one morning to see people finally in the NA GM. Nervious and yet excited... I realized something. The only computer I own is one that run the game at 2 FPS...Since I usually go to a public library to play it seemed I was in a pickle. So hoping that Losing the game would get me permoted. I qued for 1v1 quick match with my frame rate at a whoping 8... The game starts aaaannnnnnd I 7 pool. Hoping to end the game with 6 lings slideshowing into my opponents base who is also playing Z. As his overlord fly's into my base....I think to myself.. HERE WE GO!!!....and then my opponent GG's...No micro... No nothing... Just GG. I get Promoted to GM.. but was curious... why did he leave? I check the replay and it turns out he was 6 pooling and i was 7 pooling so i guess he thought he didn't have a chance or something. Was the weridest promotion ever... which was followed by a demotion couple weeks later due to school and work *FROWN*.
Gold during season 1, low - mid masters during season 2. Dont play ladder anymore since i dont have time to watch tournements and play at the same time.
Last season, in 4v4 (yes I know, it's not legit blah blah). We played a game for the lulz, winning a stupid macro-like game with plenty of terrible terrible decision from both side. The average level of our team consisted of one platinum 1v1 and 3 teamgame-only platinum/diamond. With our marvelous 1-0 record, we were put in Master League of 4v4, and proceeded to get raped for 6 games by people who were also master in 1v1... at the end of the season, we were still master, places 80ish, with 1-6 record, BUT WE WERE PLACED HIGHER THAN MoMaN WHO WAS IN THE SAME LEAGUE (with 3-2 record... wtf is there with the points, blizz ?) ! We laughed quite a bit for this, and we'll have forever a master ranking in 4v4 for a season :')
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.
I remember my promotion to diamond at the start of sc2 played only tvt and the game where i got promoted i go cloak banshee he go for bc rush never forget that game got in master during zvp doing 2base attacks
In open beta, I was playing in Korea and got into diamond after 30 or so games cause I had some RTS background with SC:BW. At the time I was pretty clueless about SC2 because I didn't play closed beta, so I wasn't even that excited about it. Just kept playing and playing (actually played the most number of games in open beta/season 1).
I remember in season 2 when I got my grandmaster icon I hadn't played due to internet issues after the season started, and crammed in like 100 games in 3 days just before grandmaster opened up and ended up getting in.
Things didn't go so well for season 3 though, as I quit at the end of season 2, and ended up not getting into GM this time Starting to play again now though, hopefully I can make it back in.
i was on my computer one day, and i noticed a picture about which i remembered nothing. i opened it up and it was a screenshot of me getting promoted to platinum for 4v4s as terran (i play zerg) and in big white letters, it said 'IM DRUNK LOL!"
i started in bronze, got promoted to silver(was already silver on SEA so wasnt much of a big deal), got promoted to gold about 1 month later and this was quite a big deal because i was the lat of my friends(about 5 played) to get into it.
but the, they were all stuck in gold and guess who was first to get through to plat????
MEEE, felt so good and i bragged for so long, good times
On September 13 2011 17:14 Cellophane wrote: i was on my computer one day, and i noticed a picture about which i remembered nothing. i opened it up and it was a screenshot of me getting promoted to platinum for 4v4s as terran (i play zerg) and in big white letters, it said 'IM DRUNK LOL!"
Wow, this is way more than drunk Me has done for sober Me ever
It seems every season I make a new league. Started in gold S1 and currently top diamond. I have this system where I only play without bonus pool in the league where I'm closest to promotion =) Could probably make master in 4v4 if I only played my main race, but I'd rather have the skull you get for 1k games won as random. I'm a little sick in the head...
I just 4 gated my way in 18 games from bronze to diamond. I feel like it went to easy. I'm playing a daily tournament with only diamond and i keep ketting crushed. I only made it to the semi finals 2 times. in about 10 tries. I feel like i'm placed to high.
Started playing in June, just before S2 was over. Got into Bronze after losing all placement matches. Managed to get to Silver when S3 started and now leading in Gold and playing mostly vs Platinum, probably getting promoted soon..
Started playing when season 2 started, having never played sc2 or BW before I was placed into bronce, but I got the grip of the game pretty quick and got promoted to silver within 2 weeks, then gold about 2 weeks later, then plat where I stayed for the rest of season 2. Season 3 started and I was placed into diamond where I am right now in rank 1 trying to get into masters.
Started playing a month or two after release - played a bunch of WC3 but no Brood War apart from the campaign when I was a kid. Placed in Bronze, played consistently since then, finally tonight I reached rank 1 in Masters. ^_^
Got demoted at the start of season 3 and been mostly sucking as i played a looooot of team games at the end of season 2, as i found you cant just go pure ling as much in 1v1s so i lost a lot of ground. Finally after 3 days of playing against purely masters players and crushing most i got promoted last night finally. Ended up doing it ZvT on shakuras, scouted on a late 9 (after ovie started but before 10th drone) and killed his building SCV he yelled about why i would scout that early (to avoid being blocked out like i had been so often lately) and ended up beating him a bit later as he had attempted to almost continuously expand. Killed his 4th and wrecked the 3rd, ultras finally cleared out the rest.
Glad to be back in masters, though now i have like 250 in my bonus pool to tear through.
After a retarded amount of games vs high plats/low diamonds I got pissed off the game and dedicided to go out. So we end up at a friend's house and he wants to see me play cause he doesn't believe the whole "I am gold but I face higher" thing. I am just so fed up with the game today so I just go for a blind "eco 9 pool"(as I had read about in the strategy section, and it is a suprisingly good build in this league) on Abyssal Caverns ZvP. Turns out he is close by air, and is really freaking greedy, going nexus first without scouting me. I kill both his pylons, reinforce with more lings and quickly take the win.
Then, after like 4 days of intense training and laddering (20-25 games at least per day) I finally got plat. At long last, I had won over the battle.net's god awful system which had kept me in gold for way too long.
Was hanging out in gold for a few months, then for like 24 hours like every single person was cheesing me. I do a lot of things badly, but I scout pretty well, and I was focusing on scouting, so I held everything off, went like 15-2 for the day. A few games later, I was promoted to Platinum!
I was in bronze season 1, having no previous experience with SC2 or RTS games. I played very little.
Season 2 I said to myself : "Okay, I'm gonna start harassing people while macroing" I had never done it before. Thus, mutalisk harass and scouting got me into silver.
Season 3: I made it into gold after switching to terran and doing scv all ins with a few marines. I decided I was being stupid and stopped playing terran and went back to zerg!
This season I am top 2 gold player with 46 wins and 780 points..... I never, ever cheese. I have sworn to playing macro zerg that perfectly reacts to the opponent. The only games I lose are liek where youre on a really big map and terran goes double starport banshee hidden in the farthest expo.
Only funny one I have is getting into diamond. I was playing some sc2 one saturday night and I thought to myself "I won't go to sleep till I'm in diamond." I queued for another game, and as the game started I realized that I was really tired and really wanted to go to sleep. I was thinking, "I really hope this guy disconnects so I can go to sleep sooner without losing mmr." A few minutes later, a lag screen for him appeared. I waited, waited, and he disconnected. As I entered the score screen the diamond promotion notification appeared. ^^
i started in silver. i make some marines and got into gold. then i made more marines and got into platinum. its gotten boring so i made less marines and got into gold again. i was sad and i made so many marines even more than before and i got to diamond
I bought the game, went undefeated in placements, got plat. Went on like a 8-9 game winstreak till I was playing diamonds, went like 8-6 against them, the season ended, I won my placement match and voila I'm diamond, in under two weeks and under thirty games.
When i hit diamond after 3 seasons moving up from silver... literally ran down the stairs, out the door and onto the street scream and having my hands = P Luckily i live in a quite street where there aren't many people outside haha
I have a pretty cool story. So I started in silver and since my friends were in gold i played like 10 games in a row and got into gold the same day. Eventually i moved up to plat and when masters came out, i got into diamond. I found masters was out of my reach. Anyways a year later, I go back to school and join my college CSL team. I was selected to play due to my diamond rank 1.
I played my first csl match, I lost horribly and was extremely frustrated. To relieve the stress i played 2 ladder games. The 1st game i won a macro game against a zerg on taldarim. The 2nd game was a PvP, i wanted an ez win so i boss cannon rushed successfully. Afterwards, to my shock I was immediately promoted to masters, a league I had never been able to get for months (months where I was rank 1 diamond).
YAY! But ever since achieving my goal I havent been playing much lol. I think it is because I have accomplished my ultimate goal and sort of finished the game (also my friends all quit lol).
Played my placement matches in S1, went 3-2 and got placed in Silver as Zerg. Played more games/customs and got better with my balance(droning/army) but wanted a more microable race and didn't want to miss out on Terran/Protoss so I went random late Dec. I start S2 as random and I'm maintaining a ~54% win rate. I go on a win streak(11-1) and start facing a lot of gold players. I got promoted after winning a ZvsT close positions meta where my Terran opponent went 5 rax and kept attacking with marines. I lost my exp and at one point even had to pull my drones to get a surround on the ramp, but, eventually I got my exp back up with a bane nest and was able to hit his last marine attack with 5 banes. I then bane busted to victory
After that, I started to play less and eventually decided that I wanted more TvsZ action(don't get many when you random), so, I went Terran in S3. I start with a ~50% win rate but I started to put more effort into my game and multitask as well as macro better(more workers/faster FE, etc...). I went on another win streak and started hitting Plat players winning around 50%. Got promoted after a TvsP on Altar where me and my opponent kept trading armies. I almost lost as well but my marine micro and the fact that I had better upgrades/better counter to his army composition meant that I survived and eventually won. Linky: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=258095
I originally had a US account which I played on during the first season then shortly after the 2nd season started I got an EU account too (I live in Europe so made sense) and pretty much abandoned my US account other than to play my placement game for S3.
In US I was Gold, in EU I was gold too and getting fairly high up.
I had a friendly tournament to play in on the US servers so I decide to go practice there to get used to the latency etc. and after about 4 games I got promoted to Platinum! Wasn't expecting that at all so was an awesome surprise. Still in Gold on my EU account (Although granted I've only played one match since then). Might have to start playing more on my US account
Got placed in bronze in season 1 as protoss, didn't really care, I just loved watching sc2. Got silver in s2 by learning to 7 roach rush as zerg, in s3 switched to terran for 2 games and hated it so went back to toss and started playing non-cheesy (except pvp, fuck that matchup) and got gold.
One guy borrowed me his acc, and i played for a month. I bought the game and, with the five placement matches, i got diamond <33333333333333 (I won the 5 games)
sc2 was my first rts ever, so did like 5 games in practise league and thought hell yeah im ready! so i did my placements, went 1 - 5 i think or so got into bronze. (this was halfway season1) went 0 - 30 then cuz i had no clue what i was doing, then started watching youtube and streams and everything and went quickly to 40 - 75 and had my promotion soon, didnt stay long in silver nor gold, then platinum for a longer time and at the end of season 1 diamond. then season two somewhere mid diamond and got frustrated one night and demoted myself, stuck way to long in platinum a fter that but jst before season 3 i promoted to diamond again, now i am top diamond and somewhere on the verge of masters (i hope) :D
i played some protoss in beta phase 2 as platinum. Then i switched to zerg when retail came out, worked my way up from silver to diamond in a few months time ( i dont have time to play that much ) and now ive been diamond since november or something, awesome..
My bronze to silver promotion was the generic starting to play better and demolishing everyone in your league type promotion. Then from silver to gold I can't remember the games leading up to it, but my promotion game was a disconnect from the opponent Then my gold to platinum was almost just as retarded as my silver to gold. I came off of a huge like 13 game win streak, then i lost 3 games in a row because I made some stupid mistakes. I was already pissed heading into my 4th game, and fucking up my build in the very beginning pissed me off even more. So I just put down like 3 barracks and did a scv marine all-in. Luckily it smashed the guy. I felt bad though because i made the other guy get angry too I just think its kind of funny that after doing very well and sticking to a solid macro based build, its when i get pissed and all-in that i get promoted.
I go on a five game losing streak to protoss. Pretty much every one of them was doing a 3gate robo or a 4gate. When I got my sixth protoss in a row, I decided to just 3 rax and kill him. It worked, and I got promoted to masters :D
I was having a bad day winning many games and not getting masters, so i 7 pooled a protoss on close pos shatered...next thing the score screen came up and it said i was in master!
i played bw a little bit but only like using cheats and building cannons everywhere. i got sc2 on midnight release and i didn't play the 1v1s much but was in silver league. i really liked 2v2s and 4v4s so i played them a lot. as i kept playing i got into plat in both 2v2s and 4v4s which sparked my interests in 1v1 again. i play a bit and found that i was beating silver and low gold very easily. i was quickly put into gold where i i stayed for a while as i got back into 2v2s and 3v3s. eventually i was promoted into diamond and was amazed with my self. the playing of team games helped my mechanics a lot but not much with 1v1 strategy. then i started really getting into 1v1s. i played and played until i was a plat on the verge of diamond. then it happened. couldn't even tell you how happy i was. then i started playing 1v1 all the time not really bothering with team games just grinding out games on 1v1 latter. then i made friends and started playing team games again. however i eventually decided to get to masters and stopped with playing with friends only asking them to help with my 1v1. then about 3 weeks ago i got masters and am currently a mid masters protoss.
Knocked down to 4th Silver from 1st just from people winning while I was sleeping, played 1 game to try to get back to 1st and instead got promoted to gold rank 10.
I always try and save my promotion games and then look back to see how back I was. I wish I had saved my bronze-silver, silver-gold ones though. It is fun to look back and see how much you have improved.
I got promoted in platinium recently, and the way i did it was quite funny :
some zerg 6 pooled me, i was raging and started lifting up my cc and making buildings quite everywhere on the map aswell as a lot of scvs, and since the zerg only had tons of zerglings he couldnt do anything till some times.
Then he typed "im boring" (i assume he meant "im bored" but not sure) And left the game. And i got promoted with this win.
I'm not quite sure. Think I got gold and was promoted to platinum which was the highest at the time. When diamond came i was promoted to diamond and stayed there when masters came around. I've mostly playing casually (30 games total or so last season) but recently I'm trying to get back into it. My MMR is still high diamond though, so even though everyone else has improved I'm still getting to play them resulting in like a 30% winrate which is discouraging as playing 1v1 really affects my nerves lol.
After 5 years of BW experience, I bought sc2 on release. First game was ZvP. I skipped practice leauge Long story short, I was 1 base Zerg 25 minutes in the game with 12 drones, 3 macro hatcheries, 2 queens, 1 hydralisk, 2 lings, 1 muta, 1 ultralisk, 1 broodlord, and 1 corrupter. Oh, and 4 overseers. Then he attacked for the first time with dts and stalkers and I lost. Then I went 2-3 and placed silver. One game I won was against a superfast thor rush with 7 scvs (created, including the initial 6...), and the other was my bronze friend telling me what to do... =_= I played about 20 games as mostly Protoss, including a game where I double scv rushed! I mostly stuck to 1 base chargelot. I called 4-gaters "hackers". Then I made an amazing Protoss strategy where I would 1 gate FE with only zealots. I mainly played plat 3v3 and plat 4v4. I bmed people that rushed me. Then I started mass expanding while going mostly every single tech tree. I almost crushed a plat Zerg, but my micro was awful... A few months later, I got gold. I could easily beat high plat, but my morale issues prevented me from doing better than 38-18 season 2. I started making innovative strategies like trinuke and some crazy marine oriented builds. Season three, I went 1 gate robo immortal rush expand and lost to 7RR, and placed plat! I have gone 1-1 since then...
Started playing shortly after the release, went 3-2 in my placements matches iirc but got miraculously placed in Platinum(highest you could be placed back then). At the beginning I struggled a bit but then I got promoted to Diamond after 40 games or so I guess. Can't remember the promotion game in particular. Well, there was no Master League back then, so I pretty much stayed in Diamond till the Master's patch came.
Right before the patch arrived I had a terrible losing streak, so I wasn't instantly promoted to Master League after my first ladder game. It actually took me a while, but getting to Master League somehow motivated so much that I went on a pretty insane streak, 23-4 or something. The last 15 games of said streak consisted of getting matched vs master league players only, so I was starting to wonder if I was bugged or something. Eventually I got promoted though and have been a mediocre master player ever since.
Now I'm playing on different account which went the standard placement => Diamond => Masters route without much of a fuss about it. I'm playing on and off so I'm pretty much stuck in that position.
The strange thing about me is, the more I play the worse I tend to get. When I played like 6-7 games a day I could easily maintain a 60-70% win ratio over quite some time. However, once I start to get serious and play a 20-30 game "marathon" I usually(always actually) end up in a huge losing streak. I really don't get it....
On my new account I just went through undefeated to mid diamond. Met like 1 silver, 1 gold and 3 platinum - Had hoped for ML, since it feels like top diamond is harder than low ML. But I barely play 1v1 so my level goes up and down.
My temper is my biggest enemy in 1v1 - basically since there's none else to blame but yourself. Oh the ego.
But in the last 3 seasons I've only moved forward - not a single demotion. In teams I just went pure ML, but I don't understand why. Getting promoted with teams I played approx 3 matches with in diamond and we get master league.
My friend and I started together at rock bottom in the end of beta. We've spent hundreds of games 2v2'ing and figuring out funny, abusive and solid tactics. We started in silver, and we're mid masters now. That is the only team I really care about. And a 3v3 ML team with two of my RL friends - but that was just because we met complete jokes in your placement matches, and when the 'hard part' of the placement is against two ML teams that just fail cheeses.
My friend played my placements for me and landed me in bronze. Got to diamond in about 50 games cause I played Brood War and knew how to macro. Reached masters like 2 weeks after it came out, cause again I played Brood War. Ya I'm so interesting -______-
Season 1: Placed in Bronze and lost a buttload of games. Slowly got the hang of things and started getting matched against silvers. (Getting matched against a player in the league above me was super motivating cuz it meant I was on the verge of getting promoted, although little did I know that it would take forever since i lost so many freakin' games haha). Eventually got promoted to silver. Epic first achievement for me. Then I set my eyes on Gold and started getting placed against Gold players. Never got promoted though.
Season 2: First placement match put me Gold! What an epic surprise! Felt awesome. Started getting placed against Platinum. Those games really had me goin. Never got promoted though.
Season 3: First placement match put me in Platinum! Another epic surprise! I am currently battling platinums and a few golds. Have yet to get placed against a diamond but looking hard to get there real soon in hopes of makin it to diamond by Season 4!
I've never played a RTS like this before, and I count season 3 as my starting point. Like, where I started for real to ladder, with 4-10 gams a day. Over the 2nd season I barely played, so silver was my home. Now, after just a week of playing, I have been promoted to Gold, rank 1, and I am facing top 20 platinums ^^ Soo happy xD
I got promoted from Platinum to Diamond last December. I remember being so happy about it because I'd started off in Bronze back when SC2 released. I decided to celebrate by playing a bunch of games in the span of a couple days.
I then proceeded to lose ~30 games in a row and was demoted back to Platinum :/
Played BW before but not competitively, mostly watched replays. Started Terran, placed into bronze in 1v1 and 2v2 with a good RL friend. Played some games, felt awkward as bio at the time seemed too weak for me and tanks were too slow, so I switched to Zerg. As Zerg played alot of 2v2 and some 1v1, mostly I lost in 1v1 because I didn't knew how to juggle between worker and army production, so I switched to Protoss, and climbed up the leagues while losing to so much cheese, I reached plat where I am playing crappy now and with my friend reached diamond in 2v2 due mostly to good cheese build. We both decided that we need to get better at 1v1, so here we are. I'm stuck at platinum because of stupid play and non existent micro.
i six pooled out of bronze, then played really safe for zvp and zvt but still 6 pooled as z i slowly got better and at the end of season 2 i was at the top of silver and played top gold consistently, with alot better macro for zvp and zvt and still cheesed zvz >.>;; then got placed into gold played got promoted to plat then my comp broke :D, so now i suck again :p after 2 months of no comp
Started in bronze in the first season, never laddered- only played against AI. Took a huge break, played against AI exclusively during the second season. Once the third season rolled around, placed into silver and went to gold in ~10 games. So yeah, smashing Very Hard AI can get you into gold.
I started in bronze on my SEA account and only recently got to diamond. I've been stuck in platinum for nearly 2 seasons on my SEA account.
I was sick from work on Friday and laddered for most of the day. In the morning i won 11 straight games, and i think i went 16 - 3 for the day, and got promoted.
I would have had a beer to celebrate if i wasn't sick. Need to get sick more often!
On September 27 2011 07:02 TehTemplar wrote: After 5 years of BW experience, I bought sc2 on release. First game was ZvP. I skipped practice leauge Long story short, I was 1 base Zerg 25 minutes in the game with 12 drones, 3 macro hatcheries, 2 queens, 1 hydralisk, 2 lings, 1 muta, 1 ultralisk, 1 broodlord, and 1 corrupter. Oh, and 4 overseers. Then he attacked for the first time with dts and stalkers and I lost. Then I went 2-3 and placed silver. One game I won was against a superfast thor rush with 7 scvs (created, including the initial 6...), and the other was my bronze friend telling me what to do... =_= I played about 20 games as mostly Protoss, including a game where I double scv rushed! I mostly stuck to 1 base chargelot. I called 4-gaters "hackers". Then I made an amazing Protoss strategy where I would 1 gate FE with only zealots. I mainly played plat 3v3 and plat 4v4. I bmed people that rushed me. Then I started mass expanding while going mostly every single tech tree. I almost crushed a plat Zerg, but my micro was awful... A few months later, I got gold. I could easily beat high plat, but my morale issues prevented me from doing better than 38-18 season 2. I started making innovative strategies like trinuke and some crazy marine oriented builds. Season three, I went 1 gate robo immortal rush expand and lost to 7RR, and placed plat! I have gone 1-1 since then...
I assume that BW experience was fastest map ever then? lol
Everyone has such happy stories. Mine is so sad on the otherhand.
Season 1: coming off of non-macro rts I.e. Coh and Dow I was still better than a lot of people and got placed into plat. Then I hit a brick wall against much better macro players and ended the season about 55-45.
Season 2: skipped entirely due to ladder fear. Didn't feel I was plat level but didn't want to be in a lower league.
Season 3: played a 2v2 random team and a 1v1 and won both, but was demoted to gold in both brackets. Why don't I go up like everyone else?
Started playing SC2 right at release (midnight picked up the game and IMMEDIATELY started playing). Ended up in Bronze since I had very little BW experience before jumping into SC2. From there I slowly moved up the ladder by watching as many streams as I could find as well as reading every single bit of information possible. At the end of Season 1 I was Mid-High Plat.
Season 2 brought with it a much tougher semester for me so I had to completely stop playing for nearly all of Season 2. When I picked back up my play at the end I had gotten SUPER rusty so I had to work my way back up to plat level skill wise on another account. Ended the season High Plat.
In season 3 I finally started putting things together. I really started practicing my builds and timings and got my macro together. As an addition I took a couple lessons from Bulletproof (AMAZING Protoss coach btw). My game really took off and I started decimating not only High Plats but several low diamonds as well. Just got my promotion to Diamond and I cannot be more happy.
I'm still not good but I'm at least improving slowly and I can only say that there is nothing better in the world than to improve in something you care about.
