I have heard that mass marines is the best tactic. The marines are general purpose units and together with good micro, can be an unstoppable force. Because they are general purpose units they are good at doing pretty much everything. So mass marines is the new generation of sc2. You should do it too.

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Drake

Germany6146 Posts

May 20 2011 13:26 GMT

#82

as long as ur rank highers u not gets promoted, you gets promoted when ur rank stabilise

OrgCom

Canada25 Posts

May 20 2011 13:29 GMT

#83

IPL will only accept diamond+masters players.
RANK DOES MATTER!!! (For all those saying "Rank doesn't matter if you're having fun")

Rassy

Netherlands2308 Posts

May 20 2011 13:31 GMT

#84

have not experienced the things op did
do remember however vaguely the patch notes for the new ladder system mentioning that all leagues would be locked during the final weeks of the season
maybe blizzard locked the leagues already and we are now in the final(4-8?) weeks of this season?

nepts2

33 Posts

May 20 2011 13:32 GMT

#85

It has been more than a week since the ladder lock, the hackers are still prevalent, blizz admins are remaining silent.
SOmethings wrong eh?

TheMooseHeed

United Kingdom535 Posts

May 20 2011 13:35 GMT

#86

I'd use this bug to my advantage and enter some tournaments. Everyone will underestimate a plat player and you will beat them

In fairness just play and enjoy yourself and promotion will happen eventually, don't worry about it.

desRow

Canada2654 Posts

May 20 2011 13:51 GMT

#87

I can't wait for the leagues to be unlocked. I'm beating GM people on EU and many many high masters and I'm still stuck in diamond. Can't wait cus my stream chat keeps wondering why im diamond lol :D

FlaminGinjaNinja

United Kingdom879 Posts

May 20 2011 13:57 GMT

#88

You should get promoted when you have ~ 50% win ratio. From what you've said with the 2v2 it won't bother promoting you to silver or gold, more likely straight to play/ diamond. I'd guess the same is true with 1v1.

having said that, i suspect blizzard has "promotion days" since last month it was promoted in 2v2, 3v3 and 4v4 on the same day within about 2hrs.

Perplex

United States1693 Posts

May 20 2011 13:57 GMT

#89

I feel that it IS a bug, because I'm currently in gold facing all platinum people and I win just slightly more than I lose. I never face gold anymore, but I face high to mid platinum people and have probably a 60 percent win rate.

I STILL wont' get promoted though, even though my MMR should be "settled"

it's annoying..

Hytynen

Finland1 Post

May 20 2011 13:59 GMT

#90

Me and my friend were on silver in season1, we lost our season 2 placement match and still stayed in silver, we lost 4 games a row after that and once we won 1 game, we were immediately promoted to gold. so 1-4 win rate. -_-

nepts2

33 Posts

May 20 2011 14:01 GMT

#91

yea.. i had like what.. 6 win 5 losses? then got promoted to masters in both 2vs2 and 3vs3

shinyA

United States473 Posts

May 20 2011 14:08 GMT

#92

Made a new account, I'm 20-2 still in plat and I've been playing high masters / grandmasters.

Teammate of mine also made a new account, he went 5-0 in placement into Platinum and has lots more wins than me, same win %, and neither of us are being promoted. I'm grandmaster on my other account and he is same skill level.

Ironically he just beat iNcontrol while he's still in platinum. So yes, the ladder is locked. I'm not gonna ladder anymore because I'm just blowing bonus pool

Ashes

United States362 Posts

May 20 2011 14:09 GMT

#93

well here is my take on it. Again I am a casual gamer.. I am silver in 1v1 and 2v2.. Generally get players with plat or high plat against me. I win some and I lose some. 3v3, I am plat. I hardly play 3 v3. I play a hell lot of 4v4 and my rank fluctuates between 1-3 in gold. I am always playing against low diamond and high plat and sometimes masters. Again I win some and lose some. At the end of the day, I think that based upon my own assessment, I cannot go beyond Gold and honestly I dont care abt my rating because I always get to play with players of higher rating than me, But then again I am a casual gamer.

Olsson

Sweden931 Posts

May 20 2011 14:51 GMT

#94

Been playing against 18 diamonds last 20 games I won like 15 of those games and no promotion? Same issue here.

nka203

United States102 Posts

May 20 2011 14:55 GMT

#95

Means your not winning enough against upper league players.

It took me 30 straight wins on my friend's gold account to get him into Platinum.
By then I was playing high level diamond and even some masters.

Basically the more games you've played, the less flexible it'll be to move up or down in ladder.

Playguuu

United States926 Posts

May 20 2011 15:09 GMT

#96

On May 20 2011 17:09 graNite wrote:
Because the system is not confident in your rating.

This absolutely, truskill works the same way. It does some fancy stuff with what it thinks your rating is compared to what it thinks your opponent is rated, then tries to predict the outcome. How confident the system is with the outcome determines your mmr. Right now you're supposed to be losing games

desRow

Canada2654 Posts

May 20 2011 15:12 GMT

#97

the same happened to thorzain http://sc2ranks.com/eu/463666/PraeThorZaIN

carloselcoco

United States2302 Posts

May 20 2011 15:15 GMT

#98

On May 21 2011 00:12 desrow wrote:
the same happened to thorzain http://sc2ranks.com/eu/463666/PraeThorZaIN

Indeed, that just proves it is a bug. I hope they fix it soon as it is also happening to me with my 2v2 and 3v3.

BTW, I hope when they fix it you get promoted to GM in EU desrow! =D

Alejandrisha

United States6566 Posts

May 20 2011 15:19 GMT

#99

There actually is a bug with the promotion system right now. Case in point- 188 NA GM's and no one is able to get promoted right now. You can get placed into masters doing team games but if you get placed in another league you won't be moving up any time soon. I'm waiting on an announcement from excalibur since we know blizz isn't going to say anything about it ^^

PhiliBiRD

United States2643 Posts

May 20 2011 15:25 GMT

#100

ive been playing on a smurf account as a different race, and constantly am placed vs 800-1k masters.
however im stuck in Diamond. roughly 60-15 record, so that does seem a bit strange that im stuck