[June] SC2 General Discussion - Page 25

On July 01 2011 22:07 Ronthecat wrote:
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On July 02 2011 02:56 Shiv. wrote:
Where's the July thread?

On July 02 2011 03:50 pullarius1 wrote:
Under the old system of up and down matches, you could actually go from Code A to Code S with a losing record (not including the qualification matches).
Code A:
RO32 2-1
RO16 2-1
RO8 0-2

UpandDown:
Match 1: 0-2
Match 2: 2-1

for a total 6-7. In fact July almost did exactly this in his run to Code S, except he won his last match 2-0 to give him a 6-6 record. With the new groups-of-five system, this will no longer be possible, as you will have to at least 3-2 to make the top2 in your group. Whether or top you can advance with an even record will depend on how tiebreakers will work, and whether it will be a true round-robin group format.

On July 01 2011 07:38 XXhkXX wrote:


Well I mean that I'm stuck in first place gold, but still vsing plat players. I guess its not as severely blocked as when i was in bronze last season vsing gold players >>

On July 02 2011 05:50 XXhkXX wrote:


lol i finally got promoted, ironically i was in second place in my league, but i still ranked up XD

On July 02 2011 17:36 Shiv. wrote:

I don't think that the placement within your league is as important as you might think. Once your MMR rises high enough so it puts you up against players above your league, you are close to promotion. If you beat them more than 50% of the time, you get promoted (that's obviously oversimplified, but it gives a general idea of how that system works.)

Let's say we have John. John is a decent player, nothing special. He wins about 50% of the time, maybe a bit less. He keeps losing to players above his league, he demolishes most people within his league though. Within his own division, he steadily gets placed around 5th place.

Let's just assume the 4 players placed above him all simultaneously go on a losing streak. John, meanwhile, keeps his win rate constant. That would soonly make him the number 1 ranked player in his division (as his rating wouldn't change much, while his fellow players would drop a lot of points due to their losing streak), without actually having progressed towards his promotion.

I hope this example explains why your ranking within your own division is irrelevant, as it's dependant on the other people in it, while your promotion is only dependant on your own win rate.

If you already knew that or I got something wrong, I'm very willing to edit/delete my post.

On July 03 2011 08:37 [F_]aths wrote:
Koreans sometimes type ww instead of gg. Is that the same key position or an actual korean expression?

Can someone post the Hangul signs for the real korean gg?

On July 04 2011 17:17 edc wrote:
In PvT, is MM/MMM way better than Gateway units? This is a serious question, as it seems to me that Protoss always has to tech up to deal with it. I personally have a grudge against this unit composition.