Season 1: rank 70-odd bronze, like 5 games played Season 2: Bronze-> Silver-> Gold Season 3: Gold -> Platinum <33333
I can't remember the actual games, but while Silver to Gold was really exciting, the Gold to Plat was NOT. I had been beating platinums for like 3 weeks before it actually promoted me. It was more like, well finally, dammit. Now I hover around 50/50 win rate so I gotta improve somehow :D but when ZvZs are 2/3 of your games and the rest are ZvPs (my weakest MU) then you end up losing a lot of stupid games. Whatever, though, I'm getting better slowly, I think :D
Season 1: Gold > Learn macro Season 2: Platinum > Learn about the game and BOs - better macro Season 3: Diamond > Better macro, better micro and scout better
And hope to get Masters next season, or earlier if I have more time to play from now.
Placed in plat, quickly got to diamond in 27 games and didn't play anymore until masters rolled out. Played a few games now and then but couldnt break into masters.
Then played a lot more than I usually did last season, like 2-3 games per day D: while the ladder was locked at the end of the season. Got matched up against a lot of masters and high diamonds but couldn't get promoted since it was ladder lock. Played a game at the start of the new season which I lost. Got put into Masters, haven't played since.
It was early Tuesday morning, right after GM was released in season 3. I played four games, I won one then played the same guy, losing twice. Now, I play a guy named Bio and win. He was a GM last season, but not too high. I got promoted to GM.
Fast forward a few more months, he is rank 20 GM now, I am rank 70 . Although we used to be in different teams, we are now in the same team and help each other out.
Well I actually got from rank 100 bronze to rank 5 diamond in 50 wins or 1.5 weeks because terran was overpowered when the retail came out. I reaper rushed every single game on every map vs every race. I had no experience with previous rts games so I was a complete noob. I thought I was really good at the time because I thought reaper rushes were extremely hard to do and that thought no one else was doing them and didn't even know what macro or hot keys were. After they nerfed reapers I kinda stopped playing 1v1s afraid of demotion(I was bragging to all my friends who were still in bronze that didn't know that I was actually worse than them). So then I just did a some 2v2s with the occasional 1v1 and surprisingly made masters when the league came out and haven't moved out of it ever since. To this day I don't know how reaper rushing got me this far but I actually haven't gotten the joy of a promotion yet because I never actually played macro games in the lower leagues.
Friend gave me his plat sc2 account. Dropped to bronze in 20 games. Mass marine ed my way to silver. MMM'ed my way to plat. Made some tanks to get into diam:o
Season 1 : bronze, didnt know the game at all lol Season 2 : step-by-step promotion to high plat after practicing lots Season 3 : after the placement match I was promoted to diamond.
Beta: Placed into Platinum, and Diamond when it came out.
Season 1: Net was crappy from weather so I DC'd 3/5 of my Placement matches. Got put into Gold. Played for a day or so to get into Diamond after the crappy placements. When Masters came out I played a few more and got promoted.
Been in Masters since, but I play pretty casually in between my other games. Would be so much better if I put more time and effort in
I only played FPM in SC:BW so I came into SC2 not knowing much about how to play a proper low money game. I actually learned how to macro well in FPM though so that was enough to carry me into Diamond/Masters from the start.
When I first played I was placed in bronze after losing all my placement matches, very sad times for me. 1 day later I was in silver, then gold the same day, platinum the day after. I was consistently high platinum, but just couldn't break into diamond back in season 1. I then stopped playing for the last couple weeks of season 1.
Didn't play any season 2 until right before the ladder was locked, and in the time I had not played, I had watched A LOT of starcraft, I got back in the swing of things and the ladder was locked, i was determined to get into diamond next season. By the end of season 2 I was always playing against diamond/master players and I even played against a GM player. I was ECSTATIC that I was playing such good players THEN
Season 3, instantly in diamond (YYYYEEEEEEEAAAAA), currently I have stayed in top 10 for most of the season, and hoping to get promoted soon. when I do happy days!
Once upon a time I started playing starcraft 2 and got masters in 3 weeks with zerg. 2 weeks with Terran and got masters. Then I got bored and stopped playing.
My promotion story was when i was playing 2v2 with my friend at his house and we were drinking, being in Bronze league it didn't matter much being drunk or sober. We won 5-6 games in a row and then started losing...causing us to drink more. So we finally won again using the simple tactic of 4gate + 3rax and got promoted to Silver. My friend got so excited he slammed his drink, my drink..and ended up throwing up.
On September 27 2011 17:33 TailsPrower wrote: My promotion story was when i was playing 2v2 with my friend at his house and we were drinking, being in Bronze league it didn't matter much being drunk or sober. We won 5-6 games in a row and then started losing...causing us to drink more. So we finally won again using the simple tactic of 4gate + 3rax and got promoted to Silver. My friend got so excited he slammed his drink, my drink..and ended up throwing up.
That is one hell of a promotion story! Love it! :D
Started playing starcraft 2 when retail was released. I hadn't really played RTS before that more than a few games of brood war, but I'd watched a shit ton of commentaries (good old nub days watching HD and husky 8D) so I wasn't totally terribad. Anyway, I got placed in silver after my placement matches and within a week I had been promoted to gold. My promotion to diamond happened about 2 weeks later after playing about 50-60 more games and I can't tell you how happy I was to be placed at the "highest" league possible at the time :D! When Masters League was released I convinced myself I'd get promoted on the first week, and after about 100 games I went into a crazy losing streak of about 7-8 games vs masters league players. Needless to say, I was pretty pissed off (even called up someone just to complain). However, after winning 1 game vs a diamond leaguer I got inexplicably placed into masters 8). Of course I was pretty low matchmaking for masters league player but after playing enough games I pulled myself up and now I'm doing fine . Forever zerg
I started playing a couple of weeks into season 1, played 1 game ZvT and went for a baneling bust, the guy rage quits and i feel so bad that i stopped playing for like 4-5 months, then when i started up again i only played team games. Near the end of season 1 i start plasying a little 1v1 and got put in silver (yay!)
Season 2, i get put straight into Gold and thats where i've been ever since, playing Gold/Plat players but still not playing that much.
Team games however........ I got promoted to Plat 2v2, Plat 3v3 and Diamond 4v4 all on the same day. Plus i was a part of 3 masters teams which doesnt really count asa it was straight out of placement games.
Also, a friend was doing a placement while i was over his house, we were both drinking but part way through the game he has to go get changed or something to go out so i take over. "Right, im terran..... whats the hotkey for marines?" :D i play Zerg. Anyway that was the only placement game that he won and he got placed in Bronze and is still there while is gf just got promoted to silver!
On September 27 2011 17:18 Zapdos_Smithh wrote: Once upon a time I started playing starcraft 2 and got masters in 3 weeks with zerg. 2 weeks with Terran and got masters. Then I got bored and stopped playing.
The end.
Pretty much my story as well, except I didn't play Terran.
Bronze-Silver: Had some mechanics from Strategy games before but didnt know any build orders, or really how to macro. Took me 1 week to know what warpgate was though and use it lol
Silver- Gold - Platinum: Started watching alot of progames, learned how to 4-gate, which was my basic build, I rarely got to more than 2 bases and most games were 1 base games. I still lost quite badly to stuff like cloaked banshees, DTS and 6-pool. Panic all the way.
Platinum - Diamond: Learned more builds including 2 base stargate play, 3-gate expand properly, 1 gate expand properly and basicly knew how to deal with most allins. At this point I also know some of the time what my opponent is doing and what build he is going to do.
played beta, instantly got in to diamond. removed copper league and added masters league. instant promotion. added grand master league. forever masters
I was so happy when I got promoted to Diamond from plat, cause I'd been in plat for so long, then I fell down to like #30 in my Diamond league, played a game and got dissconected, and also demoted. So now I'm back to platinum.
After paying attention to the leagues of my opponents as a top diamond player, I came to a startling revelation: I was beating the low masters players regularly while losing to top diamond players much more often. Apparently whatever mechanism is in place to prevent people from dropping or advancing in leagues willy-nilly is powerful enough that at the edges, diamond players are better than masters players.
Suffice it to say, when I got promoted to masters I was pretty worried my game had dropped off.
P.S. I still play top diamond players in about 33% of my games, and while I win most of those, they're still tough.
Well that one will be underwhelming. I was placed into platinum or diamond (ended up getting into diamond a few days after release anyway). I had played about 100-125 games and had deep hatred for the game.
When master league was implemented, my friend got into masters in one game (I hadn't played yet) and he and I were extremely competitive. Around that time, he was doing better than me because he was playing 10 games a day and I had given up because my PvP and PvT sucked and I had no clue what I was doing.
I figured, if I didn't get promoted in one game, I would give up (most likely temporarily because my ego wouldn't allow). I went and played, lost the game and got promoted - good enough for me. Then I stopped playing for a while.
I wish i had a story to tell. But I have been stuck in Diamond since i got the game back in season 1. I keep playing but I never seen to improve, even after I watch replays and such. Forever Diamond.
My story up until Diamond is the same booring BS as almost everyone else, but how I got to masters is little different.
I played (and still play) a lot of my master clanmates, getting around 50%W/L ratio with them, but on the ladder just didnt make the cut. But, this sunday my clanmate told me that he would give me the amazing sum of 4 euro, if I would make it to masters before our meeting at thursday. Monday I got promoted to masters, and am now waiting for his 4 euros
On September 28 2011 23:39 ILoveCoffee wrote: I wish i had a story to tell. But I have been stuck in Diamond since i got the game back in season 1. I keep playing but I never seen to improve, even after I watch replays and such. Forever Diamond.
Me too. Got placed in diamond in season 1. Still diamond. Not much to tell
well ive been i Diamond since realease, i just can never play for more then one night in a row. Work and Fiancee means I can play one night then i may not be able to play till the next week so I can never get in the Starcraft groove!!! Always so rusty when I play, booked a week off to get some serious game time and ended up going to a city 90 miles away looking to start a new life lol.
1 year to get me from Bronze to Diamond. Probably much slower than most people. I haven't had any RTS experience before other than defence games in BW. I was never a person who sat down and played any games for more than 10 hours total. Happy I am submersed in sc2 :D
I am also playing against a few master players too. Hopefully, it will be less than another year to get me to masters.
On September 29 2011 05:29 To3-Knee wrote: 1 year to get me from Bronze to Diamond. Probably much slower than most people. I haven't had any RTS experience before other than defence games in BW. I was never a person who sat down and played any games for more than 10 hours total. Happy I am submersed in sc2 :D
I am also playing against a few master players too. Hopefully, it will be less than another year to get me to masters.
I have played for like 3 days now and i got into Masters League pretty much directly.
First i got promoted to diamond then it took me a few games and i got to masters league. Now I'm going for GM league. I came from League Of Legends before sc2 so.
PS. I'm a very quick learner, got pro in LoL very fast. Took me about a few months to get there.
I started playing sc2 in the end of last season, so, i started in bronze and got my way up to BRONZE PRESIDENT!! (Leagues ar locked)
Then the season 3 started ... I got my 5 replacement matchs and got to GOLD i was thinking "MAN IM FACKING BADASS NO1 CAN HOLD ME NOW, GSL HOLD THERE IM GOING THEREEEEE".
So, i got demoted to silver (fak), ok, now im laddering a lot (for me) playing 3 to 10 games everyday, now im Silver President, I was winning a lot and get placed vs gold everytime and winning and also got 3 plat's, 2 wins and 1 lose for plat players. SO NOWWWWW i got a losing streak 3 loses, 1 victory and bla bla all this sh1t. I dont know why they dont fac*ing promote me, im winning almost everygame against silver oponnents, never got placed vs bronze anymore, and have rly good fights against gold winning a rly nice % of those games.
What should i do? I have like 185 victory's this season, something like 400 games or less. Should i start let guns to sc2?
I believe the game I promoted to gold went like this:
It was TvT on Scrap Station... The guy was pretty BM especially when my 4 blue-flame hellions (this was in April, so they weren't during the 'popular' streak.) utterly destroyed every single one of his scv's. After that point, he got even more bm. While in his base, I noticed he had turrets up, so before I went to drop more units, I scanned, and he got even MORE bm... it was rather amusing, even though that drop failed.
So after a few minutes, I just went and killed him. He couldn't live against what I had, so he left, with no gg. After that, I was promoted and sent him a tell saying 'thanks for the promotion<3'
I only got promoted in 2s (from Bronze to Silver) so far, played the game and at end I must have clicked too fast and did not see the 'you've been promoted' thing appear and I was wondering: why no points for that match. Only noticed when the multi-player screen came out.
On September 28 2011 22:20 MisterFred wrote: After paying attention to the leagues of my opponents as a top diamond player, I came to a startling revelation: I was beating the low masters players regularly while losing to top diamond players much more often. Apparently whatever mechanism is in place to prevent people from dropping or advancing in leagues willy-nilly is powerful enough that at the edges, diamond players are better than masters players.
Suffice it to say, when I got promoted to masters I was pretty worried my game had dropped off.
P.S. I still play top diamond players in about 33% of my games, and while I win most of those, they're still tough.
I've noticed that too with platinum and top gold players. I sometimes loose to the top gold players, whereas I usually win against platinum players. I think my matches are moving more towards the middle/top platinum players though (even though I'm still rank 15 or so), so I must be getting better!
I got my promotion on scrap station, a PVT. I just learned a new build, a dt rush with 5 gateway, a robo for a wraprism and a forge for +1 and 5 canon for protection with a full wall in.
I know pretty newby build.
I wrap my 5 dt in is base, he goes for the base trade, but my canon hold off. The other guys start bm and leave
On September 29 2011 05:29 To3-Knee wrote: 1 year to get me from Bronze to Diamond. Probably much slower than most people. I haven't had any RTS experience before other than defence games in BW. I was never a person who sat down and played any games for more than 10 hours total. Happy I am submersed in sc2 :D
I am also playing against a few master players too. Hopefully, it will be less than another year to get me to masters.
I was once a bronze league nub, well I went to this page http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/6_Pool and now I am GM on every server, it was really sudden. First I got GM in North America, I couldn't help myself so I got GM on EU and KR as well.
I started in bronze at launch, took a break during the second semester of the school year following that, then got promoted to masters on the 1 year anniversary of Starcraft II release (July 27th 2011). Currently doing college applications so no ladder for me
No previous RTS experience - I'd say it took me a pretty long time to get up to masters. However, I am proud of the fact that I stuck with it instead of quitting like 90% of my friends did.
On September 29 2011 05:29 To3-Knee wrote: 1 year to get me from Bronze to Diamond. Probably much slower than most people. I haven't had any RTS experience before other than defence games in BW. I was never a person who sat down and played any games for more than 10 hours total. Happy I am submersed in sc2 :D
I am also playing against a few master players too. Hopefully, it will be less than another year to get me to masters.
damn 1 year. hahha it took me 1 week to get to masters and it was my 1st pc game.
Interesting. It's odd, because when I look you up on SC2Ranks it looks like you started back around September '10 and didn't get Masters until Feb '11. That's 5 months. In season one you were Diamond with over 600 wins, which means likely over a thousand games played. In season two you were also Diamond, with over 300 wins... again, assuming roughly 50% rate, we'll say at least 500 games.
So in reality, it took you 5+ months and over 1500 games to get into Masters.
It's awesome you're good at the game dude, it's nothing to scoff at if anyone can get into masters, let alone within 6 months. But don't try and glorify your story, especially when you've posted your B.Net username/char code on these same forums and your record is public.
Edit- In further looking at your history, it also looks like you've been demoted back to Diamond several times, most recently just about a month ago, before going back into Masters.
bronze season 1>silver season 2>gold season 3 and now trying to get plat with only macro/max army/harass strats as I feel like this game is more fun when you've got 3000 or so in the bank with a 200 army and 3 fully mining bases
On September 27 2011 07:02 TehTemplar wrote: After 5 years of BW experience, I bought sc2 on release. First game was ZvP. I skipped practice leauge Long story short, I was 1 base Zerg 25 minutes in the game with 12 drones, 3 macro hatcheries, 2 queens, 1 hydralisk, 2 lings, 1 muta, 1 ultralisk, 1 broodlord, and 1 corrupter. Oh, and 4 overseers. Then he attacked for the first time with dts and stalkers and I lost. Then I went 2-3 and placed silver. One game I won was against a superfast thor rush with 7 scvs (created, including the initial 6...), and the other was my bronze friend telling me what to do... =_= I played about 20 games as mostly Protoss, including a game where I double scv rushed! I mostly stuck to 1 base chargelot. I called 4-gaters "hackers". Then I made an amazing Protoss strategy where I would 1 gate FE with only zealots. I mainly played plat 3v3 and plat 4v4. I bmed people that rushed me. Then I started mass expanding while going mostly every single tech tree. I almost crushed a plat Zerg, but my micro was awful... A few months later, I got gold. I could easily beat high plat, but my morale issues prevented me from doing better than 38-18 season 2. I started making innovative strategies like trinuke and some crazy marine oriented builds. Season three, I went 1 gate robo immortal rush expand and lost to 7RR, and placed plat! I have gone 1-1 since then...
I assume that BW experience was fastest map ever then? lol
Actually, it was me and a friend against another friend 2v1. And cat and mouse >:D
Only started late last season (2?), got put in bronze got ladder anxiety, so I only played team games. This season, started playing 1's and used the 3 rax stim push to get a 10 win streak, when it failed the following 3 matches, I broke my mouse and stopped playing 1's for weeks. Started again this week (got #1 with alot less games played than anyone in top 5), got around 11-1 before 3 rax stim push was becoming stagnant, so I actually started to play properly. Beat my way through majority of the silvers I was put against, still no promotion. Played a game before work this morning, defending a baneling bust = promotion
EDIT: Got placed in gold for random 4's last season, got put with the same guy twice, who left both games, got demoted to silver, lost a few games and got demoted to bronze, must of been within 10 games from gold to bronze -_-. Got placed in bronze for random 4's again this season, and then worked my way up to plat ^^'.
First season I have really concentrated on 1v1, Started on gold and now im in diamond. Been stuck at position 1 in my league for bout 2 weeks. I don't think they want to promote me
This was after the league lock, during which I was playing heavily with my two mates. When the leagues got unlocked, we played a game in which we got rofl-stomped. I was about to leave, but my computer had to have the last word - I crashed. I was already on the brink of raging...
Got placed in Bronze witha 0-5 W/L. After like 300games i got in silver finally, 50more for gold. This was the moment were i actually began to understand the game, learning new strats and buildorders. Like 100 into Plat and around 40more for diamond now im here, ready to learn even more :D
Was playing this cheezy noob and he walled off with forge so i scouted cannon rush and eventually it was an easy win. He was in diamond. Next game i versed him again and i was miles ahead, but he killed all of my workers withDT's because i had no sound. So that was such a cheap loss. Now the latest game i played this guy was 2 gating me, and he lagget out then i got put in DIAMOND!
On October 01 2011 09:43 firehand101 wrote: Was playing this cheezy noob and he walled off with forge so i scouted cannon rush and eventually it was an easy win. He was in diamond. Next game i versed him again and i was miles ahead, but he killed all of my workers withDT's because i had no sound. So that was such a cheap loss. Now the latest game i played this guy was 2 gating me, and he lagget out then i got put in DIAMOND!
what goes around comes around baby!
Playing without sound helps me alot. I've developed so much more minimap awareness and I get to listen to music much louder.
I started off in Silver in November when I finally decided to start playing and not just watch SC. Probably about 30 games later I was gold, and end of season 1 was coming ( I did not play much season 1 or 2).
Season 2 I played my placement and got plat - I played maybe ~40 games total this season.
Season 3 placement I lost and got plat - I didn't feel like playing much but then over a two day period I played ~30 games, which was a lot more than I usually would, and got Diamond. At the moment I'm sitting at rank 2 in my league, hoping to get masters soon if I could get more time to play.
I've never been promoted mid season. When I first got the game I placed into Bronze. The season ended I placed into Silver. Then I got an EU account and placed into gold. Now I have a new account and I placed into Platinum a few days ago. :D
Started in bronze as its my first rts. within around 3-4 weeks i got to high diamond ( before masters was out ). when masters came out I got promoted. Now trying to get into grandmasters cool story bro!!!!!!
Just got into Platinum today! Held off a 7RR with 2gate Stargate, expanded, noticed he went hydra/roach and was going to all-in me again. Teched to Colossi just in time to have one pop out as he was attacking my base. Rolled over his army, got about 3 more Colossi, zealots, and stalkers, then walked right into his natural.
I used to be gold and i was given up to see something from the upper leagues. And one day I was playing and i was on a win streak and in that moment around me were 4-5 people and i was showing off :D :D :D: gold player. I was playing vs a zerg and the game lose close in the end I won with his going for base race. And he says gg wp ect and leaves the game and every one aroud me say you are good and i say yes :D . and i turn around to speak with them about the game and 1 mate ask me what is that on the screen i turn back to my pc and i saw it I scream so hard that i had tiers from happiness i was so happy now a days when i look to this moment i smile always
Gone from Silver to Diamond in the past month, my 200th win being my Diamond promotion. It was a Bling bust and Me and the guy are now somewhat friends
Just got GM after like 8 hours of laddering... Blizzard wouldn't send me to GM when I was beating Idra, ret, etc then after I win & lose a couple more, sends me to GM after I beat a random person for 8 points.. but at least I got it again, 3 days before season lock, to fill the last spot
Got placed in gold during beta phase two. Played a ton during that week and got diamond at the end of that week. When the game came out got placed in plat then in another week got in to diamond again. When masters came out I got that asap. Won some tourneys got myself eu and kr and got them both to high masters tho kr took me two weeks. Didn't bother with gm on na or eu cuz kr is more fun.
Just got promoted to platinum after having played against platinums for over a month (roughly 3-5 games per day, excluding weekends). Started out in copper in the beta.
That aside... I'd swear the matchmaking profiles players based on their playstyle (macro-oriented, proxies, cheese, etc) and pits you against non-stop cheesers when you're about to be promoted, to test if you're really ready or something. Over the past month, I've played many platinums, and matches have generally been macro matches, going to 2 base versus 2 base and beyond. There are of course always players trying to all-in you at some point, but that was about it. Maybe one or two cannon rushes.
Just today and yesterday, I faced: - 3 Cannon rushes (+2 attempted and cancelled) - 2 Proxy gates - 1 Korean 4Gate after I chased their probe away (would probably have been another proxy gate if not) - 2 6/7pools - a proxy 2rax.
All that in one day of laddering. What. The. Hell?
My only other explanation is that Day9 did a funday monday where players had to try and end the game before 6 minutes or something?
I took a long break during last spring and when i came back i lost like 15 games in a row so i dropped from 20ish in masters to 99 in diamond some how. In a fit of unmatched nerd rage I played for literally a day straight and got back up to top 10 masters :D. The final game was a 45 minute long TvZ that was extremely close . So satisfying .
