You should do a search on team liquid, I know this has been asked a few times and there's some greatest hits youtube videos out there. That's a pretty good hook. Explain to them what's what then try to impress upon them the difficulty of the game.. then show them how a pro orchestrates it all

Shiv.

3534 Posts

July 01 2011 17:56 GMT

#482

Where's the July thread?

Ludwigvan

Germany2371 Posts

July 01 2011 18:07 GMT

#483

On July 02 2011 02:56 Shiv. wrote:
Where's the July thread?

look at the name of the OP, then look at the date of the op, then look at the dates of ops of past months. What I am saying is, it is not supposed to be in time.

pullarius1

United States522 Posts

July 01 2011 18:50 GMT

#484

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.

CrisisNOOB

United States39 Posts

July 01 2011 19:28 GMT

#485

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.

Thank you for this =)

XXhkXX

170 Posts

July 01 2011 20:50 GMT

#486

On July 01 2011 07:38 XXhkXX wrote:

Show nested quote +

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 >>

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

Shiv.

3534 Posts

July 02 2011 08:36 GMT

#487

On July 02 2011 05:50 XXhkXX wrote:

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

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.

[F_]aths

Germany3947 Posts

July 02 2011 23:37 GMT

#488

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?

XXhkXX

170 Posts

July 02 2011 23:42 GMT

#489

On July 02 2011 17:36 Shiv. wrote:

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Yea that logically would make sense :o

NexUmbra

Scotland3776 Posts

July 02 2011 23:57 GMT

#490

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?

The symbol ᄌ is J in Korean, so GG can be ᄌᄌ, ᄌ on the korean keyboard is the same place as the english W, so WW instead of ᄌᄌ(JJ, thats why you hear "JAY JAY" instead of "GEE GEE"

The actual character for where G is on english is ᄒᄒ so you might sometimes see that. But ᄒ has the sound H so that wouldn't make much sense :p

In conclusion

ᄌ is a J sound = ᄌᄌ = JJ so GG
WW = position for ᄌ on korean, so if you have english on its WW
GG = You know what that means :p
ᄒᄒ = Where G is on korean setting so ᄒᄒ = someone trying to type GG but with korean on instead of english

[F_]aths

Germany3947 Posts

July 03 2011 01:39 GMT

#491

Thank you.

TheRealPaciFist

United States1049 Posts

July 03 2011 22:00 GMT

#492

Is there any devoted 2v2 tournament in the works?

TheRPGAddict

United States1403 Posts

July 04 2011 02:28 GMT

#493

I have a sound question. You know the windows sound whenever you make a command such as building a unit or using a hotkey etc? My game does not make that sound and I cannot find it anywhere in the sound options and I have messed around with some things. I have windows 7 64 bit and I turned the system sounds up to match my speaker volume but to no avail. Am I missing something? Any advice is appreciated.

HamzasSister

United States26 Posts

July 04 2011 03:40 GMT

#494

So a friend and mine were just messing around in 2v2s we werent being rude or harrasing or anything and we decided it would be funny if we said every single thing we made. So when we made a probe we said "probe" in all chat and when we made a pylon we said "pylon" ect. We then proceeded to win and the guy said he reported us. Should we be worried? We won but we just said everything we made.

Torte de Lini

Germany38463 Posts

July 04 2011 05:59 GMT

#495

On July 04 2011 07:00 TheRealPaciFist wrote:
Is there any devoted 2v2 tournament in the works?

In most cases, 2 vs. 2 matches are played in Team Leagues (meaning, teams who play 1 vs. 1 and the 2 vs. 2 is the tie-breaker of the set of matches).

edc

United States666 Posts

July 04 2011 08:17 GMT

#496

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.

aksfjh

United States4853 Posts

July 04 2011 10:05 GMT

#497

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.

Not necessarily. A lot of Terrans live in fear of gateway units with enough sentries. Basically, until army supplies get beyond 40, forcefields can easily de-fang any Terran bio push, and possibly clean up most of it with minimal losses. After that point, however, things get dicey on both ends. Protoss, with proper macro, will always be 1 warpgate production cycle ahead of Terran because of the warp-in to cooldown, but pound for pound, Terran units beat Protoss without FFs. As the mid game approaches, these aspects can balloon to give each race the advantage. For example, 6 gate pushes can be especially devastating coupled with a FE Protoss, because it capitalizes on this warpgate mechanic (frontloaded production cycles). Meanwhile, the more common example is the early-mid game MM(M) composition coupled with high aggression (to force more gateway vs rax battles).