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Biggest skill gap between leagues?

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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12471 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-28 02:28:09
July 28 2011 02:27 GMT
#1
I am wondering what you guys think.
I got this idea because when I just got out from bronze, I didn't play a lot of silvers and most of them were gold. Now that I am plat, I find plat players to be quite a fair bit better than gold (mostly much better executed 2 rax bunker and scv+marines all-in)


Poll: As thread title

Master to GM (112)
 
59%

Diamond to Master (41)
 
22%

Bronze to Silver (19)
 
10%

Gold to Plat (8)
 
4%

Plat to Diamond (6)
 
3%

Silver to Gold (3)
 
2%

189 total votes

Your vote: As thread title

(Vote): Bronze to Silver
(Vote): Silver to Gold
(Vote): Gold to Plat
(Vote): Plat to Diamond
(Vote): Diamond to Master
(Vote): Master to GM

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Empyrean
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
16992 Posts
July 28 2011 02:30 GMT
#2
If this turns into a poll thread without discussion, I'm closing it. Fair warning now.
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KimJongChill
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6429 Posts
July 28 2011 02:31 GMT
#3
I feel like the higher up you go, the greater the skill gaps between leagues, assuming that the gaps are calculated from the lower boundary (e.g. low bronze to low silver, low diamond to low master).
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axellerate
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada179 Posts
July 28 2011 02:32 GMT
#4
On July 28 2011 11:30 Empyrean wrote:
If this turns into a poll thread without discussion, I'm closing it. Fair warning now.


A PM to the OP might have been better than tainting the post.

Well done.
AnxiousHippo
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Australia1451 Posts
July 28 2011 02:32 GMT
#5
I would have thought that Bronze Leaguers would have a fairly hard time beginning to learn the game and trying to get to Silver. Otherwise, Masters to GM is hardest simply because you can only have so many GrandMasters.
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Konsume
Profile Joined February 2010
Canada466 Posts
July 28 2011 02:33 GMT
#6
Its clearly Masters to GM, most top masters aren't even as good as the mid of GMs!
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Mylkyjo
Profile Joined July 2011
Australia110 Posts
July 28 2011 02:33 GMT
#7
From my experience it's Gold to Plat, but I can't speak for the higher leagues so that is probably a poor example.
Mr. Wiggles
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada5894 Posts
July 28 2011 02:35 GMT
#8
Hmmm, I would say that maybe the biggest difference in one league itself would be masters. It seems like there's a lot of difference between low and high masters, and that's where I see the biggest division in skill. As for between leagues, I voted for Masters to GM.
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ThaZenith
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada3116 Posts
July 28 2011 02:36 GMT
#9
Should be obvious, masters to GM's. From experience, there is little to no improvement from Bronze straight through till diamond. Masters actually get decent, and GMs are the guys you wish you could be as good as. ^^ lol
Finrod1
Profile Joined December 2010
Germany3997 Posts
July 28 2011 02:36 GMT
#10
can't really be answered by mos people or? You can only answer this question if you started in bronze and made you way to gm.
Barett
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada454 Posts
July 28 2011 02:37 GMT
#11
Everyone is probably going to just say as for my example "Diamond to Masters. I am currently a Diamond player"....
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iamke55
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States2806 Posts
July 28 2011 02:37 GMT
#12
On July 28 2011 11:32 axellerate wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2011 11:30 Empyrean wrote:
If this turns into a poll thread without discussion, I'm closing it. Fair warning now.


A PM to the OP might have been better than tainting the post.

Well done.

No it wouldn't have. It's a warning to the people who post here as well to have a discussion rather than just voting and then posting what he voted without reading anyone else's posts.
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Giwoon
Profile Joined December 2010
Korea (South)431 Posts
July 28 2011 02:38 GMT
#13
i feel diamond to masters was a HUGE jump
now that im in masters and when i watch diamond players i just lol how bad they are.

but idk about masters to GM since im not in GM ofcourse lololol
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catabowl
Profile Joined November 2009
United States815 Posts
July 28 2011 02:39 GMT
#14
I made it to low masters last season and I'm not that good with apm wise but I know how to scout timings and know how to counter builds well. But, because of my low APM, I cannot keep up with the higher masters players. So, I would say Masters-Grand Masters
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ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12471 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-28 02:43:08
July 28 2011 02:40 GMT
#15
On July 28 2011 11:32 AnxiousHippo wrote:
I would have thought that Bronze Leaguers would have a fairly hard time beginning to learn the game and trying to get to Silver. Otherwise, Masters to GM is hardest simply because you can only have so many GrandMasters.

You misundestood, I meant the skill gap, not how hard it is to get into a league.

I know that in quite a number of sport, most often the top players are all almost equal in terms of skill but it is some very very tiny skill gap that makes a player be the best or just one of the top players. I was wondering if same applies to SC2.

I heard that to get to GM only really needs you to be a high master and play more games while diamond has to work his ass off to get to master
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
Naughty
Profile Joined March 2011
United States114 Posts
July 28 2011 02:41 GMT
#16
I would say none of the above.
- Low masters to High masters.
DrThorMD
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada359 Posts
July 28 2011 02:41 GMT
#17
I'm going to have to say that diamond to masters is the biggest skill difference due to the fact that many people in masters are GM level and just cant get it due to the fact that GM is number limited. Diamond to masters however.... It just feels like diamond players are just kind of good at doing a build to near perfection but dont really have a fantastic game sense or decision making and many are in diamond due to only doing really agressive all in builds such as 4 gate all ins or roach ling all ins or 3 rax all ins and things like that. This is all my personal opinion.
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SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
July 28 2011 02:42 GMT
#18
The biggest jump right now seems to be between Nestea and everyone else.

But if you want to stick to leagues, you should keep in mind that someone will be the "best" bronze and someone will be the "worst" silver, and the difference between them is basicly zero.

That said, you probably want to compare the lowest of bronze with the highest on silver (lowest of silver with highest of gold etc).

Then, keep in mind that the lowest bronze is that guy that doesn't make aditional scv and goes straight to barracks, then at 40 min he makes his first battlecruiser and try to attack with his 50 supply army.

That said, I don't have many doubts that the "right" answer is bronze to silver.
OsoVega
Profile Joined December 2010
926 Posts
July 28 2011 02:48 GMT
#19
On July 28 2011 11:32 AnxiousHippo wrote:
I would have thought that Bronze Leaguers would have a fairly hard time beginning to learn the game and trying to get to Silver. Otherwise, Masters to GM is hardest simply because you can only have so many GrandMasters.

I disagree. With resources like the Day9 daily and builds online I think it's not too to get into silver. Once a bronze league player is informed of the importance of building probes, knocking their minerals back down to zero and putting down building crisply at the beginning of the game and following a build, dominating bronze really isn't hard at all even for a new player.
ThaZenith
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada3116 Posts
July 28 2011 03:01 GMT
#20
On July 28 2011 11:42 SDream wrote:

But if you want to stick to leagues, you should keep in mind that someone will be the "best" bronze and someone will be the "worst" silver, and the difference between them is basicly zero.

I'd say the "best" bronze would be somewhere around gold-plat level. The promotion system can be fairly bad at times.
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