Every single Promotion ive gotten from Silver to Masters (started in silver) has been a PvP ;; so all of the promos have been aftert 4 gate wars.....except the last one. Patch 1.4.0 hits and 4 gate is considerably less powerful (still powerful in certain situations of course). So I'm #1 diamond and I'm only playing Masters and I sit down to play a few games on a sunday.I play 3 games and all are pvp and I win 1 and lose 2 in a row so im feeling kinda down about the start of the day with laddering. So i que up for a 4th game. Taldarim Altar, PvP... Time to 4gate! Right? nope i see his probe scout me first so i know he's close positions and i decide to scout clockwise first and find him.....with 0 pylons in his base. I immediatly plop down another gate expecting a proxy 2 gate but i then see a 2nd probe run to the top of my base in the fog so i throw a forge down too realizing it may be cannons. send my zealot after the probes as it pops and lo and behold! 3 cannons hugging a pylon that is so far from my base the range isnt even close to my buildings plop down 3 cannons and kill his attempts to crawl cannons close to my production and as 2 zealots hit his mineral line he ggs. I stay in the game to find his forge and when i find it I leave and the pop-up appears! Masters 1v1 baby i think my clan mates, who i was in teamspeak with, had some hearing loss after i freaked out and was jumping up and down yelling and double fist pumping ha ha I've been trying way too hard to get to masters i think >.>
Sooooo happy!!!!! I bought SC2 in the last few months of last season, and because I had watched a bunch of Terran ladder streams felt most comfortable playing as Terran. Got placed Silver after winning 4/5 of my placement matches. I then proceeded to lose my first 3 ladder matches ever as a ranked player and was promptly demoted to rank 20ish Bronze. Fought my way up last season to a top 10 Bronze finish, and was sad to be placed Bronze again this season...but I was now winning almost all of my matches, so promotion imminent, right? Apparently not. I've been riding Rank 1 or 2 Bronze all season without the promotion, and doing a ton of practice matches against a Platinum Protoss friend of mine. I was only really facing Silvers on the ladder anymore, and today after getting crushed 0-3 by my friend, and then losing to muta-bling on the ladder, I got mad...and did a 3 reactor rax all-in and pulled all of my SCVs against my Protoss foe. He did a stellar job on the defense, considering he had expanded, and built a huge wall of gates and tech buildings to protect his main, and warped in some sentries and a few cannons. I started the push with about 80 supply, and was down under 30 when I finally knocked out his pylons and unpowered all of his production..."<user> has left the game" VICTORY! Turns out he was rank 8 Silver, and now I am Rank 7 Silver! Small victory, but I am extremely pleased all the same, love this freaking game.
Season 4. 5 minute break in lecture. Opened up laptop, logged in and hit the find match button. Aha! A terran on Antiga. Slowly, with unerring precision on my touchpad, I boxed all my workers, and shift a-moved all the bases. What luck! I found his base first! With agonizing difficulty, I reselected all my workers, and a-moved his mineral line. What followed was a massacre, and unfortunately, I lost.
So, haven't played in forever. Play my placement, hands are shaking, missing hotkeys, missing clicks and playing like I'm in copper. Get demoted to Plat and play a few customs to warm up. Won a ZvZ and my second opponent quit within 2 seconds of the start of the game.
I switched from Protoss to Zerg after trying for 7 months to get into Diamond with Protoss and failing completely. I did my placements on both of my accounts today and got cheesed on both of them and got placed back into into platinum even though I faced one mid diamond and a high diamond who had been in master league last season and was matched with master league players before and after me. I felt super disappointed so I thought I would maybe play a couple more games and that would be it since everyone is cheesing today. I Catz econ 7pooled on the first game on Shakuras and won because the guy kept trying to replace pylons and probably spent 1000 minerals on them and by then I had an expansion and 40 drones. Next game I got DT rushed and lost, but in my last game the guy tried to do that crappy 2gate zealot expand and only killed one queen with all his zealots and I had double the workers by the time his expansion finished so I ended up rolling him with roaches after he tried to do a 6 gate all-in and then finished him off with roaches and hydras. It was quite satisfying. Now I'm going to try on my other account with Protoss.
Today me and my friend were high diamond so we both qued at the same time, we got matched up and he beat me barley with an all in. We practice all the time so it is usually 50/50. So anyway I lost but we both got placed in the same masters division =)
On September 29 2011 05:29 To3-Knee wrote: 1 year to get me from Bronze to Diamond. Probably much slower than most people. I haven't had any RTS experience before other than defence games in BW. I was never a person who sat down and played any games for more than 10 hours total. Happy I am submersed in sc2 :D
I am also playing against a few master players too. Hopefully, it will be less than another year to get me to masters.
This season's placement match got me facing a gold zerg, my weakest matchup and i was in silver on top of that. I got overwhelmed by the sheer amount of muta and infestor harassment happening in the game, that I was reduced to nothing but probes, I had to GG out. I got placed in silver again, but I doubt I'll be staying there for long.
bought the game when it came out. maybe I played 2 or three hours beta at my friends house. I watched husky and HD alot so I quickly learned that with void rays you will win. got placed in silver, and played som games there. got demoted to bronze, but I didn't really think any of it (most of my friends was in bronze) after I understood the game more I climbed quickly up to gold, and I was in gold for several months playing against plat and diamond, I got a little frustrated because I was as good or better than my friends in plat, and I never got promoted until one day I got up in plat and it was fun as hell. I played one game wich I lost then the second game I get 7 pooled and I manage to hold and kill him with a 4-gate. he was really BM and when he left I came to the score screen and it says I've been promoted to diamond. I couldn't wipe the grin of my face for 2 days
I was around rank 25 plat all season, finally started playing a decent amount after not playing at all in college until recently(feel like my apm/gamespeeds gone really high), got into a game vs random of course. Sigh.
Scouted, he's terran, his mother fucking hellion harass just gets my lings and i only had 2 spines up. That sets me really far behind/contains me, so im finally doing aight, beat his first push with a handful of lingsand 7ish mutas left. Then theres another push the same size and he kills my 3rd for the 2nd time and my 4th, i GG out.
Hey Guys, I was lucky enough to get into diamond on release day a year ago and had been in diamond ever since.
Then season 3 I played my 1 placement and lost horribly to a 6 pool, and got put into Masters. After not playing for like 3 weeks before that. Was not really expecting that, and I thought it was pretty funny.
At the end of season 2, I was plat. Season 3 came, I hadn't been laddering much, I wanted to try to practice a bit more and hopefully get to diamond.
So I started my placement match, it was a PvT on Shattered Temple. Pretty standard game if I remember, but I eventually won. He left the game, I went to score screen to see my results.
It put me in gold league.
I checked his rank, he was platinum. So I beat a plat player and consequently got demoted to gold. WTF Blizzard.
On October 26 2011 07:19 -NegativeZero- wrote: At the end of season 2, I was plat. Season 3 came, I hadn't been laddering much, I wanted to try to practice a bit more and hopefully get to diamond.
So I started my placement match, it was a PvT on Shattered Temple. Pretty standard game if I remember, but I eventually won. He left the game, I went to score screen to see my results.
It put me in gold league.
I checked his rank, he was platinum. So I beat a plat player and consequently got demoted to gold. WTF Blizzard.
Check if he is on a losing streak, his mmr was probably plat during his placement but subsequently dropped.
On October 26 2011 07:19 -NegativeZero- wrote: At the end of season 2, I was plat. Season 3 came, I hadn't been laddering much, I wanted to try to practice a bit more and hopefully get to diamond.
So I started my placement match, it was a PvT on Shattered Temple. Pretty standard game if I remember, but I eventually won. He left the game, I went to score screen to see my results.
It put me in gold league.
I checked his rank, he was platinum. So I beat a plat player and consequently got demoted to gold. WTF Blizzard.
Your MMR was gold-league level, possibly because you didn't ladder much and/or you were in the low range of your plat league (MMR-wise, not necessarily corresponds with division rank). The single game you played for your new-season-placement is inconsequential, since your MMR carries over between seasons. For 99% of the players it doesn't matter if they lose to a bronze leaguer or beat a GM in that single placement match, as their MMR already solidly fixes them in a certain league.
On October 26 2011 07:28 KimJongChill wrote: Diamond for fourth season in a row. I've always been pretty close to low masters but never good enough to get promoted. Sigh..I'm switching races now.
Tell us your demotion story after the switch! :3 (seriously did someone make it into a higher league without dropping in MMR like crazy or a demotion?)
I started as silver and got promoted to gold within the first season. Then in next season I played a bit and before its end I lost a match against a silver level random player and I loled so hard because that match promoted me into plat xD I was so frustrated... but then... 1. He was random... meh frustrating to lose someone who isn't really specialized... 2. ZOMG I got promoted to plat?! FOR A LOSE?! 3. HE WAS ACTUALLY A SILVER LEAGUER?!?!?!?!?!
I wrote this guy that I got into plat after losing to him and excused for BMing him (I was a terrible person back then) :3
Got promoted back into Diamond today (I was diamond for seasons 1 and 2.)
Spawned as Protoss on cross position Metalopolis against a Terran who proceeded to execute the slowest 1-1-1 without banshees (Medivacs instead) that I've ever seen. By the time he hit I was comfortably sitting on two bases with Charge Zealots with Plus one armor, and Archons.
Needless to say I crushed his push and pretty much had the game in the bag from there. I find it hard to believe the guy was actually mid diamond but oh well.
i started in bronze in season 1 and quickly advanced to silver and it took me all of season 1 trying to get to gold but i never got there. Then I played my first season 2 ladder game, lost, got promoted to gold. I tried to get to platinum oll of season 2, then, at the beginning of season 3, i promoted again. sadly ive been inactive since school started so i wont promote to diamond and continue the trend for season 4
Ah got to Masters during my placement match, currently 1-3 this season but the losses were due to minor mistakes and the win was pretty emphatic so I'm really happy.
I started in Silver in season 1 and hit a wall pretty quickly playing as Zerg. Towards the end of the season I promoted to Gold and had a month of rapid improvement, where I went up to rank 1 in my division. I lost my season 2 placement and stayed in gold. After a few weeks of staying in the top 5, I decided to start laddering as Protoss (despite the fact that I'd played about 5 games total as either T or P) and quickly fell all the way down to Bronze. I worked my way back up and got to high silver before the end of season 2. I used Zerg in my season 3 placement match and promoted back up to Gold, where I ended up sticking mainly with Zerg. I ended up top 8 with a lot of games played, and was at #1 for a long time before I became slightly inactive (about 3 weeks ago).
Today I played my placement (ZvP on Nerazim Crypt) and won a game with Roach/Hydra/Corrupter against Colossus/VR/Zealot/Stalker. Promoted into a newly formed Platinum division, marking the highest I've been in 1v1.
I'm pretty happy but I want to climb and get to Diamond before season 4 ends!
I got paired up with a protoss player, im also protoss. I scout his proxy gateway and try to counter it by making zealots early myself. I go out towards his gateway with 3zealot to find out that he's cannon pushing right next to my main.I had been following his probe but it turns out he sent another one. I end up losing cuz I didnt make cannons in time.
Still got placed into master but its a harsh way to start the season
On October 26 2011 08:29 Slithice wrote: I got paired up with a protoss player, im also protoss. I scout his proxy gateway and try to counter it by making zealots early myself. I go out towards his gateway with 3zealot to find out that he's cannon pushing right next to my main.I had been following his probe but it turns out he sent another one. I end up losing cuz I didnt make cannons in time.
Still got placed into master but its a harsh way to start the season
Im a plat toss player and lost to a 111 but still got promoted to diamond Losing to the 111 feels pretty terrible but this helped take some of the sting out of it.
I've been matched with nothing but Silver players for the entire season lock period with a winning record. I won my placement match against a Silver leaguer and I'm placed in..... BRONZE LEAGUE. A little frustrating. I took out a Gold league player today though, so I must be on my way.
I started playing ladder at the end of season 2. Started playing toss and got into silver after the 5 placement matches. A Masters/GM toss at school told me to switch out before I could and I started playing terran (for fun at first then I liked it). Then I got demoted to bronze after a week LOL. After help on some mechanics from a diamond zerg friend and a few coaching sessions with RevLyra, I got to top of platinum in a month by playing about 2 games a day (I'm really busy with school). Then after that I've been playing on a smurf account to improve my tvz and got placed into plat again today after placements but I have been playing all diamond players with one loss D: with a 15 win streak before season 4 LOL. Hoping to get into diamond on main once I do my placement
Was high diamond season 1, stopped playing for 7 months, came back about 2 weeks before lock out. took Plat after placement. Lost like 25 games in a row lol, got back into it winning at a decent rate, getting 5-10 streaks here and there, faced 3 diamond players in this time, going 2-1, and then proceeded to go 3-15 on ladder about 3-4 nights ago. took a few days break, lost my placement, and am still Plat. Im assuming im one of the small amounts that actually thinks I may belong where I am
So I finished Season 3 at rank 3 of my gold division, went 22-3 the last two weeks... constantly matched against mid to top 15 plats, win placement against rank 20 plat guy, and still get gold... Sad pony.
Last season I fell from Masters to Diamond, this season I have re-made Masters with some fire.
Last night I played a team monobattle, we stomped them. However none of us had anything that hits air, so when we won the other guy flew his stuff to the corner and forced a draw. Guess who I played my placement match against hahaha.
He went for proxy gates (he's that guy lol) I held it and countered for the glorious victory.
started out placed in bronze league season one. back then i wasn't very good , but i was able to win a lot by 6pooling, so before long i was placed in silver league. soon though i learned that constantly 6pooling wasn't helping me improve my game, so i started trying different things ,and was demoted to bronze again. season two i placed silver and played my way up to gold. that was a pretty long grind, but i also improved a lot. Season 3 rolled along and i was placed in platinum, but i'd stopped playing right after the beginning of season three, so when i started playing again i lost a lot of games and was demoted. i went on a really big losing streak and was very disheartened for a few weeks, but then i started playing more often and now im hovering around top 8 gold. i havnt played for quite some time due to me going on a big road trip for 60 days and not having starcraft on my laptop, so i expect to stay gold (insert ponyboy) for quite some time when i return before getting my next promotion.
Random player, I was gold rank 1 last season. I played my placement match and won easily and got placed in platinum. Currently rank 14. Maybe if I actually took this game seriously and picked a single race I could be diamond by now at least, but *shrugs* I just play this game casually.
When I won my placement match the whole time I was only thinking: "Remembering my larva injects is annoying while in the middle of an intense battle with my roaches against stalkers and colossi spread out during the fight." Won the match and saw "You've been placed in Platinum" and just thought it's about time... and just logged off.
Started in bronze at day 1. Then i googled somethign about starcraft and ended here in TL. I saw a topic about something called bunker rush, and decided to try it. It was AWESOME. I couldn't seem to stop winning. Eventually i got promoted to gold, where the bunker rush did not work anymore. I then made some friends and played a lot of team games. Someday, i got into diamond on team games ( there was no master legue yet). I was so excited. Eventually i came back to 1s, and learnt the mighty mass marine, breaking thru the platinum league. Then, in the very week before master league should be introduced I, 3 raxing, 1/1/1ing and 2raxing got placed in the diamond league. This was fanteastic :D. I kept on playing, but wasn't able to get into master's, but it didn't matter, I was already so pro at diamong league. I then quit playing for some time due to things IRL, but now I'm back as a platinum leveled zerg
Was at rank 2 Gold with 340+ wins. Beat a plat guy by 3 pylon blocking after he went 15 hatch. After he went for roach, infestor with 4 macro hatches on one base he proceeded to gg.
hooray
Now on a 4 win streak vs plats in straight up games :D and yesterday I thought I wasn't improving!
I was diamond in Season 1, then I kinda quit playing SC2. Resumed my play almost at the end of 3rd season and got "stuck" in platinum while ladder was locked.
After my placing match I'm back in diamond... Next step: Master!
Been high diamond for 2 seasons now, being a lowly bronze in s1. When the ladder lock started 3 weeks ago, I grinded about 500 games to practice to my hearts content. Did only one build per match up to try and perfect it as much as I can. After beating Masters ranked players during the lockout consecutively w/ hardly any loss, I thought this was perhaps my time.
Did my one placement match and got placed into diamond still. Then I started to lose to what seems to be an endless amount of 6pools and dt rushes yesterday morning. Went to work, came back to grind again! After winning what seemed to be only 4-5 games in a row but was actually 15 vs Masters players, I knew I was bound for a promotion. Logged back on this morning, lost 2 games in a row vs some "slightly less favored" opponents that were masters level and I got promoted! I can die happy now.
Now I'm thinking about buying another cd key for some off racing! YEAH!
Started in Bronze season 1. Absolutely terrible as a newb with zero build orders in my head nor the basis understanding what is required to win games. Start viewing streams of Zerg players and decided to switch. Played alot of custom games and kept learning more and more.
Season one bronze. This season got promoted to Diamond. I'm happy. Probably the highest league I can get in as I only play ~30 ladder games per season.
On October 26 2011 23:51 Fus wrote: I barely got a promotion story. I entered master league as soon as it came and always been there
This is similar to those "problems of a first world country" things. I feel you, too good at SC2 (relatively speaking), can no longer experience the emotion of promotion (unless you get GM ofc)
Was in Silver league for last season, played my placement match yesterday for the new season. Lost in a mirror match in which I felt I could have won but to my surprise I was placed in Gold.
At first i got demoted to diamond. At first i despaired and felt lile quitting, but then i channeled my rage and beat 5 people, getting promoted right back to masters! My ego was saved
platinum after first 5 games, dia first day dia come out.,master first day master come out next season master, next season master.
Im jealous. Most here have a goal or a fear. I have nothing to win and nothing to loose. To good to get demoted to bad to get into gm, this makes the game quit boring.
I think being in e.g. gold and try to fight the way into platin is way more fun, even when it dont look like it in the first place.
On October 27 2011 02:28 SoKHo wrote: master for 3 season's in a row T_T never have time to get to GM
Got into bronze and was horrible in my 1st season. Decided to do some funky raven shit every game and surprisingly got promoted into silver. This mass raven strat got me into gold. Started playing normally in gold and got to plat in the next season. Finally reached diamond 2 seasons ago. Can't somehow find the motivation to play more than 4-5 games a week to get into masters. Still i think im doing fairly well in my diamond league, winning more than half my games and maintaining top 20. Hopefully next season, i can get masters ^^
Did my placement match today and got promoted to diamond. At the beginning of the match I started talking to the protoss and since I told him I was hoping for the promotion into diamond he said gl and left the game. Giving me the win and my promotion. This is the fucking nicest guy I ever met on bnet ever ever ever. Someone pls build him a statue that is worth him! Prove:
On October 27 2011 04:42 Fleshcut wrote: Did my placement match today and got promoted to diamond. At the beginning of the match I started talking to the protoss and since I told him I was hoping for the promotion into diamond he said gl and left the game. Giving me the win and my promotion. This is the fucking nicest guy I ever met on bnet ever ever ever. Someone pls build him a statue that is worth him! Prove:
This is the coolest story here ^^
Even though one game barely matters for your MMR/promotion, the pure awesome emitting from this Protoss player ought to be emulated
i wanted the promotion to masters really badly after idling in diamond for nearly a year now. Problem was, i never really had the time. So when i had summer vacation i played 10 ladder games each day for a whole month. My win ratio was 55-70% average, still no promotion. For the following 2 months i had to go to university again so i played about 6-10 games a week (ladder fear, exhausting traveling since i travel a total of 4 hours each day to get to university and back). But lately, i have been playing against masters player only (which was a bit weird, since i was only diamond). So after like a month of playing only vs master player (who are by the way somehow worse than top diamonds -.-) i finally got promoted 10 minutes ago and am as happy as can be after working so hard for it . So my hard work really payed off and i feel like i really deserve this
Now i have about 2 years left to become number one Grandmaster :p
Stopped playing while in gold league about 3 months ago. My account had been inactive for so long I had to play placement matches again, but this time, I got into Plat. Gotta say, this is one of those truly wtf moments. Sure, I did some practice in Yabot to shore up my mechanical/build skills, but in my experience, taking an extended break from a game this complex should leave you behind everyone else.
Bought the game near the end of march this year. Got placed into Bronze and slowly started climbing that ladder. Reached silver mid april, gold league close to may, then made it into platinum in june. Mid july i started playing team games and didn't touch 1v1s for about 2 months... Made it into diamond in 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4. Once this was achieved I decided it was time to get a 4th shiny diamond and so I picked up 1v1 again. Season 4 came and yesterday I was promoted to diamond!
Skill is slowly increasing, which is a wonderful feeling ^_^ Hoping to reach master league before HotS is out
I have played this game since the beta, so I'm pretty awesome. When i got promoted to platinum, I bought myself a pinata and it was great. Skill is slowly increasing, which is a wonderful feeling ^_^
I started as a total noob in bronze with 1 win and 63 losses. When the game launched i worked very hard and finally got into silver, then i watched alot of streams and learned from there and then began playing again. I got promoted to gold. And later on when i played even more i got platinum... And the rest is boring, btw im masters now.
Started on the EU server and put into server after placements, 2 months later or so got promoted to gold.
Swapped to the US server and got put into bronze o_O. Promoted to silver and then gold within 2 weeks. Was gold the rest of the time and then out of nowhere i got promoted in my season 3 placement match and been there since.
Entered late into SC2, in Season 2. Only played team games and was afraid to play 1v1. Had a lot of success with team games during second season, but wanted to make my mark in 1v1, as I had not yet placed. I learned a few simple cheese builds and placed masters when that came out and stopped playing (20-9).
Next season I Decided that I needed to learn how to play 1v1 and would not shy away from ladder. I played a lot of 1v1 obs customs and with friends before Season 3 in preparation. Team games taught me to macro and strict BOs. Placed masters and ended Season 3 in top 8 master having my fair share of gm wins.
Started SC2 in the beggining of season 1. Got placed into bronze, worked my ass off and climbed my way to silver after around 100 games. Season ended, did not play much in season 2. In the end of it, I played my placement and got into gold. The season quickly ended and in season 3, I worked my ass off yet again and got to plat. I'm in high plat in season 4 and hoping for a promotion really soon!
Well I worked pretty hard to get out of bronze and then I was in silver for a week before I got promoted to gold then was stuck there till then end of the season because of the lock and then got promoted to plat. Working hard to fix problems with my play to get promoted higher. Mainly using backspace inject and hotkeying a lot better like doing 3 hotkeys for my army to take care of split drop harass and getting a better surround..etc.
Got placed into plat when that was the highest you could be. Then got promoted to diamond after about 30 games. When masters came out I got promoted after my fourth game, which was a loss, to a very BM opponent.
Placed in bronze in the middle of season 1 (january). Got bronze again in season 2, put was top gold when the season was over. Went to platinum in season 3, and im pretty sure I would have been promoted again in season 4 if it wasn't for a 2 week long tilt with only about 20% wins. Im plat now, but I think it's mostly because I haven't played that much this season.
Got placed diamond, played a few got masters, stopped playing for 3-4months, dropped to plat, played a few and got back to masters, quit again for ~3months, got placed diamond, haven't played since.
placed into silver near the end of season 2 where i finished in Gold. Come midway season 3 i was plat. By the closing of season 3 i was diamond playing against master level players. Placed diamond in season 4, then I received a promotion to masters league after a few days of season 4.
My masters promotion game was against some terrible 6-pool all-in with workers thrown in to boot..... turns out 2-rax horribly destroys a 6-pool on any 4/3 player map.
Have played almost exclusively teams for my entire sc2 career. this season decided to play 1s finally. Was gold since season 1, placed into plat this season, 4gated my ass off for like 40 games, around 90% win rate, then got matched up against a masters for first time, he left when game started, promoted to diamond! kinda anticlimactic but im still proud!
Today. Fuck yeah. I was gold in season 1, then demoted to bronze (had my brother playing with my account a few times, he lost like 15 games in a row.) Then, with the season 2 locked, i started playing serious again. And today.. platinum! <3
I logged into sc2; wasnt feeling very good about it. Dont really like the game but I was bored. I noticed that I needed to play a placement match (i didnt know about the season ending, i dont pay attention to that nonsense).
I played my game, 4 gated some random idiot and won in 7 minutes, then got promoted to Masters. Horray? Meh, it's whatever. I dont want to play vs good people so I just play on my silver league account now and mothership rush every single game. Silver league people actually cant beat it. Try it, it's mildly entertaining.
I am still in Masters on my main account, I play 1 or 2 games a week on it. I usually win. Seems like people don't expect proxy 2 gate when almost every map makes it easy to do because of the fixed positions on shattered and metal (and xel naga 2 player map). I dont play tal darim.
Whoever is having a hard time getting promoted to any league, just cheese every game. Eventually you will win more than you lose and promotion is inevidible. I get more satisfaction out of making some guy rage out over it than playing a macro game and winning. I even still allow people to message me without being on my friends list so I can bathe in their tears even more.
Started playing in bronze about a year ago. Took about one month with protoss to get to diamond. Then I quit for like 8 months and now I'm playing again but I've switched to zerg and i'm plat at the moment and still learning the basics of the race.
Started in Bronze.... 9 months later, made diamond. That was in June. Diamond to Masters is kinda hard. Just started a 2nd ladder account (that no1 knows about so i Don't get bothered) Hopefully I can make masters soon.
The better I get the more I realize how bad I am, so I think getting Silver will always be the best promotion.
Since the official release, I havent done many 1v1s. In the Beta I was in diamond for 1s and played quite often. Recently I played about 100 1v1s in season 3 and was in diamond for the most part but played 1 game in season 4 and got promoted to masters. but i havent had the time to play much since then.
Just did my Season 5 placement today, got into Masters even though I lost.^^
I was expecting/hoping this would happen, though. Last season I went 15-5 against Masters as a Diamond and never got the promotion during the duration of the season.
I started off as gold season 1. Kept losing to stupid Mutas (bane of Protoss existence to this day) cause they were OP in my mind at the time. Dropped me down to silver. =\
Started fighting my way back and got gold again after a week. Got platinum before season 2. Obtained Diamond like halfway through 2 and I have been in Diamond ever since.
lol i wish i could have a cool promotion story Ive been masters/diamond since the releases. And didnt play s2 (except like 10 games 1v1)... still masters >.> Now... to get gm...
1st season, SC2 was the first RTS I ever played so i had awful mechanics. I got so damn frustrated getting proxy zealot rushed, 6pooled, and scv/6rax all in'd every game. I was sure I would never get out of bronze, because there was no standardized gameplay, just cheesiest man wins. I beat every silver player i faced, but lost to a bunch of bronze leaguers, and never could get placed higher.
Then season 2 came, I played my placement game and voila, silver league. I threw a boxer style fist pump to the heavens. Since people actually played 'correctly' as i like to call it, I could actually measure my improvement in reasonable macro style games. Yeh i was awful, but sometimes I was less awful than my opponent, sometimes not so much.
I laddered happily for a few weeks, and then got promoted to gold, then I kinda quit playing for a long time. Still in gold, but we'll see.
My EU account which was demoted to plat because I havn't been playing, played 10 games last season and went 9-1, after the season 5 reset, logged in, joined a game, went "merry christmas and gg" and left.
started at end of season 2 and got into bronze. Placed into silver in season 3 and ended in top plat. Just got diamond before end of season 4. Then I got the nicest surprise today.... MASTERS!!!!!!!!! I was sooooooooooo happy
Woke up, ate breakfast and then played a TvT which I lost. He went some stupid 1 base marine tank push while I went 1 rax expo so he won, yet he placed in diamond and I went into masters lol. Good payback :D
I used to play war3, but soon after my friends and favorite players, grubby moon lyn(who just won wcg lolol) switched, i felt the need to switch too, that was year and half after the release of starcraft II, i didnt really know where to go from there, my friends were being jackasses and not helping me out, cos u know, they dont want me to overpower them like i did in war3
So without help, i just kept playing 2v2 and 4v4 always in bronze, and no improvement, at that time i knew NOTHING, zero about starcraft, i tried everything, google, asking in game, however was brutally rejected or trolled. Nevertheless i found a caster on youtube named Husky, i still remember the first game i watched was MarinekingPrime vs drg, thats when i fell in love with terran, i loved everything about it, the tanks, drops, the splits, i thought marineking was so cool and that if i can even be a little like him i can kick ass. Up until now, i play terran ofc, and follow marineking's tournaments almost everytime hoping he will not get 2nd but win something big , Always supported him even now, i would always copy his tactics, his the reason i play terran. Lots of people tells me to switch, they say terran is op and boring, theres no room for improvement on it. Hell, i am the only terran out of my 15 friends xD, but i didnt take shit, sometimes i lose 2-20 i was demoted twice, but i didnt care.
Its been roughly 6 monthes now, i am currently diamond, and have been stuck in there for 2-3 months now been ranked from top 8 to top 100 and hopefully someday i can get into masters :D
On December 21 2011 14:30 SirSoup wrote: I used to play war3, but soon after my friends and favorite players, grubby moon lyn(who just won wcg lolol) switched, i felt the need to switch too, that was year and half after the release of starcraft II, i didnt really know where to go from there, my friends were being jackasses and not helping me out, cos u know, they dont want me to overpower them like i did in war3
So without help, i just kept playing 2v2 and 4v4 always in bronze, and no improvement, at that time i knew NOTHING, zero about starcraft, i tried everything, google, asking in game, however was brutally rejected or trolled. Nevertheless i found a caster on youtube named Husky, i still remember the first game i watched was MarinekingPrime vs drg, thats when i fell in love with terran, i loved everything about it, the tanks, drops, the splits, i thought marineking was so cool and that if i can even be a little like him i can kick ass. Up until now, i play terran ofc, and follow marineking's tournaments almost everytime hoping he will not get 2nd but win something big , Always supported him even now, i would always copy his tactics, his the reason i play terran. Lots of people tells me to switch, they say terran is op and boring, theres no room for improvement on it. Hell, i am the only terran out of my 15 friends xD, but i didnt take shit, sometimes i lose 2-20 i was demoted twice, but i didnt care.
Its been roughly 6 monthes now, i am currently diamond, and have been stuck in there for 2-3 months now been ranked from top 8 to top 100 and hopefully someday i can get into masters :D
Hey man welcome to TL and starcraft! i unfortunately placed in diamond again, but confident i can get to masters this season!
Was on a losing streak end of last season in gold league, lose placement match and place in Plat. Many a WTF were had, but who am I to complain? A platinum player, no doubt.
I've been in bronze for the first 2 seasons because I had no idea what I was doing. Then I found out about 6 pool and now I'm low platinum. But also I've been watching IdrA games and been macroing. But mostly I cheese
On December 21 2011 14:30 SirSoup wrote: I used to play war3, but soon after my friends and favorite players, grubby moon lyn(who just won wcg lolol) switched, i felt the need to switch too, that was year and half after the release of starcraft II, i didnt really know where to go from there, my friends were being jackasses and not helping me out, cos u know, they dont want me to overpower them like i did in war3
So without help, i just kept playing 2v2 and 4v4 always in bronze, and no improvement, at that time i knew NOTHING, zero about starcraft, i tried everything, google, asking in game, however was brutally rejected or trolled. Nevertheless i found a caster on youtube named Husky, i still remember the first game i watched was MarinekingPrime vs drg, thats when i fell in love with terran, i loved everything about it, the tanks, drops, the splits, i thought marineking was so cool and that if i can even be a little like him i can kick ass. Up until now, i play terran ofc, and follow marineking's tournaments almost everytime hoping he will not get 2nd but win something big , Always supported him even now, i would always copy his tactics, his the reason i play terran. Lots of people tells me to switch, they say terran is op and boring, theres no room for improvement on it. Hell, i am the only terran out of my 15 friends xD, but i didnt take shit, sometimes i lose 2-20 i was demoted twice, but i didnt care.
Its been roughly 6 monthes now, i am currently diamond, and have been stuck in there for 2-3 months now been ranked from top 8 to top 100 and hopefully someday i can get into masters :D
Actually I would say that Terran got most room to improve, you can always do one more extra drop same time when you do everything else. Welcome to Team Liquid
non very energetic, start up the game, queue up.. boom
TvZ on meta (im gold) play, epic 40 minute game ends up with me pulling everything and going all in because his economy is crushing me and his counterattacks.. do some bomber work and float my barracks use them as mobile force fields to filter lings/blings through almost take down his bases but mismicro right at the end and lose my rines to a big baneling hit.
I have been stuck in high diamond for something like half a year, making at least half the games against master league and beeing able to pull my fair share of wins - still, I wasn't able to achieve promotion. To be honest, I somewhat resigned and thought I would never make it...
Still, a couple of weaks ago, when Bad_Habit posted his 6/7 pool strategies, I started to mess around with those a bit.After all, it was Saturday and I had nothing else to do ... after I went something like 16:6 on that day I suddenly was promoted to Master!
And the best part of it, after going back to standard, I made my way into Top 25 of my league - probably promotion increased my motivation, somewhat. In any case, promotion gave me a really good time. Even although it is a couple of weeks ago, I still sometimes feel extremely happy and well about my promotion. There are moments where I am just like "Baam, I am Masters now, bitches!"
I am now at the maximum I can achieve with my play time (I am doing a Phd in economics, which is not terribly difficult, but does not leave me with more than one hour playing time a day, on average) and that is a really good feeling :D
A very dramatic event. Last night I logged in, played some random terran 3 rax games, had 100% win rate (12 games), was happy. Then I thought, maybe I should play Zerg (my main race), which I did for the rest of the night (~5 hours). I got about 15 losses 2 wins. I was furious! I punched holes in my table (picture below). I ragequitted the next game and left for the night. Logged in 10 minutes ago, went a ZvZ, played horribly and ranked up to platinum, quite shocked.
I started off in bronze on SEA, but I didn't keep it for long (I had practice during the beta). I used to play Terran at the time, and my promotion to silver was obtained after a long (over 40 minute) match against a Zerg. I went mass battlecruiser, he had spores everywhere, and I got the meatgrinder achievement.
I didn't stay long as Terran after that, I switched to Zerg (still my main race), and I built my mechanics. I would win in the late game, but I would lose to early game cheeses. I kept getting better, and by Season 2 I was Platinum on NA (I switched to NA after getting Silver on SEA).
I was so happy once I got into Platinum, I boasted to all my friends that I was so good, and everyone started to look up to me - having switched races and gotten 2 ranks above them in a third of the time. At this point my friends quit playing SC2, but I see them on from time to time, and we keep in contant cross game.
Season 3 I got into Diamond, I was previously rank 1-2 Platinum in my division, and my mechanics had gotten a lot better. I devised my own strategy centred around +1 roach.
In Season 4 I achieved Master, one or two months ahead of the person I was competing against to do so (Tazerenix). He would always throw it in my face that he was masters and I was still Diamond. At the same time he hit masters, I went on tilt, and proceeded to lose more than 10 games in a row, and quit playing Starcraft 2 for a while (It's impossible to fully quit ).
Season 5 still Master, nothing interesting's happened yet! >:o
Edit: I should probably mention I never deserved to be in Silver on SEA - at least Gold. I had won 4/5 of my placement matches at the time, and I was beating Gold+ players left, right and centre. That's why I switched to NA, I thought I would never get promoted out of Silver...
Played since season 1 where I went all the way from diamond to Platinum. My ladder career has been far from normal. By the end of season 2 I was in Diamond, the ladder hell for me. Stayed there all of season three and couldn't break the masters lineup. My builds were mostly cheesy stuff and so I tried to refine my macro skills by playing more macro oriented builds. Season 4 came out and I was demoted to platinum, probably the most depressing part of my ladder career. I went 55 and 8 in Platinum and finally got re-promoted to diamond. All that season I laddered my ass off in search of masters, but failed to get to it before ladder lock. I tried so hard during ladder lock to bring up my mmr. When I was in the placement match I asked him what league and he replied masters. I was so excited! I beat him, expecting to see the masters league symbol as i covered my eyes, but I saw the diamond symbol again. Probably the most disappointing time I ever had in sc2, not because of the league but because of how insignificant all my work seemed now. My friends last night convinced me to play a little before I went to bed, so i played 1 game against a protoss. The game was so close but I ended up winning. Suddenly I see the promotion screen pop-up and I screamed. Best part is that I had a 10 dollar race to masters bet with my friends. Now its a snowday here and I'm 10 dollars richer laddering in masters!
I played since beta, was first placed into silver when plat was the higher league, then gold, and with the release I got into platinum. Then I stagnated for a long time, because I couldn't play as much as I wanted; I wasn't bad though, as in my clan I managed to beat several diamond friends on a regular basis and even get to beat a master friend's macro build. But ladder didn't seem to recognize my level, and I was still in plat, even when doing the funday monday with only queens/spines/spores/overseers, and losing to bronze, or fighting high diamond nearly into masters and beating them.
Then season 5 happened.Here I am at my gf's, haven't played in two weeks. I play a terran counterclockwise on antiga. I go for 15 hatch but missclick and hit esc while having the building hatch in selection, so I end with a gas and a pool nearly finished. Having no choice, I go for a roach allin, and crush the 1 marine reactor hellion opening the terran did.
He ragequits. I get into diamond.
Needless to say, I'm quit satisfied with my Christmas promotion =D
Back at the start of season 1 I got immediately into diamond and was playing random. Was struggling with lots of MUs and went to a negative overall reckord (in my division there were only a few with that accomplishment). Even dropped to rank 100 at some point. At that time I decided I had had enough of random and switched to terran. Well a streak of something like 25-7 brought me back to middle diamond but playing only terran after random was much less fun. So I started playing customs with random. When masters league got introduced I was rank 60 diamond and after 1 win got to masters ^^. People were very confused when they asked me how many points I had and what rank I was when I got promotion.
I was playing at Gold league level before my military service which started six months ago and I didn't play a single 1v1 match in three months. Today I played my 5 placement matches and won them all -> Diamond league woot. Gonna get my ass kicked so hard..
Platinum in beta, mainly because of my 5 win streak in placements there. Platinum in season 1, pretty sure I won at least 4 of those placements as well. Lost on purpose placement for S2 and placed in gold. Won one game, back in Platinum. Didn't play for ages, started to ladder again 2 weeks ago, got Platinum after 5 placement games where I lost 2. Should hopefully cement myself in platinum this season as well, maybe get to Diamond if I can get over my BS fear of laddering.
I've been pretty stable, as in I've gotten better as the rest of the community has improved, I feel I belong around mid-top platinum and I always have, so my placements and promotions hasn't been very interesting.
However, I played Protoss in Beta and early season 1, then Zerg from then on. Terran has always been my worst race, but my friend got me a second SC2 account to play around on and for shits and giggles I decided to do my placement matches, using horrible tactics, my goal being to place in silver or so... I went pure M&M first game, pure M second game, CC first third game, won all of them easily, so I lost the next two by probe rushing... still placed in gold. Felt pretty good to know that I could have probably placed in platinum with minimal effort in my worst offrace, just by macro and mechanics.
started playing a year ago: bronze zerg one month later, thanks to Day9: plat zerg quit for a long time for thesis and summer vacation then gradschool started playing again: gold random player now: plat random player forever plat :'(
lol, so standard on SEA. just placed back into my usually plat. But on NA i jumped from silver to gold on the placement, won 1 game then got into plat. I would play another game to see if i can get into diamond but the only reason im up is to drink some water after a big night haha. games were ez-pz expecting diamond. i practice enough.
Been plat since beta because I never laddered much until recently, where I laddered slightly more than before. Now I'm diamond, which wasn't really a surprise since my winrate in plat was over 90%. Don't really have enough motivation to ladder more for master league.
3300 master s1, was very proud of that achievment (not a real achievment :p ) but after a massive computer crash, gfx crashed, motherboard crashed, processor crashed, screen broke, mouse broke and i was broke..
so diamond s2, diamond s3, diamond s4 and now back to masters where i belong!
Was in Platinum since Beta. Last season finally got some time to ladder and switching to muta play vs Protoss got me promoted to Diamond mid-season. Kept playing and manage to float around mid diamond. Placed into Diamond again this season but it seems everyone's better. Getting schooled pretty hard - currently 4-8
I started playing 2 months ago, had never laddered and played the beta a bit. Finally decided to buy the game, Had some people teaching me, in some customs. I got lucky in my placement games, I won the first 3 and then 1 guy just left, the last one tried to proxy 2 gate and just like that I was platinum with my first 5 games played. I played around 300 ish games since, got to the top of my division and was rolling at around 750 points mid season onwards.
People talk about different leagues but in my short 2-3 months of playing the game even the styles of play and the way you think changes so drastically even within different tiers and MMR's of platinum and low diamond alone. Everytime I moved up Id lost like 4-5 games in a row because Id get hit by stuff I had no idea existed.
I got into diamond a couple of weeks before the season ended. I was told it was really easy if I just beat alot of diamonds, but in all honesty I was pretty much 50-50 and it actually promoted me when I lost a game. I feel like im out of my league personally, I already got crushed the first 3 games I played, but I feel like that everytime so heres to improving . Besides Terran is the hipster race now. In the beta it was nothing but terrans now theres more randoms in my division than terrans haha.
Experiencend my first promotion today. It was 6:50 am and Season 5 was just recently up on Europe. I have to leave my house at 7:10 am in order to catch my bus. I saw the Starcraft MP Menu and the medal with the exclamation mark, saying that I have play a match to get into a league. And with only 20 minutes left I said to myself: "Oh well, might aswell play this game. 4 seasons in bronze league, this won't change anything." I got this new 2 player map against a protoss and I made my decision: 8 pool. Turns out my enemy tried a cannon rush and I could prevent it, he left immediatly. And then promotion! I was very suprised and happy and I almost missed my bus, but after some running action I still got it^^ Good way to start the day (turns out the day overall was not as bad as I expected =) )
In season 2 I was placed into silver, but almost never played a ladder game. The same happened in S3. When S4 was about to start I said to myself: "Time to get into gold!" So I won my placement and was placed in... Bronze >.<
I started to grind games, after 40 games with a 80% winrate I got back into silver. Been playing in high silver since, getting matched a lot with gold leaguers.
Today I've been promoted to gold! Time to get in Plat next season :D
Been playing 1v1 since Season 2, started off in Bronze and took me a month to get into Silver. Before Season 3 I made it into Gold and stayed there until about the last week where I made it into Platinum about a week before ladder lock in Season 3. Grinded a good bit of games and made it into Diamond off of my placement match in Season 4, still in Diamond after Season 5 but I'm going to grind hard over break to finally make it into Master's!
Been pretty much scared to ladder recently due to race swapping alot, but was around high silver, after deciding on my race 2 days ago been laddering a little and got promoted to gold : )
In about a weeks time I went from silver to plat. Then a month later I was in Diamond. All because of the day9 daily where he gave advice on how to improve mechanics.
FFE on Shakuras, thought that noone would roach bust on shakuras. Skipped the voidray, lose to a roach bust :D well going to diamond again, nothing new
I played a PvZ on Shakuras. My opponent went 9 pool with gas and then into very fast banelings. He broke my wall and went into my main with lings. I left the game after that. I got promoted into Master. I was in Masters last season also
I have been Platinum since the beta, and never played enough ladder to really move up or down leagues. At the beginning of season 4 I decided to start playing a lot more often, improve my game and my utimate goal was to reach diamond by the end of the season. I played well over 200 1v1 ladder games during the season, but alas, only managed to finish in the top 8 platinum instead of my previous goal, which was still fine by me. Today, after playing my 5th game of season5 , no longer trying to actually get into diamond, I have received my promotion after a 2-base PvP game that I've won. My promotion made me very happy, since I really feel like all the work I've put into the ladder has finally paid off. :-)
I have been bouncing between high diamond and low masters since season 1, near the end of season 4 I got demoted and was playing only diamonds, season 5 started and played almost exclusively masters
Started at 14-6 for the season and was feeling good, got matched against a terran who was favored on TDA, got ahead, then promptly lost to a double drop....
Next game go in against a slightly favored zerg and I get way ahead with mutas, he does like 3 run bys that i completely miss and fear that im about to lose again, my macro was awful floating 2k/1.2k and missing basically every inject ever, thankfully I send mutas to 3rd and he gg's out for my promotion.
Feels good to get promoted...sucks knowing my 5th demotion will come soon...
SC2 is my first RTS ever. Started in rank 90 Bronze, lost my first 8 games in a row, then learned to play but got stuck in bronze despite playing golds. Season 2 came, placed in silver. 15 games later was in gold. Season 3 came, placed gold. Played 10 games, promoted to Plat, which was a very frustrating experience for me, since all of the games were very close and I lost the last 3 or 4 in a row after winning 9 or so.
Currently I am Rank 2 Plat and failed a possible promotion run after going 2-6, then not playing for 2 days. 7 out of 8 games were against Diamond Zerg (the other Diamond Terran), and all 6 losses were to Zerg. PvZ is definitely my weakest matchup at the moment.
I first did my placements and ended up in platinum!!!But then I lost a string of games and ended up in Bronze.Working hard i got to Silver then I stood a long time #1 silver when ta-daa Season 3 started and I was on platinum.Thanks to college now I barley have will/time to play.But i'll try and compensate for it during vacation :D
My first time ever playing this game back when the game just came out, Blizz saw my greatness and slaved away at creating a Grandmaster's league just for me. I was pleased, so I spared their lives.
My Great Grandfather was also a Grandmaster in his day, so I know that he would be proud.
when the game released, i was placed into bronze (lol i sucked) season 1 i made no progress, i barely even touched the game (thanks WoW....) season 2 i went from bronze-platinum, pretty happy with myself season 3 i went from platinum to diamond, was feeling pretty damn good season 4 i stayed diamond..... worst part is for entirety of season 4 i only played a few diamonds thanks to my MMR season 5.... I had already warmed up with the placement for my terran smurf (i play zerg) and i was ready to play. It was a ZvP on tal'darim altar. everything went perfectly. He opened with a cannon walloff but i had a drone block it in time for lings to get out to make him waste 200 in pylons in my base, and i transitioned to 2 base muta while taking a spire. He went for a 5 gate+immortal push, which i was able to delay and eventually crush with 2/2 ling-muta. The game worked like clockwork from there. I prevented him from teching with my mutas, i roamed around, had full map vision, took my third and eventual fourth while denying his, and i eventually just steamrolled him with a bunch of 3/3 brood lords (3/3 broodlings) infestors, mutas, and lings. That was one of the best games in my entire life and it led to this...
MASTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had accomplished what all my friends had deemed impossible for me to do (i'm 14 and very focused on schoolwork, they said no way could i get anywhere with a game and still have straight A's.... lolololololololol)
so yeah. bronze to masters, im waiting for GM to make a reddit post though
my promotion from bronze to silver was most memorable. did some terrible 1 base void ray build ftw. got bm'd by my opponent. promo'd to silver, leaped out of my chair with a 'WOOOOO!', hit GG button, woke up my sleeping kid. good times.
I made Bronze to Masters in about 400 (between 2v2/1v1) league games over about 10 or 11 months. I didn't play a lot really, and I think I could of gotten it sooner but I'm not very dedicated to Starcraft (I watch a lot but don't feel the desire to play). It might also be worth noting that I skipped over the Silver-Platinum and was actually placed directly into Diamond when I was promoted from Bronze.
Anyways, I didn't have too much of a reaction to being promoted as it happened from my placement match, and I had been on about a 30 game tear from the last season. So I expected it, however, I was a bit nervous when I lost the placement match. Yet still I was placed in Masters last season, and while I didn't have any visible reaction I went about the rest of the day feeling rather delighted.
Worked my way from low bronze to high diamond, every promotion was like a sence of gratification that I was infact on the correct journy to becomeing a better player. I find the promotions to platinum, then to diamond were the most significant due to the fact it signaled me making a quantum leap in my skill levels. I casually flipped the fuck out ran around, told my brother " IM DIAMONDDDD ^.^"
I was first placed in Silver. Predictably, I lost more than I won. In no time at all, I was bumped down to Bronze. I stayed in Bronze for months. However, through immense effort and great focus, I got promoted a few days before Christmas. Now, I'm top Silver! Woohoo!
I was high diamond trying to get into masters for a while. After about 2 weeks of really intensive play and getting high mmr I was sick of not being promoted and the season was nearing a lock so I stopped playing. That was a couple of months ago.
I cam back 2 weeks ago and someone told me I should try a placement match if my MMR is high enough. So I just 3 rax cheesed some poor Protoss (I never cheese), and got promoted to master .
I JUST GOT INTO DIAMOND!!!!!!! I beat the same Zerg twice in a row and he was super mannered and super cool.
WOOOHOOOO
I used to be a gold-plat player. Now I am beating Top8 diamond players. Improvement feels so good.
Nobody I know plays SC2, so you (the Team Liquid Community) are the only people I get to flex my eMuscles at. It just feels so good. I don't get to play that much and I don't have that much RTS experience, but I LOVE this game and so I sat down this break with the goal of getting into diamond and I did it! I'm so proud.
I was bronze at season 1 but got promoted to silver during season 1 :D then stayed at silver for season 2 until the start of the season i got promoted to gold :D but then i stayed at gold for 2 seasons. Now i at plat but it my first season with plat so idk if i will get demoted or not :\
After a slump last season in mid to high platinum, I massed ladder games during the lock and got a high enough MMR to be placed in diamond this season. I was practically jumping with joy =D
i remember when i first got promoted to Diamond league in S1 (back when there was no master) and it was this LONG ass game, it was a PvT on metalopolis and he was T. he did a super early stim attack (like all T did back then) and i held it off pretty good with good forcefields, but he killed a lot of my shit and he got an expo up. i had an obs in his base and i realized that he was making pure maruders so i proxied 2 stargates, chrono'd out 4 void rays, and just annihilated his base with them. he eventually held but i did a lot of damage, then i realized he took a gold base and had a bunch more units, and we had small battles here and there. then he had another hidden expo that i finally found and killed, but then he flew all of his buildings to random parts of the map and i had to make phoenix' to take care of them.
I had been in the highest league since the beta but I never really liked the game and always preferred dota but had nobody to play with Didn't have a lot of games, I was around 800 wins overall when in the season before 1.4.2 I laddered for 3 days before GM opened and got promoted. After 3 days I stopped playing since there was nothing else to do, now dota2 has come out and I am an happy guy.
Fuck yeah! Just got re-promoted to masters in a epic and somewhat close game. I've took a break back in early December because I was getting roflstomped over and over and started playing another game. Came back yesterday played my placement match got diamond (I was low masters before season 4 ended). So feeling "meh" I played some more today went 4-2 and on the 6th game got a pvp on shakuras whose doing just another 1 base all-in in which I hate oh so much. I just kind of wing my build orders and play off my mechanics (because i'm bad like that) and this is the game it resulted in! Also re-promoted me to Masters :D
Rep: Replay Decision making at its finest~ (I think)
edit: excuse my sloppy mid-game play. I'm the kind of guy who takes a phone call and doesn't pause ;P.
I cheesed my 5 placement matches, got put in platinum; then got demoted to gold. Since then I've forced myself to try and play at least 1 game a day (to get rid of my bonus pool), got into diamond at the end of the first season. Since then I've moved up a league every 2 seasons (now in gm).
Finally got promoted to masters My life is now complete.
Was a TvP on entombed valley and and I go for a rine tank attack to take out his natural, and pretty much my attack gets deflected and I was about to GG, but I just macroed up another attack with around 6 tanks the second time and he walks his collosus into my tanks and they get decimated and I end up winning. When I saw promotion I screamed a little bit lol
I lost to some guy when I first started season 2 in bronze, searched again got the same guy on the same map in the same position, the 2nd game started exactly the same my scouting went in the same pattern and his queen killed my probe in the exact same fashion as the first game. I ended up beating him the second time and got promoted to silver. Then I lost the 1st game of season 3 and got promoted into gold . My silver promotion felt soooo good
Until I saw the post explainig leagues on TL I thought Bliz had a random way of doing things. When I firt finished my placement matches it put me in gold and I stayed there for a while until I hit a slump. I knew I was doing bad because it kept matching me with silver and some bronze players. I remeber winning a game against another gold player and I got demoted afterwards. I was just staring at my computer for a while, knowing it was coming, but that I got demoted after a win really got to me. I eventually got back into gol but it took forever. I started playing more and got pretty high gold but never got ranked up. I was always in the top three of my league and I was being matched up with all plats sometimes diamonds and once a masters player. Despite all this I never got promoted to platinum. Next season I played one game and got put into platinum after that I kinda cooled it on the playin because getting into diamond seemed like it would be too much work given that school was just around the corner.
I had been stuck in platinum for 4 seasons. Everytime I'd get top 8 plat, my mouse would die...I know..lame excuse. I've had to bury a logitech, hp, and akari steel series along the way. After 7000+ladder games, I was starting to wonder if I reached my ceiling. Maybe I'm just a plat player. Subsequently I went on crazy losing streak, dropping 17 out of 20 games. I was 50ish place in my plat league last week. OMG, I'm going back to gold. Still delusional, with aspirations of Masters and up, I blamed my mouse. No really, my spectre really was dying on me.
So I picked up my 5th mouse in a year. Even without a glitchy mouse, I was still dropping games. Finally, I ate some humble pie and really analyzed my loses. Simplfied, I decided I needed to make a lot of marines, tanks, and medvacs as fast as possible against zerg and terran, and tech to vikings the moment I see an obs in my base. As a result, mauraders, banes and collosus aren't good against me anymore.
To make a long "cool story bro" short; Friday, I went on a crazy win streak, jumping 50 spots in day. Then got owned by ST_Aphrodite in some practice games. Licked my wounds, got back on the ladder, and the very next game won a TvT and was promoted into Diamond.
I'm still on a pretty good win streak, and hoping I can make it into Masters before my mouse dies again
So recently I started a new account. I won my initial 5 placement matches and got placed into Diamond. After about 50 games my MMR was high enough to get pushed back up into masters.The game I got promoted went like this. It's Metalopolis I'm Z at 3'oclock he's P at 12'oclock. I open 14 pool 16 hatch, scout on 16. He looks to be doing a ffe, but the nexus isn't down yet. I pull my drone back make two lings scout again. the nexus still isn't down so I send in an overlord. It's a 4 gate blink DT build. At this time my 3rd is up I make like 4 drones on it and start pumping units. I hold the initial push. He comes again with another push I hold. He comes again with a smaller push I hold he sends me a ": (". He comes again with all his probes I hold and he pauses the game and says "Let me win." ... "Please". I tell him to eff off and un pause the game. He pauses again until he runs out of pauses, then he proceeds to call me a "C**t" and leaves the game... I then get promoted to masters. I had a laugh about this game for about 15 minutes after getting promoted.
SC2 was my first RTS. I played SC1 (not even BW) when I was young, but only custom games and the campaign. Picked up SC2 in the beta, my brother got an invite earlier than me so I played and learned on his account. When I got my key I was placed into gold. Got to Diamond in about 2 (when I started there wasn't a Diamond, but 2 weeks later there was). Then I moved to Germany (from California) :O :O. For a year after release I played with a crappy laptop that would overheat over ~150 food or if I played more than 30 mins Maintained a diamond rank. Next year, I got my parents to ship my computer over for Christmas (was ~500 dollars, it's a nice computer, and huge). 3 weeks later I get masters! Yay! I feel like I could've been masters forever but I couldn't play right.
Originally placed into bronze played for a few months, took a break came back placed into silver played for a few months again then took a 4month break.
Just 3 weeks ago came back placed into Plat O_O and have been doing fine in that league ever since it was very very weird I've never promoted or demoted in a season before only in placements.
I was placed at gold league at realese, i had the beta but did not play more than a few team games. I quickly got promoted to diamond and then master league when it came. I'm now mid/high master(rank 11-15 in a tough division)
I was playing a game. I did a 4-rax timing (TvP on 2 base), won the game and i got promoted to masters. Im still just as bad, so it doesnt even mean anything.
Also, i was in Bronze league at release and ended season 1 in silver. I then went on to end season 2 in diamond. I was diamond for about 4 seasons.
A long time ago around at the beginning of last summer I was a high gold player who was having a lot of trouble because his pet builds weren't working all that well anymore and he was actually having to try to use real builds occasionally and learn to play lategame a little bit. I was very frustrated with the game and decided that as soon as I made platinum I would stop laddering.
Thus with the scene set I head into a pvp close air on Shattered Temple. Being in gold we both do a sloppy 4 gate, which I had just learned since my pet build was a 3 gate robo and he comes out slightly ahead. I tech to colossus and turtle on one base and he tries to counterattack with a bunch of gateway units, expand, get a twilight council, tech to colossi and upgrade all at the same time.
After some minor skirmishing in the front of my base where he loses a few units for free, my main is about to be mined out and I push with 3 colossi, range, all the gateway units I have left, an immortal or two, and last but certainly not least, all of my probes. I somehow manage to forcefield his units back between his nexus and mineral line and his focus fire comes out 2 stalker shots away from killing a colossus, and I go on to destroy to his natural base.
In my glorious victory I was congratulated with a hearty "wtf, who all ins?" and as I waltz into his main he leaves with a cheerful "noob" in what I shall forever remember as the battle of the pro-ballin' probe all-in. Of course, I came out of that game with a huge grin on my face, a promotion to platinum, and resolution to stop playing that would last a few months while I became more into watching streams.
First placement matches match 5: (back in July 2010) 2gate zealots --> BM the opponent for his gas steal --> forge --> 1 cannon near my front (no wall) --> cannons in smoke at back of main (metalopolis) --> robo --> get 2 base baneling busted --> stargate --> collosus/void ray with 0/0, no collosus range, no void speed --> take natural expansion. Then I won because he went 2 base mass hydralisk (this was like at the 22 minute mark). I got silver, placing me ahead of my then-bronze rival.
Finally got promoted to Masters. Quite happy about it as I've been rank 1 diamond this entire season...at this moment I can say that I am top 8 and ranked higher than Thorzain's NA account...til he plays most on it. (Its a new league!)
Started as bronze and then worked my way up to silver and then gold in season 2, lost my placement match for season 3 but got placed in platinum anyways. Havnt been able to play for a while though.
I've started in silver. After season 2 I took a pause from playing and started watching streams. I was watching mostly tournaments, then started to watch for example TLO, DeMusliM and other pro Terrans first-person streams. I've learned builds, decision making and other stuff. Thanks to the fact I play guitar a lot, I didn't have problem with executing it as my APM is high enough. I came back at the end of season 3 and managed to get to platinum. Season 4 I wasn't playing too much and stayed in Platinum, but at the beggining of Season 5 I've advanced to Diamond and now I am 25th in my division, with 62% win ratio, but I still don't have too much time to play (only 52 wins by far). But with the end of April, I'm finishing school, so then I will be able to play more and get to Masters or maybe even Grandmasters
Placed in Silver after doing a roach rush build a friend taught me. Dropped to Bronze after losing a bunch of games, since I stopped roach rushing after my classmate said it was dumb, and I got discouraged and stopped playing for a while. During ladder lock, I realized I just need to practice more to get the hang of things, so I worked hard to get the promotion in the next season's (3, I think) placement match. I lost the match, but promoted into Silver anyway. Then I got sucked into custom games, and during Season 4's ladder lock, I got my own account*, stuck to customs and team matches, and went on to place in Gold for season 5.
* I was using another friend's account, since he never wanted to play again after some DT-related trauma during team matches. He hadn't played any 1v1 quickmatches.
I didn't get into Grandmasters this season because I didn't play as the league came out, then it locked, I was pretty mad but recently I got into gm after going on a 16 game winstreak, and I'm really happy about that!
Season 2 reset happened. I went on a 34 game win streak, was getting matchup against high platinum and low diamond players. I get to league promotions in one day, after a few days of letting my mmr balanced out I get placed back in platinum.
On December 22 2011 00:23 Kallehoe wrote: 3300 master s1, was very proud of that achievment (not a real achievment :p ) but after a massive computer crash, gfx crashed, motherboard crashed, processor crashed, screen broke, mouse broke and i was broke..
so diamond s2, diamond s3, diamond s4 and now back to masters where i belong!
so happy right now.
Sorry, got to call out the liar.
Masters and grandmasters league wasn't around in Season 1.
Now for my story:
Bought game at midnight release, didn't get into beta or ever play SC1 but I was VERY excited for the game.
After my 50 practice league games I got placed into gold and was thrilled, after many games I unforunately dropped back down to silver. Many wins later though, gold was mine again and I was happy, I practiced a lot and soon enough came plat, and then the beloved diamond league all in season 1.
Being happy with my new league I grew scared of 1v1s only doing 20 or so a season and just playing 4v4s and 2v2s.
Finally I decided to get really into 1v1 where I am now, I made an account on the Korean server, then went back to the NA server and dominated everyone in diamond, had a 70%+ W/L overall 90% vs T my best match up. Things were great.
Alas though, I started failing hard, my confidence dropped, I grew depressed and my ranking plummeted to around a top 25 diamond level. Pretty much where I'm at now, slowing recovering.. Slowly..
On February 05 2012 09:07 Valestrum wrote: Sorry, got to call out the liar.
Masters and grandmasters league wasn't around in Season 1.
Master league WAS around for Season 1, it was released January 15, 2011, while Season 1 ended March 22, 2011. However, you're right about Grandmaster league, it was introduced a week after Season 2 started.
Recently got promoted to 4v4 masters. I started the day at #3 in my diamond division. After some wins and some losses, I got up to #1. I then won 14 straight games. NO PROMOTION. I then lost 5 straight games and won 1, and got promoted. Very weird.
I have a friends that I play and talk about starcraft with all the time, and we were on skype laddering a few weeks ago, and he got promoted to diamond one game, and when I won my game i got promoted into diamond into the same division.
My favorite placement match story is back from beta:
I played Toss at first and wound up in copper league (Yes there was something under bronze). Anyway, after getting depressed a bit I decided to try and get my act together and go for a higher league. So after a few weeks of playing and countless placement matches(For those not in beta, every time a new patch came out you had to redo placement matches). I was able to go up to silver(Copper league had been removed and bronze "replaced" it) using zerg. Since then I have taken SC2 1v1s casually due to school and ladder anxiety.
Although recently I found that listening to a Day9 daily while playing helps tremendously.
I went from Bronze --> Silver --> Gold I'm on the borderline of getting into Platinum, but have yet to do so. Just beat a few mid to high platinums today after my placement match into gold =) I've been stuck in gold since season one. Feels good now being high platinum :D
I started out in Bronze when the post beta ladder started and worked my way up to diamond. About early November I was promoted after I won a game against a Terran (Protoss speaking ^^) who thor rushed me and it somehow worked out into a macro game which ended in a Thor vs. Immortal battle.
I didn't play the beta, but i watched you tube videos from Husky and HD alot. I bought the game the day it came out. The first day i finished the campaign. The day after i played a few practice games, but i recall they were very boring and slow paced since the game speed was on normal :X, i skipped ahead to my real placement matches and got placed in to gold .
Back then i was a bit afraid of laddering and losing, so i didn't play much, and only occasionally here and there. I eventually got up to plat, where i started playing a bit more seriously as i quit most other games i played. I managed to make it to diamond and now masters :O.
S1 Gold, S2 Plat, S3 Dia, S4 Masters, S5 Still masters :D, rooting for GM!
did my promotion when i got the game, 1v1 gold 2's 3's were silver, mostly played 2 and 3's until season 3 I started 1's and 2 games in it shot me to silver...
eventually i knew i was getting better than the match on scrap station i won got me into gold felt really happy. the one onto Plat was weird cuz i was winning and losing and from gold ranked 37 i jumped to Plat 3rd, seasons later (I quit every season starter match) played 2 games and got high diamond. i should drop this next season because i've played liked 3 games in all of January and haven't yet in February
Back in early beta I was placed into silver when it was copper>>bronze>>silver>>gold>>platinum...I think. I hadn't played BW in ages and was really rusty, but by the end of beta I was diamond, after it had been introduced of course. Then when masters was introduced I was promoted after my first game.
Welp, I'm looking forward to a sixth season in a row of being diamond. At this point I wish I were in a lower league so I wouldn't have to experience this horrible feeling of stagnation.
My friend was in bronze since release and somebody got on his account and six pooled after 3 months of inactivity and he was immedeatly promoted to silver.
I played in the beta, started off bronze. I then decided to spend 200 games against computer to come up with 2 BO. I Then preceded to win 20 games in a row and got to platinum. I then stayed in plat and decided to look at replays and copy their BO. Season 2 im in diamond. Season 5 i get my $#$@ together and get into masters by winning 20/24 games :D.
Played in beta for 1 week, placed in bronze after not touching bw for 5 years and having no idea what the new units did. Discovered proxy Void Ray rush,made it to platinum before beta closed. Got to diamond first week of release, stayed top diamond until masters came out. Now trying to get to GM staying around top 100 masters in NA but still unable to crack.
Well, in Season One, I started in Bronze. At the beginning of each next 2 seasons, I get promoted, setting myself up for the Gold League in Season 4. Throughout Seasons 4 and 5, though, I haven't really played a whole lot (just sort of got bored of playing), though, I still won most of my games. Today, I decided to play one game before bed, and it turned out to be a ZvT on Arid Plateau, my favourite matchup.
The game started out pretty standard, with a fast expand from me, and some attempted (and failed) drone harass. As the game progressed, I played fairly passively, getting double evolution chambers and quad gas once both my bases were saturated. I then got my 3rd and my Lair. Just before my 3rd finished, I saw the decently sized Terran army coming up through the middle. I had a few spines and lings, but I knew his siege tanks would deal with those quickly. I threw my lings into him from both sides once he reached my base, and took my drones from my natural to my 3rd. I did a decent amount of damage to his army (taking out 1 tank, as well :D), but he ended up destroying my natural.
He didn't scout my 3rd immediately, and took a bit of time before coming into my main (he wanted to repair his 2 remaining tanks), allowing me to set up some defenses and an Infestation Pit. I eventually pushed his army out with my lings, and started massing up. I had a large pile of lings (52, or something) just outside of his base, then he pushed out. I counter-attacked and destroyed his entire base. My infestors back at home took care of the marines with ease. No GG from him, and a promotion for me. Was pretty happy :D.
I've been in Masters since it came out and Diamond before that. I don't claim to be an amazing player by any means, I was certainly low-mid masters. I had gotten myself a second account to play random on, which was surprisingly fun and addicting. I played less and less on my main Terran account - season 3 and 4 I probably had maybe 10 total games played. Season 5 started and I decided I wanted to get back into Terran (got my random to Diamond which is about all I could muster). The first couple games I got destroyed and got demoted.
I wasn't prepared for how much that got to me. I just had to get back and get better. My builds were outdated and I was just plain terrible. I lost some more in Diamond. Eventually I started getting used to a few new build and started winning. For the last 2 weeks I've played nothing but Masters players so I was hopeful. And then...Blizzard announced the impending closure of Season 5.
I still hadn't been promoted, what was I doing wrong? I decided to muster up enough to play a few games tonight and pray. My prayers were answered - I got 1 Terran and 4 Zergs.
The Terran was EZPZ, simple marine/tank/viking push into expand designed to kill or cripple an FE won me the game outright.
The first Zerg (on Metal) went for a very early 2 base bling bust. EZ hold with hellions and marauders with stim.
The second Zerg (on Shakuras) forgot spinecrawlers exist and my 4 hellions roasted lots of drones. He went into a ling/bling all in and I held easily, again with hellions and marauders. There was some hilarious Terran imba claims here there at the end, and a promise I would never make it to masters. :D
The third Zerg (on Xel Naga) did the strangest build. 15 hatch at the top of his main ramp. I was so confused but I went with my usual build. He then went roach warren. I cancel my 2nd CC and build 3 more rax. He scouts with an overseer (wtf how is he on Lair already?). He took his natural as well. I go in for the kill. He has tons of spinecrawlers, lings, roaches, and WTF HYDRAS?!?!?!. I get stomped into the ground and lose.
The 4th Zerg (on Metal) apparently didn't know hellions can run around the back of the natural. He also didn't know to pull drones. I roast a ton. I decide to go for a 2 base hellion marauder attack (while taking a 3rd CC). Won easily and...
I was super nooby in bronze, decided to have some fun as protoss (main is zerg) and then I faced a silver zerg. And as bad as it sounds, I managed to lose every single engagement but he also was never able to break my one base hero play. Somehow eventually I got up a 2nd base, went for DT + deathball and I used all my dts to target down his ultras. His resources went dry after countless time of winning my deathball but losing everything because of my dts. I won. Promoted.
It's a shame that I got promoted as a toss. Though I had a super high win rate in silver, like 80% and got promoted to gold within 2 weeks
I'd won like 13 games in a row to get to the top of my gold league, I was determined to get promoted yesterday before the lock, so I play an epic ZvP on entombed, it has void rays, DTs, warp prism harass, mothership, spine crawler walls in the middle of the map, expansions everywhere, I finally break through and...no promotion. Two games later a guy tries to zergling rush and rage quits when my roaches just manage to save my natural, and I'm platinum. No sense of drama, Battlenet.
I was gold in beta. After release, I got placed into gold, took me less than a day to get promoted from gold straight to diamond, skipping platinum (promotions were that easy back in the days). I haven't played much at season 1, then in season after 15 win streak I got promoted into masters. However, due to some unlucky loses I got demoted back to diamond, however I worked hard and reached master again quite swiftly after that. Now I'm in master for 4 seasons already, trying to reach the grandmaster, this season I reached high masters and fought many grandmasters, but I got weaker in the past few weeks, falling back in mid master. I'm still better than mid masters though.
I started playing about 6 weeks ago and ended season 5 in high silver. Now, season 6 started and I win my placement match get gold... so sweet. First promotion ever .
A very standard PvT, though, I go 1 gate expand, he tries to pressure from 1 rax. I defend successfully, losing just a couple of zealots and a sentry, then push with 2 immortals and +1. For some strange reason, he has siege tanks, which die to my immortals, I ff the ramp and take out the expand. Geeeegeeeeeee.
Ok, enough narcissism, now I have to change my underwear :D
At the Beta I was a Platinum Terran Season 1 - Diamond Terran Season 2 - Switched to Zerg, demoted to Platinum Season 3 - Diamond Zerg Season 4 - Top 8 Diamond Zerg =] Season 5 - Didn't play much, lost a lot of games Season 6 - Platinum =/
Told myself I was sick of being Diamond. Started laddering more and more.
Played placement match for Season 6.
Clapped hands, smiled like a little kid, took a picture, caps lock spammed my friend, told my other teammates, felt so ALIVE when I saw that Masters League promotion
Started season 1 in bronze, played toss until plat, then switched to random and got diamond surprisingly. Demoted to Plat after placement in season 2 and could not get back up no matter how much i won (i was highest ranked plat in europe for some time), after being up 300 points in second place in my div i raged and lost 50 games to get demoted to gold, just to prove i could get out of plat one way or the other^^ next season i got back to diamond with the placement match (big dafuq moment for me) and season 5 to masters eventually where i am right now.
Well I don't really mind if you think i am a little scrub...
Basically, first season on season 5. Went protoss because In Warhammer 40k i am Eldar fan, and they reminded me so much of Eldar so I just had to. Played loads of games, went on many like 25 game win streaks showing i was above bronze league, then I would just play stupid, like not scout at all - which showed me, I was still Bronze league! Also did a few games with terran and zerg with no build orders.. safe to say I had over 2k minerals banked at around 12 minutes :')Last day of season 5 I played and won every game, against Plat's and Golds mainly. Got up 30 minutes ago, Wanted to see if season 6 for EU had started, it had. Played my placement game like the biggest scrub ever, completely forgot my 12 gate.. So i went 14 gas, 15 pylon, 17.. wait what? 18.. Gate (was against Zerg, don't like FFE) Basically, i clawed back in considering he was only silver.. Then i left my zealot gap empty he ran in with 20+ lings, i basically clean it up but i am so titled thinking I was gonna stay in Bronze i just "dfhdhf" out.Luckilly they gave me silver. I said to myself, if I got gold+ before or at season 6, i was going to stay Protoss, but If i got silver or bronze again i am switching to Zerg. So here I go, getting my Darkgrid Layout going and the constant practice against hard Ai.
Honestly for me, taking the leap from Platinum to Diamond wasn't all that exciting. I'd been rank 1 for the last 3 weeks and I knew it would only be a matter of time. The final match I ended up playing vs a top 8 diamond. After the win, the promotion popped up and all I could think was "Well it's about fucking time"
Started in Gold, got platinum in a week, diamond the next week by just building stuff
After an 8 month break I come back and there's a masters league o.o
I play for a few weeks re-learning sc2 and the new strats that came out and got placed into masters after beating a protoss with a massive thor tank helion death ball.
On February 05 2012 11:49 KimJongChill wrote: Welp, I'm looking forward to a sixth season in a row of being diamond. At this point I wish I were in a lower league so I wouldn't have to experience this horrible feeling of stagnation.
I know the feeling... Diamond since the beginning also, I seemed to slump each time iI hit master players... But dont worry there's a light at the end of the tunnel! Got promoted this morning after 1300 wins on the ladder. cant tell you how good that felt ^^
promoted to diamond 2 days before i play a tournament for bronze-plat. i had big chance of winning it, now i cant play in it i was in plat since august though
placed in bronze, 100 wins later silver, 1 season later gold, alot of angry zergs who couldnt beat marine/thor later.. plat, stuck in plat for about 3 seasons now ^^
It all started on the first day of season 6. I have not played ladder for two weeks so I made heavy mistakes. So finally after fighting some ladder anxiety I finally pressed the button and then fml it was a pvp game. So I went 3 stalker rush againts a toss who was doing a fucked up 3 gate robo expand. My stalker rush failed and I got blink 14 mins in game and decided to attack him when he has a HUGE advantage. Due to my crappy micro I lost my whole army and most of his army was still alive so I said GG and left. But here the best part. I was gold last season and after that game he got gold and I got plat :D! Hope you enjoy my league promotion story.
I started in plat/ diamond in season 1. I was good Brood war player and started playing with no strats, just like it was BW.:D I didnt make Warpgates at all:D coz i didnt know what to do with them.:D I held in diamond for like 50 games and was demoted to silver:D because other ppl learned to play the game. Then i went to liquipedia and I ve been top gold ever since. Damn plat is just around corner...:D
when i started playing in beta i was in copper league no rts experience, played it for a week and was promoted to gold pretty quickly, then come launch i learned 3rax and got into platinum first couple of days, later i switched zerg but managed to stay in platinum and every season through i've been high platinum until now this morning i did my first placement match, droned too much (75 without a unit) lost and got placed in diamond! :D super happy about it
On Feb 15 2012 10:35<span style='color:#d20000'> (8 min)</span> TNK wrote: It all started on the first day of season 6. I have not played ladder for two weeks so I made heavy mistakes. So finally after fighting some ladder anxiety I finally pressed the button and then fml it was a pvp game. So I went 3 stalker rush againts a toss who was doing a fucked up 3 gate robo expand. My stalker rush failed and I got blink 14 mins in game and decided to attack him when he has a HUGE advantage. Due to my crappy micro I lost my whole army and most of his army was still alive so I said GG and left. But here the best part. I was gold last season and after that game he got gold and I got plat :D! Hope you enjoy my league promotion story.
lol excellent. One of the good ones.
I've been diamond for quite some time (haven't really been pushing for masters), but my pc/internet lagged when I was being promoted to diamond from platinum and I didn't know about it so I never got the screen telling me I got promoted. Biggest rip off promotion evar.
4 gated into gold, then geiko 3 raxed into platinum, finally macro beasted my way into diamond as zerg... I only 4 gated and 3 rax because I knew I could beat those players and just wanted to get it over with quickly ^^. Hopefully after this first game I'll be masters!!
I was in diamond league for a real long time. Couldnt just seem to get to next level. after being in diamond for like 3 seasons i played my season 6 placement match. lost it pretty quickly and BOOM. Right before my eyes there was a shiny star and text gratulating me for being the best!
I play diamond Terran on SEA, but I switched to Protoss about 1 month or so ago, which brought on some losing.
So to avoid tanking my 1500 game+ MMR, I used my NA account which is in platinum from just messing about, testing builds and warming up. Played about fifty games on that as protoss, and a few on SEA (which was harder as in Diamond league)
So, season 6 begins. Do my placement on NA and win, re-placed in Platinum. Win another, lose another, win two more and promoted into Diamond (wtf? how could my MMR improve so much in those five games).
Go back to SEA and do my placement from my diamond account, win, demoted to platinum.
So basically, with the same standard of play my NA account went Plat -> Diamond and my SEA account (with a much higher starting MMR due to being my Terran main) goes from Diamond -> Plat
Started playing halfway through Season 3 (noob to RTS games). Skipped on the practice league as it took to long to find games. Lost all my placement matches and got placed in bronze.
Season 3: Bronze Season 4: Promoted mid-season -> Silver. Season 5: Promoted mid-season -> Gold. Season 6: Lose placement match -> Platinum.
Well I was placed in bronze even though I was B- in iccup. Turns out, my internet was failing at the time of my placements so i went 0-5 because of disconnects. I got plat (the highest at that time) after I went 20-0
Started off silver or gold at release, ended season 1 as platinum. Had ups and downs, once back to gold, but also at the edge of getting promoted to diamond. This season it's plat again and I'm motivated to play more and reach diamond.
I guess I played a little in beta got plat and diamond one season from 6pooling 5 games in a row. Then started learning the game and went from gold-master in season 5 as terran. Now im still trying to improve and make it to GM
I picked out one strategy to use against all opponents irrespective of race. I wanted to pick something using a heavy early push but not an all-in, so chose the 3 rax rush with a tech lab and 2 reactors and stim timing push with marines and marauders at the 7 minute mark while expanding at the back. I just got into the game after 4 seasons of inactivity (I was initially gold then got demoted to bronze lolz). Practiced this strategy about 25 to 30 times against very hard AI. basiucally practicing my macro mainly while trying to multitask, so that I improve my foundations. I won 4 of my 5 placement games, and I am now Platinum. Diamon, here I come! =D
Moral of the story that I have realized: doesnt matter what strategy you use, as long as you are constantly making workers and not getting supply block, you will breeze past all leagues till platinum ( and diamond probably). My plan was to use 3 rax rush and try and end the game with a backup of an expansion in case i failed. I barely got to use the strategy properly due to proxy bases by toss, 1 base all in zergs and terrans who float their early factorys to my base to make hellions in my base. Lesson learnt - no matter wat happens, keep making probes and try to defend at all costs. if you survive, you will win unless your opponent is a secret master/GM.
U guys are probably the only ones i know who will actually understand the joy of getting a promotion, my gf definitely doesnt get how important it is, lol.
Been playing for 1.5 year now and when i first started out i was initially placed in silver. After 200 wins or so i got promoted to gold, and then platinum after about 3 months. When season 4 kicked in i was placed i diamond league, i posted it on facebook and no one got it.. end season 5 i was top 3 diamond and now im aiming for masters in season 6. SC is really affecting my way of learning in other areas of my life and has become my true passion. thats my story
I was dumping around in gold league for quite a long time, I played SC2 in season 1 where I was platinum league, but then I somehow lost interest in the game.
I started to play again in season 3 more actively, but without great success, since I was demoted in the meantime into gold league. In season 4, I played approx. 5 games, still in gold league.
Mid-way through season 5, I picked up SC2 again. After 30 games or so, I got so frustrated with Protoss, that I actually wanted to switch to Zerg, which I unsuccessfully tried and then went back to protoss. After consultating TL and Liquipedia at a massive level, I slowly began to unterstand the game, and started to win games in gold league.
I think everyone of you knows the joy to then play against players out of higher leagues, and to beat them. I was constantly playing against platinum players, and won my games most of the time.
But it was not until that very special game on Entombed Valley - PvZ: He started 1 o'clock, I started 5 o'clock. I built my Pylon downhill, in order to prepare a FFE. Then I sent my probe out to scout his base, and halfway through I met zerglings streaming towards my base. In my mind I was like: "O-M-G" and was already prepared to ragequit, when suddenly the game started to lag: my opponent had a disconnect.
I continueosly told myself in my mind: If you get promoted now, this will be THE WORST PROMOTION EVER...guess what happened. Yeah, that's my story of getting into platinum league...
On February 05 2012 09:27 Sovano wrote: I went from Bronze --> Silver --> Gold I'm on the borderline of getting into Platinum, but have yet to do so.
Finally after this new season I've been promoted into Platinum league =) Was stuck in Gold since Season 1 and been demoralized since then. I took off a few seasons recently, and just started getting back. Next goal: Diamond!!
Since the start of SC2 i was always bronze, specialy season 1 where i did not know what race i was going to play specialy with all the 4 gat all ins, banshees and Voidrays i was up against i was a total noob. Season 2 was the season i realy was just laddering for fun when i was placed in to bronze again i was in the top 8 for a while before my old system was on its last legs and had to wait for my current system i sliped to 14th place that season, season 3 i started 2 weeks later than everyone else managed 44th place in my bronze league but i was reguarly beating silver players. season 4-5 i skiped since i was demoralized played custom maps and other games. Today i decided to start laddering again managed to win 3 out of 5 of the placement matches. Some how i managed to get places in to gold league :D, i am no longer forever bronze. the placement matches i won were ZvZ,ZvT and ZvP and the two i lost where ZvT (2 rax all in against a gold player) and ZvZ (gold player base trade)
S1: Dia > Masters (obv) I kept trying to get in and everyone was cheesing/one basing their way into the league. I gave up toss and switched to random at this point, and got in. Not long after I went Terran full time S2: Masters S3: Masters > at this point I can barely play anymore cause of school+gf so I'm hovering between borderline masters>dia S4: Masters S5: Dia > Masters I got demoted to Diamond, played 5 games and was put back into masters. Dunno. S6: Masters
I was at the top of silver playing a bunch of games and getting mixed results, and got in a rut. After the S 5 lock I took a break for about a week. I came back and have been playing much better -- the stuff I was mechanically practicing kind of settled in to muscle memory and I am macroing better.
I had a good streak at the end of S5 and got placed into gold. Now, I have only played a few games but I am climbing pretty rapidly.
During Season One, I 7 Roach rushed myself from Bronze to Silver (100ish games) with no former RTS experience. Played 150ishgames in S2 as silver with mixed results while learning to actually play, but didn't manage to achieve any promotion. Weird thing is, I would crush ZvP+ZvT but almost always lose ZvZ.. I haven't really played any games since then. 2/5 placement matches done so far for S6, and I've won both, but I'm terrified of playing any further games, since I'm so awful :S
I got promoted from diamond to masters this season. Got really lucky on ladder and faced mainly protoss and terran, although now that I've been promoted it's the zvz hell all over again.
S1: Bronze (lost all my placement matches) S2: Silver -> Figured out the basics, went 25-5 one day and stayed up all night. S3: Gold -> Won a lot, didn't play for a week, played one game and got my promo. S4: Platinum -> Bought a new account, got placed in plat. S5: Plat S6: Lost my placement match, was pissed as hell. Then played 5 in a row against Diamonds, got promoted.
Was on dolby with friends, started screaming and yelling multiple fucks. Roommate came running in to find out what was wrong, proceeded to hug him. Was a good day.
This season I decided to play SC2 again, after a long affair with my beloved StreetFighter. My new take on the game, was not to have a frustrating experience where I try my hardest and lose. No!
This season, I tanked straight to bronze. It is a joy now to queue up a game with full confidence that I am the superior player. I can goof around and do bad builds, and still win.
It feels good, and SC2 to me now is more of a stress reliever, as opposed to a frustration inducer.
On February 22 2012 03:52 Pesto wrote: I was basically forever diamond for the first 5 seasons. Was literally in the top 8 of diamond playing against masters for virtually that entire time.
Queu season six, I LOSE my placement match, and get put into masters league. Most anti climactic promotion ever.
This has happened to me twice. Season 2, lost my placement, got promoted from plat to diamond. Skipped seasons 3 and 4. Season 6, I lost my placement and got promoted from gold (562 points in season 5, pretty much 50% win percentage), to plat.
Lessons learned: 1) That points chart blizzard publishes that says promotion is highly likely, is pretty useless. It said 800 points for gold > plat. Perhaps, that's where your MMR should be? Bottomline is that if you're top 4 or so, I'd wager you're going to get promoted next season. Furthermore, whether you win or lose 1 game in a placement match isn't going to affect your MMR much and isn't going to mean jack as far as whether you get promoted or not. 2) New seasons seem to promote purely on MMR. All that MMR stability crap that's used during the season seems to play not part in a placement match promotion. 3) High gold opponents are stronger than mid-plat. Its fine and good to say that a #1 plat is better than a #1 gold, but league isn't everything and rank definitely matters. 4) Season 5 and 6 players are much more skilled than season 2.
I've been stuck in plat since season 2. beating alot of diamonds last 2 seasons. finally season 5 i was super discouraged so waited quite a while to do my single placement. i lost and got promoted to diamond. it was a very pleasant surprise, mainly lost due to not playing for awhile and having poor macro.
I got demoted to silver after switching to Terran from Z. Does that count as a promotion story of some sort?
I think that I just have no clue how to play Terran. ;~; I read all the guides and try to do all things, but I can't find the time to do everything I need to do, and I feel so week late game against Z and P, and TvT is just a weird matchup for me. D:
After five seasons of forever diamond (with a brief stint in masters the second half of s2), I got frustrated with my lack of progress and came up with a system of practice that would improve me. It worked, placed into masters s6 and have a >50% winrate .
On February 23 2012 07:38 Sc1pio wrote: After five seasons of forever diamond (with a brief stint in masters the second half of s2), I got frustrated with my lack of progress and came up with a system of practice that would improve me. It worked, placed into masters s6 and have a >50% winrate .
During Season One, I 7 Roach rushed myself from Bronze to Silver (100ish games) with no former RTS experience. Played 150ishgames in S2 as silver with mixed results while learning to actually play, but didn't manage to achieve any promotion. Weird thing is, I would crush ZvP+ZvT but almost always lose ZvZ.. I haven't really played any games since then. 2/5 placement matches done so far for S6, and I've won both, but I'm terrified of playing any further games, since I'm so awful :S
Haha, I played my final three placement matches. Went 4-1 overall and ended up in Platinum. Time to lose. I'd say my skill is Silver'ish..
Got placed into bronze then pretty much learned how to how to bainling bust. That was actually a really fun process for me as the only time i ever loss was when i forgot to Inject. So by contantly bainling busting i was able to nail my queen injects and reinforce my army. That pretty much worked till mid silver which i got promoted to mid season 1. After that I got the hang of the game and future promotions happened at the start of the seasons.
i have a "casual" wc3 background, but only played ladder there and was decent in it.
(european) so when i got sc2 Beta, i started in silver and climbed my way up to platinum (highest league back then) within 2 months. When the game came out, i played at the release pre-day where pretty much only real nerds played that couldnt w8, so i started in gold. but 1 week later, i was already in diamond, the highest league again.
from that point on, i was pretty much always in the highest league: master got introduced, i got into master grandmaster got introduced in season 2, i barely got into it. in season 3, i again got into gm, although i dont think i deserved it in that season, since my MMR felt quite low. and then suddenly, i didnt get gm in season 4. i finally realized that i have to change my style and play a lot less allinish. it wasnt enough to get gm in season 5, although this time, i felt i should probably gotten into gm, so i was in the top 100 of the european master-leagues, just like in season 4.
And now, im finally back in gm, and im very proud of it
I placed into silver on the second day of the game as Terran. But, due to ladder fear, I only played a total of about 80 games between seasons 1 and 2. At the beginning of season 3 i switched to Zerg, but I still didn't play too much. I started playing a lot starting during the ladder lock of season 3. I played about 20 games over the two weeks and finally started learning how to play. Then, during the first week of season 4 I played about 30 games and got promoted to Gold league. I have been working since then to get my next promotion.
At the end of season 5 I thought i was close to getting promoted again, but alas, the ladder lock came and I had not made it yet. I played through the ladder lock and ended with 583 points. The next morning I got on just to play my placement match. I chat with my opponent and find out he was gold (*sigh* cuz I think I won't get promoted). We both say we were close to getting promoted but didn't get it. I proceed to roll him and we both get promoted!! I was so excited to finally make it
I started sc2 as a total noob. My friend who i played wow with got me into it and we have helped each other practice a lot. My first ever ladder win i 6 pooled to get out some fast lings. i then waited till i had teched to nydus and then sent my 6 initial lings in through the nydus to win a ZvP. During season 1 i went from bronze to silver Season 2 i went back down to bronze then back to silver Season 3 i went started palying on NA and placed plat season 4 i went to diamond season 5 i stayed diamond season 6; i was fisting pumping and yelling and jumping up and down. and i was even placed into the same division as my favorite palyer of all time who has been a constant inspiration to me and i have learnt a lot from.
I'm so happy i would like to thank oldfool and finkle, my practise partners. i would like to thank Day[9] for all the brilliant information he presents so well. i would also like to thank my dad for supporting me.
The promotion system really makes no sense at all. Last season, when already #1 in my diamond division, I won 15 straight games and still didn't get promoted until I lost some games and then won one more time. Now, I'm trying to get into masters in 2v2. I've gone something like 16-2 recently, am first in my division by nearly 200 points, and still haven't been promoted. What is going on?
I lost the first match, got platinum, and thought something like "bah another damn season in plat". Went on to the next game, won it, and BOOM, diamond
On February 25 2012 19:42 GolemMadness wrote: Now, I'm trying to get into masters in 2v2. I've gone something like 16-2 recently, am first in my division by nearly 200 points, and still haven't been promoted. What is going on?
You should be around 400 points before you can even expect to get promoted.
On February 25 2012 19:42 GolemMadness wrote: Now, I'm trying to get into masters in 2v2. I've gone something like 16-2 recently, am first in my division by nearly 200 points, and still haven't been promoted. What is going on?
You should be around 400 points before you can even expect to get promoted.
On February 22 2012 03:52 Pesto wrote: I was basically forever diamond for the first 5 seasons. Was literally in the top 8 of diamond playing against masters for virtually that entire time.
Queu season six, I LOSE my placement match, and get put into masters league. Most anti climactic promotion ever.
Started out as copper in beta, then got promoted to diamond in S1, been high diamond ever since (with a few trips into master league).
This happened to me too, I was actually so dissapointed and angry when I lost that I just F10+N'ed and went away from the computer for 10-15 minutes, when I came back the nice and shiny Master League icon was there on my screen, I was like "what......"
Got demoted about a month later after being inactive basically the whole time due to work. This was S4. S5 I grinded 20-30 games a day for a few days before getting promoted again, but then I got this great idea about testing out some new builds I saw from MLG the night before... Played a few games vs AI and went straight into ladder. Won the first two games, thought "hey this is going pretty good!" And then proceeded to lose 6-7 games in a row. When I go on such losing-streaks I dont know when to stop, I just have to "make up for it by getting that 1 win".
Eventually I came to my senses and took a break, came back the next day, and lost to a DT rush because i forgot detection. Diamond once again T_T
I find it really hard to get good and stay good, since I'm working offshore for 1 month at a time and can't play during that period, I have to "re-learn" a whole bunch when I come back.
My journey back to Master: Its been a ride, i had lots of fun, and for a period of time i was able to tell people that i was in master league, the few, the proud. Dont get me wrong, Masters isnt just your anyday-causal leauge where you cheese and rush for-the-win the only way to maintain skills by playing often, anaylsis stragies, watch streams/replays and never stop learning, i was able to follow most of these, however there was one thing i didnt consider, one thing that i thought was the last to take me down, my mental strength. Yeah, you heard me, its not timing attacks, micro or macro, its my emotions which i am trouble controling. I still remember that day, when it all started, at first i started to lose to grandmasters and high masters i thought it was rather normal, experienced people playing a newcomer and winning nothing wrong with that. It was then that i made the biggest mistake of my starcraft career (hobby more like?) I didnt stop playing, i recklessly played on and on, not caring about my body, or care to watch the replays to learn from why i lost i kept playing and playing. It was from there, lose after lose it started with grandmasters to mid masters then low, then i started to lose to diamonds, i was so scared, that was the hour of panic i did not know what to do. I started to look for turtials, for bronze-golds i keep looking, anything to satisfy my hunger for assitance to win, my actions masks the fear i am slowly gathering from losing, i was only a mere shadow to my former self when i first made it into master league. It wasnt long and at some point, i excepted to to come, the moment of dread, the end to the suffering, the nail to the coffin to finish the job. I was demoted After that i didnt tell people, my friends still think i am in masters, most of them dont play starcraft but all of them knows me as the 'starcraft guy', i was told that one of my former war3 friends brag to people about me being in masters haha. Other then grades and sport, when people would descirbe me its mostly starcraft, this has became my personal image and i will not allow it to be damaged. A lot of people look at this as just a game that will eventually get boring and outdated, my parents never understood my passion for starcraft(rts in geneal) but i look at starcraft as a hobby, something i enjoy doing, and not just some game i play to kill time. If you get up to here i would like to thank you for bothering to read it all the way here, for now i will do all i can to get back to master league, and maybe one day, i can once again, rise my head proudly, look confident and tell people- that i am in master league
It was the beginning of the new season, it was raining outside and I felt confident that the placement match would place me in Plat. So I queue up the game and it's a PvT on Shakuras...
I try some drops but they are thwarted because I don't get rid of his observer, I try multi-pronged attacks that do a little economic damage aswell as delaying his Colossus tech.
Then it comes to a ball v ball fight, I get some emp's on his templar but not enough, he manages to get 3 very good storms on my ball of MM and I get rolled by archons zealot as my 3/3 up's finish and he's on 3/2/3. I call GG well played and get out of the game.
Got promoted to masters (for the fifth time on this account, ive had 9 total switches between diamond and masters)
ZvZ on Metal, cross spawn the guy fully blocked with queens after my 16 hatch 15 gas 14 pool (risky i know) and didnt look to have any intention of expanding, scouted the mass roach and defended up, it was a close hold and he tried to expand, I took my 3rd while we both went roach hydra but by the 2nd push i had infestors just popping and decimated him.
my new goal is to not get demoted for at least 2 months.
On February 25 2012 10:50 Turbogangsta wrote: I started sc2 as a total noob. My friend who i played wow with got me into it and we have helped each other practice a lot. My first ever ladder win i 6 pooled to get out some fast lings. i then waited till i had teched to nydus and then sent my 6 initial lings in through the nydus to win a ZvP. During season 1 i went from bronze to silver Season 2 i went back down to bronze then back to silver Season 3 i went started palying on NA and placed plat season 4 i went to diamond season 5 i stayed diamond season 6; i was fisting pumping and yelling and jumping up and down. and i was even placed into the same division as my favorite palyer of all time who has been a constant inspiration to me and i have learnt a lot from.
I'm so happy i would like to thank oldfool and finkle, my practise partners. i would like to thank Day[9] for all the brilliant information he presents so well. i would also like to thank my dad for supporting me.
Nevermind IdrA, you're in the same division as "IMHardfOu"
Placed into plat, lost 15 times in a row, Litarally. Went down to gold, procceded to win about 25 times with 2 or 3 losses, went back up never played enough to get in daimond
I was playing a game vs some terran guy who i am assuming wants to be demoted. So he lifted his buildings and flew to my base and started attacking my probes. I was laughing hard at the time and i was in vent with a few friends. So he gg's and leaves and while the screen is loading to go to score screen i say "if i get to masters with a game like this i am going to crack up." guess what, i got into masters that game, and i DID crack up.
I started at protoss in beta and was diamond(when diamond was highest league)!!!! And I played BW A LOT so I felt strong at new game. I was diamond seasons 1-3,but slowly declining.
Now to the release. I started to play terran cuz tanks were so dang strong. Bio dropship play was EZ and cloaked units were easiest to deal with as terran! So basically I played them cuz they were easier than all the other races. I see the learning curve for terran to plateau quickly. Protoss and zerg have a steep learning curve but wqhen you get the basics they are really strong late game so the learning curve is drastically different. I would like to think this is the reason I have been deslining even though I have many massed games. I play daily now with practice partners mostly. -First season I was top diamond -Season 2 I was 17th diamond -Season 3 I was 34th diamond. -Season 4 I was really low and was demoted to plat and ended high plat. -Season five I was mid plat. -Season six I am struggling to get to top plat. I stay between rank 30-15. I beat diamond players regulatly but loose to plat still sometimes. I see nothing but BM on ladder so its kinda nonsince to play. but I still have 900 1v1 wins with terran and cant get to diamond. I feel like my play has improved greatly but the biggest thing holding me back is I never cheese and I feel this would help me get higher ranked..
Season 5: Started in silver i was a complete noob, went down to bronze cuz why the hell not Season 6: won 10 times against protoss all the time, never won against zerg, and i played vs zerg alot which kept me in bronze , became #1 in my division with almost 800 points and about 180 wins through the 2 seasons, i got promoted to silver in a game where i 15 hatch and made early roaches against a zerg, i won. for a change.like wtf.and in to such a division that i was after 2 games #1 in it, and with 100 wins this season and a cool hydralisk picture, im happy
On April 30 2011 08:53 islandman wrote: In season 1, I was working from Gold to Platinum. I got into platinum because my opponent disconnected from the game. It was pretty awesome.
PvT on Antiga and the terran i went against did like 5 rax all in and just kept coming with waves and waves of units and at one point had a ghost or two and emp'd my sentries but i held it off and i got into diamond :D
As soon as I started playing the game I got into Platinum, and very quickly got into Diamond. Seasons and seasons, months and months go by of me facing mid to high masters players. One day (about a week ago), I'm playing another such player, when the lag screen appears. He's disconnecting, and there's no saving his connection. Another win, alright, I guess I'll log off for the night.
But wait...the victory screen appears, slightly faded, and I'm shown a window containing a medallion...It's happened...I finally got in...I've been promoted to master's! finally! I spend a few minutes dancing with myself, celebrating with song and drink, and from then on I quickly advanced from rank 40 to 16.
I played all the seasons prior to the latest as Zerg including most of the beta; I was always in Diamond. During seasons 3-4 I was very high diamond and was starting to face Master's players. Unfortunately I was using a machine from 2003, with a 1ghz single core CPU and 1g of ram. It became very difficult to ensure a good engagement from the midgame on, and the constant hiccups have a way of disturbing my macro rhythm. I basically gave up when it became evident I couldn't keep up and played very few matches until the current season.
After I got a new beasty machine the first thing I did was install SC2, and I was overjoyed at first. I hadn't realized at the time how many people had started playing Zerg recently. After hitting 17 ZvZs in a row, I decided to switch to Protoss. Fell down to low Platinum and after 600~ games this season I finally got promoted ten minutes ago! :D
Started a fresh start after a 1year break. Got into platinum on my trials after being masters season 1. Been playing for 2 weeks, advanced slowly..and hung around ~700points for a week or so Suddenly something clicked, and I was 820points in Plat winning 10/12 and still not promoted..I was ticked. To top it off, I lost 2 of the next 3, due to connection problems, without even playing them out) I managed to win a TvT on a 1Rax FE into a +1 marine timing, and got into diamond been 4 days now but now I'm 700diamond, slowly making my way onto masters... Strategies really evolved though...I dont remember my games being that difficult back then.
I was placed in Plat back in the Beta, but was quickly demoted to Silver because I was awful. =)
Eventually I worked my way back up to Gold around season 2 (3?).
Then I decided one week to get back to my original standing. I played nonstop for one full week, all night long, staying awake only during school and then sleeping off my late night gaming. Eventually, on a Sunday night, I was on another gaming spree, number 1 in my division, hoping that soon may be the time when my goals were achieved. Then, I played an epic match. It was a ZvT, and he could split marines like a baller. My massive amounts of Banelings wasted against too few Marines to be even close to cost effective. The game wore on, 20 minutes, 30, 45. No matter what I did, no matter how many expansions I took, he just traded more effectively than I could. Eventually, finally, dramatically the game ended in a spew of acid and a cloud of glaive worms. Finally, he mis-double-stimmed, which gave me the small advantage I needed to overcome his overpowered (Jk <3<3<3) Terran army.
Relief poured over me, as I hit the Score Screen button. I was tired. I glanced at the clock, noticing the 3 AM highlighted in luminescent letters. I turned back to the screen, and screamed. Out loud. At 3 AM. There it was, the validation of my exhaustive efforts. I was promoted, and as I logged out, I reflected on the irony that it took me over a year to get back to where I started.
The End
Also, the best feeling ever that night, I just took an hour long cold shower, filled with many a fist-pump and delighted squeel. I need to do that again sometime with Diamond. That week of play physically hurt though. It was worth it, in hindsight.
Beta - Platinum Terran Season 1 - Diamond Terran Season 2 - Platinum Terran Season 3 - Platinum Zerg Season 4 - Didn't play Season 5 - Played a lot (400 + games), Still top 8 platinum Zerg Season 6 - Promoted to Diamond, I feel like my play has improved so much, I am very happy and working my way to masters. =]
Well, I was top Bronze for a while before I got promoted. I was off-racing as Zerg a few games, 6-pooling my opponents. Then, after a few easy wins, I got promoted to Silver. At first, I was like, "What? Silver? For real?" I was pretty happy after that. I haven't laddered as much since, though, so I have yet to reach Gold (even though I've had so many win streaks against them).
On February 25 2012 10:50 Turbogangsta wrote: I started sc2 as a total noob. My friend who i played wow with got me into it and we have helped each other practice a lot. My first ever ladder win i 6 pooled to get out some fast lings. i then waited till i had teched to nydus and then sent my 6 initial lings in through the nydus to win a ZvP. During season 1 i went from bronze to silver Season 2 i went back down to bronze then back to silver Season 3 i went started palying on NA and placed plat season 4 i went to diamond season 5 i stayed diamond season 6; i was fisting pumping and yelling and jumping up and down. and i was even placed into the same division as my favorite palyer of all time who has been a constant inspiration to me and i have learnt a lot from.
I'm so happy i would like to thank oldfool and finkle, my practise partners. i would like to thank Day[9] for all the brilliant information he presents so well. i would also like to thank my dad for supporting me.
o_o I just noticed this now, you're im my division. xD Sase and merz are in there somewhere too! ;p
Season 1: Started out on SEA as a bronze noob. Made it to gold by the end of S1. Season 2: Started playing on NA. Made it to Diamond as zerg. Made it to plat on SEA. Season 3: Switched to terran. Dropped to gold on NA. Didn't play much on SEA. Season 4: Rank 1 plat on NA. Season 5: Diamond on NA as terran. Season 6: Still diamond on NA as terran. Made it to diamond on SEA as terran which I failed to do as zerg.
I worked from bronze to plat in 2 easons, then i started offracing and dropped to silver. This cycle has been going on for many seasons now. I play zerg, get to plat and off race for fun for about 50 games and get demoted. This has somewhat helped me as a player, cause ive learned certin things while playing terran or toss that i would of never learned just playing zerg. When on a good night my Z play is allmost perfect cause i have a decent understanding of T and P timings. I also perfer to play custom 1v1's with decent players, so it may be awhile till i get to diamond - masters as Z. Next season i think im gonna go for the push to masters if i think ive learned enough about T and P.
EU: Silver --> Bronze --> Silver --> Gold --> Platinum in season 2 NA: Diamond after placements in season 3 KR: Silver after placements in season 4, now Gold
Never played an RTS game in my life, got SC2 as a gift from a friend because he wanted someone to play it with. Got placed into gold then went to silver then to bronze and now I'm in silver again.
S1->Bronze (Young and No Idea what I was doing) (Middle School) S2->Bronze (Took a break after the begging of season 2 because of Not knowing what I was doing) (Middle School) S3->Bronze (Played for a bit after finding streams) (Middle School) S4->Bronze (Started getting back into it and watching streams #1 bronze by the end) (Summer) S5->Bronze (Small Break then getting back to #1 bronze) (Summer) S6->Gold (Grinded games everyday after school to be promoted twice in one season) (High-School Freshmen)
I started playing on my brother's account as protoss.It was just after release, so everybody would just go zealot rush of 2 gates My macro was terrible, so everygame was really weird and lame with 3k minerals in the bank. After placement matches, I got into Gold. Then I got my own acc, and to my own shame I was able to only get into silver. All of this happened in Euro Account. Then I moved to Canada, and if I am not mistaken I got into platinum first and then eventually to diamond where I am now. I was kind of close to promoting into masters on season, but then I stopped playing and now I am a terribad mid diamond.
I started playing on I think season 2, with absolutely no RTS background, except well, Stronghold and Stronghold: Crusader. Got placed Into Silver and got demoted to Bronze the same day, didn't play all that much until the middle of the next season, got Into Silver eventually, finished as that. Season 4 came around and I was still playing Protoss (Which I didn't mention before) and got into Gold and eventually Platinum. Season 5 is the season that I improved the most, First of all, I played 100 games as toss and stayed in the top 50 plat, Which I did not like one bit, and because Protoss just wasn't feeling like my kind of race, I switched to Terran. From this point on i advanced to Diamond and eventually to Masters, within 2 and a half weeks in the same season, when I started I played around 5-10 games a day, Which later on became around 15-30 games on a regular basis. Right now, as season 6 is coming to an end, I'm sitting in high masters (and don't worry, I'm playing on the EU ladder) and am looking forward to possibly getting to Grandmasters (:o) the next season! Although, I'm currently gone for vacation to Spain, once I get back I'm planning on playing at least 40 games a day.Throughout all this, I've been watching a lot of good players stream (EmpireKas in particular), watched a lot of tourneys,Day[9]'s daily <3 and tried my best improving.All in all I think I'm doing pretty well, for a person that hasn't played any RTS games in the past. Right now, I have over 300 wins as Protoss and a little bit over 160 wins as terran .
Worked my way up from Bronze to Master league as Zerg, then switched to T and fell to Diamond but got back to Master quickly. It's funny, because when I first learned to play I had a gold league friend who was like you need to learn build orders, and I refused because I thought it would take the fun out of the game. I was wrong ^_^
I feel like telling my demotion story. At the start of this season I made a bet with my friend that I could lose my placement match on purpose and not be demoted. Sheesh, was I ever wrong?
i started last year when grandmasters first came out, began as gold after my placements, soon found myself in plat within an hour, then diamond in 7 hours, and masters in 3 days due to 4gate OP at that time ^.^ p.s. I didn't know what the hell or how the hell to use forcefields and fight against roaches and mauraders!
I picked up the game january 1st this year and started playing eagerly, with 0 rts experience. As like most of you i got into bronze because the only match i won was when i got six pooled in a zvz against a silver player and somehow held it off...(no idea what a-move was). after learning the game and 1 month of games the ladder locked while i was still rank one bronze. i had been playing high silvers all through the ladder lock and just before it locked, my brother got his silver promotion. i said to him, i pretty much consider myself silver league sense thats all i play anymore.
Season 6 begins he plays his placement match and keeps his silver standing. I played mine and got silver :D. I continued laddering for a few days learning the new things and started playing golds! i said to my brother im going to get gold before the end of the week. (3 days later it was day 5 of the season) i had the house to myself and was just grinding out as many games as i could. After my brother came home i had won 40 out of 48 matches, all against gold players. My brother comes home and says hahaha you will be forever silver! I was enraged by that and played another game and i was feeling really good about how well i had been playing. After a zvt, The guy tried to 2 rax marines into mm and i held, baneling busted and won! after the game i messaged him (he was plat) and i couldnt stop thanking him for the promotion. been gold sense but at no 2 in my division and 400 in NA Gold, playing high plats high golds im going for plat next season hopefully diamond
My friend ClairvoyancE, not to be mistaken with my bnet name, Clairvoyance, hit masters recently, and I was just inspired on how he hit masters. So as my "clone" I ladder grinded for a day and hit masters.
0% RTS experience before i bought sc2 but i watched a ton of stuff of the beta >S1 Silver - Placed in silver where i won like 22/30 games with proxy 2 stargate void ray vs all races >S2 Gold - Platinum 40 minutes"macro games" where no one did anything until 200 200 at at like the 30-35 minute mark >S3 Platinum - My cheese season where all i did was 4 gate 2 gate proxy zealots, 6-7 gates etc., off racing terran and going 3 rax, marine scv all in etc., off racing zerg and going 6 pool. >S4 Diamond - Owning every diamond player and wondering why wasent i getting promoted and complaining about balance and shit talking people who outplayed me and this season ended up being very sad for me now that i look back because i was an asshole and had a very negative attitude towards the game + i was awful >S5 Diamond - Played pretty well everything went normal little frustrated because i wasent masters >S6 Masters - As soon as the season started i just kept me rank 1 place for like a two weeks, beating high diamond and 35-70 masters and got promoted to something like 40 i have easily beaten top masters but i will wait for season 7 to aim for top masters.
omg i love this game, i beat silvers and golds...about 5 plats and 1 diamond.. what im doing bad ?? kinda frustrating... i have been top 1 bronze by the end of season i stop playing and stay a 9 place.. in current season i was n1 for a while (rank 7 now) im about quitting this game, can`t belive im still bronze...
THE MOST frustrading part is READ your stories "i started bronze then i went to the mall and when i came back home i was promoted to masters"
My promotion from Plat to Diamond this season (S6) was kinda funny. I had been loosing the last maybe 5 or 6 games. When I stopped playing I was so mad at myself for loosing stupidly to everything I basically knew how to handle. So I stopped for a few days. Than I come back, first game TvT (I play Random).... what a pain in the A** I hate this MU. Players name: MouzSomething. Obviously a fanboy but since I didn't know the name he was using (after Mouz) I though it could also be someone from their staff, just playing for fun (their might be people in the Mousesports managing team playing SC2 without being Masters or >) The guy opens with banshee and I go for a 1 Rax expand, he deals a decent amount of damage, enough to make me feel like I'm behind even though I'm on 2 bases and he's on 1. Game goes on, my macro is so bad, I use a scan to check at his natural and OMG he already has it better saturated than mine ... I'm gonna get raped I know it.
And there the unexpected pops on my screen: Waiting for Player: MouzSomething
Well let's be honest, my first reaction was "FUCK YEAH!!!! DROP THAT MOTHERFUCKER !!!!!" (plz notice that I had no other reason to be agressive than him having a better start than me in this game). Next few seconds were an internal debate between the little devil on my left shoulder and the angel on the right one. Angel ended up winning (true story) and when after 45 secs I finally see the game being over, I felt "Well you suck but you're a lucky bastard! You're gonna have to win the next 3 games to redeem yourself".
Than I get back to the score screen and a message pops on my screen "Congratulations .... you're amazing performance .... considering your talent and your awesome understanding of the game .... we would like you in Grand Masters League right away but we can't sry dude .... but you're still promoted to Diamond".
FUCK YEAH I'M IN DIAMOND NOW !!!!!
Well from this day, I always called my race at the beginning of a game on the ladder, and I will keep on doing so. And believe it or not but it's been a huge improvement to every game I played.
S2 was my first season, started playing jsut because SeleCT was such a boss at i42, so I played Terran. Finished top8 bronze, S3, got placed in silver, same for S4 and 5. Completely unremarkable seasons, aside from switching to Zerg, didn't play much, did OK. Played a lot more games this season, started facing and beating golds left right and centre, promotion never seemed to come (sadface). Then I had this day:
Zvz keeping me afloat right? Thinking I'd have to play a ton more to get promoted, I played again a few days later. First game, get roach rushed, easily hold it, and push for the win. Instant promotion to gold :D. I was so gleeful, I can only imagine what I'll be like if I get to master's or something
s2: Silver then promoted to gold (had no build order, someone told me to 3rax every game, got promoted to gold lol) s3: gold (still 3raxed 80% of my games) s4: plat (actually started to work on macro game) s5: plat (starting to get solid mechanics) s6: plat (using variety of builds and use Darglein's micro trainer often) s7(now): DIAMOND! (lol hopefully i don't lose every game)
not bad considering i only ladder about 30 games a season at most (i don't think i've ever finished a season with no bonus pool)
came back last season. I got placed in platinum, game evolved so much, 2 bunker rush outdated, thor rush not viable much in TvT anymore so forth. had to learn new builds, new strats. 2 weeks later, Got promoted to diamond been around 2 weeks or so now... I'm beating Low-Mid masters constantly albeit streaky although I am prone to losses to diamonds.
I'm ranked 1 in my division right now..by 80 points. but not getting a promotion..I wonder if I'll get masters
I was in gold when I bought the game, tbh i dont even knew how to win and I was on gold. season ends and im still on gold, when i play my placement match i got placed on bronze. I play on bronze like 2 seasons more, finally, in season 6 i start playing silver only, and i was like, i should stop playing now and wait until the placement of the next season so i get a silver and i get promoted on silver. I was like rank 16 on my division, finally i was so freaking nervous on my s7 placement match, i played and the other guy was doing good micro/macro w/e and I was like, yea this guy cant be bronze unless he's a smurf then I lost a good match, then I saw i got to the silver league i was so freaking excited that moment, i saw the guy league and he was diamond 2 seasons ago (he was playing all 5 placement matches since he didnt play 2 seasons) I was lucky that the new mmr system matched me with him now im not in bronze hell anymore :D
Got into gold season 1, then dropped to silver, then back to gold, then plat for season 2-4. Spent seasons 5 & 6 on work and studies, didn't play any 1v1 and just trolled around in team games. Turned on sc2 1v1 again for season 7, played my placement and got promoted to diamond. Was confused.
Started S3, got placed in plat then moved down to gold. Started browsing team liquid to learn how to play then moved up to Diamond.
Stopped playing at the start of S4 and then came back at S6. Was getting shit on and had to learn the new meta game for all my matchups. Worked my way up to 800 pt rank 2.
When the game came out all I knew how to do was 2rax as terran. Marine marauder allins, and I got placed into silver. Stopped playing then tried again and everything changed which meant I dropped to bronze. A few seasons as bronze I switched over to Zerg then for out of bronze by actually knowing how to play versus just cheesing. Im still silver right now going up against gold level players. Hopefully if I'll be able to edit this post and say I got into gold in a week or so.
started playing the game in janurary, got placed into bronze. spent all of season 5there. ladder locked and i was on a huge streak. season 6 placement put me into silver and i remember thinking to myself...wow finally. not very good feeling of being promoted... 2 weeks later and another huge winninflg streak later i was bugging my brother and said i bet i can make gold tonight! he says meh i doubt it... next game i won i get a promo screen saying welcome to gold!!! i was so happy and kept playing makling rank 1 in my division playing plats all day. ladder locked and i was struggling hard vs plats and golds... played my season 7 placement match, and ZOMG PLATZ!!!!
now im doing fairly well v my plats but strugglin vs those diamonds. hope to be there soon, finally got onto a team and practising with masters and diamonds. hopefully :D
I got sc2. I played all 5 of my placement matches and won them, placed into gold. About 15 games later I skipped platinum and was placed into diamond. Been playing 1's occasionally in master league since season 2. fin~
My promotion stories have been jokes. In Bronze I was smashing everyone once I began to understand how to play the game, but then I finally get promoted by beating some guy in placement. He had barely anything, but he was my last bronze game. In 2v2 I began this Season as Silver. 5 matches later I get bored and pull off a 6 pool. We win and I'm promoted to Gold. The 1v1 promotion felt good, but because I worked for it. The actual promotion game didn't feel that great
i always get promoted by beating a placement match person. i feel bad, cause i just took advantage on his misery of playing this new game.
I just got promoted to Masters league while Streaming I have been very close to masters for over 3 seasons..but I just couldn't get past the wall...but lately i've started doing better in tournaments...and just being a better player in general. This was an epic 35 min 6 vs 5 base battle zvt. Skip first game n goto 20 mins in heres the Link
I started from way down. First I was low, low bronze. Finished season 2 with rank 15 bronze. My friends, who invited me to join the game, were mostly bronze, although some of them were high gold. Anyway, I never gave up. Season 3 started and I when i did my placement match, no promotion. I felt bad, kind of sad because almost all my friends got promotions. Nevertheless, a couple of weeks into season 3 and I got promoted to silver, yay silver. Anyhow, silver felt different, and I developed this 7 minute roach+1 push that I create. I did this vs EVERY race. Well, seaosn 3 came to an end. I did my season 4 placement AND even though I won like 80% of the time in silver, I was STILL STUCK IN SILVER. It didn't bother me much because my friends were silver too, aand a couple were promoted to platinum. Anyway, one week after season 4 began, out of nowhere BOOM promotion to gold. I was so fucking happy. However gold was a whole new level, I couldn't do the 7 min roach push because it was stopped too easily. Anyway, i was winning about 45-51% of the time(not good at all). I managed to end in top 8 gold by the end, but was kind of devastated. I was expecting gold to be easier. Then season 5 hit, I was not sure if i wanted to continue laddering so I actually did my placement a couple of weeks late. STILL GOLD. I wasn't that surprised anyway. I didn't ladder much this season, however I did discovered streams, oh streams. season 6 hit in and I watched fucking lots of streams. I was promoted to platinum in no time. By the end of season 6 I ended top platinum, with a toal of 709 points, ranked #5 in my division. I expected to get diamond by season 7, however I was not facing any diamond opponents yet. Anyway season 7 hit and I was winning a lot. I discovered what I like to call the "lose-streak curse". I had a 8 lose streak for the first time in my life, and didn't know how to handle it. I started playing and playing and playing. Lost, lost and lost again. There was a point where i was no longer macroing but rather cheesing every game, and failed miserably. I felt really bad because I was rank #1 in platinum with 624 points and fell to rank 8 platinum with 468 points. Imagine the accumulation of loses. There was a point where I faced only Gold opponents. I managed to get over this "curse" and won a lot. Managed to get rank #1 again and mantain it up to the last days of the season. Unfortunately some other people took rank #1 and #2, and I ended rank 3 on the season, however by the end of the season I was facing diamonds and winning. Then I surely expected a promotion. My friends long ago were left in silver, some in high plat, and exactly 2 in diamond. Did my plkacement for season 8. It was versus a terran. I remember well it was on cloud kingdom. I sent my overlord to the rocks near my opponents base. My scout was denied with a very fast supply depot (seriously for terran players, it's stupid to get that early of a second supply depot), i didn't know his plans, and I didn't want to die to some stupid shit like 2 rax. Anyway with the overlord in the rocks i spotted a second rax. I was my salvation. I survived the 2 rax and just played the game out. He managed to stay in it, which surprised me but not that much. I few days later I learnt that terran can come back from a VERY big economic loss like no shit had happened, ridiculous. I managed to crush him by min 18 maxed with around 12 ultras, 7 festors, and the rest on ling bling (kinda half half). He was on 4 base (really greedy) i was on 4 too takigng my 5th. I just crushed his shit everywhere killed his production and GG. Now, the best part. I wanted diamond so fucking bad because I do want to go to MLG some day, and there it was, my promotion to diamond. YES! season 8 diamond. Currently I am using SC2 gears to save my replays and I have a 11/20 w/l and facing high diamonds. It is amazing how much I have improved. I just wish to get promoted to masters soon, and THEN! GM! yes. I just hope my dreams come true sometime before december. I set my goal on march that by june I would be diamond, and guess what? accomplished right on time. Anyway I wish to be at least mid masters by decemeber. I know I still have a long road but I am confident since my ZvP is very good. Now I have mid masters friends I practice with and I win vs mid masters toss around 40% of the time, which isn't bad since I am currently mid diamond.
It has been a great ride.
PRO TIP: "The hardest person to defeat will be yourself. Only you can become better than yourself. Ironically, and redundantly, it is true." -NEVER GIVE UP. -ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING TO DRINK -IF YOU HAVE A 5+ LOSE STREAK STOP FOR AT LEAST 1 HOUR BEFORE CONTINUING -DON'T BE AFRAID TO LADDER -REMEMBER LOSING IS THE ONLY WAY TO BE BETTER.
Good Luck and Have Fun guys, Hopefully I will be masters on season 9 or 10
If anyone wants to talk to me my name is: WcSeoLithic#233
I finally made it Into masters using pure Bio + medivac compositions!
I have never felt comfortable enough to start experimenting with different strategies. On the one hand my decision to stay on pure bio is probably factor to why reaching the masters took so long. But I feel it helped me on focusing better on my mechanics and other game core areas. Still pure bio for sure isn't the optimal way to play this game.
My league development: 3. aug 2011 First SC2 game
Bronze: about 2 weeks Silver: about 2 weeks Gold: about 2 weeks Platinum: about 6 weeks Diamond: about 40 weeks
Now that I've reached my long time goal of getting into masters I think I'll feel more comfortable with trying builds and unit compositions. Also I feel my mechanics have reached the level in which every abnormal or unexpected situation doesn't ruin my macro or teching or something else that is important.
Also a thing i have noticed. In mid-high diamond I encountered cheeses extremely rarely but in platinum and low diamond it felt like half of the games were some cheeses. Learning to defend cheeses properly is one of the key points to advancing from the platinum level.
Placement-gold next week-silver next week-bronze lol next season-silver next season-gold next season-gold next season-platinum current season-placed gold,went to platinum probably wont get any higher than that.
On August 22 2012 07:20 hellkama wrote: Also a thing i have noticed. In mid-high diamond I encountered cheeses extremely rarely but in platinum and low diamond it felt like half of the games were some cheeses. Learning to defend cheeses properly is one of the key points to advancing from the platinum level.
i dont get why people rage when they lose to cheese. the reason you play macro games is because most of them counter cheese. builds are only popular if they have a way to stop 90% of all ins and cheeses.
Started out in platinum sometime last fall. Didn't really know what warp gates did or anything about the metagame or build orders or anything, but got to diamond around two and a half weeks later pretty much just with mechanics. At the same time, I got into masters in 3v3. The next season I only played 4v4 and got to masters in a little over a week, and the next season only played 2v2 and got into masters in under a week.
I didn't play again until this season (other than UMS), when I decided I wanted to get into masters 1v1 playing only random. It was challenging since I still knew very little about the metagame, build orders, timings, etc, and since I played random I had to learn all this stuff for 9 matchups. In the end, I think it took me around a month.
I got placed in silver but i was matched against gold and platinum pretty much from the start. Eventually i ended up getting diamond opponents which weirded me out as i was still in silver. Then after 4 or so losses i got promoted straight to platinum, skipping gold. From then on pretty normal, went to diamond a season later and then i stopped playing as much so i've been in diamond ever since.
I was in bronze/silver for a pretty long time, but my friend got the game and we started playing a lot of 2v2s. When I went back to playing 1v1s I jumped pretty quickly to platinum, and since then I focused only on 1v1. Im now high diamond, been knocking on masters door for a while now
I've been in gold for pretty much my entire "career" of starcraft until this season. After a week of not having internet (moving) I had this renewed interest and just started playing game after game after game, for hours on end. I was winning a lot of games, until this smurf-er left the game immediately and gave me a platinum promotion. :D
http://i47.tinypic.com/2q8sr3o.jpg after two long seasons of being diamond finally it happened on august 8, 2012 started silver late 2011 after taking a long break from 2010 and finally made it to masters
I began playing SC2 multiplayer thinking that 6 pool was my own invention. That is how skewed my perception was. Regardless, I 6 pooled through all my placements and got placed in gold. I quickly got demoted to bronze, as 6 pooling without any planned transition is, well, bad. I was bronze for three weeks or so, until one game where I attacked the SCV building the barracks with my scouting drone... he said "stop that," followed by "you're annoying," and then he just _.left the game._ Then I got silver. I was all like "OH EM GEE SILVER1111," and I remained in silver for about a week. It was then that I discovered the 4 gate. Enthralled, I switched from zerg to protoss. I 4 gated every game I played in silver, and I quickly got promoted to gold, then plat. It was then that the first WG nerf happened, and seeing as that noticeably decreased the 4 gate's effectiveness, I decided to switch back to zerg and try and play macro.
I quickly fell back to silver, and clawed my way back to plat after a month upon discovering the R button. I stayed in plat for *five seasons.* five. I had hit a brick wall, and I didn't know why. Confused yet still persistent, I scoured the interwebs for unit compositions and openings because the R button just wasn't cutting it anymore. It was then that I became acquainted with ling baneling in ZvT, roach hydra in ZvP, and roach infestor in ZvZ. After gaining some idea of what the hell I was doing, I got into diamond.
I thought "omg. diamond. I did it. I just did the hardest thing in the universe." Of course, my mechanics were still shit, and that became readily apparent as I faced opponent after opponent who simply had way more shit than me. During this time, I focused on actively improving my macro and nothing else. I did this by making almost nothing but roaches midgame in every matchup, paying attention to upgrades, creep spread, and overlord spread. I was amazed! I was first in my division, facing mostly masters players after focusing on just mechanics. I was rolling over terran bio with endless waves of upgraded roaches and I finally understood what people were talking about when they said macro is all that matters below diamond. Then, a couple months ago, it happened. The blue star appeared on my screen after i ragequit to a mothership with energy. I was masters. At that moment, I finally understood why people said things like "I'm just a crappy mid master." Because I still suck. Such is the beauty of this game. There is near infinite room to improve :D
I was #6 in my league when season ended won my placement and got demoted. Been #1 in my league ever since ^^ Lost my other placement matches on purpose and got to stay in those leagues ;-)
Friend was trying really hard for a long time to get diamond 1v1. Patch 1.5 was released people got more lag and he quickly got promoted ;-)
Bought the game at release and did the campaign, but my computer chugged and couldn't handle online. Shelved it and just played Xbox games for 1.5 years. Fast forward to this February and I was convinced into playing again by a friend. Got placed into Gold in February-March and then took shit seriously during the summer. Went from Platinum to Masters this season.
So I started playing after I saw Dreamhack Winter 2010 (I think it was) where I saw Naama VS Naama, both Finnish. It was so fun to watch so I started playing after the tournament, where I got into Gold league. I kept playing after since... where my leagues have been gold in the first two seasons, now I play in diamond which just suits me fine. Fun matches, not anything super fancy (like master).
I was placed in bronze on day one, never played RTS in my life. So I did what any smart gamer did, I 2 gated my way to plat. Then I started playing macro demoted to gold and then I got used to macro and got back up to plat then diamond then I stopped caring about rank and just focused on improving thigns like probes and pylons with no blocks now im mid masters. The End.
I was promoted to Masters a few nights ago after working my way up all the way from Bronze. I started in Season 4, don't know what season its called now since they changed all the names. I started off playing 3v3's with two buddies, one played Zerg and one played Protoss so naturally I chose Terran and just kind of stuck with it. I've always been a competitive gamer, even playing in some low to mid tier leagues in games like Counter-Strike, Team Fortress 2, and Heroes of Newerth, so I decided to get good at 1v1's in SC2. I didn't play a TON, but I never gave up either. Between looking up builds/strategies, analyzing replays, and just gaining insight through experience, I managed a promotion every season, and got 2 promotions one season (Bronze to Gold). I thought about making a Bronze to Masters guide, but it's already been done and I'm not a very good teacher/author. The best tips I can give to improving is to push aside your nerves and LADDER, try to have fun with it. Analyze replays, see what your opponent is doing, see what you could do better, learn timings, figure out how you can react to what you see.
Also, for fun, when I was promoted to Diamond I decided to save and keep track of all my games (excluding games where the opponent left at the start). It took me 168 games to get from Diamond to Masters, these games will span from part of last season to this season. Also note, I was promoted to diamond JUST after the hotly debated Zerg buff was implemented.
168 Games Total: 92W - 76L = 55% Winrate 67 Games TvZ : 27W - 40L = 40% Winrate 53 Games TvP : 34W - 19L = 64% Winrate 48 Games TvT : 31W - 17L = 65% Winrate
I just thought it would be interesting to share my experiences with the current meta of SC2 over the past couple months. I came up with my own TvP build that suits my playstyle which definitely helped my winrate in that matchup. TvZ is difficult =p, and TvT I understand pretty well.
Anyways, I finally reached my goal of Masters and I'm really happy. I've been thinking about making a new goal of reaching top 8 Masters but that will probably be even more difficult than going from Bronze to Masters lol. Good luck to anyone trying to reach their promotion goals!
Sorry to bump this, but I can't help myself, I'm just way too excited.
I played a platinum zerg on Daybreak. I opened phoenix, did some damage and got a third. He rushed hive and proceeded to turtle into the broodfestor ball. I got angry and went for mothership+carriers and double cybercore for upgrades with a fourth (and later fifth) base. I held back till he attacked and then slaughtered him. It felt so great.
Now I'm diamond, which is a massive surprise for me, as I wasn't able to beat too much of diamond players. But who am I to judge the MMR system . Silver in january, diamond in september. Woooo!! :D
Guess I'll post mine while this thread is bumped. Rank1 diamond last season.. Lost my placement match to a mid-masters. no promotion for me T___T I was pretty disheartened after this but for some reason kept playing. Lost another game. But then.. + Show Spoiler +
feels good man. & I'm in the same division as the one any only LiquidTLO :D Bonus Fact: I know none of the unit values in the game and I couldn't tell you which units are "massive" and which aren't, this is bragging I'm just so lazy. I play on feeeelings mannn.
I've never been promoted in 1v1. Diamond since release (I was Plat in beta I think before they removed copper league). However I have been promoted from Diamond to Master in team games plenty of times. To be fair I've only played around 100 1v1 games total.
Mid-high diamond here. Was platinum for 2 seasons My pvt is by far my best matchup, it's pvp and pvz holding me back. PvP I just can't get used to at all, and I always make the wrong decisions - i.e always making units thinking they're gonna attack, always expecting 4gates etc. PvZ I am now exploring various 2 base all in options - and my winrate is rising because of it. Felt really good after getting promoted to Diamond after a close PvP where I went blink stalkers vs a stargate opening. Starting to get the hang of PvP and PvZ now, so hopefully I can progress from there. I can/have beaten masters terrans before, so I think if I nail my pvp and pvz I can get masters in a few months.
When I first hit starcraft 2, I had no idea what zerg, protoss let alone terran was. I had no experience with the entire starcraft playstyle, scene, lore or anything of that kind.
I didn't know about queen mechanics, about mules or chronoboost, hell I didn't even know any of the units, buildings or how armor/damage was calculated within this game.
To make it even worse: I was used to warcraft 3: You put down one barracks(orc), and then go for a bestiary and an altar, and move out with a super tiny unit group, micro your way to victory. I played warcraft 3 extremely competitively
Needless to say, I tried that same approach with starcraft 2. I did pick up zerg almost instantly, they appealed me most. I kep getting insulted by my opponents for doing "all-in" strategies.. I had no clue at all x). I'd have a few slowlings and I even tried to move a queen out on the map and was wondering why she was so ridiculously slow.
I figured she must be some kind of powerhouse siege unit..
My league history went like this:
2011 season 1 -> Platinum (This was a huge mistake, seeing how I was actually bronze material) 2011 season 2 -> Platinum ( I went from Bronze -> silver -> gold -> platinum this season alone, getting a hang of the game) 2011 season 3 -> low diamond Then we moved out.. 2012 season 3 -> Top 1 diamond Current: Masters league (mid)
I had a 50 hour a week job + college on the side, so my time was extremely limited. Nowadays I am hanging around in masters league with my own strategies and such. I don't really copy anything other than the absolute basics.
You might say "You played Wc3 competitive! how come you suck so much at sc2", well sc2 is a macro oriënted game, where everything but the exact basics ( movement/unit control) is completely different.
Wc3 = 5 units on mining, a few cutting wood, you can forget about increasing eco right now. sc2 = 16 - 24 per base mining, 3-6 per base on gas, and keep expanding till you have 80 drones. wc3 = small army + micro + interesting compositions sc2 = bulk armies, attack too soon with too little eco, is often GG.
And having to learn all units and races and match-ups from scratch was a huge deal for me as well. Tried both protoss as zerg and finished the campaign to get a feel for it. I eventually stuck to zerg.
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well, I never played any RTS game online, only playing the campgain , so when i got sc2 I said to myself " I might give it a try - how bad could it be ", needless to say I didnt have a clue how to play online RTS , I played the campgain so i knew the basic units and what they do, but thats basicly it, I didnt even figure out you should build more workers. first game i got cannon rushed and I was amazed - I said to myself : " no way you allowed to build things in your enemy's base" ofc i lost all 5 placment matches and got placed in bronze.
from there I started to learn how to play RTS games , found TL and started learning , once i figured out you should use hotkeys, things started to roll fast , i got promoted to silver the next season , and gold the one after, than i stopped playing due to uni and stuff , came back 4 months later , got dropped to silver than back to gold and plat. in the summer of 2011 I stopped playing after being ranked top plat for 2 seasons. cameback 2 months ago go placed in plat -> dropped to gold -> 2 weeks after promoted back to plat and now im plat trying to get daimond or higher.
I was Bronze near the end of last season and during a game on Antiga my opponent asked me which league I was in and I told him "br" and we played our game. He didn't harass any of my expos so I made a lot and by the end of the game when I had just more stuff than him, he said "lol you are not bronze" and gg'd out. Sho'nuff when I got back to the menus I had been promoted to Silver.
Well I started in season 2. I was but a lowly bronze played. I chose Protoss because they were a nobal and proud race and with them I could bring honor to the battlefield. Which roughly equates to me doing a 4 gate every game. So with the power of cheese I ascended my bronze rank and became a top 8 silver player. I would GG if my 4 gate failed and never made the colossus or another nexus. But soon I found my self lossing 80% of the games I played and I was done for. That is until season 4, whats this I can expand? So I started to fast expand every game and even though I lost 50% of my games to rushes I was able to make 2 bases! In season 5 and 6 I played a marco random, I never cheesed and I always would fast expand. Then I switched to full time zerg because they're awesome. I've been playing Zerg ever since. I got promoted to Gold in Season 8, it was a ZvZ in which I was 10 pooled. I as normal 15 hatched. I held it off and then proceeded to crush my way through the game. Every attacker made was shut down, I contained him at 3 bases while was on 6. Like Day9 says "as Zerg always win on hive" so I did with my 6 brood loads, 10 corrupters, 15 infestors and numerous ultras I destroyed everything that stood in my way and finaly a GG. After the game It promoted me.
Played my first 5 placement matches as terran with little broodwar experience and was placed into low bronze, i started to experiment with races switching to terran and toss, zerg etc (i'd also post about it on facebook) finally one of my friends on facebook got annoyed at my posts, turns out he was plat zerg. He then taught me how to mass mutas and a move (kinda the basics and stuff.) I learn 14 pool 15 hatch and transitioned into muta speedling every game, i was winning about 60% of all my games by the time my first season ended. I was so excited for the second season, thinking i'd be promoted to silver no doubt. Played my placement match and back in bronze. I was so depressed, I thought i'd be bronze forever. One day I was just casually playing and BOOM "You have been promoted to Silver!" I flipped shit. I did a backflip on my bed and hugged my cat so hard, I also scraped my knee after doing some soccer slide across my carpet.
My final game to promote into master's was a tvp where I thought the protoss was a zerg because he had the mutalisk portrait... so I opened reactor hellion FE and then realized upon scouting him that it was a toss. I started panicking and just said to myself "screw it" and added on more factories and went mech. I somehow managed to do a BFH runby thata picked off 25 probes and a few sentries and when he finally moved out with his stalker/colossus ball my siege tanks just annihilated him and I ended up getting promoted.
Had been diamond for 5 seasons .. playing a lot of masters players and actually beating a fair amount of them. Around the end of last season i was getting really sick of the ELO system not moving me up when i was already even against masters. The current season came around and i went into my placement match and my opponent left the game instantly. At the score screen his league emblem loaded first and i saw it was a top 8 diamond. My heart sank as i waited to see the same for myself, then as it loaded i saw the blue star and legit screamed. Happiest video game moment of my life.
it took me a year but i am finally a masters player :D
Last season i managed to go from platinum do master (low master league). Unfortunatly, they removed low-high master leagues so after placement match loss i am back on diamond now. hehe
i was demoted to plat last season and i only played 6 games(4w/2l) i didnt ladder for 8 weeks and played my placement match for this season, i lost and promoted to diamond league.
I was stuck in platinum for months trying to play macro games against my opponent. It was then i realized if I wanted to advance to diamond I would have to learn how to scout my opponents build and kill them. I used the 1-1-2 or proxy factory to punish fast expanding Protoss, proxy marauder or hellion marine drop against Terran who fast expand and then either 3 rax or 2 rax factory to punish greedy 4-6 queen Zerg play.
My game to get to diamond was on daybreak and I flew a factory into the corner of his base and won after killing all of his probes (his stalker was trying to poke at my ramp
After over 1.5 years of being a lowly diamond, I came back to WoL for a bit after HoTS beta. Playing something a little different had refreshed me a little and I was playing much more solidly and creatively. Went on quite the winning streak. Decided to skip a class today because I was already late and play SC2. Played vs a Terran on Anita close pos. Saw him move out extra SCVs under my ovie really early on so I was suspicious, but no attack came. He ended up doing an awful proxy four rax that I held off with 3 queens and slowlings. I saw he never expanded, so I just kept pumping lings. Once speed kicked in I ran over his marines and took care of his proxies to secure the W
After being stuck in Plat for about 4 seasons, I finally made it to diamond on tues. I immediately stopped for the night and enjoyed it. Last night was my first foray in to the new league, and I promptly lost 7 straight. Granted 4 of those were loss to randoms cheesing me, but still, not a good way to start off.
I was first platinum the highest back in the early days of sc2? Then i went to diamond when that was the highest. And then masters league when it came out. Grand masters when it came out and pretty much been GM on every server even KR since then. I stopped playing early this season when i reached my goal " being grand masters on every server for several seasons" I even reached top 1 world 2 seasons so I'm quite happy! Playing LoL atm and might comeback for HoTS to play competitively we will see what happens with that.
Played in Diamond for quite a long time, last season was rank 1 for a long time and didnt get promoted. This season, im doing terribly bad, sitting on rank 20 or so. Then i meet this Masters-Zerg player. Being mad from some frustrating games before, i just went immortal allin, beating his mutaplay. I Instantly get promoted to masters. I feel so bad about it.
season1 diamond 3400, season2 master. season3 grand master.
the more games you play, the more you think y or lack of skills.
i remember that period is really fun. new maps mid season or new season. now daybreak is 1.3yr old.... shit
i just lost my love for sc, gain some for summoner's rift.. lets hope next season blizard light our padsions. i believe i am not the only person on this
On December 22 2012 09:44 winthrop wrote: season1 diamond 3400, season2 master. season3 grand master.
the more games you play, the more you think y or lack of skills.
i remember that period is really fun. new maps mid season or new season. now daybreak is 1.3yr old.... shit
i just lost my love for sc, gain some for summoner's rift.. lets hope next season blizard light our padsions. i believe i am not the only person on this
all the maps are really old, only "new" ones would be cloud and entombed and condemned ridge, with cridge being quite a bad map imo. also, i consider daybreak better than half the maps in ladder atm, also recent GSL maps havent been very balanced ( belshir vestige and abyssal city is very P unfavored), the only surprisingly good map is whirlwind, only because its so big and open that positioning and zone control is so important on that map (which is a good thing)
started in copper when in existed back in phase 1 beta. worked my way up. have been in masters since last march?. felt good improving from the very bottom.
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I'm quite happy! Playing LoL atm and might comeback for HoTS to play competitively we will see what happens with that.
